SOLE MAKING OF PITCH, TARE, AND OYL
Year: 1716

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved TALBOT EDWARD, Esquire, hath by
his petition humbly represented vnto vs, that in the seventh year of the reign
of our Royal predecessors King William and Queen Mary, a Patent was
granted to Martin Eele, Thomas Hancocke, and William Portlock, for
making pitch, tarr, and oyl in England from roch or roofe stone, by break-
ing, grinding, and boyling the same; and that the said Patent has for some
yeares been expired and a new and better way found out to make the above-
said manufacture (by fluxing with fire only), and brought to perfection by the
great labour and expence of the petičoner, and the said pitch appearing by
the certificates annext to his peticon to be preferable to the Swedish, and
humbly prayed vs, in consideračon of the great charge he has been at, to grant
vnto him, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our Royal Letters
Patent for the "SOLE MAKING OF PITCH, TARE, AND OYL," after this new
Invenčon, for the term of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
Invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especiall grace,
certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Talbot Edwarde, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfo and them-
selves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agente, or such others
as he, the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise,
work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, the said
new Invenĉon for making pitch, tarr, and oyl in England from roach or roofo
stone (by fluxing with fire only), in manner aforesaid; and that he, the said
Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage, from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention
for and during the full term of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold,
exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges and advantages
herein-before granted or menčoned to be granted vnto the said Talbot
Edwarde, his exccutors, 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, according to
the Statute in such case made and provided: And to the end that the said
Talbot Edwarde, 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 Invenčon, according to our gratious intencon, hercin-before
declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodys
politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate,
quality or degree, name or condičon soever they be, within that part of our
said 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 practice the said In-
venčon, or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said Talbot Edwarde
as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction
from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing vnder his or their hand and seales first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vpon such paiues and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on
such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to he

page_text: answerable to the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned :
And, moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
will and command all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever 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 hinder the said Talbot Edwarde, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies,
servant or agente, in or about the due and lawfull makeing, vse, or exercise
of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing relating thereto: Provided alwaies,
and these our Letters Patents 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 preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte
in general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick
vsc and exercise thereof within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed
aforesaid, and not invented and found out by the said Talbot Edwarde as
aforesaid, then vpon signification and 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 Councill, or any six or more of
them, vader their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing
hercin-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein con-
tained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath
been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiecte what-
soever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof; it being
our will and pleasure that the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors, administra-
tors, 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 invenčons by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters

page_text: Patente, and of these Presents. And lastly, wee do by these psents, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment or
exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all thinge good, firm, valid, sufficient,
and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning hereof, and
shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial
sense for the best advantage of the said Talbot Edwarde, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts of Record as clswhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our
heires and successors, within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed
aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invencon, or of the
materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Nine-and-
twentieth day of June.