A NEW AND RARE INVENČON KNOWNE BY THE NAME OF THE ROYALL CAROUSELL OR TOURNAMENT, BEING FRAMED AND CONTRIVED WITH SUCH ENGINES AS WILL NOT ONELY AFFORD GREATE PLEASURE TO US AND OUR NOBILITY IN THE SIGHT THEREOF, BUT SUFFICIENT INSTRUCCON TO ALL SUCH INGENIOUS YOUNG GENTLEMEN AS DESIRE TO LEARNE THE ARTE OF PERFECT HORSEMANSHIPP WITH ALL THE VSUALL PRACTICES AND EXERCISES THEREOF, AS RUNNING ATT THE RING, THROWEING OF THE LANCE, TAKEING VPP THE HEAD, AND THE LIKE, WHICH IS ALL PERFORMED IN A STREIGHT LINE, AND SOE NEERER APPROACHING TO THE NATURALL WAY OF HORSEMANSHIPP THEN ANY OTHER FORMERLY INVENTED OR VSED
Year: 1673

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome these
presents shall come, greeteing.
WHEREAS our loveing subiect and servant RAPHAELL FOLYART, Esquire,
hath with greate charge and industry brought into this our kingdome "A
NEW AND RARE INVENČON KNOWNE BY THE NAME OF THE ROYALL CAROUSELL OR
TOURNAMENT, BEING FRAMED AND CONTRIVED WITH SUCH ENGINES AS WILL NOT
ONELY AFFORD GREATE PLEASURE TO US AND OUR NOBILITY IN THE SIGHT THEREOF,
BUT SUFFICIENT INSTRUCCON TO ALL SUCH INGENIOUS YOUNG GENTLEMEN AS DESIRE TO
LEARNE THE ARTE OF PERFECT HORSEMANSHIPP WITH ALL THE VSUALL PRACTICES
AND EXERCISES THEREOF, AS RUNNING ATT THE RING, THROWEING OF THE LANCE,
TAKEING VPP THE HEAD, AND THE LIKE, WHICH IS ALL PERFORMED IN A STREIGHT
LINE, AND SOE NEERER APPROACHING TO THE NATURALL WAY OF HORSEMANSHIPP
THEN ANY OTHER FORMERLY INVENTED OR VSED;" And whereas the said Raphaell
Folyart hath humbly besought vs to grant him our royall lycence and
priviledge for the sole benefitt and exerciseing of the said Invenčon within
our kingdomes and dominions.
NOWE KNOWE YEE, that wee, taking into our princely consideracon the
long and faithfull services by the said Raphaell Folyart performed to us, both
att home and abroade, and being well satisfied that the vse of the said
Invenčon may be of greate advantage to such as have a desire to become
horsemen, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge and meere močon, have
given and granted, and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,

page_text: enioy the said
doe give and grant vnto the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors, admis, and
assignes, especiall lycence, full and sole power, priviledge and authority, that
hee and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputyes, servants,
and workemen, and noc others, shall and may dureing the terme of foureteene
yeares next ensucing the date of these psents, vse, practice, exercise, and
enioy the said new Inventon called the Royall Carousel or Tournament, in all
or any of our kingdomes and dominions, in such manner as to him or them
shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage
ariseing thereby or by reason thereof, to have, hold, and
licences, powers, priviledges, authorityes, and other the misses hereby
graunted or intended to be granted vnto the said Raphaell Folyart, his
extors, adiñis, and assignes, from the day of the date of these psents, for and
dureing the terme of foureteene yeares from thence next ensueing, and fully to
be compleate and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and puided:
And to the end the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors, adñis, and assignes, and
every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the solo
vse and exercise of his said Invenčon, aswell wth in libertyes as without, wee
doe by these Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, requiro and streightly
charge and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or addičon they bee, that they nor any
of them, dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or in-
directly doe or shall vsc or putt in practice the said arte or inventon soe by
the said Raphaell Folyart, invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doe or shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addicon
therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the
inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of
the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors, adñis, or assignes, in writeing vnder his
or their hands and scales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offendors for the
contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and further to be answerable
to the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors, adñiors, or assignes, according to
lawe and justice, for his and their damages thereby susteined. And further
wee doe by these sents, for vs, our heires & successors, give and grant vnto
the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors, adññitors, and assignes, full power
and authority, that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of
their, deputyes, servis, or agents, or any of them (haveing first obtained a
warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's
Bench for the time being), may, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, aswell within libertyes as without, vpon request at convenient

page_text: times in the day dureing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner enter and
make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where shalbe iust cause
of suspicon for discovering and findeing out of all such psons as shall, wthin
the terme of foureteene yeares aforesaid, imitate or cause to be imitated, or
shall vse or putt in practice the said arte or invenčon soc by the said Raphaell
Folyart invented or contrived as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be
Pceeded against and punished according to their demeritts. And further wee
doc by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and
require, all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffs, head-
boroughs, and all other officers & ministers whatsoever of us, our heires and
successors for the time being, that they and every of them respectively be
from time to time, dureing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective
places, favouring, aideing, helpeing, and assisting vnto the said Raphaell
Folyart, his extors, adiis, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and
deputyes, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our will & pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and
execucon of the powers & priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed
to be granted as aforesaid. And, moreover, we will and comand by these
Psents, for us, our heires and successors, that our said officers or any of them
doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Raphaell Folyart, his extors,
adiis, and assignes, or his or their deputy, deputyes, servants, or agents, or
any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said arte or inventon, in any
matter or thing concerneing the same: pvided alwayes, that if att any time
durcing the said terme of fourteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that
this grant is contrary to lawe or preiudiciall or inconvenient, or not of
publicke vse or benefitt, then vpon significačon and declaračon to bee made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by
the lords and others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them, for the
time being, in writeing vnder their hands, of such preiudice or inconvenience,
these our Letters Pattents, and all things therein contained, shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void, to all intents and purposes, any thing herein
before contained to the contrary notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee doe, by
these Psents, for us, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Raphaell
Folyart, his extors, adiis, & assignes, that these our Letters Pattents and the
inrollment thereof shalbe in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and
effectual in the lawe, according to the true intent and meaneing of these
presents, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and
beneficially, for the best benefitt and advantage of the said Raphaell Folyart,

page_text: his extors, adiis, and assignes, aswell in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the manner and quality
of the said arte or invenčon, or of the certaine vse and benefitt thereof, and
notwithstanding any other defects, incertainties, or imperfeccons in these psents
.conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, pelamačon, or restreint to 5
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In wittnes, &c. Wittnes the King att Westin, the Five & twentieth
day of November.
By writt of Privy Seale.