A NEW SORT OF MOULD WHICH WILL LAST MANY YEABES AND MAY BE READY P PARED AT ALL TIMES FOR ALL SORTS OF ORDNANCE, WHEREBY THE GREAT DELAY AND CHARGE IN PREPAREING ORDNANCE FOR OUR SERVICE WILL BE PREVENTED
Year: 1691

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved Captainе THOMAS PHILIPS hath by his
humble petition represented vnto vs, that with great paines and charges heo
hath found out and invented "A NEW SORT OF MOULD WHICH WILL LAST MANY
YEABES AND MAY BE READY P PARED AT ALL TIMES FOR ALL SORTS OF ORDNANCE,
WHEREBY THE GREAT DELAY AND CHARGE IN PREPAREING ORDNANCE FOR OUR SERVICE
WILL BE PREVENTED;" and humbly praying in regard this will be a most vsefull
Invention and contribute much to our service, that for his encouragement to
grant to him by our Letters Patents the sole vse of his said new Invention
for the terme of fourteen yeares, wee are gratiously pleased to condescend
to his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to incourage the inven-
ters of such arts as may be of publick vse and advantage, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the
said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he the said Thomas
Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves, or his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with and noe others, from time to time and at all times
durcing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make,

page_text: vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invention within any part or parts, place or
places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of England, Dominion
of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our
kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittačons, as to him the said Thomas
Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions sceme meet; and that he, the said Thomas Philips, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole
benefitt, profit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
and ariscing by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing the full terme of
yeares herein mentioned to have hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted vnto the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares,
from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensucing, and fully to
be compleate and ended, according to the Statute, in this case made and
provided; and to the end that the said Thomas Philips, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt, and the
sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious inten-
tions herein-before declared, wee doe by these Presents for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subiccts whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any
time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practise the said Inven-
tion or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Thomas Philips as
aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addition thereto or substracčon from the same,
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Philips, bis executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hande
and scales 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 royall command, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Philips,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe of our further especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meer mocon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by

page_text: these Presents that he, they and every of them, and his, their, and every of theire
deputics, servants, and agents, (haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from
the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the
time being, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull
officer,) at convenient times in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and in
lawful manner may enter into and make search in any place or places whatso-
ever, within any of our kingdomes and dominions, (where there shall be iust
cause of suspition,) for the discovery and finding out of all and every person and
persons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice
the said Invention or shall make or counterfeite any instruements or materialls
to the same belonging, that soc such offender or offenders may be proceeded
against and punished according to law. And further wee doe by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command all and singular
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's, bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors for
the time being, aswell within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of
Wales as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they
and every of them respectively be from time to time dureing the terme hereby
granted in their respective offices favouring, aiding, belping, and assisting vnto
the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his
and their deputy and deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and
about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges
hereby granted as aforesaid; and moreover wee doe by these Presents for vs,
our heires and successors will and command that our respective officers and
ministers before-menconed, or any of them doc not nor shall at any time here-
after dureing the said terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or
binder the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents in or about the
due and lawful vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing
relateing thereto: Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patents are and
shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time dureing the terme 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 present grant is contrary to
law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said
Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Thomas
Philips as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaration thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by

page_text: the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of
them, vnder their hande these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, deter-
nine, and bé vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before
contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that
these our Letters Patents, or anything therein contained shall not extend or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Philips, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or in-
vented by any other of our subiects whatsoever and publickly vsed or exercised
within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them vnto whome like
Letters Patents of priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents or the inrollment
thereof shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for
the best advantage of the said Thomas Philips, his executors, administrators;
and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and
singuler the oflicers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
in all and singuler our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all
and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the nature or
quality of the said Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and
belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Fifteenth day