A WAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF BEES BY THE INVENCON OF SUCH COMODIOUS HIVES OR BOXES, PLACED THE ONE VPON THE OTHER, HAVING HOLES OR PASSAGES IN THE TOPP TO LETT THE BEES CONSTANTLY WORKE THROUGH, AND HOUSES WITH SEVERALL ENTRIES, BACKWARD AND FORWARD, AND OTHER CONVENIENCIES, WHICH WILL PREE THE OWNERS FROM CHARGE AND TROUBLE, THE BEES FROM THE INCON- VENIENCIES OF SWARMING AND BEING DESTROYED, AND MANY OTHER CASUALTIES THAT ATTEND THEM, BEYOND ALL EXPEDIENT THAT HAVE HITHERTO BIN DISCOVERED." KNOWE YE, THEREFORE
Year: 1675

page_text: WHEREAS, wee have bin informed by the humble peticon of JOHN GEDDE.
of Faulkland, in the Kingdome of Scotland, Gentleman, WILLIAM GALT, of
London, Esquier, and SAMUELL NOWELL, Gentleman, that they have found
out "A WAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF BEES BY THE INVENCON OF SUCH COMODIOUS
HIVES OR BOXES, PLACED THE ONE VPON THE OTHER, HAVING HOLES OR PASSAGES IN
THE TOPP TO LETT THE BEES CONSTANTLY WORKE THROUGH, AND HOUSES WITH
SEVERALL ENTRIES, BACKWARD AND FORWARD, AND OTHER CONVENIENCIES, WHICH
WILL PREE THE OWNERS FROM CHARGE AND TROUBLE, THE BEES FROM THE INCON-
VENIENCIES OF SWARMING AND BEING DESTROYED, AND MANY OTHER CASUALTIES THAT
ATTEND THEM, BEYOND ALL EXPEDIENT THAT HAVE HITHERTO BIN DISCOVERED."
KNOWE YE, THEREFORE, that wee of our especiall grace, certeine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by theis Present("
for vs, our heirs and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said John Gedde,
William Galt, and Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power, privilege, and authority, that
they by themselves and their deputies, servante, and workemen, or such as
they shall allow of, and no others, shall and may, during the terme of foureteeno
yeares next ensuing the date of theis Presente, make, vse, practice, exercise,
and enioy the said art or Invenčon within our Kingdome of England, Dominion
of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to them
shall seeme mnecte, and shall have and enjoy the sole benefit and advantage

page_text: ariseing thereby or by reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy the said
licences, powers, privileges, and authorities, and other the premises hereby
granted or intended to be granted to the said John Gedde, William Galte,
and Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day
of the date of theis Presente, for and during the terme of fouretecne yeares
from thence next ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to
the Statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said John
Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators
and assignes, and every of them may the better enioy the full and wholle
benefit and the sole vse and exercise of their said Invenčon, aswell within.
liberties as without, wee doe by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly charge and command all and every person and
persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name or addičon
they be, that they nor any of them, during the terme of yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doe or shall make vse of or put in practice the said
art or Inventon by the said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell,
invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doc or shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or levisors
thereof without the licence, consent, or agreement, of the said John Gedde,
William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder their handes and seales, first had and obteyned
in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on
such offendors for the contempt of this our command in that behalfe, and
further to be answerable to the said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell
Nowell, their, executors, administrators, or assignes, according to lawe and
justice for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by
theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, full power and authority, that they and every of them,
their, and every of their deputies, servante, or agente, or any of them, baving
first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of a con-
stable, or any other lawfull officer, aswell within liberties as without, vpon re-
quest at convenient tymes in the day during the tyme aforesaid, and in lawfull
manner to enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where
there shall be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of all such
persons as shall, within the said terme of foureteene yeares, make or imitate.
or cause to be made or imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said art

page_text: or Invenčon so by the said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell,
invented and contrived as aforesaid, that so such offenders may be proceeded
against and punished according to their demeritte. And further wee doc by
theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and require
all and singuler justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffe, headboroughs, constables,
and all other officers & ministers of vs, our heires. and successors, for the
tyme being, that they, and every of them, respectively be, from tyme to tyme
during the said terme hereby granted, in their respective places favouring,
ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Gedde, William Galte, and
Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and to his and
their deputy and deputies, servante, and agente, in and by all thinge, in
and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared,
and the exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and
hereby granted or menconed to be granted, as aforesaid. And moreover wee
will and command by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, that
our said officers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or interupt, the
said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or their deputy or deputies, servant or agente,
or any of them in or about the vsc or exercise of the said art or Invencon, or
in anything relating therevnto: Provided also, that theis our Letters Patente, or
anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any Invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons,
and nowe publiquely exercised in this our Kingdome of England, vnto whome
wee have allready granted our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole
vsc, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to
whome wee have allready granted our like Letters Patente or priviledges as
aforesaid, shall distinctly make vse of, and practice their severall Invenčons by
them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the
said severall and respective Letters Patente and of theis Presente: Provided
allwayes that, if at any tyme during the said terme of foureteene yeares, it shall
be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our
Privy Councell that this grant is or shall be preiudiciall and inconvenient, or
not of publique vse or benefitt, or that the same is not a new art or Invencon
of the said John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, then vpon
significačon and declaracon to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder

page_text: our or their signett or privy sealc, or by the Lorde and others of our Privy
Councell, or six or more of them for the tyme being, in writing vnder their
handes, of such preiudice and inconvenience, theis our Letters Patente, and
all thing therein conteyned, shall forthwith cease, determine and be vtterly
voide to all intent and purposes, anything herein before conteyned to the
contrary notwithstanding. And lastly, wee doe by theis Presente, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Gedde, William Galte, and
Samuell Nowell, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis our
Letters Patente, and the inrollment thereof, shall be, in and by all thing good,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true intent and
meaning of theis Presente, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourably and beneficially for the best benefit and advantage of the said
John Gedde, William Galte, and Samuell Nowell, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, aswell in all our Court of Record or clcewhere,
notwithstanding the not full and certeine describeing of the said art or
Invenčon, or of the certeine vse and benefit thereof, and notwithstanding any
other defecte, incerteinties, or imperfeccons in theis Presente conteyned, or
any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint, to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnes be Witnes our solfo at Wasthi the Three and twentieth
day of Aprill.
P bře de priuato sigillo, &c.