AN ENGINE OF GREAT VSE AND PFITT, BOTH TO VS AND OUR SUBIECT WHEREBY ONE MAN ALONE CAN EASILY DRAWE AS MUCH WATER AS OTHERWISE FOWER, AND ALLSOE HOYSE ALL WEIGHTY THING OUT OF THE SAID TYNN WOORKES
Year: 1634

page_text: WHEREAS our welbeloued subiect and servaunt HANIBALL VYVYAN, Esquire,
by his humble peticon to vs exhibited, hath informed vs that whereas he, the
saide Hanniball Vyvyan, has served vs in the office of Comptroller of our
Coynages of Tynne within our countyes of Cornewall and Devonshire, by the
space of many yeares nowe past, and observing that the tinners there have
been much discouraged in theire woorkes, and leste divers of them un-
wroughte for the greate chardges they are putt vnto in draweing of waters
ought of those tynne mynes, whereof some amounte vnto above three parte
in fower, and some to five parte in sixe of the full value of the tynne gotten
there, the said Hanniball Vyvyan hath, after much paynes and expences,
invented and brought to pfecon "AN ENGINE OF GREAT VSE AND PFITT, BOTH TO
VS AND OUR SUBIECT WHEREBY ONE MAN ALONE CAN EASILY DRAWE AS MUCH
WATER AS OTHERWISE FOWER, AND ALLSOE HOYSE ALL WEIGHTY THING OUT OF
THE SAID TYNN WOORKES," and hath allso humbly besought vs to be graciously
pleased to graunt unto him our Letters Patent of priviledge for the sole
vse and imployment of the said engine by him invented, for such and soe
many yeares as to our royall wisedome shall seeme fit.
KNOWE YEE, that wee, graciouslie favoring and willing to cherishe and
incourage our subiecte in theire iust and lawfull courses and inventons, and
tendring the weale and benefitt that may thereby redowne to our realme and
people, and intending to reward and recompence the industry and chardge of
the said Hanniball Vyvyan expended and bestowed in and vppon the inventing

page_text: and pfecting of the said engine above menconed, by appropriating vnto him for
some terme of yeares the benefitt of this his said Invencon, vppon the humble
peticon of the said Hanniball Vyvyan, and in consideracon of the yearelic rent
in theis Presente reserved and payeable to vs, our heires and successors, of
our especiall grace, Etaine knowledge, and mere močon, have given and graunted,
and by theis Present for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt
vnto the said Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
full and sole licence, liberty, power, priviledge, and authority, that hec, the
said Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by him
or themselues, or by his or theire deputyes, servaunte, woorkemen, or agente,
at all tymes and from tyme to tyme heereafter, for and dureing the terme of
yeares heereafter in theis Presente graunted, shall and may lawfully vsc,
exercise, practise, and put in vre the said engine heerein-before menconed by
him, the said Hanniball Vyvyan, devised, invented, and pfected as aforesaide,
for the draweing and drayning of waters, or raising or hoysing vp of any
great weight out of the said tynne mynes, or any other mynes or places
whatsoever within this our realme of England and domynion of Wales, to
and for his and theire most benefitt, pfit and advantage; and to the end that the
saide Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may have
and enioye the full and whole benefitt and comodity of the said engine soe
by him invented and. brought. to pfeccon as aforesaid, our will and pleasure is,
and by theis Presente, of our more especiall grace, Etaine knowledge, and
mere močon, wee doe, for vs, our heires and successors, straightly chardge and
inhibite all and every pson and psons, of what estate, degree, or condicon
soever, he, they, or any of them bee, that none of them, other then the said
Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or theire
deputyes, servaunte or agente, or some of them, doe or shall dureing the said
terme heereafter in theis sente graunteil, make, vse, or practice, directly or
indirectly, the saide engine soe by him invented and pfected as aforesaide, nor
shall count feite, ymnitate, or resemble the same, nor make any addicon thereto
or substraccon from the same, whereby to tend themselues inventors thereof
without the licence, consent, and agreement of the said Hanniball Vyvyan,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, first had and obtayned in that behalfe,
vppon payne of the losse and forfeiture of all and every such engine and
devise made or to be made contrary to the true intent and meaning of theis
Presente, and such further paynes, penalties, fynes, & imprisonment as can or
may be inflicted vppon such offendor or offendors for theire contempte of our
royall pleasure and comaunde in this. behalfe; to have and to hould the said
licences, littyes, powers, priviledges, and authorityes by theis psente graunted

page_text: or menconed to be graunted vnto the said Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and dureing the terme and to the full end and
terme of fowerteene yeares from henceforth next ensucing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, yeilding and payeing therefore yearelic, and the said
Hanniball Vyvyan, for himselfe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
doth covenant and pmise to and with vs, our heires and successors, by theis
Presente, to yeild and paie vnto vs, our beires and successors, durcing the
said terme heereby graunted, the yearelic rent or some of three pounde of
lawful money of England into the hand of our Receivor Generall of the
Dutchie of Cornewall for the tyme being, or to his deputye, at the Feaste of
St. Michaell Tharchangell yearelie dureing the said terme; and wee doe by
theis sente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and graunte full power
and authority vnto the saide Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators.
and assignes, and his and theire deputyes, servaunte and agente, with the
assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient tyme and
tymes to enter into and make searche in all or any house or houses or other
place and places where any iust cause of suspicon shalbe for discovery and
finding out such as shall have, make, or put in practice or vse the said engine
to the vses aforesaide, or any other vse or vses contrary to the true intent and
meaning of theis Presente, to the end the delinquent, being discovered, may
receive condigne punishement, according to theire demeritte. And wee doc by
theis Presente, for us, our heires and successors, will and comaunde the
treasorer, chauncellor, vndertreasorer, and barons of the exchequer, and all
and singuler, mayors, sherriffe, iustices of peace, bayliffe, constables, head-
boroughes, and other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors
for the tyme being, that they and every of them from tyme to tyme durcing
the terme aforesaide be ayding, helping, and assisting to the said Hanniball
Vyvyan, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and his and theire deputyes,
servaunt and agente, in and by all thinge, and in and about the accomplishe-
ment of our pleasure heerein declared, and in the exercise and execution of
the said premisses heereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesaide,
and that they or any of them doc not at any tyme hinder, molest, or interrupte
the saide Hanniball Vyvyan, bis executors, administrators, deputyes, or assignes,
or any of them, in anywise concerning the premises, as they tender our royall
pleasure, and will avoyde the contrary at theire perille, and theis our Letters
Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe theire sufficient warrant in that behalf:
Provided alwaies, that if the saide yearelie rent hereby reserved as aforesaide
shall happen to be behinde and vnpaide in part or in all by the space of thirtie
daies next after the said feaste in which the same is lymitted to be paide as

page_text: aforesaide, or if the saide Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, shall not enrol this our present graunt before the auditor of the
Dutchie of Cornewall for the tyme being within sixe monethes next after the
date heereof, that then the said Hanniball Vyvyan, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall forfeite and paie to vs, our heires and successors,
aswell the some of twentic shillinge, noie pene, for every moneth in which
the said rent shalbe behind next after the said thirtie daies as aforesaide, and
allsoe twentie shilling (noie pene) for every sixe monethes defaulte of the
inrollment of theis Presente, before the said auditor of our Dutchie of Corne-
wall for the tyme being as aforesaide; provided allsoe, and our will and
pleasure is, that if at any time dureing the said terme of fowerteene yeares, if
it shall appeare to vs, our heires and successors, or vnto the lorde and others
of the Privy Councell of vs, our heires or successors, that this graunt is
contrary to our lawes, or in any sort mischeiveous to the state, that then,
vppon significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy scale, or from the lord and others
of the Privy Councell, or sixe or more of them, of such Piudice and inconve
nience, theis our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determyne, and be
utterly voyd to all intent and purposes, any thing heerein contained to the
contrary nothwithstanding. And wee doe heereby graunt for vs, our heires
and successors, vnto the said Haniball Vyvyan, bis executors, administrators,
and assignes, that theis our Letters Patente, or the inrollment therof, shalbe
firme, good, and effectual, according to the true meaning of the same, notwith-
standing the not describing or not taine describing of the manner, forme, or
fashion of the said engine, and notwithstanding any other defect, impfecüon,
or incertainty in this our sent graunt, or any acte, statute, ordynaunce,
pvision, or restriccon to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding,
althoughe expresse mencon, &c.
In wittnes, &c.
Wittnes our selfe at Westin, the Fowerteenth daie of