A WAY FOR THE CASTING OP WORMES FOR ALEMBECKS, STILLS, AND OTHER VSES, IN TINN AND COPPER
Year: 1684

page_text: these p'sents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee are informed, by the humble peticon of JOHN SKIN, of
London, that with great charge, and by his owne art and industry, hee hath
found out "A WAY FOR THE CASTING OP WORMES FOR ALEMBECKS, STILLS, AND
OTHER VSES, IN TINN AND COPPER," being a new Inventon.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said John
Skin may reape some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his great
pains and expences in and about the premisses, and to encourage the inventors
of such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and granted, and by these
presents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said
John Skin, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that hee, the said John Skin, his
executors, administrators, assignes, and every of them, by themselves or
their deputy or deputys; servants or agents, or such others as the said Skin,
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
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said
Invenčon within any part or 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 & dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according
to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitaĉons as to him, the said John

page_text: Skin, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discrečons seeme mecte; and that hec, the said John Skin, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefit,
profit, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and
arisinge by reason of the said Invenčon, for and dureing the full terme of
yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence,
powers, privileges, and advantages herein-before granted or menčoned to bee
granted vnto the said John, Skin, 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 be
compleate and ended, according to the statute in this case made and provided.
And to the end the said John Skin, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every
of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of
the said Invencon, according to our gratious intencons herein-before declared,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodys politique and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or
condicon soever they bee, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions,
that neither they nor any of them att any time dureing the continuance of
the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
doe vse or put in practise the said Invencon, or any part of the same, soe
attained vnto by the said John Skin as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise
counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addicon thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves
the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement
of the said John Skin, 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 penaltys as can or may bec iustly
inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand;. and
further to bee answerable to the said Skin, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned.
And wee doc of our further speciall grace, certeine knowledg, and meere
mocon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Skin, his
exccutors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that hee, they, and
every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputys, agents, and servants,
(haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our
Court of King's Bench att West for the time being, and with the assistance
of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the day
dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and

page_text: make search in any place or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or
dominions where there shalbe iust cause of suspition, for the discovery 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 Invencon, or shall make or
counterfeite any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that soe such
offender or offenders may be pceeded against according to law. And further,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise,
and comand all and singular iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
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, and within all and every other our
kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively be from
time to time, dureing the terme hereby granted in their respective offices,
favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Skin, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputys, servants
and agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execuĉon of
the powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And morcover, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that
our said respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them,
doe not, nor shall att any time hereafter dureing the terme hereby granted, in
any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Skin, his executors, ad-
ministrators, 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 any
thing relateing thereto Provided always, that these our Letters Patents are
and shalbe vpon this condicon, that if att any time durcing the said 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 present grant is
contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or
that the said Invenĉon is not a new invenĉon as to the publique vse and
exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by
the said John Skin as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaradon thereof
to bee 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 herein.
contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said John Skin, bis

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executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
inventon 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 benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Skin, bis 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 practice their
,several invenčons 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, wec doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said John Skin, his exccutors, 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 lawe,
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, Skin, 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 aud successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certeine describing the nature or
quality of the said Invenĉon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and
belonging, or any other defects or incertaintys in these presents conteined,
or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restriccon, or other
matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westin, the Sixteenth day of
September.