MAKEING A MOTION, WORKE, OR ENGINE BY HIMSELFE INVENTED, AND DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER HITHERTO PRACTISED OR IN VSE IN OUR DOMINIONS, WHEREBY WATER OR OTHER LIQUORS MAY BE RAISED AND DISCHARGED IN THE GREATEST QUANTITIES, AND FROM ANY DEPTH TO ANY HEIGHTH GIVEN IN MUCH SHORTER TIME AND WITH FARR LESSE COST AND CHARGES THEN ANY OTHER ENGINES HITHERTO HAVE DONE OR CAN PERFORME, AND THAT WITHOUT THE STRENGTH OF MEN, HORSES, WIND, STREAME OR CURRENT, BESIDES THAT OF ITS OWN RAISEING, WHICH BAID MOTON, WORKE, OR ENGINE MAY AND WILL IN ALL PROBABILITY PROVE OF VERY GREAT AND CONSIDERABLE VSE TO THE PUBLICK AS TO THE PRESERVEING LEAKY SHIPPS AND VESSELLS FROM SINKING, AND TO THE FREEING AND CLEARING THEM OF WATER IF SUNK, IN ORDER TO THEIR WEIGHING VP AND RECOVERY, AND WHEREBY FENNS AND MORASSES MAY BE LIKEWISE DRAINED,OVERFLOWN MINES AND COALEPITTS RENDERED AGAINE PITT TO BE WROUGHT IN, MOATES FILLED OR EMPTIED, THE SAME BEING YETT FURTHER IMPROVEABLE TO MANY OTHER BENEFICIALL PURPOSES AND VSES IN CITIES, TOWNES, FORTRESSES, AND ELSEWHERE,.
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS MARMADUKE HODGESON, Gentleman, hath by his humble
petition represented vnto vs, that he hath, after a very great charge and
expence in tryalls and experiments in order thereunto, arrived to the per-
feccon of "MAKEING A MOTION, WORKE, OR ENGINE BY HIMSELFE INVENTED, AND
DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER HITHERTO PRACTISED OR IN VSE IN OUR DOMINIONS,
WHEREBY WATER OR OTHER LIQUORS MAY BE RAISED AND DISCHARGED IN THE
GREATEST QUANTITIES, AND FROM ANY DEPTH TO ANY HEIGHTH GIVEN IN MUCH
SHORTER TIME AND WITH FARR LESSE COST AND CHARGES THEN ANY OTHER ENGINES
HITHERTO HAVE DONE OR CAN PERFORME, AND THAT WITHOUT THE STRENGTH OF MEN,
HORSES, WIND, STREAME OR CURRENT, BESIDES THAT OF ITS OWN RAISEING, WHICH
BAID MOTON, WORKE, OR ENGINE MAY AND WILL IN ALL PROBABILITY PROVE OF VERY
GREAT AND CONSIDERABLE VSE TO THE PUBLICK AS TO THE PRESERVEING LEAKY
SHIPPS AND VESSELLS FROM SINKING, AND TO THE FREEING AND CLEARING THEM
OF WATER IF SUNK, IN ORDER TO THEIR WEIGHING VP AND RECOVERY, AND WHEREBY
FENNS AND MORASSES MAY BE LIKEWISE DRAINED, OVERFLOWN MINES AND COALEPITTS
RENDERED AGAINE PITT TO BE WROUGHT IN, MOATES FILLED OR EMPTIED, THE
SAME BEING YETT FURTHER IMPROVEABLE TO MANY OTHER BENEFICIALL PURPOSES AND
VSES IN CITIES, TOWNES, FORTRESSES, AND ELSEWHERE," and the said Marmaduke
Hodgeson hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the
sole vse of his said Invention.

page_text: KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee being gratiously pleased to condescend
to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts as may
be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and
meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said Marmaduke Hodgson,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Marmaduke Hodgson, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,by themselves, or
his or their deputy or. deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the
said Marmaduke Hodgson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times
dureing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make,
sell, and put in practise the said motion, worke, or engine for raiscing and
dischargeing water as aforesaid, within any part or parts, place or places
whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our
kingdoms and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittačons as to him, the said Marmaduke
Hodgeson, his executors, administrators, & assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seeme meet, and that he, the said Marmaduke Hodgeson,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the
sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comcing,
growing, and ariseing, by reason of the said Invencon, for and dureing
the full terme of yeares herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycense, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Marmaduke Hodgeson,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the
full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents
next and immediately 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 Marmaduke Hodgeson, his exccutors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole
makeing vse and practice of the said Invention, according to our gratious
intentions berein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subiccts whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any
time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares bereby

page_text: granted, either directly or indirectly, doe make, vse, or put in practise the
said Invention, or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Marma-
duke Hodgson, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or
devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
Marmaduke Hodgson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
under his, 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 comand, and further
to be answerable to the said Marmaduke Hodgson, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned; and moreover, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors,
sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, that neither they nor any of them doe or shall,
at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Marmaduke Hodgeson, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or any of his or their deputies,
servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull makeing, selling, 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 condicon,
that if at any time dureing the terme 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 said Invention is not a new invention
as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not
invented and found out by the said Marmaduke Hodgeson as aforesaid, then
vpon signification and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the lords and others
of our or their Privy Council, 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 before herein contained to tho
contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Marmaduke Hodgson, 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

page_text: said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents
or privilidges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Marmaduke Hodgeson,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular 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, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said
Marmaduke Hodgeson, bis 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 and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said
Marmaduke Hodgeson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in
all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singuler the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singuler 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 and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said
Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the One and
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