A NEW WAY OF MAKING DOUBLE HAND BELLOWS, WHICH, BY THE POWER OF SPRINGS AND SCREWS, PRODUCES A CONTINUALL BLAST, NOTWITHSTANDING THE SUCTION BY WHICH ANY SORT OF METTLE MAY BE MELTED IN A COMON WOOD OR COAL FIRE, AND WILL BE VERY VSEFULL FOR MAKING AND RAISING FIRES IN ALL PRIVATE FAMILIES, AND ALSO TO ALL PERSONS WORKING IN METTLE AND OAR, IN AS MUCH AS ANY OAR MAY BE MELTED DOWN BY ITS PROPER FLUX BY THE HELP OF THESE BELLOWS IN A CUMON CHIMNEY, WITHOUT BEING AT THE ACCUSTOMARY CHARGES OF MAKING ESSAY FURNACES
Year: 1706

page_text: ANNE, by the grace God, ac
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS SAVERY, Esquire, hath,
by his humble peticon represented vnto vs that by his industry, study, and
expence, he hath found out and brought to perfection "A NEW WAY OF MAKING
DOUBLE HAND BELLOWS, WHICH, BY THE POWER OF SPRINGS AND SCREWS, PRODUCES
A CONTINUALL BLAST, NOTWITHSTANDING THE SUCTION BY WHICH ANY SORT OF
METTLE MAY BE MELTED IN A COMON WOOD OR COAL FIRE, AND WILL BE VERY
VSEFULL FOR MAKING AND RAISING FIRES IN ALL PRIVATE FAMILIES, AND ALSO TO
ALL PERSONS WORKING IN METTLE AND OAR, IN AS MUCH AS ANY OAR MAY BE
MELTED DOWN BY ITS PROPER FLUX BY THE HELP OF THESE BELLOWS IN A CUMON
CHIMNEY, WITHOUT BEING AT THE ACCUSTOMARY CHARGES OF MAKING ESSAY
FURNACES;" and, therefore, haveing humbly prayed us to grant him our
Letters Patent for the sole vse and benefitt of his said Invention for the terme
of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and inventions which may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our
especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted,
and by these presents, for us, our heires and successors, doe give and grant,
vnto the said Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said
Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,

page_text: by themselves, or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as he, the said Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and att all times
during the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse,
exercise, and enioy, within our kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the said art or Invention for makeing double
band bellows in such manner as to him, the said Thomas Savery, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seem meet, and that he, the said Thomas Savery, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole profitt,
benefitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and durcing the
full terme of yeares herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted vnto the said Thomas Savery, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and termo of
fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case made
and provided. And to the end that the said Thomas Savery, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may bave and enioy the full
benefitt and the sole vending, vse, and exercise of the said Invention, according
to our gracious intention herein-before declared, wee doe by these presents,
for us, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every
person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects
whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condičon soover they be,
within our kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they or any of them at any time dureing the continuance of
the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
doe make, vse, or putt in practice the said Invencon, or any part of the same
so attained vnto by the said Thomas Savery, as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made
any addičon thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend
themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or devisers thereof, without the
licence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Savery, his exccutors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hands
and scales, first had and obtained in that behalf, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royall comand, and, further, to be answerable to the said Thomas
Savery, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for bis

page_text: and their damages thereby occasioned. And, moreover, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all- and singular
our justices of the peace, mayers, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, 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 terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, hinder,
or trouble the said Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, their or any of their deputyes, servants, or agents, in or
about the due and lawfull making vse or exercise of the aforesaid art or
Invention, or any thing relating thereto. Provided alwayes, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time
dureing the 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
grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse
and exercise thereof within our said kingdom of England, dominion of Wales,
and town of of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or any of them, or not invented and
found out by the said Thomas Savery as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon
and declaration thereof, to be 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, theso our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
therein contayned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
to the said Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been
heretofore found out or invented by any of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised within our sd kingdom of England, dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any of them, vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the solę vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have
been already granted, as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall 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, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said. Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators,

page_text: 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 law accord-
ing to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of
the said Thomas Savery, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well
in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers and other the subiects whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
within our kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesd, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describing
tho nature or quality of the said art or Invention, or of the materialls thereto
conducing and belonging
In witnes, &c. Witnes our self at Westminster, the Twentieth day of
February.
Per breve de privato sigillo.