A NEW MACHINE OR WATER ENGINE, NEVER YET VSED OR KNOWN IN THIS OUR KINGDOM, FOR THE BETTER CLEARING AND TAKING OUT ALL DUST AND SOIL FROM WHEAT, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF GRAIN, WHICH EXCEED ALL OTHER METHOD HITHERTO KNOWN OR PRACTISED IN CLEANING OF CORN
Year: 1725

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved GEORGE WOODBOFFE, of Sherfield,
on our River of Loddon, in our County of Southampton, Miller, hath by his
peticon most humbly represented vnto vs, that he hath, after many years ex-
perience, much labour, pains, and great expence, found out and invented "A
NEW MACHINE OR WATER ENGINE, NEVER YET VSED OR KNOWN IN THIS OUR
KINGDOM, FOR THE BETTER CLEARING AND TAKING OUT ALL DUST AND SOIL FROM
WHEAT, OR ANY OTHER SORT OF GRAIN, WHICH EXCEED ALL OTHER METHOD
HITHERTO KNOWN OR PRACTISED IN CLEANING OF CORN," and will be performed at
much easier rates, and be of great vse and advantage to our subiects in
general; praying vs to grant him, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
our Royal Letters Patents, for the sole vse and benefit of his said new
Invention, within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and provided,
wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that may
be of publick vse, are gratiously pleased to condescend to his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that "wee, of our especial 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 George
Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that he, the said George Woodroffe,

page_text: his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servante or agente, or such
others as he, the said Georgo Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, or as-
signes 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 make,
vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented machine or water engine, for
the better cleaning and taking out all dust and soil from wheat or any other
sort of grain, as above described, within that part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said George Woodroffe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall, in their discrecons, seem
meet; and that he, the said George Woodroffe, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit,
comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon for and during the term of yeares
herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said George Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen years from the day
of 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 pro-
vided; and to the end that the said George Woodroffe, his executors, adminis-
trators, 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
intention herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, of what
estate, quality or degree, name or condition soever they be, in that said part
of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, 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 put in practise the said Invencon
so attained vnto by the said George Woodroffe, as aforesaid, nor in anywise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
nade any addičon thereunto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said George Wood-
roffe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their
hand and sealos first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and

page_text: vpon
penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royal comand; and further, to be answerable to the said George
Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, and assignes according to law for his.
or their damages hereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents,.
for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular the justices.
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and alt
other officers and ministers whatsoever 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 George Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them..
their or any of their deputief, servante, or agents, in or about the due and'
lawful vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invention or any thing relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be this
condičon, that if, at any time during the said term hereby granted, it shall be
made appeare 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 subiects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new
invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within that said part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by the said George
Woodroffe, as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declarañon 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 Council, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and
be vtterly void to all intente and purposes, any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary in any 'wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our
Letters Patente, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said George Woodroffe, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, our said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed vnto whom
like Letters Patent or priviledges have been, already granted for the sole
vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
George Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, 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 practise their
severall inventions by them invented and found out according to the true.
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page_text: intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patent
are upon this express condičon, that if the said George Woodroffe, his execu-
tors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any
time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claim
any right, title, or interest in law or equity of in or to the power, priviledge,
and authority of the solo vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assigne-
ment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or
profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of
persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any
book or books for publick subscripcons, to be made by any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of
money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby
granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants,
receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents or
purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patente or the liberties and priviledges hereby by
vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
comitt, or do, or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have any right
or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses which would be
contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made
in the sixth year of our reign, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain
Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two
Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwar-
rantable Practices therein menconed), if these our Letters Patents had not
been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any
time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five
persons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or
administrators as and for the single person whom they represent, as to such
interest as they are or shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or
intestate,) that then and in any of the said cases, these our Letters Patents,
aud all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall
vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to
the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said George Wood-

page_text: roffe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the
true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the
said George Woodroffe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well
in all Courte of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that said part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and amongst all and every the subiect 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 witness, &c. Witness ourself at Westminster the Twente
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