A NEW ART OR INVENTION OF MAKEING, MARBLEING, VEINEING, AND FINISHING OF MANTLEPEICES FOR CHIMNEYS, SOE AS IMITATE NATURALL MARBLE, BY SUCH WAYES AND MEANES AS NEVER WERE BEFORE VSED IN THESE OUR DOMINIONS
Year: 1686

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect JOHN CHATER, Citizen and
Joyner, of London, hath by his humble peticon informed vs, that by great study,
industry, and charge, he hath found out and invented "A NEW ART OR INVENTION
OF MAKEING, MARBLEING, VEINEING, AND FINISHING OF MANTLEPEICES FOR CHIMNEYS,
SOE AS IMITATE NATURALL MARBLE, BY SUCH WAYES AND MEANES AS NEVER WERE
BEFORE VSED IN THESE OUR DOMINIONS;" and the said John Chater humbly
praying vs to grant vnto him, for his encouragement, our Letters Patents for
the sole vse of the said Invencon for the terme of fourteen yeares according to
the statute in that case provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encourage
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profittable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
that the said John Chater may accordingly reape some fruit and benefitt of
his labour and charge in and concerning the Pmisses, of our especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psents doc give and grant vnto the said John Chater, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge and authority,
that hee and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputies,
servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as he, the said John
Chater, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall agree with; shall and

page_text: may, from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing the space of fourteen
yeares next ensueing the date of these psents, at his and their own prop costs
and charges, erect, vsc, teach, exercise, and put in practice the said new
Iuvenčon by him contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any place or places
whatsoever, within our kingdomes of England and Ireland, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive,
take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages, of and by
the said new Invencon to be had, made, acquired, or gotten, to his and their
own prop benefitt, vse, and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the
said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the misses by
these presents granted or menconed to be granted, and every of them, vnto the
said John Chater, his executors, administrators, and. assignes, in all and every
the places aforesaid, for and dureing and to the full end and terme of fourteen
yeares from the day of the date of these presents next ensueing, and fully to be
compleate and ended according to the statute in that case made and provided;
and to the end the said John Chater, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
may the better cnioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of
his said new Invencon, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge, require, and comand all and every pson and persons, bodies
politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or conditon soever
they be, within our said kingdomes of England and Ireland, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwicke-upon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of
them durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practise the said new
Invenčon soe by the said John Chater invented and found out as afore-
said, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new
Invenĉon, nor doe nor shall make any addicon thereunto or substraccon
therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Chater, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing, vnder his or their hands
and scales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offender or offenders for the con-
tempt of this our royall comand; and further, to be answerable to the said
John Chater, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the
vtmost rigour of the law, for his and their damages thereby sustained; and
further wee doe, by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and
grant vnto the said John Chater, his executors and assignes, full power
and authority that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of their
deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first obtained a warrant in that behalfe

page_text: from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench for the time
being, with the assistance of a constable or other lawfull officer (aswell within
liberties as without), at convenient times in the day dureing the terme afore-
said, and in lawful manner, shall and may make search in any place or places
within our said kingdomes of England and Ireland, dominion of Wales, and
towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, where there shall be iust cause of suspition for
discovering and findeing out of all such pson or psons as shall imitate, make,
or vse, or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed within our kingdoms or
dominion aforesaid, the said new Invention soc by him, the said John Chater,
found out and invented as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be proceeded
against and punished according to his and their demeritts, and bis and their
ptended inventions and workes then and there found may be seized vpon,
broken in peices, and defaced, and the materialls thereof left in the hands or
custody of some constable or other officer, to be disposed in such manner as
wee, our heires or successors, shall from time to time direct and appoint; and
further wee doe, by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorize, require, and comand, all and singular iustices of the peace,.
maiors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time
being whome it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from
time to time durcing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, and.
according to their and every of their best skills and endeavours, favouring,
aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Chater, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in
and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure, herein-before
declared, and in the execucon of the several powers and priviledges hereby
granted as aforesaid; and moreover wee doe, by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and
ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time here:
after dureing the terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or binder
the said John Chater, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies,
agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention,
or any part thereof, or anything relateing thereto. Provided always, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time
durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, it shall be made
appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient
to our subiccts in generall, or that the Invention before menconed is not a new
Invention as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented

page_text: and found out by the said John Chater as aforesaid, then vpon significacon
and declaracon of such Piudice or inconveniency to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lords
and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder
their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and
be vtterly void to all intents and purposses, anything herein-before conteined to
the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or anything therein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said John Chater, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, to imitate any Invention or worke whatsoever, which hath been
heretofore invented or found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever and
publickly exercised within our kingdomes or dominion aforesaid, or any of
them to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or privi
ledge, for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure
that the said John Chater, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
all and singular other person and psons to whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall
invenčons by them respectively found out according to the true meaning of
such our Letters Patents and of these psents. And lastly, wee doe hereby,
for vse, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Chater, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the
inrollment thereof shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid, firme,
and effectuall in law, according to the true meaneing of the same, notwith-
standing the not fully and certainly describeing or menčoning of the said
Invenĉon, or of the materialls, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exer-
ciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other
defect, incertainty, or impfeccon in these psents, or any act, statute, provision,
proclamačon, or restricčon heretofore had, made, or provided, or to be
hereafter had, made, or provided, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatso-
ever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth