"A NEW ENGINE, WHICH WORKS WITH BOTH SUCKING AND FORCING PUMPS, BY MEANES OF A SCREW OB WORM, WHEREBY WATER MAY BE RAISED OR DRAWN OUT OF MINES, PITTS, POND &c., TO VERY CONSIDERABLE HEIGHT, WITH FAR MORE EASE AND LESS CHARGE THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD HITHERTO DISCOVERED AND PRACTISED, WHICH WILL BE GREALY VSEFULL TO THE PUBLICK AND OF MANY PRIVATE OCCASIONS
Year: 1724

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN TAYLOR, of Duckenfield, in
the parish of Stockport and county of Chester, Clockmaker, and ROBERT
WINTERBOTTAM, of Ashton-vnder-Line, in the county of Lancaster, Carpenter,
have, by their petition, humbly represented vnto vs that they have, with great
stud and charge, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW ENGINE, WHICH
WORKS WITH BOTH SUCKING AND FORCING PUMPS, BY MEANES OF A SCREW OB
WORM, WHEREBY WATER MAY BE RAISED OR DRAWN OUT OF MINES, PITTS,
POND, &c., TO VERY CONSIDERABLE HEIGHT, WITH FAR MORE EASE AND LESS
CHARGE THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD HITHERTO DISCOVERED AND PRACTISED, WHICH
WILL BE GREALY VSEFULL TO THE PUBLICK AND OF MANY PRIVATE OCCASIONS;"
and having humbly prayed vs to grant them, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, our royal Letters Patents for the term of fourteen years for the
sole vse and benefit of their said Invention, wee, being willing to give
encouragement to all arte and invenčons which may be for the publick vse
and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratify them in their request.
KNOW YEE. THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain.
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said John

page_text: Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said John
Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their administrators and assignes, especial
lycence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that they, the said John Taylor
and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, by themselves or by their deputy and deputys, servants or
agents, or such others as they, the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully may vse and exercise, within that part of our
kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, their said new Invention of an engine which works with
both sucking and forcing pumps, by meanes of a screw or worm, whereby
water may be raised or drawn out of mines, pitte, ponde, &c., to very
considerable heights, as above described, in such manner as to them, the said
John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that they,
the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing
by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the full term of yeares herein
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-beforo granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vntill the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of these presents next and immediately
ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such
case made and provided. And to the end that the said John Taylor and
Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of
the said Invencon, according to our gratious intention herein-before declared,
wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and] successors, require and strctly
command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or
condition soever they be, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
aforesaid, that neither they, or any of them, at any time during the continuance
of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same so

page_text: attained vnto by the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam as aforesaid,.
nor shall in any wise counterfeit, immitate, or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substracĉon from the same,
whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or
devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John
Taylor and Robert Waterbottam, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing vnder their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe,
upon such pains and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such
offenders for their contempt of this our royal command, and further to be
answrable to the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to law, for their damages thereby
occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these presents,. for vs, our heires and
successors, will and cōmand all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they or
any of them do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby
granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Taylor and Robert
Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or
their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull making
vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto.
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condition, that if at any time during the said terim hereby granted it shall be
made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or
inconvenient to our subjects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a
new invention, as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within that part of
our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out
by the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam as aforesaid, then, vpon
significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or suc-
cessors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lorde or others
of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their
handf, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our
Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Taylor and Robert
Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been

page_text: found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
vnto whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom
like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid,
shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective
Letters Patents and of these presente. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and
these our Letters Patente are vpon this express condition, that if the said
John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, or the executors or administrators of
them or any of them, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time
or times hereafter, during the continuance of this grant, have or claime any
right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and
authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assigne-
ment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit
or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open, or cause to be opened,
any book or books for publick subscriptions to be made by any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, in order to the raising any
sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents
or servante, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number
of persons exceeding in the whole the five, for such or the like intente
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby
by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or
shall committ, or do or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or
thing whatsoever during such time as such person shall have right or title,
either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, which will be contrary to
the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of our reign, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain powers and
priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by two charters for assurance
of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money vpon bottomry and for
restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein menconed),
if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case the said power

page_text: priviledge or authority, shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust
for more than the number of five persons, or their representatives, at any one
time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the single person
whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be intituled
to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then, and in any of
the said cases, these our Letters Patente, and all liberties, priviledges, and
advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and be-
come void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,
or the inrollment or exemplificacon thereof, shall be in and by all things
good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
intent and meaning hereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in
the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said
John Taylor and Robert Winterbottam, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, as well in all courte of record as elsewhere, and by all and sin-
gular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
clominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst
all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoover, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature
or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe, at Westminster, the Eleventh day of