ART AND MANUFACTURE OF A PERTICULER SORT OF CHRIS- TALINE GLASSE RESEMBLING ROCK CHRISTALL, NOT FORMERLY EXERCISED OR VSED IN THIS OUR KINGDOME, AND BY HIS GREATE DISBURSEMT HAVEING SOE IMPROVED THE SAME AS THEREBY TO BEE ABLE TO SUPPLY BOTH INLAND AND OUTLAND MARKETT, WHEREBY THE PUBLIQUE MAY BE GREATLY ADVANTAGED
Year: 1674

page_text: these p'sente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved GEORGE RAVENSCROFT, Gentleman,
hath humbley represented to vs, that with greate expence and industry hee
hath atteyned to the "ART AND MANUFACTURE OF A PERTICULER SORT OF CHRIS-
TALINE GLASSE RESEMBLING ROCK CHRISTALL, NOT FORMERLY EXERCISED OR VSED
IN THIS OUR KINGDOME, AND BY HIS GREATE DISBURSEMT HAVEING SOE IMPROVED
THE SAME AS THEREBY TO BEE ABLE TO SUPPLY BOTH INLAND AND OUTLAND
MARKETT, WHEREBY THE PUBLIQUE MAY BE GREATLY ADVANTAGED," and hath
therefore humbley prayed vs to grant him the sole vse and benefitt of his
said Invenčon for the space of seaven yeares, being but one halfe of the
tearme allowed by the Act in that case provided, wee being gratiously willing
to provide & encourage all new and vsefull manufactures, and accordingly to
gratify him the said George Ravenscroft in this his request,
KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given & granted, and by these psente,
for vs, our heires & successors, doe give & grant, vnto the said George
Ravenscroft, his executors, admors, & assignes, especiall licence, full
& sole power, priviledge, & authority, that hee and they, by him and
themselves, and by his and their deputies, servante, & workemen, and noe
others, shall and may, dureing the terme of scaven yeares next ensueing
the date of these psente, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said new

page_text: Invenčon, within our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales,
and towne of Berwicke-vpon-Tweed, and in any other of our kingdomes
& dominions, in such manner as to him or them shall seeme meete, and
shall have and enjoy the sole benefitt & advantage arriscing thereby or by
reason thereof, to have, hold, and enioy the said licences, powers, priviledges,
authorities, & other the misses hereby granted or intended to bee granted
to the said George Ravenscroft, his executors, adñiors, & assignes, from
the day of the date of these psents for and durcing the terme of seaven yeares
from thence next ensucing, and fully to bec compleate & ended. And to the
end the said George Ravenscroft, his executors, adññiors, & assignes, and every
of them, may the better enioy the full & whole benefitt, and the sole vse
and exercise of his said Invenčon, aswell within the liberties as without,
wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, require & streightly
charge & comand all & every person & persons, bodies politique & corporate,
of whatsoe degree, name, or addičon they bee, that they nor any of them,
dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe
or shall vse or put in practice the said art or Invencon soe by the said George
Ravenscroft invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto
or substraccon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventors
or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
George Ravenscroft, his executors, adiiors, or assignes, in writeing vnder
his or their hande & scales first had & obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such
paines & penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the
contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and further to be answereable
to the said George Ravenscroft, his executors, adñiors, or assignes, according
to law & justice, for his & their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee
doc by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, give & grant vnto the
said George Ravenscroft, his executors, adiñiors, & assignes, full power &
authority that hec, they, & every of them, bis, their, & every of their, deputies,
servant, or agente, or any of them, haveing first obteyned a warrant in this
behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King Bench for the
tyme being, may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull
officer, aswell within the liberties as without, vpon request, at convenient times
in the day durcing the tyme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make
search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shall bee iust cause
of suspition, for discovering and findeing out of all such persons as shall, within
the terme of seaven yeares, imitate, or cause to bee imitated, or shall vse
or put in practice the said art or Invencon, soe by the said George Ravens-

page_text: croft invented & contrived as aforesaid, that soc such offenders may bec
proceeded against & punished according to their demeritte. And further,
wee doc, by these sente, for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorise, &
require all & singuler justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe, head-
boroughes, & all other officers & ministers of vs, our heires & successors
for the time being, that they and every of them respectively bee, from tyme
to tyme dureing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective places;
favoring, ayding, helping, & assisting vnto the said George Ravenscroft,
his executors, adiñiors, & assignes, and to his & their deputie & deputies;
servante & agente, and by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our
will & pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execučon of the powers
and priviledges herein & hereby granted, or menconed to be granted, as afore-
said. And moreover, wee will & comand by these psente, for vs, our
heires & successors, that our said officers, or any of them, doe not molest,
trouble, or interrupt the said George Ravenscroft, his executors, adiiors;
or assignes, or his or their deputy, deputies, servant, or agente, or any of
them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said art or Invencon, in any matter
or thing concerning the same. Provided alwayes, that if att any tyme dureing
the said terme of seaven yeares, itt shall bee made appeare to vs, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this
grant is contrary to law or piudiciall & inconvenient, or not of publique vse
& benefitt, then vpon significacon & declaracon to bee made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the
Lorde & others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them, for the
tyme being, in writeing vnder their hande, of such Piudice and inconvenience,
these our Lřes Patente, and all thing therein conteyned shall forthwith
cease, determine, & bec vtterly void, to all intente & purposes, anything
herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, tha
these our Lies Patente, or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or
bee construed to extend, to give priviledge vuto the said George Ravenscroft,
his executors, adñiors, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or worke found or invented by any other person or persons, and before
the vse and practice of his, the said George Ravenscrofte, Invenčon publickly
exercised in these our said realmes, or any the dominions or territories
therevnto belonging, vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patent of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof; itt
being our will & pleasure that the said George Ravenscroft, his executors,
adiñors, & assigns, & all & singuler other person & persons to whome wee
have already granted our like Letters Patente or priviledges as aforesaid,

page_text: shall distinctly vse & practice their soverall invenĉons by them invented &
found out, according to the true intent & meaning of the said severall &
respective Lřes Patente, and of these psente. And lastly, wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said George Ravens-
croft, his executors, admors, & assigns, that these our Letters Patente, and
the inrollment thereof, shall bee in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient,
and effectual in the law according to the true intent and meaneing of these
Psente, and shall be taken, construed, & adiudged most favorably & benefi-
cially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said George Ravenscroft, his
executors, adñiors, and assignes, aswell in all our Courte of Record as
elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full & certaine describeing the manner &
quality of the said art or Invenčon, or of the certaine vse & benefitt thereof,
and notwithstanding any other defecte, incertainties, or imperfeccon in these
Psente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or
restraint to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In wittnesse, &c. Wittnes the King att Westii, the Sixteenth day of
May.
By Writt of Privy Seale.