THE WAY AND ART OF MAKEING BLEW PAPER VSED BY SUGAR BAKERS AND OTHERS
Year: 1665

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 theise
Psente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have byne informed by the humble peticon of our wel-
beloved subiect CHARLES HILDEYERD, Esquier, that hee hath att his owne coste
and charges with much labour and paines found out "THE WAY AND ART OF
MAKEING BLEW PAPER VSED BY SUGAR BAKERS AND OTHERS," being his owne
invenčon, and never before made in this our realme of England or any the
dominions or territories thereof; and that the manufacture thereof, (if once
settled), should bee of greate benefitt of this Kingdome by ymploym* of many
hundred of people, and other advantages of vseing and .vttering diuerso
matteriall otherwise of little or noe vse or value; and whereas the said
Cliarles Hildeyerd hath humbly besought vs, for his better. encouragement to
exercise and putt in practise the said Invenčon, that wee would bee graciouslie
pleased to grant him our Letters Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse and
benefitt thereof throughout our saide realme of England and dominion of
Wales for the time and terme of fowerteene yeares, according to the Statute
in' that case made and provided.
NOW KNOWE YEE, that wee being willing to give all lawfull and
fitting encouragement to the inventers of such arte as may be of publick use
and benefitt, of our especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, and
vpon the humble petičon of the saide Charles Hildeyerd, have given and
granted, and by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give
and graunt, vnto the said Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, and

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assignes, especiall lycence, full power and authoritie, that hee, they, and everie
of them, by themselves or his or theire deputie or deputies, servante, and
workemen, and att all tymes and from tyme to time hereafter dureing the terme
yeares hereafter in theise presente expressed, shall and lawfully may have,
vse, exercise, ymploy, and enioy the said new Invenčon of makeing blew paper
as aforesaid, in such manner as to him, them, or any of them in his or theire
discrečons shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt
and advantage comeing or ariseing by reason thereof dureing the terme of
yeares hereby granted; and to the end the said Charles Hildeyerd, bis exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, and everie of them, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of his said Invenĉon, wee
doc by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly
comand all and everie person and persons, bodies pollitique and corporate,
of whatsoever qualitie, degree, name, or condičon soever they bee, neither they
nor any of them dureing the tearme of yeares hereby granted, either directlie
or indirectlie doe, vse, or putt in practise the said Invenčon of makeing blew
paper, as aforesaide, soe by the said Charles Hildeyerd attained vnto, as afore-
said, nor shall counterfitt, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make any
addičon thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Charles Hildeyerd or his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writeing vnder his or theire hand and seales, had and obtained
in that behalfe, upon such paines and penalties as can or may bee inflicted on
such offendors for theire contempt of this our comand in that behalfe; and
further to bec answearable to the said Charles Hildeyerd, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to the law and justice for his and theire
damage thereby susteyned, to have and to hold all the said lycences, powers,
priviledges and authorities hereby graunted, as aforesaide, vnto him, the said
Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
the tearme of fowerteene yeares from the makeing of theise presente next
ensueing and fully to bee compleate and ended according to the Statute in
such case made and pvided; and further, wee doe by theise presente, for vs,
our heires and successors, give and graunt vnto the said Charles Hildeyerd,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authoritie that hee
and they, and his and theire deputies, servante, and agente, (first haveing
obtayned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court
of King Bench for the time being,) may, with the assistance of a constable or
any other lawfull officer, att convenient times of the day during the terme
aforesaid and in such lawful manner enter into and make search in any

page_text: houses or other places where there shall bee iust cause of suspicion for
discovering and finding out of all such persons as shall imitate or cause to bec
imitated, or shall vse or putt in practise the said Invenčon soe by the said
Charles Hildeyerd invented and attained vnto, as aforesaid, that soe such
offenders may bee proceeded against and punished according to theire demeritte,
and theire invenčons & workes then and there found to bee seized on, broken
in peeces, and defaced, and the materiall thereof left in the hand and custody
of some constable or officer, to bee disposed in such manner and forme as wee,
our heires and successors, shall from time to time direct and appoynt; and
further, wee doe by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorise, and requyre all and singuler iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes,
bayliffes, constables, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they and everie
of them respectively bee from time to time dureing the said tearme hereby
granted, in theire respective places favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto
the said Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to
his deputie and deputies, servante and agente, in and by all thing in and
aboute the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and in
the exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby
graunted or menconed to bee grannted as aforesaid; and moreover wee will
and command by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said
officers and ministers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the
said Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or
theire deputie or deputies, servant or agente, or any of them, in or aboute the
vsc or exercise of the said Invencon, or in any matter or thinge concerning
the same Provided alwaies, that if att any tyme dureing the said terme of
fowertecne yeares it shall bee made appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors,
that this our graunt is contrarie to lawe or preiudiciall or inconvenient and
not of publick vse and benefitt, or that the said makeing of blew paper, as
aforesaid, is not a new invenčon of the said Charles Hildeyerd as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof within this our realme of England or any the domi-
nions or territories thereof, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to
bee made by vs, our heires or successors, theise our Letters Patente shall
forthwith ceasc, determyne, and bee as void in law to all intent and purposes,
anythinge herein-before menconed to the contrarie notwithstanding: Provided
alsoe, that theise our Letters Patente or anythinge herein conteyned shall not
extend or bee construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Charles
Hildeyerd, bis executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any inventon or worke found out or invented by any other person

page_text: or persons, and publickly exercised within our said realme of England or any
the dominions or territories thereto belonging, for makeing of blew paper or
such like worke, as aforesaid, vnto whom wee have already.graunted our like
Letters Patent of Priviledges.for the sole vse; exercise, and benefitt thereof, it
being our will and pleasure that the said Charles Hildeyerd, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons
to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patente or priviledges, as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise theire severall invenčons by them
invented and found out according to the true intent and meaneing of the said
severall and respective Letters Patente and of theise presente; and lastly wee
doe by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, graunt vnto. the said
Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that theise
our Letters Patente or the inrollment thereof shall bee in and by all thing
good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe according to the true intent
and meaneing thereof, and shall bee taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourable and beneficial for the best benefitt and advantage of the said
Charles Hildeyerd, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
our Courte of Record as elsewhere; notwithstanding the not full and certaine
discribing the manner and qualitie of the said blewe paper or of the materialle,
way, or manner of makeing thereof, or of the vse or benefitt thereof; and
notwithstanding any other defect, incerteynties, or imperfeccons in theise
present conteyned; or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or
restraint to the contrarie thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes the King att Westminster, the Sixeteenth day of
February.