A NEW METHOD OF PROIECTING SEA CHARTS FOR THE VSE AND IMPROVEMENT OF NAVIGATION
Year: 1721

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these I'resents shan
*come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN HARRIS, JOHN SENEX, and
HENRY WILSON, have by their peticon humbly represented vuto vs that after
much labour, time, and expence. they have invented "A NEW METHOD OF
PROIECTING SEA CHARTS FOR THE VSE AND IMPROVEMENT OF NAVIGATION," which
being agreeable to the globe as truly representing the globular surface of the
sea, they humbly apprehend may be properly called a globular chart, and that
thereby all navigators may perform their voiages with much more facility.
certainty; and security, than hitherto has been done by any methode of the
plane or Mercator's chart, they having submitted specimens thereof to the
examinačon of severall able mathematicians, navigators, and astronomers, and
particularly to our trusty and welbeloved Sir George Byng, Sir John Jennings,
Sir Charles Wager, Sir Edmund Halley, Regis Professor of Astronomy, and
Captain John Merrey, of the Trinity House, who approved of the same, and the
said Doctor Halley and Captain John Merrey had vouchsafed for the promoteing
so publick a benefit to certify the excellency of this chart, and to recommend it
to all navigators for its vse at sea in great circle sailing and other improve-
mente; the which certificates or testimonials are ready to be produced: And
having humbly prayed vs to grant them our Royal Letters Patente for
securing their property in the said Invenčon and enabling them the better to
carry on and promote the great vsefullness thereof, in such ample and bene-
ficial manner as to vs should seem meet: And wee being willing to give

page_text: encouragement to all arts and Invenĉons which may be for the publick vse
and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratifye them in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents for vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said John Harris, John
Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said
John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or by their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said John Harris, John Senex,
and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, print, and
vend, globular charts or sea charts, made or to be made after the new method
above menčoned, throughout that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and our
Plantačons in America, in such manner as to them, the said John Harris, John
Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discrecons seem meet: And that they, the said
John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the term of yeares
herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during the full end and term of fourteen
yeares from the day of the date of these Presents next and immediately
ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided: And to the end that they, the said John Harris, John
Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators, and assignės, and
every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the sole vse and exer-
cise of the said Inventon according to our gracious intenčon herein-before
declared, wee do by these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and cor-
porate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree,
name, or condiëon soever they be, within that part of our said Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, and Plantačons in America, that neither they or any of them at

page_text: any time, during the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly do make or put in practice the said
Invenčon so attained vnto by the' said John Harris John Senex, and Henry
Wilson as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to Ptend himselfe the inventor or inventors, devisor
or devisors thereof, without the lycence; consent, or agreement of the said
John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, vnder their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vpon such pains and penalties as can cr may be iustly inflicted on such
offenders for their contempt of this our royal comand, and further to be
answerable to the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for their or any of
their damages thereby occasioned: And moreover, wee do by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular our justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors for the time
being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter during
the said term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, their, or any of their deputies, servante; or agents,
in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenĉon, or
any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patente
are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said term
hereby granted it shall be made appear to vs; our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to
law, or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our said Dominion of Wales; Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and Planta-
Cons, in America, or not: invented and found out by the said John Harris,
John; Senex, and Henry. Wilson as, aforesaid; then vpon significačon and
declaračon thereof; to be made by vs, our heires and successors, vnder our
or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their
Privy Council; or any six or more of them vnder their hande, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith; cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, any thing. herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding:. Provided also, that these our Letters
Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be constred to

page_text: extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry.
Wilson, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found
out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our said Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
Plantacons in America, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof. It being
our will and pleasure that the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry
Wilson, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other
person and persons to whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been
already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Invončons by them invented and found out according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patent and of these Presents. Pro-
vided likewise nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express
condition, that if the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, the
executors or administrators of them or any of them, or any person or persons
which shall or may at any time or times bereafter, during the continuance of
this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or
to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said
Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pre-
tended transferr or assignment, of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share
or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to
or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or
cause to be opened any book or books for publick subscriptions to be made
by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the
raising any sume or sumes of money vuder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his
or their agents or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever,
of any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such
or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or
shall divide the benefitt of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and privi-
ledges hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number
of five, or shall commit or do, or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter,
or thing whatsoever, during such time as such person shall have any right or
title either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, which will be contrary
to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the
sixth year of our reign, intituled An Act for the better securing certain
Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by Iis Maiestic by Two

page_text: Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vn-
warrantable practices therein menčoned, if these our Letters Patents had
not been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at
any time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of
five persons, or their representatives, at any one time (reckoning exécutors or
administrators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such
interest as they are or shall be entituled to in right of such their testator or
intestate), that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents,
and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall
vtterly cease, determin, and become void, anything herein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Harris, John Senex, and Henry Wilson, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment, or exemplificacon
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual
in the law according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense
for the best advantage of the said John Harris, John Senex, and Henry
Wilson, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our Courts of
Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our said Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, Town of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, and Plantačons in America, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Inventon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
STAY TOG Savonen an
of July.
VINIPANT
Savann
By Writt of Privy Scal.