THE WAY OF MAKEING ALL SORTS OF HARD SOAPES COMONLY CALLED VENETIAN, MAR- DEILLES, CASTILE, AND ALL OTHER HARD SOAPES (AS THEY ARE NOW VзUALLY MADE BEYOND THE SEAS), BEING HIS OWNE INVENCON, AND NEVER BEFORE PRACTISED IN THIS OUR KINGDOME
Year: 1677

page_text: WHEREAS wee have bin informed, by our trusty and welbeloved PATRICK
TRANT, Gentt, that hee haveing, with much charge and industry, found "THE
WAY OF MAKEING ALL SORTS OF HARD SOAPES COMONLY CALLED VENETIAN, MAR-
DEILLES, CASTILE, AND ALL OTHER HARD SOAPES (AS THEY ARE NOW VзUALLY MADE
BEYOND THE SEAS), BEING HIS OWNE INVENCON, AND NEVER BEFORE PRACTISED IN THIS
OUR KINGDOME," hath humbly besought vs to grant vnto him the sole benefitt
thereof for the terme of fowreteene yeares, according to the statute in that
behalfe made.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being desireous to encourage the inventors of
such arts as may bee of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certeine
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 Patrick
Trant, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and
sole power, priviledge and authority, that hee and they and his and their
workemen and servants, and noe others, shall and may dureing the terme of
fowrteen yeares next ensueing the date of these presents, vse, practice,
exercise, and enioy the said art or Invenčon of makeing all sorts of hard soapes
comonly called Venetian, Marseilles, Castile, and all other hard soapes as they
are vsually made beyond the seas, within our kingdome of England and princi-
pality of Wales, in such manner as to him and them shall seeme meet, and
shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing thereby or by
reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy the said licence, power, priviledge,

page_text: authority, and other the premisses hereby granted or intended to be granted
to the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
from the day of the date of these presents, for and dureing the terme
of fowreteene yeares from thence next ensueing, fully to be compleate and
ended, according to the statute in that case made and provided. And to the
end the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole
vse and exercise of his said Invencon, aswell within libertys as without, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly
charge and comand all and every person and persons, bodys pollitick and
corporate, that they nor any of them, dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doe or shall vse or putt in practice the said art or
invenčon, nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe
or shall make any addicon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writeing, vnder his or their hands and scales first, had and
obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys as can or may be
inflicted on such offendors for the contempt of this our comand, and further,
to bee answerable to the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, according to law and justice, for bis and theire damages thereby
'sustained. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, give and grant vnto the said Patrick Trant, bis executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, full power and authority that hee, they, and every of
them, his, their, and every of theire deputys, agents, or servants, or any of them,
haveing first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice
of the Court of King's Bench for the time being, may, with the assistance of
a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within libertys as without, vpon
request, att convenient times in the day dureing the time aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps; or other places
where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon for discovering and finding out of all
such persons as shall within the terme of fowrteene yeares, imitate or cause to
be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art or Invencon aforesaid, that
soe such offenders may bee proceeded against and punished.according to their
demerritts And further wee doe by these presents for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorize, and require, all and singuler justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffes, bayliffes, beadboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, that they and every of them
respectively bee from time to time, dureing the said terme hereby granted, in

page_text: their respective places favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting. vnto the said
Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to bis and their
deputy and deputys, agents and servants, in all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execu-
Con of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted, or menconed to be
granted, as aforesaid. And moreover wee will and comand, by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers, or any of them, doe not
molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Patrick Trant, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or
any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said art or invenčon, in any
matter or thing concerning the same. Provided always, that if at any time
dureing the said terme of fowreteene yeares itt shall be made appeare to vs,
our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their privy councell, that
this grant is Piudiciall or inconvenient to our cōmonweale, or that the said art
or invenčon is not a new invenčon of the said Patrick Trant, as to the vse and
practise thereof within our kingdome of England and principallity of Wales,
then, vpon significacon and declaraĉon to be made by vs, our heires or suc-
sessors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lords and others of
our privy councell, or six or more of them for the time being, in writing vnder
their hands, of such piudice or inconvenience, these our Letters Pattents, and
all things therein contained, shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly
void, to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Pattents, or
any thing therein contained, shall not extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other
person or persons, and publickly exercised in our said kingdome of England
and principallity of Wales, vnto whom wee have allready granted our like
Letters Pattents for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our
will & pleasure that the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, or any other person or persons to whom wee have already
granted our like Letters Pattents or privilege, shall distinctly vse and practice.
their several invenĉons, by them invented and found out, according to the
true intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective Letters Pattents
and of these presents. And, lastly, wee doe, by these psents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, and the iurollment thereof, shall
be in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law according
to the true intent and meaneing of these presents, and shalbe taken, construed,

page_text: and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and advan-
tage of the said Patrick Trant, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
aswell in all our courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and
certeine describeing of the said art or invenčon, or of the certeine vse or
benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects, incertaintys, or imper-
feccons in these presents contained, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamacon, or restraint to the contrarie in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westññi, the Seaventh day of
December.