A NEW AND READY WAY OF BUOYING AND RAISING VPP OF SHIPPS, ORDNANCE, OR OTHER MATERIALL THERETO BELONGING, OR OTHER LADING, TREASURES, MATTERS, OR THING WHATSOEVER, FROM THE BOTTOME OF THE SEA, BY THE HELP OF AYRE CONVEYED VNDER WATER, AS ALSOE A NEW AND EASY WAY OF DIVEING AND LIVING SEVERALL HOURES VNDER THE WATER, BY CUREING THE AYRE CONVEYED DOWNE POR SUSTENANCE, AND THEREBY MAKING ITT FITT FOR REFRESHMENT OF THE BODY WHILST BENEATH THE WATER; AND ALSOE THAT HEE BATH INVENTED AND MADE DIVERSE ENGINES AND INSTRUMENT, BY THE HELP WHEREOF GOOD AND MERCHANDIZES MAY WITH MORE EASE BEE LANDED ON SHOAR, AND LIKEWISE PUTT ON BOARD THAN EVER YETT HATH BEENE EXPERIMENTED
Year: 1675

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and wellbeloved GOODWIN WHARTON, Esquire, hath
by his humble peticon informed vs that hee hath lately invented, contrived,
and framed "A NEW AND READY WAY OF BUOYING AND RAISING VPP OF SHIPPS,
ORDNANCE, OR OTHER MATERIALL THERETO BELONGING, OR OTHER LADING,
TREASURES, MATTERS, OR THING WHATSOEVER, FROM THE BOTTOME OF THE SEA,
BY THE HELP OF AYRE CONVEYED VNDER WATER, AS ALSOE A NEW AND EASY WAY
OF DIVEING AND LIVING SEVERALL HOURES VNDER THE WATER, BY CUREING THE
AYRE CONVEYED DOWNE POR SUSTENANCE, AND THEREBY MAKING ITT FITT FOR
REFRESHMENT OF THE BODY WHILST BENEATH THE WATER; AND ALSOE THAT HEE
BATH INVENTED AND MADE DIVERSE ENGINES AND INSTRUMENT, BY THE HELP
WHEREOF GOOD AND MERCHANDIZES MAY WITH MORE EASE BEE LANDED ON SHOAR,
AND LIKEWISE PUTT ON BOARD THAN EVER YETT HATH BEENE EXPERIMENTED," and
as wee are informed may bee of considerable benefitt to the publique and
noe way preiudiciall to any perticuler interest, nor ever before vsed in these
our kingdomes or dominions, or any the territories thereof: And whereas
the said Goodwin Wharton hath humbly besought vs, for his better encou-
ragement to putt in practice the said Invenčons, that wee would bee graciously
pleased to grant vnto him, and such person and persons as bee shall nominate,
our Lŕes Patente of priviledge for the sole vse and benefitt thereof for the
tymo and tearme of fowerteene years, according to the Statute in that case
made and pvided.

page_text: KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull and
fitting encouragement to the inventours of such arte, engines, and instrumente
as may bee of publick vse and benefitt to all our subiecte, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meer močon, and vppon the humble noiacon and
request of the said Goodwin Wharton, have given and granted, and by these
Presente, for vs, our heires and successours, doc give and grant vnto the said
Goodwin Wharton, and vnto William Perkins, Gen?, and James Innes the
younger, Gen?, and the survivours and survivour of them, and their and every
of their executours, admistratours, and assignes, special licence, full power,
priviledge and authority, that they, the said Goodwin Wharton, William
Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them, their
and every of their executors, adiurs, and assignes, and every of them, by them-
selves, or by their deputy and deputies, servant or workemen, from tyme to
tyne and att all tymes hereafter during the tearm of yeares hereafter in these
Presente expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and employ the said
respective new inventons before perticulerly menconed and settforth within
our Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Dominion of, Wales,
and all other our dominions whatsoever, or any the territories of them, or
any of them, or vppon any the seas, coast, havens, creckes, rivers, and shoars
scituate in or contiguous or adiacent to our said kingdomes and dominions, or
any parte or parcell of them, or any of them, within any of our dominions, in
such manner as to the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkyns, and James
Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them, their or any of their executours,
admistratours, and assignes, or any of them, in their or any of their discrecons
shall seem meet, and that they, the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins,
and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them, their and every
of their executours, admistratours, and assignes, shall and may have and enjoy
the sole benefitt and advantage from tyme to tyme coming and arising by
reason of the said respective Invenĉons during the tearme of yeares hereafter
menconed, to have, hold, and enioy the said licencies, powers, privileges, and
authorities hereby granted as aforesaid to them, the said Goodwyn Wharton,
William Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them,
their and every of their exccutours, adiiiistratours, and assignes, for and
during and vnto the full end and tearme of fowerteene yeares, to commence from
the day of the date of these Presente, and thenceforth next and immediately
ensucing, and fully to bee compleat and ended, according to the Statute in
this case made and pvided; and to the end that the said Goodwin Wharton,
William Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them,
and their and every of their executours, adñirs, and assignes, may enjoy the

page_text: full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said respective
Invenĉons, wee doe by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successours,
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodyes politique
and corporate, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they
bee, that neither they nor any of them, during the said tearme of fowerteene
yeares herein-before granted or menconed to bee granted, neither directly or
indirectly doc vse or put in practice the said Inventons soe by the said Goodwin
Wharton atteined vuto vs as aforesaid, nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same or any of them, nor shall make any addičon thereto or
substracĉon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventours
or devisours thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of them, the
said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins, and James Innes, or some of them,
their or some of their executours, adñiistratours, or assignes, in writing vnder
their or some of their hande and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe,
vppon such paines and penalties as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our royal command in that behalfe, and further, to
bec auswearable to the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins, and James
Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them, theire exccrs, adiiistratours,
and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of the law for their damages.
thereby occasioned to bee susteined; and wee doe of our further speciall
grace, certain knowledge, and meer mocon, for vs, our heires and successours,.
grant vnto the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins, and James Innes,
and tho survivours and survivour of them, and their and every of their
executours, adiiistratours, and assignes, by these Presente, that they and
every of them, and their deputies, servante, and agente, having first obteined
a warrant from the Lord Cheif Justice of our Court of King Bench at
Westni for the tyme, (and with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, at convenient tymes in the day, during the tearme hereby
granted, and in any lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any
the houses, or other places where there shall bee iust cause of suspicon, for and
in order o the discovery and finding out of all and every such person and
persons as shall imitate, or cause to bee imitated, or shall vse or putt in prac-
tice the said Invenčons, or any or either of them, soe by the said Goodwin
Wharton invented and atteined vnto as aforesaid, that soe such offender and
offenders may bee pceeded against and punished according to his or their
demeritte, and his and their pretended Invenčons and workes then and thero
found to bee seized vppon, broken in pieces, and defaced, and the ma?iall
thereof left in the custody of some constable or officer, to bee disposed in such
manner and forme as wee, our heires or successors, shall from tyme to tymo

page_text: direct and appoint. And further, wee doe by these our Letters Patente, for
vs, our heires and successours, will, authorise, and require all and singuler
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successours
for the tyme being, that they and every of them respectively bee, from tyme
to tyme during the said tearme hereby granted, in their respective places and
offices, favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto them, the said Goodwin
Wharton, William Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survi-
vour of them, their and every of their executours, adñiistratours, and assignes,
and to their and every of their deputy and deputyes, servante, and agents, in
and by all thinge, in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and
pleasure, herein-before declared, & in the exercise and execucon of the powers
and priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to bec granted, as
aforesaid And moreover, wee doe by these presente, for vs, our heires and
successours, will and command that our said resptive officers and ministers
before perticulerly named, or any of them, doe not and shall not, att any tyme
hereafter during the said tearme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble,
or interrupt the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins, and James Innes,
or the survivours or survivour of them, their or any of their executours, adñiis-
tratours, or assignes, or any of them, or any of their deputy or deputies,
servant or agent, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the
aforesaid respective Invencons, or any or either of them: Provided allwayes,
and these our Letters Patente are and shall bee vppon this condicon, that if att
any tyme during the said tearme of fowerteene yeares hereby granted itt shall
bec made appeare vnto vs, our heires or successours, or any sixe or more of our
or their Privy Counsell for the tyme being, that this our grant is contrary
to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient, and not of publique vse or benefitt to
our subicct in generall, or that the said respective Invenĉons, or either of
them, are not new inventons and contrivances, made and found out by the
said Goodwin Wharton, or by the said William Perkins, or James Innes,
or either of them, or that they, or either of them, are not commodious or
beneficial as to the publique vse and exercise thereof, within our said
realmes and dominion, or any of them, or any of the dominions or
territories of them, or any of them, then, vppon significacon and declaracon
thereof, to bee made by vs, our heires or successours, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy
Counsell, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, of such Piudice or
inconveniency, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and
beo vtterly void to all intente and purposes, anything herein-before menconed

page_text: to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patente, or anything therein conteined, shall not extend or bec
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto them, the said Goodwin Wharton,
William Perkins, and James Innes, or any of them, their or any of their
executours, adiiistratours, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or
invented by any other person or persons, and publickly exercised within our
said realmes or dominions, or any the territories therevnto belonging, vnto
whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that
the said Goodwin Wharton, William Perkins, and James Innes, and the
survivours and survivour of them, and their executours, adñirs, and assignes,
and all and singuler other person and persons to whom wee have already
granted our like Letters Patent or privileges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse
and practice their severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, accord-
ing to the true intent and meaning of the said severall and respective Letters
Patente, and of these Present(. And lastly, wee doe by these Presente, for vs,
our heires and successours, grant vnto the said Goodwin Wharton, William
Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them, their and
every of their executours, adfiistratours, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patent, or the enrollement thereof, shall bee in and by all thing good, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall bee taken, construed, and adiudged most favourable and
beneficial for the best advantage and benefitt of the said Goodwin Wharton,
William Perkins, and James Innes, and the survivours and survivour of them,
and their and every of their executours, adiñrs, and assignes, aswell in all
Court of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describing the natures, manners, or qualities of the said respective Invenčons,
or of the vse and benefitt thereof, or any other defecte, incertainties, or imper-
feccons in these Presente conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamačon, or restreint, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever,
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnes. Sic Witnes our selfe att Westui. the Twelfth day of
In witnes &.c.
November.
Witnes our selfe att Westui. the Twelfth day of
P priuat. sigill.