A DISCOVERY OF A NEW EXPERIMENT FOR THE GREAT AND DURABLE INCREASE OF LIGHT BY EXTRAORDINARY GLASSES AND LAMPS, VERY VSEFUL FOR OUR SERVICES, MORE ESPECIALLY FOR THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP LANTHORNES, LIGHTHOUSES, DIS- PERSING OF LIGHT IN MINES, AND OTHER NECESSARY AND LIKE PROFITABLE VSES WHICH REQUIRE LIGHT AND HEAT, AND FOR ALL OUR SUBIECTS IN THEIR SEVERALL VOCATIONS AND IMPLOYMENTS
Year: 1684

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WHEREAS EDWARD WYNDUS, Gentt., hath by his humble peticon repre-
sented vnto vs that hee hath with great labour and expence obteined "A
DISCOVERY OF A NEW EXPERIMENT FOR THE GREAT AND DURABLE INCREASE OF LIGHT
BY EXTRAORDINARY GLASSES AND LAMPS, VERY VSEFUL FOR OUR SERVICES, MORE
ESPECIALLY FOR THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF SHIP LANTHORNES, LIGHTHOUSES, DIS-
PERSING OF LIGHT IN MINES, AND OTHER NECESSARY AND LIKE PROFITABLE VSES
WHICH REQUIRE LIGHT AND HEAT, AND FOR ALL OUR SUBIECTS IN THEIR SEVERALL
VOCATIONS AND IMPLOYMENTS," and hath therefore humbly besought vs to grant
bim our Letters Patents for the sole vse, benefit and advantage of this his
new Invenĉon for the terme of fowrteene yeares, according to the Statute in
that behalfe made and provided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being willing that the said Edward
Wyndus may reape some reasonable recompense and compensacon for his
great paines and expenses in and about the premisses, and to encourage the
inventers of such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall
grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the
said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that hee, the said Edward
Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as
the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall att
any time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and att all times
dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these Presents expressed, shall and
lawfully may vse, exercise, and enjoy the said Invenčon within any part or

page_text: parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of
England, Dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and
dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable and
lawfull rates and limitacons as to him, the said Edward Wyndus, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons seeme
meete, and that hee, the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefit, profit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason
of the said Invenĉon, for and durcing the full terme of yeares hereafter
menconed To have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers,
privileges and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for
and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the day
of the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to bee
compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case made and provided.
And to the end that the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vsc
and exercise of the said Invencon according to our gratious intencons herein-
beforo declared, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every person or persons, bodys politique
and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever of what estate, quality or
degree, name or condicon soever they bec, within all and every our king-
domes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, att any time dureing
the continuance of the said terme of fowrteen yeares, hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly doe vse or putt in practise the said Invenčon or any part
of the same soe attained vnto by the said Edward Wyndus as aforesaid, nor
shall in any wise counterfeite nor resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to bee made any addičon thereto or substracčon from the same whereby to
pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writeing, vnder his, their, or some of their hands and
seales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes
as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our
royall command, and further to bee answerable to the said Edward Wyndus,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for his and their
damages thereby occasioned to be susteined. And wee doe, of our further
especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere mocon, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators,
and assignes; by these psents that hee, they, and every of them, and his, their,

page_text: and every of their deputys, agents, and servants (haveing first obteined a
lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench
at Westi, for the time being, and with the assistance of a constable or any
other lawfull officer), att convenient times in the day dureing the terme hereby
granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any place or
places whatsoever within any our kingdomes or dominions (where there shalbe
iust cause of suspicon), for the discovering and finding out of all and every
person and persons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put
in practise the said Invenĉon, or shall make or counterfeite any instruments
or materialls to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may
bee proceded against and punished according to law. And further wee doe
by these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and command
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors for the time being, aswell within our Kingdome of England
and Dominion of Wales as within all and every other our kingdomes and
dominions, that they and every of them respectively be, from time to time
durcing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices favouring, ayding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and to his and their diputy and deputys, servants,
and agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our
royal will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and
execution of the powers and privileges hereby granted as aforesaid. And
morcover wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
command that our said respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any
of them, doc not nor shall, at any time hereafter durcing the said terme hereby
granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Edward Wyndus, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any his or their deputys, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invenčon, or anything relateing therevnto: Provided always, and these our
Letters Patents are and shalbe vpon this condicon, that if, at any time dureing
the said terme hereby granted, it shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our
grant is inconvenient or preiudiciall to our service, or the good of our subiccts
in generall, or any abuse therein discovered, or that the said Invencon is not
a new invenĉon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our
kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Edward Wyndus or
assignes as aforesaid, then vpon significačon or declaračon thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by

page_text: 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, anything before herein con-
teined to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided alsoc, that these
our Letters Patents or any thing herein conteined shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said Edward Wyndus, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Invencon or worke whatsoever which hath beene 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 whom
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of privilege for the sole
vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whom wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents or privileges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Invenĉons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent & meaning of the same respective Letters Patents, and of these Pre-
sents. And lastly, wee doc by these Presents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, grant vnto the said Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these Presents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all
things good, firme, valid, suflicient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meancing thereof, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said
Edward Wyndus, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
our 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, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certeine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invencon,
or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other defects or
incerteintys in these Presents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provi-
sion, proclamačon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westin, the Seaven-and-
twentieth day of February.
By Writt of Privy Seale.