A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE, SUCH AS WAS NEVER YET FOUND OUT, FOR DRAINING WATER OUT OF COAL PITS, SALT PITS, COPPER AND LEAD MINES, WHICH WILL ANSWER MORE EFFECTUALLY THAN ANY YET EXTANT, BEING ALL PERFORMED WITH SUCH A NUMBER OF WHEELS, WATER WHEELS, BUCKETTED CHAINES AND PIPES ABOVE GROUND AS ARE AGREEABLE TO THE QUANTITY OF WATER REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN, AND SO
Year: 1717

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS EDWARD SHUTTLEWORTH, of Leverpoole, in our County of
Lancaster, Gentt, hath, by his petičon humbly represented vnto vs, that he
hath, with near twenty yeares study and with great charge, solely devised,
invented, and brought to perfection "A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE, SUCH AS WAS
NEVER YET FOUND OUT, FOR DRAINING WATER OUT OF COAL PITS, SALT PITS, COPPER
AND LEAD MINES, WHICH WILL ANSWER MORE EFFECTUALLY THAN ANY YET EXTANT,
BEING ALL PERFORMED WITH SUCH A NUMBER OF WHEELS, WATER WHEELS,
BUCKETTED CHAINES AND PIPES ABOVE GROUND AS ARE AGREEABLE TO THE QUANTITY
OF WATER REQUIRED TO BE DRAWN, AND SO CONTRIVED THAT THE SAME WATER
WHICH THE SAID ENGIN SHALL FETCH AND DRAW VP BY A CIRCULATING MOTION
SHALL WORK THE SAID MACHINE OR ENGIN WITH THE ASSISTANCE OR SMALL POWER.
OF ONE HORSE OR WIND, AND DRAWS VP WATER, PROPORCONABLE TO THE NUMBER
OF PIPES THE PIT CONTAINES, WITH MORE EASE AND LESSE DANGER THAN ANY YET
FOUND OUT, AND WILL BE SET VP AT AN EASY BATE, AND WORKED AND MANAGED
WITH ONE MAN AND A SMALL ASSISTANCE WITH A GREAT DEAL OF EASE, AND
DRAW OUT OF THE DEEPEST PITS SUFFICIENT TO CLEAR ANY REASONABLE WORK, AND
NOT LIABLE TO BE OUT OF ORDER, TO CAUSE ANY GREAT DELAY OR HINDRANCE IN THE
PERFORMANCE, AND CONSEQUENTLY OF EXCELLENT VSE IN ANY MINES WHATSOEVER
WHICH HAVE OCCASION TO HAVE THEIR WATERS DRAWN OFF, AND WILL BE OF
PUBLICK GOOD TO THE NATION IN GENERALL, AND AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO
PERSONS CONCERNED IN ANY SUCH WORKS THAT STAND IN NEED OF HAVING THEIR
WATER DRAWE IN ANY PARTS OF GREAT BRITAIN OR IRELAND," and having

page_text: humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for liberty to erect
such engine or engines accordingly,-
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer moĉon, have given and granted, and by
these presents for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto
the said Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said
Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, by himselfe and themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies,
servants or agente, or such others as he, the said Edward Shuttleworth, his
executors, administrators, or 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 exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that
part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick vpon-Tweed, his said new-invented machine or engine
for drawing water out of coal pits, salt pits, copper and lead mines, as is
above described, in such manner as to him, the said Edward Shuttleworth, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Edward Shuttleworth, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the
whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the full term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Edward Shuttleworth, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and
term of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and
imediately 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 Edward
Shuttleworth, 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
Invention, according to our gratious intention herein-before declared, wee do
by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other
our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon
soever they be, within that part of our said kingdome 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

page_text: said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either direcly or indirectly do
make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention or any part of the same so
attained vnto by the said Edward Shuttleworth as aforesaid, nor shall in
anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to
be made any addition thereunto or substraction 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 Edward'
Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his
or their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such
paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for?
their contempt of this our royal comand, and further to be answerable to tho
said Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, and assignes, accord-;
ing to law for his and the damages thereby occasioned; and moreover weo*
do by these presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and
singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, 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 Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administra-
tors, or assigns, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agente, in:
or about the due and lawfull making vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon,
or anything relating thereto: provided always, and these our Letters Patente
are and shall be vpon this condition, 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 Council, that this our grant is contrary to law,
or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, 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-vpon-Tweed, or not invented and
found out by the said Edward Shuttleworth as aforesaid, then, vpon signifi-
cacon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lorde and others of our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hand, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all
intens and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary in
anywise notwithstanding: provided also, that these our Letters Patente, or
anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge to the said Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever

page_text: which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that part of our kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, 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 Edward Shuttleworth, 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 afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practise their several inventions by them invented
and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respec-
tive Letters Patent and of these presents; and lastly, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Edward Shut-
tleworth, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all
thing good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual 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
Edward Shuttleworth, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all
court of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our
said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Invencon, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, the Twelfth day of