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TO THE KING. 



Sir, 



Your Majesty having been graciously pleased to permit an 

 Experiment before you at Hampton- Court of a small Moddle of 

 my Engine described in the following Treatise, and at that time 

 to sheiv a seeming Satisfaction of the Power and Use of it: And 

 having most graciously enabled me by your Royal Assent to a 

 Patent and Act of Parliament to persve and perfect the same. 

 By which your Royal Incouragement, it being now fully Corn- 

 pleated, and put in Practice in your Dominions, with that 

 repeated Success and Applause : That it is not to be doubted 

 but it will be of Universal Benefit and Use to all your Majesties 

 Subjects. Of whom your Majesty being the Universal Patron 

 and Father, all Arts und Inventions that may promote their 

 Good and Advantage, seem to lay a just and natural Claim to 

 your Majesties Sacred Protection. 



'' Tis upon this Consideration I am incouraged with a profound 

 Respect to throw this performance of mine, with the Author, at 

 your Majesties Royal Feet, most humbly beseeching your Majesty, 

 That as it had Birth in your Majesties Auspicious Reign, You 

 will vouchsafe to perpetuate it to future Ages by the Sanction 

 of your Royal Approbation, which is the utmost Ambition of, 



May it please your Majesty, 



Your Majesties 

 most Humble, 

 most Loyal, 



and most Obedient 

 Subject, 



Tiio. Saveuy. 



TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



At the Request of some of your Members at the Weekly 

 Meeting at Gresham- Colledge, June the l^"' 1699. I had the 

 honour to work a small Moddle of my Engine before you, 



