AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR SMOAKEY CHIMNEYS, WHICH INVENCON ALSO WARMS A ROOM IN EVERY PART EQUALLY, AND IN A FEW MINUTES MAY BE MADE HOTTER OR COLDER ACCORDING TO THE WEATHER; SO, LIKEWISE, A ROOM OPENING INTO IT MAY BE MADE EQUALLY WARKE BY OPENING THE DOOR, WHICH WILL BE A BETTER MEANES OF PRESERVING PAINTINGS, BOOKES, OR ANY OTHER VALUABLE FURNITURE, FROM DAMPS OR MILLDEWS THAN ANY OTHER IN-. VENCON HITHERTO FOUND OUT
Year: 1729

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS ROBERT PHILLIPS, of the parish of St. Giles in the Fielde, in
the county of Middlesex, Bricklayer, hath by his peticon humbly represented
vnto vs that he hath, by much labour and study, and at great expence, invented
and found out "AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR SMOAKEY CHIMNEYS, WHICH INVENCON
ALSO WARMS A ROOM IN EVERY PART EQUALLY, AND IN A FEW MINUTES MAY
BE MADE HOTTER OR COLDER ACCORDING TO THE WEATHER; SO, LIKEWISE, A
ROOM OPENING INTO IT MAY BE MADE EQUALLY WARKE BY OPENING THE DOOR,
WHICH WILL BE A BETTER MEANES OF PRESERVING PAINTINGS, BOOKES, OR ANY
OTHER VALUABLE FURNITURE, FROM DAMPS OR MILLDEWS THAN ANY OTHER IN-.
VENCON HITHERTO FOUND OUT;" and having humbly prayed vs, for the encourage-
ment of so vsefull and beneficial an invention to our subiects, to grant him
our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefit of the said Inven-
tion during the terme of fourteen years, according to the statute in such case
made and provided, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventons which may be for the publick vse and benefit, are graciously pleased
to gratifye him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs.
our beires and successors, do give-and grant vnto the said Robert Philips, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that be, the said Robert Phillips, 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 Robert Phillips, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times here-
after during the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, vse, and exercise his said Invenĉon for curing smaky chimneys, and
other the purposes above described, within that part of our kingdom of Great
Britaine called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Robert Phillips, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem
meet, and that he, the said Robert Phillips, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, comodity,
benefit, and advantage from time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing
by reason of the said Invention, for and during the terme of years herein
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages herein-before granted, or menconed to be granted, vnto
the said Robert Phillips, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of
these presents next and immediately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and
ended according to the statute in such case made and provided; and to
the end that the said Robert Phillips, 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 gratious
intention herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition 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 the continuance of the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invention or any part of the same so attained vnto by the
said Robert Phillips as aforesaid, nor 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 them-
selves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Robert Phillips, his executors, administrators,

page_text: or assignes, in writing under his or their hande 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 command,
and further to be answerable to the said Robert Phillips, his executors,
administrators, and 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 justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffs, bayliffes, 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
terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Robert
Phillips, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or
their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto: Provided
alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition,
that if at any time during the said terme 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 subiects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as
to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdome of
Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Robert
Phillips as aforesaid, then vpon signification or declaration thereof to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, or by the lord and others of our
or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande,
these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly
void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also, that these our
Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend, or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Phillips, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them to vse or imitate
any invenčon or work whatsoever, which hath heretofore been found out
or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed on
exercised in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, or 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 Robert Phillips, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and all and every other person or persons to whom like Letters Patente

page_text: or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distincly
vse and practice their several inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intentent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the said Robert
Phillips, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall
or may, at any time or times 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 Inven-
tion hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended
transferr or assignment of this grant, have or claim 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 Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr
or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignement 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, 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 or persons shall have any right or title, either in law or equity,
in or to the said premisses, which would be contrary to the true intent and
meaning of a certain act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reigne
of our late Royal Father King George the First, intituled (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 several extravagant
and vnwarrantable practices therein menconed), if these our Letters Patents
had not been or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any
time 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 adminsitrators as and for the single person whom they represent, as to such

page_text: interest as they are or shall be intituled 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 anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, graut vnto the said Robert
Phillips, his executors, administrators, 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
Robert Phillips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our
courts of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of us, our heires and successors, in that part 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, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the
materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness Caroline, Queen of Great Britain, &c., at
Westminster the Fleventh day of Tule