A WATER ENGINE FOR QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING OF FIRES, AND ANY OTHER VSES IN RAISING GREAT QUANTITIES OF WATER
Year: 1725

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS WILLIAM DEANE, of London, Mathematicall Instrument Maker,
hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath with much
pains, labour, and expence, invented and brought to perfection "A WATER
ENGINE FOR QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING OF FIRES, AND ANY OTHER VSES IN
RAISING GREAT QUANTITIES OF WATER;" in which are severall new and vsefull
contrivances, as well for obtaining the greater force, as for lessening the
friction of the parts, to which engine there is also be applyed a new Invention,
whereby any house and any and every part of the same may immediately in the
same instant be supplyed with any quantity of water, whereby houses will be
greatly secured against fires, and always have water in readiness to extinguish
the same, and much labour may be saved in cleansing houses by sparing the
trouble in carrying water from place to place; that in recompence to the
petitioner for finding out and producing at his sole charge and trouble the
said new Invention, of which he has compleate modells, having made severall
experiment with the same; he therefore humbly prays to grant him His
Maiestio's Royall Letters Patents vnder the Great Seal of Great Britaine, for
the sole vseing, makeing, and vending of the said engines or machines so con-
trived, for and during the terme of fourteen yeares, wee are pleased to gratifye
him in his request.

page_text: KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said William Deane,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, and
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said William Deane, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or
by his or their deputy and deputies, servante or agente, or such others as
he, the said William Deane, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
at any 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 new invented engine as above described, within that part of our Kingdome
of Great Britaine called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William Deane, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons
seem meet, and that he, the said William Deane, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the profit, benefit,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrueing, and ariseing
by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of yeares herein
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy tho said lycence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages herein-before granted vnto the said William Deane,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vntill the
full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Pre-
sents and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended according
to the Statute in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said
William Deane, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
may have and enioy the full benefit and sole vso and exercise of the said
Invention, according to our gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do
by these Presente, 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 condition soever they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, that neither they or any of them, during the continuance of
the said term hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invention so attained vnto by the said William Deane
as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor
shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction from
the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the

page_text: said William Deane, his executors, administrators, and assignes, in writing
vnder his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vpon such paines and penalties as can be iustly inflicted on such offenders for
their contempt of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to
the said William Deane, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according
to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do
by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and
singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsever 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 William Dean, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, their or any of their deputies, servante, or agente, in
in or about the due and lawfull vse and exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or
any thing relateing thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patente
are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said terme
hereby granted it shall be made appear to vs, our heires and successors, or
any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary
to law, or preiudiciall 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 that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or not
invented or found out by the said William Deane as aforesaid, then, vpon
signification and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the Lorde or others of our
or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these
our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to
all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or
any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said William Deane, his executors, administrators, and
assignies, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiectf
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that said part of our
Kingdome of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, or
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like Letters Patente, or priviledges
have been already granted, for the sole vse, exercise and benefit thereof,
it being our will and pleasure that the said William Deane, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons

page_text: to whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Inventions by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patente, and of these Presente: Provided likewise, never-
theless, and these our Letters Patente are vpon this express condition that if
the said William Deane, his executors or administrators, or any person or
persons which may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of
this grant, have or claime any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in,
or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the
said Invention 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 persons exceeding the number of five, or
shall open or cause to be opened any book or bookes for publick subscripcons
to be made by any number of persons exceeding five, in order to the raiseing
any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or by 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 intent and purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of
five, or shall committ or do or procure to be committed or done any act,
matter, or thing whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall
have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses,
which would be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certaine Act of
Parliament made in the sixth year of our reigne, intituled (An Act for the
better securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His
Maiestie by Two Charters 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 Patent
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 and shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or
intestate) that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patent
and all libertys, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall
vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein contained to the

page_text: contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do, by these
Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said William
Deane, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patente, or the inrollment or exemplification 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 shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the said
William Deane, his executors, administrators and assignes, as well in all our
Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our
Kingdom of Greate Britaine 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 certaine describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or
of the materials thereto conduceing or belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness William Archbishop of Canterbury, &c., at
Westminster, the Tenth day of December.
By Writt of Privy Seal.