A NEW & EFFECTUALL WAY OF MELTING DOWNE, FORGEING, EXTRACTING, & REDUCEING OF IRON & ALL METTALLS & MINERALLS WITH PITT COALE & SEA COALE ASWELL & EFFECTUALLY AS EVER HATH YETT BEEN DONE BY CHARCOALE, & WITH MUCH LESSE CHARGE
Year: 1677

page_text: present shall come, grecting.
WHEREAS our trusty & wellbeloved FREDERICKE DE BLEWSTONE Esqro
hath by his humble peticon represented vnto vs, that he hath, with long study,
great labour, & expence, invented & found out "A NEW & EFFECTUALL WAY OF
MELTING DOWNE, FORGEING, EXTRACTING, & REDUCEING OF IRON & ALL METTALLS
& MINERALLS WITH PITT COALE & SEA COALE ASWELL & EFFECTUALLY AS EVER
HATH YETT BEEN DONE BY CHARCOALE, & WITH MUCH LESSE CHARGE," of which
wee have received such ample sattisfacčon as hath induced vs to beleive that
the same Invencon may prove verry beneficiall & comodious to our loving
subiecte in these our kingdomes & dominions, the same haveing never yett
been practised (as wee are credibly informed) in any of our dominions, for
which said reason the said Fredericke de Blewstone hath, by his said peticon,
humbly besought vs to grant him our licence for the sole vse & benefitt of the
said Invenĉon for the space of foureteene yeares according to the Statute in
this case provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, aswell for the consideracons afore-
saide, as alsoe that the said Fredericke de Blewston may reape some reason-
able compensacon for his great paines & expences in & about the pmises,
of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, & meere močon, have given &
granted, & by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, doc give & grant
vnto the said Fredericke de Bléwston, his executors, administrators, & assignes,

page_text: speciall licence, full power, sole priviledge & authority, that hee, the said
Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes, & every of
them, by themselves, or theire deputie & deputies, servante or agente, or such
others as the said Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, shall at any time agree with, (& noe other,) from time to time & att
all times hereafter dureing the terme of yeares herein-after expressed, shall &
lawfully may exercise, vse, & injoy the said Invenčon before pticularly described
& menčoned, within any part or parte, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or
belonging to all, every, or any our kingdomes, dominions, & territories what-
soever, in such manner & according to such rates, allotmente, & limitačons, as
to him or them shall, in his or theire discrečons, seeme most meete; and that
hee, the said Fredericke de Blewston, his executors & administrators, shall &
may have & enjoy the sole benefitt, proffitt, comodity, & advantage, from time
to time comeing, growing, & ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon; to
have, hold, exercise, & injoy the said lycence, powers, privilidges, proffitte, &
advantages herein-before granted or menčoned to be granted vnto him, the
said Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes, for &
dureing & vnto the full end & terme of foureteene yeares from the day of the
date of these psente next & imediately ensueing & fully to be compleate &
ended according to the statute in this case made & provided; and to the end
that the said Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes,
may injoy the full & whole benefitt & the sole vse & exercise of the said
Invenčon according to our gracious intenčons herein-before declared, wec doe
by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, require & streightly comand
all & every pson & psons, bodies politique & corporate, & all other our sub-
ject whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever
they bee, that they nor any of them, att any time dureing the said terme of
foureteene yeares, doe vse or putt in practice the said Invenĉon, or any part
thereof soe attained vnto by the said Fredericke de Blewston as aforesaid,
nor doe make or cause to be made any manner of forges, furnaces, instru-
mente, or other materialle whatsoever touching or any way relateing to the
said Invenčon or any part thereof, nor doe convert or cause to be converted,
from or out of any former shape or fashion, any matter or thing whatsoever,
whereby or by meanes whereof the said Invencon, or anything relateing there-
vnto, may bee putt in practice contrary to the true meaneing hereof, nor doe
in anywise counterfeite or resemble the said Invenčon, or any part thereof,
nor doe make or cause to be made any addiĉon thereto or substraction from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof,
withou the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Fredericke de Blew-

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ston, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or theire
or some of theire hande & seales first had & obteined in that behalfe vpôn
such paines & penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offendors for theire
contempt of this our royall comand; and further to be answerable to, the
said Frederick de Blewston, his exécutors, administrators, & assignes, accord-
ing to the vtmost rigour of the law, for his & theire damages hereby sus-
teined; and wee doe, of our further speciall grace, certeine knowledge, &
meere mocon, for vs, our heires & successors, grant vnto the said Fredericke
de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes, by these psente, that
hee, they, & every of them, & his, theire, & every of theire deputies, servante,
& agente, haveing first obteined a warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice
of our Court of Kingf Bench for the time being & with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer, att convenient times in the day dureing
the terme hereby granted, & in lawful manner, may enter into & make
search in any houses, tenement, or other places whatsoever (within any of
our kingdomes or dominions) where there shall be iust cause of suspicon for
& in order to the discovery & findinge out of all & every such pson & psons
as shall imitate or cause to be imitated or shall vse or put in practise the said
invenčon, or any part thereof, soe attained vnto as aforesaid, or shall make or
counterfeite any forges, furnaces, instrumente, materialle, or other matters
or thing to the same belonging or in any wise apperteininge, that soe such"
offender or offenders may be proceeded against & punished according to his &
theire demerritte, & his & theire pretended invenčons & workes then & there
found to bee seized vpon, broken in peeces, & defaced, & the materialls thereof
left in the hand or custody of some constable or other officer, to be disposed
in such manner & forme as wee, our heires or successors, shall from time to
time direct & appoint. And further wee doe, by these our Letters Patente,
for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorize, & comand all & singuler
justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffes, bayliffes, constables, beadboroughs, &
all other officers & ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires & successors, for the
time being, within all & every of our dominions whatsoever, that they & every
of them respectively bee, from time to time dureing the said terme hereby
granted in theire respective offices, & accordinge to theire & every of theire
best skills & indeavours, favouring, aydeing, helping, & assisting vnto the said
Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes, & to his &
theire deputy & deputies, servante. & agente, in & by all thing in & about
the accomplishment of our royall will & pleasure hercin-before declared, & in
the exercise & execucon of the severall powers & privilidges hereby granted
'as aforesaid. And moreover wee doe, by these sente, for vs, our heires

page_text: & successors, will & comand that our said respective officers & ministers
before menconed, or any of them, doe not, nor shall att any time here-
after dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said Fredericko do Blewston, his executors, administrators,
deputies, agent, or assignes, or any of them, in or about the vse or exer-
cise of the aforesaid Invenčon or any thing relateing thereto: Provided
allways, & these our Letters Patente are & shall be vpon this condicon,
that if att any time durcing the said terme of foureteene yeares hereby
granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or to any six
or more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to
law or Pjudiciall or inconvenient to our subject in generall, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publique vse & exercise thereof, &
not invented & found out by the said Fredericke de Blewston as aforesaid,
then, vpon signification & declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy seale, or by the lorde & others
of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder theire
hande, of such Pjudice or inconveniency, these our Letters Patente shall
forthwith cease & be vtterly void, to all intente & purposes, any thing herein-
before menconed to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoc, that these
our Letters Patente, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give any priviledge vnto the said Fredericke de Blew-
ston, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found
or invented by any of our subject or subject whatsoever, & publiquely exer-
cised within our said realmes & dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee
have allready granted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse,
exercise, & benefitt thereof, it being our will & pleasure that the said Frede-
rick de Blewston, his executors, administrators, & assignes, & all & singuler
other pson & psons to whom wee have allready granted our like Letters
Patent or privilidges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse & practice theire
severall invenčons by them invented & found out, according to the truc intent
& meancing of the same respective Letters Patente, & of these psente. And,
lastly, our will & pleasure is, & wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires & successors,
grant & declare that these our Letters Patente, or the inrolement thereof,
shall be, in & by all thinge, good, firme, valid, sufficient, & effectuall in the
law, according to the true purport & meaneing thereof, in all & singuler the
Court of Judicature of vs, our heires & successors, & in all & singuler our
realmes & dominions whatsoever, & shall be construed, deemed, & adjudged,
by all judges, justices, & other officers & ministers whatsoever of vs, our

page_text: heires & successors, in the most favourable & beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said Fredericke de Blewston, his executors, administrators,
& assignes, notwithstanding the not full & certaine describeing or menconing
of the nature, manner, or qualities of the Invenčon aboue recited, or of any
the instrument or other materialle whatsoever thereto belonging, or any
other defecte, incertainties, or imperfeccons in these psente conteined, or any
act, statute, ordinance, provision, pelamacon, or restricčon, or other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe att West, the Five & twentieth