A NEW WAY OR WAYES, OR A NEW MANNER OR MANNERS OF MOČON FOR A WINDMILL OR WINDMILLS, OR WINDE ENGINE & WIND ENGINES, NEVER YET PRACTIZED IN THIS NATION, BY WHICH MAY BE PFORMED THE RAISEING OF WATER TO GREAT HEIGHT, THE DRAINING OF MINES & DROWNED GROUND, & OTHER THING, FOR THE GREAT ADVANTAGE OF THE PUB- LIQUE, AND AT A LESSER CHARGE & IN A MORE CONVENIENT MANNER THEN ANY OTHER YET PRACTICED
Year: 1674

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these psente
shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN JOHNSON, of Spalding, in our County of Lincolne, Gent.,.
hath by his humble petičon informed vs that hee bath by long study & with
greate charge invented "A NEW WAY OR WAYES, OR A NEW MANNER OR
MANNERS OF MOČON FOR A WINDMILL OR WINDMILLS, OR WINDE ENGINE &
WIND ENGINES, NEVER YET PRACTIZED IN THIS NATION, BY WHICH MAY BE
PFORMED THE RAISEING OF WATER TO GREAT HEIGHT, THE DRAINING OF MINES
& DROWNED GROUND, & OTHER THING, FOR THE GREAT ADVANTAGE OF THE PUB-
LIQUE, AND AT A LESSER CHARGE & IN A MORE CONVENIENT MANNER THEN ANY
OTHER YET PRACTICED," and hath therefore humbly desired our grant of a
licence & priviledge for the sole vse & exercise of the said Invenčon &
Invenčons for the terme of fourteen yeers, according to the statute in such
case made & pvided.
NOW KNOW YEE, that we, out of our princely inclinacon to pmote &
incourage such ingenious & vsefull contrivances, of our especiall grace, cer-
taine knowledge, & meere močon, have given & granted, and by these sente,
for vs, our heires & successors, doe give & grant, vnto the said John Johnson,
his executors, admiors, & assignes, especiall licence, full & sole power, privi-
ledge & authority, that hee & they, by him & themselves, and by his &

page_text: their deputies, servante, & workmen, & noe others, shall & may, during
the terine of fourteen yeers next ensucing the date of these psente, vse,
practise, exercise, & enioy the said new Invenčon, in such manner as to him
or them shall seem meet, and shall have & enioy the sole benefitt & advan-
tage arriseing thereby or by reason thereof, to have, hold, & enioy the said
licences, powers, priviledges, authorities, & other the misses hereby granted
or intended to bee granted vnto the said John Johnson, his executors, adñiors,
& assignes, from the day of the date of these psente, for & during the terme
of fourteen yeares from thence next ensueing, and fully to be compleate &
ended, according to the statute in that case made & pvided; and to the end
the said John Johnson, his executors, adñiors, & assignes, and every of them,
may the better enioy the full & whole benefitt and the sole vse & exercise
of his said Invenĉon, aswell within libties as without, wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires & successors, require and streightly charge and
comand all & every person & psons, bodies politique & corporate, of what-
soever degree, name, or addičon they bee, that they, nor any of them, during
the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall
vse or putt in practice the said art or invenčon soe by the said John Johnson
invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doe .or shall counterfeite, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to Ptend themselves the inventors or devisors
thereof, without the licence, consent, or, agreem of the said John Johnson,
his executors, admors, or assignes, in writeing vnder his & their hande &
seale first had & obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines & penalties as
can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our comand
in that behalfe; and further, to bee answereable to the said John Johnson, his
executors, adiñors, or assignes, according to law & justice, for his & their
damages thereby susteyned; and further, wee doe by these psente, for. vs,
our heires & successors, give & grant vnto the said John Johnson, his
executors, admors, & assignes, full power & authority. that they & every
of them, his, their, & every of their deputies, servante, or agent, or any of
them, haveing first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife
Justice of the Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the
assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within libties as
without, vpon request, at convenient tymes in the day, during the tyme afore-
said, & in lawful manner, enter into & make search in any houses, shopps,
or other places where shalbe iust cause of suspicon, for discovering & finde-
ing out of all such persons as shall, within the terme of fourteen yeeres
aforesaid, imitate, or cause to bee imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice

page_text: the said art or invenčon soe by the said John Johnson invented & contrived
as aforesaid, that soc such offenders may be peceded against and punished
according to their demeritte; and further, wee doe by these psente, for vs,
our heires & successors, will, authorize, & require all & singuler iustices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffe, headboroughs, & all other officers &
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires & successors, for the tyme being, that
they & every of them respectively bee from tyme to tyme during the said
terme hereby granted, in their respective places, favoring, aiding, helping, &
assisting into the said John Johnson, his executors, adiñiors, & assignes, and
to his && their deputy & deputies, servante & agente, in & by all thing
in & about the accomplishment of our will & pleasure herein declared, & the
exercise & execučon of the powers & priviledges herein & hereby granted or
menconed to be granted as aforesaid; and, moreover, wee will & comand by
by these sente, for vs, our heires & successors, that our said officers, or
any of them, do not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said John Johnson, his
executors, adiñiors, & assignes, or his or their deputy or deputies, servant?
or agent, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said art or
invenĉons, or any of them, in any matter or thing concerning the same:
Provided alwaies, that if at any time during the said terme of fourteen yeeres
it shall bee made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more
of our or their privy councell, that this grant is contrary to law, or Piudicall
or inconvenient, or not of publique vse or benefitt, then vpon significaton &
declaračon to bee made by vs, or heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lorde & others of our privy councell, or six
of them, for the tyme being, in writeing vnder their hande, of such piudice
or inconvenience, these our Lřes Patente, and all thing therein conteyned,
shall forthwith cease, determine, & be vtterly void to all intente & purposes,
any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. And
lastly, wec doe by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, grant vnto
the said John Johnson, his executors, admors, & assignes, that these our
Lřes Patente, or the enrollment thereof, shalbe in & by all thing good, valid,
sufficient, & effectuall in the law according to the true intent & meaneing of
these sente, and shalbee taken, construed, & adiudged most favorably &
beneficially for the best benefitt & advantage of the said John Johnson, his
executors, adñiors, & assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as else-
where, notwithstanding the not full & certeyne describing the manner &
quality of the said art or invention, or of the certaine vse & benefitt thereof,
and notwithstanding any other defecte, incertainties, or impfeccons in these

page_text: Psent conteyened, or any act, statute, ordinance, pviso, pelamacon, or
restraint to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnes &c Witnes the King at Westin the Twente soventh dex of
February.
By Writt of Privy Seale.