ART OF MAKEINGE TILES AND PORCELANE AND OTHER EARTHEN WARES, AFTER THE WAY PRACTISED IN HOLLAND
Year: 1676

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome these
Psente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN ARIENS VAN HAMME hath humbly repsented to vs that
he is, in pursueance of the incouragement he hath received from our Ambas-
sadour at the Hague, come over to settle in this our kingdome with his
family, to exercise his "ART OF MAKEINGE TILES AND PORCELANE AND OTHER
EARTHEN WARES, AFTER THE WAY PRACTISED IN HOLLAND," which hath not beene
practised in this our kingdome; and haveinge humbly besought vs to grant
him the benefitt thereof as of a newe Invenčon here, wee being graciously
pleased to condescend therevnto,---
KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted; and by these psente,
for vs, our heires and successours, doe give and grant vnto the said John
Ariens Van Hamme, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial
lycence, full and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that he and they, and
his and their servante and workemen, and noe others, shall and may, dureinge
the terme of foureteene yeares next ensueing the date of these psente, vse,
practise, exercise, and enioy the said art or Invenčon, and all engines and
instrument relateinge therevnto, within our Kingdome of England, Dominion
of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him or
them shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advan-
tage ariseing thereby or by reason thereof; to have, hould, and enioy the
said lycences, powers, priviledges, authorities, and other the pmisses hereby

page_text: granted or intended to be granted to the said John Ariens Van Hamme, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these
sente, for and dureinge the terme of foureteene yeares from thence next
ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the statute in
that case made and pvided; and to the end the said John Ariens Van
Hamme, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of
his said Invenĉon, as well within the libertyes as without, wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly charge and
comand all and every person and persons, bodyes politique and corporate, of
whatsoever, degree, name, or addičon they be, that they, nor any of them,
dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe
or shall vse or put in practise the said art or Invenčon, nor doe nor shall
imitate, counterfeite, or resemble the same, or any the engines or instrumente
relateinge therevnto, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventors or devisors
thereof, without the lycense, consent, or agreement of the said John Ariens
Van Hamme, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his
or their hand and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such
paines and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the
contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and further to be answear-
able to the said John Ariens Van Hamme, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, according to lawe and justice, for his and their damages sus-
teyned thereby. And further wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and
successors, give and grant vnto the said John Ariens Van Hamme, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that he, they,
and every of them, his, their, and every of their deputies, servante or
agent, or any of them, (haveing first obteined a warrant in this behalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of Kinge Bench for the time being),
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawful officer, aswell
within the liberties as without, vpon request at convenient times of the day
dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search
in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shalbe iust cause
of suspicion,, for discovering and findeing out of all such psons as shall,
within the terme of foureteene yeares, imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall
vse or put in practise the art or Invenčon aforesaid, that soe such offenders
may
be pceeded against according to theire demerritte. And further, wee doc
by these sente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and
require, all and singular justices of the peace, maiors, sherriffes, bayliffes, head-

page_text: boroughes, and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors,
for the time being, that they and every of them respectively be from tyme to tyme,
dureing the said terme hereby granted, in, their respective places,. favourably
aideing, helpeinge; and assisting.vnto the said. John. Ariens. Van Hamme, his
executors; administrators, and assignes, and to his, and their deputy and deputies,
servant and agente, in and by all thing in and aboute the accomplishment
of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and exccucon of the
powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted as aforesaid.,, And moreover
wee will and comand by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, that
our said.officers; or any of them, does not. molest, trouble, or interrupt the said
John Ariens Van Hamme, his executors, administrators, or assignes,..or his
or their deputy or deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, in or aboute
the vse or exercise of the said art or. Invencon,, in, any matter or thinge
concerneing the same. Provided alwayes, that if at any time durcing
the said terme of foureteene yeares, it shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this
grant is Piudicial or inconvenient to our comon weale, or that the said
art or Invenčon is not a newe Invenčon of the said John Ariens Van
Hamme, as to the vse and practise thereof in our kingdome of England,
then vpon significacon and declaračon to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the lorde and
others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them, for the time being,
in writeing vnder their hande, of such piudice and inconvenience, these
our Letters Patente, and all thing therein conteined, shall fortwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly voide, to all intente and purposes, any thinge
herein-before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein conteined, shall not extend, or
be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said John Ariens Van Hamme,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
inventon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons, and
publickly exercised in this our kingdome of England, vnto whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise,
and benefitt thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the said John Ariens
Van Hamme, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other person and persons to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective Letters Patent and
of these sente. And lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and

page_text: successors, grant vnto the said John Ariens Van Hamme, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patent(, or the inrolment
thereof, shalbe in and by all thinge, good, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the
lawe, according to the true intent and meaneing of these psente, and shalbe
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best
benefitt and advantage of the sayd John Ariens Van Hamme, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as elsewhere,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing of the said art or
Invenčon, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, and notwithstandinge any
other defecte, incertainetyes, or impfeccons in these psente conteyned, or any
act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding.
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of October.
By Writt of Privy Seale.