AN ENGYNE WHICH, WITH THE PERPETUALL MOCON OF IT SELFE, WITHOUT THE HELP OR STRENGTH OF ANY PERSON OR CREATURE, WILL NOT ONLY DREYNE GREAT LEVELL OF VAST QUANTITIES OF WATER, BUT ALSOE MYNES OF FIFTY FATHOM DEEPE OR MORE
Year: 1662

page_text: these present shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee are informed that RALPH WAYNE, Gentleman, hath,
through his great charge, labour, and industry, attayned the knowledge of
"AN ENGYNE WHICH, WITH THE PERPETUALL MOCON OF IT SELFE, WITHOUT THE
HELP OR STRENGTH OF ANY PERSON OR CREATURE, WILL NOT ONLY DREYNE GREAT
LEVELL OF VAST QUANTITIES OF WATER, BUT ALSOE MYNES OF FIFTY FATHOM
DEEPE OR MORE;" and forasmuch as the said Invenčon may be of exceeding
benefitt and advantage to our subiecte and kingdomes,―
KNOWE YEE, that wee being willing to cherish and encourage all
laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiecte as shall finde out
vsefull and profitable arte and invenčons, by graunting and appropriatcing
vnto them for some terme of yeares the fruite and benefitt of theire industrie,
whereby theire labours and expences in the attaynement thereof may be
recompenced and rewarded vnto them; and being alsoe willing to encourage
and countenance as much as wee may this Invenčon and others of the like
nature which may be vsefull and advantagious to all our loveing subiecte, for
soe much as concerneth vse and practice of the same within our kingdomes of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all and every our domynions and
territories therevnto belonging, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and graunted, and by these present for
vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt, vnto the said Ralph

page_text: Wayne, his agente, servante, and assignes, full and sole licence, power, privi-
ledge, and authoritie, that hee, the said Ralph Wayne, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, by himselfe and themselves, and by his and theire
deputies, servante, and workemen, and such others as he or they shall att any
tyme agree with, within our said kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland,
and our dominions and territories therevnto belonging, shall and may att all
and every tyme and tymes hereafter, dureing the terme of fouretcene yeares
next ensueing the date of these presente, vse, practize, teach, or put in vse,
the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt of the said engine or invenčon never before
found out or vsed but by the said Ralph Wayne, which, with the perpetuall
močon of it selfe, without the help or strength of any person or creature,
after the same is sett on worke, will not only dreyne great levell of vast
quantities of water, but alsoe mines, though fifty fathom deepe and more, and
for what other vse and vses it shalbe by him ymployed, according to the tenor
and purport of the said new way of invenĉon by him, the said Ralph Wayne,
devised, framed, and found out as aforesaid. And hee, the said Ralph Wayne,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have, receive, and
take all sumes of money, benefitte, advantages, and proffitte whatsoever
thereby arriscing, or to be thereof had and made, acquired or gotten from
tyme to tyme dureing the terme hereby graunted, to have, hould, and enioye the
said licence, priviledge, power, and authority, sume and sumes of money,
advantages, proffitte, and other the premisses by these presente graunted
or menconed to be granted to the said Ralph Wayne, for himselfe
bis executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing the terme
of foureteene ycares from thence next ensueing and fully to be
compleat and ended yeilding and payeing, and the said Ralph Wayne,
for himselfe his executors, administrators, and assignes, doth covenant and
graunt to and with vs, our heires and successors, to yeeld and pay to vs, our
heires and successors, for the same, at the receipt of our Exchequere, the
yearcly rent or sume of four pound by the yeare during the. terme of four-
teene yeares, at the feast of the Nativitie of St. John Baptist, and tho
Birth of our Lord God, by even and equall porcons. And to the end the
said Ralph Wayne, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may have and
take the benefitt we now intend him by this present graunt of our moro
especiall grace, certeyne knowledge, and meere mocon, wee doc for vs, our
heires and successors, streightly chardge and comaund all and every person
and persons, of what estate, degree, or condičon soever he, they, or any of
them be, that he, they, or any of them dureing the said terme of fouretecne
yeares, doc not presume to vse, imitate, or practice directly, or indirectly, the

page_text: said engine soe found out and invented by the said Ralph Wayne as aforesaid,
without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Ralph Wynne, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, first had and obteyned in writeing
vnder his or their hand and scales in that behalfe, vpon such forfeiture,
payne, and losse as by law may be had or recovered by vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, of all such engynes and instrumente as any person or persons shall
presume to attempt, contrive, and put in practice, thereby or by means thereof
to invade or infringe the priviledge of the said Inventon hereby graunted as
aforesaid, or to stopp or hinder the same or ite due proceedinge contrary to
this our royall intencon and declaraĉon; and further, that any the delinquente
hercin shalbee proceeded against and punished according to our lawes for
theire contempt or neglect of our royall will and comaundement herein
declared. And wee doe by these present for vs, our heires and successors,
will and comaund that the lord generall of all and every our forces within
our kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions and
territories therevnto belonging for the tyme being, leivtenant-generall governors
of fort and garrisons, collonelle and other marciall officers, as alsoe all
mayors, sheriffe, justices of the peace, bayliffe, constables, headborroughs, and
other the officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors for the tyme
being to whome it shall apperteyne, and every of them, dureing the termo
aforesaid, be favouring, ayding, and assisting to the said Ralph Wayne, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, in all lawful thing in and about the
accomplishment of this present graunt and pleasure herein declared, and for
the due suppression of all such as shall any wayes indeavour to infringe or
oppose the same, and that they or any of them doe not at any tyme hinder,
molest, or interrupt the said Ralph Wayne, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or bis or their deputies, or any of them, in the due and lawfull
execucon of the premisses, as they tender our displeasure and will answere
the contrary at theire perille. And these our Letters Patente, or the inroll-
ment of them, shall bee theire sufficient warrant in that behalfe: Provided
alwayes, and our pleasure is, that if any tyme dureing the said terme it shall
appeare vnto vs, our heires and successors, or vnto our lorde and others of our
Privy Councell that this our graunt shall be inconvenient or preiudiciall to
our cōmonwealth, that vpon significacon or declaračon to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy seale, or by the
lorde and others of our Privy Councell, or six of them for the tyme being, in
writeing vnder theire hande, of such preiudice or inconvenience, these our
Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void and of
none effect, any thing before meuconed to the contrary notwithstanding:

page_text: Provided alsoc, that if this our graunt is not inrolled with the Remembrancer
of our Exchequer within six moneths next after the date hereof, that then
this our graunt shall be void and of none effect, any thing in these presente
conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. And wee doc hereby graunt, for
vs, our heires and successors, that these our Letters Patent or inrollment
thereof, shall be firme, good, and effectuall in the law according to the true
meaneing of the same, although expresse mencon, &c.
In witnes, &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westminster, the Twelveth day of
March.
P bře de priuato sigillo, &c.