A CERTAINE PUMPE OR ENGIN MUCH MORE CONVENIENT FOR ALL PURPOSES THAN ANY HERETOFORE VSED OR KNOWNE ;
Year: 1683

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved PETER WHALLEY, by his humble
peticon, hath represented vnto vs, that he hath, after long excise in mechanicall
experimente, happily devised and pfected "A CERTAINE PUMPE OR ENGIN MUCH
MORE CONVENIENT FOR ALL PURPOSES THAN ANY HERETOFORE VSED OR KNOWNE ;" and
he having humbly besought vs to grant vnto him our Letters Patent for the
sole vse and excise of the same for the terme of foureteene yeares, according
to the statute in that case pvided, wee are graciously pleased to condescend
to that his request.
NOWE KNOWE YEE, that wee being willing that the said Peter Walley may
reape some reasonable recompence for his paines and expences in and aboute
the misses, and incourage the inventers of such arte as may be of publick vse
and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledg, and meere mocon,
have given and granted, and by these psente for vs, our heires and successors,
doe give and grant vnto the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators
and assignes, especiall licence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that
he, the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them by themselves or their deputy and deputys, servante and agente,
or such others as the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall att any tyme agree with, and noe others, from time to time and
att all times dureing the terme of yeares bereafter in these psente expssed,
shall and lawfully may vse, excise, and enioy the said Invencon within any
part or parte, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonginge to our Kingdome
of England, Dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our kingdomes
and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable
and lawfull rates and limittacons as to him the said Peter Whalley, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons
seeme meete; and that hee, the said Peter Whalley, his executors, adminis
trators, and assignes shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, comodity,
and advantage from tyme to tyme coming, growing, and ariseing by reason of
the said Invenčon, for and dureinge the full terme of yeares hereafter men-
Coned; to have, hold, excise, and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said
Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes for and during and
vnto the full end and terme of foureteene yeares from the day of the date of
these sente next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleate and
ended according to the Statute in this case made and pvided. And to the end
that the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and excise of the
said Invenčon according to our gracious intenčons herein before declared, wee
doe by these sente for vs, our heires, and successors require and strictly
command all and every pson and psons, bodies politique and corporate, and all
other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condi-
Con soever they be within all and every our kingdomes and dominions, that
neither they nor any of them, at any tyme during the continuance of the said
terme of foureteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse
or putt in practice the said Invencon, or any part of the same soe atteined vnto
by the said Peter Whalley as aforesayd, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereto
or substracčon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventers
or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder
his, theire, or some of theire hande and scales, first had and obteined in that
behalfe vpon such paines and penaltyes 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 Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to lawe, for his and theire damages thereby occasioned to
be susteined. And wee doe of our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge,
and ineere močon for vs, our heires and successors grant vnto the said Peter
Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these psente, that hee,
they and every of them, and his and theire and every of their deputys,
agent and servante, haveing first obteined a lawfull warrant from the Lord
Cheife Justice of our Court of Kinge Bench att Westin, for the tyme
being, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at
convenient tymes in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull

page_text: manner, may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever
within any of our kingdomes or dominions, where there shall be iust
cause of suspicon, for the discovery and finding out of all and every pson
and psons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in
practice the said Invenčon, or shall make or counterfeite any instrument
or materiall to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may
be pceeded against and punished according to law. And further wee doe by
these psente, for.vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and couand all
and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffes, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors for the time being, aswell within our Kingdome of England and
Dominion of Wales, as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominions,
that they and every of them respectively be, from time to time dureing the
terme hereby granted, in their respective offices favouring, aideing, helping,
and assisting, vnto the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and to his and theire deputy and deputys, servante and agente, in and
by all thing in and aboute the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the exciso and execucon of the powers and
priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command that our said
respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doo not, nor
shall, at any tyme hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Peter Whalley, his executors, adminis
trators, or assignes, or any his or their deputys, servante, or agente, in or
aboute the due and lawfull vse or excise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any
thing relating thereto: pvided always, and these our Letters Patente are and
shall be vpon this condičon, that, if at any time dureing the terme hereby
granted, itt shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any sixe
or more of our or their Privy Councill that this our Psent graunt is contrary
to law or Piudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the
said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and practise thereof
within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Peter
Whalley, as aforesaid; then vpon significaĉon and declaračon thereof to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or
by the Lordf and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any sixe or more of
them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void, to all intente and purposes, any thing before
herein conteined to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: pvided alsoe
that these our Letters Patent, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend

page_text: or be construed to extend to give priviledg vnto the said Peter Whalley, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or excised
within our said. realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have
already granted our like Letters Patente of priviledg for the sole vse, excise,
and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said Peter
Whalley, his executors, administrators and assignes, and all and singular other
pson and psons, to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patente
or priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall
Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaneinge of the same respective Letters Patente, and of these psents.
And lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Peter Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all thing
good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
intent and meaneing thereof, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged in the
most favourable and beneficiall sense, for the best advantage of the said Peter
Whalley, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courte of
Record, as elcewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever 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 wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full
and certeine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invencon, or of the
materiall thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other defect or incer-
tainetyes in these psente conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision,
pclamačon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse the King at Westin, the Three-and-twen-
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