AN INGINE OR INSTRUMENT TO WORK AND BE WORKED BY WAIES FORMERLY IN THIS OUR REALME UNKNOWEN OR VNPRACTISED, FOR THE MORE SPEEDY QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING ANY SORT OF FIRES VNEX- PECTEDLY ARISING IN DWELLING HOUSES OR ELSEWHERE, THE SAME BEING OF PRINCIPALL VSE FOR THE SUPPRESSING THEREOF AT THE FIRST BREAKING FORTH,. WHEREBY MUCH LOSSE AND DAMAGE MAY BE PREVENTED TO SUCH HOUSEKEEPERS WHERE SUCH MISFORTUNES SHALL HEREAFTER HAPPEN, AND THE LIVES OF HANY PERSONS SAVED WHO MAY COME TO VNTIMELY ENDS BY ENDEAVOURING TO SUPPRESSE THE FIRE AFTER IT HATH GOTT HEAD
Year: 1690

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN LOFTINGH, a free denizon of this our Kingdome of
England, hath by his humble petition, represented vnto vs that he hath
arrived to the perfection of making "AN INGINE OR INSTRUMENT TO WORK AND
BE WORKED BY WAIES FORMERLY IN THIS OUR REALME UNKNOWEN OR VNPRACTISED,
FOR THE MORE SPEEDY QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING ANY SORT OF FIRES VNEX-
PECTEDLY ARISING IN DWELLING HOUSES OR ELSEWHERE, THE SAME BEING OF
PRINCIPALL VSE FOR THE SUPPRESSING THEREOF AT THE FIRST BREAKING FORTH,.
WHEREBY MUCH LOSSE AND DAMAGE MAY BE PREVENTED TO SUCH HOUSEKEEPERS
WHERE SUCH MISFORTUNES SHALL HEREAFTER HAPPEN, AND THE LIVES OF HANY
PERSONS SAVED WHO MAY COME TO VNTIMELY ENDS BY ENDEAVOURING TO SUPPRESSE
THE FIRE AFTER IT HATH GOTT HEAD," and the said Loftingh haveing humbly
besought vs to grant vnto him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and exer-
cise of the same for the terme of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in.
that case provided, wee are gratiously pleased to condescend to that his
request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said John
Loftingh may reape some reasonable recompence for his great paines and
expences in and about the premisses, and to incourage the inventers of such
arts as may bec of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaino
knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and granted, and by these Presents,.
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John
Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that hee, the said John Loftingh, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or
their deputy and deputyes, servants, or agents, or such others as hee, the said
John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and att all times during the terme of
yeares herein expressed, shall and may lawfully vse, exercise, and enioy, the
said Invention within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or
belonging to our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and all and.
every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and
according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limittations as to him, the
said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretion seem meet, and that the said John Loftingh,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy, the
sole benefitt, profitt, and commodity and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the terme of yeares herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy, the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said John Loftingh, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and unto the full
end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
Presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended
according to the Statute in this case made and provided. And to the end that
the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said
Invention according to our gratious intentions herein-before declared, wee
do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever of what estate, quality or degree, name or
condition soever they bee within all and every our kingdoms and dominions
that neither they nor any of them at any time during the continuance of the
said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly does
vse or putt in practice the said Invention or any part of the same so attained vnto
by the said John Loftingh as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeite or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers
or devisors thereof without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing under bis,
their, or some of their hands 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 command; and further to be answerable

page_text: to the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators and assignes according
to law for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe of our further
especiall grace,
certaine knowledge and meere močon, for vs and our successors
grant vnto the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators and assignes,
by these Presents, that he, they, and every of them, and his, their, and every of
their deputies, servants, and agents, having first obtained a lawfull warrant from
the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench, at Westminster, for the
time being, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer
at convenient times in the day during the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull
manner, may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever
within any of our kingdoms or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of
suspition) for the discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons
as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said
Invention, or shall make or counterfeite any instrumente or materialls to the
same belonging, that so such offender or offenders may be proceeded against
and punished according to law. And further, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command all and singuler justices
of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs and our successors for the time being, as
well within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales as within all
and every other our kingdoms and dominions, that their and every of them
respectively from time to time during the terme hereby granted in their
respective offices be favouring, aiding, helping and assisting unto the said John
Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their
deputy and deputies, servants, and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royal will and pleasure herein-before declared,
and in the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges hereby granted
as aforesaid. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before mentioned, or any of them, do not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing
the said terme hereby granted in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their
deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relateing thereto: Provided alwaies, and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any
time dureing the said terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, or
our successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our
present graut is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiccts
in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new Invention as to the publick

page_text: vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdom, and not invented and found
out by the said John Loftingh as aforesaid, then vpon signification and
declaration thereof to be made by vs or our successors vnder our or their
signett or privie seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privie
Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise not-
withstanding Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been
heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised within our said realms and dominions, or any of
them, to whome like Letters Patents of priviledge have been already granted
or the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof. It being our will and pleasure
that the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
all and singuler 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 said respective Letters Patents and of
these Presents. And lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs and our suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said John Loftingh, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the inrollment thereof shall bec in
and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, accord-
ing to the true intent and meaning thereof; and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the more favourable and beneficiall sence for the best advantage
of the said John Loftingh, his executor, administrators, and assignes, aswell
in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs and our successors, in all and singuler our realmes
and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and evory the subiccts of vs and
our successors whatsoever and wheresoever.
In witnessc, &c. Witnes ourselves att Westminster, the Twenty-fifth