MAKEING OF IRON PLATES TYNNED OVER, COMONLY CALLED TYNNED PLATES, AS GOOD AS THOSE BROUGHT FROM AND MADE IN GERMANY
Year: 1691

page_text: England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, &c., to all
to whome these presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS EDMUND HEMING bath, by his humble petition, represented vnto
vs, that he has at his great care and expence found out an art or inven-
tion for "MAKEING OF IRON PLATES TYNNED OVER, COMONLY CALLED TYNNED PLATES,
AS GOOD AS THOSE BROUGHT FROM AND MADE IN GERMANY;" which Invention hath
not been heretofore knowne or practised by any of our subiccts, and hath
prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof durcing
the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherrish and encourage
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profittable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
that the said Edmund Heming, may accordingly reape some fruit and
benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted,
and by these presents doe give and grant vnto the said Edmund Heming, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, power, priviledge and
authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their
deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as he, the said
Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators, and assignes shall agree with,
shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing the space
of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these presents, at his and their

page_text: owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice
the said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any
place or places within our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Invenĉon to be had, made, acquired, and gotten to his and 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 menconed to be granted vnto the said Edmund
Heming, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and vnto
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 Edmund
Heming, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Inventon,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires, and successors, streightly charge,
require, and comand 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 Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, durcing the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or put in
practice the said new Invention soc by the said Edmund Heming invented and
found out, as aforesaid, nor doe, nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the
said new Invention, or any materialls or ingredients thereunto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substraccon therefrom, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof without the lycence,
.consent, or agreement of the said Edmund Heming, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes in writeing vnder his or their hands and seales first had
and obteyned 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
royal comand, and further to be answerable to the said Edmund Heming,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of
the law for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe
by these presents, for vs, our heires, and successors, give and grant vnto the
said Edmund Heming, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, full power
and authority, that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of
their deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first obteyned a warrant
in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's
Bench for the time being, with the assistance of a constable or other

page_text: law.
lawful officer (aswell within liberties as without) at convenient times in
the day, durcing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, shall and may
make search in any place or places within our said kingdome of England,
dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, where there shall be
just cause of suspition for discovering and finding out of all such, person or
persons as shall imitate, make, or vse, or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed,
within our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, the said new Invention soe by the
said Edmund Heming found out and invented as aforesaid, that soe such offender
may be proceeded against and punished according to the vtmost rigour of the
And further, wee doe by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires
and successors, will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for
the time being whom 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 Edmund Heming, his 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 privi-
ledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these psents,
for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our said respective
officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not, nor shall at
any tyme hereafter dureing the terme hereby granted, in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators,
or assigns, deputies, agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, 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 said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or
more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law, or
preiudiciall, or inconvenient to our subiccts in generall, or that the Invention
before menconed is not a new invention as to the publicke vse and exercise of
the same, and not invented and found out by the said Edmund Heming, as
aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaracon of such preiudice or incon-
veniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett
or privy scale, or by the lords or others of our or their Privy Councill, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing

page_text: herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteined shall not extend or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Edmund Heming, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invention or worke
whatsoever which hath been found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominion 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
Edmund Heming, bis 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 severall 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 Edmund Heming, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
hereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good, vallid, firme, and
effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstand
ing the not full and certaine describeing or mentioning of the said Invention, or
of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exer-
ciseing of the same,. or. of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other
defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these presents, or any other matter, cause;
or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c.
of October.
Witnesse ourselves at Westñi, the Saventeenth day