A WAY, BY THE ADDICON AND MIXING OF CHARGEABLE INGREDIENTS, TO MAKE A VALUABLE METTALL FOR DIVERS SORTS OF VESSELLS AND VTENSELLS WHICH MAY BE OF VERY GREATE VSE AND BENEFITT TO OUR SUBIECTS IN GENERALL, BEING AB SWEETE,CLEANE, AND WHOLSOME AS SILVER, INDURE THE FIRE AS WELL, AND IS AS VNAPT TO TARNISH AND CANKER
Year: 1664

page_text: these psents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved maior THOMAS HENSHAW, FRANCIS WATSON,
THOMAS HALE, and JAMES DEWEY, Gent, have informed vs that there is a
certaine stone or minerall long since knowne and found in this our kingdome
of England, though never yett any discovery of the least benefitt or vse
thereof till they, by their greate paines and industry, and expence of much
tyme and money in tryalls and experiences, have att length invented and found
out "A WAY, BY THE ADDICON AND MIXING OF CHARGEABLE INGREDIENTS, TO
MAKE A VALUABLE METTALL FOR DIVERS SORTS OF VESSELLS AND VTENSELLS
WHICH MAY BE OF VERY GREATE VSE AND BENEFITT TO OUR SUBIECTS IN GENERALL,
BEING AB SWEETE, CLEANE, AND WHOLSOME AS SILVER, INDURE THE FIRE AS WELL, AND
IS AS VNAPT TO TARNISH AND CANKER," and doth not intrench or interfere with
any pson's right or iust Ptence in pticular; and whereas the psons above-
named have humbly desired our royall graunt of a lycence or priviledge for
the sole makeinge and selling the said mettall dureing the terme of fowerteene
yeares, according to the statute in that case pvided:
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects who shall
find out vsefull and pfitable arts and invenčons for the comodity of our people.
by graunting and appropriating vnto them, for some terme of yeares, the fruite
and benefitt of their industry, whereby their labours and expences in the attaine-
ment thereof may bee recompenced and rewarded vnto thein, and being also
willing to encourage and countenance, as much as wee may, the said Inventon,

page_text: not heretofore vsed in our kingdome of England, but found out and invented by
the said Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey,
of our especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and
graunted, and by these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give
and graunt, vnto the said Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale,
and James Dewey, their executors, administrators, and assignes, full and sole
lycence, power, priviledge, and authority, that they, the said Thomas Henshaw,
Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, by themselves or by their deputyes, agents, servants,
factors, & workemen, and such others as they shall att any tyme agree with,
shall and may, att all and every tyme and tymes hereafter dureing the terme
of fowerteene yeares next ensucing the date hereof, make, vse, practice, teach,
or putt in vre the aforesaid Invenčon for makeing the said stone or minerall
by the addičon and mixing of ingredients into valuable mettall for the
makeing of divers sorts of vessells and vtensills, soc by them, the said
Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey,
found out and inveuted as aforesaid, and that the said Thomas Henshaw,
Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and may have, receive, and take, all sumes of
mony, benefitts, advantages, and pfitts whatsoever by the said Invencon
ariseing or to bee thereof had, made, acquired, or gotten from tyme to tyme
durcing the terme hereby graunted, to have, hold, and enioy the said lycence,
priveledge, power and authority, and all and every the sume and sumes
of money, advantages, pfitts, and emoluments, thereby ariseing, and other
the misses by these psents graunted or menconed to be graunted to
them, the said Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James
Dewey, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during the
terme of fowerteenc yeares from henceforth next ensueing, and fully to be
compleate and ended; and to the end that they, the said Thomas Henshaw,
Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, may have and take the benefitt of this our psent graunt,
without any disturbance or interrupcon, of our more especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere mocon, wee doe, for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge and comaund all and every pson and psons, of what estate,
degree, or condičon soever hee or they bee, that they, or any of them, dureing
the said terme of fowerteene yeares, doc not psume to make, or cause to bee
made, or to sell, or put to sale, within our kingdome of England, or dominion
of Wales, the new-invented mettall herein-before menčoned, or make vse of
the same, without the lycence, consent, and agreement of them, the said

page_text: Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, first had and obteyned, in wryteing
vnder their or any of their hands and seales, in that behalfe, vpon paine of
forfeiture and losse of all such mettall made contrary to our will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and vnder such further paines, penaltyes, and forfeitures
as by the law or our prerogative royall may bee inflicted, had, or recovered by
vs, our heires and successors, of all such pson or psons that shall psume to
attempt the contrary. And our further will and pleasure is, and wee doe
hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, give and graunt vnto them, the said
Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that they and
every or any of them, their, every, or any of their deputyes, servants, and
agents, or any of them, haveing first obteyned a warrant in this belalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of our Courte of King's Bench for the tyme being,
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawful officer, at all
convenient tymes of the day, dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawfull
manner, enter into and make search in any howses, shoppes, warehowses, or
other places where there shall bee iust cause of suspition, for discovering and
finding out aswell of any such mettall as shalbee made contrary to our will and
pleasure herein-before declared, as of all such psons as shall, within the terme
of fowerteene yeares aforesaid, vse or putt in practice the same soe by them,
the said Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey
invented and attained vnto as aforesaid, that such offenders may be pceeded
against and punisht according to their demeritte, and their materialls and
workes tending to the end aforesaid then and there found may bee seized
vpon, and left in the hands and custody of a constable or other lawfull officer,
to bee disposed in such manner and formie as wee, our heires and successors,
shall from tyme to tyme direct and appoint. And wee doc, for vs, our heires
and successors, will and comaund all mayors, sherriffes, justices of the peace,
bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and other the officers and ministers of vs,
our heires and successors, for the tyme being, to whom it shall appertayne, and
every of them, dureing the terme aforesaid, to bee favouring, ayding, and
assisting to them, the said Thomas Henshaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale,
and James Dewey, their executors, administrators, and assignes, in all lawfull
thinges in and about the accomplishment of this our psent graunt and pleasure
herein declared, and for the due suppression of all such as shall any wayes
endeavour to infringe or oppose the same, and that they, or any of them, doe
not att any tyme hinder, molest, or interrupt them, the said Thomas Hen-
shaw, Francis Watson, Thomas Hale, and James Dewey, their executors,

page_text: administrators, or assignes, or their or any of their deputyes or any of
them, in the due and lawful execucon of the pmisses, as they tender
our displeasure, and will answear the contrary att their perills, and these our
Lřes Patents, or the inrollment of them, shalbee their sufficient warrant in
that behalfe. Provided alwayes, and our will and pleasure is, that if att any
tyme dureing the said terme it shall appeare vnto us, our heires or successors,
or vnto the lords & others of our privy counsell, that this our graunt shalbec
inconvenient or Piudiciall to our subiects, and against the lawes and statutes of
this our realme, then, vpon significacon and declaračon to bee made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the lords
and others of our privy councell, or six of them, for the tyme being, in wryting
vnder their hands, of such piudice or inconvenience, these our Lřes Patente
shall forthwith cease, determine, and bee vtterly void, anything before
menconed to the contrary notwithstanding. And wee doe hereby graunt, for
vs, our heires and successors, that theise our Lřes Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shalbee firme, good, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
míeaneing of the same, although expresse mencon, &c.
In witnesse &
Witnesse our selfe att Westm the Two and twontith
day of Aprill.
P bře de privat sigill.