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A list of some chief workes which Mr. William Wheeler offered to undertake he having already often performed many of them, and being able to demonstrate his sufficiency for the rest.
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Wheeler, William, 17th cent.
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most plentyfull upon the richest grounds vvhich is a mighty discommodity to young beginners vvho expecting a Land of Canaan and rest find themselves in a Campe of vvarr and to them such expence of time and cost are for the most part intollerable XIV Hee can by Carts of a nevv fashion transport great burthens from Place to place and vvhereas the old ones spoile good vvayes by making holes Cartrouts c. in them to the extreme prejudice of the poore Cattle that dravv them to the vexation of the drivers vvho vvith their horses and carriages are oft times stuck fast in a Bogg hole or slough and to the displeasure and irkesomnes of travailers these nevv Inventions shall plaine and level and strengthen the said vvayes in such sort as if their vvhole use vvere but to mend vvhat the others have undone and spoiled XV. Neither doth he only take avvay the common loathsome discommodities of High-vvayes but can make the vvorst of them viz the great roades vvithin a mile or tvvo of Londen or any other great Cittie vvhere vvayes are bad like pleasant Promenadoes and vvalkes of recreation in all kinds of vveather For vvant vvhereof most great Citties are so fare from shareing vvith Amsterdam in its Character 1. From being faire prisons that they may deservedly be called very foule and unvvholesome jakes and dunghils in comparison of it XVI Hee undertakes to make the Cittie of Londen a very faire svveet and pleasant Cittie for besides the aforementioned imbellishing the High-vvayes and rodes about it he doubteth not but vvithin a vveeks time to make it so cleane vvithin that one may vvalke in slippers in all vveathers except snovv in the fovvlest streets thereof and can settle a vvay vvhereby it may be so preserved vvith lesse then half an houres labour a day and vvith a very slight and cheape provision So that Houses scarce kept sufficiently cleane vvith tvvo servants may by his direction be put into that condition by one to the great preservation of cloaths and shoeleather as also of health and the invitation of Countrey-Gentlemen to live in it vvho doe for no other reason more then its foulenes abhorr to reside more frequently in it And besides all this vvhich may seeme strangest the very charge of scavengers shall be much lessened and the dirt vvhich in time being in so great quantities vvashed into the Thames vvill damm it up shall be converted to other uses and that vvater vvhich fovvles the said River shal clense the Land upon all occasiones and be ready in certaine Repositories or Cisternes vvhich he vvill make to run themselves vvhethersoever the necessity of quenching fires calls them Whereupon the confusion and vvast of breakeing up the streets opening the vvater-pipes c Made in such extremities shal vvholly cease as being no vvayes requisite XVII Hee vvill order that Bells may be rung vvith far lesse strength and smaler sized ropes then usuall vvhereby vve might oftner heare the pleasant noise of Bells vvithout a tumult of Ringers XVIII Hee is sorry to see Corne and fulling-Mills set crosse rivers so as to hinder the passablenes and navigabilitie of them and therefore hath invented a Mill vvherein one horse shall out-grind the strength of a great streame and others vvherein one man may out-doe one horse The vvhich besides the other uses vvould be of no small benefit in besieged Tovvnes Colonies c. vvhere men cannot or dare not make use of other Mills XIX Hee hath by his observation found out sure and un-erring markes to knovv vvhere springs are and hath effectuall vvayes of preserveing and encreasing them and although they rise in very lovv grounds he can transmit their vvaters to houses and tovvnes situate upon an hill and not only bring them to an house but convert them to many very pleasant and convenient uses therein XX. His insight into Gardening extendeth to the nourishing and cultivatening of out-landish plants and trees here at home so as to make them prosper and flourish as in their proper soile hovvbeit vvith lesse and vvorse fruit to make our domestick more fruitfull to accelerate the budding and ripening of fruits and flovvers as also to produce them out of their naturall seasons to make arbours and particularly to plant fruit trees vvith advantage upon boggs and fenns that novv yeeld little profit to their ovvners XXI Hee can discover a certaine vvood vvhereof there is great store in Engeland hitherto vvholly neglected and despised fit for timber fair tough and dureable free from vvormes not subject to rott either in the vvet or dry fitt for vvater-conduits generally good for all joyners vvorks particularly for vvainscot and vvithall very light of carriage XXII Hee maketh a certaine Cement vvhich may be molded into any figure and being polished is so hard that no ordinary stone-tooles vvill touch it very beautyfull and dureable and of a very reasonable rate XXIII Hee maketh vvalls as firme and substantiall as those of stone and brick and vvith a little paines as beautyfull if it be by the Sea-side and in other places of pebble-stones gravel or such like rubbish and vvith this matter he can counterfeit either brick or stone at a very easy rate XXIV Hee undertakes to preserve Beefe Pork Mutton and Venison a tvvelve moneths time from stinkeing and putrefaction and can so reduce tainted meates that the most discerning palate after he hath ordered them shall never be sensible of any such defect XXV Hee can in all seasons and Countries vvhether excessively intemperate in respect of heat cold or moisture vvhere meates vvill either not take salt at all or suddenly putrifie being salted remedie both the one and the other Inconveniencie XXVI Where there is occasion of building a fortress by the Sea-side vvhere all convenient materialls seeme to be vvanting he undertakes neverthelesse to find vvherevvithall to make a fort at least Canon-proofe XXVII He maketh up Sea-breaches vvheresoever they happen more speedily and firmly then by any vvay yet practised XXVIII Hee vvill raise a fountaine out of a Levell-ground vvhereas the ordinary ones are brought at a vast charge from some adjacent hills vvhich as they are cheaper then the others so are they no vvayes inferior to them in beauty and high-throvving of the vvater XXIX Whereas it happens upon the draining of Mersh or Fennie grounds that the materialls as turf-lands vvhereof the bankes used to that purpose are commonly made are subject either to dry burne avvay iâ— summer or to be burnt up by mischeivous people or to subside and sinke in vvinter hee â—an secure such vvorkes from the 〈◊〉 Inconveniencies XXX Moreover he can make these bankes so as by vvhat they shall prduce to defray the charge of their makeing Glory be to God the Father of Lights through JESU CHRIST WILLIAM WHEELER Eccles 9.16.18 VVisdome is better then strength VVisdome is better then vveapons of warr It is to be noted that in page 1. it is meant Hollands 〈…〉 which hath bâ—â—â— approved on before the States Generall in the Hague and at other places
A LIST OF SOME CHIEF VVORKES WHICH Mr. WILLIAM WHEELER Offereth to undertake He having already often performed many of them and being able to demonstrate his sufficiency for the rest Eccles 9. vers 10. VVhatsoever thine hand findeth to doe doe it quickely for there is no vvorke nor device nor knovvledge nor vvisedome in the grave vvhither thou goest AMSTERDAM Printed by GEORGE TRIGG Dvvelling by the Old Church In the Bagijn Street Anno. 1651. A List of some chief works which Mr. WILLIAM WHEELER offereth to undertake having already often performed many of them and being able to demonstrate his sufficiency for the rest c. I. HEe makes Engines which by the help of one man have delivered 500 tunns of water in an houre about three foot as hath bin tried at Amsterdam and others that deliver 1000 tunns in the same time 6 foot high with the help of one Horse only These workes of his doe not only raise three times more water but three times higher then the draining Mills of the Low-Countries and vvithall freeth the vvater vvhich hath bin raised from vvhat remaines behind vvhich theirs doe not doe much of the vvater vvhich hath bin by them raised returning back againe thither from vvhence it came Hee applies these instruments to the draining of ponds meeres and all sorts of vvaterish and fenny places and consequently maketh that Land to beare good grass vvhich before afforded nothing but rushes sedge and such other unprofitable materialls whereby the increase of such Lands is multiplied to a very vast proportion Hee dreineth Cole-pits and Metall-Mines at far easier rates and with lesse tireing and jadeing of horses then by the ordinary way and performeth such works of this nature as by the meanes now in use are impossible Contraryvvise he hereby drovvneth or vvatereth dry-lands vvhether for makeing them more strong and defensible or more fruitfull then naturally they are He can also hereby conveigh vvater to tovvnes or Houses that lie very remote from and very much above any spring-heads or Rivers He facilitates the ordinary devices of brevvers and diers in fitting their furneses and in generall doth more in all respects of speed quantity height ease c. concerning the busynes of draining and drovvning then by any other meanes and contrivances novv extant hath bin or can be effected II. Hee undertaketh to bore timber with a wooden Augur faster streighter of a bigger boare and vvithall much better Cheape and the Pipes thus boared if they be for the conveyance of vvater under ground to great distances he so layeth and placeth that they last tvvice or thrice as long as they are vvont to doe being laid the ordinary vvay III. He offereth to passe boates over a deepe River running never so svvift and of great breadth vvithout the use of oares sail or ought else that by its noise or visibilitie may give notice thereof and on the other side of the said River to fasten piles into the ground vvithout makeing any noise likevvise a matter of great use in the entring and takeing of Tovvnes fortified by such Rivers Where it is to be noted that this vvay of driving piles is not so distructive to them as that other of violent knocking bruiseing and shaking them must needs be IV. Hee maketh beames for the vveighing of extraordinary vveights by vvhich the trouble and cost of such vveighings may be much abated and doth more by Cranes then is any vvhere usually done V. Hee hath expeditious vvayes to cut iron and many secrets of that Nature VI. Hee hath contrived better tooles both for dispatch cheapenes and exact vvorkeing for sundrie artificers and Gentlemen versed in the more curious subtil and elegant Mechaniks As namely savves vvhereby ovales sphaeres or any portions or segments of them may vvith one svveepe of the same be taken out of a body of timber or other materiall and consequently all curious and difficult excavations and hollovves much desired for dialls c. may be more easily and more speedily made Also vvashing-bovvles cupps c. May be made more quickly and incomparably vvith lesse expense of the materialls then is ordinarily done VII Hee maketh Instruments for the formeing of Stone into all manner of regular figures vvhether right-lined circular or mixt and the polishing them so shaped vvith more ease and beauty then ordinary VIII Hee maketh fulling-Mills vvhich vvith halfe the force by men or horses are equivalent in strength and effect to the common ones moved by vvind or vvater These fulling-Mills he vvas moved to invent that the busynes of fulling might be moderated and governed at the descretion of the Artist vvhich requireth another order and degrees of flack or vehement motion then the unconstant and unruly vvind or vvater vvill allovv Novv the Art of fulling is that vvhich gives as it vvere the very Essence to cloath and the faults committed therein doe frustrate all that vvhereunto the goodnes of the vvoll spinning and vveaveing might conduce and are irreparable by the best art of those that handle the cloath aftervvards IX Hee can ad such helpes to a ship already built as shall inable it to saile more speedily in a calme or smal gale and more safely in a storme X. Hee hath an Artifice to supply the vvant of a Rudder in case it be carried avvay vvith extremitie of vvether and can substitute another device in place thereof that perhaps shall satisfie the Intentions and uses of a Rudder much more effectually And vvhat advantage vvould such an invention bring to merchants vvhen their voyages may be made vvith lesse expence of Sea-mens vvages and victualls and lesse subjection to the Casualties of the vvether And vvhat advantage to vessels of vvarr in vvhom it is vvell knovvne svviftnes of saile is of more consequence then a triple strength othervvise XI Hee can in a manner secure a ship from being boarded by an Enemie and yet have great advantages to board them vvhich is the busynes of all other of most importance in Sea-fights XII Hee propoundeth a fort moveable and easily transportable vvhither the exigence of service requires it furnished vvith tvvelve pieces of ordnance more or lesse and all other vvarlike habiliments vvherein the gunners shall be secure from their Enemies shot and the vvhol soldiery exempt from the Annoyance of smoake the ordnance being scarce dismountable the vvhole fort free from being shaken broken and disordered the labour of chargeing and dischargeing the Gunnes lessened the levelling and traversing them upon all lines compleatly performed vvith smal and easy motions XIII He undertaketh to make a Colonie defensible vvithin fortie-eight houres after the first landing of the Planters and vvithin a vveekes time of an extraordinary resistance Whereas vve see that novv our Europaeans vvhen they vvould occupie any of the better Lands in America must be guarded vvith some thousands of Men vvhich must be alvvayes kept in a body and that in a posture of vvarre to prevent the Assaults of the natives vvho are