A NEW INVENTION OR METHOD FOR EXTRACTING FOUL AIR OUT OF SHIPS, AND WILL EQUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE REMOVING OF ALL NOXIOUS AIR WHATSOEVER, AND MAY BE CONVENIENTLY APPLIED TO MINES AND CAVERNS IN THE EARTH, DUNGEONS, PRISONS, AND ALL INFECTED PLACES
Year: 1744

page_text: SUTTON'S PATENT.
GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, and so forth, to all to whom
these Presents shall come greeting.
gra-
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved SAMUEL SUTTON, of our City of
London, Brewer, has, by his petition, humbly represented unto us that he has,
after long study, much pains, great expence, and repeated experiments, found
out and brought to perfection "A NEW INVENTION OR METHOD FOR EXTRACTING
FOUL AIR OUT OF SHIPS, AND WILL EQUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE REMOVING OF
ALL NOXIOUS AIR WHATSOEVER, AND MAY BE CONVENIENTLY APPLIED TO MINES AND
CAVERNS IN THE EARTH, DUNGEONS, PRISONS, AND ALL INFECTED PLACES," that the
said Invention may be likewise used in hot-houses and walls, which will
greatly warm the earth for the speedy production of its fruits, and also in
naries for the preservation of corn and grain; that the said Invention will
greatly tend to the preservation of the lives of great numbers of our subjects,
and be of publick use and benefit to this our kingdom in general; and as the
petitioner is the first and sole discoverer of the said Invention or method, and
also in regard to the great expence of money and time the petitioner has
sustained in making so valuable a discovery, he therefore most humbly prays
us that we would be pleased to grant him our Royal Letters Patent for thu
sole use and benefit of his said new Invention, within that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in our Plantations in America, for the
term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in such case made and pro-
vided, we being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
which may be for the publick good, are graciously pleased to condescend to
the petitioner's request.

page_text: KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that we, of our especial grace, certain know-
lege, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said Samuel Sutton,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, our especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge, and authority, that he, the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
bis and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter
during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, use,
exercise, and vend, his said Invention within that part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and our Colonies and Plantations in America, in such manner as to him,
the said Samuel Sutton, his exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Samuel Sutton,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein.-before granted or mentioned
to be granted unto the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be
compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
and to the end that he, the said Sanuel Sutton, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, may have and enjoy the full benefit, and the
sole use and exercise of the said Invention herein-before declared, we do by
these Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, require and strictly command
all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other
our subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition
soever they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our
Colonies and Plantations in America, aforesaid that neither they nor any of
them, during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted
either directly or indirectly, do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention
or any part of the same so attained unto by the said Samuel Sutton as afore
said, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make
or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction from the same
whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor o

page_text: devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, or assigns, in writing under his
or their hand and seal first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains
and penaltys as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for their
contempt of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to the said
Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assigns, according to law, for
his and their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover we do by these
Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will and command all and singular
the justices of tho peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of us, our heirs and successors
for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any time here-
after during the said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of
them, or his or their deputy, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawfull use or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto;
provided always, and these our Letters Patent are and shall be upon this
condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be
made appear to us, our heirs 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 subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a
new Invention as to the publick use and exercise thereof in that said part
of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our Colonies and Plantations in
America aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Samuel Sutton
as aforesaid, then upon signification or declaration thereof, to be made by us,
our heirs or successors, under 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 under
their hands, these our Letters Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
utterly void, to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also that these our
Letter's Patent, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge unto the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work
whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of
our subjects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in that said part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our Colonies and Plantations in America
aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been already
granted, for the sole usc, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and

page_text: pleasure that the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
use and practise their several Inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patent and of these Presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patent are upon this express condition, that if the said Samuel Sutton,
his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may,
at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant,
have or claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or to the
power, priviledge, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Inven-
tion hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended
transferr or assignment of the liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of
the benefit or profit thereof, or shall 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 book or books for publick subscriptions, to be made by any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sum or
sums of money under pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants, receive any sum or sums of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the like intents
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patent, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by us
granted into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall commit
or do, or procure to be committed or done any act, matter, or thing whatsoever
during such time as such person or persons shall have any right or title either in
law or equity in or to the said premises, which will be contrary to the true intent
and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of the
reign of our late Royal Father, King George the First, intituled (An Act for
the better securing certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by
His Majesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at
Sea, and for lending Money upon Bottomry, and for restraining several ex-
travagant and unwarrantable Practices therein mentioned), 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 in right of such their testator or intestate), that then, and in any of
the said cases, these our Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantage

page_text: whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine and become void,
anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise not-
withstanding; provided also, that if the said Samuel Sutton shall not par
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in our High Court
of Chancery, within four kalendar months next and immediately after the
date of these our Letters Patent, that then these our Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to
the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, we do
by these Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said
Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assigns, that these our
Letters Patent, or the inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in
and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sence for the best
advantage of the said Samuel Sutton, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, as well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and
singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors,
in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our Colonies
and Plantations in America aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects
of us, our heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention,
or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnoce &
Witnessed by the King at Westminster the Sixteenth
In witness &o. Witnessed by the King at Westminster, the Sixteenth
day of March.
By Writ of Privy Seal.