AN ARTIFICIAL MACHINE OR METHOD FOR THE IMPRESSING OR TRANSCRIBING OF LETTERS SINGLY OR PROGRESSIVELY ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AS IN WRITING, WHEREBY ALL WRITINGS WHATSOEVER MAY BE ENGROSSED IN PAPER OR PARCHMENT 60 NEAT AND EXACT AS HOT TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM PRINT; THAT THE SAID MACHINE OR METHOD MAY BE OF GREAT VSE IN SETTLEMENTS AND PUBLICK RECORS, THE IMPRESSION BEING DEEPER AND MORE LASTING THAN ANY OTHER WRITING, AND NOT TO BE ERASED OR COUNTERFEITED WITHOUT MANIFEST DISCOVERY
Year: 1714

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect, HENRY MILL, hath, by his
humble petičon, represented vnto vs, that he has, by his great study, paines,
and expence, lately invented and brought to perfection "AN ARTIFICIAL
MACHINE OR METHOD FOR THE IMPRESSING OR TRANSCRIBING OF LETTERS SINGLY OR
PROGRESSIVELY ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AS IN WRITING, WHEREBY ALL WRITINGS
WHATSOEVER MAY BE ENGROSSED IN PAPER OR PARCHMENT 60 NEAT AND EXACT
AS HOT TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM PRINT; THAT THE SAID MACHINE OR METHOD
MAY BE OF GREAT VSE IN SETTLEMENTS AND PUBLICK RECORS, THE IMPRESSION
BEING DEEPER AND MORE LASTING THAN ANY OTHER WRITING, AND NOT TO BE
ERASED OR COUNTERFEITED WITHOUT MANIFEST DISCOVERY;" and having, there-
fore, humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royall Letters Patents for the sole
vse of his said Invention for the term of fourteen yeares,―
KNOW YEE that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions that may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant, vnto the said
Henry Mill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Henry Mill, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said Henry Mill, his executors, administrators, or assignes,

page_text: shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at al
times during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our kingdom of Grea
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon
Tweed, his said new Invention as is above described, in such manner as to
him, the said Henry Mill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any
of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Henry
Mill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the full term of yeares 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 Henry Mill, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme
of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the statute in this
case made and provided. And to the end that the said Henry Mill, 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 gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects what-
soever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or condičon soever they be,
within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither
they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto
by the said Henry Mill as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition there-
unto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves
the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors, thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Henry Mill, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand and seales, first had and obtained
in that behalfe, vpon such pains 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 Henry Mill, bis 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

page_text: comand all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of
rs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they or any of them do
not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the term hereby granted, in any
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Henry Mill, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull making vse or exercise of the afore-
said Invention or any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, 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 Councill, that this our
grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
and not invented and found out by the said Henry Mill 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 lord or
others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their
their hande, these our Letters Patents 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 con-
strued to extend, to give priviledge to the said Henry Mill, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or
work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or enioyed within that part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or
priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, our royall will and pleasure
being that such other our subiects, and the said Henry Mill, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall distinctly vse and practice their several
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,
5 lastly, wee do, by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said Henry Mill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent
and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most

page_text: favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Henry Mill,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all courts of record as
elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors, within that part of our said kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the
materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
witnesse, ac. Witnesse our selfe, at Westminster, the Seventh day
of January.
By Writt of Privy Seale.