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RAGLAN CASTLE.
of Ormond and Lord Digby ; and Charles haftened to difavow
the conduct of Glamorgan, though nothing is better afcertained
than that he added wholly in concert with the king. The
tranfaddion gave immenfe difguft in England, and did the greateft
mifchief to Charles; even his ftaunch adherent, Clarendon,
denouncing it in ftrong terms. Glamorgan followed the for-
tunes of Charles II., and being fent to England on his concerns
in 1652, he was difcovered and imprifoned. To obtain his
liberation he offered to make important difcoveries to Cromwell:
and thefe after fome hefitation were accepted. His fon, who
had hitherto lived in France, was permitted to return, enjoyed
the confidence of Cromwell, and a penfion of ^2,000 per
annum.
This was the famous Marquis of Worcefter who wrote
and publilhed, in 1663, “A Century of the Names and Scant-
lings of fuch Inventions as I can at prefent call to mind to have
tried and perfected.” Horace Walpole fneers at this book,
little dreaming what was to come out of it, and dubbed it “ A
lift of a hundred projects, moft of them impoffibilities.”
One which the clever biographer of “ Noble Authors” would
doubtlefs have confidered the moft impoftible of all was the
fteam-engine, and in its train all our prefent great fteam and
railway fyftems. But in this work of the marquis was the
following defcription of a fire-engine, in the fixty-eighth article
of the “ Century of Scantlings —“An admirable and forcible
way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or fucking it up,
for that muft be, as the philofopher calleth it, intra fphteram
activitatis^ which is loft at fuch a diftance. But this way hath
no boundary if the veffels be ftrong enough,” etc. He then
goes on to defcribe how he has forced water up a ftrong cylin-
der forty feet high, and how he could keep up the adtion by
admitting cold water by a couple of cocks, fo that as the water
RAGLAN CASTLE.
of Ormond and Lord Digby ; and Charles haftened to difavow
the conduct of Glamorgan, though nothing is better afcertained
than that he added wholly in concert with the king. The
tranfaddion gave immenfe difguft in England, and did the greateft
mifchief to Charles; even his ftaunch adherent, Clarendon,
denouncing it in ftrong terms. Glamorgan followed the for-
tunes of Charles II., and being fent to England on his concerns
in 1652, he was difcovered and imprifoned. To obtain his
liberation he offered to make important difcoveries to Cromwell:
and thefe after fome hefitation were accepted. His fon, who
had hitherto lived in France, was permitted to return, enjoyed
the confidence of Cromwell, and a penfion of ^2,000 per
annum.
This was the famous Marquis of Worcefter who wrote
and publilhed, in 1663, “A Century of the Names and Scant-
lings of fuch Inventions as I can at prefent call to mind to have
tried and perfected.” Horace Walpole fneers at this book,
little dreaming what was to come out of it, and dubbed it “ A
lift of a hundred projects, moft of them impoffibilities.”
One which the clever biographer of “ Noble Authors” would
doubtlefs have confidered the moft impoftible of all was the
fteam-engine, and in its train all our prefent great fteam and
railway fyftems. But in this work of the marquis was the
following defcription of a fire-engine, in the fixty-eighth article
of the “ Century of Scantlings —“An admirable and forcible
way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or fucking it up,
for that muft be, as the philofopher calleth it, intra fphteram
activitatis^ which is loft at fuch a diftance. But this way hath
no boundary if the veffels be ftrong enough,” etc. He then
goes on to defcribe how he has forced water up a ftrong cylin-
der forty feet high, and how he could keep up the adtion by
admitting cold water by a couple of cocks, fo that as the water