SCOWRING RIVERS, HARBOURS, CHANNELLS, CREEKES, ROADES, RIVULETTS, MILLDAMS, &C., WHICH ARE DAMMED, CHOAKED, AND ALMOST FILLED VP WITH SAND, MUDD, GRAVELL, &c.
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect Captain JOHN POYNTZ, hath
by his humble peticon represented vnto vs, that he hath found out severall
Inventions never practised before vnder water, for "SCOWRING RIVERS,
HARBOURS, CHANNELLS, CREEKES, ROADES, RIVULETTS, MILLDAMS, &C., WHICH ARE
DAMMED, CHOAKED, AND ALMOST FILLED VP WITH SAND, MUDD, GRAVELL, &c.,"
and bath prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse
thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
discend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of
such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these
presents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said
John Poyntz, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Poyntz, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or
his or their deputy and deputies, servant, or agents, or such others as the
said John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise,
and enioy the said new Inventions within our kingdome of England, dominion
of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any other our dominions,

page_text: in such manner, and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and
limitacons, as to him, the said John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet, and that he, the
said John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole profitt, benefitt, comodity, and advantage, from time
to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said
Inventions, for and dureing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said
John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents
next and imediately ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according
to the statute in this case made and provided; and to the end that the said
John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may have and enjoy the full benefitt and the sole makeing, vse, and exercise
of the said Inventions, according to our gratious intentions herein-before
declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly cōmand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within all and every our kingdoms
and dominions, that neither they or any of them, at any time dureing the
continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practise the said Inventions, or
any part of the same, soe attained vnto by the said John Poyntz, as aforesaid,
nor shall in anywise counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substracĉon from the
same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or
devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John
Poyntz, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their,
or some of their bands and scales 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 royall comand, and further, to be
answerable to the said John Poyntz, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand
all and singular our justices 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, doe not, nor
shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in anywise

page_text: molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Poyntz, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about
the due and lawful makeing vsc or exercise of the aforesaid Inventions, or
anything relateing thereto: Provided all waies, and those our Letters Patents
are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time dureing the terme
hereby granted, it shall be made appeare 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the
said Inventions are not new Inventions as to the public vse and exercise
thereof, with this our kingdom of England, and not invented and found out
by the said John Poyntz, as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaration
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett
or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
before herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Poyntz,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
inventon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or invented
by any other of our subiccts whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within
our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters
Patents or priviledge have been already granted, for the sole vse, exercise,
and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John Poyntz,
bis executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person
and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already
granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions by
them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the
same respective Letters Patents and of these presents. And lastly, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Poyntz, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
valid, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficiall sense, for the best advantage of the said John Poyntz, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and dominions
whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and

page_text: successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and cer-
taine describeing the nature or quality of the said Inventions, or any of them,
or the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse,, &c.
seaventh day of April.
Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Twenty-
By Writt of Privy Seale.