NEW INVENCON FOR THE MAKEING OF SHIPPS TO SAYLE WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF WYNDE OR TYDE; AS ALSO A CERTAINE INSTRUM FOR TAKEING OF THE WAY OR COURSE OF ANY SHIPP WITH DEMONSTRABLE EXACTNESSE, WHICH MAY BE MUCH FOR THE PUBLIQUE BENEFITT AND ADVANTAGE OF NAVIGACON AND FOR THE INTEREST OF TRADE; AND FURTHER, THAT THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRIVED A NEW INVENCON FOR THE RAISING OF WATER WITH SPUNGES, WHICH MAY BE OF SINGULAR VSE IN DRAYNING OF MYNES WHICH ARE INACCESSABLE BY THE ENGINS ORDINARYLY KNOWNE
Year: 1662

page_text: these Psents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have receaved good informačon that THOMAS TOGOOD,
Gent., and JAMES HAYES, Esquire, have att theire greate charge and expence
contrived and pfected a certaine "NEW INVENCON FOR THE MAKEING OF
SHIPPS TO SAYLE WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF WYNDE OR TYDE; AS ALSO A
CERTAINE INSTRUM FOR TAKEING OF THE WAY OR COURSE OF ANY SHIPP WITH
DEMONSTRABLE EXACTNESSE, WHICH MAY BE MUCH FOR THE PUBLIQUE BENEFITT
AND ADVANTAGE OF NAVIGACON AND FOR THE INTEREST OF TRADE; AND FURTHER,
THAT THEY HAVE ALSO CONTRIVED A NEW INVENCON FOR THE RAISING OF WATER
WITH SPUNGES, WHICH MAY BE OF SINGULAR VSE IN DRAYNING OF MYNES WHICH
ARE INACCESSABLE BY THE ENGINS ORDINARYLY KNOWNE;" and whereas they
have humbly desired our royall graunt of a licence and priviledge for the sole
vse, exercise, and benefitt of their said Invenčons throughout our realmes,
dominions, and countryes, for the terme of fourteene yeares, according to the
statute made & pvided in that case.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to cherish & encourag all lawdable
endeauors and designes of such our subiects as shall fynde out vsefull and
pfitable arte and invenčons, by granting and appropriating vnto them for
some tearme of yeares the fruite and benefitt of this industry, whereby their
labors & expence in the attainm' therof may be recompensed and rewarded
vnto them, and being also willing to encourage as much as wec may these

page_text: invenčons, and others of the like nature which may be vsefull and advan-
tagious to all our loveing subiects, for soe much as concerneth the vse and
practise of the same within our kingdomes of England, Scotland, Ireland,
and all and every other our dominions and territories, of our speciall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said
Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, full and sole licence, power, priviledge, and authority, that they, the
said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, by themselves and their deputyes, agents, servants, factors, and worke-
men, and such others as they, the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, shall
at any tyme agree with, within our said kingdomes of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, and all and every other our dominions and territories, shall and may,
att all, and every tyme and tymes hereafter during the terme of fourteene
yeares next ensuing the date of these psents, make, vs, practice, teach, or
putt in vse, the said severall Invenčons never before found out or vsed by any
but the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, for the makeing of shipps to
sayle without the assistance of wynde and tyde, and takeing the way or
course of a shippe, as aforesaid, and for the raising of water with spunges,
and for what other vse and vses they shalbe by them imployed, according
to the tenor and pport of the said new wayes of invenĉon by them, the said
Thomas Togood and James Hayes, devised, framed, and found out as aforesaid,
and that they, the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have, receave, and take all sumes
of mony, benefitts, advantages, and pfitts whatsoed thereby ariseing or to be
thereof had, made, acquired, or gotten, from tyme to tyme duringe the terme
hereby graunted, to have, hold, or enioy the said licence, priviledge, power,
and authority, süme and sumes of money, advantages, pfitts, and other the
Pmises by these psents graunted or menconed to be graunted to the said
Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and duringe the terme of fourteene years from thenceforth next
ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended; and to the end the said
Thomas Togood and James Heyes, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, may have and take the benefitt wee now intend them by this our
Psent graunt, of our most speciall grace, certaine knowledge and meere močon,
wee doe for vs, our heires and successors, straightly charge and comand all and
every pson and psons, of what state, degree, or condicon soever they or any of
them bee, that they or any of them, during the terme of fourteene yeares, doe
not psume to vse or practice, directly or indirectly, the said severall Invenčons

page_text: Soe found out and invented by the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes
as aforesaid, without the licerice, consent, and agreement of the said Thomas
Togood and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and assignes, first
had and obteyned in writing vnder their hands and seales in that behalfe,
vpon such forfeiture, payne, and losse, as by the law may be had and recovered
by vs, our heires and successors, of all such Invenčons as any pson or psons
shall sume to attempt, contrive, or put in practice, thereby, or by means
thereof, to invade, infringe the priviledge of the said severall Invenčons hereby
graunted as aforesaid, to stoppe or hinder the same in their due pceedings,
contrary to this our royall intenčon and declaračon; and further, that any the
delinquents herein shall be peceded against and punished according to our
lawes for their contempt or neglect of our royall will and commandem* herein
declared; and further, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and
successors, give and grant vnto the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that
they, every or any of them, their, every or any of their deputyes, servants,
and agents, or any of them, haveing first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the tyme being,
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, att con-
venient tymes of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawfull manner,
enter into and make search in any houses, shipps, or other place where there
shalbe be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and fynding out of all such
psons as shall, within the terme of fourteene yeares aforesaid, imitate or cause
to be imitated, or shall vse and putt in practice the said Invenčons, or any
of them, soe by the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes invented and attained
vnto as aforesaid, that soc such offenders may bee pceeded against and
punished according to their demeritts, and their invenčons and workes tending
to the end aforesaid then and there found to be seized vpon and brooken in
peices and defaced, and the materialls thereof left in the hands or custody of
some constable or officer, to be disposed in such manner and forme as wee,
our heires and successors, shall from tyme to tyme direct and appoynt; and
wee doe by these psents will and desire that our entirely and welbeloved
brother James Duke of Yorke, our High Admirall of England, and further,
for vs, our heires and successors, wee will and comaud that the lord admirall
for the tyme being, and all maretime officers of what degree or quality
soever, and also all maiors, sheriffes, justices of the peace, bayliffes, con-
stables, headborowes, and other the officers and ministers of vs, our
heires and successors, for the tyme being, to whome it shall appteyne,
and every of them, during the terme aforesaid, bee favoring, ayding, and

page_text: assisting to the said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, in all lawful thinges in and aboute the accom-
plishm of this our psent graunt and pleasure herein declared, and for the
due suppression of all such as shall any wayes endeaver to infringe or oppose
the same; and that they or any of them doe not att any tyme hinder, molest,
or interrupt the said Thomas Togood and James Haighes, their executors,
adfiistr, or assignes, or his or their deputies, or any of them, in the due and
lawful execucon of the misses, as they tender our displeasure and will
answere the contrary at their pills; and these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollm of them, shalbe their sufficient warrant in that behalfe: Provided
alwaies, and our pleasure is, that if att any tyme during the said terme it
shall appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or
privy scale, or by the lords and others of privy councel, that is our graunt
shalbe inconvenient or Piudicill to our cōmonwealth, then vpon significacon
and declaracon to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lords and others of privy councell, or six
of them, for the tyme being, in writing vnder their hands, of such piudice or
inconvenience, these our Lies Patens shall forthwith cease, determine, and
be vtterly voyd, any thing before menconed to the contrary notwithstanding.
And wee doe hereby graunt, for vs, our heires and successors, that these our
Lřes Patents, or the inrollm thereof, shalbe firme, good, & effectual in the
lawe according to the true meaning of the same, although expsse mencon, &c.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse, &c., at Westin the Seaventeenth day of Sept.
P hře de priuato sigillo.