WORK PITCH, BEING A COMPOSITION OF SPIRITUAL AND CORPOREAL INGREDIENTS, WHICH BEING APPLIED TO SHIPS AND VESSELS EXPLOYED AT SEA AND NAVIGATING TO THE COASTS OF AFRICA, AMERICA, AND THE EAST INDIES, AND OTHER HOT COUNTRIES, INFALLIBLY RESISTS THE FRETTING AND CORRODING OF SEA WORKS, PRESERVES THE TIMBER, AND KEEPS THE SEEMS CLOSE IN WARM CLIMATES PAR BETTER AND MUCH LONGER THAN ANY OF THE ORDINARY ROSIN AND OTHER MATERIALS EVER HERETOPORE MADE USE OF, AND IS
Year: 1737

page_text: GEUME THE SECOND, DY
grace
whom these presents shall come, greeting.
rou, and
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JAMES PEYN, of our city of London,
Merchant, hath by his petition humbly represented unto us, that he has by
long experience, much labour, and great expence, contrived and invented
"WORK PITCH, BEING A COMPOSITION OF SPIRITUAL AND CORPOREAL INGREDIENTS,
WHICH BEING APPLIED TO SHIPS AND VESSELS EXPLOYED AT SEA AND NAVIGATING
TO THE COASTS OF AFRICA, AMERICA, AND THE EAST INDIES, AND OTHER HOT
COUNTRIES, INFALLIBLY RESISTS THE FRETTING AND CORRODING OF SEA WORKS,
PRESERVES THE TIMBER, AND KEEPS THE SEEMS CLOSE IN WARM CLIMATES PAR
BETTER AND MUCH LONGER THAN ANY OF THE ORDINARY ROSIN AND OTHER MATERIALS
EVER HERETOPORE MADE USE OF, AND IS VERY USEFULL IF PRESERVING THE INSIDE
AS WELL AS THE OUTSIDE OF SHIPS AND VESSELS, OF ALL WHICH QUALITIES HE HAS
GIVEN MANY AND SUFFICIENT PROOFS IN THE PROVINCES OF HOLLAND AND ZEALAND,
IN WHICH LAST PROVINCE THE SAID WORK PITCH IS IN GREAT REPUTE, AND HAS
BEEN EXPERIENCED FOR THE SPACE OF SIX YEARS LAST PAST BY THE EAST AND
WEST INDIA COMPANIES, AND THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY OF THOSE PROVINCES,
AND ALSO BY A GREAT NUMBER OF PRIVATE OWNERS OF SHIPS, WHO ALL CONTINUE
TO USE THE SAME AND NOTHING ELSE, AND IS UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED THROUGHOUT
THE UNITED PROVINCES, AND BY ALL WHO HAVE MADE TRYAL OF IT, THAT IT WILL
TEND TO THE ADVANTAGE OF OUR TRADING SUBJECTS, AND PARTICULARLY OF OUR
COLONIES IN AMERICA, BY THE GREAT CONSUMPTION WHICH IT WILL OCCASION OF
PITCH, THE PRODUCT OF OUR PLANTATIONS, AND BE OF GENERAL BENEFIT TO NAVI-
GATION AND COMMERCE;" the petitioner has therefore humbly prayed us to grant

page_text: unto him, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our Royal Letters Patent
for the sole right and property of making, using, and vending the said worm
pitch for fourteen years, within England, Wales, town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and our Colonies and Plantations in America; wee, being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be of publick use and
benefit, are graciously pleased to gratify him in bis request.
KNOW YE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us,
our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said James Peyn, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, our especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said James Peyn, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, by
his and their deputy or deputyes, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said James Peyn, 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 term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention of a worm pitch within that
part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our colonies and plantations in
America, in such manner as to him, the said James Peyn, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem
meet, and that he, the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of
these presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the statute in such case made and provided; and to the
end that the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the sole use
and exercise of the said Invention herein-before declared, wee do by these pre-
sents, for us, our heirs and successors, require and strictly command all and
every person and persons, bodyes politick and corporate, and all other our
subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name or condition soever
they be, within that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our

page_text: colonies and plantations in America aforesaid, that neither they nor any of
them, at any time during the continuance of the said terme of fourteen years
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, use, or put in practice
the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained unto by the said
James Peyn as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or sub-
straction from the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent,
or agreement of the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, or assigns,
in writing under his or their hands and seals, first had and obtained in that
behalf, upon such pains and penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such
offenders for their contempt of this our royall command, and further to be
answerable to the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and more-
over, wee do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will and
command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of
us, our heirs and successors, for the time being, that they or any of them
do not nor shall, any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted,
in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said James Peyn, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants,
or agents, in or about the due and lawfull use or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention, or anything relating thereto; provided always, and these our
Letters Patent are and shall be upon this condition, that if, at any time
during the said term hereby granted, it shall be made appear to us, our heirs
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 subjects in
general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick use
and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our
colonies and plantations in America aforesaid, or not invented and found out
by the said James Peyn, as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration
thereof, to be made by us, our heirs of successors, under our or their signet
or privy seal, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Council, or any
six or more of them, under their hands, these our Letters Patent shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be utterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding;
provided also, that these our Letters Patent, or anything herein contained,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge unto the said-

page_text: Janies Peyn, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, to
use or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly
used or exercised in that said part of our king of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our
colonies and plantations in America aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent
or priviledges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said James Peyn, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, and all and every other person and persons
to whom like Letters Patent or priviledges bave been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly use and practice their several inventions 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 these our Letters Patent are upon this express condition,
that if the said James Peyn, 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 claim any right, title, or interest, in law
or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge and authority, of the sole use and
benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or
assignment, any pretended transferr or assignment of the said liberty and pri-
viledge, 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 sub-
scriptions to be made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five,
in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money under pretence of s
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 Patent or the s
liberty and priviledges hereby by us granted into any number of shares exceed-
ing the number of five, or shall comit 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 premises, which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of
a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of our late
Royal Father King George the First, entituled (an Act for the better securing
certain powers and priviledges intended to be granted by His Majesty by two
charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending

page_text: money upon bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwar-
rantable practices therein mentioned,), 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 (rec-
koning executors or administrators as and for the single person whom they
represent as to such 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 Patente, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby granted,
shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee
do by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said
James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that these our
Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification 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
adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sence for the best advantage
of the said James Peyn, his executors, administrators, and assigns, as well
in all our courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors; in that part of
our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our colonies and plantations in
America aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heirs
and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the mate-
rials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our self at Westminster. the Thirteenth day