A WAY BY AN ENGINE TO BE WORKED BY ONE OR MORE MEN FOR THE WELL AND MORE EASY OYLING AND DRESSING OF LEATHER AND CLOATH
Year: 1691

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN TIZACK, of Wapping, in our County of Middlesex,
Glassmaker, hath by his humble petition represented unto us that haveing
long had experience in oyling and dressing of leather, fulling of cloth, and
such thing, he hath by his care and industry found out "A WAY BY AN
ENGINE TO BE WORKED BY ONE OR MORE MEN FOR THE WELL AND MORE EASY
OYLING AND DRESSING OF LEATHER AND CLOATH," which may be of great use
to all such as doe worke at those and some other trades, and may be also appli-
cable to the raiseing of water, washing of cloathes, milling of sugar canes,
pounding of mineralle, and pounding and bruising of all sort of seede,
pounding of charcoale to make powder of, and pounding and making ragge
fitt to make paper, and the like, which said engine was never used in England
before. And the said John Tizack hath prayed us to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole use thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may be of publick use and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for us, our heires and successors, doe give and grant unto the said John
Tizack, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall license, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, said John Tizack, his executors, adminis-
trators and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or their deputy

page_text: and deputyes, servant, or agents, or such others as the said John Tizack, his
executors, administrators, or assignes shall at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and att all times dureing the terme of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully use, exercise, and enjoy the said Invention within
any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, within or kingdom of England,
and our plantačons in America, and all and every or any of our kingdoms
and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable
and lawfull rates and limitačons, as to him, the said John Tizack, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions shall
seeme meet. And that he, the said John Tizack, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and may have and enjoy the sole benefitt, profitt,
comodity, and advantage from time to time growing or ariseing by reason of
the said Invenčon, for and durcing the full termes of yeares therein menconed.
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycense, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted unto the said
John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
& unto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these sents
next and immediately ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended, accord-
ing to the statute in this case made and provided. And to the end the
said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may enjoy the full benefitt and the sole vscing, makeing, and exer-
ciseing of the said Invention according to our gracious intentions herein-
before declared, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodyes
politique and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name, or condition soever they be, within all and
every of our kingdomes & dominions, that neither they nor any of them,
at any tyme during the contynuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doe make, vse, or putt in practice
the said Invention, or any part of the same soe attained unto by the said
John Tyzack, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble
the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto or
substraction from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventors or
devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreem' of the said John
Tyzack, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing under his,
their, or some of their hands and scales first had and obteyned in that behalfe,
vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or may be justly inflicted on such
And further to
offenders for their contempt of this our royall command.
be answerable to the said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned.
And wee doe, of our further especiali grace, certaine knowledge, and meer
motion, for us, our heires and successors, grant unto the said John Tyzack,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these psents, that he, they,
and every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputyes, servants, and
agents (having first obtained a lawfull warrant from ye Lord Cheife Justice of
our Court of Kings Bench, at Westminster, for the tyme being, and with the
assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer), att convenient tymes in
the day during the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull maner, may
enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within any of
our kingdomes or dominions whatsoever (where there shalbe just cause of
suspicion) 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 putt in
practice the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeit any instruments or
materialls to y same belonging, that soc such offender or offenders may bec
proceeded against and punished according to law. And further wee doc by
these sents, for us, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and comand
all and singular justices of the peace, majors, sheriffs, bayliffes, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heires
and successors for the tyme being, aswell within our kingdome of England
and our plantations in America as within all and every other our kingdomes
& dominions, that they and every of them respectively be from tyme to tymc
during the terme hereby granted in their respective offices, favouring,
aideing, helping, and assisting unto y said John Tyzack, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputye and deputyes,
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 &
execution of the powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And
moreover wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires and successors, will
and comand that our respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any
of them, doe not nor shall att any time hereafter, during the said terme
hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble or hinder the said John
Tyzack, his executors, administrators, or assignes or any of his or deputyes,
servants or agents, in or about the due and lawfull making, vending,
vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relateing therevnto.
Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be upon this
condicon, that if att any tyme during the terme hereby granted it shalbe
made appeare to us, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or judicial or incon-
venient to our subjects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new

page_text: invention as to the publick use or exercise thereof, and not invented & found
out by the said John Tyzack as aforesaid, then, upon significacon and decla-
ration thereof, to be made by us, our heires or successors, under our or
their signet or privy seale, or by the lords and other of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them, under their hands, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, & be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to ye contrary in any
wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any
of thing therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge unto the said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which
hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subjects what-
sover, & publickly used or exercised within our said realmes & dominions, or
any of them, unto whom like Letters Patents of Priviledge have been already
granted for the sole use, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and all and singular other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or
priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly use and
practice their severall inventions by them found out and invented, according to
the true intent & meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Psents. And, lastly, wee doc by these psents, for us, or heires and successors,
grant unto the said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all
things good, firme, valid, sufficient and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent & meaning thereof, and shall bee taken, construed, & adjudged in
the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said
John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, or assignes, aswell in all courts
of record as elsewhere, and by all & singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of us, our heires, and successors, in all and singular our realines and
dominions whatsoever, & amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heires,
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full &
certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the
materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse, &c., ourselves att Westminster, the Twentith-
the hind were of our reigne