A WAY TO MAKE A SHIP GOE AGAINST WIND AND TIDE, BY A VERY EASIE AND NOT COSTLY MACHINE, AND YET KNOWNE BY NOE OTHERS, WHICH WILL BE OF GREAT VSE AND SERVICE TO OUR SUBIECTS
Year: 1692

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WHEREAS ANTHONY DUVIVIER, Esquire, hath, by his humble peticon,
represented vnto vs that he hath by his industry found out and invented "A
WAY TO MAKE A SHIP GOE AGAINST WIND AND TIDE, BY A VERY EASIE AND NOT
COSTLY MACHINE, AND YET KNOWNE BY NOE OTHERS, WHICH WILL BE OF GREAT
VSE AND SERVICE TO OUR SUBIECTS," and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him
our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inven-
tions, and that the said Anthony Duvivier may accordingly reape some fruit
and benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of
our especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and
granted, and by these presents doe give and grant, vnto the said Anthony
Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power,
priviledge, and authority, that hee and they, by him and themselves, and by
his and their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely
as he, the said Anthony Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times here-
after, dureing the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these
presents, at his and their own proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach,

page_text: exercise, and put in practice the said new Invention soe by him contrived
and found out as aforesaid, in any place or places in all and every our
seas and dominions, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and enjoy all
the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said new
Invencon to be bad, made, acquired, or gotten, to his and their own proper
benefitt, vse and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges and authorities, and all other the premisses by these
presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Anthony Du-
vivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto
the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, ac-
cording to the statute in that case provided; and to the end the said
Anthony Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better
enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of his said
new Invention, wec doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge, require, and comand all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon
soever they be, within our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and
towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing
the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said new Invention, by the said
Anthony Duvivier invented and found out as aforesaid, nor do nor shall
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new Invention, or any materialls
thereunto belonging, nor doc nor shall make any addition thereunto or sub-
stracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Anthony
Duvivier, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his
or their hands and scales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vnder such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders
therein for the contempt of this our royall comand, and, further, to be answer-
able to the said Anthony Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and their damages thereby
susteined. And further wee doe by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular
justices of the peace, mayors, sherriff's, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and
successors, now and for the time being, whome it may concerne, that they and
every of them respectively be from time to time dureing the ternie hereby
granted, in their respective offices and according to their and every of their

page_text: best skills and endeavours, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Anthony
Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and
servants, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the execution of the severall
powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid; and moreover wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our
said respective officers and ministers before mentioned, or any of them, doe
not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the terme hereby granted, in
any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Anthony Duvivier, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servants, in or about the vse
or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or anything
relateing thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and
shall be on this condition, that if at any time dureing the said terme of four-
teen yeares 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 preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects
in generall, or that the Invencon before menconed is not a new inventon,
as to the publique vse and exercise thereof, and not invented and found out
by the said Anthony Duvivier as aforesaid, then vpon significaton and decla-
racon of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lords or
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 bo
vtterly void, to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before conteyned to
the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said Anthony Duvivier, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, to imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath been
heretofore invented or found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publiquely exercised within our kingdome or dominions aforesaid, to whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole
exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Anthony Duvivier, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whom wee have already granted our
like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inventions
by them respectively found out, according to the true meaning of such our
Letters Patents and of these pseats. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnt the said Anthony Duvivier, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment

page_text: thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good, firme, valid, and effec-
tuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describeing or menconing of the
said Invention, or of the materialls, ways, or meanes of makeing, vseing of
the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect,
incertainty or imperfeccon in these psents, or any other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Nine-and-