The Hartlib Papers

     A Note of the charges that are yett requisitt &

     nessesary for the perfecting of My Engine as to the

     grinding of Malt

Imprimis for a new plancke of 4 foot broade (att   }

least) six inches thicke and twelue foot long, att } 2-08-00

twelue pence a foot if itt can bee gotten soe ---- }

Item for a dozen of oaken quarters & a dozen of

Beechen quarters one with the other ---------------   0-16-00

Item for Aysh to make pins (about) 20 shl slitt

deales, & a dozen of rafters ----------------------   1-15-00

Item for a dozen of brasse plates with their

scruepins at 2^s-6^d - each -------------------------   1-10-00

Item for a dozen of Brasse socketts & for drilling

them att 9^d for one -------------------------------   0-09-00

Item for poledavye to make the sails, for pins, wyre,

leather, glue, tinne etc to fitt & close vp the

wind- box -----------------------------------------   1-00-00

Item for three new nutts (if occasion serue) ------   0-15-00

Item for one new spindle of Iron & wheele to itt

with teeth ----------------------------------------   1-10-00

Item for one new spindle of Iron & wheele with coggs

& teeth -------------------------------------------   2-00-00

Item for a Lanthorne nutt and itt's exceeding strong

spindle of Iron -----------------------------------   1-10-00

Item for the millstone x Iron & all other Iron or

brasse worke to itt -------------------------------   0-12-00

Item for a paire of smal but verry good Millstones

the fixing one & hanging the other ----------------   6-13-04

Item for the making of the hopper, trough, mill box,

&c, stuffe, & fixing the same ---------------------   1-10-00

Item for the smiths labour (besides making) to file

more exactly the olde & to fix the new wheele,

spindles, nutts &c --------------------------------   0-18-00

Item for the Ioyner, carpenter, & turner's labour

in all this worke (att least ----------------------   3-00-00

Item for all labour, losse or charge nott foreseene   3-13-08

                                                     30-00-00

               More for the two single Bellowes

for two planckes for their foundation & [word
deleted] foure more which in all will require 30 foot

of 6 inches & [word deleted] 32 foot of 3 inches --   3-00-00

or foure (att least) of the larges & best hides

of Neat's leather ---------------------------------   8-00-00

for sowing their frames & liquoring them

shoemakers worke ----------------------------------   0-18-00

for all wood, Iron, brasse or lead to be vsed

within or without, except the top weights ---------   2-12-00

for the top weights beeing two hundredweights of lead 2-16-00

for the Cords & pulleyes that Ioynes the bellowes

to the Equipondium --------------------------------   0-10-00

for all Iron & timber vsed for the fixing of these    2-00-00

for all wages to Carpenter, Joyner,turner or Smith    2-10-00

or all the labour losse or charge not foreseene      3-04-00

                                                     25-00-00

               More for the Equipondium

for the Equipondium itt selfe of wood & metall mixt   3-00-00

for the Axeltree, the halfe wheele of wood & two

pulley wheeles ------------------------------------   2-10-00

for the Iron halfe wheele & itts spindle ----------   1-10-00

for cables & timbers to frame & hang the equipondium

& all Iron ----------------------------------------   2-00-00

for the Carpenter's, Ioyner's, turner's & smithes

wages ---------------------------------------------  2-10-00

for all other losse or charge not now forseene ----   3-10-00

                                                     15--0--0

               30--00--00

               25--00--00

               15--00--00

               70--00--00

By this accompt itt appeares that to doe this worke as itt ought to bee done, to make this engine perfect, vsefull, and perticulerly applicable to the grinding of Malt will require the farther expence of 70^£ (And by the way lett mee hint this that 20^£ more will double the diameter & soe the strength (without losse of tyme) of the whole engine & soe make itt capeable of grinding wheate)

Now although possibly this sum will seeme too great for soe smale a worke till you haue taken into your consideration these following particulers

First that all New Inventions are more difficult and chargeable in their first Erections by many degrees then they will bee afterwards

secondly that all smale Modells that are (yett) substantiall & vsefull are neer as chargeable as great ones the difference onely consisting in the Magnitude of the whole bulke, or in the Measure or weight of the Measure or weight of the materialls, which are Nothing comparable to the Number[altered from Nuber], order, care, and skill to bee vsed in both, for these last are verry often more chargeable in the lesser workes, as (not to cite this though of the same nature) a watch is more chargeable then a clocke, and the lesse watch then the greater if itt bee well wrought

Thirdly that this beeing once finished there will bee (amongst our selues) a perpetuall dore of discovery open, how to make the lyke, how to vary in the vses & applycations and how to avoyde or abate any charge that shall bee found vnnessesarye

Fourthly, That though itt seeme a great deale of money yett when the product is cast vp and knowne, it will appeare a benifitiall expence. (Viz^t) I will vndertake that (vnder and in the power and blessing of Almightye God whose guift I acknowledge itt to bee) itt shall grind when once thus finished 10- quarter of Malt every 24 houres which reckoning but one sack halfe pecke to bee gott in every bushell, & but -300 grinding dayes in the yeare will come to -5^£- a day or -1500^£ a yeare Nay if you should but count the ordinary & lawfull tole (viz^t) a quart out of every bushell that amounts to -80- quarts a daye which att [word deleted] two pence a quart the present vallue - is [letter deleted] -13^s-4^d a daye or -200^£- a yeare, And surely this last & least accompt can neither bee denyed nor doubted, But will bee [catchword: rather]

Fiftly & lastly hee that layes downe a sum now in the begining of worke to enable mee to perfect itt, doth nothing lesse then with a smale some purchase a ioynt interest in a great, and (by God's blessing which wee must hope & pray for) certaine lasting revenue whether [we? MS edge torn] accompt as to privat vses, or (which is yett much more) as when [it? MS edge torn] beecome a settled designe, accepted and allowed, and established in vs by iust power according to the allready knowne lawes of the kingdome for att least fourteene yeares

Itt will not bee amisse to call to mind, or enquire how many severall persons haue attempted & fayled to find this or the lyke worke. how great their expence of tyme and money hath beene dyvers having spent many yeares in the search[altered from seach] and many hundreds of pounds if not thousands

And then consider that I haue beene (att the vttermost that can bee counted but since Ianuary last, about halfe a yeare in tyme, Nor haue I any way first & last till this day, spent aboue -25^£ in the search although I accompt neer tenne pounds layde out (as indeed there is) of moneyes for which I stand otherwise engaged I having never receaved soe mutch as -20^£ from all the world in order to this worke, And I may truely say that itt had beene finished some monethes since had I beene assisted with that quicke strength that was requisite.

And though vpon serious consideration I doe find, and soe declare that the finnishing of the worke, soe as to make itt actiue, really vsefull as before, and selfe mooving (if (itt bee possible in Nature) will require the moneyes before Mentioned, yett I doe allsoe declare that there will be a finall end of all charge as to this first engine, And giue mee leaue to say itt will shortly bee nessesarye to knowe whoe are partners in this worke both as to the charge, and againe to the returne of proffitt, and the Manner & Measure in both allsoe to each person

                                                Dymock

[another hand:]     Att the syne off the 3

                    horse schoes in End laine

                    att Mr benesters housse