A NEW INVENTED CLOCK, WHICH WITH ONLY ONE SET OF WHEELS BESIDES THE WATCH PART MAY BE SET IN THE COMON COURSE OF ITS MOTION TO STRIKE THE HOURS ONLY, OR THE HOURS AND QUARTERS, OR THE PAST HOURS WITH EACH QUARTER, OR TO BE SILENT, AND ALSO, BY PULLING & STRING, REPEATS BOTH HOUR AND QUARTER
Year: 1732

page_text: GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom theso
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN ROWNING, Clerk, Master of
Arts, and Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in our University of Cambridge, hath,
by his peticon, humbly represented unto vs that he has, with great study and
expence, brought to perfeccon "A NEW INVENTED CLOCK, WHICH WITH ONLY
ONE SET OF WHEELS BESIDES THE WATCH PART MAY BE SET IN THE COMON
COURSE OF ITS MOTION TO STRIKE THE HOURS ONLY, OR THE HOURS AND QUARTERS,
OR THE PAST HOURS WITH EACH QUARTER, OR TO BE SILENT, AND ALSO, BY
PULLING & STRING, REPEATS BOTH HOUR AND QUARTER;" that the peticoner
apprehends that this his design is intirely new, the like performances never
having been executed with only one set of wheels, and that it will be a great
benefitt and advantage to our subiects, by reason that it will not be lyable to
so many disorders as other repeating clocks, and may be afforded at a much
less price, the multiplicity of wheels and steel work being much lessened by
this new Invenĉon. And having humbly prayed vs that wee would be
pleased to grant unto him our Letters Patents for the sole priviledge of
making, vending, or vsing, or causing to be made, vended, or vsed, within our
dominions the said new invented clock, whether it be called turrett clock,
house clock, or repeating watch, or be called or styled by any other deno-
mination, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the statute in that caso
made and provided.

page_text: KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick vse and benefit, of our
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted,
and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant
unto the said John Rowning, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our
especiall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said
John Rowning, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, by himself or themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies,
servants, or agents, or such others as he, the said John Rowning, his
exccutors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times hereafter, shall and lawfully may
make, vsc, exercise, and vend, or cause to be made, vsed, exercised, and
vended, his said new invented clock, which with only one sett of wheels,
besides the watch part, may be set in the cōmon course of its motion to strike
the hours only, or the hours and quarters, or the past hours with each
quarter, or to be silent, and also by pulling a string repeats both hours and
quarters, 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 John Rowning, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, or any of them, in their discretions shall seem
meet; and that he, the said John Rowning, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, comodity,
benefitt, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to
be granted unto the said John Rowning, 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 imediately ensueing and fully to
be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case made and
provided. And to the end that the said John Rowning, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benofitt and the solo vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects what-
soever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever they be,
within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that

page_text: 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 Invention, or any part of the same, so
attained unto by the said John Rowning, as aforesaid, nor in any wise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to bo
made any addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to
pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors.
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said. John
Rowning, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing under his or
their hands and seals first had and obteined in that behalf, vpon such
pains and penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for
their contempt of this our royal comand, and further to be answerable
to the said John Rowning, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And,
moreover, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will
and comand all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,.
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they or any
of them do not, nor shall at any timo hereafter during the said term hereby
granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Rowning,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their
deputies, sérvants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise
of the aforesaid. Invention, or any thing relating thereto. Provided always,
that these our Letters Patents are and shall be upon this condition, that if at
any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be made appear 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 said Invenčon is not a new inventon as to
the publick vse 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 aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said John Rowning,
as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration thereof to bo made by.
vs, our heires or successors, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy
Councill, or any six or more of them, under their hands, these our Letters.
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, any thing. herein-before conteined to the contrary thereof in any wise.
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing:
herein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privilege
unto the said John Rowning, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any

page_text: of them, to vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath
heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom 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 solo use, exercise, and benefitt thereof; it being our
will and pleasure that the said John Rowning, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and every other person or persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their severall invenĉons by them invented and found out
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patents are upon this express condition, that if the said John Rowning,
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 claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power,
priviledge and authority of the sole vsc and benefit of the said Invention
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 subscriptions to be
made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the
raising any sume 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 sum 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, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number
of five, or shall comit or do, or procure to be cōmitted or done, any act,
matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such person or persons shall
have 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 the reign of our late royal father, King
George the First, intituled [An Act for the better securing certain Powers and
Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiesty 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

page_text: 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 adminis-
trators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest
as they are or shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate),
that then and in any the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all
liberties, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted shall vtterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, grant unto the said John Rowning, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid,
sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adindged in the most favourable
and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said John Rowning, 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 that part of our said Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the
materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
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