| Title: | Extract In Hand ? William Wheeler To Sir William Boswell, & Notes On Wheeler |
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| Dating: | 2 January 1640 [1641?] |
| Ref: | 67/6/1A-2B |
| Notes: | See also 67/6/3 & 64/2/1. |
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Extracts out of Mr William
Wheeler his letter to Sir William
Boswell of the 2d of Ianuar. 1640
I have now finished one piece Which delivereth 500 tunnes an hower, With the helpe of one Man onely: the Tryall hath beene made at Amsterdam: it will fit with most of the Levells of the Country & deliver it 3. foote high. Also I have allmost made one, for deeper places as Ponds & Meares, Which will deliver 1000 tunnes an hower 6. foote high, going with a horse; it will be ready within 14. dayes.
All the mills, that are heere placed up & downe the Country to draw out water, I can with small alteration & little cost make them deliver three times more, & 3. times as high; & free the water which the Mill casteth or draweth out from the old water, that remaineth, Which theirs doe not, but still a part returneth back, which my way shall not doe / Thus farre he. /
NB some at Amsterdam offer him, after all shall bee
approved a hundred thousand gilders for his Octroy
or Grant.
He hath viewed the Horster-meare, the thing which they have all forsaken; there being found none that can [catchword: Also] [bottom of MS: letter a & 2 circular doodles]
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accomplish it; but he findes it so easy, that without any difficulty. he dare undertake it, & with lesse trouble, then any such like place, drayne it. for the Mills, which by others have beene set there to little or no use, He can make with some alterations serviceable for his purpose, & their banks being allready fitted, will save a great deale of charge & labour.
Diverse particulars that William
Wheeler can doe
For all manner of convaighing waters, higher or lower, more or lesser quantity, as in the Letter is written.
To bore Timber with a Woodden Augour faster, righter & better cheape & make the boare bigger; fit for convaying of Waters under ground at a great distance, & to lay them so, that the pipes of Wood shall last twice or thrice as long as the ordinary way now used
To make a Carriage for great Ordinance or small, Whereupon shall lye 12. or pieces of Ordnance, which shall be able to keepe any passage, or stand instead of a Fort, & charge & discharge with lesse
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helpe, & faster then if the pieces [lay? MS torn] upon severall Carriages, & the men that charge, shall be free from the Enemies shott, & shall be able with little motion to shoote upon any line Whatsoever.
To convaigh Boates over a deepe running River, tho never so swift, at a considerable distance, & passe over without oares, or sayle & very little noyse to any place on the other side right over, & there to fasten piles into the ground, firme, without any thing to strike, or make a noyse
Likewise to make any Wall with rubbish, pebbles & such like small charges, Which shall be handsome & more durable then a Wall of twice the charge.
For remooving of great Waights with lesse labour then any that I have seene
Besides cutting of Iron and many other Secrets
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Mr Will: Wheelers.
[hand Y:] Engine, & severall other
Bubbles