A NEW CARRIAGE AND WAY OF HANGING COACHES AND CHARIOTS, WHICH FOR EASE AND SAPETY OF RIDEING, TURNING IN NARROW STREETES OR LANES, AND MANNER OP COACHMAN'S SETTING, DIFFERS FROM AND EXCEED ALL THAT WERE EVER YET MADE OR INVENTED; AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE ROUGH AND VNEVENESSE OF ANY PAVEMENTS OB ROAD THE RIDEING WILL BE VERY NEARE AS EASIE AS IN A CHAIRE OR SEDAN AND ALTOGETHER AS SAFE, THE BODY HANGING PERPENDICULER THOUGH THE WHEELES SHOULD OVERTURNE
Year: 1691

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presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN GREENE, Gentleman, hath
humbly represented vnto vs, that at great exence and study hath invented
"A NEW CARRIAGE AND WAY OF HANGING COACHES AND CHARIOTS, WHICH FOR EASE
AND SAPETY OF RIDEING, TURNING IN NARROW STREETES OR LANES, AND MANNER OP
COACHMAN'S SETTING, DIFFERS FROM AND EXCEED ALL THAT WERE EVER YET MADE OR
INVENTED; AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE ROUGH AND VNEVENESSE OF ANY PAVEMENTS
OB ROAD THE RIDEING WILL BE VERY NEARE AS EASIE AS IN A CHAIRE OR SEDAN
AND ALTOGETHER AS SAFE, THE BODY HANGING PERPENDICULER THOUGH THE
WHEELES SHOULD OVERTURNE ;" and therefore praying vs to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole vse of such his Invenčon.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiccts as
have by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and
inventions, and that he the said John Green may accordingly reape some
fruite and benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the misses of
our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon, have given and
granted, and by these psents doe give and grant vnto the said John Green,
his executors, 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 workmen, and such others onely as hee, the
said John Green, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree with,

page_text: shall and may from time to time and all times hereafter dureing the space of
fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents at his and their own
proper costs and charges erect, vse, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practise, the
said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any
place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and also shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Invention, to be had, made, acquired, or gotton to his and their owne
proper benefitt, vse and vses; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the misses by
these sents granted, or menconed to be granted vnto the said Jolin
Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing, and vnto
the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
Psents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said John
Green, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new
Invention, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge, require, and command all and every person and persons,
bodies polit and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon
soever they be, within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales,
and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them,
dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said new Invention
soc by the said John Greene invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe, nor
shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the said new Invention or any materialls
thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addičon thereto or sub-
stracčon therefrom whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Greene,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their
hand 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 command; and further to be answerable to the said
John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the
vtmost rigor of the law for his and their damages thereby susteined. And
further wee doe by theso psents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and
grant vnto the said John Greene, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full
power and authority, that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of
their deputies, agents, and servants, hayeing first obtained a warrant in that

page_text: behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench for the time
being, with the assistance of a constable or other lawfull officer (as well within
liberties as without, at convenient times in the day, durcing the terme aforesaid
and in lawful manner, shall and may make search in any place or places within
our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, where there shall be iust cause of suspition, for discovering and
findeing out of all such person or persons as shall imitate, make, or vse, or
cause to be imitated, made, or vsed, within our kingdome or dominion aforesaid,
the said new Invention soe by the said John Green found out and invented as
aforesaid, that soe such offender may be proceeded against and punished
according to the vtmost rigor of the law. And further wee doc by these
Presents, for vs, our heires, and successors, will, authorize, require, and command
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, now and for the time being whome it may concerne, that they
and every of them respectively be from time to time, dureing the terme hereby
granted in their respective offices, and according to their and every of their best
skills and endeavours ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Greene,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in
and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and
pleasure herein-before declared, and in the execution 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 that our said
respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor
shall at any time hereafter durcing the terme hereby granted in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Greene, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, deputies, agents or servants in or about the vse or exercise of the
aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or any thing relateing thereto.
Provided alwayes and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condičon, that if at any time durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary
to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the
Invention before menconed is not a new Invention as to the publick vse and
exercise of the same, and not invented and found out by the said John Greene
as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaration of such Piudice or
inconveniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signet or privy seale, or by the Lorde or others of our or their Privy Councill,
or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall

page_text: forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any
thing herein-before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe;
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteined, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Green, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, to imitate any Invention or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented and found out by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within our kingdome or do-
minion aforesaid, to whome 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 John Green, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to whome wee have
already granted our Letters Patents shall distinctly vse and practice their
several Inventions by them respectively found out, according to the true
meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, wee
loe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Greene,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or
the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid,
firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of the same,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing of the said
Invention, or of the materialls, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vscing, or exer-
ciscing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other
defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these psents, or any act, statute,
provision, proclamacon, or restriccon heretofore had, made, or provided, or any
other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Thirteenth day