TWO CIRCULAR MOVEMENTS (PERFORMED BY Two CHAINES, WHICH HE CALLS HIS ENDLESSE CHAINES) OF GREAT VSE IN JACK WORK, BY THE HELP OF WHICH JACKS WILL GO WITH LESSE WEIGHT MORE CERTAIN AND LONGER THAN THE MULTIPLYING JACKS OR ANY OTHER JACKS HITHERTO MADE; W SO CON AS TO FORCE THE JACK ROUND EVEN DURING THE WINDING VP BY A CON- TRARY MOČON, THEREBY PREVENTING THE BURNING OR VNEQUAL ROASTING OF THE MEAT, WHICH CONSTANTLY HAPPENS BY THE VECERTAIN GOING OF THE COMMON JACKS; THAT THE SAID MS WILL BE OF THE SAME VSE IN CLOCKWORK AND IN SOME SORT OF WATERWORKS, AS HE HATH FOUND BY SEVERALL EXPERIMENTS
Year: 1716

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved ROBERT EVANS hath by his peticon
humbly represented vnto vs, that he hath, with great paines and expence, lately
invented and brought to perfection "TWO CIRCULAR MOVEMENTS (PERFORMED BY
Two CHAINES, WHICH HE CALLS HIS ENDLESSE CHAINES) OF GREAT VSE IN JACK
WORK, BY THE HELP OF WHICH JACKS WILL GO WITH LESSE WEIGHT MORE CERTAIN
AND LONGER THAN THE MULTIPLYING JACKS OR ANY OTHER JACKS HITHERTO MADE;
THAT TO THESE MOVEMENT HE HATH ADDED A NEW CIRCULAR SPRING, WHICH IS SO
CONTRIVED AS TO FORCE THE JACK ROUND EVEN DURING THE WINDING VP BY A CON-
TRARY MOČON, THEREBY PREVENTING THE BURNING OR VNEQUAL ROASTING OF THE
MEAT, WHICH CONSTANTLY HAPPENS BY THE VECERTAIN GOING OF THE COMMON JACKS;
THAT THE SAID MOVEMENTS WILL BE OF THE SAME VSE IN CLOCKWORK, AND IN SOME
SORT OF WATERWORKS, AS HE HATH FOUND BY SEVERALL EXPERIMENTS," and having
therefore humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole
makeing and vending his said endlesse chains and circular spring for the term
of fourteen yeares,―
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and Inventions that may be of publick vse and benefit, of our
especial grace, certain knowledge and meer močon, have given and granted,
and by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto
the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial
lycence, full power, soe priviledge and authority; that he, the said Robert

page_text: Evans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
himselfe and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents,
or such others as hc, the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, or
assignes shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times during the term of yeares herein-beforo expressed, shall and lawfully
may exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, his said now Invenĉon as is above described, in such manner as to him,
the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Robert Evans,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing, by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the full term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the
said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
menconed to be granted vnto the said Robert Evans, his executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen
yeares from the date 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 Robert Evans, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the
full benefitt, and the sole vse and oxercise of the said Invention, according to
our gracious intencon herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporato, and all other our subiects what-
soever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever they be,
within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, 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 indirectly, do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invenčon or any part of the same so attained vnto by the
said Robert Evans 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 himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande and seales first had and obtained
in that behalfo, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal command, and further to

page_text: be answerable to the said Robert Evans, 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 our justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs,
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 hereafter. during the said term hereby granted, in
any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Robert Evans, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them them, or his or their deputies,
servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull making vse or exercise
of the aforesaid Invention or any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, 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 Councill, that
this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte
in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invenčon as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or
not invented and found out by the said Robert Evans as aforesaid, then, vpon
significaton and declaračon 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 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 Patents, or any thing
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privi-
ledge to the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or enioyed within that part of our said Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been
already granted as aforesaid, our royal will and pleasure being that such other
our subiects and the said Robert Evans, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall distinctly vse and practice their several invenčons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patent and of these Presente. And lastly, wee do by
these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Robert
Evans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters

page_text: Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing 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 beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Robert
Evans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of
Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what
soever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain
describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls
thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse Geo. Prince of Wales, &c., at Westminster,