AN ENGINE OP A SMALL BULKE WHICHE MAY BE SOE APPLYED TO ANY SHIP OR OTHER VESSELL THAT IT WILL SHEW HOW MANY LEAGUES THE VESSELL HATH SAILED
Year: 1683

page_text: WHEREAS WILLIAM TRUELOCK hath by his humble peticon represented
vnto vs that with great paines and expence he hath found out "AN ENGINE
OP A SMALL BULKE WHICHE MAY BE SOE APPLYED TO ANY SHIP OR OTHER VESSELL
THAT IT WILL SHEW HOW MANY LEAGUES THE VESSELL HATH SAILED," and hatlı
bumbly prayed, that, in regard it may be vsefull to all that goc long voyages
by sea, wee would be gratiously pleased to grant him the sole benefitt thereof
for the terme of fowrteene yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, out of our princely inclinacon to
promote and incourage such invenčons as may bee of publique vse and
advantage, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere mocon, have
given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe
give and grant vnto the said William Truelock, bis executors, administrators,
and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power, privilege, and authority,
that he and they, and his and their servants and workemen, and noe others,
shall and may, dureing the terme of fowrteene yeares next ensuing the date
of these Presents, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said Invencon and
engines, and all further employments thereof, within our Kingdome of England,
Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick vpon Tweed, in such manner as
to him or them shall seeme meet, and shall have and enioy the sole vse and
benefitt thereof, or by reason thereof, to have, hold, and enioy the said licence,
powers, privileges, authoritys, and other the premisses hereby granted or
intended to be granted, and the sole yse of the said Invenĉon and engine, to

page_text: the said William Truelock, his executors, administrators, and assignes, from
the date of these Presents, for and dureing the terme of fowrteene yeares
from thence 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 William
Truelock, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of
his said Invenĉon and engine, aswell within libertys as without, wee doe by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require, prohibite, and
streightly charge and command all and every person and persons whatsoever,
and all bodys politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or addicon
they be, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the terme of fowrteene
yeares hereby granted, directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in practiso
the said Invencon or engine, or any of them, or any of the principle parts
.thereof, nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe
or shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said William Truclock, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hands and seales first had
and obteined in that behalfe, vnder such paines & penaltys as can or may be
inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our command in that behalfe,
and further, to be answerable to the said William Truelock, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, according to law and justice, for his and their
damages thereby susteined. And further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said William Truelock, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, full power and authority that he, they,
and every of them, his, their, and every of their deputys, servants, or agents, or
agents, or any of them, haveing first obteined a warrant in this 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 lawful officer, aswell
within libertys as without, vpon request at convenient times in the day dureing
the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search in any
houses or other places where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon for discover-
ing and finding out any such engine, and all manner of persons as within the
aforesaid terme of fowrteene yeares shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or
shall vse or put in practice the said Invenĉon or engine, or any of them, or
any of the principle parts thereof, that soe such offenders may be pceeded
against and punished according to their demeritts. And further, wee doe by
these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise, and require all
and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriff's, bayliffs, headboroughs,

page_text: and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors for the
time being, that they and every of them respectively from time to time during.
the said terme hereby granted in their respective places' be favouring, ayding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said William Truelock, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputys, servants, and
agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and the exercise & execucon of the powers and
priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to be 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 doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said William Truelock, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or to his or their deputys, servants, or agents, or any of them, in or about the
vse or exercise of the said Invenčon or engine, or in any other matter or
thing concerning the same. Provided always, that if at any time dureing the
said terme of fowrteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this grant is
preiudiciall or inconvenient to our common weale, or that the said Invencon is
not a new Invenčon of the said William Truelock as to the vse and practice
thereof within our Kingdome of England, then, vpon significacon and decla-
racon to be made by vs, our heires and successors, vnder our or their signett or
privy seale, or by the Lords and others of our Privy Councill, or six or more
of them for the time being, in writing vnder their hands of such preiudice &
inconvenience, these our Letters Patents, and all things therein conteined,
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and pur-
poses, any thing herein-before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteined,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
William Truelock, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse or imitate any inventon or worke found out or invented by any other
person or persons and publickly exercised in this our Kingdome of England:
vnto whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge
for the sole vse, exercise, & benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure
that the said William Truelock, his executors, administrators, & assignes, and
all and singular other person and persons to whom wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse &
practice their severall Invenčons, by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meaning of the said respective Letters Patents, and of
these Presents. And wee doe further, by these Presents, for vs, our 'heires
and successors, grant vnto the said William Truclock, his executors, adminis-

page_text: trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents and the inrollment thereof
shall be in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in tho
law, according to the true intent and meaning of these Presents, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably & beneficially for the best
benefitt and advantage of the said William Truelock, his executors, adininistra-
tors, and assignes, aswell in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwith-
standing the not full and certeine describing of the said Invenĉon or engine,
or of the manner or quality thereof, or of the materiall, way of vscing, or
exerciseing of the said Invenčon or engine, or of the certeino vse or benefitt
thereof; and notwithstanding any other defects, incertaintys, or imperfeccons
in these Presents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, pela-
macon, or restreint to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
. In witnessc, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westin, the First day of
November.