A CERTAINE NEW ENGINE, CONSISTING OF A SMALL COPPER BOYLER AND WOODEN VESSELL OF A NEW INVENTED FASHION, FOR THE BREWING AND DISTILLING ALL SORTS OF LIQUORS AND SPIRITS AT PAR LESSE CHARGE THAN HATH EVER YET BEEN PRACTISED OR DONE BY ANY OTHER PERSON WHATSOEVER
Year: 1692

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN TATHAM, Chymist, hath by
his humble petičon represented vnto vs, that he has, by his great study and
expence, found out and contrived "A CERTAINE NEW ENGINE, CONSISTING OF A
SMALL COPPER BOYLER AND WOODEN VESSELL OF A NEW INVENTED FASHION, FOR
THE BREWING AND DISTILLING ALL SORTS OF LIQUORS AND SPIRITS AT PAR LESSE
CHARGE THAN HATH EVER YET BEEN PRACTISED OR DONE BY ANY OTHER PERSON
WHATSOEVER," which will be of great vse and service to this our kingdome,
and hath prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse
thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encou-
rage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
that he, the said John Tatham, may accordingly reape some fruite and benefitt
of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meer moĉon, have given and granted, and
by these presents doe give and grant vnto the said John Tatham, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge,
and authority that he and they, by him and themselves, and his and their
deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as he, the said
John Tatham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall agree with,

page_text: shall and may from time to time' and at all times durcing the space of fourteen
yeares next ensucing the date of these psents, at his and their own proper
costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practise the said new
Invention and engine soe by him contrived and found out, as aforesaid, in any
place or places within our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and
towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Inventon and engine to be had, made, acquired, or gotten, to his and
their own proper benefitt, vse, and vses; to. have, hold, vse, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the
Pmisses by these presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said
John Tatham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according
to the statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said
John Tatham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better
enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said new
Invention and engine, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, streightly charge, require, and comand all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or
condicon soever they be, within our said kingdome of England, dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they, nor any of them,
durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or put in practise the said Invenčon or engine
soc by the said John Tatham invented and found out, as aforesaid, nor doe
nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the said Invention or engine, or any
materialls or ingredients thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any
addičon thereunto or substracčon therefrom, whereby to Ptend themselves the
inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of
the said John Tatham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vnder his or their hands and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vnder
such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders
therein for the contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be answer-
able to the said John Tatham, his, executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to the vtmost rigour of the law, for his and their damages thereby
susteyned. And further, wee doe by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs. our heires and successors, now

page_text: and for the time being, whome it may concern, that they and every of them
respectively be, from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted, in their
respective offices, and according to their and every of their best skills and
endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting to vnto the said John Tatham, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and
by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the execution of the severall powers and
priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our said
respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doc not,
nor shall at any time hereafter, dureing the terme hereby granted, in anywise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Tatham, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, deputies, agents or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the
aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or anything relateing thereto. Pro-
vided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
conditon, that if at any time dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or
more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to lay,
or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiccts in generall, or that the Invention
before menconed is a nev:-invention as to the publick vse and exercise of the
same, and not invented and found out by the said John Tatham as aforesaid,
then, vpon signification or declaration of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale
or by the lords or others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of
them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void, to all intents and purposes, any thing herein
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also, that these
our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or pe
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Tatham, lis
executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invention or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or found out by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within this our kingdome or
dominion aforesaid, to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents or priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our
pleasure that the said John Tatham, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome wee lave
already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practise their
several inventions by them respectively found out, according to the true
meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these presents. And lastly, wee

page_text: doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Tatham,
bis executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or
the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things, good, firme,
valid, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of
the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing
of the said Invention, or of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of
makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt
thereof, or any other defect, incertainty or imperfeccon in these psents, or
any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
ID Witnesse, wc.
day of June.
W tnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Iwenty-eighth
By Writt of Privy Seale.