A MATHEMATICALL MACHINE THAT WILL EFFECTUALLY DRAINE ALL MANNER OF MINES AND MEARES, AND CONSEQUENTLY PRODUCE A DESIREABLE PROFIT TO OUR SUBIECTS WHO HAVE ANY MINES OR LANDS WHICH BE OVERFLOWED AND RUINED BY WATER, AND WILL ALSO VERY DEXTROUSLY RAISE VP ANY SHIP SUNCK AT SEA, AND SECURE THEM FROM THE DANGERS WHICH MAY HAPPEN BY SPRINGING OF LEAXES, MUCH EXCEEDING ANY DEVICE HERETOFORE VSED IN SUCH CASES
Year: 1693

page_text: Psents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN BUSHNELL hath by his humble petition represented vito
vs, that he hath by his owne industry invented "A MATHEMATICALL MACHINE
THAT WILL EFFECTUALLY DRAINE ALL MANNER OF MINES AND MEARES, AND
CONSEQUENTLY PRODUCE A DESIREABLE PROFIT TO OUR SUBIECTS WHO HAVE ANY
MINES OR LANDS WHICH BE OVERFLOWED AND RUINED BY WATER, AND WILL ALSO
VERY DEXTROUSLY RAISE VP ANY SHIP SUNCK AT SEA, AND SECURE THEM FROM THE
DANGERS WHICH MAY HAPPEN BY SPRINGING OF LEAXES, MUCH EXCEEDING ANY DEVICE
HERETOFORE VSED IN SUCH CASES," and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our
Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere
motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John Bushnell, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said John Bushnell, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their deputy and
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said John Bushnell, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe
others, from time to time and at all times during the terme of yeares herein

page_text: expressed, shall and lawfully may vsc, exercise, and enioy the said Invention
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our
Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
and all and every or any of our kingdoms and dominions whatsoever, in such
manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limittacons as
to him, the said John Bushnell, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet: And that be, the said John
Bushnell, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time
comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing
the full terme of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
menconed to be granted vnto the said John Bushnell, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensucing,
and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case made
and provided And to the end that the said John Bushnell, his executors,
'administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and
the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention according to our gratious
'intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within all and every
our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any time
durcing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,
cither directly or indirectly, doe make, vse, or put in practise the said Invention,
or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said John Bushnell as afore-
said, nor shall in anywise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make
or cause to be made any addition thereto or substracčon from the same
whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisers thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Bushnell, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing, vnder his, their, or some of their hands
and scales 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
royall command: And further, to be answerable to the said John Bushnell, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned: And wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our
leires and successors, will and command all and singular justices of the peace,

page_text: mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, that
they or any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the
said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Bushnell, bis executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their
deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention or anything relating thereto: Provided alwaies, and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condiĉon, that if at any
time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill that this
our grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and
found out by the said John Bushnell as aforesaid; then, vpon signification
and declaraĉon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our
or their signett or privy seale, or by the lords and 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, any thing before herein contained to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding: Provided also that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said John Bushnell, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any Inventon or worke whatsoever which hath been
heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any of
them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already
granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said John Bushnell, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practise their severall Inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Bushnell, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof; and shall
be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense

page_text: for the best advantage of the said John Bushnell, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and
singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
in all and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all
and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, notwithstanding the
not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention,
or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
: In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves, at Westminster, the Seaven-and-