MACHINE OR ENGINE TO RAISE AND THROW OUT WATER IN VERY GREATE QUANTIES FROM THE GREATEST DEPTHS OF PITTS OR MINES WITH GREATE EXPEDICON AND LITTLE LABOUR
Year: 1681

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall come,
greeteing.
WHEREAS wee have beene informed by our trusty and welbeloved JoHN
JOACHIN BECHER, HENRY SERLE, HENRY VINCENT, JOHN WEALE, and SAMUELL
WEALE, that they have, with theire long study, labour, and expences, found out
and discovered a very vsefull "MACHINE OR ENGINE TO RAISE AND THROW OUT
WATER IN VERY GREATE QUANTIES FROM THE GREATEST DEPTHS OF PITTS OR MINES
WITH GREATE EXPEDICON AND LITTLE LABOUR," never before found out or vsed by.
any other, which being put in practice may bee of greate advantage to our
subiects in generall, and have humbly besought vs to grant vnto them Letters.
Pattents vnder our Greate Seale of England to impower and enable them to
putt into executon the said Invencon, to continue for the terme of fowertecne.
yeares, according to the Statute in that behalfe made.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being desireous to incourage the inventers of
such arts as may bee of publike vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents.
doe give and grant, for vs, our heires and successors, vnto the said John
Joachin Becher, Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell
Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full
and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that they and theire workemen and
servants, and noe other, shall or may, dureing the terme of fowerteene yeares
next ensucing the date hereof, vse, practice, exercise, enioy, and putt in execu-
Con the said art or Invencon, within our Kingdome of England, or any other

page_text: our dominions, in such manner as to them shall seeme meete, and shall have
and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing thereby, to have, hold, and
enioy the said licence, power, priviledge, and authority, and other the premisses
hereby granted or intended to bee granted to the said John Joachin Becher,
Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, theire execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these Presents,
for and dureing the terme of fowerteene yeares from thence next ensueing,
fully to bee compleate and ended, according to the Statute in that case mado
and provided. And to the end that they, the said John Joachin Becher,
Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, theire execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and practice of the said Invencon
aswell within liberties as without, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly chardge and command all and every person
and persons, bodies politicke and corporate, that they or any of them doe not
or shall not dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly vse or putt in practice or execucon the said art or Invenĉon, nor doe
or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any
addičon thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves
the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of
the said John Joachin Becher, Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale,
and Samuell Weale, theire executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vnder theire hands and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vppon
such paines and penalties as cann or may bee inflicted on such offenders for
the contempt of this our command, and further to bee answercable to the said
John Joachin Becher, Henr Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell
Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, for theire damages
susteyned thereby. And further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, give and grant vnto the said John Joachin Becher, Henry
Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, theire executors,
administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that they and every of
them, theire and every of their deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them,
(haveing first obteyned 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,
vppon request, att convenient times in the day durcing the time aforesaid, and
in lawful manner, enter and make search in any place or places where there
shall bee iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and findeing out of all such
persons as shall within tho saide terme of fowerteene yeares imitate or cause to

page_text: bec imittated, or shall vse or putt in practice the art or Invencon aforesaid,
that soe such offenders may bee proceeded against and punished according to
theire demeritts. And further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorize, and require all and singular justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffes, bayliffes, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers
of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, that they and every of them
respectively bee from time to time dureing the said terme hereby granted in
theire respective places favouring, aydeing, helping, and assisting vnto the said
John Joachin Becher, Henry Searle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and
Samuell Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, or theire or any
of theire deputy 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 execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or
menconed to bee granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee will and command by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers, or any
of them, doc not mollest, trouble, or interupt the said John Joachin Becher,
Henry Searle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, or any of
them, theire or any of theire executors, administrators, or assignes, or theire
or any of theire deputy or deputies, servants or agrents, or any of them, in or
about the vse or exercise of the said art or Invencon in any matter or thing
concerning the same. Provided alwaies, that if att any time during the said
terme of fowerteene yeares itt shall bee made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this grant
is preiudicial or inconvenient to our common wealth, or that the said art or
Inventon is not a new Invenĉon of the said John Joachin Becher, Henry
Searle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, or some or one of
them, as to the vse and practice thereof, within this our kingdome, then,
vppon significaton and declaracon to bee made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or theire signett or privy scale, or by the Lords and others of our or
theire Privy Councell, or six or more of them for the time being, in writing
vnder theire hands, of such preiudice and inconvenience, these our Letters
Pattents, and all things therein conteyned, shall forthwith cease, determine, and
bec vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes anything herein-before conteyned
to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Pattents, or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or bee construed to
give priviledge vnto the said John Joachin Becher, Henry Searle, Henry
Vincent, John Weale, and Samuell Weale, or any of them, theire or any of
theire executors, audministrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any invenĉon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons

page_text: and publickly exercized in our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales,
vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters Pattents of priviledge
for the sole vse and benefitt thereof, it, being our will and pleasure that the
said John Joachin Becher, Henry Searle, Henry Vincent, John Weale, and
Samuell Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, and all other
person and persons to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Pattents or priviledg shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall Invencons
by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of
theire said severall and respective Letters Pattents and of these Presents.
And lastly, wee doc by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said John Joachin Becher, Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John
Weale, and Samuell Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Pattents, or the inrollment thereof, shall bee in and by all
things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the truc
intent and meaning of these Presents, and shall bee taken, construed, and
adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage
of the said John Joachin Becher, Henry Serle, Henry Vincent, John Weale,
and Samuell Weale, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in
all Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
discribeing of the said art or Invenĉon, or of the certaine vsc or benefitt
thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects or incerteinties in these
Presents conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, or restraint to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In wittnesse. &c. Wittnesse ourselfe att Westminster. the Nineteeneth
In wittnesse. &c. Wittnesse ourselfe att Westminster, the Nineteeneth
day of August.
By Writt of Privy Scale.