SUCH A WAY FOR CONVERTING STONE AND CHALKE INTO LIME, THAT BY THE HEATE THEREOF WATER AND OTHER LIQUORS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE HEAT OR BOYLED, AND MADE FITT FOR SEVERALL VSES
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and wellbeloved JOHN GREEN, Gentleman, bath,
by his humble petition, represented vnto vs that, by his study and industry, and
great expence, he has invented and found out "SUCH A WAY FOR CONVERTING
STONE AND CHALKE INTO LIME, THAT BY THE HEATE THEREOF WATER AND OTHER
LIQUORS OR LIQUIDS MAY BE HEAT OR BOYLED, AND MADE FITT FOR SEVERALL
VSES," which will be of publick advantage, and was never yet practised,
and hath 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, and willing to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant, vnto the said John'
Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power, sole pri-
viledge and authority, that he, the said John Greene, his executors, admi-
nistrators, 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.
Green, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall at any time agree
with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the
terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse; exercise,

page_text: 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
kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons as to him, the said John Greene,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discretions seeme meet, and that the said John Greene, his executors, admi-
nistrators, 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
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto
the said John Green, his executors, administrators, 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 Green, 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
doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly.
comand all and every person and persons; bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subiects 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 dureing the continuance of
the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
doc vse or put in practise the said Invention, or any part of the same
soe, attained vnto by the said John Greene, as aforesaid, 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 inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or.
agreement of the said John Green, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hands 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 royall comand,
and further to be answerable to the said John Greene, his exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned; and, moreover, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors,
sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever,

page_text: of vs, our heires and successors, that neither they nor any of them doe
or shall, at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted,
in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Greene, his 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 any thing relateing thereto: Provided allwaise, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, 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 Greene, as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and decla-
ration thereof 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 their Privy Councill,
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 any wise notwithstanding:
Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything therein contained,
shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said
John Greene, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invention 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 realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto
whome like letters Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said John Greene, 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
several 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 suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said John Greene, 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, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best
advantage of the said John Green, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
as well in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the

page_text: 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 subiccts of vs, our heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever,
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 One and