AN INVENTION. WHEREBY A MOTIVE POWER OR FACULTY IS OBTAINED FROM THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE WATER OPERATEING ON A VESSELL FLOATEING THEREON, WHICH SAID VESSELL, BY ITS RISEING AND FALLING WITH THE WATER, GIVES MOTION TO ALL MANNER OF MOVEMENTS, AS MILLS, ENGINES, &C.; AN INVENTION OF HORIZONTALL WHEELES OR ENGINES, TO MOVE IN OR VNDER THE WATER, BY THE WATER, OR OUT OF THE WATER, BY WIND, DIFFERENTLY FRAMED AS THE WORKE MAY REQUIRE;
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN HADLEY, of Worcester, Engineer, hath, by his humble
petition, represented vnto vs that he has, by his long study and very great
charge and industry, attained to the compleate knowledge of "AN INVENTION.
WHEREBY A MOTIVE POWER OR FACULTY IS OBTAINED FROM THE EBBING AND
FLOWING OF THE WATER OPERATEING ON A VESSELL FLOATEING THEREON, WHICH
SAID VESSELL, BY ITS RISEING AND FALLING WITH THE WATER, GIVES MOTION
TO ALL MANNER OF MOVEMENTS, AS MILLS, ENGINES, &C.; AN INVENTION OF
HORIZONTALL WHEELES OR ENGINES, TO MOVE IN OR VNDER THE WATER, BY THE
WATER, OR OUT OF THE WATER, BY WIND, DIFFERENTLY FRAMED AS THE WORKE
MAY REQUIRE; AN INVENTION OF RAISEING AND LETTING DOWNE ALL SORTS OF
VERTICALL WHEELES OF COMON VSE, RENDRING THEM THEREBY MORE VSEFULL IN
VNCERTAINE WATERS, BY RIGHTLY TAKEING THE STREAME AT ALL HEIGHTS OF
WATER; AN INVENTION OF EGINES MOVED BY WIND, VSEFULL FOR DRAWING.
SEVERALL MACHINES AND CARRIAGES INSTEAD OF HORSES; A CONTRIVANCE OF
MEASUREING TIME A MORE COMPENDIOUS WAY, WITH ONE WHEELE ONELY, WHICH
WILL GOE MUCH MORE FXACT THEN MOVEMENTS WITH MULTIPLICITY OF WHEELES,
WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE BOTH BY SEA AND LAND;"
and has prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and
benefitt thereof.

page_text: KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and
meer motion, bave given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our
heires, and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said John Hadley, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Hadley, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or
their deputy and deputies, servants, or agents; or such others as the said
John Hadley, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the
terme of yeares hercin expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise,
and enioy the said Inventions 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 manner, and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and lymitačons as to him, the said John Hadley,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discreations seeme meet, and that he, the said John Hadley, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt,
profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Inventions, for and dureing the full termic 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 John Hadley, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from
the date of these presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be
compleate and ended, according to the statute in this case made and pro-
vided; and to the end that the said John Hadley, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the publick benefitt
and the sole makeing vse and exercise of the said Inventions 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 politick 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 durcing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen years
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practice
the said Inventions or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said
John Hadley as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the

page_text: same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto or substracc on
from the same; whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without tlie lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Hadley,
his executors, administrators, or assigues, 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
their contempt of this our royall command, and further to be answerable to
the said John Hadley, his executors, administrators, and assignies, according
to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover wee doe
by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and
singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers. and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, for the time being, that they or any of them doe not, nor
shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Hadley, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the
due and lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid Inventions, or any
thing relateing thereto; provided allwaies, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time dureing the terme 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
preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said
Inventions are not or any of them 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 John Hadley as aforesaid, then vpon signification and decla-
ration 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
purposes, anything before herein 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 John Hadley, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or immitate any invention or worke
whatsoever which hath 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 John

page_text: Hadley, his executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 practice their
several inventions by them invented and found out according to the truc
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
presents. And, lastly, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said John Hadley, 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 adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for
the best advantage of the said John Hadley, his exeecutors, administrators,
and assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and
singular the officers and ministers whatsoever, 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 heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the
nature or quality of the said Inventions, or of the matterialls thereto con-
duceing and belonging.
se, we.
March.
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By Writt of Privy Seale.