MISTERY OF CASTING AND MAKEING HOLLOW PEWTER OR BLOCK TYNN BUTTONS
Year: 1683

page_text: these sente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS RICHARD MAUNDRELL and JOHN WILLIAMS have by their humble
peticon informed vs that they were the first Inventers of the "MISTERY OF
CASTING AND MAKEING HOLLOW PEWTER OR BLOCK TYNN BUTTONS," and finding an
abuse creeping into the piudice of the said commodity, by makeing the same
with lead and other baser mettalle by the same psons they instructed in the
said mistery, to the great damage of our subiecte and the obstruccon of
forreigne vent alsoe, and to the end the said Invenčon and manufacture may
be reduced to itf first goodnesse, creditt, and service, which will create a
livelyhood for many poore impotent people, and a great advantage in generall
to our subiecte in the cheapenesse and durablenesse, haveing humbly besought
vs to grant vnto them our Letters Patent for the sole casting and makeing of
such hollowe pewter or block tynn buttons for the terme of foureteene yeares
as being the first Inventers thereof; out of our princely inclinacon to pmote
and encourage such invenčons as may be of publick vse and benefitt, wee are
graciously pleased to condescend vnto their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these psents, for vs,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Richard Maundrell

page_text: and John Williams, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Richard
Maundrell and John Williams, theire executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, by themselves, or their deputy and deputys, servant or
agent, or such others as the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall att any tyme agree with, and
noe others, from tyme to tymic and att all tymes durcinge the terme of yeares
hereafter in these Psente expssed, shall and lawfully may vse, excise, and
enioy the said Invenčon within any part or parte, place or places whatsoever
of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and all
and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitaĉons as to them,
the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, their executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discreccons seem meet, and
that they, the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt,
pffitt, comodity, and advantage from tyme to tyme comeing, groweing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenĉon for and dureing the full terme of yeares
hereafter menconed, to have, hold, excise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, theire executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fouretéene yeares from the day of the date of these psente next and ime-
diately ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the Statute
in this case made and pvided; and to the end that the said Richard Maundrell
and John Williams, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may 'enioy the full benefitt, and the sole vse and excise of the said
Invenčon, according to our gracious intencons herein-before declared, wee doe
by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every pson and psons, bodys politique and corporate, and all other our
subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever
they be, within all and every our kingdomes, and dominions, that neither they
nor any of them at any tyme durcing the continueance of the said terme of
foureteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or putt
in practise the said Invenĉon or any part, of the same soe atteyned vnto by the
said Richard Maundrell and John Williams as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise
counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
aldicion thereto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves the

page_text: inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, theire executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writeing vnder their or some of their hand and seales first had
and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or may
be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall
command, and further, to be answerable to the said Richard Maundrell and John
Williams, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
their damages thereby occasioned to be susteyned. And wee doe further, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, theire
executors, administrators, and assignes, by these psente, that they and every
of them, their and every of their deputys, agente, and servante, haveing first
obteyned a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's
Bench at West for the tyme being, and with the assistance of a constable or
any other lawful officer, at convenient tymes in the day durcinge the terme
hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any
place or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or dominions where
there shalbe just cause of suspicou for the discovery and finding out of all and
every pson and psons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated or shall vse or
put in practise the sayd Invenčon, or shall make or counterfeite any instru-
ment or materialle to the same belonging, that soc such offenders may be
pceeded against and punished according to law.. And further, wee doe by
these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command all
and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffe, constables, head:
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, for the tyme being, aswell within our Kingdome of England
and Dominion of Wales as within all and every other our kingdomes and
dominions, that they and every of them respectively be, from tyme to tyme
dureinge the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, favouring,
aydinge, helping, and assisting vnto the said Richard Maundrell and John
Williams, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and to their and every
of their deputy and deputys, servante and agente, in and by all things in and
aboute the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein before
declared, and in the excise and execucon of the powers and priviledges hereby
granted, as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and command that our said respective officers, and
ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall att any tyme
hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or

page_text: hinder the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, or either of them, theire
or either of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any or either of their
deputys, servante, or agente, in or aboute the due and lawfull vse or excise of
the aforesayd Invenčon, or any thing relateing thereto: pvided always, and
these our Letters Patente are and shalbe vpon this condičon, that if at any tyme
dureing the said terme hereby granted itt shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires,
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our
grant is contrary to law or Piudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall,
or that the said Invenĉon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and excise
thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said
Richard Maundrell and John Williams as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon
and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our
or their signet or privy seale, 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
Patent shall, forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intent and
purposes, any thinge before herein conteyned to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding pvided also, that these our Letters Patente, or any thing
therein conteyned shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenĉon or worke
whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any other
of our subiect whatsoever and publickly vsed or excised within our said
realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patente of priviledg for the sole vse, excise, and benefitt thereof,
itt being our will and pleasure that the said Richard Maundrell and John
Williams, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other pson and psons to whom 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 same respective Letters Patente and of these psente.
And lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment
thereof, shalbe in and by all thing good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for
the best advantage of the said Richard Maundrell and John Williams, theire
executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courte of Record as

page_text: 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 what-
soever, and amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors,
whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine de-
scribeing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialle thereto
conduceing and belonging, or any other defecte, or incertainetys in these
Psente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, pelamačon, or
restricčon, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westm, the Fyve-and-twentieth
day of Aprill.
By Writt of Privy Seale, &c.