A SORT OF TILES OR BRICKS WHEREWITH TO LAY THE FLOORES OF KILNES FOR THE DRYING MALT, OATES, OR ANY OTHER GRAINE, MORE SPEEDILY AND WITH MUCH LESSE FIRE THEN THE COMON WAY, OR ANY OTHER INVENCON NOW PRACTISED FOR DRYING THE SAME, AND WITHOUT ANY DANGER OF FIRE
Year: 1699

page_text: WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN SHALLCROSSE, Esquire, bath
by his peticon humbly represented vnto vs, that he has with great industry and
expence invented "A SORT OF TILES OR BRICKS WHEREWITH TO LAY THE FLOORES
OF KILNES FOR THE DRYING MALT, OATES, OR ANY OTHER GRAINE, MORE SPEEDILY
AND WITH MUCH LESSE FIRE THEN THE COMON WAY, OR ANY OTHER INVENCON NOW
PRACTISED FOR DRYING THE SAME, AND WITHOUT ANY DANGER OF FIRE;" and that
the said Invenčon will be vsefull to all such as have occasion to dry malt,
oats, or any other graine; and hath prayed our Letters Patents for the solo
vse and benefitt of the said Invenčon for the terme of fowrteene yeares.
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 John Shall-
crosse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full power,
sole priviledge, and authority, that he, the said John Shallcrosse, his executors,..
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or their
deputy or deputys, servants, or agents, or such others as the said John Shall-
crosse, his executors, administrators, or assignes shall at any time agree with
and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, excrcise, and enioy the

page_text: said Invencon within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all other our dominions, in such manner
and according to such reasonable rates and limitačons, as to him, the said
John Shallcrosso, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them
shall in their discrecons seeme meet, and that hee the said John Shallcross,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the
sole profitt, benefitt, comodity and advantage from time to time coneing,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenĉon, for and
dureing the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said John Shallcross, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end
and terme of fowrtcene yeares from the date of these Presents next and
immediately ensueing, 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
Shallcrosse, 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 command all and every person and persons, bodies
politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what 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 continuance of the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, doe make or put in practice the said Invencon, or
any part of the same, soe attained vnto by the said John Shallcrosse as afore-
said, nor shall in anywise counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor
shall make or cause to be made any addičon therevnto or substracĉon from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or
devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John
Shallcrosse, his executors, administrators, and assignes, in writeing, vnder his,
their, or some of their hands and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vpon such paines 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 Shallcrosse, his 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 succes-
sors, will and command all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers

page_text: whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being, that
they or any of them doo not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said
termo hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John
Shallcrosse, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their
deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull makeing, vse, or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenĉon, or any thing relating thereto. Provided
always, that these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon,
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 subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invencon
as to the publick vs3 and exercise thereof within this our Kingdome of
England, and not invented and found out by the said John Shallcrosse as
aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaračon thereof, to bee 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, any thing before herein con-
tained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, 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 Shallcrosse, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or work whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found or in-
vented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exer-
cised 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, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Shallcrosse, 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 meaneing of the same respective Letters Patents, and of these
Presents. And lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said John Shallcrosse, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe
in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said John Shallcrosse, his executors, administrators, and

page_text: 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 whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describing the nature or
quality of the said Invencon, or of the materialls thereto conduccing and
belonging
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westii, the Tenth day of
March.
By Writt of Privy Seale.