To MELT AND REFINE LEAD OARE, IN CLOSE OR REVERBERATORY FURNACES WITH PITT COALE OR SEA COALE, TURFE, PEATE, OR OTHER MIXT FUELL, AND NOT WITH WOOD, WOODE COALE OR CHARCOALE, BY MEANES WHEREOF LEAD OARE WILL BEE MELTED AND REFINED MUCH CHEAPER THEN FOR- MERLY ITT HATH BEENE, BY REASON OF THE DEARENESSE AND SCARCITY OF WOOD
Year: 1678

page_text: greetinge.
WHEREAS our right and trusty and welbeloved cozen, GEORGE, Lord
Viscount GRANDISON, hath by his humble peticón informed vs that hee hath
lately found a new Inventon "To MELT AND REFINE LEAD OARE, IN CLOSE OR
REVERBERATORY FURNACES WITH PITT COALE OR SEA COALE, TURFE, PEATE, OR OTHER
MIXT FUELL, AND NOT WITH WOOD, WOODE COALE OR CHARCOALE, BY MEANES
WHEREOF LEAD OARE WILL BEE MELTED AND REFINED MUCH CHEAPER THEN FOR-
MERLY ITT HATH BEENE, BY REASON OF THE DEARENESSE AND SCARCITY OF WOOD;"
in which regard hee hath humbly besought vs to grant him our royall licence
and priviledge for the sole vse and benefitt of the said Invenčon for the terme
of fowerteene yeares, according to the statute in that case made and pvided,
out of our princely inclinacon to pmote and encourage such invenčons as may
bee of publicke vse and aduantage, wee are pleased to condescend vnto that his
request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these psente
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Viscount,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole
power, priviledge and authority, that hee and they, and his and theire seruante
and workemen, and noe others, shall and may, during the terme of fowertecne
yeares next ensueing the date of these psente, vse, practice, exercise, or enioy
the said arte or invenčon of melting and refineing lead oare in close or reverbe-

page_text: ratory furnaces with pitt coale, or sea coale, turfe, peate, or other mixt fuell,
within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, in such manner as
to him and them shall seem mete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt
and aduantage ariseing thereby or by reason thereof. To have, hold, and
enioy the said licence, power, priviledge, authority, and other the misses
hereby granted or intended to bee granted to the said Viscount, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these psente, for and
during the tearme of fowerteene yeares from thence next ensueinge, fully to
bec compleate and ended according to the statute in that case made and
vided. And to the ende the saide Viscount, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may the better enjoy the full and whole
benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said Invencon, aswell within
libertyes as without, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors,
rquire and streightly charge and comand all and every person & persons,
bodies politique and corporate, that they nor any of them, during the
tearme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doe or shall vse
or putt in practice the said arte or invenčon, nor doe or shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make addicon therevnto
or substracčon therefrom, whereby to tend themselves the inventers or
devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreem' of the said Viscount,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing, vnder his or theire hande
and scales, first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vnder such paines and
penaltyes as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders, for the contempt of
this our comand in that behalfe.. And further, to bee answearable to the said
Viscount, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law and
justice, for his and theire damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe
by these sente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the
said Viscount, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and
authority, that hee, they and every of them, his, theire and every of theire
deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, haveing first obteyned a warrant
in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Courte of King Bench
for the time being, may with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, aswell within libertyes as without, att convenient times in the
day during the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search
in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shal bee iust cause of
suspicon for discovering and findeing out of all such persons as shall within
the said tearme of fowertecne yeares imitate or cause to bee imitated, or
shall vse or putt in practice, the arte or invenčon aforesaid, that soe such
offenders may bee pceded against and punished according to theire demeritte.

page_text: And further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorise, and require all and singuler iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffe,
baylyffes, headburroughs, and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires
& successors for the time being, that they and every of them respectively bee
from time to time during the tearme hereby granted in their respective places
favouringe, aydeing, helpeing, and assisting vnto the said Viscount, his exccu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and theire deputy and deputyes,
agent and servante, in all thinges in and aboute the accomplishm* of our
will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execučon of the
powers and priviledges hereby granted or menčoned to bee granted, as aforesaid.
And moreover wee will and comand by these psente, for vs, our heires and
successors, that our said officers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or
interupt the said Viscount, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his
or theire deputy or deputyes, servante, or agente, cr any of them, in or aboute
the vse or exercise of the said arte or invenčon in any matter or thing con-
cerning the same. Pvided alwayes, that if att any time during the said
tearme of fowerteene yeares itt shall bee made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or to any six or more of our or theire privy councell, that this
grant is Piudiciall or inconvenient to the comon weale, or that the said arte
or invenčon is not a new invenĉon of the said Viscount as to the vse and
practice thereof within our kingdome of England; then, vpon significačon
and declaracon to bee made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or theire privy
councell, or six or more of them for the time being, in writeing vnder theirc
hande, of such inconvenience and preiudice, these our Letters Patente and
all thing therein conteyned shall forthwith cease, determine, and bee vtterly
voyd to all intente and purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the
contrary notwithstanding. Pvided alsoe, that these our Letters Patente, or
any thing therein conteyned, shall not extend or bee construed to extend to
give priviledg vnto the said Viscount, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenĉon or worke found out or invented
by any other person or persons, and publickly exercised in our said kingdome
of England or dominion of Wales, vnto whome wee have already granted our
like Letters Patent of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said Viscount, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all other person and persons to whome wee
have already granted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge, shall distinctly vse
and practice theire severall invenĉons by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meancing of the said severall and respective Letters

page_text: Patente, and of these psente. And lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Viscount, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, and the inrollment
thereof, shall bee in and by all thinges good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in
the law, according to the true intent and meaneing of these psente, and shall
bee taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the
best benefitt and advantage of the said Viscount, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, as well in all our courtes of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding
the not full and certaine discribeing of the said arte or invenčon, or of the
certaine vse or benefitt thereof; and notwithstanding any other defecte, incer-
taintyes or imperfeccons in these psente conteyned, or any act, statute,
ordinance, prision, pelamacon, or restraint to the contrary in any wise notwith-
standing.
In wittnesse, &c. Wittmesse our selfe att Westminster, the Twelfth of
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November
P priuatum sigill.