A NEW WAY OR ART FOR DRANING MINES AND OTHER NECESSARY VSES
Year: 1681

page_text: These psenes Suan
greeting.
WHEREAS wee have bin informed by our trusty and welbeloved WILLIAM
PAWLEY and EDWARD DALLOW, Gen?, that they have, with their long study,
labour, and expenses, found out and discovered "A NEW WAY OR ART FOR
DRANING MINES AND OTHER NECESSARY VSES," never heretofore found out or vsed
by any other, which being put into practice may be of great advantage to our
subiects in generall, and have humbly besought vs to grant vnto them Letters
Patents vnder our Great Seale of England to empower and enable them to
put into execučon the said Invencon, to continue for the terme of fourteen
years, according to the Statute in that behalfe made.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being desireous to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by theis Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said William
Pawley and Edward Dallow, their executors, administrators, & assignes.
especiall lycence, full and sole power, priviledge, & authority that they and
their workemen and servants, and noe other, shall or may, during the terme of
fourteen years next ensueing the date hereof, vse, practice, exercise, enioy, and
put in execution the said art or Invenčon of draining mines, in our Kingdome
of England and Dominion of Wales, in such manner as to them shall seeme
meet, and shall have and enioy the sole benefit and advantage ariseing thereby

page_text: or by reason thereof, to have, hold, and enioy the said lycence, power, privi-
ledge and authority, and other the misses hereby granted or intended to be
granted to the said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, their executors,
adiiors, and assignes, from the day of the date of these psents for and during
the terme of fourteene yeares from thence next ensueing, fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; and to the
end that they, the said William Pawley & Edward Dallow, their executors,
adiiors, and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and
whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invencon, aswell
within liberties as without, wec doe by these psents, for vs, our heires & sue-
cessors, require & strictly charge and command all and every person and
persons, bodyes politique & corporate, that they or any of them doe not or
shall not during the terme of years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
vse or put in practice or execučon the said art or Inventon, nor doe or
shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doc or shall make any
addicon thcrevnto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventers or devisors thereof without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, their executors, adiñors,
or assignes, in writeing vnder their hands and seals first had and obtained in
that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on such
offenders for the contempt of this our command, and further to be answerable to
the said William Pawley and Dallow, their exccutors, adiñiors, and assignes,
for their damages susteined thereby. And further, wee doe by these Fresents,
for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said William Pawley
and Edward Dallow, their executors, adiñors, and assignes, full power and
authority that they and every of them, their and every of their deputies,
servants, or agents, or any of them, (baveing first obtained 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 liberties as without, vpon request, at convenient times in the day
dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search in
any place or places where there shall be just cause of suspicion for discovering
and findcing out of all such persons as shall within the terme of fourteen years
imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art o
Invenĉon aforesaid, that soc such offenders may be proceeded against and
punished according to their demerits. And further, we doc by these Presents
for vs, our heirs and successors, will, authorize,, and require all and singula
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, headboroughes, and all othe
officers and ministers of vs, our heirs and successors for the time being, tha

page_text: they and every of them respectively be from time to time, during the said
terme hereby granted, in their respective places, favouring, ayding, helping
and assisting vnto the said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, their ex-
ecutors, adiiors, and assignes, or his or their deputic or deputies, servants and
agents, or any of them, in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execution of the powers and
priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid.
And moreover, wee will and command by these, for vs, our heirs and successors,
that our said officers, or any of them, doc not molest, trouble, or interrupt the
said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, or either of them, their or either of
their executors, adñiors, or assignes, or their or either of their deputy or
deputyes, servants, 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
alwaies, that if att any time during the said terme of fourteene years it shall be
made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Council, that this grant is preiudiciall or inconveniet to our common-
wealth, or that the said art or Inventon is not a new Invenčon of the said
William Pawley and Edward Dallow as to the vse and practise thereof with-
in our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales, then vpon significa con
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, in writeing vnder their hands, of such piudice
and inconvenience, these our Letters Patents, and all things therein contained,
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intents and pur
poses, anything herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein con-
tained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, or either of them, their
executors, aduiors, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Inventon
or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons, and publy
exercised in our Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales, vnto whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole
vse and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said
William Pawley and Edward Dallow, their executors, adñiors, and assignes,
and all other person or persons to whome wee have already granted our like
Lies Patents or priviledge, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Inventons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patents, and of these Pre-
sents. And lastly, wec doc by these Presents, by vs, our heires and successors,

page_text: grant vnto the said William Pawley and Edward Dallow, their executors
adiiors, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or 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 psents, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged most favourably & beneficially for the best benefit and
advantage of the said William Pawley and 'Edward Dallow, their executors,
adiñiors, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describeing of the said art or Invenčon, or
of the certain vse or benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects
or incertainties in these Presents contained, or any act, statute, ordinance,
provision, or restraint to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, this Five-and-
twentieth day of June.