A NEW INVENTED DIVEING ENGINE, FRAMED AND CONSISTING OF BRASSE, LEAD, IRON, AND OTHER METALLS AND MATERIALLS, BY WHICH SAID ENGINE ONE OR MORE PERSON OR PERSON OR PERSONS MAY DESCEND INTO THE SEA, ALTHO' AT THE DEPTH OF TWENTY FATHOME OR MORE, AND THERE TO REMAINE BY THE SPACE OF TWENTY-FOWRE HOURES, AND BY MEANS OF THE STRENGTH AND CONTRIVANCE OF THE SAID ENGINE THE PERSON OR PERSONS WITHIN THE SAID MACHINE ARE SAFELY SECURED FROM ANY PRESSURE OR INCONVENIENCY OF THE WATER, AND HAVE PERFECT FREEDOM OF AIR AND BREATHEING, AND LIKEWISE FREE LIBERTY OF SEEING WHATEVER IS IN THE WATER, AND OF VSEING HIS OR THEIRE HANDS AND BODYES, WHEREBY ANY THING MAY BE FASTNED TO WHATEVER IS IN THE BOTTOM
Year: 1694

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved SAMUELL WINBALL, Gentt, hath
by his humble peticon represented vnto vs that he has by his great charges
and industry contrived and brought to perfeccon "A NEW INVENTED DIVEING
ENGINE, FRAMED AND CONSISTING OF BRASSE, LEAD, IRON, AND OTHER METALLS AND
MATERIALLS, BY WHICH SAID ENGINE ONE OR MORE PERSON OR PERSON OR PERSONS
MAY DESCEND INTO THE SEA, ALTHO' AT THE DEPTH OF TWENTY FATHOME OR MORE, AND
THERE TO REMAINE BY THE SPACE OF TWENTY-FOWRE HOURES, AND BY MEANS OF THE
STRENGTH AND CONTRIVANCE OF THE SAID ENGINE THE PERSON OR PERSONS WITHIN
THE SAID MACHINE ARE SAFELY SECURED FROM ANY PRESSURE OR INCONVENIENCY OF
THE WATER, AND HAVE PERFECT FREEDOM OF AIR AND BREATHEING, AND LIKEWISE
FREE LIBERTY OF SEEING WHATEVER IS IN THE WATER, AND OF VSEING HIS OR THEIRE
HANDS AND BODYES, WHEREBY ANY THING MAY BE FASTNED TO WHATEVER IS IN THE
BOTTOM," which will be of great vsc and benefit to the publique. And haveing
prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefit
thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and en-
courage all lawdable endeavours and designes of such our subiecte as have by
theire industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteryes, and Inventons,
and that the said Samuell Winball may accordingly reap some fruit and benefit
of his labour and charge in and concerneing the premisses, of our especiall

page_text: grace, certaine knowledge and meer močon have given and granted, and by
these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said Samuell Winball, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and
authority that he and they, by him and themselves and by his and theire
deputies, servants, agents and workemen, and such others onely as he
the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing
the space of fourteene yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, att his
and theire owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put
in practice the said new Inventon soc by him contrived and found out as
aforesaid, in any place or places within all our seas and dominions; and alsoe
shall and may receive, take, and enioy all the benefitts, proffitts, comodities,
and advantages of and by the said new Invenĉon to be had, made, acquired, or
gotten to his and theire owne proper benefitt, vse, and vses; to have, hold, vse,
exercise, and enioy, the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorityes, and
all other the premisses by these Presents granted or menconed to be granted
vnto the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for
& dureing and to the full end and terme of fourteene yeares from the day of
the date of these Presents next ensueing, and fully to bee compleate and
ended according to the Statute in that case made and provided. And to the
end the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and
exercise of his said new Invenčon, we do by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and command all and every
person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of what quality, degree,
name, or condicon soever they bee, within all or any our kingdomes and
lominions, that neither they nor any of them dureing the said terme of four-
tecne yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doe vse, exercise, or
put in practice the said new Invenčon soe by the said Samuell Winball
invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the said new Invencon or any materialls therevnto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substracon therefrom, whereby to
pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administra-
tors, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or theire hands and scales first had and
obtained in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penaltyes as can or may bec
inflicted on the offender or offenders therein for the contempt of this our
royall comand, and further to bee.answerable to the said Samuell Winball, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of the

page_text: law for his and theire damages thereby sustained. And further wee doc by
these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize,
require, and command all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes,
bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the tyme being whome it
may concerne, that they and every of them respectively bee from tyme to tyme
dureing the terme hereby granted, in theire respective offices and according to
theire and every of theire best skills and endeavours, ayding, helping, and
assisting vnto the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, deputyes, 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 execuĉon of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as afore-
said. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
'cessors, will and command that our said respective officers and ministers before
menconed, or any of them, doc not nor shall at any tyme hereafter dureing the
the terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputyes, agents,
or.servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any
part thereof, or any thing relateing therevnto. Provided alwaies, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any tyme
dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted it shall bee made
appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or theire
Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or incon-
venient to our subiecte in gencrall, or that the Inventou before men coned is
not a new invenĉon as to the publique vse and exercise of the same, and not
invented and found out by the said Samuell Winball as aforesaid, then vpon
significacon and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniencie to bee made by
vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy seale, or by
the Lords or other of our or theire Privy Councill or any six or more of them
vnder theire hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before con
tained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Samuell Winball, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invencon or worke whatsoever
which hath been heretofore invented and found out by any other of our
subiects whatsoever, and publiquely exercised within our dominions aforesaid,
to whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge
for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that

page_text: the said Samuell Winball, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and singuler other person and persons to whome wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall
Invenčons, by them respectively found out, according to the true meaneing of
such our Letters Patents, and of these Presents.
And, lastly, wee doc hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the
said Samuel Winball, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, that these
our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall bee and continue in and
by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
meaneing of the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describing or
menconing of the said Invencon, or of the materialls, 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 wittnesse, &c. Witnesse the King and Queene at Westini, the Tenth