AN ART OF WORKING PRETIOUS OR MORE COMON STONES WHETHER NATURALL OR ARTIFICIAL), CHRISTAL, OR GLASS, AND CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS DIFFERENT FROM METALS, SO THAT THEY MAY BR EMPLOYED AND MADE VSE OF IN CLOCKWORK OR WATCHWORK AND MANY OTHER. ENGINS, NOT FOR ORNAMENT ONLY, BUT AS AN INTERNAL AND VSEFULL PART OF THE WORK OR ENGINE ITSELPE, IN SUCH MANNERS AS HAVE NOT HERETO- PORE BEEK VSED, AND THAT THE SAID ART WILL BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE TRADE OF MAKKING WATCHES AND CLOCKS
Year: 1704

page_text: ANNE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these presents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS NICHOLAS FACIO, Gentlem., PETER DEBANFRE and JACOB
DEBANFRE, Watchmakers, have. by their humble peticon, represented vuto
vs that they have, with great charge and long-continued labour, invented and
brought to a competent perfection "AN ART OF WORKING PRETIOUS OR MORE
COMON STONES WHETHER NATURALL OR ARTIFICIAL), CHRISTAL, OR GLASS, AND
CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS DIFFERENT FROM METALS, SO THAT THEY MAY BR
EMPLOYED AND MADE VSE OF IN CLOCKWORK OR WATCHWORK AND MANY OTHER.
ENGINS, NOT FOR ORNAMENT ONLY, BUT AS AN INTERNAL AND VSEFULL PART
OF THE WORK OR ENGINE ITSELPE, IN SUCH MANNERS AS HAVE NOT HERETO-
PORE BEEK VSED, AND THAT THE SAID ART WILL BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE
TRADE OF MAKKING WATCHES AND CLOCKS," and therefore have humbly
besought vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse of their said
Inventions 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 benefit, of our
especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted,
and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant
vnto the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, their

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, and the executors, administrators
and assignes of the survivors and survivor of them, especiall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Nicholas Facio,
Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, and every of them, their and
every of their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
by themselves or their deputy and deputys, servants, or agents, or such
others as thoy, the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise, work, vse, vend, and enioy, within
our kingdomes of England and Ireland, and the territories and dominions
thereunto belonging, the said arts or Inventions, in such manner as to them,
the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem
meet, and that they, the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob
Debanfre, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have
and enioy the sole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and ariseing by reason of the said Inventions for
and during the full terme of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted, or mentioned to be granted, vnto the said Nicholas Facio, Peter
Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and termo of fourteen yeares from the
date of these presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the statute in this case made and pvided; and to the
end that the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, and
every of them, their and every of their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and sole
working, vending, vsc, and exercise of the said Inventions, according to our
gratious intention 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 subiects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condičon soever they bo, within
our said kingdoms and the territories and dominions thereunto belonging, that
neither they, or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make,
vse, or put in practice the said Inventions, or any part of the same, so attained
vnto by said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, as afore-
said, nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall

page_text: make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or
devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, and the survivors and
survivor of them, his and their executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder their or some or one of their hande and seales first had and
obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall cōmand,
and further to be answerable to the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and
Jacob Debanfre, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law, for their damages thereby occasioned; and, moreover, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular
our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other 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 term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or
hinder the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, or any of
them, their or any of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
or their or any of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid arts or Inventions, or any or
either of them, or anything relateing thereto: Provided always, and these our
Letters Patents 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 preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof within our kingdomes of England and Ireland, and
not invented and found out by the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and
Jacob Debanfre, as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaračon thereof,
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
scale, or by the lorde and others of our or their privy council, or any six or
more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Pro-
vided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained,
shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said
Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, or any of them, their
or any of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse
or imitato any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been

page_text: found out and invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said kingdomes and dominions, or any of them,
vnto whome 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 Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to
whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions, by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patent and of these presents. And, lastly, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Nicholas Facio,
Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Defanfre, their executors, administrators, 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 law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best
advantage of the said Nicholas Facio, Peter Debanfre, and Jacob Debanfre,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of record
as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and dominions
whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said arts or Inventions, or any
of them, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westin, the First day of May.