Making Pig or Sow Iron in an Air Furnace with Pit Coal Way and Manner of Performing the Operation different from what has been Praced
Year: 1728

page_text: GEORGE THE DECORE
Presents shall come greeting.
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WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved WILLIAM WOOD, Esquire, has bý
his petition humbly represented vs, that his son, Francis Wood, having
obtained a Patent from our late Royal Father for "Making Pig or Sow Iron in
an Air Furnace with Pit Coal," he assigned the same to the petitioner, who
hath made great improvement by the Invencon of "A New Way and Manner
of Performing the Operation different from what has been heretofore ever
Practised," whereby he will be able to supply the nation with all the iron
there shall be occasion for, and prevent the buying of iron from foreign parte,
which amount to about twenty thousand tunns yearly, and is most paid for
in ready money, to our great disadvantage and loss; that the iron made from
the stone or ore by this new way of performing the operačons in an air furnace
being different from and much better and finer than sow or pig iron, cannot
come vader that denominacon, but should be called raw iron, or iron metal
preppared. And the petičoner having humbly prayd vs to grant vnto him;
his executors, administrators, and assignes, our Royal Letters Patent for
making raw iron, or iron metal prepared in an air furnace with pit coal; for
the term of fourteen yeares, wee being willing to give give encouragement to
all arts and invenčons that may conduce to the publick vtility, are gratiously
pleased to condescend to his request to his 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,

page_text: our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said William Wood, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge, and authority, that he, the said William Wood, his executors, admi
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or by
his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said William Wood, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, shall and lawfully may vse and exercise his
said Invencon to make raw iron, or iron metal Ppared in an air furnace with
pit coal, immediately from iron stone, iron mine, or iron ore, within that part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William
Wood, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them shall in their
discrečons seem meet; and that he, the said William Wood, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole
profit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time comeing, growing, accrew-
ing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the term of
years herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to
be granted to the said William Wood, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares
from the date of these Presents next immediately ensuing and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided.
And to the end that the said William Wood, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the
sole vse and exercise of the said Invention according to our gratious intencon
herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies
politick and corporate, and all other our subiectf whatsoover, of what estate,
quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them, at any
time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirecly do make, vse, or put in practice the said
Invencon, or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said William Wood
as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor
shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereunto or substraction from
the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said William Wood, his executors, administrators, and assignes, in writing vnder

page_text: his or their hande and seals first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such
pains and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their
contempt of this our Royal command, and further to be answerable to the said
William Wood, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law
for his and their damages thereby occasioned: And moreover, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular
the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffes, 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 here-
after during the said term hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said William Wood, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, or his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or anything relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condition, 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 preju-
diciall or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the said Invenĉon is
not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part
of our Kingdome of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the
said William Wood as aforesaid, then vpon significačon or declaracon
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or 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 Patente shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intent and purposes, any-
thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing: Provided, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein con-
tained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
William Wood, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any Inventon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been.
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of Kingdom of Great Britain called.
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed afore-
said, 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 William Wood, his executors, administrators, and
assigues, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges. have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly

page_text: vse and practise their severall Invenčons by them invented and found out
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents, and of these Presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these
our Letters Patents are vpon this express condičon, that if the said William
Wood, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall
or may at any time or times hereafter 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 Invencon
hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended
transferr or assignment of the said libertie 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 excceding the number of five, in order to the
raising any sumie or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or
their agents or servante, 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 benefit 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 comitt or do or procure to be committed or done any act, matter,
or thing whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have
any right or title either in law or equity in or to the said pmisses, which would
be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament
made in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Father King George
the First, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain powers and privi-
ledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by two Charters for Assurance
of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry,
and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein
menconed), if these our Letters Patent 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 repre-
sentatives, at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for
the single person whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall
be intituled 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, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise

page_text: notwithstanding. And lastly wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said William Wood, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patent or the inrollment or
exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, 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 bene-
ficial sense for the best advantage of the said William Wood, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courte of Record as elsewhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires
and successors, in that part of our said Kingdome of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, and amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors,
whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain
describing the nature or quality of the said Invention or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster the Eighteenth d