...properties : — First, the owner, though a woman, may, with her delicate hand, vary the ways of causing to open the lock ten millions of times beyond the knowledge of the smith that made it, or of me, that invented it. Second, if a stranger open it it setteth an alarum a-going, which the stranger cannot...

...escutcheon ; for the owner of it, though a woman, may with her own delicate hand vary the ways of coming to open the lock ten millions of times, beyond the...the smith that made it, or of me who invented it. If a stranger open it, it setteth an alarm agoing, which the stranger cannot stop from running out;...

...may with her "delicate hand vary the wayes of coming to open the lock ten millions of times, heyond the knowledge of the smith that made it, or of me who invented it." If a stranger should open it, "it setteth an alarm a-going, which the stranger cannot stop from running...

...famous Century of Inventions, (1663), mentions several locks of his design, and says of one of them : " If a stranger open it, it setteth an Alarm a-going,...besides, though none should be within hearing yet it catched his hand, as a Trap does a Fox ; and though far from maiming him, yet it leaveth such a mark...