A NEW WAY OF ENLIGHTNING THE STREET. AND PASSAGES OF THIS OR ANY OTHER CITTY, TOWNE, OR PLACE OF CONCOURSE IN THE DARK SEASONS OF THE EVENING AND NIGHT BY A NEW SORT OF LANTHORN AND LAMPS NEVER HITHERTO VSED IN THIS OUR KINGDOME, WHICH, BEING PUTT IN PRACTICE ACCORDING TO HIS METHOD OF PLACEING THEM, WILL BE OF GREAT AND PUBLICK VSE AND BENEFITT TO ALL OUR SUBIECT, AND MAY BE MAINETAINED WITH FARR LESSE CHARGE AND TROUBLE THEN ANY OTHER LIGHT HITHERTO MADE VSE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1683

page_text: humbly repsented vnto vs, that with great charge and expence he hath found
out "A NEW WAY OF ENLIGHTNING THE STREET. AND PASSAGES OF THIS OR ANY
OTHER CITTY, TOWNE, OR PLACE OF CONCOURSE IN THE DARK SEASONS OF THE EVENING
AND NIGHT BY A NEW SORT OF LANTHORN AND LAMPS NEVER HITHERTO VSED IN THIS
OUR KINGDOME, WHICH, BEING PUTT IN PRACTICE ACCORDING TO HIS METHOD OF
PLACEING THEM, WILL BE OF GREAT AND PUBLICK VSE AND BENEFITT TO ALL OUR
SUBIECT, AND MAY BE MAINETAINED WITH FARR LESSE CHARGE AND TROUBLE
THEN ANY OTHER LIGHT HITHERTO MADE VSE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE;" which said
Invencon hath been seen and approved of by vs, and is now.vsed in our
palaces of Whitehall and Windsor.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said Anthony
Vernatty may reape some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his
great expences in and about the pmisses, and incourage the inventers of such
arte as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge and meer močon, have given and granted and by these psente for
vs, our heires, and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Anthony
Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Anthony Vernatty, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or
their deputy and deputies, servante, or agent, or such others as he, the said
Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and use others, from time to time and at all times during the terme

page_text: of yeares hereafter in these p'sente expssed, shall and lawfully may vse,
excise, and enioy the said Invenčon within any part or part or places what-
soever of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales,
and all and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such
manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons as
to him, the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes
or any of them shall in their discreccons seem meet; and that he, the said
Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole benefitt, pfitt, comodity and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invencon for and during the
terme of yeares hereafter menconed; to have, hold, excise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges and advantages herein-before granted or menconed
to be granted vnto the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from
the day of the date of these psente next and immediately ensueing, and fully to
be compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case made and pvided.
And to the end the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators and
assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and
excise of the said Inventon according to our gratious intenčons herein-before
declared, wee do by these psente for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and every pson and psons, bodies politiq, and corpo-
rate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, within all and every our kingdomes
and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any time during the
continueance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly do vse or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part
of the same, so attained vnto by the said Anthony Vernatty as aforesaid, nor
shall in any wise counterfeito or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addičon thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
Ptend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hand 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 Anthony
Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for
his and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee do of our further
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, by these psente that he, they, and every of them, and his

page_text: and their and every of their deputies, agente, and servante (having first ob-
tained a warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench
at Westñi, for the time being), and with the assistance of a constable or any
other lawful officer, at convenient times during the terme hereby granted,
and in lawful manner, may make search in any place or places whatso-
ever within any of our kingdomes and dominions (where there shall be
iust cause of suspicon) for the discovery and finding out of all and every
pson and psons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or
putt in practice the said Invenĉon, that so such offender or offenders may be
pceeded against and punished according to law. And further wee do by these
Psent for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command all and
singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffe, constables, head-
boroughes, 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
during the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices favouring, aiding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, adminis-
trats and assignes, and his and their deputy and deputies, servante and agente,
in and by all thing in and aboute the accomplishment of our royall will and
pleasure herein-before declared, and in the excise and execuĉon of the powers
and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee do by these
Psente, for vs, our heires, and successors, will and command that our said
respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, do not nor
shall, at any time hereafter during the terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, or any his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or
about the due and lawfull vse or excise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or anything
relating therevnto: pvided alwayes, and these our Letters Patente are and shall
be vpon this condicon, 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 Councill, that this our sent grant is contrary to law or
Piudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in genBall, or that the said Invencon
is not a new inventon as to the publick vse and excise thereof, and not
invented and found out by the said Anthony Vernatty, as aforesaid, then vpon
significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or succes-
sors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the Lorde and others of
our or their Privy Councill or any six or more of them vnder their hande,
these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void

page_text: to all intent and purposes, anything before herein conteyned to the contrary
in any wise notwithstanding: pvided also that these our Letters Patent
or any thing therein conteined shall not extend or be construed to extend
to give priviledge vnto the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them to vse or imitate any Inventon or
work whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by
any other of our subiect whatsoever, and publickly vsed or excised within
our said realm and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have
already granted our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole vsc, excise,
and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Anthony
Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular,
other pson or psons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters
Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Invencons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patente, and of these psente.
And lastly, wee do by these sente for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall be, in and by
all thing, good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to
the truc intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence, for the best advantage
of the said Anthony Vernatty, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as
well in all Court( of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular
our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the
subiect of vs, our heires, and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materialle thereto conduccing or belonging, or any other
defect and incerteinties in these psente conteined, or any act, statute,
ordinance, pvision, pelamacon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing
whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westñi, the First day of August.