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<P>A TREATISE OF METALLICA.</P>
<P>BVT NOT THAT WHICH WAS publi&s;hed by M^r. SIMON STVRTEVANT vpon his Patent, which is now by order cancelled and made voyd, by rea&s;on of his &s;tanding out-lawed at the time of the grant, and &s;o &s;till continuing, <HI>and his neglect, and not performance of the workes.</HI></P>
<P>WHEREVPON PRIVILEDGE, BY Patent, is granted by the Kings mo&s;t excellent Ma|ie&s;ty, to IOHN RO<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">IN<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ON, E&s;quire, for the making of Iron, and other Mettals and Materials with Sea|cole, Pit-cole, &amp;c. for one and thirty yeares. Accor|ding to which Patent and direction therein, this Treati&s;e, compo&s;ed by the &s;ame IOHN RO|VENZON, is publi&s;hed in Print before the end of Ea&s;ter Tearme, <HI>viz.</HI> the 15 of May. 1613.</P>
<P>And containeth a briefe Explanation, Demon&s;tration, or Di&s;|couery of the Inuentions priuiledged, and the meanes, In&s;tru|ments, Engins, Furnaces, &amp;c. with the materials, things, and workes to be made by the &s;aid Fewels.</P>
<P>The charge of an Iron-worke to worke with Sea-cole, is &s;et downe in the latter end of this Booke.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON.</HI></P>
<P>Printed for THOMAS THORP. 1613.</P>
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<P><HI>Cum Priuilegio.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTY.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Mo&s;t dread Soueraigne,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>_YOur Maie&s;ty hauing</HI> been plea&s;ed to grant vn|to me &s;ole priuiledge for one and thirty yeares by your gracious Letters Patents, to make and worke Iron, other Mettals, and diuers other materials with Sea-cole, and &s;uch other fewels: wherein it hath plea&s;ed God to ble&s;&s;e my poore inuentions and endeuours, by ef|fecting tho&s;e workes which haue beene heretofore worthily attempted by others, though with fruitle&s;&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;e, I held it my duty vpon publication of the&s;e inuen|tions,
<PB REF="3"> to pre&s;ent the &s;ame to your Roy|all view, humbly be&s;eeching your Maie&s;ty to accept them as a neuer-dy|ing Memoriall of the late mo&s;t excellent Prince <HI>Henry</HI> your &s;onne; who&s;e de&s;ire of the publique good (be&s;ides many par|ticular fauours which he was plea&s;ed to vouch&s;afe vnto me) was the fir&s;t motiue and Author to encourage me to make tri|all, and to accompli&s;h the&s;e works, which I hope will proue &s;o profitable to your Maie&s;ty, and &s;o enriching to your King|domes, as you will neuer haue cau&s;e to repent your gracious fauour and priui|ledge herein be&s;towed vpon me. The Lord of Heauen and Earth ble&s;&s;e and pre&s;erue your Maie&s;ty, your mo&s;t excel|lent Queene, and hopefull Royall I&s;&s;ue.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Maie&s;ties mo&s;t humble and obedient Subiect, IOHN ROVENZON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>TO THE READER</HEAD>
<P>_IT is not my purpo&s;e to commend my Inuentions of making and wor|king Mettals, and other Materials, and things with Sea-cole, and &s;uch other fewels: What I haue perfor|med herein, in that which hath been held mo&s;t difficult, by making Iron with Sea-cole, is &s;ufficiently knowne, to the full &s;atisfaction of &s;ome iudiciall Iron-ma&s;ters, Founders, and others experi|enced in Iron-workes, who haue &s;eene one of my Furnaces, and the workes therein done. Yet am I farre from arrogating all to my owne meere Inuen|tion: For how&s;oeuer the maine workes, and the v&s;e of the priuiledged fewels thereabouts, with the Fur|naces, haue beene deui&s;ed and acted by my &s;elfe in the workes of mo&s;t difficulty; yet many In&s;truments, operations, and meanes Metallicall, being nece&s;&s;ari|ly to be v&s;ed for the better, more ea&s;ie, and cheape working and effecting the workes, I do willingly ac|knowledge to the world, that the conferences and informations of many my good friends, who haue beene de&s;irous to further the&s;e workes, and the pri|uiledge granted by his Maie&s;ty to me, haue added
<PB REF="4"> much to my owne Inuentions, and giuen great light and furtherance, by meanes of diuers new-deui&s;ed|operations, in&s;truments, and Engines: Onely thus much more I thought good to giue notice; That whereas it plea&s;ed the late mo&s;t excellent Prince decea&s;&s;ed, vpon a grant of priuiledge obtained by his meanes for one Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant,</HI> for the like workes, to commit the tru&s;t of making and regi&s;tring of all Indentures and Conueyances thereabouts, with acquittances vpon all receits of money, or o|ther profites thereby to Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour</HI> of Graies-Inne, E&s;quire, his Maie&s;ties &s;eruant, to the end that euery aduenturer, and other that was to receiue be|nefite thereby, might haue his due without deceit, or dimini&s;hment, which was al&s;o agreed vnto, and confirmed to Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour,</HI> by grant of Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant</HI> vnder his hand and &s;eale: which Patent is by rea&s;on of the neglect of performance by Mai|&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant,</HI> and by his &s;tanding out-lawed at the time of the Patent granted, and &s;till &s;o continuing, become forfeited, made voyd, and cancelled. And the like priuiledge granted by his Maie&s;ty to me; in regard whereof, and for that Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour</HI> hath beene my chiefe a&s;&s;i&s;tant, and aide, to effect the&s;e workes, and an eye-witne&s;&s;e of all my endeuours therin. And be&s;ides, I know and am priuy, that it was alwayes the purpo&s;e &amp; intention of the late Prince, that vpon my performance of the&s;e workes, and obtaining his Maie&s;ties grant of priuiledge there|vpon, Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour</HI> &s;hould make and regi&s;ter all Conueyances and Acquittances that &s;hould bee made, by rea&s;on of my priuiledge, as he &s;hould haue
<PB REF="4"> done, if Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuants</HI> had remained in force: I haue therefore authorized Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour,</HI> accor|dingly, to make and regi&s;ter the &s;ame, giuing hereby knowledge therof to all whom it may concerne; and &s;uch as &s;hall be willing, or de&s;irous to aduenture, or deale in, or about any thing concerning ought con|tained within his Maie&s;ties Letters Patents to mee made and granted, that they may repaire to Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour</HI> at his Chamber in Graies-Inne, or to &s;uch other place as he &s;hall appoynt, wherein to write, make, and regi&s;ter the &s;aid Conueyances, and Ac|quittances, where they may know of him, in what &s;ort, and vpon what tearmes and conditions they &s;hall be dealt with. And becau&s;e &s;ome Aduenturers with M^r. <HI>Sturteuant,</HI> by his neglect &amp; forfeiture, were in danger to &s;u&s;taine lo&s;&s;e, &s;uch hath been his Maie|&s;ties Royall care of &s;uch as di&s;-bur&s;ed money, to, or with Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant,</HI> by, or vpon meere aduen|ture, to forward the workes, that a &s;peciall clau&s;e and proui&s;o is contained in the Indenture of Priui|ledge, to me made &amp; granted, that I am to performe and vndergoe &s;uch order for their recompence and &s;atisfaction, as &s;hall be held fit in equity by his Ma|ie&s;ties Barons of his Highne&s;&s;e Court of Exche|quer. But if &s;uch Aduenturers &s;hall bee willing to make knowne the manner and truth of their Aduen|tures, to me, or Mai&s;ter <HI>Ferrour,</HI> and to treat with vs thereabouts, I doubt not but &s;uch conclu&s;ion &s;hall bee made, as they &s;hall not need to make any further complaint el&s;e-where for their reliefe. To print the whole patent is a worke both tedious and &s;uperfluous; only the Inducement of his Maie&s;ties
<PB REF="5"> grant, the tearme of yeares, the effect of the things priuiledged, and the di&s;tribution of the profites, is fit to be made knowne; to which end I haue cau&s;ed an Ab&s;tract thereof to bee abridged out of the Indenture, and committed to the Pre&s;&s;e, to|gether with the <HI>Treati&s;e of Metallica,</HI> con|taining a briefe of the meanes, and manner of the workes inten|ded. And &s;o I re&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your louing friend, Iohn Rouenzon.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE INDVCEMENT to his Maie&s;ties grant, made to Iohn Rouenzon, <HI>E&s;quire, ab|&s;tracted</HI> out of the Indenture of Priuiledge.</HEAD>
<P>_VPON affirmation by <HI>Simon Sturte|uant,</HI> that hee could performe the workes, and had effected the &s;ame in &s;mall trials, the &s;ame <HI>IOHN RO|VENZON,</HI> made knowne the &s;ame to the late Prince his Highne&s;&s;e, who thereupon, at the humble &s;uit of the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Rouen|zon,</HI> obtained Letters Patents of priuiledge to Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant for 31 yeares.</HI></P>
<P>Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant</HI> oft promi&s;ed to haue performed the workes long &s;ince in the &s;aid late Prince his owne view; yet neglected it to his Maie&s;ties hinderance of profite that might in this &s;pace haue accrued, by endeuours of others.</P>
<P>The late Prince encouraged the &s;aid <HI>IOHN ROVEN|ZON</HI> to make triall if he could performe the workes; who, after many chargeable trials by him&s;elfe and
<PB REF="6"> friends, &s;atisfactorily effected the &s;ame. The &s;aid Prince hauing beene gratiou&s;ly plea&s;ed to a&s;&s;ure him, that vpon &s;uch performance, Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuants</HI> Patent &s;hould bee deliuered vp, and made voyd; and thereupon like priuiledge &s;hould bee granted to the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Rouenzon,</HI> according to the effect of his Inuentions.</P>
<P>Mai&s;ter <HI>Sturteuant</HI> &s;tood out-lawed at the time of the grant to him made, and &s;o &s;till continueth, which was found by office, and his Patent &s;eized, and ap|prized, and deliuered vp to bee cancelled, which is done, his Patent made voyd, and priuiledge granted to the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Rouenzon</HI> for one and thirty yeares to worke the workes, &amp;c.</P>
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<HEAD>The effect of the Priuiledge.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 SOle priuiledge to make Iron and all other Mettals, A&s;h-mettals, Bugles, Tiles, Potters-ware, Con|crets of boyleryes, &amp;c. with many other things, with Sea-cole, Pit-cole, Earth-cole, &amp;c. The perticulars of the things are mo&s;t of them &s;pecified hereafter.</P>
<P N="2">2 Sole priuiledge for making all In&s;truments, Engines, and meanes, &amp;c. onely for the&s;e workes; which In|&s;truments, &amp;c. are by this new Inuention conuerted to the&s;e workes, hauing beene heretofore v&s;ed in other Sciences, Arts, or My&s;teries.</P>
<P N="3">3 Sole priuiledge for making all the new-deui&s;ed Fur|naces, Fire-workes, In&s;truments, Engines, Meanes and Inuentions, either for the working of the workes
<PB REF="6"> with the &s;aid fewels, or for any other end or purpo&s;e what&s;oeuer.</P>
<P>The&s;e are granted in as ab&s;olute manner and forme as they are contained, or mentioned in the Indenture of Priuiledge, or the Schedules thereunto annexed, or &s;hall be more fully demon&s;trated, &s;pecified, or mentio|ned in the <HI>Treati&s;e of Metallica,</HI> to be printed before the la&s;t day of <HI>Ea&s;ter Tearme;</HI> which Treati&s;e is this pre&s;ent Booke.</P>
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<HEAD>The di&s;tribution of the Profites.</HEAD>
<P>The cleare yearely Profites are to bee diuided into 33 parts, whereof the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Rouenzon</HI> is to pay twelue parts to the Kings Maie&s;ty; fiue parts to the now Prince his Highne&s;se; one part to the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Roche&s;ter;</HI> one part the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Rouenzon</HI> is to keepe to him&s;elfe; And the re&s;idue, being foureteene parts, are to be di&s;tribu|ted by his di&s;cretion, and by &s;uch proportions as hee &s;hall thinke fit, among&s;t the Aiders, A&s;si&s;ters, Aduenturers, and Owners of the Workes.</P>
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<HEAD>THE TREATISE OF METALLICA.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The meanes whereby the workes are to bee performed, containing a briefe of the new-diui&s;ed In&s;truments, Engines, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>_THE INSTRVMENTS, Engines, Deui&s;es, and Meanes for performance of the workes, are either <HI>Preparatory</HI> before the Mettals, or Materials come to be wrought; or <HI>Preparatory</HI> after the Minerals, or fewell drawne; or el&s;e are v&s;ed about the workes them&s;elues.</P>
<P><HI>Preparatory</HI> before the Mettals or Materials come to bee wrought, are the meanes of mo&s;t ea&s;ie and lea&s;t chargeable getting, and acquiring the Ewers, Minerals, Mettals, Materials, or Fewell, which con|&s;i&s;teth in &s;peedy digging, in quicke &s;inking of pits, in &s;peedy remouing of impediments that may hin|der the digging or &s;inking of pits; in the ea&s;ie draw|ing
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<PB REF="9"> the Ewers, Minerals, or coles out of the pits; and in the &s;peedy and ea&s;ie lading forth of the water therein, and draining the pits.</P>
<P><HI>Preparatory,</HI> after the Minerals or Fewell drawne, are the more ea&s;ie and &s;peedy carriage; and after that, the making, drying, &amp; nealing of the Furnaces, and preparing &s;ome of the Materials, by beating, burning, or breaking; and others by tempering and commixing, forming, moulding, and then drying and nealing, before the worke of burning, or melting be performed.</P>
<P>The In&s;truments, Engines, Deui&s;es, and meanes v&s;ed about the workes them&s;elues are expre&s;&s;ed a|mong&s;t the new inuentions hereafter mentioned.</P>
<P>There are diuers new-deui&s;ed Engines for the drawing of water out of cole-mines, or other mines, which may bee al&s;o conuerted to the dra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1+ letters">ing of fennes, marri&s;h, or moori&s;h grounds; &s;ome of which Engines are to go and worke with wheeles, and buc|kets; others with wheeles and pumpes: other deui|&s;es by falles or di&s;cents, making waters to mount continually, and may be conuerted to haue pa&s;&s;age through pipes, cockes, or conduits, for &s;eruing of Hou&s;es, Townes, or Citties: others are new-deui&s;ed milnes, to go by labour of men, winde, water, hor&s;e, or diuers of them together, to rai&s;e Hammers, or Bellowes for Metallicall workes; or to grinde, or breake Metallicall Ewers, and Minerals into pow|der; and may bee employed to drai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of mines, cole-pits, fennes, marri&s;hes, or to &s;uch common v&s;es of grinding, fulling, tucking, &amp;c. that other common milnes are v&s;ed for, and will doe as much
<PB REF="9"> with le&s;&s;e charge, toyle, and expence.</P>
<P>A new kinde of artificiall cloth, deui&s;ed for Saile-clothes, for the new-deui&s;ed winde-milnes, made ei|ther of linnen, or wollen, or both mixt together, by a new kinde of weauing, which may be transferred to making of a very broad new kind of Wollen cloth, neuer heretofore v&s;ually made or knowne, in any of his Maie&s;ties Dominions, &amp; will &s;erue for curtaines or hangings, mentioned in the Schedules, annexed to the &s;aid Indenture of priuiledge, and may bee &s;o dyed in wooll, and wouen by this new kinde of wea|uing, and dre&s;&s;ed on both &s;ides, that it &s;hall bee of two &s;euerall colours; one colour (as greene, or any other colour) on the one &s;ide; and blew, or crim&s;on, or any other colour, on the other &s;ide; the cloth be|ing much finer then any now v&s;ually made, and &s;a|uing aboundance of wooll, by v&s;ing le&s;&s;e in weight, and thereby increa&s;ing the number of clothes; and yet as durable, or more durable then the now v&s;uall broad-clothes, and rea&s;onable cheape to be bought, and are &s;ome of them to be made two yards broad, &s;o as a Cloake may be made thereof without &s;eame. The making hereof will &s;et more people (by many) on worke, then the clothing in common v&s;e.</P>
<P>There is a new-deui&s;ed Engine which will either with Awgors, bore holes, vnder the clampes of Sea-cole, or Pit-cole, or any other Minerall, or with a raping wheele, make &s;uch Rigals that they may fall the ea&s;ier, and with le&s;&s;e charge, and toyle of men, and will &s;erue for many other v&s;es.</P>
<P>Certaine new-deui&s;ed Engines for the pulling vp of great rootes of trees, or great &s;tones, with one
<PB REF="10"> mans &s;trength at once: which roots and &s;tones may otherwi&s;e hinder the &s;peedy digging and &s;inking of cole-pits, or mines.</P>
<P>A new-deui&s;ed Engine, or In&s;trument for &s;awing of timber for proppes, or otherwi&s;e in mines; or for &s;awing Free-&s;tones, or Fire-&s;tones, or for Furnaces, which with one mans labour will &s;aw as much as &s;ixe or eight men now v&s;ually &s;aw, and may bee con|uerted to &s;awing of boords, or other things, or to raping of Log-wood, Bra&s;ill, or other woods for dying&punc;</P>
<P>Diuers new-deui&s;ed Turne-barrels, or motions for Turne-barrels, for the ea&s;ie drawing of coles out of the cole-pits, or other minerals out of mines, and may bee conuerted to vnloding, or rai&s;ing of any thing of great weight, for Shippes, or for buil|ding.</P>
<P>Certaine new deui&s;es, or engines to ea&s;e Carts, and Waines in carriage of Coles, or other minerals, halfe in halfe; and may be conuerted to Coaches, Caroches, and other carriages; &s;o as two hor&s;es may draw as much as foure doe v&s;ually: And by this deuice, and engines, with &s;ome other additions, three plowes, in light ground, and two plowes in o|ther ground, may bee made to goe and worke with one man onely, and as few cattell as are now v&s;ed for one plow, ridding twice or thrice as much worke in one day.</P>
<P>A new deui&s;e, engine, or meanes for the ea&s;ie rowing of Barges and Boats, for carriage of Coles, Mettals, or any other thing.</P>
<P>A deuice, or engine for the drawing vp &s;uch Barges
<PB REF="10"> or Boats through weeres or lockes for their &s;peedier pa&s;&s;age and carriage.</P>
<P>Certaine new-deui&s;ed Carriages, Carts, or Waines, to bee made to goe, or trauell alone, by rea&s;on of certaine motions, or &s;crues to bee v&s;ed by one man; and in &s;ome a hor&s;e may bee &s;et, onely to turne withall: and the&s;e carriages will carry thir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> hundred weight at once, an ordinary pace, and an v|&s;uall dayes iourney, and may bee conuerted to Coa|ches, Caroches, and other common carriages.</P>
<P>Diuers new-deui&s;ed Engines, In&s;truments, and meanes for the rearing of Hammers or Bellows for Iron-milnes, or workes, or other Metallicall ope|rations, and may be conuerted to the dre&s;&s;ing, row|ing, and fulling of cloath; and al&s;o to the &s;awing of timber, &s;o as one man may performe as much as many. And &s;ome of the&s;e engines will make both Bellowes and Hammer to worke at once, and with one and the &s;ame engine, and with one mans labour, without winde or water.</P>
<P>A new-deui&s;ed Engine or In&s;trument to digge with, which with labour of two men &s;hall performe as much as twenty men, and &s;erueth chiefly for the &s;peedy and ea&s;ie getting of the fewels of peat, and turfe, and is of excellent v&s;e for the &s;peedy cutting and &s;couring of riuers.</P>
<P>Diuers new-deui&s;ed meanes or engines, whereby a breach in any banke, or &s;toppage, for conueying of water out of cole-pits, or mines, the dambe or poole of any Iron-mill, or other-mill, may be &s;peedily, and ea&s;ily &s;topped; and may be conuerted to &s;toppe any breach in the bankes of any riuers, or &s;ea-bankes</P>
<PB REF="11">
<P>The Pre&s;&s;e and mould and In&s;truments deui&s;ed, or v&s;ed for making of Pre&s;&s;e-wares.</P>
<P>Diuers new-deui&s;ed fire-workes, in&s;truments, or kilnes to put fire into, which are to be made of Iron, or other mettals, or materials, with funnels, or pa&s;&s;a|ges to vent the &s;moake, are deui&s;ed to dry and neale furnaces, before full fire be put therein, and &s;erue al|&s;o to dry potters ware, before it be burnt; and may bee of excellent v&s;e in ordinary kilnes to dry malt, &s;tarch, hops, &s;affron, or any &s;uch thing, with New-ca|&s;tle &s;ea-cole, or any other &s;ea-cole, or pit-cole; or with any turfe, peat, or flag; &s;o as the malt, or other thing &s;hall be dried exceeding &s;weet and faire, without &s;ent, taint or touch of the fewell, or any &s;moake pro|ceeding there-from.</P>
<P>A new-deui&s;ed ve~tible, round, &amp; hollow, with a long &s;pout to be made of &s;ome mettall, or potters earth, wherein water being put, and the &s;ame placed on a fire, as it heateth, and the water euaporateth by the &s;pout, it maketh a continuall bla&s;t to kindle, or in|crea&s;e the fire in furnaces, or fire-workes, and may be conuerted to many other excellent v&s;es; and the &s;ame may be &s;o made in &s;euerall peeces with the top or vpper part remoueable at plea&s;ure, &s;o as the lower part being made to &s;tand on feet, may &s;erue at plea|&s;ure for a po&s;&s;enet, skellet, or boylatory; and when the top is put on, and well fa&s;tened and luted, it may then &s;erue for the ventible to make the bla&s;t.</P>
<P>For &s;uch of the workes as require light to worke by in the night, being di&s;tant from the places where the Furnaces are, there is a new-deui&s;ed luminary of gla&s;&s;e, or gla&s;&s;es filled with water, &amp; a candle placed
<PB REF="11"> to giue light through it, which giueth a very great light a great di&s;tance off, with &s;mall charge; and may be conuerted to excellent v&s;e, being placed in high places, in cro&s;&s;e-wayes, and &s;treets of Citties and Townes, to the &s;auing of lanthorne, and candle|light, and the auoyding of inconueniences happe|ning by darkne&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The De&s;cription of the Furnaces, and Fire-workes, and Additaments.</HEAD>
<P>FVrnaces are either &s;uch as are not of diui&s;ion, wherein the mettall or materiall, to be melted, or wrought, lyeth together in one place vndiuided: or Furnaces of diui&s;ion, wherein the mettall or materi|al to be melted, or wrought, is kept diuided from the fewell in &s;euerall places; &s;o as no &s;ub&s;tance of the fewell, but onely the heate and flame thereof can touch the mettall or materiall.</P>
<P>The Furnaces, or Fire-workes of diui&s;ion may be made with bellows, or without bellows, as wind-fur|naces, which are be&s;t, and lea&s;t chargeable.</P>
<P>The&s;e Furnaces may bee made to haue the flame come vp in the midde&s;t, with a Ci&s;terne, or Hearth, wherein the mettall lyeth on all &s;ides encompa&s;&s;ing the flame; or el&s;e the flame may come vp betwixt two, or more Ci&s;ternes or Hearths; or el&s;e the flame may come vp on one &s;ide of the Hearth, or Ci&s;terne, or on both &s;ides, or in &s;eueral angles, or places, with|out the Hearthes or Ci&s;ternes, at plea&s;ure of the owner.</P>
<P>The fewell alwayes lying on grates without the Ci&s;terne or Hearth, through which grates the aire,
<PB REF="12"> or winde gathereth, and &s;o maketh the fire to burne, the A&s;hes falling through the grates.</P>
<P>The Furnaces or Fire-works may be made round, or long, or triangular, or quadrangular, or with more angles, or part circular, or &s;emi-circular, or part angular, or in as many &s;euerall formes or fa&s;hi|ons as the owner plea&s;eth; and in euery of them the workes may be wrought, though in &s;ome better, or more readily then in others.</P>
<P>The Furnaces may be made with one, two, three, or more Ci&s;ternes, or Hearthes, to containe the ewers, or mettals to bee melted, or wrought, &s;o as one, two, three, or more Sowes of Iron, or other mettal, may be made to run all out at once, and euery of them of as great or greater weight as any Sowes now ordinarily ca&s;t.</P>
<P>The Furnaces may bee made either clo&s;e on the top, with &s;ome vent-holes, and &s;o meerely reuerbe|ratory, the mettals, or materials to bee melted, or wrought lying in the Ci&s;terne or Hearth before it be melted, and is therein melted, and thence run forth.</P>
<P>Or el&s;e the furnaces may be made with one, or more funels, as it were chimneys on the top, or in the &s;ides, or ends, with grates of free-&s;tone made in the botto~s of tho&s;e funnels, placed right ouer the Ci&s;ternes, or Hearthes: in which funnels the materials, to be mel|ted, may be put, and the flame and fire &s;hall haue on|ly pa&s;&s;age through tho&s;e funnels, there melting the materials; &s;o as they fall melted thence into the Ci|&s;ternes and Hearthes, where they are clean&s;ed, and thence run forth into Sowes.</P>
<P>The Furnaces may be made with out-wings, into
<PB REF="12"> which the flame may pa&s;&s;e by vent-holes, or without &s;uch out-wings. The&s;e out-wings may &s;erue to roa&s;t the Ewre, or for many other purpo&s;es.</P>
<P>The Furnaces may be made with conuenient pla|ces therein for the Finery and Chaffery; &s;o as one &amp; the &s;ame furnace, with one and the &s;ame charge of fire, may &s;erue both to melt, clean&s;e, and fine the met|tals, and to do all the works at once, &amp; in one place, that are now done in &s;euerall places, by furnace, Fi|nery, and Chaffery; and may bee &s;et vp clo&s;e at the mine, with an engine to rai&s;e the hammer, &amp;c. with one mans labour, there to be v&s;ed without trouble of carriage, and without the charge of any water|milne.</P>
<P>The Furnaces may be made great and fixt for grea|ter works; or &s;mall and moueable, for &s;maller works, and tryals; and by conueying, circling, or twining pipes of mettal, or burnt earth, through any of them, through which pipes water may haue pa&s;&s;age, the one end thereof beeing fa&s;tened on a cocke or con|duit, and the other end kept &s;topt with a cocke, or o|therwi&s;e, and opened at plea&s;ure. It may be made to run hot water continually, or &s;o long as the party plea&s;eth to v&s;e it; and then being remoued, the maine cocke or conduit may run cold water againe. All which may be performed with far le&s;&s;e charge then is now v&s;ed in heating of caldrons, kettles, or recei|uers of water by Felt-makers, Launderers, or any o|thers.</P>
<P>One and the &s;ame furnace may be &s;o contriued and made, as it may do all the workes Metallicall of bur|ning, melting, fining, &amp;c. the Ewer or Mettall: And
<PB REF="13"> al&s;o the worke of any boylery, to gather the concret thereof, or for any other purpo&s;e; and al&s;o to make a cocke, or conduit run hot water; and al&s;o to make Bugles, China worke, and gla&s;&s;e-worke therin. And to bake and burne potters-ware, and other burnt|earthes, or as many of tho&s;e &s;euerall workes as the owner plea&s;eth to be done at one and the &s;ame time, with one and the &s;ame fire.</P>
<P>All boylatories of things liquid, and all kilnes to dry Malt, or other things, &amp; all clampes or kilnes to burne tiles, or potters-ware, or any thing of burnt earth (except onely where New-ca&s;tle Sea-cole is intermixt in burning of brickes) are fire-workes of diui&s;ion.</P>
<P>The &s;aid mettals of Iron, &amp;c. may bee al&s;o made with the &s;aid fewels in common Blomeries, Fineries, and Chafferies, but much better in Blomeries, Fine|ries and Chafferies of deui&s;ion, which are of new in|uention, not yet v&s;ually v&s;ed about the &s;aid workes, wherein the materials, to bee melted or wrought, may be kept diuided, from touch of the fewels.</P>
<P>Certaine new deui&s;es in framing of chimneys, and other things thereabouts, for drying of earthen ve&s;|&s;els, before they be burnt, and for drying of concrets made by boyleries; which deui&s;es may be transferred to common chimneys, whereby halfe the fewel, now &s;pent therein, may be &s;aued.</P>
<P>Certaine new deui&s;ed ve&s;&s;els, or caldrons, made of wood, or mettall, or both, for boyling of liquors, or wort for Brewers, or others.</P>
<P>There are certaine Fluxes, and Additaments for the &s;peedier and more perfect melting, &s;eparating,
<PB REF="13" MS="y"> and purifying of Iron, and other mettals from their &s;lagge, dro&s;&s;e, and cyndar; as tran&s;parent or gla&s;&s;y &s;tones, or &s;and, Cri&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">all, or Borax, gall of gla&s;&s;e, gla&s;&s;e beaten to powder; and for &s;mall tryals of Tyn, or Lead, Soap, or Wax, or &s;ome fatty &s;ub&s;tance, are propper Additraments; and Lead it &s;elfe is fit for &s;e|parating of other mettals: The &s;lagge of former melted mettals, as the &s;lagge of Iron to melt and purifiy Iron ouer, for which al&s;o Lyme and a&s;hes of wood, and du&s;t of char-coale, are v&s;ed; and for &s;mall trials, Ar&s;nicke, Sulpher, Vitriol, Tartar, Salt|gemme, Salt-niter, and Stybium, &s;ome of which may be al&s;o v&s;ed in greater workes, for which al&s;o Salt-peter is by new inuention deui&s;ed to bee made cheape, and in one place continually, without trou|ble of digging of hou&s;es, or Stables, and may bee conuerted to make gun-powder in aboundance.</P>
<P>There is al&s;o &s;ome &s;peciall new deui&s;ed Additra|ments, for the more &s;peedy and perfect &s;eparating &amp; purifying of Iron, from the &s;lag, dro&s;&s;e, and cynder, in making of Iron with Sea-coale, or other the priuile|ged Fewels; which &s;pecial Additraments are &s;pecifi|ed and declared in writing, with the de&s;criptions, or models of diuers engins, in&s;truments, deui&s;es, and inuentions drawne in parchment, and remaining in cu&s;tody of the fore-named <HI>Iohn Ferrour.</HI></P>
<P>A new deui&s;ed &s;toue, for the opening and better dre&s;&s;ing of Wooll, with a new kind of dre&s;&s;ing, and &s;pinning thereof, for a new kind of cloathing.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>The Materials and things to bee melted, made, or wrought, by the Fewels of Sea-cole, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>ALL Ewers, or Oares, and mettals of Iron, Steele, Bra&s;&s;e, Copper, Lattin, Tyn, Pewter, Lead, Alchimy-ware, Bel-mettals, Candle&s;ticke|mettals, and all other Mettals and Mynerals what&s;o|euer, either &s;imple, or commixt.</P>
<P>All A&s;h-mettals, Sand-mettals, Bugles, Ammels, and all other things what&s;oeuer, &s;imple, or commixt, to be melted, made, or wrought, or conuerted into any &s;tony, or gla&s;&s;y &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>All burnt earthes, earthen ve&s;&s;els, &s;tone-pots, earthen-pots, Potters-ware, Tobacco-pipes, pipes of earth, ca&s;t Iron, or other Mettall, or &s;tuffe what|&s;oeuer to conuey water in; pauing-&s;tones, Mantle|trees for chimneyes, pillers, monions for windowes, or other ornaments of burnt earth, artificiall marble, or things of burnt earth like marble; burnt earth like free-&s;tone, or other &s;tone for building, or other v&s;es; tiles, way-earthes, lime, plai&s;ters, the making, moulding, perfecting and burning of cer|taine white earthen ve&s;&s;els, painted with diuers co|lours, commonly called by the name, or names of <HI>Fatanza</HI> ve&s;&s;el; &amp; a certaine earthen ve&s;&s;ell of Ia&s;per|colour, or &s;uch as are brought out of the <HI>Straights, Italy, Spaine, France, Germany,</HI> and the low Countries, together with pauing-tiles, chymney-peeces, mo|nions for windowes, and &s;uch other things framed and fa&s;hioned of earth, not v&s;ually heretofore made in any of his Maie&s;ties Dominions or Countries:
<PB REF="14"> and all things what&s;oeuer, made, or to bee made of earth, and then burnt, or hardened.</P>
<P>All kinde of Pre&s;&s;e-ware, to be made by pre&s;&s;e and mould, or either of them, and framed or fa&s;hioned of earth, or other &s;tuffe or &s;ub&s;tance.</P>
<P>Bricke may be made with pit-cole, or &s;tone-cole, or any other of the priuiledged fewels, better then with New-ca&s;tle &s;ea-cole, without danger of that lo&s;&s;e which oft happeneth by New-ca&s;tle cole; which, as it is now v&s;ed, doth many times &s;poyle much of the bricke-clampe by making it run toge|ther in a lumpe.</P>
<P>All boyleries, and hot waters, and all concrets ga|thered by boyleries, all Coppero&s;&s;es, Allomes, Salt|peter to be made in one place continually, without trouble of digging hou&s;es, or &s;tables, being a new inuention. Sugers, Ro&s;ins, Gums, Turpentines, Waxes, Tallowes, Sopes, the making, boyling, and perfecting of certaine Sopes, called white Sopes, hard Sope, &s;weet Sope, and Ca&s;tle-&s;ope, not v&s;ually heretofore made in any of his Maie&s;ties Dominions or Countries Oyles, di&s;tilled waters, commixtures, and all other boyleries, or dicoctions what&s;oeuer, heretofore boiled or heated v&s;ually with wood fuell, or char-cole.</P>
<P>Conuerting, or making of Iron into Steele, or Copper.</P>
<P>The burning of any weedes, or hearbes, or other thing into a&s;hes; or any &s;tony, or gla&s;&s;y &s;ub&s;tance for Dyers or Gla&s;&s;e-makers.</P>
<P>Extractions of &s;iluer out of lead, or lead Ewre, or either of them, Conuerting of lead, or lead Ewre in|to
<PB REF="15"> litarge, or into white, or red lead, or into Caeru&s;e.</P>
<P>A new-deui&s;ed &s;tuffe wherewith &s;hips, boates, or o|ther ve&s;&s;els may be trimmed as cheape as now they are; and &s;hall endure ten yeares together water-tite, without new-dre&s;&s;ing, or hurt by mo&s;&s;e, or wormes, &s;o as they run not on grauelly &s;helues; and will bee exceeding good to pre&s;erue all timber-workes from wormes and rotting, a &s;mall example, or parcell of the &s;tuffe remaineth in cu&s;tody of M^r. <HI>Ferrour.</HI></P>
<P>A new deui&s;ed hard coniealed &s;tuffe, which will make a liquor, or commixture, which will fixe fal&s;e dying-woods, &s;o as they will endure all cold and wearing trials, and much more; as may appeare by a Certificate made to the right Ho: the Lords of his Maie&s;ties mo&s;t honourable Priuy Councell, by the Lo: Mayor, and Recorder of <HI>London,</HI> on behalfe, of that friend, by who&s;e information the &s;aid <HI>Iohn Ro|venzon</HI> attained to this inuention: An en&s;ample, or parcell of this coniealed &s;tuffe remaineth in cu&s;to|dy of M. <HI>Ferrour.</HI></P>
<P>All Chymicall works, and operations what&s;oeuer hitherto done v&s;ually, by fire of wood, or char|cole, may by the&s;e new inuentions, meanes, in&s;tru|ments, or operations, be made, wrought, or done by fire made with Sea-cole, pit-cole, and other the pri|uiledged fuels.</P>
<P>The Models of all, or mo&s;t engins, and in&s;tru|ments before mentioned, remaine in the cu&s;tody of the &s;aid M. <HI>Ferrour,</HI> and had bene now expre&s;&s;ed in Print, but that the &s;hortne&s;&s;e of time limited for the Impre&s;&s;ion hereof will not permit. To expre&s;&s;e the Furnaces by modell is needle&s;&s;e, in regard that
<PB REF="15"> &s;ome of them haue been already &s;et vp by mee the now <HI>Patentee;</HI> and be&s;ide, they may be varied into &s;o many &s;euerall formes and figures, according to the &s;euerall humors of the owners, as cannot be well ex|pre&s;&s;ed by models.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Charge of an Iron-worke, or Furnace.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 A Rea&s;onable, or conuenient hou&s;e clo&s;e by the mine, to &s;et the furnace in, &s;o as carriage of the Ewre &s;hall be therby &s;aued: the charge of that hou&s;e cannot be great.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Furnace it &s;elfe to worke withall (which &s;hal do as much, or more then any Furnaces now v&s;ed with char-cole) may bee &s;et vp in the Country, for le&s;&s;e then ten pounds charges, if their Fire-&s;tone bee not fetched too farre.</P>
<P>Vpon decay of the Furnace in the fire-&s;tone or hearth, the one end of the Furnace may bee pulled downe, and a new fire-&s;tone, or hearth put in, and the Furnace re-edified and built all againe for forty &s;hil|lings charge, or le&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The Furnace beeing a winde-furnace (which is be&s;t) &s;aueth the charge of the bellowes, and of a milne to make them blow. And the Engine to rai&s;e the hammer for the Finery and Chaffery, by helpe of one man, &s;aueth the charge of the milnes for the Finery and Chaffery: and if the Engine, Finery and Chaffery be &s;et vp in the place where the Furnace to make Sow-Iron is, which may well be done; it will &s;aue the charge of infinite carriage of cole, &s;tone, and Sow-Iron.</P>
<PB REF="16">
<P>The Furnace may be &s;o contriued, that it may &s;erue al&s;o for Finery, and Chaffery; &s;o as the Sow-Iron may bee fined at one time, and in one and the &s;ame Furnace, where it is made Sow-Iron.</P>
<P>After the Furnace commeth to full heate, which will be after 8 or 9 dayes, or fewer, heating and nea|ling by degrees, euery tun of Sow-Iron will not re|quire, for the mo&s;t part, aboue a Tun of pit-cole to be made withall.</P>
<P>Whereas an Iron-worke cannot be well &s;et vp, and &s;et on worke, after the v&s;uall manner, without a 1000 pound, or 1500 pound di&s;-bur&s;ement, and &s;tocke; now, by this new Inuention, an 100 l' &s;tocke will performe as much with Sea|cole, and the new-deui&s;ed Furnaces, hauing a conuenient hou&s;e to &s;et the Furnace in.</P>
</DIV2>
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<PB REF="16">
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