A NEW ART OR INVENTION OF CERTAINE ROLLERS TO BE VSED VNDER THE BODIES OF CARRIAGES, CARTS, AND WAGGONS INSTEAD OF WHEELES, WHICH WILL BE FARR MORE VSEFULL THEN WHEELES, BY AMENDING AND PRESERVEING ASWELL THE HIGH WAYES AS PRIVATE GROUNDS
Year: 1691

page_text: Iresents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS KENDRICK EDISBURY hath by his humble peticon represented
vnto vs that with great charges and much time spent he hath invented and
found out "A NEW ART OR INVENTION OF CERTAINE ROLLERS TO BE VSED VNDER
THE BODIES OF CARRIAGES, CARTS, AND WAGGONS INSTEAD OF WHEELES, WHICH
WILL BE FARR MORE VSEFULL THEN WHEELES, BY AMENDING AND PRESERVEING
ASWELL THE HIGH WAYES AS PRIVATE GROUNDS;" which said Invention was
never vsed in England before, and prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents
for the sole vse thereof for the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inven-
tions, and that the said Kendrick Edisbury may accordingly reape some fruit
and benefitt of bis labour and charge in and concerning the premises, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion have given and granted,
and by these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said Kendrick Edisbury,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge,
and authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their
deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others only as he, the said
Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree
with, shall and may, from time to time and at all times hereafter durcing the

page_text: space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at his and
tbeire owne proper costs and charges erect, usc, teach, exercise, and put in
practice the said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as afore-
said, in any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of
Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive,
take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, commodities, and advantages of and by
the said new Invention to be had, made, acquired, and gotten, to his and their
owne proper benefitt, vsc, and vses; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges and authorities, and all other the premisses by
these Presents granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Kendrick
Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these Presents next ensueing and fully to be compleat and ended, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided; and to the end the said Kendrick
Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Invention,
wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within
our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them dureing the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do vse, exercise,
or put in practice the said new Invention soe by the said Kendrick Edisbury
invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the said new Invention, or any materialls thereunto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substracčon therefrom, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hands and seales first had
and obteyned in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as can or may
be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein, for the contempt of this our
royall command, and further to be answerable to the said Kendrick Edisbury, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the
law for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and
authority that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of their
deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first obtained a warrant in that behalfe
from the Lord Cheif Justice of our Court of King's Bench for the time being,

page_text: with the assistance of a constable or other lawful officer (aswell within
liberties as without), at convenient times in the day dureing the terme afore-
said, and in lawful manner shall and may make search in any place or places
within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed where there shall be iust cause of suspition for discover-
ing and finding out of all such person or persons as shall imitate, make, or vse,
or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed, within our kingdome or dominion
aforesaid, the said new Invention soc by the said Kendrick Edisbury found
out and invented as aforesaid, that soe such offender may be proceeded against
and punished according to the vtmost rigor of the law. And further, wee doe
by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize,
require, and command all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being, whome it
may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time
durcing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices and according to
their and every of their best skills and endeavours, aiding, helping, and
assisting vnto the said Kendrick Edisbury, bis executors, administrators, and
assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in and about the
accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in
the execution of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as afore-
said. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will and command that our respective officers and ministers before-
menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter durcing the
terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Kendrick
Edisbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or ser-
vants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any part
thereof or anything relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters
Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time durcing the
said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs,
our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill,
that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the Invention before mentioned is not a new
Invention as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and
found out by the said Kendrick Edisbury as aforesaid, then, vpon significa con
and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniency to be made by vs, our heires
or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the Lords or
others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their
hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be

page_text: ytterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents or
anything herein conteyned shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, to imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been here-
tofore invented or found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever and
publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, to whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whome wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Inventions by
them respectively found out, according to the true meaning of such our Letters
Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Kendrick Edisbury, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment
hereof shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and
effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstand-
ing the not full and certain describeing or menconing of the said Invention, or of
the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vsing, or exerciseing
of the same, or of the certain vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect,
incertainty, or imperfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Seaventh day