368 A. D. 1630. 



publidi a lottery or lotteries ; according (fays this record") to th-" courfe 

 of other lotteries heretofore ufed or pradifed *. And for the fole pri- 

 vilege of bringing the faid waters in aqueduds to London, they were 

 to pay L4000 per annum into the king's exchequer ; and the better to 

 enable them to make the faid large annual payment, the king granted 

 them leave to bring their aqueduds through any of his parks, chafes, 

 lands, &c. and to dig up the fame gratis. [Fcedera, V. xix, p. 242.] 



We fliould alfo note, that, in this fame year 1630, a fpecial licence 

 was granted by King Charles, for importing horfes, and another for ex- 

 porting dogs. 



1631. — A projedl was now authorifed by King Charles for the fole 

 ufe of an invention for defending marfla-lands from inundations of the 

 fea ; the projector to pay 20/" annually into the exchequer. \_F(xdera, V. 

 xix, /). 251.] 



We now meet with the fu-fl eflay for coining milled money in Eng- 

 land, by mills and prefTes, in the beautiful method practifed in our days, 

 in a commiflion from King Charles to Sir William Balfour, then lieu- 

 tenant of the tower of London, Inigo Jones, Efq. furveyor of the king's 

 works, and five others, who were thereby direded to examine the prac- 

 tice thereof by the undertaker, Nicholas Bryitt, a Lorainer, who for 

 that purpofe had gold and filver bullion delivered to him by Sir Ro- 

 bert Harley mafter of the mint. \Foedera, V. xix, p. 287.] 



Quebec in Canada having been again feized on by Captain Kirk in 

 the year 1629, before he knew of the conclufion of peace between Eng- 

 land and France that fame year, the king promifed, under his fign- 

 manual, to his brother-in-law, Louis XIII of France, that, as foon as 

 commiffioners from him fliould arrive at Canada, his people fliould de- 

 liver up to France the fortrefs and town of Quebec ; and that whatever 

 had been embezzled therein (hould be reftored to the French. \^Foede- 

 ra, V. xix, />. 303.] 



King James having, in the 20th year of his reign, granted letters- 

 patent (which we have not before met with) for the fole ufe of a new 

 method of making hard foap, with a material called berilia, without the 

 ufe of any fire ; as alfo for burning and preparing bean and peafe flraw, 

 kelp, fern, and other vegetables found in his dominions, into pot-afhes 

 for making foap. King Charles granted a frefh patent, for fourteen years, 

 to the old patentees Roger Jones and Andrew Palmer, jointly with Sir 

 William RufTell, &c. for farther improving thofe inventions, and for their 

 fole ufe thereof. This monopoly brought L 10,000 into the exchequer. 

 \_Fcedera, V. xix, p. ^2;^.} 



* Thih IS, however, the earhed mention of lot- early as the year 1612, the profits of which were 



teries, either in the Ftedera or the llatute-book. allotted to carry on tlit fettlement of Virginia. 



Tiic words quoted prove that lotteries had already [_Chalmcrs's Annals, V. i, J>. 32.] M. 

 been ufed or practifed. There was one at leaft fo 



