A NEW NIGHT ENGINE WHICH BEING SET IN A CONVENIENT PLACE IN ANY HOUSE WILL GIVE TIMELY NOTICE TO THE INHABITANTS IN CASE ANY THEIFE OR HOUSEBREAKER SHOULD ATTEMPT TO BREAK IN, AND THEREBY BE A MEANES TO VENT ROBBERIES & MURTHERS
Year: 1694

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN TYZACK, Merchant, bath by
his humble peticon represented vnto vs, that at his great charge and by long
study and industry he hath invented and brought to pfeccon "A NEW NIGHT
ENGINE WHICH BEING SET IN A CONVENIENT PLACE IN ANY HOUSE WILL GIVE TIMELY
NOTICE TO THE INHABITANTS IN CASE ANY THEIFE OR HOUSEBREAKER SHOULD ATTEMPT
TO BREAK IN, AND THEREBY BE A MEANES TO VENT ROBBERIES & MURTHERS,"
PVENT
& haveing prayed our Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of his said
Invenĉon.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all lawdable endeavours & designs of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteryes, and invenĉons,
and that the said John Tyzack may accordingly reap some fruit and benefit of
his labour and charge in and concerning the pmisses, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meer mocon, wee bave given and granted, and by
these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said John Tyzack, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority,
that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his or their deputyes,
servants, agents, and workemen, and such others onely as he, the said John
Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes shall and may, from tyme
to time and at all times hereafter dureing the space of fourteen yeares next.
ensueing the date of these Presents, at his and theire own proper costs and

page_text: charges erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice the said new Invencon
soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid, in any place or places within
our Kingdomes of England & Ireland, and the dominions and terrytories
thereto belonging, and also shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the
benefitts, profits, commodityes, & advantages of and by the said new Invencon
to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to his and their own proper benefit, vse,
and vses.
To have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and authorityes, and all other the premisses by these Presents
granted, or menconed to be granted vuto the said John Tyzack, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and to the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Presents next ensucing, and
fully to bec compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made
and provided; and to the end that the said John Tyzack, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and whole benefit, and the
sole vse and exercise of his said new Invencon, wee doe by these Presents
for vs, our heires & successors, streightly charge, require, and command all and
every person and persons, bodyes politique and corporate, of what quality,
degree, name, or condicon soever they be within our Kingdomes of England &
Ireland and and the dominions & territoryes thereto belonging, that neither
they nor any of them durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doc vse, exercise, or put in practice the said new
Inventon soe by the said John Tyzack invented and found out as aforesaid,
nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new Invencon, or
any materialls therevnto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addicon
therevnto or substraccon therefrom, whereby to tend themselves the
inventer or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing,
vnder his and theire bands and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vuder such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender
or offenders therein, for the contempt of this our royall command; and
further to be answerable to the said John Tyzack, his executors, administrators,
& assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and theire
damages thereby sustained; and further, wee doe by these our Letters Patent,
for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorize, require, and command all and
singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, head-
boroughs, 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 theire and every

page_text: of theire best skills and endeavours aiding, helping, & assisting vnto the said
John Tyzack, his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputyes, agents,
and servants, in & by all things in and about the accomplishment of our
royal will & pleasure herein-before declared, and in the execucon of the
several powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And, moreover,
wee doe by these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, will and command
that our said respective officers and ministers before menčoned, or any of
them, doe not nor shall at any tyme hereafter dureing the term hereby granted
in anywise molest, trouble, or binder the said John Tyzack, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, deputyes, agents, or servants, in or about the vse
or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any part thereof, or any thing
relateing therevnto: Provided alwaies & these our Letters Patents are and shall
be vpon this condicon that if, at any tyme dureing 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 Councell, that this our grant is
contrary to law, or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or
that the Inventon before menconed is not a new Invencon, as to the publiquo
vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found out by the said
John Tyzack, as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaračun of such
preiudice or inconveniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder
our or their signet or privy scale, or by the lords or others of our or theire
Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder theire hands; 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 also, that these our Letters Patents or any thing
herein contained shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge
vnto the said John Tyzacke, his executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate
any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented and
found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever; & publiquely exercised within
our dominions aforesaid, to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents of priviledge for the sole exercise and benefit thereof. It being our will &
pleasure that the said John Tyzacke, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
& all and singuler other person & persons to whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse & practice theire severall
Inventons by them respectively found out, according to the true meancing of
such our Letters Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, wee doe bereby
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Tyzack, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the
enrollment thereof shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid,

page_text: firme, & effectuall in the law, according to the true meaneing of the same,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing of the
said Invenĉon or of the materialls, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or
exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefit thereof, or of any
other defect, incertainty, or impfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.