A NEW INVENTION, BEING SEVERALL SORTS OF FURNACES, VESSELLS, WAYES, AND MEANES THAT NEVER BEFORE WERE KNOWNE, FOR THE CHEAPER EXTRACTING ALL METTALLINE BODIES, PER- TICULERLY GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND TINN, OUT OF THEIR OARES OR MINERALS, AND REDUCEING THEM INTO THEIR RESPECTIVE MALLEABLE METTALLS, AND BY THE SAID WAYES GOLD AND SILVER IS TAKEN OUT OF LEAD AND ITS ORE WITHOUT THE LEAD'S BEING DIMINISHED IN VALUE, GOLD AND SILVER IN LIKE MANNER OUT OF COPPER AND ITS ORE, WITHOUT THE COPPER'S BEING DIMINISHED IN VALUE, GOLD SEDATED FROM SILVER AT SMALL CHARGES, AND MANY OARES AND MINERALS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND TINNE, THAT ARE SOE POORE IN REYALI. METALL AS HERETOFORE THEY WOLD NOT BEARE THE EXPENCE AND CHARGE OP SEPERATEING, WILL BY THESE MEANES BE WROUGHT TO VERY GREAT PROFITT
Year: 1687

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved Sir ROBERT CLERK, Knight, ROBERT
BRENT, and TALBOT CLERK, Esquires, have by their humble petičon informed vs
that with great expence and labour they have found out "A NEW INVENTION,
BEING SEVERALL SORTS OF FURNACES, VESSELLS, WAYES, AND MEANES THAT NEVER
BEFORE WERE KNOWNE, FOR THE CHEAPER EXTRACTING ALL METTALLINE BODIES, PER-
TICULERLY GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND TINN, OUT OF THEIR OARES OR MINERALS,
AND REDUCEING THEM INTO THEIR RESPECTIVE MALLEABLE METTALLS, AND BY THE
SAID WAYES GOLD AND SILVER IS TAKEN OUT OF LEAD AND ITS ORE WITHOUT
THE LEAD'S BEING DIMINISHED IN VALUE, GOLD AND SILVER IN LIKE MANNER OUT
OF COPPER AND ITS ORE, WITHOUT THE COPPER'S BEING DIMINISHED IN VALUE, GOLD
SEDATED FROM SILVER AT SMALL CHARGES, AND MANY OARES AND MINERALS OF
GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND TINNE, THAT ARE SOE POORE IN REYALI.
METALL AS HERETOFORE THEY WOLD NOT BEARE THE EXPENCE AND CHARGE OP
SEPERATEING, WILL BY THESE MEANES BE WROUGHT TO VERY GREAT PROFITT;"
and the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, humbly
praying vs to grant vnto them for their encouragement our Letters Patents
for the sole vse of their said Invenčon for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided.
KNOW YE THEREFORE, that wec, being willing to cherish and promote
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vseful and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
to the end that the said Sir Robert Clerk, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke,
may reape some fruit and benefitt of their labour and charge, in and
concerning the misses, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and meere
motion, have given and granted, and by these sents doe give and grant vnto

page_text: the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Grent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, power, priviledge, and authority,
that they or any of them, by themselves, their or any of their deputies, servants,
agents, and workmen, and such others onely as they, the said Sir Robert
Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times
bercafter dureing the space of fourteen yeares next enseing the date of these
Psents, at their or some of their owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse,
teach, exercise, and put in practise the said new Invenčon or Invenĉons soe
contrived and found out as aforesaid in any place or places within our kingdome
of England and dominion of Wales, and alsoe shall and may receive, take,
and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and
by the said Invention or Inventions to be bad, made, acquired, or gotten, to
their and every of their own proper benefitt, vse, and vses, and to
and for noe other vse or purpose whatsoever, other then as hereafter is
expressed; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said license, powers,
priviledges, and authorities, and all other the misses by these psents granted
or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent
and Talbot Clerk, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
dureing and to the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day
of the date of these presents next ensucing, and fully to be compleate
and ended, according to the statute in that case made and provided. And to
the end the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, may according to the intent
and meaneing of these psents the better enioye the benefitt, vse, and
exercise of their said new Invenĉon or Invenĉons, wee doe by these
sents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and
comand all and every pson and persons, bodies politick and corporate, of
what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within our said
kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, that neither they nor any of
them, durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly, doc vsc, exercise, or put in practise the said Invenčon or
Invenčons, or any part thereof, soe by the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert
Brent, and Talbot Clerke, invented or found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor
shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the said new Invenčon or Invenčons,
or any part thereof, nor doe nor shall make any addition thereto nor sub-
stracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisers
thereof, without the license, consent, or agreement of the said Sir Robert
Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, or some of them, their or some of
their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing ynder their or some of

page_text: their hands and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offender or offenders
for the contempt of this our royall comandm³, and further to be answerable
to the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerk, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of the
law, for his and their damages thereby susteined; and further, wee doe by
these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that they and every of
them, their and every of their deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first
obtained a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court
of King's Bench for the time being, with the assistance of a constable or
other lawfull officer (aswell within liberties as without), at convenient times
in the day durcing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, shall and may
make search in any place or places within our said kingdome of England and
dominion of Wales where there shall be iust cause of suspition for discovering
and findeing out of all pson and persons as shall imitate, make, or vse, or
cause to be imitated, made, or, vsed, within our kingdome or dominion
aforesaid, the said new Invenĉon or Invenčons soe by the said Sir Robert
Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, found out and invented as afore-
said, that soe such offender may be proceeded against and punished according
to his and their demerrits, and his and their ptended inventions and workes
then and there found may be seized vpon, broken in peices, defaced and
spoiled, and the materialls thereof left in the hands and custody of some con
stable or other officer, to be disposed of in such manner as wee, our heires
or successors, shall from time to time direct and appoint; 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, maiors,
sheriffes, 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 them respec
tively 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, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Sir
Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, admi-
Distrators, 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 execučon of the severall powers and priviledges hereby
granted, as aforesaid; and moreover wee doe by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and

page_text: ministers before menconed, or any of them, doc not nor shall at any time
hereafter durcing the terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or
binder the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, or any of
them, their or any of their executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies,
agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Inventon or
Invenčons, or any part thereof, or anything relateing therevnto: Provided
alwaies, that these our Letters Patent, or any thing therein conteined, shall not
extend or be construed to give priviledge vnto the said Sir Robert Clerke,
Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerk, their 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 our kingdome of England or dominion of Wales aforesaid, 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
Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome wee
have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vsc and practise
their severall inventions by them respectively found out, according to the
true intent and meaning of such our Letters Patents, and of these psents.
And further, wee doe for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Sir
Robert Clerk, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, that they and every of them shall and may, dureing the first six
yeares of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, take and receive all
and singular the profitts, sumes of money, and advantages growing and ariseing
by the said Invenčon or Invenčons, to their own vse and vses for their reim-
bursment of the charges and expences by them susteined and to be susteined
in bringing the said Invenĉon or Inventons into practise, without any account
or other thing to be rendred vnto vs, our heires or successors, for the same,
dureing the first six yeares of the said-terme: Provided always, and the said
Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Breut, and Talbot Clerke doc, for themselves, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, covenant, promise, and agree to and
with vs, our heires and successors, by these psents, that they, the said
Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, shall and will well and truly account for, answer, satisfic,
and pay vnto the Exchequer of vs, our heires and successors, for the vse of vs,
our heires and successors, yearly, one full moyety of all the clear profitts, sumes
of money, and advantages which shall from time to time, durcing the remaineing
eight yeares of the said terme after the expiracon of the said six yeares, be had,
made, or received by them the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and
Talbot Clerke, their executors, adiis, or assignes, for or out of the said

page_text: Invenčon or Invenčons, over and above all costs, charges, and expences from
time to time susteined in and concerning the same; provided alsoe, that it shall
and may be lawful to and for the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert Brent, and
Talbot Clerke, their executors, administrators, and assignes, from time to time
durcing the said eight yeares to receive and keepe in their hands the other
moyety of the clear profitts aforesaid, to their owne proper vse and vses, any
thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided furthermore,
that if at 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 Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law, or pre-
indiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invenĉon or
Invencons before menconed is or are not a new invenčon or new invencons
as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found out
by the said Sir Robert Clerke. Robert Brent, and Talbot Clerke, as aforesaid,
then vpon significaĉon or declaracon of such piudice or inconveniency to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale,
or by the lords and others of our or theire Privy Councel, or any six or more
of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth with cease,
determine, and be void to all intents and purposes, any thing before herein
conteined to the contrary notwithstanding. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for
vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Sir Robert Clerke, Robert
Brent, and Talbot Clerke, their exccutors, 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 purport and true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine describeing, setting forth, or menconing the said Inventon or
Invenĉons, or of the materialls, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or
exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse, benefit, or vallue thereof, or
any other defect, incertainty, or impfeccon in these sents conteined, or any
act, statute, provision, proclamaĉon, or restriccon, or any other matter, cause,
or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, the Five and twentieth