WELL MAXEING OF STEELE EQUIVALENT TO CORINTHIAN STEELE, NEVER YET MADE IN ENGLAND, WITH MATERIALLS OF THE NATIVE GROWTH OF THIS KINGDOME, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE
Year: 1691

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved TпомAS NEALE, Esquire, hath, by
his humble petičon represented vnto vs that, with great paynes and charges,
he is come to the knowledge of "WELL MAXEING OF STEELE EQUIVALENT TO
CORINTHIAN STEELE, NEVER YET MADE IN ENGLAND, WITH MATERIALLS OF THE
NATIVE GROWTH OF THIS KINGDOME, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT VSE AND
ADVANTAGE;" and he haveing humbly besought vs to grant vnto him our
Letters Patents for the sole vse of his said new Invention for the terme of
fourteen yeares, wee are graciously pleased to condescend to that his request.
KNOW YEE that wee, being willing to encourage the inventer of such
arts as may be of publique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Neale, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves and his and
their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said
Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, or assignes shall at any time
agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times during the
ternie of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and
enioy the said Invention with any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of,

page_text: And
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 dominions whatso-
ever, in such manner and according to such reasonable and lawful rates and
lymittacons as to him, the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet.
that he, the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said
Invention for and dureing the full terme of yeares herein menconed, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said
Thomas Neale, 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 compleat and ended
according to the statute in this case made and provided. And to the end that
the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said
Invention according to our gratious intendons herein-before declared, wee
doe by these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate,
and all other our subiects 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 con-
tinueance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly, doe make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any
part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Thomas Neale, as afore-
said, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall
make, or cause to be made, any addition thereto or substraccon from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the same Thomas Neale,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their,
or some of their hande and scales, first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vpon such paynes and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such
offenders for their contempt of this our royall command, and further, to be
answerable to the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and
wee doe, of our further especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer mocon,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Neale, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, by these sents, that he, they, and

page_text: every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputies, servants, and
agents (haveing first obteyned a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife
Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster, for the time being, and
with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient
times in the day dureing terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner,
may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within
any of our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of sus-
pition) for the discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons
as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeite any instruments or mat-
terialls to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be
proceeded against and punished according to law; and further, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and comand
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliff's, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, for the time being, aswell within our kingdome of England
and dominion of Wales as within all and every other our kingdomes and
dominions, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time,
dureing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, favouring, aiding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputies, servants and
agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execution
of the powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid; and moreover
wee doe by these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and com-
mand that our respective officers and ministers before mentioned, or any
of them, doe not nor shall, at any time hereafter dureing the said terme
hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their depu-
ties, servants, or agents, in and about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relateing thereto; provided alwayes, 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 Piudiciall 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 Thomas Neale as aforesaid, then, vpon signification
and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our

page_text: or their signet or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their bande, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, anything before herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding;
Provided alsoc that these our Letters Patents or any thing therein contained
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Thomas Neale, 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 subiccts whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto
whome like Letters Patents of Priviledge have been already granted for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the
said Thomas Neale, 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
several 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 Thomas Neale, his 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, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best
advantage of the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all
and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and
every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certaine describeing the nature and quality of the said
Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster. the Fifteenth day
of Contambas
of September
By Writt of Privy Seale.