A CERTAINE WAY OF GRAVEING, GARNISHING, & COLOURING OF SHIPPS, BARGES, WHERRYES, AND OTHER VESSELLS
Year: 1667

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome
these sente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have byn informed by the humble peticon of our wel-
beloved subiecte SIR PHILLIP HOWARD, Knight, and FRANCIS WATSON, Esq',
that wee & divers of our subiecte concned in shipping are att great charges
in the sheathing shipps for the Streight & other forreigue parte to defend
their sides from the worme and the vsuall way of graveing vessells with
brimstone, rozin, &c. begette a roughnesse obstructive to sayling, and that
they by their great industry & care have found "A CERTAINE WAY OF GRAVEING,
GARNISHING, & COLOURING OF SHIPPS, BARGES, WHERRYES, AND OTHER VESSELLS,"
being their owne Invenčon & never before vsed in this our kingdome,
W-ch way of graveing will vent the eating of the worme & thereby save
the sheathing, being much more cheape & durable, & that the said way
of graveing will make the sydes of the shipps or vessells, that they will.
bee more buayant and sayle much faster. And whereas the said Sir Phillip
Howard & Francis Watson have humbly besought vs, for theire better
encouragement, to exercize & putt in practice the said Invenčon, that weo
would be graciously pleased to graunt them our Letters Patente of Priviledge
for the sole vse & benefitt thereof throughout our said Realme of England &
Dominion of Wales, for the terme & tyme of fourteene yeares, according to
the statute in that ease made & provided.

page_text: NOW KNOWE YEE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull & fitting
encouragement to the Inventors of such arte as may bee of publique vse
& benefitt of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, & meere mocon, and
vpon the humble peticon of the said Sir Phillip Howard and Francis
Watson have given & graunted & by theis psente for vs, our heires &
successors, doe give & graunt vnto the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis
Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes, especial lycence, full
power, priviledge & authority, that hee, they, & every of them, by themselves
or their deputy & deputys, servante & workemen, att all tymes & from tyme
to tyme hereafter during the terme of yeares hereafter in these psente
expressed shall & lawfully may have, vsc, exercize, ymploy, & enioye the
said new Invenĉon of graving, garnishing, & colouring of shipps & other
vessells as aforesaid in such manner as to them, either or any of them, in
their discretions shall seeme meete, & shall & may have & enioy the sole
benefitt & advantage comeing or ariseing by reason thereof during the
terme of yeares hereby graunted, and to the end the said Sir Phillip
Howard & Sir Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes, &
every of them, may the better enioy the full & whole benefitt & sole vse &
exercize of their said Invencon, wee doe by theise psente for vs, our heires
& successors, require & streightly comand all & every pson & psons, bodyes
politique & corporate of whatsoci? quality, degree, name, or condicon soever
they bee, that neither they nor any of them during the terme of yeares
thereby graunted, either directly or indirectly doe vse or putt in practice
the said Inventon of graveing, garnishing, & colouring shipps & other vessells
as aforesd, soe by the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson vsed as
aforesaid, nor shall counterfeite, ymitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make
any addičon to or subtracčon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves
the inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreem
of the said Sir Phillipp Howard & Francis Wattson, or their executors,
administrators, or assigns, in writeing vnder their or some of their hande &
scales, first had & obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paynes & penaltyes as
can or may bee inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
comand in that behalfe. And further, to bee answeareable to the said Sir
Phillip Howard & Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes,
according to lawe & justice, for his & their damages thereby susteyned; to
have & to hold all the said lycences, powers, priuiledges, & authorityes hereby
graunted as aforesaid vnto them, the said Sir Philip Howard & Francis
Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes, for & during the terme of
fowerteene yeares from the makeing of these psente next ensucing, & fully

page_text: to bee compleate & ended according to the statute in such case made &
pvided. And further, wee doe by theise psente for vs, our heires & suc-
cessors, give & graunt vnto the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson,
their executors, administrators, & assignes, full power & authority that they
& their deputyes, servante, and agente, having first obteyned a warrant in this
behalfe from the lord cheife justice of the court of Kinge Bench for the tyme
being may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer att
convenient tymes of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawfull manner
enter into and make search in any place where there shall bee just cause
of suspicion for discovering and finding out of all such psons as shall imitate,
or cause to be ymitated, or shall vse or putt in practice the said Invencon soc
by the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson invented and attayned vnto,
as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be peeeded against & punished
according to their demerritte, & their workes & materialls then & there found
to bee seized vpon & left in the hande & custody of some constable or officer
to bee disposed of according to lawe. And further, wee doe by theise psente,
for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorize, & require all & singular
justices of the peace, maiors, sherriffes, bayliffe, constables, head borrowes, &
all other officers & ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires & successors for the
tyme being, that they & every of them respectively be from tyme to tyme,
during the said terme hereby graunted in their respective places favouring,
ayding, helping, & assisting vnto the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis
Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes, & to their deputyes,
servante, & agente, in & by all thing in & about the accomplishm* of our
will & pleasure herein declared, & in the exercize & execucon of the powers
& priviledges herein and hereby graunted, or menčoned to bee graunted as
aforesaid. And moreover wee will & comaund by theise psente, for vs, our
heires & successors, that our said officers & ministers, or any of them, doe not
molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson,
their executors, administrators, & assignes, or their deputyes, servants, or
agent, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercize of the said Invencon,
or in any matter or thing conning the same: Provided allwayes that if att
any tyme during the said terme of fowertecne yeares itt shall bee made
appeare vnto us, our heires or successors, that this our graunt is contrary to
law or Piudiciall or inconvenient, & not of publiq, vse or benefitt, or that the
said graveing, garnishing, or colouring shipps or other vessells as aforesaid, is
not a new Invenčon of the said Phillip Howard & Francis Watson, or
one of them, within this our realme of England, or any the dominions
or territoryes thereof, then vpon significacon & declaracon thereof to bec

page_text: made by vs, our heires or successors, theis our Letters Patente shall forthwith
cease, determync, & bee as voyd in lawe to all intente & purposes anything
herein-before menconed to the contrary notwithstands; provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patente, or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or
bec construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Sir Phillip Howard
& Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vsc or imitate any Invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other
pson or psons & publiquely exercized within our said realme of England or
any the dominions or territoryes thereto belonging, for graveing shipps &
other vessells or such like worke as aforesaid, vnto whomie wee have allready
graunted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercize, &
benefitt thereof, itt being our will & pleasure that the said Sir Phillip Howard
& Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, & assignes, & all &
singular other pson & psons to whome wee have allready graunted our like
Letters Patent or Priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse & practice
their severall Invenčons by them invented & found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the said severall & respective Letters Patente & of
theise sente. And lastly, wee doe by these psente for vs, our heires &
successors, graunt vnto the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson, their
executors, administrators, & assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the
inrollment thereof, shall bee in & by all thing good, valid, sufficient &
effectual in the lawe, according to the true intent & meaning thereof, &
shalbee taken, construed, & adiudged most favourable & beneficiall for the
best benefitt & advantage of the said Sir Phillip Howard & Francis Watson,
their executors, administrators, & assignes, as well in all our Court of
Record, as elce where, notwithstanding the not full & certaine describing the
manner & quality of the said Invenčon for graveing shipps & other vessells,
or of the materialls, way, or manner thereof, or of the vse & benefitt thereof,
and notwithstanding any other defecte, incerteintyes, or impfeccons in theis
Psente conteyned, or any act, statut, ordinance, pvision, pclamacon, or
restraynt to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In wittnes whereof, wee have caused these our Letters to bec made
Patente. Wittnes our selfe att Westin, the eighth day of October.