AN ART OR INVENTION WHEREWITH HE CAN TEACH AND INSTRUCT PERSONS TO WALKE AND REMAINE VNDER WATER FOR THE SPACE OF ONE, TWO, OR THREE HOURES, WITHOUT ANY COVERING OVER THEIR HEAD OR BODY, THE WATER COMEING BOTH BOUND AND NEXT THEIR NAKED SKINN, AND SOE WITH THEIR PERFECT SENCES TO WORKE OR DO ANY SERVICE IN RECOVERING AND TAKEING VP AUY GOODS OR MERCHANDIZES LOST VNDER WATER WITH GREATER EASE AND VIGOR THEN HATH EVER HERETOFORE BEEN FOUND OUT OR PRACTISED BY ANY OTHER
Year: 1687

page_text: Psents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect HENRY AYSCOGH, Gent,
hath by his humble peticon informed vs, that with great study, charge, and
paines, he hath found out "AN ART OR INVENTION WHEREWITH HE CAN TEACH
AND INSTRUCT PERSONS TO WALKE AND REMAINE VNDER WATER FOR THE SPACE
OF ONE, TWO, OR THREE HOURES, WITHOUT ANY COVERING OVER THEIR HEAD OR
BODY, THE WATER COMEING BOTH BOUND AND NEXT THEIR NAKED SKINN, AND
SOE WITH THEIR PERFECT SENCES TO WORKE OR DO ANY SERVICE IN RECOVERING
AND TAKEING VP AUY GOODS OR MERCHANDIZES LOST VNDER WATER WITH
GREATER EASE AND VIGOR THEN HATH EVER HERETOFORE BEEN FOUND OUT OR
PRACTISED BY ANY OTHER," and hath humbly besought vs to grant him the
sole vse and benefitt of the said Invencon for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that behalfe provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said Henry
Ayscogh may reap some reasonable recompence and compensation for his
great paines and expences in and about the pmisses, and being desirous to
incourage the inventers of such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of
our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, have given and
granted, and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and
grant vnto the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he,
the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as the said Henry Ayscogh, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe others, from time to time
and at all times durcing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and law-

page_text: fully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invention within any part or parts,
place or places, waters or seas whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our king-
dome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our
kingdoms and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons as to him, the said Henry
Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seeme meet, and that he, the said Henry Ayscoghe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole
benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
and ariseing by reason of the said Invenĉon, for and durcing the full terme
of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted, or men-
Coned to be granted, vnto the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, adminis-
trators, 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 and imme-
diately ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the statute
in this case made and provided. And to the end that the said Henry
Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention,
according to our gratious intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all
and every pson and persons, bodies pollitique and corporate, and all other
our subiccts whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or con-
dičon soever they be, within all and every our kingdoms and dominions,
that neither they, nor any of them, at any time dureing the conti-
nuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly doc, vse or putt in practise the said Invention, or any part
of the same soe attained vnto by the said Henry Ayscoghe, nor shall
in anywise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make, or cause
to be made, any addition thereto, or substraccon from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, in writeing, vnder his, their, or some of their hands
and seales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties
as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for theire contempt of this
our royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said Henry Ayscoghe,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and theire
damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe further, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators and assignes, by

page_text: these p'sents, that they, and every of them, and mis, their, and every of their
deputies, servants, and agents, haveing first obteined a lawfull warrant from
the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench, at Westminster, for the
time being, and (with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer,
at convenient times dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner),
may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within or
belonging to any of our kingdoms or dominions (where there shall be iust
cause or suspition) for the discovery and findeing out of all and every person
and persons as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vsc, or put in
practise the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeite any instruments or
materials to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be
proceeded against and punished according to law. And further, wee doe by
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and comand all and
singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, for the time being, aswell within our kingdom of England and
dominion of Wales, as within all and every other our kingdoms and dominions,
that they and every of them respectively be from time to time, dureing the
terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, favouring, aiding, helping,
and assisting vnto the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputies, servants, and agents, in and
by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the excrcise and execution of the powers and
privilidges hereby granted, as aforesaid. And moreover, wee do by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our said
respective officers and ministers before menčoned, or any of them, doc not nor
shall at any time hereafter, durcing the said terme hereby granted, in anywise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in
or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any
thing relateing thereto. Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condiñon, that if at any time durcing the said
terme hereby granted, it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our
present grant is contrary to law, or Piudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects
in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to
the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdom, and not
invented and found out by the said Henry Ayscoghe, as aforesaid, then
vpon signification and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signet or privy scale, or by the lords and others

page_text: of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their hands,
these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determin, and be vtterly
void to all intents and purposes, any thing before herein conteined to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge to the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said
realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Henry Ayscoghe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other pson and
persons to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of
Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their 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 vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Henry Ayscogh, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment 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, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the
best advantage of the said Henry Ayscoghe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all
and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and
every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certeine describeing the nature or
quality of the said Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and
belonging, or any other defects or incerteinties in these psents conteined, or any
act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restriccon, or other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att Westñi, the Twenty-eighth day
of August.