A NEW SPINING ENGIN NEVER VSED IN ENGLAND, WHEREBY FROM SIX TO AN HUNDRED SPINNERS AND VPWARDS MAY BE IMPLOYED BY THE STRENGTH OF ONE OR TWO PSONS TO SPIN LINNEN AND WORSTED THREAD WITH SUCH EASE AND ADVANTAGE THAT A CHILD OF FIVE OR FOURE YEARES OF AGE MAY DOE AS MUCH AS A CHILD OF SEAVEN OR EIGHT YEARES OLD, AND OTHERS AS MUCH IN TWO DAYES AS WITHOUT THIS THEIR INVENCON THEY CAN IN THREE DAYES
Year: 1678

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, DY the grace of God, &c.
WHEREAS RICHARD DEREHAM and RICHARD HAINES, Esquires, have by
their humble peticon informed vs that they have invented "A NEW SPINING
ENGIN NEVER VSED IN ENGLAND, WHEREBY FROM SIX TO AN HUNDRED SPINNERS AND
VPWARDS MAY BE IMPLOYED BY THE STRENGTH OF ONE OR TWO PSONS TO SPIN LINNEN
AND WORSTED THREAD WITH SUCH EASE AND ADVANTAGE THAT A CHILD OF FIVE OR
FOURE YEARES OF AGE MAY DOE AS MUCH AS A CHILD OF SEAVEN OR EIGHT YEARES
OLD, AND OTHERS AS MUCH IN TWO DAYES AS WITHOUT THIS THEIR INVENCON THEY
CAN IN THREE DAYES," and therefore have humbly besought vs that wee
would be graciously pleased to grant them the sole benifitt of their said
Invenčon for the terme of foureteene yeares, according to the statute in that
behalfe.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said Richard Dereham
and Richard Haines, their executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
licence, full and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that they and either of
them, their and either of theire servants and workemen, and noe others, shall
and may, dureing the terme of foureteene yeares next ensuing the date of
these presents, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said art or Inventon, and
all engins and instruments relateing therevnto, within our kingdome of
England, dominion of Wales, & towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such

page_text: manner as to themselves shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole
benifitt and advantage arising thereby, or by reason thereof; to have, hold,
and enioy the said licences, powers, priviledges, and authorities, & other pre-
misses hereby granted, or intended to be granted, to the said Richard Dercham
and Richard Haines, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, from the
day of the date of these presents, for and durcing the terme of foureteene
yeares from thence next ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended,
according to the statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the
said Richard Dereham and Richard Haines, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole
benifitt, and the sole vse & exercise of their said Invenĉon, aswell within
liberties as without, we doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, require & streightly charge and comand all and every pson and psons,
bodies politicke and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or addičon they
bee, that they, nor any of them, during the terme of yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doe or shall vse or put in practice the said art or
Invenĉon, nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, or any
the engines or instruments relating therevnto, nor doc or shall make any
addicon therevnto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventors or devisers thereof without the licence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Richard Dereham and Richard Hains, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their hands and scales, first had
and obteined in that bebalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may be
inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our comand in that behalfe,
& further to be answerable to the said Richard Dereham and Richard Haines,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, according to law and justice, for
his and theire damages thereby susteined. And further, wee doe by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said Richard
Dercham and Richard Haines, their exccutors, administrators, and assignes,
full power and authority that they and every of them, their and every of
theire deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them (haveing first obteined a
warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's
Bench for the time being), may, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officers, aswell within liberties as without, vpon request, at con-
venient times in the day dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner,
enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shall
be iust cause of suspicon for discovering and finding out of all such persons as
shall, within the terme of foureteene yeares, imitate, or cause to be imitated,
or shall vse or put in practice the said art or Invenĉon, that soe such offenders
:

page_text: may be proceeded against and punished according to their demerritts. And
further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorize, and require all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes,
bayliffs, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires
and successors, for the time being, that they and every of them, respectively
be from time to time durcing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective
places, favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Richard Dereham
and Richard Haines, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and to their
deputy and deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our will & pleasure herein declared, and the exercise
and execuĉon of the powers & priviledges herein, and hereby granted, or
menconed to be granted, as aforesaid; and, moreover, wee will and comand by
these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers, or any of
them, doc not molest, trouble, or interrupt them, the said Richard Dereham
and Richard Haines, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or their
deputy, deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them, in or about the vse or
exercise of the said art or Invenĉon in any matter or thing concerning the
same. Provided allwaies, that if att any time dureing the said terme of foure-
teene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six
or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this grant is preiudiciall or incon-
venient to our comon weale, or that the said art or Invencon is not a new
invenĉon of the said Richard Dereham and Richard Haines, as to the vse and
practice thereof within our kingdome of England, then vpon significacon and
declaračon, 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 Privy Councell, or six
or more of them for the time being, in writeing vnder their hands, of such
Piudice and inconvenience, these our Letters Patents, or anything herein
contained, shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, anything herein-before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided alsoc, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained,
shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said
Richard Dereham and Richard Haines, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any inventon or worke found out or
invented by any other person or psons, and publiquely exercised in this our
kingdome of England, vnto whom wee have allready granted our like Letters
Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being
our will and pleasure that the said Richard Dereham and Richard Haines,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other pson
and psons to whome wee have allready granted our like Letters Patents or

page_text: priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse or put in practice their severall
invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meancing of the said severall and respective Letters Patents and of these
presents. And further, wce doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Richard Dereham and Richard Haines, their
executors, administrators, & assignes, that these our Letters Patents, and the
inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and
effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing of these
presents, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and bene-
ficially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said Richard Dereham and
Richard Haines, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
our courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describeing of the said art or Invencon, or of the certaine vse and benefitt
thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects, incertaintys, or imperfeccons in
these psents contained, or any act; statute, ordinance, pvision, proclamacon, or
restraint to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesso; Sto
All
Witnesse our selfe att Westii, the Eighteenth day of
Aprill
By Writt of Privy Seale.
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