A NEW INVENTION, BEING SEVERALL TOOLES, ENGINES, OR INSTRUMENTS (TO BE WROUGHT WITHOUT DIVEING) FOR THE WEIGHING OR RECOVERING FROM VNDER WATER, SHIPP GUNNS AND GOODS, BY ANY ACCIDENT SHIPWRECKT OR LOST IN HARBOUR OR AT SEA
Year: 1680

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND &C.,
greeting.
ome these presents sman
WHEREAS, our trusty and welbeloved subjects WILLIAM HARRINGTON, of
London, Mariner, CORNELIUS DEGELDER, and SAMUEL SOWTON, of London,
Merchants, have humbly represented vnto vs, that with great charge and
paines they have found out "A NEW INVENTION, BEING SEVERALL TOOLES,
ENGINES, OR INSTRUMENTS (TO BE WROUGHT WITHOUT DIVEING) FOR THE WEIGHING
OR RECOVERING FROM VNDER WATER, SHIPP GUNNS AND GOODS, BY ANY ACCIDENT
SHIPWRECKT OR LOST IN HARBOUR OR AT SEA," and have therevpon humbly
besought to grant them our Letters Patents, for the sole vse of such their
Invention.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being desireous to incourage the inventers of
such arts as may be of publick vse and advantage, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meer moĉon, have given and granted, and by these
Psents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said
William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuell Souton, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power, priviledge,
and authority, that they and their workmen and servants, and noe other, shall
or may during the terme of fourteen years next ensueing the date hereof, vse,
practise, exercise, enioy, and put in execučon the said art or Invention, within
our kingdomes of England and Ireland and other dominions, in such manner as
to them shall seem meet, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage

page_text: ariseing thereby or by reason thereof, to have, hold, and enjoy the said lycence,
power, privilege, and authority, and other the pmisses hereby granted or intended
to be granted to the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel
Sowton, their executors, administrators, & assignes, from the day of the date
of these presents, for and during the terme of fourteen years from thence next
ensueing, fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in that
case made and provided, and to the end that they, the said William Harring
ton, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole
benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, aswell within
liberties as without, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly charge and comand all and every person and persons,
bodyes politique and corporate, that they or any of them doe not or shall not
during the terme of years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, vse or
put in practise or execučon the said art or Invencon, nor doe or shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addi-
tion therevnto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend themselves
the inventers or devisors thereof, withou the lycence, consent, or agreement
of the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their hands and
seales first bad and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes
as can or may be inflicted on such offenders, for the contempt of this our
comand, and further to be answerable to the said William Harrington,
Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for their damages susteined thereby. And further, wee doe by these
Psents, for vs, our heires & successors, give and grant vnto the said William Har-
rington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton, their executors, adññiors, and
assignes, full power and authority, that they and every of them, they and every of
their deputys, servants, or agents, or any of them, (haveing first obteined a warrant
in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's Bench for
the time being) may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer,
asswell within liberties as without, vpon request, at convenient times in the day,
dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make serch in any
place or places where there shall be just cause of such suspicion for discovering
and findeing out of all such persons as shall within the terme of fourteen
years imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art
or Invenčon aforesaid, that soe offenders may be proceeded against and punished
according to their demeritts. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular

page_text: our admiralls, vice admiralls, governers of forts and castles, in or vpon all
rivers, harbours, ports, and crecks, within our dominions, and all other their
subordinate officers, and all and singular justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
aswell civil as military as marine, of vs, our heires and successors, for the
time being, that they and every of them respectively from time to time during
the said terme hereby granted in their respective places, favouring, aiding,
and assisting vnto the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and
Samuel Sowton, their executors, adññiors, & assignes, and to every of their
deputy and deputies, agents and servants, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishing of our will and pleasure herein declared, & the vse, excrcise,
and execution of the powers, priviledges, and authorityes herein and hereby
given and granted, or meant, menconed to be given and granted as aforesaid,
and moreover that they nor any of them shall at any time hereafter molest,
hinder, or interupt the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and
Samuel Sowton, or any of them, their or any of their executors, adiñiors,
or assignes, or any of their deputy or deputies, agents, or servants, or any
of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said Invenčon, or in any
matter or thing concerning the same: Provided allwayes, that if any time
during the said terme of fourteene years, it shall be made appear to
vs, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy
Councell, that this grant is piudicial or inconveniant to our cōmon wealth,
or that the said art or Invention is not a new Invenĉon of the said
William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Souton, or one of
them, as to the vse, and practise thereof, within our kingdome of England and
dominion of Wales, then vpon significacon and declaracon to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lords
and others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them, for the time being, in
writeing vnder their hands, of such preiudice and inconveniance, these our Letters
Patents, and all things therein conteined shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before conteined
to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents, or any thing herein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledg vnto the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder,
and Samuel Sowton, or any of them, they or any of their executors, adiñiors,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found
out or invented by any other person or persons, and publickly exercised in
our kingdome of England, or dominion of Wales, vnto whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge, for the sole vse and

page_text: benefitt thereof, itt being our 'will and pleasure that the said William Har-
rington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton, their executors, admors, and
assignes, and all other person and persons to whome wee have already granted
-our like Letters Patents or priviledge, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patents, and of
the presents. And lastly, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, grant vnto the said William Harrington, Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel
Sowton, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, valid,
sufficient and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of
these presents, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged most favorably and
,beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said William Harrington,
Cornelius Degelder, and Samuel Sowton, their executors, aduiors, and assignes,
aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine discribeing of the said art or Invention, or of the certaine vse or
benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects or incertainties in
these presents contained, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, or restraint
.to the contrary in anywise notwithstand.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westminster, this Fourth day
of March