A NEW SORT OF ENGINE FOR THE CUTTING AND RAPEING OF LOGGWOOD, AND OTHER SORTS OF WOOD VSED BY AND PITT FOR DYERS, WHICH MAY EASILY BE WROUGHT BY HAND OR HORSE LABOUR, AND BY WATER, AND IS VERY FITT TO EMPLOY A VERY GREAT NUMBER OF POORE, AND MAY BE SITUATED IN ANY PLACE, AND BE WROUGHT AT ANY SEASON
Year: 1695

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS ABELL COTTEY, of Crediton, in our County of Devon, Clock-
maker, hath by his humble peticon represented vnto vs, that hee hath by his
great study, labour, and contrivance found out and invented "A NEW SORT OF
ENGINE FOR THE CUTTING AND RAPEING OF LOGGWOOD, AND OTHER SORTS OF WOOD
VSED BY AND PITT FOR DYERS, WHICH MAY EASILY BE WROUGHT BY HAND OR HORSE
LABOUR, AND BY WATER, AND IS VERY FITT TO EMPLOY A VERY GREAT NUMBER OF
POORE, AND MAY BE SITUATED IN ANY PLACE, AND BE WROUGHT AT ANY SEASON,"
which hath not heretofore beene practised in the like kind, and will bee of
great vse and advantage to the dying trade of our kingdome, and hath
humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof..
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misterys, and in-
venčons, and that the said Abell Cottey may accordingly reape some fruit
and benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, wee have given and
granted, and by these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said Abell Cottey,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge,
and authority, that hee and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their
deputys, servants, agents, and. workemen, and such others onely as hee the said
Abell Cottey, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree with, shall

page_text: and may from time to time, and at all times hereafter durcing the space or
fowrteene yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at his and their
owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practise
the said new Invenčon soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid in any
place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, commodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Invenčon to be bad, made, acquired, or gotten to his and their owne
proper benefitt, vse, and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by
these Presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Abell Cottey,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full
end and terme of fowrtecne yeares from the day of the date of these Presents
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 Abell Cottey, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and
whole benefitt, and the sole vso and exercise of his said new Invenčon, wee
doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, strictly charge, require,
and command all and every persons, bodies politick and corporate, of what
quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within our said 'King-
dome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or putt in practice
the said new Invenĉon soe by the said Abell Cottey invented and found out as
aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the said new
Invenčon, or any materialls therevnto belonging, nor doo nor shall make any
addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree
ment of the said Abell Cottey, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writing vnder his or their hands and seales first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on the
offender or offenders therein, for his and their damages thereby sustained.
And further, wce doo by these our Letters Patent, for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorize, require, and command all and singular justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for
the time being, whom it may concerne, that they and every of them respec-
tively be, from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted, in their
respective offices, and according to their and every of their best skills and

page_text: endeavours, ayuing, Delping, and assisting, vnto the said Abell Cottey, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, deputys, agents, and servants, in and by all
things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-
before declared, and in the execučon of the severall powers and priviledges
hereby granted as aforesaid. And: moreover wee doe by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and
ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time
hereafter dureing the terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said Abell Cottey, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputys,
agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon
or any part thereof, or anything relateing thereto: Provided alwayes; and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any
time dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted it shall be
made to appeare 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 Invenčon before menconed
is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not
invented and found out by the said Abell Cottey as aforesaid, then vpon sig-
nificačon and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniency to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the
Lords or others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwise cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before con-
taiued to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents or anything herein contained shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Abell Cottey, his executors, adminis
trators, or assignes, to imitate any Invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath
beene heretofore invented or found out by any others of our subiects what-
soever, and publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominions aforesaid,
to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for
the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said Abell Cottey, his executors, administrators, and all and singular other
person and persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invenĉons by them
respectively found out, according to the true meaning of such our Letters
Patents and of these psents. And lastly, wee doe hereby for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Abell Cottey, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents or the inrollment thereof shall
be and continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the

page_text: law, according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describing or menčoning of the said Invenčon, or of the
materialls, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or
of the certaine vse or bonefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or
imperfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.