CERTAIN NEW METHOD AND WAYS FOR MORE EASY DRAWING ANY BURTHENS IN AND VPON COACHES, WAGGONS, CARTS, DRAYS, DUNG CARTS, WAINES, OR ANY OTHER CARRIAGES VPON WHEELS, THAN ANY OTHER METHOD HITHERTO PRACTISED OR VSED, WHICH HE HOPES AND BELIEVES WILL VERY MUCH TEND TO THE PUBLICK GOOD AND BENEFITT OF TRADE
Year: 1707

page_text: ANNE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN COLE, of Wichampton, in the
county of Dorsett, Esquire, hath, by his peticon, humbly represented vnto vs
that he hath, by his great study and paines, invented and found out "CERTAIN
NEW METHOD AND WAYS FOR MORE EASY DRAWING ANY BURTHENS IN AND
VPON COACHES, WAGGONS, CARTS, DRAYS, DUNG CARTS, WAINES, OR ANY OTHER
CARRIAGES VPON WHEELS, THAN ANY OTHER METHOD HITHERTO PRACTISED OR
VSED, WHICH HE HOPES AND BELIEVES WILL VERY MUCH TEND TO THE PUBLICK
GOOD AND BENEFITT OF TRADE," and haveing, therefore, humbly besought vs to
grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse of the said Invention for the
terme of fourteen yeares,→
:
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and inventions which may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our
especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted,
and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant,
vnto the said John Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall.
lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Cole,.
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves.
or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said John Cole, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time.
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the terme

page_text: of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy,
within that part of our kingdome of Great Britain called England, our domi-
nion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, the said art or Invencon,
in such manner as to him, the said John Cole, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he,
the said John Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole profitt, benefitt, comodity, and advantage from time to
time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the full torm of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages hercin-before
granted, or menconed to be granted, vnto the said John Cole, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme
of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and
imediately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
statute in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said John
Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
havo and enjoy the full benefitt, and the sole vending, vse, and exercise of the
said Invenčon, according to our gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee
do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or
condicon soever they be, within the said part of our said kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our said dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, that neither they, or any of them, at any time during the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part
of the same soe attained vnto by the said John Cole, as aforesaid, nor shall in
anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to
to be made any addition thereunto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
pretend themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or devisers thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Cole, bis executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hande
and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royall command, and further to be answerable to the said John
Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and
their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover wee do by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular our justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, and headboroughs, and all other

page_text: officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for
the time being, that they or any of them do not, nor shall at any time
hereafter, during the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said John Cole, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, their or any of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the
due and lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid art or Invencon, or
any relating thereto. Provided always, and these our Letters Patent are
and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the term
hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors,
or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant.is
contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or
that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and
exercise thereof within the said part of our said kingdome of Great Britain
called England, our said dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, or any of them, or not invented or found out by the said John Cole,
as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon and declaračon thereof, to be made by
vs, our heires. or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the
lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them vnder
their hande, these our Letters Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
vttterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters
Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Cole, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or work what-
soever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or .exercised within the said
part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or any of them, vnto
whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said John Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every other other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or
priviledge have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and
practise their severall invenčons by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of
these presents. And, lastly, weo do by these presents, for ys, our. heires
and successors, grant vnto the said John Cole, his executora nistrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall
be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the

page_text: law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the
best advantage of the said John Cole, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, as well in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers and other the subiects whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, within the said part of our said kingdome of Great Britain
called England, our said dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said art or Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduccing and
belonging.