A NEW DEVISE OR ENGINE, MUCH LIKE A CALLASH, WITH TWO OR MORE WHEELES, NOT SUBIECT TO OVERTURNING, WHEREIN ONE OR MORE MAY TRAVELL WITH GREAT EASE AND SAFETY, IN WHICH PARTICULARS IT DIFFERS FROM ANY COACH OR CALLASH HITHERTO MADE OR INVENTED
Year: 1684

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN CLIGNET, of Limericke, in
our kingdome of Ireland, Esquire, by his humble peticon hath represented
vnto vs that, with great expense of time and labour, and with much charge,
hec hath contrived and invented "A NEW DEVISE OR ENGINE, MUCH LIKE A
CALLASH, WITH TWO OR MORE WHEELES, NOT SUBIECT TO OVERTURNING, WHEREIN
ONE OR MORE MAY TRAVELL WITH GREAT EASE AND SAFETY, IN WHICH PARTICULARS
IT DIFFERS FROM ANY COACH OR CALLASH HITHERTO MADE OR INVENTED;" and hee
haveing humbly besought vs to grant vnto him our Letters Patents for the sole
vse and exercise of the same for the terme of fowrteene yeares, according to
the Statute in that case provided, wee are gratiously pleased to condescend.
to that his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said John
Clignet may reape some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his great..
paines and expences in and about the premisses, and to incourage the inventers
of such arts as may be of publicke vse and benefitt, of our especiall. grace,.
certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said
John Clignett, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that hee, the said John Clignett, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or their deputy
and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as the said John Clignet, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe others,..
froin time to time and at all times dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these

page_text: presents expressed, shall and lawfully may vsc, exercise, and enioy the said
Invencon within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belong-
ing to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any
other of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner, and
according to such reasonable rates and limitačons, as to him, the said John
Clignet, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall in their discrecons
seeme meet; and that hee, the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and arising by reason of
the said Invencon, for and dureing the full terme of yeares hereafter men-
Coned; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers, privi-
leges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto
the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
and vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the day of the date
of these presents next and immediately ensueing and fully to be compleate and
ended, according to the Statute in this case made and provided. And to the
end that the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may enjoy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of
the said Invenĉon, according to our gratious intencons herein-before declared,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodys politique & corporate, and all
other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condicon soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions,
that neither they nor any of them, during the continuance of the said
terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doc
vse or put in practise the said Invenčon, or any part of the same, soc atteined
to by the said John Clignet as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeite
or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereto
or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors
or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
John Clignet, bis executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder
his, their, or some of their hands and scales first had and obteined in that
behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys as can or may be iustly inflicted on
such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to
be answerable to the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for his and their damages thereby occasioned according to law.
And wee doe, of our further especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere.
močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Clignet,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that hee, they, and every of them,

page_text: and his, their, and every of their deputys, agents, and servants, haveing first
obteined a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of
King's Bench at Westii for the time being, and with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the day dureing
the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make
search in any place or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes and
dominions (where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon), for discovery and
finding out of all and every person and persons as shall imitate or cause to be
imitated, or shall vse or put in practise the said Invenĉon, or shall make
or counterfeite any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that soc
such offender or offenders may be proceeded against and punished according
to law; and further wee doo by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will, authorize and comand all and singular justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffs, bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors for the time being,
aswell within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as within all
and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them
respectively be from time to time durcing the terme hereby granted, in
their respective offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said
John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and his and their
deputy and deputys, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure hercin-before declared, and
in the exercise and execucon of the powers and privileges hereby granted as
aforesaid; and moreover wee doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time here-after
dureing the said terme liereby granted in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said John Clignet, his executors, adininistrators, and assignes, or any his
or their deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vsc or
exercise of the said Invenčon or any thing relating thereto; provided always,
and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at
any time dureing the said terme hereby granted it shalbe made appeare to
vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Councill, that this grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to
our subiccts in generall, or that the said Invenĉon is not a new invencon
as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not
invented and found out by the said John Clignet as aforesaid, then, vpon sig-
nificacon and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our

page_text: Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, any thing before herein conteined to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding; provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
therein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privi-
lege vnto the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenĉon or worke whatsoever which
hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects what-
soever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions,
or any of them, vnto whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents
of privilege for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will
and pleasure that the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whom wee have
already granted our like Letters Patents or privileges as aforesaid, shall dis-
tinctly vse and practice theire severall invenĉons 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, wee doe by these presents, for vs.
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Clignet, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shalbe in and by all things firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the
law, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shalbe taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said John Clignet, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, 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 & every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certeine describing the nature or quality of
the said Invencon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging,
or any other defects or incertaintys in these presents conteined, or any
act, statute, ordinance, pvision, proclamacon, or restriccon, or other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse. &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westin, the Nineteenth day of
Tune
June.
By Writt of Privy Seale.