SEVERALL NEW MANUFACTURES OF EARTHENWARES, CALLED BY THE NAMES OF WHITE GORGES, MARBLED PORCELLANE VESSELLS, STATUES, AND FIGURES, AND FINE STONE GORGES AND VESSELLS, NEVER BEFORE MADE IN ENGLAND OK ELSEWHERE; AND ALSOE DISCOVERED THE MISTERY OF TRANSPARENT PORCELLANE, AND OPACOUS, REDD, AND DARKE COLOURED PORCELLANE OR CHINA AND PERSIAN WARES, AND THE MISTERY OF THE COLOGNE OR STONE WARES
Year: 1684

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN DWIGHT, Gentt, hath represented vnto vs that by his
owne industry and at his owne proper costs and charges, hee hath invented and
sett vp at Fulham, in our County of Middx, "SEVERALL NEW MANUFACTURES
OF EARTHENWARES, CALLED BY THE NAMES OF WHITE GORGES, MARBLED PORCELLANE
VESSELLS, STATUES, AND FIGURES, AND FINE STONE GORGES AND VESSELLS, NEVER
BEFORE MADE IN ENGLAND OK ELSEWHERE; AND ALSOE DISCOVERED THE MISTERY OF
TRANSPARENT PORCELLANE, AND OPACOUS, REDD, AND DARKE COLOURED PORCELLANE
OR CHINA AND PERSIAN WARES, AND THE MISTERY OF THE COLOGNE OR STONE
WARES," and is endeavouring to settle manufactures of all the said wares
within this our kingdome of England; and hee having humbly besought vs,
to grant vnto him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and exercise of the
same for the terme of fowrteene years, according to the Statute in that case
provided, wee are gratiously pleased to condescend to that his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee being willing that the said John
Dwight, may reap some reasonable recompence and compensation for his
great charge and paines in and about the premisses, and to incourage the
inventers of such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall
grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto

page_text: the said John Dwight, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that bee, the said John
Dwight, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves, or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as
the said John Dwight, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing
the terme of yeares hereafter in these presents expressed, shall and lawfully
may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invenčons of new manufactures within
any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our king-
dome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our
kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner, and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and limitačons, as to him, the said John Dwight,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discrecons seeme meet, and that hee, the said John Dwight, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt,
profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, & arising
by reason of the said Invenčons of new manufactures, for and dureing the full
terme of yeares hereafter menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the
said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages herein-before granted or men-
coned to be granted vnto the said John Dwight, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteene
yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and imediately ensueing
and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case
inade and provided; and to the end that the said John Dwight on, his exe-
cutors, administrators, & assignes, and every of them, may enjoy the full
benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčons of new manufac-
tures according to our gratious intenčons herein-before declared, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every person and persons, bodys politique and corporate, and all
other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or
condicou soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes & dominions,
that neither they nor any of them, at any time dureinge the continuance of
the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indi-
rectly doe, vse, or put in practise the said Invenĉons of new manufactures, or
any of them, or any part of the same soe atteined vnto by the said John
Dwight as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeite or resemble the said
Invenčons of manufacture, or any of them, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addičon thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend
themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or

page_text: agreement of the said John Dwight, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hands and seales, first had and
obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys as can or may be
iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our Royall comand;
and further to be answerable to the said John Dwight, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, according to law for his and their damages thereby to
be susteined. And wee doe, of our further especial! grace, certeine knowledge.
and meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Dwight, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that hee,
they, and every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputys, agents,
and, servants, haveing first obteined a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheifo
Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westin for the time being, and with
the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient times
in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may
enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within any of
our kingdomes and dominions where there shall be iust cause of suspicon for
the discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons as shall
imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practise the said
Invenčons of new manufactures, or any of them, or shall make or counterfeite
any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that soe such offender
or offenders may be proceeded against and punished according to law. And
further, wee doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorise, and comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffes, constables, beadboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being. aswell within our
kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, as within all and every other
our kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively
be from time to time durcing the terme hereby granted, in their respective
offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Dwight,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and theire deputy
and deputys, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about the
accomplishment of our Royall will and pleasure herein before declared, and
in the exercise and execučon of the powers and privileges hereby granted as
aforesaid. And moreover wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before menconed, or any of them, 'doe not, nor shall att any time hereafter
dureing the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the
said John Dwight, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any his or their
deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the

page_text: aforesaid Invenčons, or any of them, or any thing relateing therevnto: Provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shalbe vpon this condicon, that
if at any tyme dureing the said terme hereby granted it shalbe made appeare
to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Councell, that this our present grant is contrary to law or Piudiciall or
inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčons and every
of them are not new invenčons as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said John
Dwight as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by
the lords and others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them
vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwise ceasc, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing before herein conteined
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patents or any thing therein conteined shall not extend or be construed
to extend to give privilege vnto the said John Dwight, his executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our
said realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have already
granted our like Letters Patents of Privilege for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John Dwight,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person
and persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or
privileges, as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall invenčóns
by them invented and found out according to the true intent and meaning of
the said Letters Patents and of these presents. And lastly wee doe by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Dwight,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or
the inrollment thereof shalbe in and by all things firme, valid, sufficient,
and effectuall in the law according to the true intent and meaneing thereof
and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficial sense for the best advantage of the said John Dwight, his executors,
.administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and
by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, in all and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever
and wheresover, notwithstanding the not full and certaine discribing the nature
or quality of the said Invenčons, or any of them, or of the materialls thereto

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conduceing or belonging, or any other defects or incertaintys in these pre-
sents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, pelamačon, or
restricčon, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding.
June.
By Writt of Privy Seale.