MAKEINGE CHRISTALL GLASSES AND LOOKEING GLASSES, PLATES. OF ALL SORTES OF GLASSE WHATSOEUER (WINDOW GLASSE FOR CHURCHES AND HOUSES ONELY EXCEPTED), WITHIN THESE OUR REALMES, AS GOOD (IF NOT BETTER) THEN ANY COMES FROM VENICE, WHICH WILL TEND TO A GENERALL GOOD, IN REGAURD THE SAME IS A NEW MANUFACTURE NOT FORMERLY VSED OR PRACTIZED IN THIS NATION, AND BEE A MEANES OF SETTING MANY PEOPLE ON WORKE
Year: 1662

page_text: presente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS it hath bene made appeare to our selfe by our trusty and wel-
beloved THOMAS TILSON, of London, Merchant, that by his greate industry and-
study, with much charges and expences, he hath attained to the art, skill, and
Inuention of "MAKEINGE CHRISTALL GLASSES AND LOOKEING GLASSES, PLATES.
OF ALL SORTES OF GLASSE WHATSOEUER (WINDOW GLASSE FOR CHURCHES AND
HOUSES ONELY EXCEPTED), WITHIN THESE OUR REALMES, AS GOOD (IF NOT BETTER)
THEN ANY COMES FROM VENICE, WHICH WILL TEND TO A GENERALL GOOD, IN
REGAURD THE SAME IS A NEW MANUFACTURE NOT FORMERLY VSED OR PRACTIZED
IN THIS NATION, AND BEE A MEANES OF SETTING MANY PEOPLE ON WORKE."
And whereas the said Thomas Tilson hath humbly besought for his better
encouragement to exercise and putt in practize the said Invention, that wee
would bee gratiouslic pleased to graunt him our Letters Pattente of Priviledge
for the sole vse and benifitt thereof for the tyme and terme of fowerteen
yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
NOW KNOWE YEE therefore, that wee, of our princely inclinacon, being
willing to encourage and promote work of this nature, and to giue all fitting
and due encouragement to the inuentors of such arte as may bee of publicke.
vse and benifitt, of our especiall grace, certayne knowledge, and meere močon,.
and vpon the humble peticon of the said Thomas Tilson, haue giuen and
granted, and by theise our presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe giue
and graunt vnto the said Thomas Tilson, his executors and administrators and
assignes, especiall licence, full power, priviledge, and authority, that hec or they,
by themselues, his or theire deputy or deputyes, servante, workemen, or

page_text: assignes, att all tymes and from tyme to tyme hereafter durcing the terme
of yeares hereafter in these presente express'd, shall and lawfully may haue, vse,
exercise and imploy and enioy his said new Invenčon 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 euery or any of them, in such manner as to him, them, or any of them, or
his, theire, or any of theire discrecons shall sceme meete, and shall and may
have and enjoy the sole benifitt and advantage comeinge or ariscinge by
reason thereof dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted.
And to the
end the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
cuery of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benifitt, and the sole
vse and exercise of his said Invenčon, wee doe by theise presente, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and streightly comand all and cuery person and
persons, bodyes pollitique and corporate, of whatsoeuer quality, degree,
name, or addičon soeuer they bec, that neither they nor any of them,
dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directlic or indirectly,
doc or shall vse or putt in practize the said Invencon- soc by the said
Thomas Tilson invented or attayn'd vnto, as aforesaid, nor doe or shall
counterfite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doc or shall make any addicon
thereunto or substracon from the same, whereby to pretend themselues
the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, and agreem
of the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder his or theire hande and seales, first had and obteyned in that
behalfe; and further, to bee answearable to the said Thomas Tilson, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law and justice, for theire
damages thereby susteyned, to haue and to hold all and every the lycenses,
powers, priviledges, and authorityes hereby granted or menconed to bec
granted as aforesaid vnto him, the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, for and dureing the terme of fowerteene yearės from
the makeing of theise presente next ensuinge, and fully to bee compleate and.
ended according to the statute in such case made and provided; and further,
wee doc by theise presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant
vnto the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full
power and authority that he, they, every or any of them, his, theire, euery
or any of theire, deputyes, servante, and agente, or any of them, haueing
first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
Courte of the Kinge Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of
a constable or any other lawfull officer, att conuenient tymes of the day
dureing the tearme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter into and make

page_text: search in any houses, shipps, and other places where there shall be iust
cause of suspition for discovering and finding out of all such persons as shall;
within the tearme of fowertecne yeares aforesaid, imitate, or cause to bec
imitated, or shall vse or putt in practize the said Invencon soc by the said
Thomas Tilson inuented and attained as aforesaid, that such offendors may
bec proceeded against and punished according to theire demeritt, and
theire inuenčons and work tending to the end aforesaid, then and there
found, to bee seized vpon, broken in pecces, and defaced, and the materialle
thereof left in the hande and custody of some constable or other officer to
bec disposed in such manner and forme as wee, our heires and successors,
shall from tyme to tyme direct and appoynte; and further, wee doc by theise
presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require, all and
singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffe, constables, head-
boroughes, and all other officer and officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs,.
our heires and successors, for the tyme being, that they and every of them
respectively, bee from time to time durcing the said tearme hereby granted
in their respectiue places, favourcing, ayding, helping, and assisting unto the
said Thomas Tilson, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and to his
and theire deputy or deputyes, servante and agente, in and by all thinges in
and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and
in the exercise and execuĉon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby
granted or menconed to bec granted as aforesaid; and, moreover, we will
and comand by these presente, for vs, our heires and successors, that our
said oflicers and ministers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or inter-
rupt the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his
or theire deputy or deputyes, servante or agente, or any of them, in or abouto
the vse or exercise of the said Inuenĉon, or in any matter or thing concerning
the same: Provided alwayes, that if att any tyme dureinge the said terme of
fowertecne yeares it shall bee made appeare by proofe vnto vs, our heires or
successors, that this our grant is contrary to lawe, or generally preiudiciall or
inconvenient within theise our realmes and dominions, then vpon satisfaccon
and declaračon thereof to bec made by vs, our heires or successors, theise our
Letters Pattente shall forthwith cease, determyne, and bee void, to all intente
and purposes, and the same not to bee further vsed, exercised, or imployed, by
vertue or colour thereof, any thing herein-before menconed to the contrary
notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that theise our Letters Pattente, or any thing
therein conteyned, shall not extend or bee construed to extend to giue priviledge
vnto the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found out and invented by any

page_text: other person or persons, and publiquely exercised within theise our said
realmes, or any the dominions or territories thereunto belonging, vnto whome
wee haue already granted our like Letters Pattente of Priviledge for the sole
vsc, exercise, and benifitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the
said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singuler other person and persons to whome wee haue already granted our like
Letters Pattent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctlie vse and practize
theire seuerall invenčons by them inuented and found out, according to the
true intent and meaneinge of the said seuerall and respective Letters Pattente
and of theise present: Provided, further, that theise our Letters Pattente,
or any the grauntes, powers, or clauses therein conteyned shall not bee
extended or bee construed to extend to restraine any of our subiecte from
the libertie of makeing or working of greene, white, or other glasse, lookeing
glasse plates, and all other glasse plates but glasse for churches and houses
onely excepted, which is and hath bene formerly made and wrought in such
manner as the same hath bene soe, made, wrought, and practized within this
realme, any thinge herein conteyned to the contrary in any wise notwith-
standing. And, lastly, wec doc by theise presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, graunt vnto the said Thomas Tilson, his executors, administrators,.
and assignes, that these our Letters Pattente, 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 Tilson, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as elswhere, notwithstanding
the not full and certayne describing the manner and qualitie of the said
Invencon, or of the materialle, way, and manner of makeing thereof, or of the
true and certaine vse and benifitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other
defecte, incerteynties, or imperfeccons in theise presente conteyned; any act,
statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restraint to the contrary thereof
in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes, &c., att Westminster, the Nineteenth day of