A NEW DRYER FOR THE DRYING OF MALT VPON IRON OR IRON TINN'D, BY WHICH IT IS DRYED WITH HALFE, THE FUELL AND IN A MUCH LESSE TIME THEN THE COMON WAY, WITHOUT ANY DANGER OF FIRE, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE VERY VSEFULL TO ALL OUR SUBIECTS WHO HAVE OCCASION FOR DRYING OF MALT, ITT BEING MUCH A BETTER WAY THEN ANY THAT HATH BEENE YET PRACTISED
Year: 1698

page_text: WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Psents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN GROVES and THOMAS REEVE, of Chipping Norton, in the
County of Oxon, have by their peticon represented that they have, with great
charge and paines, contrived and invented "A NEW DRYER FOR THE DRYING OF
MALT VPON IRON OR IRON TINN'D, BY WHICH IT IS DRYED WITH HALFE, THE FUELL
AND IN A MUCH LESSE TIME THEN THE COMON WAY, WITHOUT ANY DANGER OF FIRE,
AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE VERY VSEFULL TO ALL OUR SUBIECTS WHO HAVE
OCCASION FOR DRYING OF MALT, ITT BEING MUCH A BETTER WAY THEN ANY THAT
HATH BEENE YET PRACTISED;" and the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve
have humbly prayed our Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of the
said Invenčon for the terme of fourteene yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to condescend
to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts as may
be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certainė knowledge, and
meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents for vs, our heires
and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John Groves and Thomas
Reeve, their executors, administrators, and speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge, and authority, that they, the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve,
and either of them, their and either of their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputys,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said John Groves and Thomas
Reeve, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall att any time agree

page_text: with and noe others, from time to time and all all times dureing the terme of
yeares herein-after after expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise,
and enioy the said Invenĉon, within any part or parts, place or places whatso-
ever of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales,
and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our kingdomes
and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable
and lawfull rates and limitačons as to them, the said John Groves and Thomas
Reeve, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discrecons seeme meete, and that they, the said John Groves and Thomas
Reeve, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time
comcing; growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invencon, for and dureing
the full terme of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein and hereby granted
or menčoned to be granted vnto the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full
end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the date of these Presents next and
immediately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in this case made and provided. And to the end that the said John
Groves and Thomas Reeve, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may enioy the full benefitt, and the sole makeing, vse, and
exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our gratious intenčons herein.
before declared, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodys politique,
and all other our subiects whatsoever, of estate, quality, or degree, name
or condičon soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes and
dominions, that neither they, nor any of them, at any time dureing the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fowrteene ycares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly doe vse or put into practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the
same, soe attained vnto by the said John Grove and Thomas Reeve as afore-
said, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make
or cause to be made any addičon thereto or subtracčon from the same,
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve,
their executors, administrators, or assigues, vnder their or some of their hands
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 royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said John Groves
and Thomas Reeve, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to

page_text: law, for their or any of their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee
doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all
and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors for the time being, that they or any of them doe not, nor shall
at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve, or either of them,
their or either of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or their or either
of their deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or 'any thing relating the revnto: Pro-
vided always, and these our Letters Patents are, and shall be vpon this con-
dičon, that if at any time dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares. hereby
granted, itt 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
prejudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invencon
is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within this
our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said John Groves and
Thomas Reeve or either of them, then, vpon significačon and declaračon
thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or theire signett or
privy seale, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Pattents shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes,
any thing before herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
Provided 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
Grove and Thomas Reeve, or either of them, their or either of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invencon
or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our
said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom like Letters Patents
or priviledge have beene already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said John Groves and Thomas
Reeve, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and all and singular other
person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have beene
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 Patent, and of these Presents. And
lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said John Grove and Thomas Reeve, their executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the inrollment thereof, shall be in
and by all things, good, firme, valid, sufficient & effectuall in the law
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence, for the best
advantage of the said John Groves and Thomas Reeve, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and
by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, in all and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.