A CERTAIN NEW ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR RAISING OF WATER MORE EXTENSIVELY BY ALTERNATE EXPULSION, RAREFACCON, OR EXHAUSTING OF AIR, AND PRESSURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE, WHEREBY TOWNES AND GARDENS MAY BE SUPPLYED WITH WATER, AND MINES, PITTS, DOCKS, AND FENNS, &C., MAY BE EMPTIED AND DRAINED BY A MORE EXPEDITIOUS AND CHEAPER METHOD THAN HATH BEEN INVENTED OR VSED BEFORE
Year: 1729

page_text: BEWLEY AND HOLTHAM'S PATENT.
GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS BEWLEY, Plumber, and
THOMAS HOLTHAM, Clockmaker, citizens of Coventry, have by their petition
humbly represented vnto vs that they have, with great expence, labour, study,
and trouble, found out, invented, and brought to perfection "A CERTAIN NEW
ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR RAISING OF WATER MORE EXTENSIVELY BY ALTERNATE
EXPULSION, RAREFACCON, OR EXHAUSTING OF AIR, AND PRESSURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE,
WHEREBY TOWNES AND GARDENS MAY BE SUPPLYED WITH WATER, AND MINES, PITTS,
DOCKS, AND FENNS, &C., MAY BE EMPTIED AND DRAINED BY A MORE EXPEDITIOUS AND
CHEAPER METHOD THAN HATH BEEN INVENTED OR VSED BEFORE ;" and having
humbly prayed vs to grant to them, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefit of their
said new Invention within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Barwick-vpn-
Tweed, for the term of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arte
and inventions that may be for the publick benefitt, are gratiously pleased
to condescend to to their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
our especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the

page_text: said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or by their deputy and
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as they, the said Thomas Bewley
and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
hereafter during the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, vsc, and exercise, the said new invented engine or machine for
the raising of water, as above described, within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said Thomas Bewley and
Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that they, the said 'Thomas
Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and ad-
vantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason
of the said Invention for and during the full terme of yeares herein men-
Coned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the
said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares
from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to
be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case made and
provided. And to the end that the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas
Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise
of the said Invention, according to our gratious intention hercin-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
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name, or condition soever they be, within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them at any time
during the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,
either direcly or indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention,
or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said Thomas Bewley and
Thomas Holtham as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition there-
unto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves
the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence

page_text: consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vader their hands 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 royall command; and
further to be answerable to the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command all and singular the justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffes, 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 terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about
the due and lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid Inventon,
or anything relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters.
Patente are and shall be vpon this condition, 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 Council, that this our grant is con-
trary 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 in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not
invented and found out by the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Haltham as
aforesaid, then vpon signification or declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Council,
or any six or more of them, vnder their handf, 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 thereof in anywise notwithstand-
ing: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein
contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or
work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by
any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that
said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Thomas Bewley

page_text: and Thomas Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person or persons to whom 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:
Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this
express condition, that if the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, or
the executors or administrators of them or either of them, or any other person
or persons which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the con-
tinuance of this grant, have or claime any right, title, or interest in law or equity
of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the
said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any
pretended transferr or assignment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share
or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or
for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause
to be opened any book or bookes for publick subscriptions to be made by any
number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any
sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall, by him or themselves, or his or their agents
or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by
vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
commit or do or procure to be committd or done any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever during such time as such person or persons shall have any right or
title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses which would be con-
trary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in
sixth year of the reigne of our late Royall Father King George the First,
intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges
intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance of
Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein
menconed), if these our Letters Patente had not been granted, or in case the
said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested
in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or their representatives
at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the single
person whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be intituled to
in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said cases

page_text: these our Letters Patente, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages what-
soever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
And lastly, wee do by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas Holtham, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or
exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, suffi-
cient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficial sense for the best advantage of the said Thomas Bewley and Thomas
Holtham, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts of
Record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our said Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs,
our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certaine describing the nature or quality of the said Invention,
or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Tenth day of