MAKEING OF WETT HARBOURS AND DoCK TO HOLD ALL SORT OF SHIPPS, TO LYE TENNE, TWENTY, THIRTY, OR FORTY FOOT ABOVE HIGH-WATER MARKE
Year: 1682

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS wee have been informed by our right trusty and welbeloved
THOMAS LORD WINDSOR, and our trusty and welbeloved GEORG PITT and
CRESHIELD DRAPER, that they have for some tyme past expended greate sums
of money in tryeing to bring to passe the "MAKEING OF WETT HARBOURS AND
DoCK TO HOLD ALL SORT OF SHIPPS, TO LYE TENNE, TWENTY, THIRTY, OR FORTY
FOOT ABOVE HIGH-WATER MARKE;" and after severall experimente' they have
contrived by engines and other wayes, and with the helpe of three men
onely, to take the greatest shipp of burthen out of the river of Thames
into the said harbour, tenne, twenty, thirty, or forty foot above high-water
marke, and by the said meanes deliver any shipp into the river of Thames
againe, and canne alsoe deliver the greatest shipp from the stock into the
said harbour, and from the harbour vpon the stock againe; and that the
said dock or harbour shall better serve shipps from decay and from fire
and enemyes then nowe they are: and the said' Thomas Lord' Windsor.
George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, have therevpon humbly prayed vs to
grant them our Letters Patent for the sole excise of theire 'said new
Invenčon for the terme of foureteenc yeares, according to the statute in that
case made and prided.

page_text: NOWE KNOWE YEE, that wee, being desirous to encourage the inventers
of such arte as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and granted, and by
these sent for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto
the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power,
priviledge, and authority, that they, and their workemen and servante, and
noe other, shall or may, during the terme of foureteene yeares next ensueinge
the date hereof, vse, practise, excise, enioy, or putt in execučon the said
art or Invenĉon within our kingdome of England, or any other our dominions,
in such manner as to them shall seeme meet, and shall have and enioy the
sole benefitt and advantage ariseing thereby or by reason thereof, to have,
hold, and enioy the said licence, power, priviledg, and authority, and other
the misses hereby granted or intended to be granted to the said Thomas
Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Creshold Draper, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these sente, for and
dureing the terme of foureteene yeares from thence next ensueing, fully to be
compleate and ended according to the statute in that case made and pvided.
And to the end that they, the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt,
and Cresheld Draper, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse
and excise of the said Invencon, aswell within libertyes as without, wee doe
by these sent for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly charge
and comand all and every pson and psons, bodies politiq, and corporate, that
they, or any of them, doe not or shall not, during the terme of yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, vse or putt in practice or execucon the
said art or Invenčon, nor doe or shall counterfeite or resemble the same,
nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or substraccon from the
same whereby to tend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without
the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Lord Windsor,
George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, theire executors, administrators, or as-
signes, in writeing vnder their hande and seales first had and obteined in
that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on
such offenders for the contempt of this our comand, and further to be
answerable to the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld
Draper, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for their damages
susteined thereby. And further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires
and successors, give and grant vnto the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George
Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, their executors, administrators, and assignes,

page_text: full power and authority, that they and every of them, their and every of
their deputyes, servant, or agente, or any of them (baveing first obtained
a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of
King Bench for the time beinge) may with the assistance of a constable
or any other lawful officer, aswell within libertyes as without, vpon request,
at convenient tymes in the day, dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawfull
manner enter and make search in any place or places where there shalbe
iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of all such psons
as shall, within the said terme of fouretecne yeares, imitate or cause to be
imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art or Inventon aforesaid, that
soc such offenders may be peceded against and punished according to their
demeritte. And further, wee doe by these presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorise, and require, all and singular justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, that they and every
of them, respectively be from tyme to tyme, dureing the said terme hereby
granted in their respective places, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto
the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of their deputy or deputyes,
servant and agente, or any of them, in aboute the accomplishment of
our will and pleasure berein declared, and the excise and execučon of the
powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to to be
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 interrupt the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt,
and Cresheld Draper, or any of them, theire or any of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or their or any of their deputy or deputyes,
servant, or agent or any of them, in or about the vse or excise of the
said art or Invenčon in any matter or thing concerning the same: Provided
alwayes, that if at any time dureing the said terme of foureteen yeares
itt shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any sixe or more
of our or their Privy Councell, that this graunt is Piudiciall or inconvenient
to our cōmon wealth, or that the said art is not a new Invencon of the
said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, or some
or one of them, as to the vse and practice thereof, within this our kingdome,
then, vpon significacon and declaračon to be made by vs, our heires or suc-
cessors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the lorde and others
of our or their Privy Councill, or six or more of them for the time being,
in writeing vnder their hande, of such Piudice and inconvenience, these our

page_text: Letters Patent and all thinge therein conteined, shall, forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intente and purposes, any thing herein
before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these
our Letters Patent, or any thing herein conteined, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledg to the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George
Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, or any of them, their or any of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or
work found out or invented by any other pson or psons, and publickly excised
in our kingdome of England or dominion of Wales, vnto whome .wee have
already graunted our like Letters Patente or priviledge for the sole vse and
benefitt thereof. Itt being our will and pleasure that the said Thomas
Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and all other pson and psons to whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patent or priviledge shall distinctly
vse and practise their severall Invenĉons by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meaneing of the said severall and
respective Letters Patente, and of these psente. And lastly, wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Lord
Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld Draper, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe
in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according
to the true intent and meaneing of these psente, and shalbe taken, construed,
and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and
advantage of the said Thomas Lord Windsor, George Pitt, and Cresheld
Draper, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courte
of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine <describeing
of the said art or Invencon, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, and
notwithstanding any other defecte or incertaintyes in these psente conteined,
or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, or restraint to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att Westñi, the. One and twentyeth