AN ART FOR MAKING STREAKS FOR BINDING CART AND WAGGON WHEELS AND BOX SHOOTHING IRONS
Year: 1722

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD BADDELEY, of Birmingham,
in our County of Warwick, Ironmonger, hath by his petition humbly repre-
sented vnto vs that he hath, with much pains, labour, and expence, invented
and brought to perfeccon "AN ART FOR MAKING STREAKS FOR BINDING CART AND
WAGGON WHEELS AND BOX SHOOTHING IRONS," (never yet practiced in this our
Kingdom,) which will be more durable, and do three times the the service
of those made of barr iron, and can be afforded much cheaper, and therefore
will be of great vse and benefit to all such our subiecte as may have occasion
to make vse of the same: That as by meanes of the said Invention, our
subiecte will be more substantially, and at a much easier price, supplied than
by any other iron hitherto provided for the like service, so the public roads will
be more effectually preserved, and the late Act of Parliament for making such
streaks three inches wide in the ring more punctually observed, whereby the
carriage of good may also be performed at easier rates, to the great ease and
relief of our subiects in general, and to the publick good: That box smoothing
irons being made of the aforesaid metal will be of so compact a body as to
retain the heat much longer than those made of barr iron, and thereby become
more vsefull and beneficial: That in recompence to the petitioner for finding
out and introducing at his sole charge and trouble so vsefull an Invencon
which he doubt (having made severall experimente) will answer all the end?
proposed, he therefore hath most humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters

page_text: Patent for the sole vse and benefit thereof, within that part of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
for and during the term of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided, wee being willing to give encouragement to all arte
and Invenčons which may be for the publick vse and benefit, are gratiously
pleased to gratifie him in his 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 Richard
Baddeley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Richard Baddeley, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Richard Baddeley, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
during the term of yeares herein expressed shall and lawfully may make, vse,
exercise, and vend his said new Invention of making streaks for binding cart
and waggon wheels, and box smoothing irons of pigg iron, as above described,
in such manner as to him, the said Richard Baddeley, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrečons seem meet;
and that he, the said Richard Baddeley, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit,
comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon for and during the term of yeares
herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said Richard Baddeley, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares from the date
of these psents next and immediatetely 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 Richard Baddeley, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our gracious intenčon herein-before
declared, wee do by these Presente for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and
corporate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever of what estate, quality, or
degree, name or condicon soever they be, within that said part of our 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

page_text: the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted either
directly or indirectly make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon so
attained vnto by the said Richard Baddeley as aforesaid, nor in anywise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made
any addičon thereunto or substracčon 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 Richard Baddeley, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their band and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe vpon 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 answerable to the said Richard Baddeley,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, according to law for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command all and singular the justice of the
peace, mayors, sherriffs, 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Richard Baddeley, his executors; administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
their or any of their deputies, servants, or agente, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or any thing relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condičon, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be
made appear 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 Piudicial
or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the said Invention is
not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that
said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of. Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by
the said Richard Baddeley as aforesaid, then vpon signification or declaration
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet
or privy seal, or by the Lors and others of our or their Privy Council, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary in any. wise notwithstanding: Provided
also that these our Letters Patente, or anything herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to. extend to give priviledge vnto the said Richard
Baddeley, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vso or
imitate any Invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found

page_text: out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Richard Baddeley, his executors, administrators, 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 Patent and of these
Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and theso our Letters Patents are
vpon this express condičon, that if the said Richard Baddeley, his executors
or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or
time 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 Invenĉon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assign-
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 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
servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents
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 any 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, entituled (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 vnwarrant-
able Practices therein menconed), if these our Letters Patents had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time

page_text: 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 intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and
in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges,
and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents; for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Richard Baddeley, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or
exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient
and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and
shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial
sense, for the best advantage of the said Richard Baddeley, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, as well in all our Courts of Record as elswhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature
or quality of the said Invenĉon, or of the materials thereto conduceing and
belonging.