A WIND ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHICH WOULD BE VSEFULL IN OCCASIONING MOTION TO ALL SORTS OF MILL WORK, AND FOR DIVERS OTHER VEES AND PURPOSES, FAR EXCEEDING ALL WIND ENGINES HITHERTO PRACTISED, WHOSE FANES MOVE HORIZONTALLY, AND ARE BO DISPOSED AS TO WORK WITH THE WIND BLOWING FROM ANY POINT OF THE COMPASS, WITHOUT TURNING OR ALTERING THE POSITION OF THE SAID ENGINE OR HOUSE THERETO BELONGING, AND WOULD BE OF VESPEAKABLE BENEFIT AND ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLICE, THE LIKE OF WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN VIED OR EXERCISED IN ANY OF OUR DOMINIONS
Year: 1724

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these prosents shall
come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN BRENT, of Honiton, in our
County of Devon, hath, by his petition, humbly represented vnto vs that he
hath, after several yeares application, study, and great expence, invented,
found out, and brought to perfection "A WIND ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHICH
WOULD BE VSEFULL IN OCCASIONING MOTION TO ALL SORTS OF MILL WORK, AND
FOR DIVERS OTHER VEES AND PURPOSES, FAR EXCEEDING ALL WIND ENGINES HITHERTO
PRACTISED, WHOSE FANES MOVE HORIZONTALLY, AND ARE BO DISPOSED AS TO WORK
WITH THE WIND BLOWING FROM ANY POINT OF THE COMPASS, WITHOUT TURNING
OR ALTERING THE POSITION OF THE SAID ENGINE OR HOUSE THERETO BELONGING,
AND WOULD BE OF VESPEAKABLE BENEFIT AND ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLICE, THE
LIKE OF WHICH HAD NEVER BEEN VIED OR EXERCISED IN ANY OF OUR DOMINIONS;"
and, having prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patent for the sole
making, exercising, and vending of the said engine within our kingdom of
England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in our
plantations in America, for the term of fourteen yeares, wee, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick
vse and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall 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

page_text: John Brent, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Brent, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves,
or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agente, or such others as
he, the said John Brent, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and no others. from time to time and at all times during
the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise,
and vend his said new invented wind engine or machine, which will be vsefull
in occasioning motion to all sorts of mill work and divers other vses and
purposes, as above described, within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
and within our plantations in America, in such manner as to him, the said
John Brent, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall
in their discretions seem meet. And that he, the said John Brent, 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 arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of yeares herein mentioned: To have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted, or mentioned to be granted, vnto the said John Brent, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and
imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the statute
in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said John Brent,
his executors, executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
have and enioy the full benefit and sole vse and exercise of the said Invention
according to our gratious intention herein-before declared; wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, rquire 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 part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and our
plantations in America aforesaid, 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 practice the said
Invention so attained vnto by the said John Brent as aforesaid, nor in any-
wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to
be made any addition thereunto or substration from the same, whereby to
pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor, devisors

page_text: thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Brent,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande
and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties
as can or may be instly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this
our royal comand; and further, to be answerable to the said John Brent,
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 command all and singular our iustices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, 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 anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Brent, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, their
or any of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull
Vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condition, that if at any time, during the said term hereby granted, it shall be
made appear to vs, our heires and successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law or prejudicial 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 in that said part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in our plantačons in America aforesaid, or not.
invented and found out by the said John Brent, as aforesaid; then, vpon
signification and declaration 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 Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly
void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters
Patent, or anything herein contained, shall not extend, or be construed:
to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said John Brent, his executors, adminis
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention on work.
whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of.
our kingdom of Great Britain called: England, our dominion of Wales, town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or in our plantations in America aforesaid, 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 that the said.

page_text: John Brent, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other
person and persons to whom like Letters Patente 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 intent
and meaning of the same respective Letters Patent and of these presents.
Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this
express condičon, that if the said John Brent, 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 claime any right, title, 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
assignment 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 book 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 summs 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 servante, 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
Patent or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted into any number
of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall commit 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,
intitled (an Act for the better securing certaine Powers and Priviledges intended
to be granted by His Majestie, by two Charters for Assurance of Shipps and
Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining
severall extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein menconed), if these
our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case the said powers,
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 such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said
cases, these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages

page_text: whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determin, and become void,
anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing. And, lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said John Brent, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment or exemplificacon
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, 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 John Brent, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all our courts of record as elswhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of v, our heires
and successors in that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and in our
plantacons in America aforesaid, 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 conduceing and belonging.
In witness, &c.
Witness our selfes at Westminster, the Twenty-
sixth day of October.
By Writt of Privy Seal.