A CERTAINE MACHINE OR CHARRIOT OF ARTILLERY, WHICH IS MUSKETT PROOPE, AND SOE CONTRIVED AS TO HOLD Two FALKONETTS OR SMALL FEILD PEICES, AND TWO HAND MORTERS, TO BE VSED BY THE PARTY SITTING IN THE CHARRIOT, AND MAY BE CONVEYED MANY MILES A DAY WITH GREAT EASE AND EXPEDICON, WHICH HATH BEEN SEEN AND APPROVED AND THOUGHT VERY VSEFULL IN OUR ARMES HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Year: 1693

page_text: WILLIA
MARY, DY
grace
God, &c.,
presents shall come, greeting.
Enese
WHEREAS JAMES AUSTIN, Esquire, and FRANCIS BALL, have by their humble
petition represented vnto vs that they have, after great study and expence,
invented, framed, and perfected "A CERTAINE MACHINE OR CHARRIOT OF
ARTILLERY, WHICH IS MUSKETT PROOPE, AND SOE CONTRIVED AS TO HOLD Two
FALKONETTS OR SMALL FEILD PEICES, AND TWO HAND MORTERS, TO BE VSED BY THE
PARTY SITTING IN THE CHARRIOT, AND MAY BE CONVEYED MANY MILES A DAY WITH
GREAT EASE AND EXPEDICON, WHICH HATH BEEN SEEN AND APPROVED AND THOUGHT
VERY VSEFULL IN OUR ARMES HERE AND ELSEWHERE," and have humbly prayed
vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
incourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profittable arts, misteries, and inven-
tions, and that the said James Austin and Francis Ball may accordingly reape
some fruite and benefitt of their labour and charge in and concerning the
premisses, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon, wee
have given and granted, and by these presents doe give and grant, vnto the said
James Austin and Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, and assignes,.
especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority that they, by themselves, and.
by their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as they,
the said James Austin and Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, shall agree with, shall and will, from time to time and at all times
hereafter dureing the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of
these presents, at their own proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach,
exercise, and put in practise the said new Invention so by them contrived
and found out as aforesaid, in any place or places within all our kingdoms
and dominions, and also shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the
benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said new
Invencon to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to their own proper benefitt,
vse, and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by these presents
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said James Austin and Francis
Ball, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and to the
full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the
statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said James
Austin and Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, and assignes, may
the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise
of their said new Invencon, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, streightly charge, require, and comand all and every person
and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name,
or condicou soever they be, within all our kingdoms and dominions,
that neither they nor any of them, durcing the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doc vse, exercise, or
put in practise the said new Invention soc by the said James Austin and
Francis Ball invented and found out as aforesaid, nor do nor shall coun-
terfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new Invention, or any materialls or
ingredients thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addtion
thereunto or substracĉon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the
inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement
of the said James Austin and Francis Ball, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writeing vnder 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 the contempt of this our royall
comand, and further to be answerable to the said James Austin and
Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
the vtmost rigor of the law, for their damages thereby susteyned. And
further wee do by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorize, require, and comand all and singular justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and

page_text: ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the timė
being whome it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively 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 endeavours, ayding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said James Austin and Francis Ball, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, 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 James Austin and Francis
Ball, their executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servants,
in or about the vso or exercise of the aforesaid Invention or any part
thereof, or anything relateing thereunto. Provided alwaies, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time
durcing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, it shall be made
appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or
inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invention before mentioned
is not a new invention as to the publique vse and exercise of the same, and not
invented and found out by the said James Austin and Francis Ball, as
aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaracon of such preiudice or incon-
veniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet
or privy seale, or by the lords or others of our or their Privy Council, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also, that
these our Letters Patents, or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said James Austin and
Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any
invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented and found
out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publiquely exercised within
our kingdomes or dominions aforesaid, to whome 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 James Austin and Francis Ball,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person
and persons to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall

page_text: distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions by them respectively found
out, according to the true meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these
presents. And, lastly, wee do hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said James Austin and Francis Ball, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be and
continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true meaneing of the same, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine describeing or menčoning of the said Invention, or of the materials,
ingredients, wayes, or meanes of makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or
of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or
impfeccon in these presents, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
,
Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Sixth day of
WILHCSSE CA
Marcb.
By Writt of Privy Seale.