DIVERS SORTS OF NEW VEHICLES OR WHEEL CARRIAGES THAT WILL NOT OVERTURNE IN ANY ROADS, THE LIKE NEVER BEFORE MADE, AND THAT WHEEL CARRIAGES, AND THE ROAD AS WAGGONS AND OTHER BUCH CARRIAGES NOW DO, THAT DOUBLE AND RUNNERS THE PRES COACHES CAN, AND WILL ACCOMODATE ALL PASSENGERS, WITH SEVERAL VSEFULL CONVENIENCYS; THAT ALSO IN DIE MACHINES OR ENGINES WHICH WILL PREVENT ALL COACHES WAGGONS, AND OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES FROM OVERTURN- ING, WITH SEVERAL CONVENIENCES FOR SERVANTS, AND CLOATHING FORHORSES
Year: 1717

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JAMES TRENGROUSE, Gentleman,
hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath by his long
studies and great expence invented "DIVERS SORTS OF NEW VEHICLES OR WHEEL
CARRIAGES THAT WILL NOT OVERTURNE IN ANY ROADS, THE LIKE NEVER BEFORE
MADE, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE VERY PROFITABLE TO ALL PERSONS WHO VSE
ANY WHEEL CARRIAGES, AND WILL NOT FRET THE ROAD AS WAGGONS AND OTHER
BUCH CARRIAGES NOW DO, THAT HE CALLS SOME THESE NEW VEHICLES DOUBLE AND
SINGLE RUNNERS, THAT THE DOUBLE RUNNERS WILL TRAVELL IN SUCH BAD ROADS
AS NO COACH CAN TRAVELL IN, AND WILL RUN MORE MILES A DAY AND WITH FEWER
HORSES, WITH MORE PASSENGERS AND IN LESSE TIME THAN THE PRESENT COACHES
CAN, AND WILL ACCOMODATE ALL PASSENGERS, WITH SEVERAL VSEFULL CONVENIENCYS;
THAT HE HATH ALSO INVENTED DIVERSE NEW MACHINES OR ENGINES WHICH WILL
PREVENT ALL COACHES, WAGGONS, AND OTHER WHEEL CARRIAGES FROM OVERTURN-
ING, WITH SEVERAL CONVENIENCES FOR SERVANTS, AND CLOATHING FOR HORSES;"
and therefore humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole
making and vseing all the several and respective vehicles and wheel carriages,
conveniences, machines, or engines, as aforesaid, for the term 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 močon, have given and granted, and by
these presents for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the
said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial

page_text: licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said James
Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
himself and themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servant or
agent, or such others as he, the said James Trengrouse, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of yeares herein-before
expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that
part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our kingdom of Ireland, his said new
Inventions or any or either of them, as the same are above described, in such
manner as to him, the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that
he, the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and
advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrueing, 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 mentioned to be granted
vnto the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen years from the
date of these presents next and imediately ensueing and fully to be com-
pleat and ended according to the statute in this case made and provided;
and to the end that the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the
sole vse and exercise of the said Inventions, or any or either of them, according
to our gratious intenĉon herein-before declared, wee do by these presents
for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every
person and persons, bodys politick and corporate, and all other our subiects
whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever they
be, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick -vpon-Tweed, and our kingdom
of Ireland, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the con-
tinuance of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčons or any of
them, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the said James Trengrouse
as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agree-

page_text: ment of the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing vnder his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on
such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be
answerable to the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law for his and their damages thereby occasioned,
and moreover wee do by these presents for vs, our heires and successors, will
and comand all and singular our iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's, 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 James Trengrouse, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants
or agents, in or about the due and lawful makeing vse or exercise of the
aforesaid Inventions or anything relating thereto provided always, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time
during the said term hereby granted it shall be made appear 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall,
or that the said Inventions are not new inventions as to the publick, vse and
exercise thereof within that part of our said kingdome of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
our kingdom of Ireland, or not invented and found out by the said James
Trengrouse as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaračon thereof, to
be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
seal, or by the lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or
more of them, vuder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
hereiu-before contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: provided
also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge to the said James Tren-
grouse, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found
out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or enioyed within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
or our kingdom of Ireland aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or
priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, our royal will and pleasure
being that such other our subiecte, and the said James Trengrouse, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, 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, wee do by these presents for ys, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the inrollment thereof shall be in
and by all thing good, firm, valid, sufficient and effectuall in the law according
to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage
of the said James Trengrouse, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, or in our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and our kingdom of Ireland, 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 Inventions, or any or either of them, or of the
materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witno so, he
Witnesse ourselfs at Westminster, the Seventeenth day
of June.
By Writt of Privy Seal.