TO GRIND, POLLISH, AND DIAMOND GLASSE PLATES FOR LOOKING GLASSES, COACHES, AND OTHER VSES, AND FOR OTHER SORTS OF GLASSE, BY THE MOČON OF WATER AND WHEELES
Year: 1678

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS wee have bin informed by the humble peticon of our trusty
and wellbeloved subiect JOHN ROBERTS, Esquire, that hee, by his industry
and study, with much charges and expences, hath atteined to the art and skill
"TO GRIND, POLLISH, AND DIAMOND GLASSE PLATES FOR LOOKING GLASSES, COACHES,
AND OTHER VSES, AND FOR OTHER SORTS OF GLASSE, BY THE MOČON OF WATER AND
WHEELES," being his owne Invencon, and never before vsed or done in our
kingdome of England, Scotland, and Ireland, or any the dominions or ter-
ritories thereof. And whereas the said John Roberts hath besought vs, for
his encouragement to exercise and put in practice the said Invenčon, that wee
would be graciously pleased to grant him our Letters Patents of Priviledge
for the sole vse and benefitt thereof for the terme of foureteene yeares, according
to the statute in that case made and provided.
NOW KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull
and fitting encouragement to the inventors of such arts as may bee of publique
vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon,
have given and granted, and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
doe give and grant, vnto the said John Roberts, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, speciall licence, full power, priviledge, and authority, that hee
and they and every of them, by themselves or theire deputies, servants, or
workemen, att all times and from time to time durcing the terme of yeares

page_text: hereafter in these p'sents expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and
employ, within our said kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, the
said new Invenčon of grinding, pollishing, and diamonding glasse plates for
looking glasses, coaches, and other vses, and of all other glasse, by the mocon
of water and wheeles, in such manner as to him, them, or any of them, in his
or theire discrecons shall seem meete, and shall and may have and enioy the
sole benefitt and advantage comeing and ariseing by reason thereof, to have,
hold, and enioy the said lycences, priviledges, powers, and advantages before
menčoned, vnto the said John Roberts, his exccutors, administrators, and
assignes, for and dureing the terme of fouretecne yeares from the day of the
date of these Psents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended,
according to the said statute in this behalfe provided. And to the end the said
John Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exer-
cise of the said Invenĉon, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, require & streightly comand all and every pson and psons, bodies
politick & corporate, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condicon soever
they bec, that they nor any of them, during the said terme hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practice the said Invenčon of
grinding, pollishing, or diamonding of glasse plates for looking glasses, coaches,
or any other vse, by the močon of water and wheeles, soe by the said. John
Roberts atteined vnto and invented as aforesaid, or doe counterfeite, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor shall make addicons thereto or substraction from
the same, whereby to ptend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof,
without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said John Roberts, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or theire hands
and seales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, and further to be
answerable to the said John Roberts, his executors, administrators; and
assignes, according to law, for theire and every of theire damages thereby
susteined. And further, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said John Roberts, his exccutors; administrators, and
assignes, that hee, they, and every of them, and theire deputies, servants..and
agents, haveing first obteined a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife
Justice of our Court of King's Bench for the time being, may, with the
assistance of a constable or other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the
day dureing the terme aforesaid and in lawful manner, enter..into and make
search in any house or other places where there shall bec iust cause of sus-
pičon for discovering and finding out of all such psons as shall imitate or
cause to bee imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice the said Inventon so. by

page_text: him, the said John Roberts, invented and atteined vnto as aforesaid, that soc
such offender may be pceeded against and punished according to theire demer-
ritts, and theire invenĉons & workes then and theire found to be seized vpon,
broken in peices, and defaced, and the materialls thereof left in the custody of
some constable or other officer to bee disposed of in such manner & forme as
wee, our heires and successors, shall from time to time direct and appoint. And
further, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will; autho-
rize, and require all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sherifles,
bailiffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they & every of
them respectively from time to time dureing the said terme hereby granted, in
their respective offices and places, be ayding, favouring, helping, and assisting
vnto the said John Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
deputies, agents, and servants, and every of them, in and by all things in and
about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and in the
exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges hereby granted, or men-
Coned to be granted, as aforesaid. Provided allwaies, that if at any time
dureing the said terme of foureteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs,
our heires or successors, that this our grant is contrary to law, or that the
said grinding, pollishing, and diamonding of glasse plates and other glasses, as
aforesaid, by the moĉon of water and wheeles, is not a new invenčon of the
said John Roberts, as to the publique vse and exercise thereof within these
our realmes and dominions, then vpon significacon and declaraĉon thereof, to bo
made by vs, our heires or successors, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing
herein-before menčoned to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend or
be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said John Roberts, his
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 exercised within these our realmes and dominions, vnto whom wee
have allready granted our Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse, exer-
cise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other
pson and psons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents
of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
invenĉons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patents, and of these
Psents. And lastly, wee doe by these Psents, for vs, our heires and successors,

page_text: grant vnto the said John Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be in and by
all things good, valid, sufficient, & effectuall in the law, according to the truc
intent and meaneing thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said John
Roberts, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in our courts of
record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certcine describing the
manner and quality of the said grinding, pollishing, and diamonding of glasse
plates and other glasse by the močon of water and wheeles, and notwithstanding
that noe pticular mencon is made of any the engines, instruments, or other
things whereby the same is done, or of the vse or benefitt thereof, and not-
withstanding any other defects, incertainties, or impfeccons in these psents
conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restraint
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse. &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westii. the Fifth day of
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June
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