"CSTAYNE STOVES AND FURNACES OF YRON, OF BRICKWORKE, AND OF EARTH, VERY COMODIOUSE AND FITT FOR HEATING OF WATER OR ANY OTHER LIQUOR, MAKING OF SALT OUT OF SALT WATER ALONE, OR OF SALT UPON SALT, FOR THE HEATING OF ANY ROOMES IN DWELLING HOWSES, OR ANY HOUSEHOULD AFFAYRES, OR HOTT HOWSES FOR THE DRYING OF SAFFRON, HOPPES, FRUITES, SWEET MEATES, GUNNES, GUNPOWDER, SALT PETER, OR THE LIKE, AND OF MAULT, OR ANY OTHER KYNDE OF GRAYNE TO BE DONNE WITH SEACOLE, CHAR- COALE, PEATE, TURFE, OR ANY OTHER KYNDE OF FEWELL, CGE, SHORTER TYME, LESSE ATTENDAUNCE, AND WITHOUT ANY TOUCH OF SMOAKE, AND OF FAYRER HUE, AND MUCH SWEETER, BOTH FOR SMELL AND TASTE, THEN HEERETOFORE HATH
Year: 1634

page_text: WHEREAS our welbeloued subiects John and Jacob Drebble and Abra-
ham Rusfeler, and Anne his wife, the sonnes and daughter of our late
servant Cornelius Drebble, deceased, by theire humble petition to vs exhibited,
haue informed vs that the said Cornelius Drebble, having in his life tyme, by
his industry, and by his great paynes, costs, and chardges, devised and found
out, and also brought to pfection "CSTAYNE STOVES AND FURNACES OF YRON, OF
BRICKWORKE, AND OF EARTH, VERY COMODIOUSE AND FITT FOR HEATING OF WATER
OR ANY OTHER LIQUOR, MAKING OF SALT OUT OF SALT WATER ALONE, OR OF SALT
UPON SALT, FOR THE HEATING OF ANY ROOMES IN DWELLING HOWSES, OR ANY
HOUSEHOULD AFFAYRES, OR HOTT HOWSES FOR THE DRYING OF SAFFRON, HOPPES,
FRUITES, SWEET MEATES, GUNNES, GUNPOWDER, SALT PETER, OR THE LIKE, AND
OF MAULT, OR ANY OTHER KYNDE OF GRAYNE TO BE DONNE WITH SEACOLE, CHAR-
COALE, PEATE, TURFE, OR ANY OTHER KYNDE OF FEWELL, AND THAT THE SAID
STOVES AND FURNACES DOE CONVEY BOTH THE HEATE AND SMOKE THEREOF SOE
SECRETLY AND SOE SAFELY THAT NOE DAUNGER OR ANNOYANCE CAN HAPPEN TO
BE, EITHER IN REGARD THE HEATE MAY THEREBY BE INCREASED, MODERATED, OR
ABATED TO ANY OPORCION OR DEGREE THAT SHALBEE HELD MOST FITT OR REQUISITE
FOR ANY THE USES AFORESAIDE, WITH MUCH LESSE CHARGE, SHORTER TYME, LESSE
ATTENDAUNCE, AND WITHOUT ANY TOUCH OF SMOAKE, AND OF FAYRER HUE, AND
MUCH SWEETER, BOTH FOR SMELL AND TASTE, THEN HEERETOFORE HATH BIN DONNE
BY ANY OTHER:" And whereas the said peticioners haue humbly besought vs
in regarde theire said father was the first inventor of the said stoves and
furnaces, and that hee dyed before he made any vse or benefitt thereof, and
wasted his estate so much thereon that he lefte them little or noe meanes of

page_text: lyvelihood, that wee would be pleased to confirme vnto them, or such as they
should nõiate in trust for them, and for their benefitt, our gracious priuiledge
for the sole making, erecting, and vsing of the said stoves and furnaces,
within our Realme of England, Dominion of Wales, and Kingdome of
Ireland, for the space of foureteenc yeres, with phibicion to all others to
make or vse the same within our said realmes and dominions during the
tyme of the said graunt, reserving to vs the yeerely rent of Forty shillings.
KNOW YEE, that wee, g ciously inclyning to geve encouragement to our
loving subiects in theire honest and industriouse waies tending to such good
purposes as aforesaid, of our espiall grace, tayne knowledge, and meere mocion,
have geven and graunted, and by theise psents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, doe give and graunt, att the humble sute and noiacon of the said
peticioners, vnto our servant Hildebrand Prusen and Howard Strachy, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, full and free litty, licence, power,
priuiledge, and authoritie, that they, the said Hildebrand Prusen and Howard
Strachy, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, by themselves, or
their deputies, servants, factors, or workemen, and none other, shall and
maie at all and every tyme and tymes heereafter from tyme to tyme, during
the terme of fourteene yeres next ensuyng the date of theis psents, at theire
owne proper coste and chardges, vse, excise, practyse, and put in vse the
art or mistery of making the saide stoves or furnaces of iron, of brickworke, and
of earth, as aforesaid, and them to sell, vtter, lett, vent, and imploy for such
heating of water or any other liquor, making of salt, and of salt water alone,
or of salt upon salt, for heating of any romes in dwelling howses, for any
household affayres, for hott houses for dryeng of saffron, hoppes, fruicts,
sweet meates, gunnes, gunpowder, salt peter, mault, or any other kynde of
grayne, or for any the vses or purposes aforesaid, to be donne in such manner
as aforesaid, and with such stoves and furnaces onely, whereof the said
Cornelius Drebell was the first and true inventer, and wh any other or others
before him did not vse or put in practyce within this our realme, at theire or
any of their wills or pleasures, and to sett vpp and put the same in execucon
in any place or places within our realme of England and dominion of Wales,
and within our realme of Ireland, and in euery or any part or place thereof,
and the same so to make, vtter, and sell, vent, lett, or imploy within our
said realmes and dominions, or either of them, for theire best comoditie and
adwantage. Wherefore our wille and pleasure is, and by theis sents of our
more espiall grace, teyne knowledge, and meere močon, wee doe for vs, our
heires and successors, streightly charge and inhibite all and euery other pson
or psons whatsoeuer within our realmes aforesaid, or in either of them, of
what estate, degree, or condicion hec or they or any of them bee, that none

page_text: of them other then the saide Hildebrand Prusen and Howard Strachy, theire
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, doe or shall, during
the said terme of fourteene yeres, vse or practise directly or indirectly the said
art, way, or meanes by the said Cornelius Dreble first invented, and not vsed
by others as aforesaid, without the licence, consent, and agreement of the said
Hildebrand Prusen and Howard Strachy, theire executors, administrators,
or assignes, or some of them first therevnto had and obteyned, to haue and
to hould the said licences, priuiledges, powers, and authorities, and other the
Pmisses by theis Psents mencoed to be graunted vnto the said Hildebrand
Prusen and Howard Strachy, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during the terme and vnto the full end and terme of fourteene yeres
from thenceforth next ensuyng, and fully to be compleat and ended, yeelding
and paying therefore yeerely, and the said Hildebrand Prusen and Howard
Strachy, for them, their executors, administrators, and assignes, doe covenant,
Pmise, and graunt to and with vs, our heires and successors, by theis Psents to
yeeld and pay vnto us, our heires and successors, during the contynewance of
this our graunt, the yeerely rent or some of fortie shillings of lawfull money
of England, at the receipt of the Exchequer of vs, our heires and succes-
sors, at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Archaungell onely in eily yeere. And
wee doe by theis psents, for vs, our heires and successors, give power and
authority vnto the said Hildebrand Prusen and Howard Strachy, their exccu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, with the assistance of one or more constable
or constables, or other officer or officers, at convenient tyme and tymes, to
search in all places where any lawfull cause shall bee for discouy of such as
shall put in practice or vse the said Invencon, or any part thereof, contrary to
the true intent and meanyng of theis Psents, to the end the delinquents being
discouered may receiue condigne punishment according to theire demeritte:
And wee doe by theis psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
comaund our treasurer, chauncellor, vndertreasurer, chambleyns, and barons
of our exchequor, and all and singuler maiors, sheriffe, justices of peace;
baylieff's, constables, headboroughes, and other officers, ministers, and subiccts
of vs, our heires and successors, of our said seuall kingdomes and dominion of
Wales, that they and ely of them be from tyme to tyme, during the terme
aforesaid, ayding, helping, and assisting, to the said Hildebrand Prusen and
Howard Strachy, their executors, administrators, deputies, and assignes, in
all things in and about the accomplishement of our pleasure heerein declared,
and in the excise and execučon of the same, and that they, nor any of them,
doc at any tyme hinder, molest, or intrupt the said Hildebrand Prusen
and Howard Strachy, their executors, administrators, deputies, or assignes,
or any of them, in any wise for or concning the misses, as they tender our

page_text: pleasure, and will answere the contrary at their perille; and theis our Lřes
Patents, or the inrollement of them, shall bec theire sufficient warrant in that
behalf. Prouided alwaics, that yf the said yerely rent of forty shilling heereby
reserved as aforesaid, shall happen to be behinde and vnpaid in part, or in all,
by the space of one and forty daies next after the said feast daic, in which the
same ought to be paied as aforesaid, or if the said Hildebrand Prusen and
Howard Strachy, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall not inrolle
or cause to be inrolled this our psent graunt before the Clarke of the Pipe
for the tyme being, within six moneths next after the date heercof, that then
the said Hildebrand Prusen and Howard Strachy, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall forfeit and paie vnto us, our heires and successors,
as well the some of tenne shillings (noie pene) for cuy moneth, in which the
said rent of forty shilling shalbee behinde next after the said one and forty
daies as aforesaid, as also the like some of ten shillinge (nōie pene) for euy
three moneths default of the inrollment of theise psents before the said Clarke
of the Pipe for the tyme being as aforesaid. Provided alsoe, and our wille and
pleasure is, that yf at any tyme during the said terme of fourteene yceres it
shall appeere vnto vs, our heyres and successors, or to any sixe or more of our
Privic Councell of either of our said kingdomes for the tyme being, that this
graunte is contry to our lawes, or in any sort mischeivouse to the state of
our said kingdomes, then vpon significacon and declaracon to bee made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privie seale, or from tho
Lorde and others of the Privie Councell of vs, our heires or successors, of
either of our said kingdomes, or any sixe or more of them respĉively of such
Piudice or mischiefe as aforesaid, theis our Lres Patente, and all graunts,
licences, powers, and priuiledges thereby graunted, or mencoed to be graunted,
shall foorthwith cease, deťmyne, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes.
And wee doe heereby graunt for vs, our heires and successors, that theis our
Lies Patents, or the inrollement thereof, shalbee good, firme, and effcuall,
according to the true meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged most favourably and beneficially to and for the said Hildebrand
Prusen and Howard Strachy, theire executors, administrators, and assignes,
although expresse mencon, &c.
In witnes whereof, &c.
Witnes our self at Westñi, the Nyneteenth