A NEW WAY OF MAKEING VERDIGREASE IN THIS OUR KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AND OF BOYLING THE SAME IN WOODEN OR OTHER PANNS, AND ALSOE OF MAKEING PANNS OR VESSELLS OF WOOD FOR BOYLING THE SAID VERDIGREASE OR ANY OTHER ANY OTHER THINGS
Year: 1691

page_text: these presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS NEALE, Esquire, by his
humble petition, hath represented vnto vs, that with great paines and
charge he hath found out "A NEW WAY OF MAKEING VERDIGREASE IN
THIS OUR KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AND OF BOYLING THE SAME IN WOODEN OR
OTHER PANNS, AND ALSOE OF MAKEING PANNS OR VESSELLS OF WOOD FOR BOYLING
THE SAID VERDIGREASE OR ANY OTHER
ANY OTHER THINGS;" and verdigrease being a
comodity of great vsc in this our realme, especially for painting and dying,
and never hitherto made here, but alwaics brought out of forreigne parts,
and chiefly out of France, the said Thomas Neale hath humbly prayed vs
to grant vnto him by our Letters Patents the sole vse of the said Invention
durcing the terme of fourteen yeares.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to condescend to
that his request, and to encourage the inventers of such arts as may be of
publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and
meere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, and his and their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as the said Thomas Neale, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe others, from
time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall
and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Inventions of makeing
verdigrease, and also of makeing and prepareing panns or vessells of wood for
boyling the same, or any other things, within any part or parts, place or places

page_text: whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and in all and every or any of cur
kingdoms and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons as to him, the said Thomas Neale,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seeme meet, and that he, the said Thomas Neale, his executors, admini-
strators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefit, profit,
comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing
by reason of the said Inventions, or either of them, for and dureing the full
terme of yeares herein-after menconed, 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 Neale, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme
of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and imediately
ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the statute
in this case made and provided; and to the end that the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
eniny the full benefitt and the sale vse and exercise of the said Inventions,
according to our gratious intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and all
other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name,
or condicon soever they be, within all and every our kingdoms and dominions,
that neither they nor any of them, at any time durcing the continuance
of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
doe make, vse, or put in practise the said Inventions, or either of them, or any part
of them or either of them soe attained to by the said Thomas Neale as aforesaid,
nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the said severall Inventions, or
either of them, or any part of the same, nor shall in any wise or cause to be
made any addition thereto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to pretend
themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or
agreement of the said Thomas Neale, his exccutors, administrators, or assignes,
in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hande and seales first bad and
obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand,
and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Neale, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned. And wee doe, of our further especiall grace, certaine knowledge,
and meer motion, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that hee,

page_text: they, and every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputies, servants,
and agents (haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife
Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time being, and
with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient
times in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull manner,
may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within this
our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of suspition)
for the discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons as shall
imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall make, vend, vse, or put in practise, the
said Inventions or either of them, or any part thereof, or shall make or coun-
terfeite any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that soe such
offender or offenders may be proceeded against and punished according to law.
And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorize, and comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, as well within our
kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they
and every of them respectively be from time dureing the terme hereby
granted, in their respective offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting
vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
to his and their deputy and deputics, servants, and agents, in and by all things
in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure berein-before
declared, and in the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges
hereby granted as aforesaid. And morcover, wee do by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and comand that our respective officers and
ministers before mentioned, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time
hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the
due and lawfull vse, exercise, makeing, and vending of the said Inventions
or either of them, or any thing relating thereto. Provided allwaies, and.
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at
any time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare
to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Councell, that this our present grant is contrary to law, or piudiciall or
inconvenient to our subjects in generall, or that the said severall Inventions,
or either of thein are not new inventions, as to the publick vse and exercise
thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said
Thomas Neale as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaration thereof to

page_text: be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
scale, or by the lorde and others of our or their 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
before herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided
alsoc, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein contained, shall not
extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas
Neale, his exccutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found
out or invented by any other of our subiccts whatsoever, and publickly vsed
or exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto
whome like Letters Patents of Priviledge have bin already granted for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and singuler other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise
their several inventions by them invented and found out, according to the
true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
presents. And lastly, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in
and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law accord-
ing to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all
and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and
every the subiccts of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the nature or
quality of the said Inventions or either of them, or of the materialls thereto
conduccing and belonging.
In witnessc. &c. Witnesse our selves at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth