FOR MAKEING OF PITCH AND TARR TO AS GREAT PERFECTION AS PITCH AND TARR WHICH IS NOW MADE IN AND BROUGHT FROM SWEDEN, WHICH INVENTION HATH NOT BEEN HERETOFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED BY ANY OF OUR SUBIECTS
Year: 1692

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greeting
WHEREAS GABRIEL WAINE hath, by his humble petition represented vnto
vs that he hath, at his great care and expence, found out an art or Invention
"FOR MAKEING OF PITCH AND TARR TO AS GREAT PERFECTION AS PITCH AND
TARR WHICH IS NOW MADE IN AND BROUGHT FROM SWEDEN, WHICH INVENTION
HATH NOT BEEN HERETOFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED BY ANY OF OUR SUBIECTS,"
and hath prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to conde-
scend to his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts as
may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge,
and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Gabriel Waine, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole privi-
ledge and authority, that he, the said Gabriel Waine, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their deputy
and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Gabriel Waine, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe
others, from time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares herein:
expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invention
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our
kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon Tweed,
and all and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such

page_text: manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons as
to him, the said Gabriel Waine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meete, and that he, the said
Gabriel Waine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have
and enjoy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage, from time to time
comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing
the full terme of yeares herein. menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted vnto the said Gabriel Waine, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the date of these psents next and imediately 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 Gabriel Waine, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt
and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious
intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and 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, at any time
dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practise the said Invention
or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Gabriel Waine as afore-
said, nor shall in anywise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make or
cause to be made any addition thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent; or agreement of the said Gabriel Waine, his executors, administrators,.
or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hands 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 the contempt of this our royall
command, and further to be answerable to the said Gabriel Waine, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their.
damages thereby occasioned. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorize, and comand all and singular justices
of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, 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 dureing the terme hereby granted,.

page_text: in their respective offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the
said Gabriel Waine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and
their deputy and deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and
about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared,
and in the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges hereby granted
as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand that our respective officers and ministers before
mentioned, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the
said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Grabriel Waine, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or
any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relateing thereto.
Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condicon, that if at any time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall be
made appeare 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 this our
kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Gabriel Waine as afore-
said, 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 lords and
others of our or their Privy Councill, 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 and purposes, anything before herein contained to
the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patents, or anything therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed
to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said Gabriel Waine, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse, or imitate any invention or
worke whatsoever which bath been heretofore found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our
said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents
or priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Gabriel Waine, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and
persons to whome like Letters Patents 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. And lastly, wee
doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said

page_text: Gabriel Waine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things
good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adudged in the
most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Gabriel
Waine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of
record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatso-
ever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and
dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our
beires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of
the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Nineth day of