MAKING A COMPOSI- TION WITH WOOD TO RUN LIQUID INTO MOULDS, WHICH EQUALLS FOR VSE AND DURABLENESSE ANY SOLID WOOD, ANSWERING THE ENDS OF CARVEINGS FOR BEAUTI- FYING ROOMES, PROPER ALSO FOR IMBELLISHING OF CABINETTS, FRAMES, SCONCES
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS MARSHALL SMITH and ТномAS PUCKLE, of London, Gentlemen,
have by their humble peticon represented vnto vs, that they have by great
expence, skill, and industry attained vnto a peculiar art of "MAKING A COMPOSI-
TION WITH WOOD TO RUN LIQUID INTO MOULDS, WHICH EQUALLS FOR VSE AND
DURABLENESSE ANY SOLID WOOD, ANSWERING THE ENDS OF CARVEINGS FOR BEAUTI-
FYING ROOMES, PROPER ALSO FOR IMBELLISHING OF CABINETTS, FRAMES, SCONCES,"
which has not been heretofore knowne or practised by any of our subiects,
and have humbly prayed vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse
thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encou-
rage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
that the said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle may accordingly reape some
fruito and benefitt of their labour and charge in and concerning the premisses,
of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion, wee have given
and granted, and by these presents doe give and grant vnto the said Marshall
Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority, that they, by themselves
and by their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely
as they, the said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall agree with, and may, from time to time

page_text: and at all times hereafter, dureing the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing
the date of these presents, at their own proper costs and charges, erect, vse,
teach, exercise, and put in practise the said new Invenčon soe by them
contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any place or places within our king-
dome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
and also shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts,
comodities, and advantages of and by the said new Invention to be had, made,
acquired, or gotten, to their own proper benefitt, vse, and vses, to have, hold,
vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities,
and all other the premisses by these presents granted or mentioned to be
granted vnto the said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and to the full end and terme
of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next ensueing,
and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the statute in that case
made and provided. And to the end the said Marshall Smith and Thomas
Puckle, their executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy
the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of their said new
Invention, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly
charge, require, and command all and every person and persons, bodies politique
and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be,
within our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme
of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise,
or put in practise the said new Invention soe by the said Marshall Smith and
Thomas Puckle invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doc nor shall counter-
feite, imitate, or resemble the said new Invention, or any materialls or ingre-
dients thereunto belonginging, nor doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or
substracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Marshall Smith
and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vnder their hands and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vnder such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders
therein for the contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be
answerable to the said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors
administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law for thei
damages thereby sustcyned. And, further, wee doe by these our Letter
Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and command
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heire

page_text: and successors, now and for the time being, whome it may concerne, that they
and every of them, respectively, be, from time to time dureing the terme
hereby granted, in their respective offices and according to their and every of
their best skills and endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said
Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared,
and in the execution of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as
aforesaid. And moreover wee doe 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, doe not, nor shall at any time hereafter dureing
the terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, deputies, agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or any thing relateing thereunto.
Provided allwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condicon, that if at any time dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or
more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law or
preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invention
before mentioned is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise
of the same, and not invented and found out by the said Marshall Smith and
Thomas Puckle as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaračon of such
preiudice or inconveniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder
our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their
Privy 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 conteyned to the contrary
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
herein conteyne, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, to imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath
been heretofore invented and found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publiquely exercised within our kingdomes or dominions aforesaid, to
whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for
the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said Marshall Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practise their

page_text: several inventions by them respectively found out, according to the true
meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee
doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Marshall
Smith and Thomas Puckle, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in
and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true meaneing of the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing
or mentioning of the said Invention, or of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or
´meanes of makeing, vsing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or
benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfecčon in these
presents, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding.
March.
By Writt of Privy Seale.
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