A NEW MANUFACTURE, ART, OR INVENTION, BY A CERTAINE ENGINE OB ROLLERS TO DRAW, ROLL, OR MILL PLATES OR SHEETS OF LEAD BY THEM CAST OR PREPARED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1687

page_text: JAMES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome
these sents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee are informed that Sir PHILIP HOWARD, Knight, deceased,
and FRANCIS WATSON, Esquire (now Sir Francis Watson, Knight), haveing
found out "A NEW MANUFACTURE, ART, OR INVENTION, BY A CERTAINE ENGINE
OB ROLLERS TO DRAW, ROLL, OR MILL PLATES OR SHEETS OF LEAD BY THEM CAST
OR PREPARED FOR THAT PURPOSE," did, at the session of parliament holden at
Westminster, in the two and twentieth yeare of the reigne of our dearest
brother King Charles the Second of blessed memory, obteine an act of
parliament for the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenĉon for the
sheathing and preservacon of shipps and shipping onely, to continue for five
and twenty yeares, to them, their executors, administrators, and assignes; and
whereas wee are likewise informed that the right and tytle to the said worke
or Invention and act of parliament is come to the hands of Richard Kent,
Esquire, Charles Davenant, Doctor of Laws, Thomas Agar, Esquire, John
Warter, Thomas Fale, and Michael Hale, Gentlemen, who haveing humbly
represented vnto vs that since the passing of the said act they doe finde the
said manufacture, worke, or Invention of mill'd lead may be of good vse for
many other purposes as well as sheathing of shipps, and they haveing by their
humble peticon besought vs to grant to them the sole vse and exercise of the

page_text: said Invenčon for the purposes aforesaid, for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided, wec are graciously pleased to
condescend to their said humble suite.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being willing to cherish and promote
all laudable endeavors and designes of such our subiects as have by their industry
found out usefull and profitable arts, misteries, and invenĉons, and to the end
that the said Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter,
Thomas Hale, and Michaell Hale may reape some fruit and benefitt of their
labour and charge in and concerning the misses, of our especial grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psents doe give and grant, vnto the said Richard Kent, Charles Davenant,
Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michaell Hale, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority,
that they, or any of them, by themselves, their or any of their deputies,
servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as they, the said
Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas
Hale, and Michaell Hale, their executors, administrators, or 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 psents,
at theire or some of their owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach,
exercise, and put in practise the said manufacture, art, or Invention soe
contrived and found out as aforesaid, aswell for sheathing of shipps as for
any other vse or purpose whatsoever, and alsoe shall and may receive, take,
and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by
the said manufacture, art, or Invenčon to be had, made, acquired, or
gotten, to their and every of their owne proper benefitt, vse, and vses,
and to and for noe other vse and purpose whatsoever, other then as
hereafter is expressed; to have, hold, vse, excreise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the pmisses by these
Psents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Richard Kent,
Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michael
Hale, their executors, admñs, and assignes, for and dureing and to the full
end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these psents
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 Richard Kent,
Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michael
Hale, their executors, administrators, and assignes, may, according to the
intent and meaneing of these presents, the better enioy the benefitt, vse,
and exercise of the said manufacture, work, or Invenčon, wee doe by these

page_text: sents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and
comand all and every pson and persons, bodies politick and corporate,
of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within our said
kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, that neither they nor any of
them, durcing the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said manufacture,
work, or Invention, or any part thereof soc invented and found out as aforesaid,
nor doe, nor shall counterfeit, imitate or resemble the said manufacture,
art, or Invention, or any part thereof, nor doe, nor shall make
any addition.
thereto, nor substracĉon therefrom, whereby to ptend themselves the inventors..
or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale,
and Michael Hale, or some of them, their or some of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their or some of their hands
and scales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offender or offenders for the
contempt of this our royall comandment, and further to be answerable
to the said Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter,
Thomas Hale, and Michael Hale, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and their damages
thereby susteined. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said Richard Kent, Charles
Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michael Hale,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that they
and every of them, their and every of their deputies, agents, and servants,
haveing first obtained 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 lawful officer, aswell within liberties as without, at
convenient times in the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawfull
manner, shall and may make search in any place or places within our said
kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, where there shall be iust cause
of suspition for discovering and findeing out of all such person or persons
as shall imitate, make, or vse, or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed, within.
our kingdome and dominion aforesaid, the manufacture, art, or Invention,
invented as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be proceeded against and
punisht according to his and their demeritts, and his and their pretended
inventions and workes then and there found may be seized vpon, broken in
pieces, defaced, and spoyled, and the materialls thereof left in the hands
and custody of some constable or other officer, to be disposed of in such

page_text: manner as wee, our heires or successors, shall from time to time direct and
appoint. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriff's, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for
the time being whome 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 endeavors, favouring
aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Richard Kent, Charles Davenant,
Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michael Hale, their executors,
administrators, deputies, agents, and assignes, 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 priviledges hereby
granted as aforesaid: Provided alwayes, that these our Letters Patents, or any
thing therein conteined, shall not extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Richard Kent, Charles Davenant, Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale,
and Michael Hale, their executors, administrators, and assignes, to imitate
any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or
found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised
within our kingdome of England or dominion of Wales aforesaid, to whome
-wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole
use or oxercise thereof: Provided alsoe, that if it shall be made appeare 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
subiects in generall, or that the Invention, art, or manufacture aforesaid, as
to any vses or purposes other than sheathing of shipps onely, is not a new art
or invention as to the publique vse and exercise of the same, and was not
found out and invented by them, the said Richard Kent, Charles Davenant,
Thomas Agar, John Warter, Thomas Hale, and Michael Hale, or the said
other persons from whome they derive their tytle to the said work or manu-
facture as aforesaid, then, vpon signification or declaracon of such preiudice or
inconvenience to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by any six or more of the lords or others of our or
their Privy Councell, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be void, any thing above menčoned to the
contrary notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee doe hereby declare and grant that
these our Letters Patents shall be and remaine in and by all things firme,
valid, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing of
the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing, setting forth,

page_text: or mentioning the said art, manufacture, or Invention, or any part thereof, or
any particular vse or vses thereof other then and besides the sheathing of
shipps, or of the wayes or meanes of vseing or exerciseing the same, and
notwithstanding the said act of parliament made in the two and twentieth yearo
of the reigne of our said dearest brother King Charles the Second, or any
defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these presents, or any act, statute,
proclamacon, or restriccon whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.
411
59
Tunesse our
of August.
westm, the Thirteenth day
By Writt of Privy Seale.