A NEW ENGINE FOR SWEEPING THE STREETS OF LONDON OR ANY CITY OR TOWKE, AS ALSOE GREENS AND WALKS, WITHIN OUR DOMINIONS, BY AN INVENCON FOR LOADING THE DIRT, DUST, OR SOYL, OR ANY SORT OF CASKS, WITH GREAT EASE AND QUICKNESSE, AND HATH BROUGHT TO PERFECCON A NEW INVENCON VERY VSEFULL FOR ALL OUR ARTILLERY CARRIAGES, WAGGONS, AND CARTS, AND ALL COMON CARTS AND WAGGONS VSED IN OUR DOMINIONS, AND HATH ALSOE INVERTED A NEW ENGINE VERY VEHFULL FOR MENDING AND REPAIRING THE HIGHWAYS, THROWING ALL THE RISEING RIDGES INTO THE BUTTS
Year: 1699

page_text: HEMING'S PATENT.
WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom
these Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved EDMUND HEMING, Gent, bath by
his humble petičon represented vntò vs that with great paines and expence
he hath discovered a new Invenčon by "A NEW ENGINE FOR SWEEPING THE
STREETS OF LONDON OR ANY CITY OR TOWKE, AS ALSOE GREENS AND WALKS,
WITHIN OUR DOMINIONS, BY AN INVENCON FOR LOADING THE DIRT, DUST, OR SOYL,
OR ANY SORT OF CASKS, WITH GREAT EASE AND QUICKNESSE, AND HATH BROUGHT TO
PERFECCON A NEW INVENCON VERY VSEFULL FOR ALL OUR ARTILLERY CARRIAGES,
WAGGONS, AND CARTS, AND ALL COMON CARTS AND WAGGONS VSED IN OUR DOMINIONS,
AND HATH ALSOE INVERTED A NEW ENGINE VERY VEHFULL FOR MENDING AND
REPAIRING THE HIGHWAYS, THROWING ALL THE RISEING RIDGES INTO THE BUTTS,"
and hath prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse,.exercise,
and benefitt of the said new Invenĉons.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encou
rage all the laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by
their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and invenčons,
and that the said Edmund Heming may accordingly reap the fruit and benefitt
of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said Edmund Heming, his exccu-

page_text: tors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge and
authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their
deputies, servants, agents, and workemen, and such others only as he the
said Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing
the space of fowrteene yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at his
and theire owne proper costs and charges, erect, vsc, teach, exercise, and put
in practice the said severall new Invenčons, soe by him contrived and found out
as aforesaid, in any place or places within our Kingdomes of England and
Ireland, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the benefitts,
profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said severall new Invenčons
to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to his and their owne proper benefitt, vse,
and vses; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycences, powers,
priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by these Presents
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Edmund Heming, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and to the full end
and terme of fowrteene yeares from the day of the date of these Presents
next ensueing, and fully to be compleat and endod, according to the Statute
in that case made and provided. And to the end the said Edmund Heming,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and
whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of his said severall new Invenčons,
wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and command all and every person and persons, bodys politick and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, and condičon soever they be, within
our Kingdomes of England and Ireland, that neither they nor any of them,
dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practice, the said severall new Invenĉons,
or any of them, soe by the said Edmund Heming invented and found out as
aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the said severall
new Invenĉons, or any of them, or any materialls therevnto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon therefrom, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence, con-
sent, or agreement of the said Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writing vnder his and their hands and seales first had and obtained
in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on
the offender or offenders therein for the contempt of this our royall comand;
and further to be answerable to the said Edmund Heming, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of the law, for
his or their damages thereby sustained. And further, wee doc, by these our

page_text: Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and
command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being whom it may
concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time
dureing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, & according to
their and every of their best skills and endeavors, ayding, helping, and assisting
vnto the said Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators, and assignes;
deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the
execucon of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid.
And moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors;
will and command all our said respective officers and ministers before menčoned,
or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter, dureing the terme
hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Edmund
Heming, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or
servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčons, or any of
them, or any part thereof, or anything relating therevnto: Provided always,
and these our Leters Patent are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at
any time dureing the said terme of fowrteene years hereby granted, it shall
be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall
or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invenčons before
menčoned are not new Invenčons as to the publick vse and exercise of the same,
and not invented and found out by the said Edmund Heming as aforesaid,
then vpon significañon and declaračon of such preiudice and inconveniency to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or
by the Lords or others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them
vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained
to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, to imitate any Invenčon, or worko whatsoever which hath beene
heretofore invented and found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publickly exercised in our said Kingdome of England and Ireland to whom
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole
exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure, that the said
Edmund Heming, his executors, administrators and assignes, and all and

page_text: singular other person and persons to whom wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invencons
by them respectively found out, according to the true meaning of such our
Letters Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee doc hereby, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Edmund Heming, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents shall be and
continuo in and by all things good, vali, firme, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not full
and certaine describing or menconing of the said severall Invenčons, or of the
materialls, wayes or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or
of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or
imperfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westin, the Twentieth day of