A NEW INVENCON OR WAY OF GRINDING THE SAID WOODS, WHICH WILL WHOLLY PREVENT INCONVENIENCES AFORESAID, AND BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE DYING TRADE
Year: 1684

page_text: SOMERS AND CRABB'S PATENT.
CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiects, NATHANIEL SOMERS and LAWRENCE
CRABB, have by their humble peticon represented vnto vs, that whereas by the
ys all way of grinding logwood and all other wood for dying, there is much losse
in spending and weakning the tincture by adding water and other things to
prevent the losse of weight to the great preiudice of the trade of dying, they
have with considerable charge and paines lately found out "A NEW INVENCON
OR WAY OF GRINDING THE SAID WOODS, WHICH WILL WHOLLY PREVENT
INCONVENIENCES AFORESAID, AND BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE DYING TRADE;"
and have therevpon humbly besought vs to grant them our Letters Patents
for the sole vse of such their Invencon, wee being willing to give all fitting
incouragement to an art or Invencon which wee are satisfied wilbe vsefull and
beneficial to the publick, and more particularly to the dying trade.
THE
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certeine
knowledg, & meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Nathaniel
Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and to none other, especiall licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that they, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others
as they the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, from. time to time and
att all times dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these Presents expressed,
shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enjoy the said Invenčon within any
part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our Kingdomes
of England and Ireland, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon

page_text: Tweed, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever,
in such manner & according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons
as to them, the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons seeme
meet; and that they, the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their
exccutors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and cnioy the sole
benefitt, profitt, comodity; & advantage. from time to time coming, growing,
and arising by reason of the said Invencon for and dureing the full terme of
yeares hereafter menčoned: To have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence,
powers, privileges, and advantages herein and hereby granted or menconed to
be granted vnto the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their exccu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and
terme of fowrteene yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately
ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in this
case made and provided. And to the end that the said Nathaniel Somers and
Lawrence Crabb, their executors, administrators, or assignes, and every of
them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said
Invencon according to our gratious intencons herein-before declared, woe doe by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command
all and every person and persons, bodys politique and corporate, and all
other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or
condicon soever they bec, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions,
that neither they, nor any of them, at any tyme durcing the continuance of the
said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe
vsc or put in practise the said Invencon, or any part of the same soe atteined
vnto by the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb as aforesaid, nor shall
in any manner imitate the same, or make, or cause to be made any addicon
thereto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the
inventers or devisors thereof without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writing vnder their hands and scales, first had & obteined in
that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command; and further
to be answerable to the said Nathaniel Somers & Lawrence Crabb, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, according to law, for their damages
thereby occasioned to be susteined. And wee doe of our further especiall
grace, certeine knowledge, and meere mocon, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Nathaniel Somers & Lawrence Crabb, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, by these Presents, that they, the said Nathaniel
Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their and every of their deputys, agents, and

page_text: servants, haveing first obteined a warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our
Court of King's Bench, at Westii for the time being, and with the assistance
of a constable or any other lawfull oflicer) at convenient times in the day
durcing the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner may enter into and
make search in any place or places whatsoever within or belonging to any our
kingdomes and dominions (where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon) for the
discovering and finding out of all and every person and persons as shall
imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practise the said
Invencon, or shall make or counterfeite any instruments or materialls to the
same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded against
and punished according to law. And further, we doc by these Presents, for vs,
our heires & successors, will, authorise, and command all and singular justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors for the time
being, aswell within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales,
as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they
and every of them respectively be from time to time dureing the terme
hereby granted, in their respective offices favouring, ayding, helping, and
assisting vnto the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and to every of them, their, and every
of their deputy and deputys, servants, and agents, in and by all things in
and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the exercise and execucon of the powers and privileges hereby
granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our
heires & successors, will & command that our said respective officers and
ministers before menconed, or any of them doe not, nor shall, at any time
hereafter durcing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, or either of them,
their, or either of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or their, or either
or any of their deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull
vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or any thing relateing thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shalbe vpon this
condiĉon, that if, at any time dureing the said terme of fowrteene yeares, it
shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of
our or their Privy Councell, that this our psent grant is contrary to law, or
preiudiciall, or inconvenient to our subiccts in generall, or that the said
Inventon is not a new Invenĉon as to the publique vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to
be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy
seale, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or

page_text: 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 before
herein conteined to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said Nathaniel Somers
and Lawrence Crabb, or either of them, their, or either of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invenčon or.
work whatsoever, which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publiquely vsed or exercised within our
said realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have already
granted our like Letters Patents or privilege for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Nathaniel Somers
and Lawrence Crabb, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every other person and persons to whom wee have allready granted our like
Letters Patents or privileges aforesaid, shall distinctly vse, and practise theire
severall Inventons 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 doe by these psents for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, 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 & beneficiall sense for
the best advantage of the said Nathaniel Somers and Lawrence Crabb, their
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 in all and singular our realmes and dominions
whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full & certeine
describing the nature or quality of the said Invencon, or of the materialls
thereto conduceing & belonging, or any other defects or incertaintys in these
Presents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or
restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary.in any
wise netwithstanding.
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In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westmi, the Sixth day of March
By Writt of Privy Scale.