CERTAINE NECESSARIE KILNES, PRINCIPALLY FOR THE SWEET AND SPEEDY DRYING OF MAULT AND HOPPES, BY THE VSE OF SEA COALE, TURFE, BROOME, FURRES, BRAKES, HEATH,, OR ANY OTHER FEWELL, AND THAT WITHOUT TOUCH OF SMOAKE, AND VERY VSEPULL LIKEWYSE FOR BAKEING, BOYLING, ROASTING, STARCHING, AND DRYING OF LYNNEN, AND DIVERS OTHER LIKE CONVE- NIENCES, ALL ATT ONE AND THE SAME TYME, AND WITH ONE FYER, A MODLE WHEREOF WAS LATELY SENTED VNTO VS, BY Wch INVENCON THE CONSUMING OF MUCH WOOD, WILBE SAUED, AND STRAWE, ALSO MEETE FOR THE BREEDING OF YOUNG CATTLE MAY BE FOR THE MOST PARTE SPARED, WHEREBY COMPOST MAY BE MADE FOR THE BETTER MANURING AND INRICHING OF LAND, BY MEANS WHEREOF MUCH ADVANTAGE IS LIKE TO ACCREW TOOUR SUBIECTE, AND THE GREAT AND GENERAL ABUSES IN MAKING OF MAULT HEREAPTER REFORMED
Year: 1635

page_text: CHARLES; by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland, Defendor of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these psente shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiect, Sir NICHOLAS HALSE, Knight, by his
humble peticon to vs exhibited, hath informed vs that whereas he, the sayd
Sir Nicholas Halse, hath invented "CERTAINE NECESSARIE KILNES, PRINCIPALLY
FOR THE SWEET AND SPEEDY DRYING OF MAULT AND HOPPES, BY THE VSE OF SEA
COALE, TURFE, BROOME, FURRES, BRAKES, HEATH,, OR ANY OTHER FEWELL, AND THAT
WITHOUT TOUCH OF SMOAKE, AND VERY VSEPULL LIKEWYSE FOR BAKEING, BOYLING,
ROASTING, STARCHING, AND DRYING OF LYNNEN, AND DIVERS OTHER LIKE CONVE-
NIENCES, ALL ATT ONE AND THE SAME TYME, AND WITH ONE FYER, A MODLE WHEREOF
WAS LATELY SENTED VNTO VS, BY Wch INVENCON THE CONSUMING OF MUCH WOOD,
WILBE SAUED, AND STRAWE, ALSO MEETE FOR THE BREEDING OF YOUNG CATTLE MAY
BE FOR THE MOST PARTE SPARED, WHEREBY COMPOST MAY BE MADE FOR THE BETTER
MANURING AND INRICHING OF LAND, BY MEANS WHEREOF MUCH ADVANTAGE IS LIKE
TO ACCREW TO OUR SUBIECTE, AND THE GREAT AND GENERAL ABUSES IN MAKING OF
MAULT HEREAPTER REFORMED," and therevpon hath humbly besaught vs to be
graciously pleased, to graunt vnto him our Letters Patente of priviledg for
taking the benefitt of his sayd Invencon, and for the sole making of the
sayd kilnes within our realmes of England and Ireland for some tearme of
yeares.

page_text: KNOW YEE, that wee, graciously. favouring and willing to cherish and
encourage our subiecte in theire iust and lawfull courses and Invenčons, and
tendering the weale and benefitt that may thereby redowne to our realmes
and people, and intending to reward and recompence the industrie and charge
of the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, bestowed and expended in and vpon the
devising and inventing of the sayd worke aboue menconed, by appropriating to
him the profitt of this his sayd Inveǹcon, vpon the humble peticon of the sayd
Sir Nicholas-Halse, and for the consideracons and reservacons hereafter in
theis sente expressed; of our especiall grace, certayne knowledg, and meere
močon, haue given and graunted, and by theis psente, for vs, our heires and
successors, doe giue and graunt vnto the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, full and sole licence, libertie, power,
priviledge, and authority, that he, the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors,
administrat, and assignes, by him or themselues, or by his or theire deputyes,
servante, workemen, or agente, at all tymes and from tyme to tyme hereafter,
for and dureing the tearme of fourteene yeares in theis sente graunted,
shall and may lawfully vse, exercise, and put in practice his sayd Invencon of
makeing the sayd kilnes within our sayd realmes and domynions of England
and Ireland'; and to the end' that the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, may haue and enioy the full and söle benefitt and
commodity of the sayd Invenčon in makeing of the sayd kilnes so by him
invented as aforesaid, our will and pleasure is, and by theis psente, of our
more especial grace,' certayne knowledg, and meere močon, wee, for vs,
our heires and successors, straightlie charge and inhibitt all and everie
pson and psons of what estate, degree, or condicon he, they, or any of
them be, that none of them other then the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or theire deputyes, ser-
vant, or agente; or some of them, doe or shall, dureing the sayd
tearme of fouerteene yeares, within our sayd realmes and dominions
of England and Ireland, make, vse, or putt in practice, directly or
indirectly, the sayd kilnes soe by him invented as aforesaid, nor shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor make any addičon there-
vnto or substraccon from the same; whereby to ptend themselues-in-
ventors thereof, without licence, .consent, or agreement of the sayd Sir
Nicholas Halse, his "executors, 'administrators, or assignes, first had and
obteýned in that behaulfe, vpon payne to hate the same demollished and
broken downe, and vpon such further paynės, penaltyes, fynes, and ymprison-
mente as cann or may be inflicted vpon such offender or offenders for theiré
contempt of our royall pleasure and command in that behaulfe; to haue and
:

page_text: to hould the sayd licences, libertyes, powers, priviledges, and authorityes by
theis Psente graunted or menconed to be graunted vnto the sayd Sir Nicholas
Halse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing the tearme
and vnto the full end and tearme of fouerteene yeares from henceforth next
ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended; yeilding and paying therefore
yearly, and the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, for himselfe, his executors, adminis
trators, and assignes, doe hereby, covenant and promise to and with ys, our
heires and, successors, to yeild and pay yearely to vs, our heires and successors,
dureing the sayde terme hereby graunted, one full moyety or balfe parte of all
such somes of money, benefitt, pfitte, and advantages whatsoever,. as he, the
sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors, administrators, or assignes, from. tyme
to tyme dureing the sayd terme, over and aboue the necessarie charges and
expences wch shalbe dispursed therein, shall or may clearly raise, receaue,
acquire, haue, and obteyne of or by meanes of making, vseing, or licensing. of
the sayd kilnes by him soe devised as aforesayd, and the same halfe parte to be
yearly payd att the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangell, only vpon iust
accompte to be from tyme to tyme thereof first made and given by the oathes
of the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and his or their deputies or agente, to be taken before one or more of the
Barons of our Courte of Exchequer in our said severall realmes in that behaulfe;
and, wee .doc by theis sente, for. vs, our heires and successors, giue and
graunte full power and authority vnto the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, and his and their deputyes, servant,
and agente, with the assistance of a constable, or, any other lawful officer,
att convenient tyme and tymes, to enter into and make search in all or any
house or houses, or other place and places, within our
England and Ireland, and the dominions of the same, where
suspicon shall be, for discoverie and finding out of such as shall haue, make,
or, put in practice or vre the said kilnes to any the purposes or any other vse
or vses contrary to the true intent and meaning of theis psente, to the end the
delinquente being discovered, and may receave condigne punishment according
to theire demerritte. And wee do by theise psente, for vs, our heires and
successors, will & comand y Treasurer, Chancellor, Undertreasurer, & Barons
of our sayd Courts of Exchequer, and all and singular Mayors, Sheriffe,
Justices of Peace, Bailiffe, Constables, Headboroughs, and other officers,
ministers, and subiect of vs, our heires and successors, of our sayd severall
realmes respectively for the tyme being, that they and everie of them re-
spectively in their severall offices and places, from tyme to tyme durcing the
terme aforesayd, be ayding, helping, and assisting to the sayd Sir Nicholas
sayd realmes of
any iust cause of

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Halse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and his and theiré deputyės,
'servante, and agente, in and by all thinge in and about the accomplishment of
our pleasure herein declared, and in the exercise and execuĉon of the pmisses
hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesayd, without any further
for other warrant to be from vs, our heires or successors, had or obteyned in that
behaulfe, and that they or any of them respectiuely doe not att any tyme
hinder, molest, or interrupt the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors,
administrators, deputyes, or assignes, or any of them, in any wise concerning
the Pmisses, as they tender our royall pleasure, and will avoyd the contrarie
att theire perille, and théis our Lřes Patente or the inrollment thereof shalbe
vnto them and everie of them respectiuely a sufficient warrant in that behaulfe;
provided alwayes, that if the sayd moyety or halfe parte of the sayd sömes
of mony, benefitte, and pffitte to be had, made, acquired, obteyned, and gotten
by the sayd pmisses as aforesaid, shall not be yearely and everie yeare dureing
the sayd tearme duely accompted for, answered, and payd to vs; our heires or
Successors, att the sayd feast or tyme of payment herein-before menconed,
or within thirty dayes next after that, then in such case the sayd Sir Nicholas
Halse, his heires, executors, administrators, and assignes, shall forfeit and pay
vs, our heires or successors, double so much in value as yt shalbe proved
to haue beene to vs due, vnaccompted for, vnpayd, and deteyned from vs, our
heires and successors, contrie to the true intent and meaning of theis
Psente, or if the sayd Sir Nicholas Halse, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall not inroll or cause to be inrolled this our psent graunt before
the Clerke of the Pipe for the tyme being, within sixe moneths after the date
hereof, that then the said Nicholas Halse shall alsoe forfeit & pay to vs twenty
pounde, and so for every sixe moneths after the like some of twenty pounde
vntill the sayd Lers Patente shalbe soe inrolled as aforesaid; provided alsoe;
and our will and pleasure is, that if at any tyme dureing the sayd tearme of
fouerteene yeares yt shall appeare vnto vs, our heires and successors, that this
graunt is contrarie to our laws, or in any sort inconvenient to the State, and
then vpon significaĉon and declaracon thereof to made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our signett or privie seale in that behaulfe, theis our Lers
Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyde, to all intente
and purposes, anything herein conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding.
And we doe hereby graunt for vs, our heires and successors, vnto the said Sir
Nicholas Halse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis our
Lers Patente or the inrollm* thereof shalbe firme, good, and effectuall in 'the
lawe, according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not
discribing or not certane discribing of the manner, forme, and fashion of the

page_text: sayd kilues so devised as aforesayd, and notwithstanding any other defect,
impfecčon, or incertaintyes in this our Psent graunt, or any lawe, acte,
statute, ordinance, provision, or restricčon to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwtstanding. Although expresse mencon, &c.
Wittnesse
assamar AA
020
40
twentieth of July.
P bře de privato sigillo, &c..