A CERTAINE ENGINE FOR SAWING WITHOUT THE HELP OF EITHER WIND OR WATER ALL SORTS OF TIMBER, BOARD, AND STONES, OR THINGS OF THAT KIND, WHEREIN DISABLED SEAMEN AND OTHERS WOUNDED IN OUR SERVICE OR OTHERWISE MAY BE IMPLOYED, AND THEREBY BEE ENABLED TO EARNE AN HONEST COMPETENCY FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES
Year: 1683

page_text: vs that hee, after great pains, industry, and charge, hath invented and per-
fected "A CERTAINE ENGINE FOR SAWING WITHOUT THE HELP OF EITHER WIND
OR WATER ALL SORTS OF TIMBER, BOARD, AND STONES, OR THINGS OF THAT KIND,
WHEREIN DISABLED SEAMEN AND OTHERS WOUNDED IN OUR SERVICE OR OTHERWISE
MAY BE IMPLOYED, AND THEREBY BEE ENABLED TO EARNE AN HONEST COMPETENCY
FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES," in which regard he hath
humbly besought vs to grant him our royall licence & priviledge for the sole
vse and benefitt of the said Invenčon..
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, out of our princely inclinacon to
promote and incourage such invenčons as may be of publick vse and ad-
vantage, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and. meere moĉon,.have
given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe
give and grant vnto the said John Booth, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, special licence, full and sole power, privilege, and authority, that hee
and they, and his and their servants and workemen, and noe others, shall and
may, dureing the terme of fowrteene yeares next ensueing the date of these
Psents, vse, practise, exercise, and enioy the said Invenĉon and engine within
our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of. Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, in such manner as to him or them shall seeme meete, and shall have
and enioy the sole vse and benefitt thereof, or by reason thereof, to have, hold,
and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, authorities, and other the

page_text: premisses hereby granted or intended to be granted, and the sole vse of the said
Invenčon and engine to the said John. Booth, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, from the date of these Presents, for and dureing the terme
of fowrteene yeares from thence next ensueing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; and to the
end the said John Booth, 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 Invenĉon and engine, aswell within libertys as without,
wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require, prohibitt,
and streightly charge and command all and every person and persons whatsoever,
and all bodys politique and corporate, of what nature, degree, name, or addicon
soever they be, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the terme of fowr-
teene yeares hereby granted, directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in
practice the said Invenĉon or engine, or any of the principall parts thereof, 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 inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or
agreement of the said John Booth, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
in writing vnder his or their hands and seales, first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vnder such paines and penaltys as can or may be legally inflicted on
such offenders for the contempt of this our command in that behalfe, and
further, to be answerable to the said John Booth, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, according to law and justice, for his and their damages thereby
sustained. And further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, give and grant to the said John Booth, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, full power and authority that he, they, and every of them,
his, their, and every of their deputys, servants, or agents, or any of them,
(having first obtained a warrant in this 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 liberties as without, vpon
request, at convenient times in the day durcing the time aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter into and make search in any houses or other places where
there shall be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of all such
engines, and all manner of persons as within the aforesaid terme of fowrteeno
yeares shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the
said Invenĉon or engine, or any of the principall parts thereof, that soc such
offenders may be proceeded against according to law. And further, wee doe
by these Presents, for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorize, and require
all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffs, headboroughs,

page_text: and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors, for the
time being, that they and every of them respectively, from time to time
durcing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective places bee favouring,
ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Booth, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputys, servants,
and agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will
and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execuĉon of the powers and
priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid.
Aud 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 John Booth, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
bis or their deputys, servants, or agents, or any of them, in or about the vse or
exercise of the said Invenĉon or engine, or in any matter or thing concerning
the same: Provided always, that if at any time dureing the said terme of
fowrteene yeares it shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this grant is preiudiciall or
inconvenient to our common weale, or that the said Invenĉon is not a new
Invencon of the said John Booth, as to the vse and practice thereof within
our Kingdome of England, then, vpon significačon and declaracon, to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy scale, 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 and inconvenience,
these our Letters Patents, and all things therein conteined, shall forthwith
ccase, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing
herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteined shall not extend or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Booth, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vso or imitate
any invencon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons
and publiquely exercised in this our Kingdome of England, vnto whom wee
have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Booth, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other
person and persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents
or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent &
meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patents, and of these
Presents. And wee doe further, by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said John Booth, his executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, that these 'our Letters Patents and the inrollment thereof shall be
in and by all things good, valid,, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according
to the true intent and meaning of these Presents, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged most, favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and ad-
vantage of the said John Booth, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
aswell in all our Courts of Record, as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not
full and certeine, describing of the said Invencon or engine, or of the manner
or quality thereof; or of the materialls or way of vscing or exerciseing of
the said Invenčon or engine, or of the certeine vse or benefitt thereof, and
notwithstanding, any other defects, incertaintys, or imperfeccons in these
Presents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or
restraint to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
- In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe, at Wesni, the Seaven-and-twentieth