A century of the names and scantling of such inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected (which my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice - Worcester, Edward Somerset of 1601-1667 (Printed by R. and A. Foulis, 1767)