A NEW ART OR METHOD OF RAISING COPPER BATTERY COLD IN COMMON BATTERY MILLS WITHOUT CRAMPING OR NAILING, FIT FOR BREWING FURNACES, KETTLES, PANNS, POTTE, AND BUCH LIKE VEES
Year: 1724

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved HENRY HINES, of our City of London,
Founder, hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he has for
many yeares been concerned in making and manufacturing of copper and
brass wares, and after many tryals and experimente hath at great trouble and
expence found out "A NEW ART OR METHOD OF RAISING COPPER BATTERY COLD
IN COMMON BATTERY MILLS WITHOUT CRAMPING OR NAILING, FIT FOR BREWING
FURNACES, KETTLES, PANNS, POTTE, AND BUCH LIKE VEES;" which will be more
durable and of far greater vse and benefit to the kingdom than those made in
any method hitherto vsed, and is a new Invention never before practised, and
having therefore humbly prayed vs to grant vnto him our Royal Letters Patent
for securing to him the sole vse and exercise of his said Invention for the
terme of fourteen yeares, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and inventions, which may be for the publick vse and benefit are
gratiously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certaine
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Ilenry
Hines, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full power,
solo priviledge and authority that he, the said Henry Hines, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or

page_text: by his or their deputy and deputies, servant or agents, or such others as
he, the said Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse
and exercise his said new art or method of raising copper battery cold in
common battery mills, without cramping or nailing, fit for browing furnaces,
kettles, pans, potte, and such like vses, as above described, within that part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Henry
IIines, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them shall in their
discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Henry Hines, his executors,
alministrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole
profit, benefit, comodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing,
accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention for and during the
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 Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares
from the date of these Presents, next and immediately ensueing, and fully
to be compleat and ended, acccording to the Statute in such case made
and provided. And to the end that the said Henry Пlines, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiecte 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-vpon-Tweed, aforesaid, that neither they or any
of them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invention, or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said
Henry Hines as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substrac-
tion from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves, the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement
of the said Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing
vnder his or their hande and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, upon
such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for

page_text: their contempt of this our royal command, and further, to be answerable to
the said Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according
to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And, moreover, wee do
by these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and
singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any
time hereafter during the said term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble
or binder the said Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, or his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due
and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating
thereto : Provided always, and these aur Letters Patente are and shall be vpon
this condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall
be made appear to vs, our heires 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 subiecte in general, or that the said Invention is not a
new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the
said Henry Hines as aforesaid, then vpon signification or declaration thereof
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or
more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intente and purposes anything
herein-before. contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Pro-
vided also, that these our Letters Patente, or anything herein contained, shall
not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Henry
Hines, his executors, administrators or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any Invention. or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid,
vnto whome like Letters Patente of priviledges have. been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that:
the said Henry Hines, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, shall, distinctly vse and. practice their
several inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaneing of the same respective Letters Patente and of these

page_text: Presents: Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our Letters Patente are
vpon this express condition, that if the said Henry Hines, 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 vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assign-
ment of the said 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 bookes for publick subscriptions to be made by any number of
persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sumie or
summs of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall, by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants, recieve any sume or summs 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 Patents, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five,
or shall committ, 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 premisses, which will be
contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made
in the sixth year of our reign, intitled, (An Act for the better securing certain
Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two
Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrant-
able Practices therein mentioned,) if these our Letters Patente had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge or authority shall at any time here-
after 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 such person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are or
shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and
in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges,
and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said Henry Hines, his executors,
administrators, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment or

page_text: exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, suf-
ficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Henry Hines, bis
executors, administrators, as well in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by
all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and.
amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires 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 con-
ducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Twentieth day of