AN ENGINE FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALL RAISING OF WATER, BOTH IN QUANTITY AND HEIGHT, ACTED EITHER BY GENERATED, EXPANDED, OR COMPRESSED AIR, WHICH WILL BE OF CONSIDERABLE SERVICE TO THE SUBJECTS OF OUR KINGDOMES AND PLANTACONS; THAT THE PETITIONER HATH. LIKE- WISE PROPOSED A METHOD FOR THE FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THE USE OF FIRE, WHEREBY ALL SORTS OF VESSELLS WITH WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS WILL SUDDENLY BE MADE HOT, WITH CONSIDERABLY LESSER QUANTITY OF FUEL THAN USUAL, WHICH MAY BE OF BENEFIT IN SAVING CHARGES TO OUR SUBJECTS IN GENERAL, AND MORE ESPECIALLY TO SOME PARTICULAR TRADES IN WHICH FUEL IS A VERY GREAT PART OF THEIR EXPENCE
Year: 1726

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WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JACOB ROWE, of our city of London,
Gentleman, hath by his peticon humbly represented unto us that he hath with
great expence and loss of time invented "AN ENGINE FOR THE MORE EFFECTUALL
RAISING OF WATER, BOTH IN QUANTITY AND HEIGHT, ACTED EITHER BY GENERATED,
EXPANDED, OR COMPRESSED AIR, WHICH WILL BE OF CONSIDERABLE SERVICE TO THE
SUBJECTS OF OUR KINGDOMES AND PLANTACONS; THAT THE PETITIONER HATH. LIKE-
WISE PROPOSED A METHOD FOR THE FURTHER IMPROVEMENT OF THE USE OF FIRE,
WHEREBY ALL SORTS OF VESSELLS WITH WATER OR OTHER LIQUIDS WILL SUDDENLY BE
MADE HOT, WITH CONSIDERABLY LESSER QUANTITY OF FUEL THAN USUAL, WHICH MAY
BE OF BENEFIT IN SAVING CHARGES TO OUR SUBJECTS IN GENERAL, AND MORE
ESPECIALLY TO SOME PARTICULAR TRADES IN WHICH FUEL IS A VERY GREAT PART OF
THEIR EXPENCE;" and having therefore humbly pray'd us to grant him our
Royall Letters Patents for the sole use and benefit of the said Invenĉons for
the term of fourteen years, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and invenĉons which may be for the publick use and benefit, are gratiously
pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us,
our heires and successors, do give, and grant unto the said Jacob Rowe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Jacob Rowe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves,
or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he

page_text: the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agreo with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, use, and exer-
cisc his said new invented engine for the more effectual raising of water, both
in quantity, in height, and also use and exercise his said method for the further
improvement of the use of fire, whereby all sorts of vessells, with water or
other liquids, will suddenly be made hot, with considerably lesser quantity
of fuel than usual, as above described, within that part of our kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Jacob Rowe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions
seem meet, and that he, the said Jacob Rowe, bis executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comcing, grow-
ing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčons for and during
the term of years herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted
or menconed to be granted unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and unto the full end and
term of fourteen years from the date of these presents next and immediately
ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such
case made and provided; and to tho end that the said Jacob Rowe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enjoy
the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said Inventions according to
our gratious intencon herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for us,
our heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within that
saidpart of our kingdome of Great Britain called England, our dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any
of them at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen
years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or putt in
practice the said Invencons, or any part of the same, so attained unto by tho
said Jacob Rowe, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or causo to be made any addičon there-
unto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves
the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Jacob Rowe, his exec", admiors, or
assigues, in writing under his or their hands and seals first had and ob-
tained in that behalfe, upon such pains and penalties as can or may be justly

page_text: inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal comand, and
further to be answerable to the said Jacob Rowe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned; and moreover wee do by these presents, for us, our heires and
successors, will and command all and singular the justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever of us, our heires and successors, for the time being, that
they or any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter during the said
term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Jacob
Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their
deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull use or exercise of
the aforesaid Invenčons or anything relating thereto; provided always, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be upon this condičon, that if at any time
during the said term hereby granted it shall be made appeare to us, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our
grant is contrary to law or prejudiciall or inconvenient to our subjects in
generall, or that the said Inventions are not new inventions as to the publick
uso and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed afore-
said, or not invented and found out by the said Jacob Rowe, as aforesaid, then
upon signification or declaration thereof, to be made by us, our heires or
successors, under our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lords and others
of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, under their
hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
utterly voyd to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also, that these our
Letters Patents or anything herein contained shall not extend or be construed
to extend to give priviledge unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or
work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any
other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in that said
part of our kingdome of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patents or
priviledges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise; and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Jacob Rowe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and
persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already
granted, as aforesaid, shall distincly use and practice their severall invenčons
by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of

page_text: the same respective Letters Patents and of these presents; provided likewise,
nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are upon this expresse condition,
that if the said Jacob Rowe, his executors or administrators, or any person or
persons which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the
continuance of this grant, have or claym any right, title, or interest, in law
or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole use
and benefit of the said Inventions hereby granted, shall make any transferr
or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assignment, of the said
liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit
thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any
book or books for publick subscripcons to be made by any number of
persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sumo
or sumes of money under pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number
of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like
intents or purposes, as shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the libertys and priviledges
hereby by us granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five,
or shall committ or do or procure to be committed or done any act, matter, or
thing whatsoever during such time as such person shall have any right or title,
either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses which would be contrary to
the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the
sixth year of our reign, intituled [an Act for the better secureing certain
powers and priviledges intended to be granted by His Majestie by two charters
for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money
upon bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and unwarrantable
practices therein menconed], if these our Letters Patents had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time
hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five persons
or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators
as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest as they
are or shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that
then and in any of the said cases, theso our Letters Patents, and all liberties
priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease
determine, and become voyd, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and, lastly, wee do by these presents, for
us, our heires and successors, grant unto the said Jacob Rowe, his executors

page_text: administrators, and "assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
or exemplificaton thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid,
sufficient, and effectual in the law, acccording to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and
beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Jacob Rowe, 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 us, our heires and
successors, in that part of our said kingdome of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst
all and every the subjects of us, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invenčons, or of the materials thereto conducing and
balancing
By warrant
the Duke of Newcastle.
P. YORKE.
June 18, 1726.