A NEW WAY OF MAKEING PAPER IN GREAT. QUANTITIES AND WITH LESS CHARGE AND LABOUR AND MORE ADVANTAGE THEN EVER HATH BEEN YETT PRACTISED IN ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE, BY A MILL OR ENGINE TO BE DRIVEN EITHER BY WINDE, SAILES, OR WATER WHEELES, AND TO WORKE EIGHTY OR MORE STAMPERS AT ONCE, DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER MILLS NOW VSED, BOTH FOR FORME, OPERATION, AND VSE; WHICH NEW-INVENTED MILL HATH ALSOE ANOTHER NEW-INVENTED ENGINE APPERTEYNING TO IT, FOR THE RAISEING GREAT QUANTITIES OF WATER, SINGULARLY VSEPULL IN THE DRAINING COALE MINES, LEAD MINES, AND OTHER LIKE DREYNINGS OR WATER RISEING
Year: 1692

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved TпомAS HUTTON, Gentleman, hath,.
by his humble petičon, represented vnto vs that he hath been at great
charge and expence in discovering "A NEW WAY OF MAKEING PAPER IN GREAT.
QUANTITIES AND WITH LESS CHARGE AND LABOUR AND MORE ADVANTAGE THEN
EVER HATH BEEN YETT PRACTISED IN ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE, BY A MILL OR
ENGINE TO BE DRIVEN EITHER BY WINDE, SAILES, OR WATER WHEELES, AND TO
WORKE EIGHTY OR MORE STAMPERS AT ONCE, DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER MILLS
NOW VSED, BOTH FOR FORME, OPERATION, AND VSE; WHICH NEW-INVENTED MILL
HATH ALSOE ANOTHER NEW-INVENTED ENGINE APPERTEYNING TO IT, FOR THE RAISEING
GREAT QUANTITIES OF WATER, SINGULARLY VSEPULL IN THE DRAINING COALE
MINES, LEAD MINES, AND OTHER LIKE DREYNINGS OR WATER RISEING;" and
praying vs to grant him our Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole work-
ing and haveing the sole benefitt of the said severall new Inventions, for the
terme of fourteen yeares, according to the statute in that case provided:
And whereas by an Act of Parliament made in the second yeare of our
reigne, for the encourageing and better establishing the manufacture of white
paper in this kingdome, the sole makeing of all sorts of white writeing
and printing paper, of above four shillings the rheam, is appropriated to
the said Company of White Paper Makers in England, for the terme of
fourteen yeares to comence from the end of that session of Parliament; and
wee, being informed by the said Thomas Hutton that the mill or engine in

page_text: the petition mentioned, is designed for the makeing of all sorts of paper not
prohibited by the said Act of Parliament,-
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and en-
courage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by
their industry found out vsefull and profittable arts, misteries, and inventions,
and that the said Thomas Hutton may accordingly reape some fruite and
benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted,
and by these presents doe give and grant, vnto the said Thomas Hutton,
bis executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, privi-
ledge, and authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his
and their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as
the said Thomas Hutton, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter,
dureing the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these presents,
at his and their own proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and
put in practice the said new Inventions soe by him contrived and found out as
aforesaid for the makeing of all sorts of paper not prohibited by the said Act
of Parliament (and not otherwise) in any place or places within our kingdom
of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe
shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodi-
ties, and advantages of and by the said new Inventions to be had, made;
acquired, or gotten to his and their own proper benefitt, vse and vses, to have,
hold, vsc, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
authorities, and all other the premisses by these presents granted or men-
čoned to be granted vnto the said Thomas Hutton, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next ensueing,
and: fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in that case
and provided. And to the end the said Thomas Hutton, his exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt,
and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Inventions, wee doe, by these
presents, for vs, our heires: and successors, streightly charge; require, and
coniand all and every: person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of
what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever. they be, within our said
kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of four-
teen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or
put in practice the said new Inventions soe by the said Thomas Hutton

page_text: invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doc nor shall counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the said new Inventions, or any materialls thereunto belonging,
nor doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substracčon therefrom,
whereby to tend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Hutton, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hands and seales
first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as
can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein for the contempt
of this our royall command, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas
Hutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost
rigour of the law, for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And further,
wee doe, by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffs, bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time
being, whome it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be,
from time to time dureing 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 Thomas Hutton, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things
in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the execution of the severall powers and priviledges 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 menconed, or any of them, doe not, nor shall at any time
hereafter dureing the term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said Thomas Hutton, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
deputies, agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Inventions, or any part thereof, or any thing relateing thereto: Provided
alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon,
that if at any time dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares 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 Invenčons
before menconed are not new inventions as to the publick vso and exercise of
the same, and not invented and found out by the said Thomas Hutton as
aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaracon of such preiudice or in-
conveniency, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signet or privy scale, or by the lords or others of our or their Privy Councill,

page_text: or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall
forthwith cease, determine and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes,
anything herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided
alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein conteyned, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas
Hutton, his executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invention
or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or found out by
any other of our subiccts whatsoever, and publiquely exercised within our
kingdome or dominion aforesaid, to whome 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 Thomas Hutton, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons
to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly
vse and practise their severall inventions by them respectively found out,
according to the true meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these
presents. And, lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Thomas Hutton, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall
be and continue in and by all things good, firme, valid, and effectuall in
the law, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describeing or menconing of the said
Inventions, or of the materialls, ways, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or
exerciscing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, and not-
withstanding the not reciteing or not truely reciteing or menconing the Act
of Parliament above menčoned, or any part thereof, or any other defect,
incertainty, or imperfection in these presents, or any other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth