A NEWE WAY OF MELTING DOWNE LEADE OARE INTO GOOD AND MALLYABLE LEADE, AND OTHER METTALL AND MINERALL INTO GOOD AND MALLYABLE METTALL WITH MINERALL COALES COMMONLY CALLED SEA COALES AND PITT COALES, WHICH HATH BYN APPROVED OF BY MANY PSONS DEALING IN LEADE, AND OTHER ARTISTе
Year: 1676

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome these
Psente shall come, greeteing.
WHEREAS SAMUELL HUTCHINSON, Cittizen and Ironmonger, of London,
hath by his industry with greate cost and charge found out "A NEWE WAY
OF MELTING DOWNE LEADE OARE INTO GOOD AND MALLYABLE LEADE, AND OTHER
METTALL AND MINERALL INTO GOOD AND MALLYABLE METTALL WITH MINERALL
COALES COMMONLY CALLED SEA COALES AND PITT COALES, WHICH HATH BYN APPROVED
OF BY MANY PSONS DEALING IN LEADE, AND OTHER ARTISTе;" and therefore the
said Samuell Hutchinson hath humbly besought vs to grant vnto him the
sole benifitt of his said Invenĉon for the terme of foureteene yeares according
to the statute in that behalfe.
KNOWE YEE therefore, that wee being willing to give all encouragement
to the inventors of such arte as may be of publique vsc or benefitt, of our
especiall grace, certayne knowledg, and meere močon, have given and granted,
and by these sente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant
vnto the said Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall lycence, full and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that hec and
they, and his and theire workemen and servante, and noe others, shall and
may, dureinge the terme of fourteene yeares next ensueinge the date of these
Psente, vse, practise, exercise, and enioy the said art or Invenčon, and all
engines and instrument relateinge therevnto, within our kingdome of England,
dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwicke-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as
to him or them shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt

page_text: and advantage ariseing thereby or by reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy
the sayd lycences, powers, priviledges, authorityes, and other the misses
hereby granted or intended to bee granted to the said Samuell Hutchinson,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these
Psente for and dureing the terme of foureteene yeares from thence next
ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended; and to the end the said
Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and
exercise of his said Inventon aswell within libertyes as without; wee doe
by these sente for vs, our heires and successors, require and straightly charge
and comand all and every pson and psons, bodyes politiq, and corporate, of
whatsoever degree, namie, or addičon they be, that they, nor any of them,
durcing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
doc or shall vse or put in practice the said art or invenčon, nor doe or shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, or any the engines or instrumente
relateinge therevnto, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon from the same whereby to ptend themselves the inventors or devisors
thereof without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Samuell
Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or
their hand and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vnder such
paines and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the
contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and further to be answearable to
the said Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, accord-
ing to lawe and iustice for his and theire damages thereby susteyned; and
further wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant
vnto the said Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
full power
and authority that he, they, and every of them, his, theire, and every
of theire deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, (haveing first obteyned
a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of Kinge
Bench for the time beinge), may, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, aswell within the liberties as without, vpon request, at con-
venient times of the day, dureing the terme aforesaid and in lawful manner,
enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there
shall be iust cause of suspicion for discovering and finding out of all such psons
as shall within the terme of foureteene yeares imitate or cause to be imitated,
or shall vse or put in practice the said art or Invenčon aforesaid, that soe
such offenders may be pceeded against and punish't according to their demeritte,
and further wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorize, and require all and singular justices of the peace, mayors,

page_text: sheriffe, bayliffes, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers of vs,
our heires and successors for the time beinge, that they and every of them
respectively be from time to time, dureinge the sayd terme hereby granted,
in their respective places, favouringe, aideinge, helpeinge, and assistinge vnto
the said Samuel! Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
to his and theire deputy and deputyes, servant and agente, in and by all
thing in andaboute the accomplishm' of our will and pleasure herein
declared, and the exercise and execučon of the powers and priviledges herein
and hereby granted or menčoned to be granted as aforesaid; and, moreover,
wee will and comand by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, that
our said officers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said
Samuell Hutchinson; his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or their
deputy or deputyes, servant or agente, or any of them, in or aboute the vse
or exercise of the said art or Inventon, in any matter or thinge concerneinge
the same: Provided alwayes, that if at any time dureinge the said terme of
fouretecne yeares, it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or
any
sixe or more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this grant is piudiciall or
inconvenient to our cómonweale, or that the said art or invenčon is not a
newe invenčon of the said Samuell Hutchinson, as to the vse and practice
thereof within our kingdome of England, then vpon significačon and declara-
con to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or
privy scale, or by the lorde and others of our Privy Councell, or sixe or
more of them, for the time beinge, in writeinge vnder their hande, of such
Piudice and inconvenience, these our Letters Patente, and all thing therein
conteyned, shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voide to all intente
and purposes, any thinge herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwith-
standinge: Provided alwayes, that these our Letters Patente, or any thinge
herein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found out or invented
by any other pson or psons, and publickly exercised in this our kingdome of
England, vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patente or
priviledges for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it beinge our will
and pleasure that the said Samuell Hutchinson, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and singular other pson and psons to whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practise theire severall invenčons by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meaneinge of the said severall
and respective Letters Patente, and of these psente. And lastly, wee doe

page_text: by these sente, for vs, our heires or successors, grant vnto the said Samuell
Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patente, and the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all thing good, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true intent and meaneing
of these sente, and shalbe taken, construed, and aiduged most favourably
and beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said Samuell
Hutchinson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our
Court of Record as elcewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describeinge of the said art or invenĉon, or of the certaine vse and benefitt
thereof, and notwithstanding any other defect, incertainetyes, or impfeccons,
in these psente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, proclamačon,
or restraynt, to the contrary in any wise notwithstandinge.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse the Kinge at West; the Eighth day of
December.