FOR MAKING THE STEAM AND VAPOUR OF BOYLING LIQUORS VSEFULL FOR MANY PURPOSES, AND PARTICULARLY FOR DRYING MALT, HOPS, STARCH, AND HUMID SUBSTANCES, AND FOR BAKING, BREWING, DISTILLING, BOILING, AND MAKING OF SALT, BETTER AND WITH A LESS QUANTITY OF FIRE, WITHOUT MIXING THE FIERY PARTICLES WITH THE SEVERAL SUBSTANCES SO MUCH AS IN THE WAYS COMONLY VSED, BY WHICH INVENCON SEVERAL WORKS MAY BE EFFECTED WITHOUT DANGER, SUCH AS DRYING GUNPOWDER, BOYLING PITCH, TARE, OILS, VARNISHES, WAX, TALLOW, SUGAR, AND EXTRACTING SPIRITS FROM TURPENTINE AND OTHER INFLAMABLE LIQUORS, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE COMMON WAY, ARE APT TO SET HOUSES ON FIRE, AND OFTEN PROVE OF VERY BAD CONSEQUENCE IN GREAT CITIES
Year: 1720

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN THEOPHILUS DESAGULIERS,
Doctor of Laws, DANIEL NIBLET, Coppersmith, and WLLIAM VREEM, Instru-
ment Maker, have, by their peticon, humbly represented vnto vs, that they,
by their great expence, labour, and study, found out a new Invention
"FOR MAKING THE STEAM AND VAPOUR OF BOYLING LIQUORS VSEFULL FOR MANY
PURPOSES, AND PARTICULARLY FOR DRYING MALT, HOPS, STARCH, AND
HUMID SUBSTANCES, AND FOR BAKING, BREWING, DISTILLING, BOILING, AND
MAKING OF SALT, BETTER AND WITH A LESS QUANTITY OF FIRE, WITHOUT MIXING
THE FIERY PARTICLES WITH THE SEVERAL SUBSTANCES SO MUCH AS IN THE WAYS
COMONLY VSED, BY WHICH INVENCON SEVERAL WORKS MAY BE EFFECTED WITHOUT
DANGER, SUCH AS DRYING GUNPOWDER, BOYLING PITCH, TARE, OILS, VARNISHES,
WAX, TALLOW, SUGAR, AND EXTRACTING SPIRITS FROM TURPENTINE AND OTHER
INFLAMABLE LIQUORS, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE COMMON WAY, ARE APT TO SET
HOUSES ON FIRE, AND OFTEN PROVE OF VERY BAD CONSEQUENCE IN GREAT CITIES;"
and humbly praying vs to grant them, the said John Theophilus Desaguliers,
Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, our Royall Letters Patent for the sole
vse and benefit of the said Invenčon for the space of fourteen yeares, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by

page_text: these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the
said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, their
and every of their executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycenco,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said John Theophilus
Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, their and every of their
executors, adininistrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such
others as they, the said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William
Vreem, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within
that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, the said new Inventon for making the
steam and vapour of boiling liquors vsefull for the purposes aforesaid, as above
described, and that they, the said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet,
and William Vreem, their and every of their executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by
reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the full term of years herein men-
čoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted, vnto the said
John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, their and
every of their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and
vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended
according to the statute in such case made and provided; and to the end
that the said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William
Vreem, their and every of their executors, administrators, and assignes,
may have and enjoy the full benefit, and sole vse and exercise of the said
Invenčon, according to our gracious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do
by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other
our subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality and degree, name or condicon
soever they be, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that
neither they nor any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make,
vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the same so attained
vnto by the said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William

page_text: Vreem, as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor
or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or
agreent of the said John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William
Vreem, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder their
hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and
penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders, for their contempt
of this our royal comand, and further, to be answerable to the said John
Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, their executors,
adminstrators, and assignes, and every of them, according to law, for their
damages thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee do by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successórs, will and comand all'and singular our justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being,
that they or any of them do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the
said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John
Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, their or any of
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of
their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull making
vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing thereto; provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition,
that if at any time during the said term 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 preiudicial or in-
convenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenon is not a new
invenčon as to the publick vse or exercise thereof within that part of our said
kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented or found out by the said John
Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem, some or one of
them as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaration thereof, to be made
by vs, our heires or successors; vnder our or their signet or privy seal,
or by the lord and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more
of them, vnder their hande, those our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void, to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided also, that
these our Letters Patent, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend, or
Le construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto to the said John Theophilus
Desaguliers, Daniel Niblett, and William Vreem, their or any of their exe-

page_text: cutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vsc or imitate any
invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented
by any other our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within
that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion
of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like Letters Patente
and priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John Theophilus
Desaguliers, Daniel Niblett, and William Vreem, their and every of their
executors, administrators, or assignes, and all and every other person or
persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their several inventions by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the
same respective Letters Patents, and of these presente. And, lastly, wee do,
by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblett, and William Vreem, their and every
of their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patent,
or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, firm, valid,
sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said John Theophilus Desa-
guliers, Daniel Niblett, and William Vreem, their and every of their executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all courts of recorde as elswhere, and
by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatso-
ever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the
nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing
or belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe, at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth