CONVERTING INTO STEELE ALL MANNER OF EDGED TOOLES, FILES, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS FORGED AND FORMED IN SOFT IRON, OR ANY PART OF THE SAID TOOLES, FILES, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS, AFTER THEY ARE SET, PORGED, AND FRAMED, AS ALSO ALL MAÑER OF IRON WYRE AFTER IT IS DRAWNE, AND OF PREPAREING AND SOFTNING ALL CAST AND MELTED IRON, SOE THAT IT MAY BE FILED AND WROUGHT AS FORGED IRON IS, AND OF TINCTUREING OF COPPER UPON IRON
Year: 1670

page_text: A SPECIALL LICENCE graunted unto his Highnes Prince RUPERT, his executors,
adms, and assignes, to use his new invenčons of "CONVERTING INTO STEELE ALL
MANNER OF EDGED TOOLES, FILES, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS FORGED AND FORMED IN
SOFT IRON, OR ANY PART OF THE SAID TOOLES, FILES, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS, AFTER
THEY ARE SET, PORGED, AND FRAMED, AS ALSO ALL MAÑER OF IRON WYRE AFTER IT
IS DRAWNE, AND OF PREPAREING AND SOFTNING ALL CAST AND MELTED IRON, SOE THAT
IT MAY BE FILED AND WROUGHT AS FORGED IRON IS, AND OF TINCTUREING OF COPPER
UPON IRON;" to hold for 14 yeares according to the statute in this case made
and provided, rendering to His Ma" the yearly rent of 20%; with such clauses
and non obstantes as are usuall in patents of this nature.
Westm, 1 die Debris, anno pd.
Teste R apud
By writt, &c.

page_text: THIS INDENTURE TRIPARTITE, made the Twentieth day of Decem-
ber, in the three & twentieth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord
Charles the Second, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France,
& Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., betweene the most high, most illustrius,
& mighty Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria &
Cumberland, Earle of Holdernesse, Knight of the most noble Order of the
Garter, Constable & Governor of His Maiestyes Royall Castle of Windsor,
and one of the Lords of His Maio's most Honoble Privie Councell, of the
first part, Hartgill, Baron of the Castle of Windsor, Esquire, Edmund
Hampden, of the Parish of St. Clement Danes, in the County of Middx
Esq., and Thomas Stringer, of the same parish, Gentleman, of the second
part, and the Right Honoble Anthony Lord Ashley, one of the Lords of His
Maiestie's Most Honoble Privie Councell, and Comissioners of His Treasury,
Chancellor & Vndertreasurer of His Matie's Exchequor, and the Right
Honoble Sir Thomas Chickley, Knight, one of His Maesties most Honoble
Privie Councell, and Master of His Maiestyes Ordnance, of the third part:-
WHEREAS the said Prince haveing invented & pfected a certaino
"NEW ART OR MANIEFACTURE FOR THE CONVERTING INTO STEELE ALL MANNER
OF EDGE TOOLES, FILES & OTHER INSTRUMENTS. FORGED & FORMED IN SOFT IRON,

page_text: OR ANY PART OF THE SAID TOOLES, FILES & OTHER INSTRUMENTS AFTER THEY ARE
FORGED AND FORMED, AND FOR THE CONVERTING OF ALL MANNER OF IRON WYRE
AFTER IT IS DRAWNE; AND ALSOE, A NEW INVENCON OR ART OF PREPAREING AND
SOFTENING ALL CAST OR MELTED IRON, SOE THAT IT MAY BE FILED & WROUGHT
AS FORGED IRON IS; AND ALSOE A NEW INVENČON OR ART OF TINCKTURING COPPER
VPON IRON," His Maiestie hath beene graciously pleased by Letters Patents
vnder His Great Seale of England, beareing date the First day of December
last past before the date hereof, for & vpon the consideračons therein
expressed, to give and grant vnto the said Prince, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, especiall lycence, full and sole power, priviledge & authority,
that he, the said Prince, his executors, administrators, & assignes, by him
and themselves, and by his and their deputyes, servants, and workemen, &
such others as he, the said Prince, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall att any tyme agree, within the Kingdome of England & Dominion of
Wales, and noe others, shall and may att all and every tyme & tymes durcing
the terme of fourteen yeares from the Sixth day of May last past before
the date of the said Letters Patents, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the
said new arts or invenous in such manner as to him or them in their dis-
crecons shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt
& advantage comeing & ariseing thereby or by reason of the said new arts
or invenĉons, or any of them, to have, hold, and enioy the said licenses, powers,
priviledges, authorityes, advantages, pfitts, and other the misses by the said
Letters Patents granted or menconed to be granted, and every of them, to
the said Prince, his executors, admiors, and assignes, for and during the terme
of fourteen yeares from the said Sixth day of May last, and fully to be
compleate & ended, yeilding & paying therefore to His Maiestic, His heires
& successors, the yearely rent or some of twenty shillings att the Feast of
the Annunciacon of the Blessed Virgine Mary and St. Michaell the Archangell
by equall porcons, as by the said Letters Patents, amongst other powers and
authorityes therein conteyned, may att large appeare.
NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that the said Prince, for
divers good causes & consideračons him therevnto moveing, hath granted,
assigned, and transferred, and by these Psents doth grant, assigne, & trans-
ferre, vnto the said Hartgill Baron Edmund Hampden & Thomas Stringer,
the said severall arts & invenčons, and every of them, and the sole priviledge,
vse, & exercise of them and every of them, and alsoe all the powers, privi-
ledges, lycences, & authorityes in or by the said recited Letters Patents
granted or menconed to bee granted, or which hee may have, vse, exercise,
or enioy for or by reason of the same, and all and every sume and sumes of

page_text: money and other pfitt, benefitt, and advantage whatsoever, that shall from
tyme to tyme arise or be made by or out of the said arts or invenĉons, or any
of them. And alsoe that the estate, right, title, interest, clayme, and demand
whatsoever of the said Prince, of, in, and vnto the said arts or invenĉons,
powers, priviledges, and other the pmisses by force or virtue of the said
Letters Patents or otherwise howsoever, together with the said Letters Patents
themselves, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said arts or invenčons,
powers, priviledges, pfitts, and other the pmisses vnto the said Hartgill Baron
Edmund Hampden and Thomas Stringer, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, by themselves and their deputyes, servants, & workemen, and such
others as the said Hartgill Baron Edmund Hampden & Thomas Stringer,
their exec, administrators, or assignes, shall agree with, from henceforth
for & dureing all the rest and residue of the said terme of fourteene yeares
yett to come & vnexpired in as large and ample manner to all intents &
purposes as the said Prince might or could have held, exercised, or enioyed
the same in case these Psents had not beene made vpon trust; neverthelesse,
to dispose the pfitts of the pmisses to and for the benefitt of the said Prince,
Anthony Lord Ashley, and Sir Thomas Chickley, and their respective
executors, administrators, & assignes, in such manner & proporcons as is
agreed on and expressed or intended to be expressed in one Indenture beareing
even date with these Psents, made or intended to be made betweene the
said Prince, Anthony Lord Ashley & Sir Thomas Chickley, of the one
part, and the said Hartgill Baron Edmund Hampden & Thomas Stringer of
the other parte. And the said Prince, for himselfe, his heires, executors, &
administrators, doth coveñnt & grant to & with the said Anthony Lord Ashley
and Sir Thomas Chickley, their executors and assigns, by these Psents, that
it shall & may be lawfull to & for the said Hartgill Baron Edmund Hampden
& Thomas Stringer, their executors, administrators, & assignes, peaceably
& quietly to exercise and enioy the said arts or invenĉons, powers, priviledges,
and authorityes, and to receive and take the issues and pffitts thereof vpon the
trusts aforesaid, without the lawfull lett, suite, trouble, or interrupcon of the
said Prince, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or
any other pson or psons lawfully clayming or to clayme by, from, or vnder
him, them, or any of them. And that hee, the said Prince, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall & will from tyme to tyme, make & execute,
and cause to be made & executed, all such further and other acts & assurance
in the law, for the further and better transferring & assureing of the misses
vnto the said Hartgill Baron Edmund Hampden and Thomas Stringer, their
execor, administrators, & assignes, for all the residue of the said terme,

page_text: according to the intent of these Psents. As by the councell learned in the
law of the said Lord Ashley and Sir Thomas Chickley, their executors,
admistŕors, or assignes, shall be reasonably devised or required.
In witness whereof, the said partyes to these sent Indentures inter-
changably have putt their hands & seales the day and yeare first
above written.
ET MEMORAND., qd. pfat. Princeps Rupert & Dux Cumb. &c., venit coramı
dão Dño Rege in Canc. Sua, et recogn. Inden. pdcam, ac oia et singula
in cad. content. et spific. in forma supdča.