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<HEAD>A New and U&s;efull Invention for <HI>Light</HI> very beneficial by <HI>Sea</HI> and <HI>Land.</HI></HEAD>
<P>AN Experiment thereof having been made in his late Maje&s;ties pre|&s;ence at <HI>White-hall,</HI> He was graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed to approve of it &s;o well, as not onely highly to commend it, but to grant his Letters Patents for the Promotion and Encouragement of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Now the &s;everal U&s;es of this Invention being almo&s;t innumerable, it was thought &s;it by the Patentee and others who are concerned with him, to demon&s;trate &s;ome part thereof in the City of <HI>London</HI> on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> Night, being the eighth Day of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, where &s;everal of the mo&s;t Eminent Citi|zens, and other Per&s;ons of good Quality, were plea&s;ed to give their Approbati|ons. And being well approved of, it is thought nece&s;&s;ary to particularize &s;everal of the u&s;es of the &s;aid Invention, and the great advantages that may accrue to the &s;aid City and other Places thereby, if encouraged.</P>
<P N="1">I. It will be of extraordinary u&s;e for Ships, to be u&s;ed in&s;tead of their common Lanthorns, fir&s;t in re&s;pect of their durablene&s;s, being &s;o durable, that nothing ever of that kind is to be compared to it: &s;econdly in re&s;pect to their great <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> crea&s;e of Light, giving ten times a better Light, than any Lanthorns now in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and will burn with great clearne&s;s from Sun-&s;etting to Sun-ri&s;ing, and the ro<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of the Ship will not di&s;order them. And they are al&s;o contrived for the P<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and to u&s;e between Decks and in the Hold, and are &s;ecure from the dar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;iring Powder and other Combu&s;tible Materials, giving &s;uch Light, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Per&s;on may reade or do any bu&s;ine&s;s there, where Light is required.</P>
<P N="2">II. This Invention will be of very great u&s;e for Light-Hou&s;es, where <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> will appear much more con&s;picuous, le&s;s trouble&s;ome and be cheape<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Coal-fires now in u&s;e.</P>
<P N="3">III. Tho&s;e Lucidaries will be of extraordinary advantage in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of Light to very great di&s;tances, and will be &s;ecure again&s;t Dar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> ri&s;e, and put out the Lights they now u&s;e.</P>
<P N="4">IV. They will be of excellent u&s;e to inlighten the Streets of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> where they may be kept con&s;tantly burning from the Hour <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Twelve, being three Hours longer than the Lights now in u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and at as &s;mall a Charge as the Inhabitants are now at, and givi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Light; al&s;o they will very much ea&s;e and take off that trouble <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">tants of the City of <HI>London</HI> (who are obliged to hang or put o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> a Light) by committing them to the care of &s;uch Per&s;ons as &s;ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> for that purpo&s;e: And they will be of very great u&s;e to Shops that <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and will much encourage People to go out and by, who keep at home<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> for want of being better accommodated with Light; and many abu&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> mitted upon Pa&s;&s;engers for want thereof, as by frequent Examples are <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> And if the Inhabitants &s;hall think fit to continue the Lights from twelve <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> the Morning, and con&s;ider the Charge, they may receive the&s;e further ad<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> by them. Fir&s;t they will be of great benefit in ca&s;e of Fire. Secondly th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> be of great Service to their Watches, whereby Burglaries and Hou&s;e-breaking <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> be much better prevented. Thirdly they will al&s;o be of great u&s;e to that Pr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> on for clean<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of the Streets in the Night-time, whereby the Inhabitan<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> be very much freed from tho&s;e Nauceous Smells that ari&s;e from the Filt<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Soyl carried through the Streets in the Day-time, and tho&s;e Per&s;ons that will <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> imployed &s;o to clean&s;e the Streets in the Night will be very &s;erviceable in ca<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Fire, and will much prevent Hou&s;e-breaking, as afore&s;aid.</P>
<P N="5">V. They will be of great u&s;e in Univer&s;ities, Inns of Court and Chancery, an<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> all publick Halls, Offices, Brewhou&s;es, Landing-places, Wharfs, Warehou&s;es Sellars, Stables, and all other great Places what&s;oever.</P>
<P><HI>If any Per&s;on have a de&s;ire to u&s;e the&s;e Lucidaries the &V;ndertakers will give the Attendance daily, from the Hours of Eleven till One, at</HI> Lawrences <HI>Coffee-hou&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> in</HI> Freemans <HI>Court</HI> Cornhill, <HI>where they may make Agreements upon &s;uch Rea&s;onable Terms as will, we hope, be well approved on by &s;uch as are willing to incourage an Invention of &s;o great u&s;e.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>January</HI> 2^d^. 1685/6.</P>
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