A century of the names and scantlings 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, endevoured 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. The author the Marquis of Worcester - Worcester, Edward Somerset Marquis of 1601-1667 (Glasgow, printed. London: reprinted by W. Bailey, proprietor of the Speaking Figure, now shewing, by permission of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, at No. 42, within Bishopsgate, 1786)