A CERTAIN, SAFE, AND INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR SMOKY CHIMNEYS OR ANY ANNOYANCE THEREFROM
Year: 1729

page_text: GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved WILLIAM FABENE and EDWARD
CAMPBELL, Gentlemen, have by their petition humbly represented vnto vs that
they have with study, labour, and long observation, found out, invented, and
brought to perfection "A CERTAIN, SAFE, AND INFALLIBLE REMEDY FOR SMOKY
CHIMNEYS OR ANY ANNOYANCE THEREFROM," which new method they perform by
what they call an established mantle chimney being fixed vpon the top of the
chimney without doors, and can be made of brick and lime, or any other
building materials: That the said Invention, if vsed, will very much con-
tribute toward putting a stop to the dangerous practice of carrying the
chimney to that extravagant height now commonly done, and frequently by
further addičon of funnels and other ineffectual devices, which render not only
the houses but peoples lives in great danger in time of high winds; and
having 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 Berwick-vpon-Tweed, for and during the
terme of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided, wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
that may be for the publick benefit, are graciously pleased to condescend to
their request.

page_text: KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that weo, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said William Fabeno
and Edward Campbell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, our
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they the said
William Fabene and Edward Campbell, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, by themselves, or by their deputy and deputies, servant or agents,
or such others as they the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, 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 term of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, and exercise their said new
Invenčon for a certain, safe, and infalible remedy for smoaky chimneys, or any
annoyance therefrom, as above described, within that part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him the said William Fabene and Edward
Campbell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall
in their discrecons seem meet, and that they the said William Fabene
and Edward Campbell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advan-
tage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the full term of yeares herein
menčoned to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, pri-
viledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
vnto the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vntill 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 said William Fabene and
Edward Campbell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercises
of the said Invention, according to our gratious intenĉon 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
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 s
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 term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice the said Inventon, or

page_text: any part of the same so attained vnto by the said William Fabeane and
Edward Campell, 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 substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or them-
selves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder their hands and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as
can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
royal comand, and further to be answerable to the said William Fabene and
Edward Campbell, 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, 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 anywise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or their deputies, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull making vso or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention, or anything relating thereto : Provided always, and these our Letters
Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the
said term hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or succes-
sors, or successors, or any or more of our or their Privy Council, that this
our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in
general, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invention as to the publick
vse or exercise thereof, in that said part of our said 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 William Fabene and
Edward Campell, as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaračon thereof
to be made by vs, or heires or successors, or by the lorde and others of our
or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, those
our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void
to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: 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 William Fabene and Edward
Campbell, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse
or imitate any invention or work whatsoever. which hath heretofore been

page_text: found out or invented by any other of our subiecte 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, afore-
said, vnto whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already
granted, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will
and pleasure that the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person or
persons to whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted,
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall invenčons by
them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the
same respective Letters Patents, and of these Presente: Provided likewise
nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express condicon,
that if the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, the executors or
administrators, or of them, or any person or persons which shall or may at
any time or times hereafter during the continuance 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, any pretended
transferr or assignement 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 booke or books for public 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 pri-
viledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agente
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 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 or priviledges hereby by vs
granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
comitt or do or peure to be committed or dono any act, matter, or thing what-
soever 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 contrary to
the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of the reign of our late Royal 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 Mer-
chandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining
severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein menconed), if these

page_text: 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 intitled in right of
such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said cases these
our Letters Patents and all liberties, privileges, privileges, privileges, and
advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and be-
come void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said William Fabene and Edward Campbell, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the
inrollment or exemplificačon thereof shall be in and by all things good, firme,
valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and mean-
ing thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said William Fabene and
Edward Campbell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever 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-vpon-Tweed, aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness fro
re
Witness our solfe at Westminster, the Eighth day of
May.
By Writt of Privy Seal.