MANUPAC- TURE OF NORMANDY WINDOW GLASSE
Year: 1679

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN BELLINGHAM, Esquire, and
NICHOLAS HUBIN, Chirurgion, have represented vnto vs that they have been att
great charges and expence in bringing to pfeccon the makeing the "MANUPAC-
TURE OF NORMANDY WINDOW GLASSE," in this our kingdome, which hath never
yet bin made bere, and have therefore humbly besought vs to grant them the.
sole priviledge of makeing the said manufacture.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, out of our princely inclynacon to
promote and encourage such invenčons as may bee of publick vse and advan-
tage, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, bavo
given and granted, and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
doe give and grant vnto the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, especial licence, full and sole
power, priviledge and authority, that they and their servants and workemen
and noe others, shall and may dureing the terme of fouretecne yeares, next
ensucing the date of these psents, vse, exercise, and enioy the said art or
invenĉon of makeing Normandy window glasse, within this our kingdome,
and all engines and instruments, relateing therevuto, within our kingdome of
England, doininion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such
manner as to them, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall seemo
meete, and shall have and enioy the sole vse and benefitt of the said manu-
facture, to have, hold, and enioy the said licence, power, priviledge and
authority, and other the misses hereby granted or intended to bee granted,

page_text: and the sole vse of the said invenčon or manufacture to the said John
Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
from the date of these psents, for and dureing the terme of fourteene yeares
from thence next ensueing, and fully to bec compleate and ended according to
the statute in that case made and pvided, and to the end the said John
Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, and their execs, administrators, and
assignes, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse
and exercise of the said manufacture and invenčon, aswell within libertyes
as without, wee doe by these sents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and streightly charge and comand all and every person and persons,
bodyes politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or addicon they
bee, that they, nor any of them, dureing the terme of fouretecne yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doe or shall vse or put in practise
the said art or inventon, nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble
the same, or any the engines or instruments relateing therevnto, nor doe or
shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
Ptend themselues the inventers or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their
executors, administrators, or assigns, in writeing vnder their hands and seales
first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penaltyes as
can or may bee inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our
comand in that behalfe, and further to bee answerable to the said John
Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
according to lawe and justice, for his and their damages thereby susteined;
and further, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, give
and grant vnto the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that they and every of
them, their and every of their deputyes, servants, or agents, or any of them
(haveing first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice
of the Court of King's Bench for the tyme being), may, with the assistance
of a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within libertyes as without,
vpon request, att convenient tymes in the day, dureing the time aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places,
where there shall bee iust cause of suspition for discovering and finding out of
all such persons as shall within the said space of fouretecne yeares as aforesaid
imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said
manufacture or invenčon, that soe such offenders may bec pceeded against
and punished according to their demerits, and further, wee doe by these
sents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and require all and

page_text: Provided
singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers of vs, our heirs and successors for the tymė
being, that they and every of them respectiuely bee from tyme to tyme dureing.
the said terme hereby granted, in their respectiue places favouring, ayding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and to their deputye and
deputyes, servants, and agents, in and by all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and
execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or
menconed to be granted as aforesaid. And, moreover, wee will and comand
by these Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers, or any
of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said John Bellingham and
Nicholas Hubin, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or their deputyes,
servants, or agents, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the
said art or invenĉon in any matter or thing concerning the same.
alwayes, that if att any tyme dureing the said terme of foureteene yeares, 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to
our common weale, or that the said art or invenčon is not a new invencon of
the said John Bellingham & Nicholas Hubin as to the makeing thereof
within the kingdome of England, then vpon significačon and declaracon to
bee made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy
seale, or by the lords and others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them,
for the tyme being, in writeing vnder their hands, of such Piudice or incon-
venience, these our Letters Patents and all things therein conteyned shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes,
any thing herein before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteined, shall not extend
or bec construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Bellingham
and Nicholas Hubin, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found out or invented by any
other person or persons, and publickly exercised in this our kingdome of
England, vnto whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of
Priviledge of the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will
and pleasure that the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other pson and
persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or
priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inven-
tions by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and

page_text: meancing of the said severall and respectiuc. Lřes Patents and of these
sents; and wee doc further by these Psents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said John Bellingham and Nicholas Hubin, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollment thereof, shall bee in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and
effectuall in the law according to the true intent and meaning of these psents,
and shall bee taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and beneficially
for the best benefitt and advantage of the said John Bellingham and Nicholas
Hubin, their executors, administrators, and assigns, aswell in all our Courts
of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing
of the said art or invenĉon, or of the certeine vse or benefitt thereof, and
notwithstanding any other defects, incertaintyes, or imperfecčons in these
Psents conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, pclamačon, or
restraint to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes the King att Westminster, the Sixth day of
December.
3771
December.
By Writt of Privy Seale.