front of the box, and thus the doors are opened and the gun fired at the same in Stant. By way of prevention there is a spring adapted to stop the recoil when the gun is discharged: a metallic pan upon the floor of the box to catch the scattered particles of gunpowder, and plates on the back and top to prevent the possibility of fire; and a lock upon the door to secure the whole from wet or molestation. To adapt the invention to practical purposes there are small lines of packthread connected with buttons on the ends of the box, by which the alarum is discharged; these are fastened to doors and windows, conducted across passages, garden walks, areas, &c. If they are left rather slack, a person crossing them will not feel the touch before the alarum be gone off. We shall now transcribe the instructions laid down by the patentee, in order that the use and application of bis invention may be correctly understood and made. 1st. Place the box firmly in an horizontal and perpendicular direction upon the ground, or a table; if it hang against a wall, or in a tree. This precaution must be observed, or the bells will not vibrate regularly. 2d. Lift up the iron stamper by the brass knob to the top of the box. 3d. Bring down the tail of the trigger with your right hand to a level, till the other end is raised sufficiently high to permit the end of the long iron lever to pass under it, the stamper will then be supported. 4th. Push up the small bolt which is near the bottom of the long lever, and the alarum cannot be pulled off. Now you may place your lines. A 5th. Raise the spring which is behind the upright frame, and it will remain there. 6th. Put up the bells to the hole in the side of the stamper near the brass knob, and they will hang there. 7th. Move the butt-end of the gun back a little to clear the muzzle end, bring the muzzle end forward, and the gun will come out. 8th. Charge the gun. 9th. Return the gun, first put the butt end of the gun into its place, move it back a little, and the muzzle will go into the place; put the string at the butt-end tightly down. 10th. Prime and cock the gun, and hook on the trigger-wire. 11th. Shoot up the bolt which is upon the front of the box.-N. B. You must be particularly careful to push up this bolt before you bar the right hand door; if you neglect, both doors will remain shut, and the sound of the alarm will not be distinctly heard. 12th. Bolt the right hand door with your left hand. 13th. Draw back the small bolt near the bottom of the iron lever. 14th. Lock the left hand door and take the key out. In this state of the machinery every thing is prepared and ready, and, if any of the buttons or strings connected there with be drawn, the blunderbuss will give fire, and the bells be set a ringing. 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Of former printed Collections, Transla tions, and Abridgments of the Statutes. -The Statute Rolls previous to the beginning of the reign of Henry VII. being sometimes in Latin and sometimes in French, and from that time uniformly in English, the printed editions, according to their several periods, contain the statutes, either, 1st. in the languages in which they were respectively passed, proclaimed, or printed; during various periods from the time of Henry III. to the end of the reign of Richard III. without any translation: or 2ndly, translated for the whole or some part of those periods; and during subsequent periods, in English: or 3rdly, in Latin and in French respectively to the end of Edward IV, or Richard III. inclusive, with or without a translation; and in English from the beginning of Richard III. or of Henry VII. tion and control to be assisting to us in Lastly, the premises; and having also, upon the reports of the said sub-commissioners, made to us from time to time, fully considered as well of the mode of preparing and completing the said collection, as of the several matters to be included therein, we have directed the said sub-com-. missioners to methodize and arrange all such materials, as appeared to us to be necessary for completing and duly setting forth the said collection, and to distribute them under the following heads:-First, an introduction; containing an account of all former printed collections, translations, and abridgments of the statutes, and of the plans heretofore proposed for an authentic publication, or for the revision, of the statutes; together with an account of the charters prefixed to this collection; the matters inserted therein, and their arrangement; the nature of the several records, and other sources from whence the said collection has been made, and the mode adopted in making and printing the same; the original language of the charters and statutes, and the translation annexed to this collection of the statutes; and also an account of the collections of the statutes of Scotland and Ireland, heretofore published by royal or parliamentary authority; with the methods successively adopted for promulgating the statutes before and since the union of Great Britain and Ireland:-Secondly, the text of the charters of the liberties of England, granted by King Henry I. King Stephen, and King Henry II; and also the great charters and charters of the forest, granted, by King John and King Henry III., and the charters of confirmation granted by King Edward I.-Thirdly, a chronolo gical table of the statutes, and instruments illustrative thereof, contained in this collection; distinguishing all matters inserted therein, which had not been inserted in any former printed collection of statutes, and specifying the several sources from which every statute and instrument is respectively derived; and the language in which such statute or instrument is written:-Fourthly, the text of the sta tutes, and relative instruments, with notes of various readings where necessary: Fifthly, the common translation of all matters printed and translated in former collections of the statutes, with occasional notes of emendation; and also a translation of matters not translated or inserted in such former collections: MONTHLY MAG. No, 233. The earliest of the printed editions or collections above referred to, is an alphabetical abridgment of statutes, as well previous as subsequent to Edward III. in Latin and French, the latest statute in which is 33 Henry VI. A. D. 1455. This is supposed to have been published before 1481. Another very early edition, but supposed to be later than the preceding, and to have been printed about 1482, is a collection of the statutes, not abridged, from 1 Edward III. to 22 Edward IV. in Latin and French: this and the preceding article are attributed to the joint labours of the printers Lettou and Machlinia. The statutes passed in the only parliament holden by Richard III. were printed, in French, by Caxton or Machlinia, or both, soon after they were passed, this being the first instance of a sessional publication. The like course was observed in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII. from which time the statutes appear to have been regularly printed and published to the end of each session. The collection printed by Pynson, probably about the year 1497, 13 Henry VII. but certainly before 1504, 19 Henry VII. contains the statutes from 1 Edward III. to 1 Richard III. inclusive, in Latin Xx and The abridgment of the statutes in En. glish, to 11 Henry VIII. translated and printed by John Rastall, is preceded by a preface on the propriety of the laws being published in English. This appears to be the first English abridgment of statutes: and it helps to ascertain the period when the statutes were first endited and written" in English; as the preface ascribes that measure to Henry VII. Subsequent English abridgments were published at various times by Rastall and other printers. Various editions of the alphabetical abridgment of the statutes, above-mentioned, as published before 1481, were from time to time printed; enlarged by the abridgment of subsequent statutes: of these, the edition by Owen, including the statutes of 7 Hen. VIII. was printed in 1521. An Appendix, containing the abridgment of the Acts of the next ensuing session, 15 Hen. VIII. was printed in 1528, when a title was added. These collections form an exception to the general description of the editions of the statutes; for not only the statutes previous to and in the reign of Rich. III. are abridged in Latin or French, but the abridgment of the statutes of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. is in French, although they were originally passed and printed in English. In 1531, Berthelet printed an edition of the Antiqua Statuta, similar to the editions by Pynson, with some additions. In 1532, Berthelet also printed a collection of statutes previous to 1 Edward III. not included in the Antiqua Statuta. This collection he entitled, "Secunda Pars Veterum Statutorum," and it is always so distinguished; it was frequently re-printed. The statutes contained in it are in French and Latin respectively. Neither in the Antiqua Statuta by Pynson, nor in the Secunda Pars Veterum Statutorum, were the contents ar ranged in any chronological accuracy: in the Antiqua Statuta the two charters, and the statutes of Merton and Marle bridge, and Westminster 1 and 2, are placed first, and the other matters follow in a very confused manner. No better order is preserved in the Secunda Pars. These two parts of the Vetera Statuta were frequently reprinted together. The edition of them by Tottell in 1556 is the most known; this varies from Pyuson's and Berthelet's, in some readings of the text of the statutes, and it is enlarged by the addition of "certain statutes with other needful things taken out of old copies examined by the rolls," printed at the end of the first part. Editions by Tottell in 1576 and 1587, and later editions by various printers, insert only a partial selection of ancient statutes, with further various readings, and add some modern statutes. On a comparison, made for the purpose of ascertaining the fact, there is reason to conclude that the copy used by Lord Coke in his Second Institute was that of 1587. The earliest printed translation, not abridged, of the charters, and of several statutes previous to 1 Edward III. appears to have been made by Ferrers, a member of Parliament, from the editions of the Vetera Statuta and Secunda Pars, before noticed; it was first printed in 1581, and contains the greatest part, but not all, of the matters included in those editions, but does not arrange them in chronolo gical order. In 1540 and 1542, other editions of this translation were pub lished, with some amendments and additions. In 1543, the Statutes in English, from the time of Henry III. to 19 Hen. VII. inclusive, chronologically arranged, were printed by Berthelet, in one volume, fulio. It has not been satisfactorily ascertained that any complete chronological series of the statutes from Magna Charta to 1 Edward III., either in their original lan guage, or in English, or that any trans lation of the statutes from 1 Edward III. to 1 Henry VII. had been published previous to this edition by Berthelet; though some books refer to editions by Berthelet, as of 1529 and 1540. It appears probable that the translation in this edition by Berthelet, was made from the small editions of the Vetera Statuta and Se cunda Pars, and from Pynson's edition of the Nora Statuta, 1 Edward III. to 1 Richard III. inclusive. This edition contains some translations, particularly of the Dictum de Kenilworth, not included in either of the editions of Ferrers's trans lations: |