PLAIN, EASY, CHEAP, AND STRONG ENGINES FOR RAISING VERY LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER OR ANY OTHER LIQUID TO ANY COMON OE REASONABLE HEIGHT REQUIRED, WITH ABUNDANT LESS DANGER AND CHARGE IN WORKING AND REPAIRING THAN ANY THAT ARE NOW IN VSE, WHEREIN HE HATH BALLANCED OrES ANDANDE, PRESERVING SHIPS AT SEA IN CASE OF EXTRAORDINARY LEAKS, FOR FILLING OR DRAINING FISH PONDS, AND FOR MAKING OR SUPPLYING ANY SORT or WORKS WITH PLENTY OF WATER,EITHER FOR PROFIT OR PLEASURE
Year: 1728

page_text: BILLINGSLEY'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 CASE BILLINGSLEY, of Tottenham, in
our county of Middlesex, Merchant, hath by his petition humbly represented
vuto vs that, after near thirty years study, and having made many chargeable
experiments, he hath contrived "PLAIN, EASY, CHEAP, AND STRONG ENGINES FOR
RAISING VERY LARGE QUANTITIES OF WATER OR ANY OTHER LIQUID TO ANY COMON
OE REASONABLE HEIGHT REQUIRED, WITH ABUNDANT LESS DANGER AND CHARGE IN
WORKING AND REPAIRING THAN ANY THAT ARE NOW IN VSE, WHEREIN HE HATH
BALLANCED, NOT ONLY THE WEIGHT OF THE COLUMN OF WATER RAISED BY THE VERY
SAME COLUMN OF WATER, BUT THAT COLUMN OF WATER IS SO DISPOSED THAT IT
TAKES OF THE FRICTION OF THE AXES THAT WORK IT, WHICH FRICTION IS VERY
_CONSIDERABLE AND VNAVOIDABLE IN THE COMON WAYS OF WORKING; THAT THESE
ENGINE, THE PETICONER IS SATISFIED, WILL BE OF GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE TO
MOST OF OUR SUBIECT, NOT ONLY IN SUPPLYING CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND
PARTICULAR PERSONS WITH SUFFICIENT QUANTITIES OF WATER FOR ORDINARY VSES.
IN THEIR FAMILYS AND TRADES, BUT ALSO FOR EXTINGUISHING FIRES, DRAINING Or
MINES AND LANDE, PRESERVING SHIPS AT SEA IN CASE OF EXTRAORDINARY LEAKS,
FOR FILLING OR DRAINING FISH PONDS, AND FOR MAKING OR SUPPLYING ANY SORT
or WORKS WITH PLENTY OF WATER, EITHER FOR PROFIT OR PLEASURE ;" and
having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patent for securing
to himselfe and family, and to his executors, administrators, and assignes, the
sole liberty of making and vending the said engins in our dominions for four-
teen yeares, as by Act of Parliament is provided in such cases, wee, being
willing to give encouragement to alf arte and inventions which may be of

page_text: blick service and benefit, are gratiously pleased to grant him our Royal
Jetters Patents for the sole vse and benefit of his said Invention within that
prt of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
Ed town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, for and during the term of fourteen yeares
Erein-after menconed.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
Mdge and meer moĉon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs,
ar heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Case Billingsley,
Es executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power,
sle priviledge and authority, that he, the said Case Billingsley, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or
ly his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said Case Billingsley, his 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
nake, vse, exercise, and vend his said new-invented engines for raising water
o any other liquid, as above described, within that part of our said kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, in such manner as to him, the said Case Billingsley, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seem meet, and that he, the said Case Billingsley, his executors and
assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, comodity,
benefit, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
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 Case Billingsley, his 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 imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the statute in such case made and provided; and to the
end that the said Case Billingsley, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefitt, and the sole vse
and exercise the said Invenčon, according to our gratious intenčon herein
beforo declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly comand all and every person persons, bodies politick
and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality,
degree, name or condičon soever they be, within that said part of our kingdome
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
and

page_text: 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 Case Billingsley as aforesaid,
nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or
cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction from the same, nor
otherwise, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Case Billingsley, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing
vnder his or their hand 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 Case Billingsley, 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 comand all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso- .
ever, 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 Case Billingsley, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies,
servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the
aforaid Invenčon, or anything 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 Council, that this our
grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in
generall, or that the said Inventon 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 Case Billingsley, as aforesaid, then,
vpon significačon or declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our 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, these our Letters Patents shall forth,
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary 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
Case Billingsley, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
se or imitate any inventon or work whatsoever which bath heretofore been

page_text: found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of our kingdome of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, 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 Case Billingsley, his 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 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: provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patent are vpon this expresse condition, that if the said Case
Billingsley, his executors or administrators, 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, tytle, 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 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 any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any book or books for publick subscripcons 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 num-
ber 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 Patente
or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted into any number of shares
exceeding the number of five, or shall comitt or do or procure to be cōmitted
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 contrary to the true intent and meaning of
a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reigne of our late
Royal Father King George the First, intituled (an Act for the better securing
certain powers and priviledges intend to be granted by His Maiestic by two

page_text: charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending
money vpon bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwar-
rantable 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, these our Letters Patente,
and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted,
shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee
do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said
Case Billingsley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificañon thereof, shall be in and
by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, 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 beneficial sense for the best advantage
of the said Case Billingsly, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as
well in all our courts of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the offi-
cers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in 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
subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full or certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness. &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Sixth day