A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE VSEPULL FOR BEATING, POUNDING, OR STAMPING ALL SORTS OF MINERALL OARES, AND HEMP, AND FLAX, AND MAY ALSOE BE APPLIED TO MANY OTHER. THINGS THAT REQUIRE POUNDING, BEATING, OR STAMPING; AND IF DISIOYNED, PART THEREOF MAY BE VSEFULLY APPLYED FOR THE RAISEING OR DRAWING VP OF OAR WORKE AND OTHER THINGS OUT OF MINES AND COALE PITTB
Year: 1692

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England..
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, &c., to all to whome.
these presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS CHARLES MORTON and SAMUELL WEALE have by their humble.
peticon represented vnto vs that they have found out and invented "A NEW
MACHINE OR ENGINE VSEPULL FOR BEATING, POUNDING, OR STAMPING ALL SORTS OF
MINERALL OARES, AND HEMP, AND FLAX, AND MAY ALSOE BE APPLIED TO MANY OTHER.
THINGS THAT REQUIRE POUNDING, BEATING, OR STAMPING; AND IF DISIOYNED, PART
THEREOF MAY BE VSEFULLY APPLYED FOR THE RAISEING OR DRAWING VP OF OAR WORKE
AND OTHER THINGS OUT OF MINES AND COALE PITTB;" which said engine or machine,
hath not been heretofore knowne or practised by any of our subiects, and have
prayed vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof dureing the.
terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that wee being graciously pleased to condescend
to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts as may.
be of publicke vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and
meere močon, have given and granted, and by these psents for vs, our heires.
and successors, doe give and grant vnto them, the said Charles Morton and.
Samuel Weale, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence,
full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that they, the said Charles Morton
and Samuell Weale, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every

page_text: of them, by themselves, or their or either of their deputy and deputies, servants
or agents, or such others onely as they the said Charles Morton and Samuell
Weale, their 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 hercin expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and enioy
the said Invention within any part or parts, place or places, whatsoever of, in, or
belonging to our Kingdome of England, and our plantacons in America, and
all and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such
manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons as
to them, the said Charles Morton and Samuel Weale, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet, and
that the said Charles Morton and Samuel Weale, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason
of the said Invention for and dureing the full terme of yeares herein menconed;
to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto them, the
said Charles Morton and Samuell Weale, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the date of these psents next and immediately ensueing and fully to be
compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case made and provided,
and to the end they, the said Charles Morton and Samuell Weale, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the
full benefitt, and the sole makeing, vse, and exercise of the said Invention
according to our gratious intentions 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
condicon soever they be, within all and every our said kingdomes and
dominions, that neither they, nor any of them, at any time dureing the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or.
indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practise the said Invention, or any part of the
same soe attained vnto by them, the said Charles Morton and Samuell Weale,
as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall.
make or cause to be made any addition thereto, or substracĉon from the same,:
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of them the said Charles Morton and Samuell
Weale, their executors, administrators or assignes, in writeing, vnder their.
or some of their hands and scales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon

page_text: such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for
their comtempt of this our royall command, and further, to be answerable to
them, the said Charles Moreton and Samuell Weale, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, according to law, for their damages thereby occasioned;
and moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will
and command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of
rs, our heires and successors for the time being, that they, or any of them, doc
not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted,
in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Charles Morton and Samuell
Weale, or either of them, their or either of their executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any or cither of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the
due and lawful makeing, vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any
thing relating thereto Provided allwaies, and 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 appear 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 Invention
is not a new invention, as to the publick vse or exercise thereof within this our
Kingdome of England, or in any other of our kingdomes or dominions, and
not invented and found out by the said Charles Morton and Samuell Weale,
or one of them, as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon and declaration thereof
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett 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 conteyned to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided
alsoc, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein conteyned shall not
extend, or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto them, the said Charles
Morton and Samuell Weale, or either of them, their or either of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or
worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within any of
our said kingdoms or dominions vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledge
have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being
our will and pleasure that the said Charles Morton and Samuell Weale, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and
persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted,
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions by them

page_text: invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaneing of the same
respective Letters Patents, and of these psents. And lastly, wee doe by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto them, the said Charles
Morton and Samuell Weale, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said
Charles Morton and Samuell Weale, their executors, administrators, and
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 said kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst
all and every the subiects, of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describeing of the nature
or quality of the said Invention or of the materialls thereto conduceing and
belonging.
In witnesse, c.
day of January.
T
Witnesse ourselves at Westill, the Two-and-twentieth
By Writt of Privy Seale.