A WAY FOR SERVEING AND BRINGING OF SALMON ALIVE AND WELL CONDICONED TO THE CITTY OF LONDON AND OTHER PLACES, FROM NEWCASTLE AND BERWICKE AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1668

page_text: CHARLES THE SECON
by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome
theis Psente shall come, greeteing.
WHEREAS wee have beene informed by the humble peticon of WALTER
VNDERHILL the elder, WALTER VNDERHILL the younger, and SAMELL WALTON,
the Purveyors of Fresh Fish for our Household, have found out "A WAY
FOR SERVEING AND BRINGING OF SALMON ALIVE AND WELL CONDICONED TO THE
CITTY OF LONDON AND OTHER PLACES, FROM NEWCASTLE AND BERWICKE AND
OTHER PLACES," being theire owne Invenčon, and never before vsed or prac-
tized in this our realme, and the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter
Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, have humbly besought vs for
theire better encouragement to exercise and putt in practice theire said In-
venčon, that wee would be graciously pleased to graunt them our Lřes
Patente. of Priviledge for the sole vse and benefitt thereof throughout our
realme of England and dominion of Wales, for the tyme and tearme of foure-
teene yeares, according to the statute in that case made and pvided.
NOWE KNOWE YEE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull and
fitting encouragem to the inventors of such arte as may be of publique
vse and benefitt, of our espiall grace, Etaine knowledge, and meere močon,
and vpon the humble peticon of the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter
Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, have given and graunted, and
by theis sente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt, vnto
the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and.

page_text: Samuell Walton, theire executors, administrators, and assignees, espiall license,
power, priviledge, and authority, that they and every of them, by themselves
or theire deputyes, servante, and workemen, att all tymes and from tyme to
tyme hereafter dureing the tearme of yeares hereafter in theis psente
expressed, shall and lawfully may have, vse, and exercise, imploy and enioy
the said newe Invenčon, in such manner as to them in theire discrecons
shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt and
advantadge comcing or ariseing by reason thereof, during the tearme of yeares
hereby graunted; and to the end the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter
Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and
whole benefitt and the sole vse and excise of theire said Invenčon, wee doe
by theis sente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly
comand all and every pson and psons, bodyes politique and corporate, of what
quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, that neither they nor
any of them, dureing the tearme of yeares hereby graunted, either directly
or indirectly, doc vse or putt in practice the said Invencon soe by the said
Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell
Walton, attained vnto as aforesaid, nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble
the same, nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the
same whereby to tend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without
the license, consent, or agreement of the said Walter Vnderhill the elder,
Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder theire hande and seales first bad
and obtayned in that behalfe, vpon such paynes or penaltyes as can or may be
inflicted vpon such offenders for theire contempt of this our comand in that
behalfe; and further, to be answearcable to the said Walter Vnderhill the elder,
Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, according to the lawe and justice, for theire damages
thereby susteyned, to have and to hold all the said licenses, powers, priviledges,
and authorityes hereby granted as aforesaid vnto the said Walter Underhill
the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and dureing the tearme of foureteene yeares
from the makeing of theis psente next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and
ended, according to the statute in such case made and pvided; and further,
wee doe by theis Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and graunt
vnto the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and
Samuell Walton, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, full power
authority that they and theire deputyes, servante, and agente, haveing first
and

page_text: obtayned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court
of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of a constable or
any other lawfull officer, att convenient tymes of the day dureing the tearme
aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter into and make search in any houses,
shipps, or vesselle, or other places where there shall be iust cause of suspicon,
for discovering and findeing out of all such psons as shall imitate or cause to
be imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice the said Invencon soe by the said
Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell
Walton invented and attained vnto as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may
be peceded against and punished according to theire demerritte, and theiro
invenčons and work then and there found to be seized vpon and left in the
band and custody of some constable or officer, to be disposed of according to
lawe; and further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our beires and successors,
will, authorize, and require all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors,
sherriffes, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the tyme being, that they and
every of them respectively be from tyme to tyme, dureing the said tearme bereby
granted, in theire respective places favoring, aydeing, helping, and assisting
vnto the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and
Samuell Walton, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, and to theire
deputy and deputyes, servante, and agente, in and by all thinge in and about
the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and in the
excise and execučon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby graunted
or menconed to be graunted as aforesaid; and moreover, wee will and cōmaund
by theis sente, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers and
ministers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said
Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell
Walton, theire exccutors, administrators, or assignees, or theire deputy or
deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, in or about the exercise of the
said Invenčon, or in any matter or thing concneing the same: Provided
alwayes, that if att any tyme dureing the said tearme of fouretecne yeares it
shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, that this our graunt is
contrary to lawe, or piudiciall or inconvenient, and not of publique vse or
benefitt, or that the said Invenčon is not a newe Invenčon of the said
Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuel
Walton, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, theis our Lres Patente shall forthwith cease, def mine,
and be as voyde in lawe to all intent and purposes, any thing herein-before
menčoned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that theis our

page_text: Lřes Patente, or any thing herein contayned, shall not extend or be construed
to extend or give priviledge vnto the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter
Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found
out or invented by any other pson or psons, and publiquely excised within
our said realme of England, or any the dominions or territoryes thereto
belonging, vnto whome wee have already graunted our like Lřes Patente
of Priviledge for the sole vse, excise, and benefitt. thereof, itt being our
will and pleasure that the said Walter Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderbill
the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singuler other pson and psons to whome wee have already
graunted our like Lřes Patente of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice theire severall Invencons by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meancing of the said seu all and
respective Lřes Patente and of theis psente. And lastly, wee doe by theis
sente, for vs, our heires and successors, graunt vnto the said Walter
Vnderhill the elder, Walter Vnderhill the younger, and Samuell Walton,
theire executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis, our Lřes. Patente,
and the inrollment thereof, shall be in all thing good, valid, sufficient, and
effectual in the lawe, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favorable and beneficiall
for the best benefitt and advantadge of the said Walter Vnderhill the elder,
Walter Vnderbill the younger, and Samuell Walton, theire executors,
administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as elsewhere,
notwithstanding the not full and Etaine describeing the manner and quality
of the said Invenĉon, or of the matterialle, way, or manner of makeing thereof,
or of the vsc or benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte,
inteintyes, or impfeccons in theis psente conteyned, or any act, statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restreint to the contrary thereof
notwithstanding.
In wittnesse, See. Wittmesse ourselfs att Westhi, the Fifth day of
February.
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