A WAY OF MIXING METTALL SOE AS TO MAKE GLASS FOR WINDOWS OF MORE LUSTRE AND BEAUTY THEN ANY THAT HATH BEEN HERETOFORE MADE IN ENGLAND, AND TO MAKE RED CHRYSTALL GLASSE OF ALL SORTS, AND LIKEWISE THE ART OF CASTING GLASSE, AND PARTICULARLY LOOKING GLASSE PLATES, MUCH LARGER THEN EVER WAS BLOWNE IN ENGLAND OR ANY FORREIGNE PARTS
Year: 1691

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiccts ROBERT HOOKES, Esquire, and CHRIS-
TOPHER DODSWORTHI, Merchant, have by their humble petition represented
vnto us that they have, at their great charge and expence, found out "A WAY
OF MIXING METTALL SOE AS TO MAKE GLASS FOR WINDOWS OF MORE LUSTRE AND
BEAUTY THEN ANY THAT HATH BEEN HERETOFORE MADE IN ENGLAND, AND TO
MAKE RED CHRYSTALL GLASSE OF ALL SORTS, AND LIKEWISE THE ART OF CASTING
GLASSE, AND PARTICULARLY LOOKING GLASSE PLATES, MUCH LARGER THEN EVER
WAS BLOWNE IN ENGLAND OR ANY FORREIGNE PARTS," which said Invencons
have not been heretofore vsed in England, and prayed vs to grant them our
Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided; and wee, being graciously
pleased to condescend thereunto,
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encou-
rage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as bave by
their industry and charge found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and
inventions, and that the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth
may accordingly reape some fruite and benefitt of their labour and charge in
and concerning the premisses, of our speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and

page_text: meer mocon, wee have given and granted, and by these presents for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Robert Hookes and
Christopher Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
lycence, full and sole power, priviledge, and anthority, that they, by themselves
and by their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely
as they, the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, shall agree with, shall and may from time to
time and at all times hereafter durcing the space of fourteen yeares next
ensucing the date of these presents, at their own proper costs and charges,
erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice the said arts, misterics, and
new Inventions soe by them contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any place
or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and also shall and may receive, take, and enioy all
the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said arts,
misteries, and new Inventions to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to their
own proper benefitt, vsc, and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the
said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the misses
by these presents granted, or menconed to be granted, and the sole vse of the
said arts, misteries, new inventions, or manufactures, vnto the said Robert
Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the day of the date of these presents next ensueing, and fully to
be compleate and ended according to the statute in that case made and
provided. And to the end the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dods-
worth, their executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy
the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of the said
arts, misteries, new inventions and manufactures, aswell within liberties as
without, wee doe by these psents for vs, our heires and successors, streightly
charge, require and command all and every person and persons, bodies
politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever
they be, within our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them dureing the said
terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or
shall vse, exercise, or putt in practice the said arts, misteries, or new inven-
tions, or any or either of them, or any engines or instruments, plates, metall
frames, materialls, or ingredients thereunto belonging or relateing thereunto,
nor doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substraccon therefrom,
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Robert Hookes and Christopher

page_text: Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, and assignes, in writeing vnder
their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders
therein for the contempt of this our royall comand in that behalfe, and further
to be answerable to the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of
the law, for their damages thereby susteyned. And further wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, full power and authority, that they, and every of them, their and
every of their deputyes, agents, agent and servants (haveing first obtained a
warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of
King's Bench for the time being) with the assistance of a constable or any
other lawfull officer (aswell within liberties as without) at convenient times
in the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, shall and
may make search in any houses, shopps, cellars, workhouses, or other place
or places within our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and
towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, where there shall be iust suspition for dis-
covering and finding out of all such person or persons as shall imitate, make,
or vse, or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed within our kingdome of England
or dominion aforesaid, the said new Inventions soe by the said Robert Hookes
and Christopher Dodsworth found out and invented as aforesaid, that soc
such offender may be proceeded against and punished according to their
demeritts and the vtmost rigor of the law; and further, wee do by these our
Letters Patents for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require,
and command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever,
of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being, whome it may
concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time durcing
the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices and according to
their and every of their best skills and endeavours, favouring, aiding, helping,
and assisting vnto the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, deputy and deputys, agents and
servants, in and by all things, in and about the accomplishment of our
royal will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and
execution of the severall powers and priviledges herein or 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 tyme hereafter

page_text: durcing the terme hereby granted in any wise molest, trouble, interrupt, or
hinder the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servante, or any of them, in or
about the vse or exercise of the said arts, misteries, or inventions, or any part
thereof, or any thing relateing thereunto. Provided alwaies, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time
durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted it shall be made
appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or incon-
venient to our subiccts in generall, or that the Inventions before menconed
are not new inventions as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and
not invented and found out by the said Robert Hookes and Christopher
Dodsworth as aforesaid, as to the makeing thereof in this our kingdome of
England, then vpon significacon and declaration of such piudice or incon-
veniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lorde or others of our or their Privy Councill
or any six or more of them vnder theire 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 notwithstanding. Provided
alsoe, that these our Letters Patents or thing herein contained shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Hookes and
Christoper Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any
Invention or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore invented and found
out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within
our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, to whome wee have already granted our
like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof,
it being our will and pleasure that the said Robert Hookes and Christopher
Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other person and persons to whome wee have already. granted our like Letters
Patents as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions
by them respectively found out, according to the true intent and meaning of
such our Letters Patents and of these psents. And lastly, wee doe hereby,
for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said Robert Hookes
and Christopher Dodsworth, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in
and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meaning of the same, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage
of the said Robert Hookes and Christopher Dodsworth, their executors,

page_text: administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing of the
said arts, misteries, or inventions, or of the engines, instruments, or plates,
mettall, frames, materialls, ingredients, wayes or meanes of makeing, vseing,
or exerciscing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, and
notwithstanding other defect, incertainty, or imperfection in these presents,
or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witness ourselves at Westminster, the Twelfth day
of June.
By Writt of Privy Seale.