A CERTAIN NEW-INVENTED EXPERIMENT BY THE VSE OF SEA- COALE OR PITTCOALE, TO MELT OR SMELT DOWN ALL SORTS OF IRON OARE, IRON, IRON STONE, SLAGGS, CINDERS, OLD BROKEN CAST OR HAMERD IRON, AND OTHER. MATERIALLS, AND TO REPINE AND MAKE THE SAME INTO GOOD AND MERCHANTABLE BARR IRON AND OTHER IRON, AND ALSOE INTO GUNNS, BULLETTS, AND OTHER VTENSILLS
Year: 1692

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS ADDISON, Esquire, hath, by his humble petičon,
represented vnto vs that he, with great industry, study, and expence, hath
(together with the severall persons concerned with him) brought to practice
and perfeccon "A CERTAIN NEW-INVENTED EXPERIMENT BY THE VSE OF SEA-
COALE OR PITTCOALE, TO MELT OR SMELT DOWN ALL SORTS OF IRON OARE, IRON,
IRON STONE, SLAGGS, CINDERS, OLD BROKEN CAST OR HAMERD IRON, AND OTHER.
MATERIALLS, AND TO REPINE AND MAKE THE SAME INTO GOOD AND MERCHANTABLE
BARR IRON AND OTHER IRON, AND ALSOE INTO GUNNS, BULLETTS, AND OTHER
VTENSILLS," and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for
the sole vsc, exercise, and benefitt of the said Invention within our king-
domes of England and Ireland, for the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and en-
courage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by
their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and invenčons,
and that the said Thonias Addison may accordingly reape some fruit and
benefit of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted,
and by these presents doe give and grant, vnto the said Thomas Addison,
his exécutors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge
and authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and
their deputies, servants, agents, workmen, and such others onely as he, the
said Thomas Addison, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree

page_text: with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing
the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these presents, at his
and their own proper costs and charges, crect, vse, teach, exercise, and put
in practice the said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as
aforesaid in any place or places within our kingdome of England and Ireland,
and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts,
comodities, and advantages of and by the said new Invenčon to be had,
made, acquired, or gotten to his and their own proper benefit, vse and vses,
to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, powers, pri-
viledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by these presents granted
or menconed to be granted vnto the said Thomas Addison, 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 compleate and ended, according to the statute in that case made
and provided. And to the end the said Thomas Addison, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, may the better cnioy the full and whole bene-
fitt and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Invention, wee doe, by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and
command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate,
of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within our said
kingdomes of England and Ireland, that neither they nor any of them, dureing
the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said new Invention soe by the said
Thomas Addison invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall coun-
terfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new Invenĉon, or any materialls or
ingredients thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addition there-
unto or substracčon therefrom, whereby to tend themselves the inventers
or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
Thomas Addison, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder
his or their hands and seales first had and obteyned 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 Thomas Addison, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and their damages thereby
susteined. And further wee doe, by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and command all and singular
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
now and for the time being, whome it may concerne, that they and every of

page_text: them respectively be, from time to time durcing the terme hereby granted, in
their respective offices, and according to their and every of their best skills
and endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Thomas Addison,
his exccutors, 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, doe not;
nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the terme hereby granted, in any
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas Addison, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, deputys, agents, or servants, in or about the vso
or exercise of the aforesaid Invenĉon, or any part thereof, or any thing
relateing thereto: Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and
shall be vpon this condičon, that if att any time dureing the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, it shall be made appeare 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 subiects in
generall, or that the Invention before menčoned is not a new invenčon as
to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found
out or brought to perfeccon by the said Thomas Addison as aforesaid, then,
vpon significačon and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be
made by vs, our heires or sucessors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale,
or by the lords or others of our or their Privy Council, 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, anything herein-
before conteyned to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe,
that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said Thomas Ad:lison,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, to imitate any invencon or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or found out by any other
of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within our kingdomes
aforesaid, or either of them, to whome wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being
our will and pleasure that the said Thomas Addison, his exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all other persons to whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their several in-
ventions by them respectively found out, according to the true meaning of
such our Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee doc hereby,

page_text: for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Addison, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
enrollment thereof, shall bee 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 certain describeing or menconing
of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of
makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or the certain vse or benefitt
thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfecčon in these presents, or
any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding Provided alwaies, and our will and pleasure is, that these our
Letters Patents shall be enrolled in our Court of Chancery, in our said king-
dome of Ireland, within the space of one yeare next ensucing.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westin, the Twenty-nineth day