A COMPOUND METALL WHICH DRAWES SOE FINE AS THAT IT WILL SPIN AND WEAVE INTO ALL SORTS OF STUFFS, AND IS ALSO FITT FOR SEVERALL OTHER VSES
Year: 1688

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and wellbeloved subiects BERNARD STRODE, Esq,
and ROBERT SNELLING, Gentt, have by their humble peticon, represented vnto
vs that they have with great charge and labour invented and found out
"A COMPOUND METALL WHICH DRAWES SOE FINE AS THAT IT WILL SPIN AND WEAVE
INTO ALL SORTS OF STUFFS, AND IS ALSO FITT FOR SEVERALL OTHER VSES," which
being never before knowne or practised will be of great and publick vse and
benefitt to our subiects, and have humbly besought vs to grant vnto them our
Letters Patent for, the sole vse and exercise of their said Invenčon for the
terme of fourteen yeares, wee are graciously pleased to condescend to their
said humble suite.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that we, being willing to cherish and encourage
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiccts as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, mysteryes, and inventons, and
that they, the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, may accordingly reape
some fruit and benefitt of their labour and charge in and concerning the pre-
misses, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon, wee have
given and granted, and by these psents doe give and grant vnto the said
Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority that they and either
of them, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputies, servants,
agents, and workinen, and such others only as they, the said Bernard Strode

page_text: and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree
with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter during the
space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at their
owne proper costs and charges, erect, vsc, teach, exercise, and put in practice
the said new Invenčon soe by them contrived and found out as aforesaid in
any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales,
and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoc shall and may receive, take,
and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, commodities, and advantages of and by
the said new Invenĉon to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to their owne
proper benefitt, vsc, and vses; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the
said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses
by these Presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto them, the said
Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and to the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the day of the date of these Presents next ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
And to the end they, the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and
whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of their said new Invenĉon, wee
doc by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and cor-
porate, of what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within our
said Kindome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, during the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or put in
practise the said new Invenĉon soe by them, the said Bernard Strode and
Robert Snelling, invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall coun-
terfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new Invenčon, or any materialls or ingre-
dients therevnto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addition therevuto or
substracĉon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of them, the said Bernard
Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder their or some of their hands and seales first had and obteined in
that behalfe, vnder such paines and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on the
offender or offenders therein for the contempt of this our royall comandment,
and further to be answerable to the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of
the law, for their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto them, the said

page_text: Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, full power and authority that they and every of them, their and every
of their deputyes, agents, and servants, having first obteyned a warrant in that
behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench for the timo
being, with the assistance of a constable or other lawfull officer (aswell within
liberties as without), at convenient times in the day during the terme aforesaid,
and in lawful manner, shall and may nake search in any place or places
within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, where there shall be iust cause of suspition, for discovering
and finding out of all such person and persons as shall imitate, make, or vse,
or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed, within our kingdome or dominion
aforesaid, the said new Invenĉon soe by the said Bernard Strode and Robert
Snelling found out and invented as aforesaid, that soe such offender may be
proceeded against and punished according to the vtmost rigor of the law.
And further, wee doe, by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorize, require, and command all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors,
sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and minis-
ters whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time
being whom it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be
from time to time during the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices,
and according to their and every of their best skills and endeavours, ayding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, deputyes, agents, and servante, in and
by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the execučon of the severall powers and privi-
ledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our said respective
officers and ministers before menčoned, or any of them, doe not nor shall at
any time hereafter during the terme hereby granted, in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servants, in or
about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any part thereof, or any
thing relating thereto Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said terme of
fourteen yeares 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the Invencon before menconed is not a new invenčon as to
the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found out by

page_text: them, the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, as aforesaid, then vpon
significacon and declaraton of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be made by
vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the
Lords or others of our or their. Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder
their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith ceasc, determine, and
be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before conteyned to
the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents,
or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their
.executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invencon or worke what-
soever which hath been heretofore invented or found out by any other of our
subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominion
aforesaid, to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of
priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to
whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and
practise their severall Invenĉons by them respectively found out, according to
the true meaneing of such our Letters Patents and of these Presents. And
.lastly, wec.doc hereby, for vs, our heirs and successors, grant vnto the said
Bernard Strode and Robert Snelling, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters, Patents or the enrollm thereof, shall be and
continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectual in the law,
according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine describing or menconing of the said Inventon, or of the materialls,
ingredients, waies, or meanes of making, vsing, or exerciseing of the same; or
of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or
imperfeccon in these Presents, or any act, statute, provision, proclamacon,
or restriccon heretofore had, made, or provided, or any other matter, cause,
or thing whatsoever, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse the King at West, the Eighth day, of