A NEW WATER ENGINE FOR THE QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING FIRES
Year: 1721

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD NEWSHAM, of our City of
London, Pearl Button Maker, hath by his petition humbly represented vnto
vs that after much labour, time, and expence, he has invented. "A NEW
WATER ENGINE FOR THE QUENCHING AND EXTINGUISHING FIRES," which by its
contrivance in working with more winches or cranks on the outside than any
water engine heretofore made (none having more than two cranks to work
with), a new contrived winch or crank in imitacon of a crane called a crane
crank acts with a double mocon, and hath a new invented clack with four
half wheels, also a new fashioned worm which works without racks or
ladders, so fixed that one forcer begins before the other hath left forceing and
causes a continued stream without intermission, and with such force that it
throws out or emptys one hundred and ten gallons of water in one minutes'
time or little more, and at a greater distance than any other water engine can,
and as it excells all other water engines in the performance so it likewise
differs in the invenčon and contrivance, and the Petitoner conceives it may be
properly called a perpetual engine for quenching and extinguishing of fires;
that he hath playd his said engine before severall great persons, and also before
the Directors of the Hand-and-Hand Insurance Office, who were extreamely
well satisfied with the performance thereof; and haveing humbly prayed vs to
grant him our Royal Letters Patente for the term of fourteen yeares, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided, for securing his property in the

page_text: said engine, as well as for his greater encouragement, and enabling him the
better to carry on and promote the great vsefullness thereof in such ample
and beneficial manner as to vs should seem meet, wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and Inventions which may be for the publick
vse and benefit are graciously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall 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 Richard
Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Richard Newsham, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves,
or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agente, or such others as
he the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall
at any time agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse,
exercise, and vend his said new invented water engine for the quenching and
extinguishing fires as above described, within that part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him the said Richard Newsham, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem
meet, and that he the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon for and during the 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 Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen years from the
date of these Presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided. And to
the end that the said Richard Newsham, 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 gracious intencon
herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, 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 condičon soever they be, within that said part of
our 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

page_text: 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
Invenčon so attained vato by the said Richard Newsham as aforesaid, or in
anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addičon thereunto or substracčon from the same whereby to
pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Richard
Newsham, 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 comand; and further to be answerable to the
said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, 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 the justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our
heires and successors, for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor
shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted, in anywise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Richard Newsham, his exécutors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of their deputies, servants, or
agents in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon,
or anything 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 heirs or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to
law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and
found out by the said Richard Newsham as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon
or declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,. vnder our
or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void-to all intent and
purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing: Provided also, that these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein
contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them; to vse or imitate any Invenčon or work whatsoever which hath here-

page_text: tofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and menning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Psents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patente are
vpon this express condičon, that if the said Richard Nowsham, his executors,
or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or
times hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claime any right,
tytle, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and
authority, of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assigne-
ment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit
or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of
persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any
book or bookes for publick subscripčons, to be made by any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, in order to the raiseing any sum or sums of
money vnter pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby
granted, or shall, by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants,
receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever, of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents or
purposes, or shall Psume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit
of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs
granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
comit, or do, or procure to be committed, or done any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever, during such time as such person shall have any right or title,
either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, wich will be contrary to
the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of our reign, entituled (An Act for the better secureing certain Powers and
Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiesty by Two Charters for
Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon
Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices
therein menconed,) if these our Letters Patente had not been granted, or in
case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter

page_text: become vested or in trust for more than the number of five persons, or their
representatives, at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators, as and
for the single person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are or
shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and
in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges,
and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said Richard Newsham, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid,
sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Richard Newsham, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our Courts of Record as
elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, what-
soever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing
the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto con-
duceing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day
of December.
By Writt of Privy Seal.