me to ask whether you have the feveral pieces mentioned underneath? My book

feller tells me he cannot meet with 'em in the fhops in town; and I fancy they are not to be had but in private or public libraries. I dont know of any of Jonfon's pieces which were printed in 4to. except the Sejanus, (which I have) 1605. If any are in your poffeffion, I fhould be glad to be acquainted with them. I have fent you what notices Mr. Hervey and Dr. Stonhoufe have been pleafed to give me. I entrusted the paper relating to Dr. Bishop with a gentleman, who could not meet with the Doctor at home: when I receive his anfwer, I will forward it to you, with his Sermon, which was printed here. The account you defire of myfelf, if worthy of a place in your work (an intended Continuation of Wood's Athena Oxonienfes) I will take care to fend you; but defire to defer it till I have completed my master's degree. The church, of which I am vicar in this town, is St. Sepulchre's. It is a very curious ftructure, and faid to be built after the holy fepulchre in Jerufalem; as indeed it is not unlike the pictures, which Sandy's gives us of it in his Travels. There are not above three

fuch in England; that of the Temple bears fome relemblance to it. The body

is a round, from whence you afce by steps into the chancell, which confi of three ifles. We have no infcriptio worth notice, or I would fend you a cop I am with great refpect, Sir,

Your most obed and obliged Northampton,

Hobie fervt.

2d July, 1749. PETER WHALLEY. "Annalia Dabrenfia. Upon the Year Celebration of Mr. Robert Dover's Olyr pic Games upon Cotswold Hills, & Lon. 4to. 1636. There is an account this book in Wood's Athenæ, z vo col. 812 The laft edition.

"The Black Book, written by T. M a pamphlet printed by T. C. for Jeffer Charlton, 1603, 4to.

"Decker's Pieces; particularly his S tyromaftix, or the Untruffing the Hu mourous Poet; a Satire against Jonfon.

"The Magnificent Entertainment give by King James, &c. upon the Day of h Tryumphant Paffage from the Tower through this honourable City of Londor &c. 1603, by Thomas Decker.

"Dr. Gill's Piece againft Jonfon Magnetic Lady, of which I forget th title.

"I have enclosed one of my Propofals they are not yet published.”

MR. JOSEPH HUDDART'S (ISLINGTON) for a new Mode of making great CABLES, &c. fo as to attain greater Strength, by a more equal Diftribution of the Strain upon the Yarns.

TH

HE method adopted by the patentee cannot be explained to the general reader without the ufe of feveral figures. But having defcribed the various parts of the machinery and implements to be used, the operation is as follows.-The bobbins, which are made fomething in the form of the barrel in a watch on which the chain runs, being all wound full of yarn, they are put upon the fpindles, and the ends of the yarns led through finall holes and ends of the fpindle. One end of the fpindle is put into the end of the axis, and the other end dropped into a notch in the rail; then some of the yarn is drawn off, and the fprings regulated, till of equal force and fufficiently tight, The yarns are then to be drawn off, leaving that from the bobbin long enough to reach the fore-part of the machine, where it is to be knotted to the yarns of the ftrand,

having fixed as many bobbins as intended yarns in the ftrand. The bands (if hands are uled and not wheel-work) fhould allo be made tight to carry the axis, which is done by a fcrew, adjufting the frictionwheel. The ftrand is then to be run and laid upon the rails or fupporters, each yard in its proper notch; and for expedition one of the rails may be used for feparating the yarns, and laying them in the rails, dropping a whole range into the notches at once; which being done, the yarns of the ftrand are to be fmoothknotted to the refpective yarns from the bobbins, and the machine is ready for ufe. The yarns at the other end of the ftrand are then to be put through the regifter, taking care fo to felect them, as to clear each other when stretched to the holes in the register. The holes in the regifter being completed with yarns, let the ends be collected together upon a stretch, and made fast to the hook which turns the ftrand in registering, and flide the register back near to the hook, and adjust it by fcrews. Laftly, put round

the

nd the tube the thong or wire, and make it faft to the jaws of the heaver, and heave it tight. If the handles of the heaver are too near or too far from each other, for the convenience of the man that regifters the ftrand, alter the bolt till it is right, and every thing is ready to begin to regifter the ftrand. It being determined how hard the rope is to be laid, the index is to be fixed accordingly on the arc, and taking a few turns with the hook, keeping the heaver tight to comprefs the tube, the guage is to be tried, and the registering regulated.

If three ftrands are registering together, it must be a triple register in one frame; there is, however, no neceffity to try but One ftrand with the guage, if the yarns are of the fame kind. The ftrands being registered, must be made fast to the hook in the common way, equally tight. For laying, the index of the guage being altered, the correfponding numbers must be ufed; then turning the hooks of the frands till the outfide fhell of yarns correfpond with the tongue of the guage, and begin to lay the rope. In registering, a fufficient weight is laid upon the hook to prevent its being drawn towards the machine.

MR. THOMAS KENTISH'S (BAKERSTREET) for an improved DERRICK, for loading and unloading Ships, &c. The principal parts of this machinery are a purchase-wheel, properly faftened, a roller to take the rope of that wheel; a break-wheel, and a lever to prefs on this to lower the weight down; a racket-wheel and paul to stop the roller from going back when hoifting up the weight; a fhip's maft, or a polt in the ground on fhore with a guy, a fhieve to keep the rope extended, and a hook on which the weight is fixed.

By the cranes, of almoft any conftruction, there is little difficulty in ra.fing a weight; but accidents too frequently happen in lowering the lever. The common method of delivering a cargo from ships is by a large luff tackle, fixed to the head of the derrick, the end of the face being brought to the capftan, by which four men can with difficulty raife a hogfhead of fugar; but it requires, at leaft, five to lower one down with fafety; the weight frequently overpowers that number, and obliges them to drop from the bars.

To prevent fuch accidents, Mr. K. has invented the roller with two inclined planes to his derrick; three turns or more with great weight of rope, from the pur

chafe wheel at the head, are to turn round the centre of the roller, which is taken off as the weight afcends, by a small roller, with two inclined planes, placed a little above the large roller, a man holding or drawing the rope off until the weight is as high as wanted; then the lever is preffed on the break-wheel, by a weight at the end, fufficient to check the roller, and make it perfectly caly to the man or boy to eafe the rope away as faft or as flow as he pleafes. The weight being checked by three powers-the boy holding on the rope, the handle to the roller, and the lever preffing on the break-wheel.

The derrick may be applied to various ufes on fhore, on board his Majefty's ships in ordinary, hofpital and prifon thips, or to get in the guns and ftores of a man of war, by a few hands, before the proper officers and fhip's company are ordered on board. The wheel and roller may be applied to hoilt up water from a deep well, and it will bring up a large quantity, with lefs ftrength and labour than is now required by a common wheel and pinion;-to hoifting up hoats on board men of war or merchant ships with more eafe and expedition than by the common tackle; and to lowering them with fafety, as the must go down in a horizontal pofi ion into the water, and is difengaged in a moment, which prevents accidents, particularly when the fhip has fternway, the boat is often in danger under the counter, before the tackle can be unhooked. Four men will be fufficient to deliver a fugar fhip, which with a capftan requires eight. With the derrick, we are allo affured by the Patentee, that there is a faving of time, and of rope; and the machine itself is not liable to get out of order. It will laft as long as the fhip; and, if an accident occur, it is fo fimple, that any mechanic can repair it.

MR. ROBERT RANSOME'S (IPSWICH) for a Method of making and tempering CAST-IRON PLOUGH SHARES, &c. To make the bares, the melted pigiron is poured into a mould, prepared for the purpofe, formed with one fide or part of iron, and the other fide or part of fand or loam. The fide of the fhare, when caft, that lays next the iron mould, will be hard, and of a proper temper, while the other fide that is formed in fand or loam will be foft; and if made of the belt pig-iron, the fhare will be much ftrengthened.

The moulds are thus made; a wellfinished fhare, made either of iron or other metal, is laid upon fand or loam, care

fully

fully ftopping it up until an accurate parting is made of that fide of the fhare which is defigned to be hardened; then pour on it lead, platter of Paris, &c. that will take an exact impreffiop. With this caft, another is taken in fand or loam of the exact fhape, in iron or other metal, which is the part ufed to form one fide of the fhare, and that gives the hardness and temper to it. The other fide of the fhare is formed in a flask of wood or metal, with fand or loam in the common way. These two parts are faftened together by fcrews, &c. fo as to ferve the purpose of confining the mould together, while the metal is pouring in. The focket of the fhare is formed by an iron or metal plug, the shape of the fock et, being inferted into the mould, by which means the focket is fure to be smooth, and exact in fize and shape.

Scarifiers and hoes may be caft in a fimilar manner; but if both fides be required to be hard, and the inner part foft, then both fides of the mould must be made of iron or other metal.

Two actions have lately been brought on patent causes. The FIRST was tried in the Common Pleas before Lord Alvanley. The action was brought by Mr. Smith, a fadler, against Mr. Dickenson, of Bond-ftreet, to recover damages for the injury he had fuftained by the defendant having availed him felf of a communication which the plaintiff had made to him, of an invention for which the plaintiff was about to take out a patent.

It appeared on the trial that fome years fince, the plaintiff had obtained a patent for an apparatus to give elafticity to the girths of faddles, and that the defendant in November, 1801,* obtained a patent for a fimilar apparatus. The plaintiff at this period had another invention, very

fuperior to any thing before known, which he explained to Dickenson, upon his first entering into an engagement to take no advantage of it. Nevertheless, in a fhort time, he took a patent for this very invention. After a full inveftigation, the jury retired, and retur ed a verdict for the plaintiff 300l. damages, and 40s. costs; and likewise an affignment of the defendant's patent, at his own expence, to the plaintiff. The jury allo left feveral queftions to the determination of the court, which we fhall probably notice hereafter.

The SECOND was brought by Huddart* v. Grimshaw, for an infringement of his patent. It was proved on the trial, that the defendant had, by the confent of Captain Huddart, feen his mode of rope-making, and had requested the liberty of adopting the fame invention at his ropery in Sunderland; which, however, was pofitively refuftd. From this time, it was alfo proved, that the defendant carried on his bufinefs in a private manner, shutting up his manufactory; and permitting none to enter it, excepting perfons in whom he could confide; and, as it was alleged, practising part of the plaintiff's invention.

This action was tried in the Court of King's Bench; and, after a long inveftigation, Lord Ellenborough recapitulated the evidence, ftating the principal points of the law relative to the cafe; he obferved that there was certainly prima facie evidence that the defendant had made ufe of part of plaintiff's invention but he left it to the jury to confider whether or not it was an infringement of the plaintiff's patent. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.

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