A NEW WAY OR INSTRUMENT FOR THE WINDING OF SILKE
Year: 1681

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to home these p'sent nan come,
greeting.
WHEREAS we have been informed by our trusty and wellbeloved JoHN
JOACHUN BECHER that, with great charge and pains, he hath found out and
discovered "A NEW WAY OR INSTRUMENT FOR THE WINDING OF SILKE," never
before found out or vsed by any other, which, being put into practice, may be
of great advantage to our subiects in generall, and hath humbly besought vs.
to grant vnto him Letters Patente, vnder our Great Seale of England, to
impower and enable him to putt in execučon the said Invenčon, to continue
for the terme of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that behalfe made.
NOW KNOW YE, that wee, being desireous to encourage the Inventors
of such art as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certeyne knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psente doe give and grant, for vs, our heirs and successors, vnto the said
Joachun Becher, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence,.
full and sole power, priviledge and authority, that he and they, and his and
their workemen, servante, and agente, and noc other, shall or may, durcing
the terme of fourteen years next ensueing the date hereof, vse, practice,
exercise, cuioy, and put in execučon the said art or Invenčon, within our
Kingdome of England, or any other our Dominions, in such manner as to
him & them shall seem meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and
advantage ariseing thereby, or by reason thereof: To have, hold, and enioy the
said lycence, power, priviledge, and authority, & other the misses hereby

page_text: granted, or intended to be granted, to the said John Joachun Becher, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, from the day of the
date of these sente, for and dureing the terme of fourteen years from thence
next ensucing, fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided. And to the end that bec, the said John Joachun
Becher, his executors, administrators, and assignes, & every of them, may the
better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of the
said Invencon, aswell within libtyes as without, we doe by these psente, for
vs, our heirs and successors, require and strictly charge and command all and
every pson and psons, bodyes politick & corporate, that they, or any of them,
doe not nor shall not, dureing the terme of years hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly, vse or put in practice or execucon the said art or
invenčon, nor doe or shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe
or shall make any addicon thereunto or substraccon from the same, whereby
to Ptend themselves inventors or the devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said John Joachun Becher, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hande and seales, first
had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penaltyes as can
or may be inflicted on such offenders for the contempt.of this our command,
and further to bee answerable to the said John Joachun Becher, his executors,
administrators, & assignes, for his or their damages susteyncil, thereby. And
further, we doe by these psente, for vs, our heirs and successors, give and
grant vuto the said John Joachun Becher, his executors; administrators, and
assignes, full power & authority, that hee, they, and every of them, his,
their, & every of their deputyes, servant, or agent, or any of them;
haveing first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice
of the Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of
a cunstable, or any other lawful officer, as well within libertyes as without,
vpon request at convenient tymes in the day, durcing the tyme afores, & in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any place or places, where there
shall be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of all such
psons as shall, within the s terme of fourteen years, imitate, or cause to be
imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art or Invenčon afores", that soe
such offenders may be peeded against and punished according to their
demeritte. And further we doe by these psente, for vs, our heirs and
successors, will, authorise, & require all and singuler justices of the peace,
inayors, sherriffes, bayliffes, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers
of vs, our heirs and successors, for the tyme being, that they & every of them
respectively be, from tyme to tynie durcing the said terme hereby granted, in

page_text: their respective places, favouring, ayding, helping, & assisting vnto the said
John Joachun Becher, his executors, administrators, & assignes, or his or
their deputye or deputyes, servante and agente, or any of them, in and about
he accomplishment of our will and pleasure, herein declared, and the
exercise & execucon of the powers & priviledges herein and hereby granted,
or menconed to be granted, as afores". And moreover we will & comand
by these sente, for vs, our heirs and successors, that our said officers, or any of
them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said John Joachun Becher, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, his, their, or any of their
deputy or deputyes, servante, or agent, or any of them in or about the vse, or
exercise of the said art or Invencon, in any matter or thing concerning the same:
Provided allwayes that if, att any tyme dureing the said terme of fourteene
years, it shall be made appeare to vs, our heirs, or successors, or any six or
more of our or their Privy Councell, that this grant is piudiciall or inconvenient
to our commonwealth, or that the said art or Invenĉon is not a new Invencon
of the s John Joachun Becher, as to the vse & practice thereof within this
our Kingdome, then vpon significačon & declaračon to be made by vs, our
heirs, or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the Lord and
others of our or their Privy Councell, or six or more of them for the tyme being,
in writeing vnder their hande, of such Piudice & inconveniencye, these our
Letters Patente, & all thing therein conteyned, shall forthwith cease, deter-
mine, and be vtterly voyd to all intente and purposes, any thing herein-before
conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patente, or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Joachun Becher, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Inventon or work found out or invented by any other pson or psons, and
publickly exercised in our Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales,
vnto whome we have allready granted our like Letters Patent of priviledge
for the sole vse and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said John Joachun Becher, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
all other pson and psons to whome we have allready granted our like Letters
Patent of priviledge, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Inven-
Cons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patente, and of these
Psente. And lastly, wee doc by these sente for vs, our heirs and succes-
sors, grant vnto the said John Joachun Becher, his executors, administrators,
& assignes, that these our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall
be, in and by all thing, good, valid, suflicient, and effectuall in the law,

page_text: according to the true intent and meaning of these psente, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best
benefitt & advantage of the said John Joachun Beacher, his executors,
administrators, & assignes, as well in all Court of Record as alcewhere, not-
withstanding the not full & certeyne describeing of the said art or Invenčon, or
of the certeyne vse or benefit thereof, and notwithstanding any other defect{
or incerteyntyes in these psente conteyned, or any art, statute, ordinance,
provision, or restraint, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c.
August.
Witnesse the King att Westm, the Second day of
By Writt of Privy Seale.