A CERTAIN MACHINE OR ENGINE, WHICH BY THE POWER OF THE ATMOSPHERE, WOULD EFFECTUALLY DRAW THE WATER OUT OF ALL MINES AND COLLYERIES, AT A VERY SMALL, CHARGE AND EXPENCE
Year: 1722

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved MARTIN TRIEWALD, of Newcastle-
vpon-Tine, Gentleman, hath, by his petition, humbly represented vnto vs, that
he had by much study and at great expence, found out and invented "A CERTAIN
MACHINE OR ENGINE, WHICH BY THE POWER OF THE ATMOSPHERE, WOULD EFFECTUALLY
DRAW THE WATER OUT OF ALL MINES AND COLLYERIES, AT A VERY SMALL, CHARGE
AND EXPENCE," which would be of great benefit to all our subiecte dealing in
mines and collyeries, and might also supply towns with water, and be appli-
cable to other vses, and having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal
Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefit of his said new Inventon, within
England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years, according to the Statute in such case made and provided, wee being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the
publick vse and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
vs, our heirs and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Martin
Triewald, his executors, administrators, and assignes especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge, and authority, that he, the said Martin Triewald, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servantf, or agents, or such

page_text: others as he, the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, during the
term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and
vend his said new Invenčon of a certain machine or engine for drawing water
out of mines and collyeries by the power of the atmosphere, as above described
within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner, as
to him, the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said
Martin Friewald, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully
may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, and accrewing and ariseing by reason of
the said Invencon, for and during the term of yeares herein menčoned; to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or menčoned to be granted, to be granted
vnto the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for
and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the
date of these Presents next and imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided. And to
the end that the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the
sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious intencon
herein-before declared, wee do by these Present for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name, or condition soever, they be within that
said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, aforesaid, that neither they or any
of them at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years
hereby granted either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invenčon or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said Martin
Triewald as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writing vnder his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal command, and further

page_text: to be answerable to the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, according to law for his and their damages thereby occasioned.
And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will
and command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heirs and successors for the time being, that they or any of them do not,
nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Martin Triewald, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon,
or any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents
are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said term
hereby granted it shall be made appear 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 preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in
that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by
the said Martin Triewald as aforesaid, then vpon signification or declaracon
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our-or. their signet or
privy seal, 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 Patente shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any
thing berein-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
Provided also, and these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been,
found out or invented by any other of our subiectf whatsoever and publickly.
vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,.
vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that.
the said Martin Triewald, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice, their.
several Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent
and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these Presents:
Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this.;

page_text: express condičon, that if the said Martin Triewald, his executors, adminis-
trators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or times
hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claime any right, title,
or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority
of the solo vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted shall make
any transferr or assignment or any pretended transferr or assignem of
the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or
profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of
persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened
any book or books for publick subscriptions to be made for any number of
persons exceeding the number of five in order to the raising any sume or
sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants receive any sume or sums of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the like intents
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patents or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs
granted into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
commit or do or procure to be committed or done any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever during such time as such person shall have any right or title either
in law or equity in or to the said premisses which will be contrary to the true
intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of
our reign, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Pri-
viledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance
of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein men-
čoned,) if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case the
said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested
in or in trust for more than the number of five persons, or their representatives,
at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators or administrators as
and for the single person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are
or shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate,) that then
and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patent and all liberties, privi-
ledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine,
and become void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presente, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said Martin Triewald, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente or the inrollment or
exemplificacon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient,

page_text: and effectual in the law according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and
shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial
sense for the best advantage of the said Martin Triewald, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes as well in all Courte of Record as elswhere, and by all
and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and succes-
sors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and amongst all and
every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.