| Title: | Copy Extracts On Inventions In Hands E & B, Culpeper & ? |
|---|---|
| Dating: | 18 January 1647, 19 March 1648 |
| Ref: | 53/35/1A-2B: 2B BLANK |
| Notes: | Original of Culpeper extract at 13/180. |
[53/35/1A]
An Extract of a Letter of Sir.Cheney
Culpepper. Ian 18. 1647.
I am exceedingly taken with Mr..Pettit and Mr. Wheelers proposalls, but when I consider that they cannot part with them without some Rewards, and that no privat purse can, and the publique will not give it, I cannot but feare that the Ingenuities will dy with the men, though truly (I conceive) they should not bury those talents which they have received from God, that by them they might profit many. For an Accommodation in this present<point> I could heartily wish, that the Parliament (in this time of seekinge the Peoples love) would appoint a Committee for the examining and Rewarding of Ingenuities and purchasinge them for publick vse. This power have the Hoogh-mogende in Holland, and by this power have they at one time (to my Knowledge) purchased 4. Ingenuities, <right margin: from one Douglas a Scotch man for 2000 lb besides many others which lye in their treasury of Ingenuities> and this they doe, though they make no present and perhaps no future vse of them. For their scope is as much for preservation and rewards of Ingenuity,
[53/35/1B]
as for the present vse of it. To this Committee your Office of Addresse would bee excellently subservient, in tendring such Ingenuities as (though not to bee had without rewards) are yet worthy their Connuisance
That Smallest among Mr. Wheelers proposalls (vizt. of Keepinge meate a long time) is of great Vse and may (no question) bee further applied and truly would the publique purchase it, I would willingly pay more then my Share I would willingly pay more then my share I would make no question so farre to inlarge the vse of it, as to returne much conveniency or some profit. Snow or Saltpeeter are two things which I have thought for this ende of preservinge of things from putrifaction and (for want of better meanes) I intend to trie the extente of their power, but if by those, or any other meanes the preservinge of things could bee found, it would make a great <H: and> sudden change in the better and [letter deleted] cheaper providinge and more seasonable spending, of what (in the ordinary course) is subject to change.
[53/35/2A]
<Hartlib: Extract of another Letter.from [Dr?] [Amsterd.?] 19 March 1648>
[scribe B:]
I have this Weeke seene a Globe a making at M. Bleau his house, at the charge & by the apointment of the East India company of 5 or 6 foot diameter, the body of copper the Meridionall[altered] line of steele the [coleurs? altered from colours] (for it is a Terrestiall globe) Layd with a new and never till now Invented Art, that will endure washing[altered], not staine, if Inke or any such liquor be throwne on it, but endure in the same newnes and freshnesse[altered] many yeares, and for the honour of our Nation an English man is the Inventor of it It[H capitalises] hath beene doing alreadie a yeare or two, and will scarce be finished in a yeare more, It will cost about 12 or 15 hundred pounds english, it is to be presented to a king in the East Indies, as I take it of the Celebes.