THE MAKEING OF GRANADO SHELLS OF GLASSE, WHICH FOR CHEAPNESSE AND LIGHTNESSE, AND ALSOE IN POINT OF EXECUTION, MAY BE OF GREAT VSE AND BENEFITT
Year: 1692

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS PHILIP DALLOWE, one of the masters of the Greene Glasse
Workes, bath by his humble petition represented vnto vs that he hath, with
great charge and paines, found out "THE MAKEING OF GRANADO SHELLS OF
GLASSE, WHICH FOR CHEAPNESSE AND LIGHTNESSE, AND ALSOE IN POINT OF EXECUTION,
MAY BE OF GREAT VSE AND BENEFITT," and prayed vs to grant him our Letters
Patents Patents for the sole vse thereof for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as bavo
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions,
and that the said Philip Dallowe may accordingly reape some fruite and
benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, wee have given and
granted, and by these Psents doe give and grant, vnto the said Phillip
Dallowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power,
priviledge and authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his
and their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as
he, the said Philip Dallowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times, durcing the
space of fourteen yeares next ensucing the date of these presents, at his

page_text: and their own proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in
practice the said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid,
in any place or places within our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales,
and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and also shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said new
Invention to be had, made, acquired, or gotten, to his and their owne proper
benefitt, vse and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by these
presents granted, or mentioned to be granted, vnto the said Philip Dallowe,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full
end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these presents
next ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the statute in
that case made and provided; and to the end the said Philip Dallowe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better cnioy the full and
whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Invention, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within
our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doc vse, exercise,
or put in practice the said new Invention soe by the said Philip Dallowe
invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or
resemble the said new Invention, or any materialls or ingredients thereunto
belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substraccon
therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Philip Dallowe, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hands
and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein for the
contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said
Philip Dallowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the
vtmost rigour of the law, for his and their damages thereby susteyned; and
further, wee doe by these our Letters Patents, for .vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will, authorize, require, and command all and singular justices of the
peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and all officers and
ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time
being whome it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively, be
from time to time, dureing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices,

page_text: and, according to their and every of their best skills and endeavours, aiding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Philip Dallowe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in
and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the execution of the severall powers and priviledges hereby
granted as aforesaid. And morcover, wee doc by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and command that our said respective officers and
ministers before menconed, or any of them, doc not nor shall at any time
hereafter, dureing the term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said Philip Dallow, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
deputies, agerits, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the
aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or anything relateing thereunto;
provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condicon, that if at any time durcing the said terme of fourteen years hereby
granted, it shall be made appeare 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
prejudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invention
before mentioned is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise of
the same, and not invented and found out by the said Philip Dallowe as afore-
said, then, vpon signification and declaracon of such preiudice or inconveniency,
to be made by us, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
scale, or by the lords or 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 purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided also, that
these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not extend, or
be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said Philip Dallow, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invenčon or worke what-
soever which hath been heretofore invented and found out by any other of our
subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominion
aforesaid to whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of
Priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Philip Dallowe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whoine wee have
already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Inventions by them respectively found out, according to the true mean-
ing of such our Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee doe
bereby, for vs, our heires, and successors, grant vnto the said Philip Dallowe,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,

page_text: or the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good,
valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of the
same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing of
the said Invencon, or of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of
makeing, vscing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt
thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these presents, or
any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Two and