THE ART AND SKILL OF MAKING ALL SORT OF WHITE PAPER, FOR THE VSE OF WRITING AND PRINTING, BEING A NEW MANUFACTURE AND NEVER PRACTISED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES OR DOMINIONS
Year: 1675

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presente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have bine informed by the humble peticon of our trusty
and welbeloved EUSTACE BURNEBY, Esquier, that he, by his travailes abroade,
and greate charge and industry, hath attayned to "THE ART AND SKILL OF
MAKING ALL SORT OF WHITE PAPER, FOR THE VSE OF WRITING AND PRINTING,
BEING A NEW MANUFACTURE AND NEVER PRACTISED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES OR
DOMINIONS;" and wee, being willing to give all incouragement to the inventors
of such arte as may be of publique vse and benefitt, and particularly to the
said Eustace Burneby:
KNOWE YE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certeine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by theis presente,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said Eustace
Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and
sole power, priviledge, and authority, that he and they, by him and themselves,
and by his and their deputies, servante, and workemen, and no others, shall
and may, during the terme of fourteene yeares next ensuing the date of theis
presente, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said art or Invenčon within
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, and in any other of our kingdomes and dominions, in such manner as to
him or them shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefit and
advantage arriseing thereby, or by reason thereof, to have, hold, and enioy

page_text: the said licences, powers, privileges, authorities, and other the premises hereby
granted or intended to be granted to the said Eustace Burneby, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of theis presente, for
and during the terme of foureteene yeares from thence next ensuing, and fully
to be compleate and ended, according to the statute in that case made and
provided. And to the end the said Eustace Burneby, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and
wholle benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon, aswell
within the liberties as without, wee doe by theis presente, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and streightly charge and comand all and every person
and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or
addičon they be, that they nor any of them during the terme of yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in practice the
said art or Invenĉon so by the said Eustace Burneby invented or contrived
as aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor
doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same,
whereby to pretend' themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without
the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Eustace Burneby, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande
and seales, first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offendors for the contempt of this
our comand in that behalfe; and, further, to be answerable to the said Eustace
Burneby, his executors, administrators, or assignes, according to lawe and
justice for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And, further, wee doc by
theis presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Eustace Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and
authority that he, they, and every of them, his and theire and every of theire
deputies, servant, or agente, or any of them (having first obteyned a warrant
in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King Bench
for the tyme being), may, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, aswell within the liberties as without, vpon request, at con-
venient times in the day during the tyine aforesaid and in lawful manner,
enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there
shalbe iust cause of suspition for discovery and finding out of all such persons
as shall, within the terme of foureteene yeares, imitate or cause to be imitated,
or shall vse or put in practice the said art or Invenčon so by the said Eustace
Burneby invented and contrived as aforesaid, that so such offenders may be
proceeded against and punished according to their demerite. And, further,
wee doe by theis presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize,

page_text: and require all and singuler justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and
successors for the tyme being, that they and every of them respectively be
from tyme to tyme during the said terme hereby granted, in their respective
places, favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Eustace
Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their
deputy and deputies, servante, and agente, in and by all thinge in and about
the accomplishment of our will and pleasure berein declared, and the exercise
and execuĉon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted, or
menconed to be granted; as aforesaid; and, moreover, wee will and comand
by theis presente, for vs, our heires, and successors, that our said oflicers, or
any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interupt the said Eustace Burneby,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or their deputy, deputies,
servant, or agente, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said
art or Invenčon in any matter or thing concerning the same: Provided
allwayes, that if at tyme during the said terme of foureteene yeares, it shallbe
made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our Privy
Councell, that this our grant shalbe preiudiciall or inconvenient to our cōmon-
weale, or that the same is not any new art, mistery, or invenčon, as not
practized in our said kingdomes till introduced by the said Eustace Burneby,
then vpon significačon and declaracon to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the lorde and
others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them for the tyme being, in
writing vnder theire hande, of such Piudice and inconvenience, theis our Letters
Patente, and all thing therein conteyned, shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly voyd to all intent and purposes, any thing herein-before con-
teyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that theis our Letters
Patent, or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Eustace Burneby, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke
found out or invented by any other person or persons, and before the vse and
practice of this the said Eustace Burnebie's Invencon, publiquely exercised
in this our said realmes, or any the dominions or territories therevnto
belonging, vnto whome wee have allready granted our like Letters Patente
of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, itt being our will
and pleasure that the said Eustace Burneby, bis executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to whome wee have
allready granted our like Letters Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practice their severall invenĉons by them invented and

page_text: found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the said severall and
respective Letters Patente, and of theis presente. And, lastly, wee doe
by theis presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Eustace
Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis our Letters
Patente, and the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all thing good, valid.
sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true and intent and
meaning of theis presente, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourably and beneficially for the best benefit and advantage of the said
Eustace Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all
our court of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certeine
describing of the said art or Invencon, or of the certeine vse and benefit
thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incerteinties, or imperfeccons
in theis present conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, procla-
macon, or restraint to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding,
In witness, &c. Witnes the King at Westin, the One and twentieth day
P bre de priuato sigillo, &c.