NEW ENGINES OR CARRYAGES OF CERTAINE SHAPES AND MEASURES TO BE DRAWNE OR DRIVEN BY MAN OR BEAST VPON ONE OR MORE WHEELES, WHEREIN THE LADING IS CARRYED ABOUT WITH EVERY REVOLUTION OF THE WHEELE, WHICH FOR EASE OF THE BURTHEN OF DRAFT AND LABOUR EXCEEDS ALL OTHERS THAT WERE EVER YETT INVENTED OR VSED, BEING OF GREAT BENEFITT AND SERVICE TO THE PUBLIQUE
Year: 1691

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WHEREAS wee are informed that our trusty and welbeloved JoHN GREENE,
Gentleman, hath, with great industry and expences, invented "NEW ENGINES
OR CARRYAGES OF CERTAINE SHAPES AND MEASURES TO BE DRAWNE OR DRIVEN BY
MAN OR BEAST VPON ONE OR MORE WHEELES, WHEREIN THE LADING IS CARRYED
ABOUT WITH EVERY REVOLUTION OF THE WHEELE, WHICH FOR EASE OF THE
BURTHEN OF DRAFT AND LABOUR EXCEEDS ALL OTHERS THAT WERE EVER YETT
INVENTED OR VSED, BEING OF GREAT BENEFITT AND SERVICE TO THE PUBLIQUE."
And the said John Greene hath humbly prayed us to grant him our Letters
Patents for ye sole use thereof.
KNOW YEE, therefore, that wec, being graciously pleased to condescend
to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventors of such arts as
may be of publique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
leilge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these psents, for us,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John Greene, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge & authorrty, that he, the said John Greene, his executors, adminis-
trators, and and every of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputyes,
servants, or agents, or such others as the said John Greene, his executors,
administrators, and assignes shall and may agree with, and noe others, from
tyme to tyme and att all tymes during the terme of yeares herein expressed,

page_text: shall and lawfully may make, vend, use, exercise, and enjoy the said Invention
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and all and every or any of our kingdomes or dominions whatsoever,
in such mañer and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitta-
tions as to him, the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them shall in their discretions seeme meet. And that
he, the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and
may have and enjoy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, advantage from tyme
to tyme coming, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the full terme of yeares herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges and advantages herein-before
granted or menčoned to be granted unto the said John Greene, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and unto the full end and terme
of fourteen yeares from the date of these sents next and immediately 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 Greene, his executors.
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enjoy the full benefitt
and the sole making, vending, vse, and exercise of the said Invention accord-
ing to our gracious intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these sents,
for us, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every
person and persons, bodyes politique and corporate, and all other our subjects
whatsoever, of what estate, quality. or degree, name or condicon soever
they be, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither
they nor any of them at any tyme during the contynuance of the said terme
of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doc make, use,
or putt in practice the said Invention or any part of the same soe attained unto
by the said John Greene as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or
resemble ye same, nor shall make or cause to made any addičon thereunto or
substraction from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventors or
devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John
Greene, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing, under his, their,
or some of their hands & seales, first bad and obtained in that behalfe, upon
such paines and penaltyes as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be answerable to
the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doc, of our
further especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, for us. our heires
and successors, grant unto the said John Greene, his exccuters, administrators,.

page_text: and assignes, by these psents, that he, they, and every of them, & his, their
& every of their deputyes, servants, and agents (having first obtained a lawfull
warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench att
Westminster for the tyme being, and with the assistance of a constable or any
other lawfull officer) att convenient tymes in the day during the terme hereby
granted, and in lawfull maner, may enter into and make search in any place
or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or dominions, where there
shalbe just cause of suspicion) for the discovery and finding out of all and every
person and sons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated or shall vse or put
in practice the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeit any instruments or
materialls to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be
proceeded against and punished according to law. And further, wee dce by
these sents, for us, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and comand all
and singular justices of the pence, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatscever of us, our heires and
successors for the tyme being, aswell within our kingdome of England',
dominion of Wales, as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominiors
that they and every of them respectively be from tyme to tyme during the
terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, favouring, ayding, helping,
and assisting unto the said John Greene, his exccutors, administrators, and
assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputyes, servants and agents, in
and by all things in and about the accomplishm' of our royali will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execution of the powers and.
priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these
Psents, for us, our heires and successors, will and comand that our respective
officers and ministers before mentioned or any of them, doe nor shall
att any tyme hereafter during the said terme hereby granted in any
wise, molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Greene, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputy or servants or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull making use or exercise of the
aforesaid Invention or any thing relateing thereunto. Provided alwayes, &
these our Letters Patents are and shalbe upon this condition, that att any
tyme during the terme hereby granted it shalbe made appeare to us,
our Leires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill,
that this our grant is contrary to law or prejudiciall or inconvenient to our
subjects in generall, or that the said Invencon is not a new invenĉon as to the
publick vse & exercise thereof, and not invented and found out by the said
John Greene as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaracon thereof, to
be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy

page_text: seale, or by the lords & others of our their Privy Councill, or any six or
more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be utterly void to all intents & purposes, any thing
before herein conteyned to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: provided
alsoc, that these our Letters, or anything therein conteyned, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Greene, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invention or worke whatsoever, which hath been heretofore found out or
invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly used or
exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome
like Letters Patents of Priviledge have been already granted for the sole use,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that he, the said
John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler
other person and persons, to whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have
beene already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice there
severall inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Psents. And lastly, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires & successors,
grant unto the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be in and
by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according
to the true intent and meaning thereof, & shall be taken, construed, and
adjudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage
of the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well
in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of us, our heires and successors, in all and singular our
realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subjects of
us, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certaine describeing ye nature or quality of the said Invention
or of the materialls thereunto conduceing and belonging, or any other defects
or incertainetyes in these psents conteyned.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves att Westminster, the Twelfth day