A NEW ENGINE FOR THE DRAINING OF WATER WITH LADLES OR FORCES TURNING CIRCULARLY ABOUT THEIR AXES, DRIVES THE WATER PROGRESSIVELY THROUGH A TROUGH OR CHANNELL INTO A PIPE OR TURE, WHICH CONVEYS THE WATER SOE DRIVEN TO THE DESIGNED HEIGHT OR PLACE, WHICH SAID INVENTION OR ENGINE WILL BE OF GREAT VSE TO OUR SUBIECTS FOR DRAINING: THEIR MINES AND LANDS
Year: 1698

page_text: FLEETWOOD, BOOTH, AND LIDDELL'S PATENT.
WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
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WHEREAS our trusty and wellbeloved subiects THOMAS FLEETWOOD,
Esquire, EDWARD BOOTH, and JOHN LIDDELL, Gentlemen, have by their'
humble peticon represented vnto vs that they have with great charge and
expence discovered and invented "A NEW ENGINE FOR THE DRAINING OF WATER
WITH LADLES OR FORCES TURNING CIRCULARLY ABOUT THEIR AXES, DRIVES THE
WATER PROGRESSIVELY THROUGH A TROUGH OR CHANNELL INTO A PIPE OR TURE,
WHICH CONVEYS THE WATER SOE DRIVEN TO THE DESIGNED HEIGHT OR PLACE, WHICH
SAID INVENTION OR ENGINE WILL BE OF GREAT VSE TO OUR SUBIECTS FOR DRAINING:
THEIR MINES AND LANDS;" and they haveing, therefore, humbly besought vs to
grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of the said engine
for the terme of fourteene yeares, wee are gratiously pleased to gratifie them
in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such of our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, & invenčons,'
and that the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell may
accordingly reape some fruite and benefitt of their labour and charge in and
concerning the premisses, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer:
mocon, wee have given and granted, and by these prents doe give and grant
vnto the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and

page_text: authority, that they, by themselves, and by their deputies, servants, agents
and workmen, and such others only as they the said Thomas Fleetwood,
Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall agree with, shall and may from time to time, and att all times hereafter
dureing the space of fourteene yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents,
at their owne proper costs and charges erect, vse, teach, exercise, and putt in
practice the said new Invenčon soe by them contrived and found out as afore-
said, in any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of
Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive,
take, and enjoy all the benefits, profits, comodities, and advantages of and by
the said new Invenčon to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to 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 premisses by
these Presents granted or menčoned to be granted vnto the said Thomas Fleet-
wood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fowrtecne yeares
from the day of the date of these Presents next ensueing, and fully to be com-
pleat and ended according to the Statute in that case made and provided. And
to the end the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their
executors, adm", and assignes, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt,
and the sole vse and exercise of their said new Invenčon, wee doe by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, strictly charge, require, and command
all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, of what quality,
degree, name or condičon 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 fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said new In-
venčon soe by the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell
invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the saide new Invenĉon, or any materialls therevnto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon therefrom, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and
John Liddell, their executors, administrators, or assignes in writing vnder
their hands and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such
paines & 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 Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell,
theire executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of

page_text: the law, for their damages thereby sustained. And further, wee doe by these
our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require,
and command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being whom 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 Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell,
their 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 execučon 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 dureing the terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and
John Liddell, their executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or
servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any
part thereof, or any thing relating therevnto: Pvided always, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time
dureing the said terme of fourteene 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 Invenčon before menconed
as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found out
by the said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell as aforesaid,
then vpon significačon and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniency to
be made by vs, our heires or successors, vinder our their signet or privy seale,
or by the Lords or others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more
of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these
our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Fleetwood,
Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
to imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever, which hath beene heretofore
invented and found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
exercised within our kingdome, dominion, or towne aforesaid, to whom wee

page_text: have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole
exercise and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and all singular other person and persons to whom wee
have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and
practice their soverall Invenčons by them respectively found out, according
to the true meaneing of such our Letters Patents, and of these Presents.
And lastly, wee doe hereby, forvs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the
said Thomas Fleetwood, Edward Booth, and John Liddell, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid, firm, and effec-
tuall in the law, according to the true meaneing of the same, notwithstanding
tbe not full and certaine describing or menconing of the said Invenĉon, or of
the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exerciseing
of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect,
incertainty, or imperfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfs at Westhi, the First day of De-
cember.
cember.
By Writt of Privy Seale.