A NEW WAY OF RAISKING AND DIS- CHARGING WATERS OUT OF MINES, MEERS, PONDS, OR VESSELLS BY PIPES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS AND MEANES EXERCISED AND VSED IN A QUITE DIFFERENT MANNER FROM ANY ENGINE OR THING WHATSOEVER FOR LIKE PURPOSES YET IN PRACTICE
Year: 1696

page_text: WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom theso
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS SAMUEL BUTTALL hath by his petičon humbly represented vnto
vs that after long study and industry, and with much labour and charge he
hath invented, contrived, and perfected "A NEW WAY OF RAISKING AND DIS-
CHARGING WATERS OUT OF MINES, MEERS, PONDS, OR VESSELLS BY PIPES AND OTHER
INSTRUMENTS AND MEANES EXERCISED AND VSED IN A QUITE DIFFERENT MANNER
FROM ANY ENGINE OR THING WHATSOEVER FOR LIKE PURPOSES YET IN PRACTICE,"
and that the said Invenčon will be of a great and generall advantage to our
subiects aswell in private families as otherwise, and hath prayed vs to grant
him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and exercise of the said new
Invenčon.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of all such
arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
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 Samuel
Buttall, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority that hee, the said Samuel Buttall, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or
his or their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as the
said Thomas Buttall, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times durcing

page_text: the terme of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse,
exercise, and enjoy the said new way of raising and discharging water out of
mines, meercs, ponds, or vessells by pipes and other instruments and meanes
exercised and vsed in a quite different manner from any engine or thing
whatsoever for like purposes yet in practice within our Kingdome of England,
Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any other our
dominions, in such manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull
rates and limitačons as to him, the said Samuel Buttall, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrečons seeme
meet, and that hee, the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole profitt, benefitt, commodity,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing
by reason of the said Invenčon for and dureing the full terme of yeares
herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen
yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensucing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statuto in this case
made and provided. And to the end that the said Samuel Buttall, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and
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 Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or
condicon soever they be within all and every our kingdomes and dominions,
that neither they or any of them, at any time dureing the continuance of the
said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doe
made, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon or any part of the same soe
attained vnto by the said Samuel Buttall as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addičon therevnto or substraccon from the same whereby to pretend
themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or devisers thereof, without the
lycence or agreement of the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hands and scales first
had and obtained in that bohalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or
may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall
command, and further to be answerable to the said Samuel Buttall, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular our justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for
the time being, that they or any of them doe not nor shall at any time here-
after dureing the said terme hereby granted in any wise molest, trouble, or
-hinder the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of his or their deputys, servants, or agents in or about the due and
lawfull making, vsc, or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or anything
relating thereto Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and
shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time dureing the terme 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiccts in generall, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within this our Kingdome of England, and not invented and found out by
the said Samuel Buttall, as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaracon
thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signet 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
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, anything before herein contained to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said Samuel Battall, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath been
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 priviledges have been already
granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges 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
Patents and of these Presents: And lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Samuel Buttall, his exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the inrollment

page_text: thereof shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and moaning thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence
for the best advantage of the said Samuel Buttall, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, aswell in all our 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 subiccts of vs, our heires and successors what-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the nature or
quality of the said Invenčon or of the materialls thereto conduceing and
belonging.