A NEW METHOD OR INVENTION FOR EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING THE SMOAKEING OF CHIMNEYS AND ALL INCONVENIENCES THAT HAPPEN THERETO, EITHER FROM WIND, SUN, OR RAIN, BY CAUSING AN ATTRACTION OF SMOAKE
Year: 1722

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS LE GRAND, of our City of
London, Gentleman, hath by his petition humbly represented vuto vs that
he hath, through great study and expence, found out and brought to perfection,
"A NEW METHOD OR INVENTION FOR EFFECTUALLY PREVENTING THE SMOAKEING OF
CHIMNEYS AND ALL INCONVENIENCES THAT HAPPEN THERETO, EITHER FROM WIND,
SUN, OR RAIN, BY CAUSING AN ATTRACTION OF SMOAKE," which method being
entirely new and different in all respects from any Invention that hath hitherto
been found out or practised, the said James Le Grand hath humbly prayed vs
to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and exercise of his
said new Invenčon, for the term of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided, wee being willing to give encouragement to
all arts and Invenčons which may for the publick vtility, are graciously pleased
to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and, meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents
for va, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Jame Le
Grand, his executors, administř, and assigns, especial lycence, full power, solo
priviledge, and authority, that he, the said James Le Grand, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or
by his or their deputy and deputies, servant or agente, or such others as the
said James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any

page_text: time agree with, and no others, from time to time, during the term of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and vend his
said new Invenčon for effectually preventing the smoaking of chimneys and
all inconveniences that happen thereto, as above described, within that part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, tho said James Le
Gran 1, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them shall in
their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said James Le Grand, bis execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing,
accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the
term of years herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen years from
the date of these Presents next and immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided. And
to the end that the said James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole
vse and exercise of the said Invenčon according to our gracious intencon
herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heirs and successors.
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick
and corporate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name or condičon soever they be, within that said part of our King-
dom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them, at any
time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted,
cither directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice the said
Invenčon, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the said James Le
Grand as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe, or themselves the in-
ventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his or 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 royal command, and
further to be answerable to the said James Le Grand, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby

page_text: occasioned. And, moreover, wee doe by these Presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, and 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
or his or their deputies, servants, or agente, in or about the due and
lawful vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condičon, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall
be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Council, 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, in that said part
of our Kingdom of Great Britain callled England, our Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and not invented and found out by the
said James Le Grand as aforesaid, then vpon significačon or declaration
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our 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 Patente shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd, to all intent and purposes, any
thing herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto
whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted, for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our and pleasure that the said
James Le Grand, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patente 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 Patents and of these Presents:
Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this
express condičon, that if the said James Le Grand, his executors or admini-

page_text: strators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or times
hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claim any right, title,
or interest in law or equity in or to the power, priviledge and authority of the
sole vsc and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any
transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assignment, of the
said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit
thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of per-
sons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened
any book or books for publick subscripcons, to be made by any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sumo
or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their
agent or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the
like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted into any number of shares exceeding the number of
five, or shall comit or do or procure to be committed or done any act, matter,
or thing whatsoever, during such time as such person shall have any right or
title, either in law or equity, in or to the said Pmisses, which will be contrary
to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the
sixth year of our reign, (entituled (An Act for the better securing certain
Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Char-
ters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money
vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable
Practices therein menconed) if these our Letters Patents had not been granted,
or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter
become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or their
representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and
for the single person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are or
shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and
in any of the said cases, these our Letters Patents and all liberties, priviledges
and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any
wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said James Le Grand, his executors, administra-
tors and assignes, that these our Letters Patente or the inrollment or exempli-
ficacion thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and
effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and

page_text: shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial
sense, for the best advantage of the said James Le Grand, his executors, ad-
ministrators and assignes, aswell in all our Courte of Record as elswhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, in that said part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the
nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing
and belonging.