A NEW WAY OF MAKEING PITCH AND TARRE OUT OF PITT COALE, NEVER BEFORE FOUND OUT OR VSED BY ANY OTHER
Year: 1681

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS we have been informed by our trusty and wellbeloved JOHN
JOACHUN BECHER, of the Parish of St. Martin's in the Fielde, in our County
of Middx, Dr of Law, and HENRY SERLE, of Lincolnes Inue, in our said County,
Esq, that they have with their long study, labour, & expences found out
& discovered "A NEW WAY OF MAKEING PITCH AND TARRE OUT OF PITT COALE,
NEVER BEFORE FOUND OUT OR VSED BY ANY OTHER," which being putt into practice,
may be of great advantage to our subiects in generall, and have humbly
besought vs to grant vnto them Letters Patente vnder our Great Seale of
England to empower and enable them to put in execučon the said Invencon,
to continue for the terme of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that
behalfe made.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, being desireous to encourage the inventors of
such arte as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certeyne knowledge and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psente, for vs, our heirs and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John
Joachun Becher and Henry Serle, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall licence, full & sole power, priviledge, and authoritye, that they, and
their workmen and servante, and noe other, shall or may, dureing the terme
of fourteen years next ensueing the date hereof, vse, practice, exercise,
enioy, and put in execuĉon the said art or Invencon within our Kingdome of

page_text: England, or any other our dominions, in such manner as shall seem to them
most meete, & shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing
thereby; to have, hold, and enioy the d lycence, power, priviledge, &
authority, & other the misses hereby granted or intended to be granted to
the said John Joachun Becher and Henry Serle, their executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, from the day of the date of these psents for and durcing the
terme of fourteen years from thence next ensucing, fully to be compleate and
ended, according to the Statute in that case made and prided, and to the
end that they, the said John Joachun Becher and Henry Serle, their execu-
tors, admistrato", and assignes, & every of them, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt, & the sole vsc and exercise of the Sd Invencon, as
well within libtyes as without, we doe by these psente, for vs, our heirs and
successors, require and strictly charge and command all and every pson and
psons, bodyes politick and corporate, that they or any of them doe not or
shall not dureing the terme of years hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly, vse or put in practice or execution the sd art or Invenĉon, nor doe
or shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doc or shall make any
addition thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves
the inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of
the sd John Joachin Becher & Henry Serle, their executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, in writeing vnder their hande and seales first had and
obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penaltyes as can or may be
inflicted vpon such offenders for the contempt of this our command, and
further, to be answerable to the sd John Joachin Becher and Henry
Serle, their executors, admistrators, & assignes, for their damages susteyned
thereby. And further, we doe by theis psente, for vs, our heirs and successors,
give and grant vnto the said John Joachin Becher and Henry Serle, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that they and
every of them, their and every of their deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of
them, (haveing first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife
Justice of the Court of Kinge Bench for the tyme being,) may, with the
assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, as well within libtyes as
without, vpon request, and at convenient tymes in the day, dureing tho tyme
aforesd, & in lawful manner. ent & make search in any houses, shopps,
place or places where there shall be iust cause of suspicon for discovering
and finding out of all such psons as shall, within the sd terme of fourteen
years, imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art
or Invenčon aforešd, soe that such offendors may be peceded against and
punished according to their demeritte. And further, wee doe by these psente

page_text: for vs, our Deirs and successors, will, authorize, & require all and singuler jus-
tices of the peace; mayors, sherrifes, baylifes, headborroughs, & all other officers
and ministers of vs, our heirs & successors, for the tyme being, that they and
every of them respectively be, from tyme to tyme, dureing the id terme hereby
granted, in their respective places, favouring, aiding, helping, & assisting vnto
the d John Joachin Beacher & Henry Serle, their executors, aditiors, and
assignes, or his or their deputy or deputyes, servante and agents, or any of
them, in and about the accomplishm of our will & pleasure, herein declared,
& the exercise & execucon of the powers & priviledges herein and hereby
granted or menčoned to be granted, as aforešd: & moreover, wee will &
comand, by these psents, for vs, our heirs and successors, that our sd officers,
or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or intrupt the Sd John Joachin Becher
and Henry Serle, or either of them, their or either of their executors, adi",
or assignes, or their or either of their deputy or deputyes, servante or
agent, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the sd art or Inven-
čon in any matter or thing concerning the same: Provided allwayes, that if at
any tyme dureing the sd terme of fourteen years it shall be made appeare to
vs, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell,:
that this grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to our common wealth, or that the
Sd art or Invenĉon is not a new Invenčon of the sd John Joachin Becher &
Henry Serle, or one of them, as to the vse and practice thereof within this
our kingdome, then, vpon significačon or declaračon to be made by vs, our
leirs or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy scale, or by the Lorde
and others of our or their Privy Councell, or six or more of them for the tyme
being, in writeing vnder their hands, of such piudice and inconveniencye,
these our Lřes Patente, or any thing herein conteyned, shall forthwith cease,
determine, and bee vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-
before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided allsoc, that these
our Lies Patent, or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend to be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the sd John Joachin Becher and
Henry Serle, or either of them, their or either of their executors, admis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work
found out or invented by any other pson or psons, and publickly exercised in
our Kingdome of England or Dominion of Walls, vnto whome we have
allready granted our like Lřes Patente of priviledge for the sole benefit &
se thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the ŝd John Joachun Becher
and Henry Serle, their executor, administrators, and assignes, and all other
oson and psons to whome we have allready granted our like Letters Patente,
hall distinctly vse & practice their severall Inventons by them invented &

page_text: found out, according to the true intent and meaning of these severall and
respective Lies Patente & of these psente. And lastly, we doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heirs and successors, grant vnto the sd John Joachin
Becher & Henry Serle, their executors, adii, & assignes, that these our Letters
Pattent, or the inrollm* thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, vallid,
sufficient, & effectuall in the law, according to the true intent & meaning of
these psente, & shall be taken, construed, & adjudged most favourably and
beneficially for the best benefitt & advantage of the sd John Joachin Becher
& Henry Serle, their executors, admistrators, and assignes, as well in all
Court of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certeyne
reciteing of the sd art or Invenčon, or of the certeyne vse or benefitt thereof,
and notwithstanding any other defect or incerteyntyes in these psente con-
teyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, or restraint in anywise not-
withstanding
In witnes, &c. Witnes the King at Westin, the xixth day of August.
By Writt of Privy Seale.