A MILL OR ENGINE WHICH GRINDS AND PRESSES THE SUGAR CANES, AND ANSWERS ALL THE END OF THE ANCIENT AND PRESENT MILLS IN VSE, AND WILL BE PERFORMED BY EIGHT OR TEN HORSES OR CATTLE AT MOST
Year: 1709

page_text: ANNE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbelovod JEREMIAH WEISEHAMER, of our Island
of Jamaica, has, by his humble petition, represented vnto vs that he has been
an inhabitant of our said island near twenty yeares, and observing the great
expence and labour the planters there were obliged to in their sugar mills for
pressing and grinding the sugar canes, every sugar mill requiring for the
service thereof forty oxen, which mills are found to be of so hard a draught
that they kill twenty or thirty oxen yearly, to the damage of the proprietors
and discouragement of new beginners, that the said Jeremiah Weisehamer,
by many yeares study and industry, and with great charge, before he could
bring his proiect to perfection, hath invented "A MILL OR ENGINE WHICH
GRINDS AND PRESSES THE SUGAR CANES, AND ANSWERS ALL THE END OF THE
ANCIENT AND PRESENT MILLS IN VSE, AND WILL BE PERFORMED BY EIGHT OR TEN
HORSES OR CATTLE AT MOST," that he is come over from our said Island of
Jamaica at great expence to beg our most gracious favour toward his new
Invention, he being encouraged by the planters of our said island, who are
sensible of the advantage that will accrew to them thereby: And therefore the
said Jeremiah Weisehamer hath humbly besought vs to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole making the said new invented sugar mills throughout
our dominions in America for the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement.
to all arts and inventions which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted,

page_text: and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant
vnto the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he,
the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or his or their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Jeremiah
Weischamer, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the termo
of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, exercise, and
enioy throughout our dominions in America the said Invention, in such manner
as to him, the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the
said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
and may have and enioy the solo profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage, from
time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said
Invention for and during the full term of yeares herein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Jeremiah
Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents
next and imediately ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended according
to the statute in this case made and provided, and to the end that the said
Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole making vse and
exercise of the said Invention according to our gratious intention herein-before
declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and
strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate,
and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name
or condition soever they be, within our said dominions in America, that neither
they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invention or any part of the same soe attained vnto
by the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or one of their hande
and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and

page_text: penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royal cōmand, and further, to be answerable to the said Jeremiah
Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
his or their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and cōmand; all and singular
our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, 'bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall, at any time
hereafter during the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or
about the due and lawfull making vse or exercise of the aforesaid art or
Invention, or anything relating thereto: Provided alwaies, and these our
Letters Patent are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time
during the term hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council that this our grant
is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or
that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and
excrcise thereof within our said dominions in America, and not invented
and found out by the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, as aforesaid, then, vpon
significacon and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signct or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein
contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the
said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath here-
tofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publickly vsed or exercised within our said dominions vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse,
excrcise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Jeremiah Weischamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted, as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall inventions by them invented and found out according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
presents; and lastly, wce do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,

page_text: grant vnto the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in
and by all thing good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, accord-
ing to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
'adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of
the said Jeremiah Weisehamer, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
as well in all courts of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, and amongst
all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invention or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.
Witnesse,
day of July.
38:01MT AA
By Writt of Privy Seal.