A NEW SORT OF ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE BOREING OF STONE, EITHER FREE STONE OR GREIT. STONE, EITHER STRAIT, SQUARE, OR CIRCULCULAR, FOR PIPES, PUMPS, OR OTHER VSES QUITE DIFFERENT FROM ANY THING HITHERTO PRACTISED FOR THE LIKE VSES
Year: 1728

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS BRYAN MOORE, of Bawtry, in our County of York, Joyner, has.
by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath with great pains and
expence invented, found out, and brought to perfeccon "A NEW SORT OF
ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE BOREING OF STONE, EITHER FREE STONE OR GREIT.
STONE, EITHER STRAIT, SQUARE, OR CIRCULCULAR, FOR PIPES, PUMPS, OR OTHER VSES
QUITE DIFFERENT FROM ANY THING HITHERTO PRACTISED FOR THE LIKE VSES; that the
petičoner can with the said engine bore any such stone from three foot to six
foot in length, and from an inch and a halfe wide to fourteen inches as cheap
as wood; that it will be of great service both in town and country for the
conveying of of water wherever lead or wood is made vse of; that when the
stone pipes are once laid they will last five times as long as wood ones, and
the peticoner can fix new stone pipes to old wood ones; that wood for such
vses growing very scarse his said Invention will be of very great service to
the nation in general, and of no detriment to any person whatsoever; and
baving heretofore humbly prayd vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents
vnder our Great Seal of Great Britain, for his sole vsing the said engine, and
vending the said pipes and pumps when made, for the term of fourteen yeares,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; wee being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the publick
vse and benefit are gratiously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presente,

page_text: for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Bryan Moore,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge, and authority, that he the said Bryan Moore, his exccu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and overy of them, by himselfe or them-
selves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servante or agente, or such
others as he, the said Bryon Moore, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times hercafter during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and
lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy his said new invented engine or machino
and vend the said pipes and pumps when made as above described, within this
part of our Kingdom of Groat Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said Bryan Moor, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them
shall in their discrečons seem meet; and that he, the said Bryan Moore,
his exccutors, 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 Invencon for
and during the term of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Bryan Moore, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen yeares from 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 provided; and, to the end, that the said Bryan Moore,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and
enioy the full benefit, and the sole vso and exercise of the said Invention,
according to our gratious intenčon 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
subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition
soever they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
that neither they, nor 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 practice the said Invention, or any part of the same so
attained vnto by the said Bryan Moore as aforesaid, nor in any wise counter-
feit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make, or cause to be made, any
addičon thereunto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe
or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors theroof, without

page_text: the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Bryan Moore, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing, vnder his or their hand and seales,
first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as can
or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
royal command, and further to be answerable to the said Bryan Moore, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee do, by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular the justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all 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
Bryan Moore, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his
or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing relating thereto: Provided
always, and these our Letters Patente are and shall be vpon this condicon,
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 preiudiciall or incon-
venient to our subiects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new
invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by
the said Bryan Moore as aforesaid; then vpon signification or declaračon
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 hands, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof, in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters
Patent or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Bryan Moore, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them to vse or imitate any invenčon or
work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any
other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that
said part of our said part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof. It being our will and pleasure

page_text: that the said Byran Moore, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
their severall invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are
vpon this expresse condičon, that if the said Bryan Moore, his executors,
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 claym any right,
tytle, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge and authority
of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make
any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignment 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 booke
or books for publick subscriptions, to be made by any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sume or sumes
of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby,
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 Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted into
any number of shares exceeding the number of five; or shall committ, 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 in the sixth year of the
reign of our late Royal Father King George the First, intituled (An Act for
the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by
His Maiestic by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at
Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for for restraining severall
extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein menčoned); if these our
Letters Parents 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 intitled to in right of
Guch their testator or intestate); that then and in any of the said cases these

page_text: our Letters Patente, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever
hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing
herein herein before contained to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwith-
standing. And, lastly, wee do, by these Presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Bryan Moore, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patente or the inrollment or exempli-
ficačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and
effectuall 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 Bryan Moore, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere'; and
by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the
nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing
and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Twenty-first