The John Bargrave Collection

must have known Alexander Norman and is no doubt the same Lanyon described by Hartlib in 1651 as having a wife and children, two of them of marriageable age, who lived in a country house in Essex, about twelve miles from London, with 'a curious garden'. Hartlib described him as being 'very metallical.' He discovered that good lamp wicks could be made from twisted paper dipped in oil, perfected a newly invented auger and built a boat motivated by wheels that could be turned by a dog. He also devised a coach with fourteen seats (179).