A NEW MACHINE CALLED A SIPHON, OR AN ATTRACTING ENGINE THAT WORKS WITHOUT FRICTION OF SOLIDS (SO LONG SOUGHT AFTER BY THE INGENIOUS, BUT NOT HAPPILY DISCOVERED TILL THE SAID INVENTION) PARTLY BY ATTRACTION, AND PARTLY BY FORCE, AND IS COMPOSED OF. Two TUBES, ONE WITHIN THE OTHER, LIFTING VP THE WATER THROUGH ITS OWN. CAVITY. BY THE AID OF SOME RELIEVING VALVES PLACED AT PROPER DISTANCES AB
Year: 1724

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved WILLIAM MASON and THOMAS
CHAMFLOWER, have by their petition, humbly represented vnto vs that they
have, by their great pains, long and industrious study, and much expence,
found out, invented, and brought to perfection, "A NEW MACHINE CALLED A
SIPHON, OR AN ATTRACTING ENGINE THAT WORKS WITHOUT FRICTION OF SOLIDS
(SO LONG SOUGHT AFTER BY THE INGENIOUS, BUT NOT HAPPILY DISCOVERED TILL
THE SAID INVENTION) PARTLY BY ATTRACTION, AND PARTLY BY FORCE, AND IS
COMPOSED OF. Two TUBES, ONE WITHIN THE OTHER, LIFTING VP THE WATER
THROUGH ITS OWN. CAVITY. BY THE AID OF SOME RELIEVING VALVES PLACED AT
PROPER DISTANCES ONE ABOVE THE OTHER, AND IS MOVED BY A. PECULIAR POWER
CONTAINING TWO SEGMENT OF A CIRCULAR WHEEL, AND, TWO SHORT CHAINS
REVERTED ON EACH SEGMENT, FOR LIFTING: VP AND FORCING DOWER THE INWARD
TUBES; AND IN REGARD IT WOULD BE, LIABLE TO FEW OR NONE-OF, THOSE ACCIDENTS
TO WHICH ALL ENGINES HITHERTO INVENTED ARE SUBJECT, BY REASON OF ITS
BEING WORKED, WITHOUT FRICTION, IT WOULD BE OF VESPRAKABLE VALUE FOR
PRESERVING OF SHIPS OF WARE IN ENGEMENT, AND MERCHANTMEN DIVERSITY
OF DISTRESS AT SEA, WHEREBY VAST NUMBERS OF VSEFULL LIVES MAY BE
SAVED; AND IT MAY ALSO EMINENTLY SERVICEABLE IN DRAINING OF MINES,

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MOORES, AND MARISHES, AS ALSO FOR RAISING OF WATER FOR EXTINGUISHING
DANGEROUS FIRES WITH GREATER CELERITY, AND IN DOUBLE OR TREBLE THE
ABLE
ANY OTHER PUMPS OR MACHINES WHATEVER ARE
QUANTITY THAN
EFFECT IN THE SAME SPACE OF TIME WITH THE SAME GIVEN POWER, AND TO
THE SAME GIVEN HEIGHT, IT BEING CAPABLE TO DISCHARGE NEAR ONE THOUSAND
GALLONS OF WATER TWENTY FOOT HIGH, WITH THE HELP OF YEW MEN, IN
THE SPACE OF A MINUTE;" and having humbly prayed vs to grant them our
Royal Letters Patente for the sole making, vsing, and exercising their new
Invention for their sole vse and benefit, for the terme of fourteen yeares,
within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and our plantations
in America, wec, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inven-
tions which may be for the public vse and benefit, are pleased to gratify them
in their request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that weo, of our especiall grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said William
Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said
William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or by their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said William Mason and
Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the
term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, and exer-
cise their said new Invention of a machine called siphon, or an attracting
engine of great vse for preserving ships of warr in engagement and mer-
chantmen in diversities of distress at sea, and for draining mines, moores, and
marshes, and also for raising water for extinguishing dangerous fires, as
above described, within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and our
plantations in America, as to them, the said William Mason and Thomas
Chamflower, their executors, adininistrators, and assignes, or any of them,
shall in their discretions seem meet, and that they, the said William Mason
and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention for and during the terme of yeares herein
menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,

page_text: priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted,
vnto the said William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and
imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
statute in such case made and provided; and to the end that the said William
Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invention, according to our gracious intention herein-
before declared, wee do by these presente, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every pesson and persons, bodies politick
and corporate, and all other our subject whatsoever, of what estate, quality
or degree, name or condition soever they be, in that part of our said kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, and our plantačons in America aforesaid, that neither they or any
of them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invention so attained vnto by the said William Mason and Thomas
Chamflower, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble tho
same, nor shall make, or cause to be made, any addition thereunto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycense, consent,
or agreement of the said William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, in writing vnder their hande and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as
can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
royal command, and further to be answerable to the said William Mason and
Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according
to law, for their damages thereby occasioned; and, moreover, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and, singular
our iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever 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 terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of their deputies, servants,
or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention, or any thing relating thereto: provided always, and these our Letters

page_text: Patente are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the
said terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our
grant is contrary to law or prejudicial or inconvenient to our suiecte in
generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vso
or exercise thereof in that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon Tweed, or in our plantacons
in America aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said William
Mason and Thomas Chamflour, or either of them as aforesaid, then, vpon
signification and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heirs or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lords and others of our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our
Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determin, and be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in any-
wise notwithstanding: provided also, that these our Letters Patent(, or any-
thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said William Mason and Thomas Chainflour, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invention or
work whatsoever which hath been 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 Britaine called England, our dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or in our plantačons in America
aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been granted
for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit, it being our will and pleasure that the
said William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their several Inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patente
and of these presents: provided likewise nevertheless, and these our Letters
Patent are vpon this express condition, that if the said William Mason and
Thomas Chamflower, or the executors or administrators of them or any of them,
or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during
the continuance of this grant have or claime any right, title, or interest, in law
or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and
benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or
assignement, 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

page_text: 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 booke 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 vnder
pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or
shall by him or themselves, or his or their agente or servante, receive
any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the like intente 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
committ or do or procure to be cōmitted or done any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever during such time as such person shall have any right or title,
either in law or equity, in or to the said pmisses which will be contrary to the
true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of our reigne, intitled (An Act for the better securing certain powers and
priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by two charters for
assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money vpon
bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable practices
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 administrators as and
for the single person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are or
shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate, that then and in
any of the said cases, these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges
and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these present for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said William Mason and Thomas
Chamflower, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patent or the inrollment or exemplification thereof shall be in and by
all thing good, firme, valid, sufficient and effectual in the law according to
the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sence, for the best advantage
of the said William Mason and Thomas Chamflower, their executors, adminis-
trators and assignes, as well in all courte of record as elswhere, and by all
and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and suc-

page_text: cessors in that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and our plantations in
America aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiect 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
materials conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our self at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of
April.
By Writt of Privy Seal.