A NEWE WAY FOR THE TANNING, TAWING, DRESSEING, AND PAREING ALL SORTS OF RAWE HYDES AND SKINNES INTO LEATHER IN LESSE TIME AND WITH LESSE CHARGE THEN FORMERLY HATH BIN VSED
Year: 1660

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS we have bin informed by the humble peticon of our welbeloved
subject and servant CHARLES HOWARD, Esquire, fowerth sonne to the Right
Hoble Henry, late Earle of Arundell and Surrey, that by his industry and
study, with much charges and expences, hee hath found out and invented "A
NEWE WAY FOR THE TANNING, TAWING, DRESSEING, AND PAREING ALL SORTS OF
RAWE HYDES AND SKINNES INTO LEATHER IN LESSE TIME AND WITH LESSE CHARGE
THEN FORMERLY HATH BIN VSED," being his owne Invencon, and never before
publickly done, nor formerly practized, in our Kingdome of England, or other
the dominions therevnto belonging; and whereas, the said Charles Howard
hath humbly besought vs, for his better incoragement, to exercise and put in
practize the said Invenčon, that wee would bee graciously pleased to graunt
him our Lřes Patente, vnder the Great Scale of England, of priviledge for the
sole vse, benifitt, and advantage thereof, throughout our Relme of England,
and other the dominions therevnto belonging, for the time and terme of
fowerteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and pvided.
NOWE KNOWE YE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull and fitting
incoragment to the Inventors of such artes as may be of publicke vse and
benifitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledg, and meere motion, vpon
the humble peticon of the said Charles Howard, have given and graunted,
and by these sente doe give and graunt vnto the said Charles Howard, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full power, priviledge

page_text: and authoritie that they, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their
deputie and deputies, servants, and workemen, at all times and from time to
time hereafter, for and dureing the terme of yeares hereafter menconed and
expressed, shall and may lawfully vse, exercise, and imploy, and put in practice
the said newe Invencon for the tañing, tawing, dressing, converting, and worke-
ing all sort of rawe hides and skinnes into leather, according to their severall
natures, sizes, and degrees, in such manner as to them, or anie of them, in
his or their discrečons shall seeme meet, and shall and may have, enjoy, the
sole benifitt and advantage, comeing or ariseing by reason thereof, durcing the
terme of yeares hereby graunted. And to the end the said Charles Howard,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better
enjoy the full and whole benifitt and advantage, and the sole vse and exercise
of the said newe Invencon, wee doe by these pseute, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and streyghtly comaund all and every person and persons,
bodyes politique and corporate of whatsoever qualitie, degree, name, or con-
dicon they bee, that neither they, nor anie of them, dureing the said terme of
yeares hereby graunted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practize
the said Invenĉon for the tañing, taweing, dressing, & Ppareing all sorts of
rawe hides and skinnes into leather, so by the said Charles Howard found
out and attained ynto, as aforesaid, nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble
the same, nor shall make auie addicon therevnto or substracčon from the
same, whereby to ptend themselves the Inventors or devisors thereof,
without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Charles Howard,
or his executors, administrators, and assignes in writeing vnder his or
theyr hand and seales, first bad and obteined in that behalfe vpon such
penaltyes and paynes as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for
their contempt of this our commaund in that behalfc; and further, to be
answereable to the said Charles Howard, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to the lawe and justice, for his and theyr damage thereby
susteined; to have and to hold the said licences, powers, priviledges, and
authorities, hereby graunted as aforesaid vnto him, the said Charles Howard,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing the terme of
fowerteene yeares from the makeing of these sente next ensueing, and fully
to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
pvided. And further, we doc, by these psents, for vs, our heyres and
successors, give and graunt vnto the said Charles Howard, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that he and they, and his and their deputies,
servante, & agente, haveing first obteined a warrant in this behalfe from the
Lord Chief Justice of the Courte of King Bench for the time being, with

page_text: the assistance of a constable or auie other lawful officer, at convenient times
of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in a lawful manner, to enter and
make diligent search in all outhouses, shopps, warehouses, sellers, backsides,
or other place or places where there shall be just cause of suspicon for the
discovering and finding out of all such psons as shall imitate or cause to be
initated, or shall vse or put in practise the said Invencon, soe by the said
Charles Howard found out and invented, as aforesaid, that soe such offender
and offenders may be peeeded against and punished according to their
demeritte and their workes, and all hydes, skinnes, and leather, and the
materialls thereof then and there found to be seized vpon and secured, and
left in the custody and hande of some constable or other officer, to be disposed
in such manner and forme as wce, our heyres and successors, shall from time
to time direct and appoint. And further, we doe by these psents, for vs, our
heyres and successors, will, authorise, and require all and singuler justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffe, constables, headboroughes, and all
other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heyres and successors for
the time being, that they and every of them respectively be, from time to tyme
dureing the said terme hereby graunted in theyr respective places, favouring,
ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Charles Howard, his executors,
administrators & assignes, and to bis deputy and deputies, servant and
agente, in and by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and in the exercise and execuĉon of the powers
and priviledges herein and hereby graunted or menconed to bee graunted, as
aforesaid. And moreover, we will and comaund by these psente, for vs, our
heyres and successors, that our said officers and ministers or anic of them, doe
not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Charles Howard, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or his or theyr deputie or deputies, servante or
agent, or anic of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said Invenĉon,
or in anie matter or thing concerneing the same: Provided alwayes that if, at
anie time dureing the said terme of fewertecne yeares, it shall be made appeare
vnto vs, our heyres and successors, that this our graunt is contrary to
law, or judiciall, or inconvenient, and not of publicke vse or benifitt, or that
the said newe Invenĉon of tanning, tawing, dressing, and Pparing of leather
as aforesaid, is not a newe Invencon of the said Charles Howard as to
the publicke vse and exercise thereof within this our Relme of England, or
anie the dominions or territories thereof, then vpon significacon and decla-
racon thereof to be made by vs, our heyres or successors, these our Letters
l'atent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyde to all intente
and purposes, anic thinge herein-before menconed to the contrary notwith-

page_text: standing Provided alsoc, that these our Lřes Patente, or anie thing therein
conteined, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said Charles Howard, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or anie of
them, to vse and imitate anie Invencon, and worke found out and invented by
anie other pson or psons publickly exercised within this our said Relme of
England, or anic the dominions or terretories thereof, for the tanning, tawing,
dressing, and Ppareing of leather as aforesaid, or such like worke, vnto whom
wee have already graunted our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the solo
vse, exercise, and benifitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said
Charles Howard, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singuler other person and persons to whom wee have already graunted our
like Lřes Patente, or priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practize
their severall Invenčons, by them invented and found out according to the
true intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective Lřes Patente
and of these psente. And lastly, we doe by these psente, for vs, our heyres
and successors, graunt vnto the said Charles Howard, his executors, adminis-
.trators, and assignes, that these our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof,
shall bee in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the
lawe according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adjudged most favorable and benificiall. for the best benifitt
and advantage of the said Charles Howard, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, as well in all our Courte of Record, as elsewhere, notwithstanding
the not full and certeine describeing the manner and qualitie of the said
tañing, tawing, dresseing, and Ppareing of leather as aforesaid, or of the
materialls, way and manner thereof, or of the vse and benifitt thereof, and
notwithstanding anie other defecte, incerteinties, or imperfeccons in these
Psents conteined, or anic act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or
restreint, to the contrary thereof, in anie wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes the King at Westmi, the Seaven-and-twentyeth
day of October.