FORCEING WATER BY BELLOWES, NOT DONE WITH WIND, AS ALSOE THE DEAWEING IT VPP WITH LEATHERNE BAGGE, LINKED TOGEATHER IN MANNER OF BUCKETT, WHERE THE BELLOWES CANNOT BE PLACED, WHICH MAY BEE FOR THE PUBLIQUE BENIFITT OF SHIPPING, DRAYNING OF MYNES, BRINGING WATER TO HOUSES, EMPTYEING OF RIVERS OR PONDC, DRAYNEING AND WATERING OF GROUND, OR ANY WAY OF PUMPING WATER, TOGETHER WITH A PARTICULER WAY OF FORCEING WATER THROUGH THE BOTTOME OR SIDES OF SHIPPS BELOWE THE SURPACE OR TOPPE OF THE WATER, WHICH MAY BEE OF SINGULER VSE AND EASE IN NAVIGACON
Year: 1661

page_text: Present shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiecte, THOMAS TOGOOD, Gent., and
JAMES HAYES, Esquire, have made it appeare vnto vs that by their greate industry
and study, with much charge and expences, they have contrived and perfected
a newe Invenčon of "FORCEING WATER BY BELLOWES, NOT DONE WITH WIND, AS
ALSOE THE DEAWEING IT VPP WITH LEATHERNE BAGGE, LINKED TOGEATHER IN MANNER
OF BUCKETT, WHERE THE BELLOWES CANNOT BE PLACED, WHICH MAY BEE FOR THE
PUBLIQUE BENIFITT OF SHIPPING, DRAYNING OF MYNES, BRINGING WATER TO HOUSES,
EMPTYEING OF RIVERS OR PONDC, DRAYNEING AND WATERING OF GROUND, OR ANY
WAY OF PUMPING WATER, TOGETHER WITH A PARTICULER WAY OF FORCEING WATER
THROUGH THE BOTTOME OR SIDES OF SHIPPS BELOWE THE SURPACE OR TOPPE OF THE
WATER, WHICH MAY BEE OF SINGULER VSE AND EASE IN NAVIGACON," and was never
before publiquely done or vsed within any of our kingdomes, dominions, or
territories: And whereas the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes have
humbly besought vs, for their better incouragement, to exercise and put in
practice the said Invenčons, that wee would bee graciouslic pleased to grant
them our Letters Patente of of priviledge for the sole vse and benifitt thereof
for the tyme and terme of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided.

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NOWE KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee of our princely inclinacon,
being willing to incourage and promote workes of this nature, and to give all
due and fittinge incouragem to the Inventors of such arte as may bee of pub-
lique vse and benifitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere
mocon, and vppon the humble peticon of the said Thomas Toogood and James
Hayes, have given and granted, and by these Presente, for vs, our heires
and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas Toogood and James
Hayes, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full
power, priviledge and authority, that they and every of them, by themselves,
their, or any of their deputye or deputyes, servante, workemen, or assignes,
at all tymes, and from tyme to tyme hereafter dureing the terme of yeares
hereafter in these Presente expressed, shall and lawfully may have, vse, exer-
cise, employ, and enioy the said newe Invenčon and Invencons, in and
throughout our Realmes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and our Dominion
of Wales, and in and throughout all and singuler other our dominions and
countries, and every or any of them, in such manner as to them in their or
of their discrecons shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioyo
the sole benifitt and advantage comeing or arriseing by reason thereof, durcing
the terme of yeares hereby granted. And to the end the said Thomas Toogood
and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may the better enioy the full and whole benifitt, and the sole vse and
exercise of their said Invencon or Invenčons, wee doe by these Presente, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly command all and every
person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever quality,
degree, name, or addicon soever they be, that neither they nor any of them,
dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly, or indirectly,
doe or shall vse, or putt in practice the said Invenčon or Invenčons soe
by the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes attaynd vnto, as aforesaid,
nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doc 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 Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing under their hand and
seales, first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vppon such paynes and penalties
as can or may be inflicted on such offendors for their contempt of this our
comand, in that behalf; and further, to be answercable to the said Thomas
Toogood and James Hayes, their executors, administrators, and assignes
according to the lawe and justice, for their damages thereby susteyned; to have
and to hold all the said licences, powers, priviledges, and authorities hereby

page_text: granted as aforesaid, viito them the said I hoinas Toogood and James Hayes,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing the terme of four-
teene yeares from the makeing of these Presente next ensueing, and fully to bee
compleate and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided.
And further, wee doe by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give
and graunt vnto the said James Hayes and Thomas Toogood, and their
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that they,
every or any of them, their, every or any of their deputies, servante, and
agent, or any of them (haveing first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of the Courte of Kinge Bench for the tyme being),
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at con-
venient tymes of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner,
enter into and make search in any houses, shipps, or other places where there
shall be iust cause of suspicion for discovering and findeing out of all such
persons as shall within the terme of fourteene yeares aforesaid, imitate, or
cause to bee imitated, or shall vse, or put in practice, the said Inventon or
Invenčons, soe by the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, invented and
attayned vnto, as aforesaid, that soe such offendors may bec proceeded against
and punished according to their demerritte, and their Invenčons and workes,
tending to the ende aforesaid, then and there found, to bee seized vpon,
broaken in peices, and defaced, and the materialle thereof left in the hande
and custody of some constable or officer, to bec disposed in such manner and
forme as wec, our heires and successors, shall from tyme to tyme direct and
appointe. And further, wec doc by these Presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, will, authorize, and require all and singuler justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffes, bayliffes, 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, bee, from tyme to tyme durcing the
said terme hereby granted in their respective places, favouring, ayding, helping,
and assisting, vnto the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and to their, and every of their 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 exercise and 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 Presente,
for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers and ministers, or any
of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Thomas Toogood
and James Hayes, or either of them, their or either of their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or their or cither of their deputy or deputyes,

page_text: servant, or agente, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the
said Invenĉons, or in any other matter or thing concerning the same:
Provided alwayes, that if, at any tyme dureing the said terme of fourteene
yeares, it shall be made appeare vnto vs, our heires, or successors, that this our
graunt is contrary to lawe, or preiudiciall or inconvenient, and not of publique
vse or benifitt, or that the same Invencons are not newe Invencons of the
said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, or of one of them, then vppon
significacon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires and successors,
these our Patente, as to such and soc much thereof as shall bee soe signified
and declared to bee inconvenient, and not of publique vse or benifitt, shall
forthwith cease, determine, and bee as voyd in lawe to all intente and purposes,
and the same not to bee further vsed, exercised, or imployed by vertue or
colour of these Presente, anything herein-before conteyned to the contrary
notwitstanding Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patent, or anything
herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the, said Thomas Togood and James Hayes, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invencon or worke
found out and invented by any other person or persons, and publiquely
exercised within these our said realmes, or any the dominions or territories
therevnto belonginge, vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patente of priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benifitt thereof, it being
our will and pleasure that the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and
persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patente or
priviledges, as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Inven-
cons by them invented and found out according to the true intent and meaneing
of the said severall and respective Letters Pateute and of these Presente.
And, lastly, wee doe by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors,
graunt vnto the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patent, or the inrollment
thereof, shall bee in and by all thinges good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the lawe according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shall bee
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourable and beneficiall for the best
benifitt and advantage of the said Thomas Toogood and James Hayes, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our Court of Record
as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the
manner and quality of the said Invenčon or Invencons, or of the materialle,
way, and manner of makeing thereof, or of the true and certeine vse and
benifitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incertainties, or

page_text: imperfeccons in these Presente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance,
provision, proclamacon, or restraint to the contrary thereof in anywise not-
withstandinge.
May.
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