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"Zonca 1607, Silk mill"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, treadwheel pump, bucket type"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, overshot waterwheel"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, Boat lift, inclined plane"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, Lock gate"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, Silk mill"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, horse powered corn mill"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, man turning small grindstone"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

"Zonca 1607, mobile horse driven corn mill"

Vittorio Zonca (1568–1603) was an Italian engineer and writer. He wrote the Theater of machines, which was published in Padua in 1607 four years after his death.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Conveyance of a water corn mill, Westmorland

One sheet of vellum measuring approx. 40 x 29 cm and bearing its original seal. On the reverse, "16 June 1612, Richard Langrigge & Wm Birkhead, Conveyance of Moietie of Water Corn Mill". The conveyance concerns land "in the said Countie of Westmorland & Commonlie called or known by the name of Mylnton, Mylne".

"Boat Mill, Veranzio 1616, Reynolds"

Faustus Veranzius, 1571-1617, (also known as Veranzio) was a polymath and bishop from Šibenik, then part of the Venetian Republic and today part of Croatia. He published 'Machinae novae' in 1616, just before his death, describing his inventions. Some of Verantius’ inventions are applicable to the solution of hydrological problems, for example, the project for preventing the Tiber from overflowing its banks at Rome and that of providing Venice with fresh water. Others concern the construction of clepsydras, sundials, mills, presses, and bridges and boats destined for widely different uses.

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Booklet, Viginia's discovery of silke-worms

Front Cover reads: Virginia's Discovery of Silke-Worms with their benefit,
and The Implanting of Mulberry Trees
Also
the dreffing and keeping of Vines, for the rich Trade of making Wines there, Together with
the making of the Saw-mill, very usefull in Virginia, for cutting of Timber and Clapbord, to build with all and it's conversion to other as profitable uses.

Abstract of title to three mills at Banbury

5 vellum sheets (30 cm x 20 cm) providing an abstract of Mr Darnelly's title to lands in Banbury traced back to: a lease by Queen Elizabeth I to Anthony Cope of two Banbury Mills dated 7 July 1587; a conveyance of a third mill "being a Windmill" from Thomas Hawtaine (son of Henry and Mary Hawtaine) to Richard Vivers dated 18 July 1632; a deed dated 6 October [1616] under which Henry Hawtaine made a "jointure of the premises" to his wife, Mary, being "the windmill the Ivy Close b[y] the Meadow....all part of Easington Farms" which he had purchased "from the king"; a conveyance of "the Fine yard Lands at Nethrop" from Richard Cope, John Churchill and Richard Hastings to Richard Vivers dated 27 April 1616; a conveyance of "the Barns" from Thomas and Edward Kirton to Robert Vivers dated 18 June 1652. The abstract is completed with Mr Darnelly obtaining judgement in Trinity Term 1662 for £900.

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