A NEW WAY TO ORDER COACHES, CALASHES, CHAZES, WAGONS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES AND MACHINES OF THAT NATURE, SO THAT ALTHOUGH THE WHEELES OR CARRIAGES MAY BE OVERSETT, YET THE BODIES OR BOXES OF THEM SHALL STILL REMAINE VPRIGHT, WITHOUT DANGER TO THOSE THAT BIT IN THEM
Year: 1704

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect BENIAMIN JACKSON, of
London, Gentleman, hath by his humble petition represented vnto vs, that he
hath by great labour and expence found out and invented "A NEW WAY TO
ORDER COACHES, CALASHES, CHAZES, WAGONS, AND OTHER CARRIAGES AND MACHINES
OF THAT NATURE, SO THAT ALTHOUGH THE WHEELES OR CARRIAGES MAY BE
OVERSETT, YET THE BODIES OR BOXES OF THEM SHALL STILL REMAINE VPRIGHT,
WITHOUT DANGER TO THOSE THAT BIT IN THEM," which will be of great advantage
to our subiects, and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents
for the sole vse of the said Invenčon for the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant, vnto the said Beniamin
Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Beniamin Jackson, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or
his or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as the said
Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
times agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during

page_text: the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse,
exercise, and enioy, within our kingdomes of England and Ireland, and the
territories and dominions thereunto belonging, the said Invention of ordering
coaches, calashes, shazes, wagons, and other carriages and machines of that
nature, in such manner as to him, the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem
meet, and that he, the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and ariseing by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the full terme of yeares herein
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, pri-
viledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menčoned to be granted
vnto the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the dato
of these presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the statute in this case made and provided. And to the end
that the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole making,
vending, vse, and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious
intention herein-before declared, wce do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiccts whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within our said
kingdomes and territories and dominions thereunto belonging, that neither
they or any of them at any time during the continuance of the said terme
of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse,
or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto
by the said Beniamin Jackson as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventer or inventers, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hand and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as
can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this
our royall comand, and further, to be answerable to the said Beniamin
Jackson, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
his and their damages thereby occasioned. And morcover, wee do by theso
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular

page_text: our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffes, constables, hendboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of 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 terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawful makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing
relating thereto. Provided alwaics, and these our Letters Patents are and
shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the terme 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 subiects in generall, or that the said
Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome of England or the kingdome of Ireland, and not
invented and found out by the said Beniamin Jackson as aforesaid, then, vpon
significačon and declaration to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder
our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or their
Privy Councill, 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 in any
wise notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patent, or any
thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever
which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realmes and
dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledge
have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it
being our will and pleasure that the said Beniamin Jackson, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to
whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inventions by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee do by
these prosents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Beniamin
Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
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

page_text: favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Beniamin
Jackson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all courts of
record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and
.dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our
heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or
of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesso, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Eighth day of
Aprill.
By Writt of Privy Seale.