A. D. 1632. 373 



3) A water-bowe, for the more fpeedy prefervation of houfes on 

 land, and fliips at fea, from fire. 



4) A building-mould, or ftone-prefs, very requifite for building 

 churches or great houfes, by which ftone windows, door-cafes, chimney- 

 pieces, &c. are made more fpeedily, without hewing, cutting, fawing,, 

 carving, or engraving. As alfo for making bricks and tiles more beau- 

 tiful to the eye, and more durable againfl foul weather, being as fmooth 

 as glafs on the one fide or end, with divers colours and works, as if 

 carved by curious workmen. 



5) A moveable hydraulic, or chamber weather-call, like a cabinet, 

 which, being placed in a room, or by a bed fide, caufeth fweet fleep to 

 thofe, who either by hot fevers, or otherwife, cannot take reft : and it 

 withal alters the dry hot air into a more moiftening and cooling temper, 

 either with mufical founds or without. 



6) The correded-crane, by which wine, oil, or any other liquor, may 

 be transfufed from one veflx;!, which cannot well be removed to another 

 remote : as alfo water may be drawn from one place to another, with- 

 out any fucking or forcing by the mouth, as vintners and others ufe to 

 do. 



. All thefe were exclufive for fourteen years, paying the yearly rent of 

 Li :6: 8 into the exchequer. {F^dera, V. xix, p. 371.] 



Thefe are fuch fingular projeds as are worth the recordings purely for. 

 their novelty : and were they any v,'here elfe, but in fo authentic a col- 

 lection of our records, w^ould probably be regarded in no other fenfe 

 than as a burlefque on many other projeds of this age, and the famous 

 year 1720. 



King Charles once more iffued a proclamation again ft the conftant 

 refidence of the nobility and gentry with their ftmilies in London, 

 wherein, befide the vifual topics in former ones, he remarks, that, by 

 refiding in London with their families, a great part of their money and 

 fubftance is drawn from the feveral counties whence it arifeth, and fpent 

 in the city on excefs of apparel, provided from foreign parts, to the 

 enriching of other nations, and the unneceflai-y confumption of a great 

 part of the treafure of this realm ; and in other vain delights and ex-^ 

 penfes, even to the wafting of their eftates : that this alfo draws great 

 numbers of loofe and idle people to London and Weftminfter, which 

 thereby are not fo eafy governed as formerly, the poors rates increafed, . 

 and provilions enhanced. For all which reafons, they are now limited 

 to forty days from the date hereof, to depart with their families from 

 London, Weftminfter, and their fuburbs, and to refide on their eftates, 

 {F<xdera, V. xix, p. 374.] 



After reading this, and other fuch proclamations, can any one wonder 

 at this king's being termed arbitrary, and his getting fo many enemies 

 amongft his fubjeds ? fince men of the greateft fortunes were hereby 



