A NEW ADDITION OF A WHEELE, IRON BARRS, PLATES, PINNS, &c., TO BE FIXED TO ANY SORT OF COACH, WAGGON, OR CART, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER SEASON, WHICH, BESIDES SEVERALL OTHER ADVANTAGES OF LESS MOMENT, WILL EFFECTUALLY PRESERVE THE ROAD FROM BEING CUTT AND WORNE OUT AS THEY NOW ARE, AND RENDER THE SAKE COMMODIOUS AND PASSABLE IN THE WINTER, WHICH WILL TEND TO THE VAST EASE, SAFETY, AND BENEFITT OF TRA- VELLERS, BY PREVENTING THE FATIGE AND DANGER OF BAD ROAD AND THE HEAVY TAXES AND EXPENCE OF TURNPIKES TO MAKE TO MAKE THEM GOOD
Year: 1722

page_text: GEURTE,
ne grace of God, &c., to all to whom these presents shall
come, greeting.
WHEREAS ANTHONY BARLOW, of Barlow, in our county of Lancaster,
Esquire, hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath, by
much application and study, and some expence, invented and found out "A
NEW ADDITION OF A WHEELE, IRON BARRS, PLATES, PINNS, &c., TO BE FIXED
TO ANY SORT OF COACH, WAGGON, OR CART, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY IN THE
WINTER SEASON, WHICH, BESIDES SEVERALL OTHER ADVANTAGES OF LESS MOMENT,
WILL EFFECTUALLY PRESERVE THE ROAD FROM BEING CUTT AND WORNE OUT
AS THEY NOW ARE, AND RENDER THE SAKE COMMODIOUS AND PASSABLE IN THE
WINTER, WHICH WILL TEND TO THE VAST EASE, SAFETY, AND BENEFITT OF TRA-
VELLERS, BY PREVENTING THE FATIGE AND DANGER OF BAD ROAD AND THE HEAVY
TAXES AND EXPENCE OF TURNPIKES TO MAKE TO MAKE THEM GOOD;" forasmuch,
therefore, as he did first find out the said Invention, and hath been at charge
and trouble to bring the same to perfeccon, he hath humbly prayed vs to grant
him our royall Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of his said new
Invention for the term of fourteen years, according to the statute in that case
made and provided, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arte and
inventions which may be for the publick vse and benefitt, are gratiously
pleased to gratifie him in his request.

page_text: 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 Anthony
Barlow, his executors, administrators, and asssignes, especiall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Anthony Barlow, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time during
the term of yeares herein expressed shall and lawfully may make make, vse,
exercise, and vend his said new Invention of an addition of a wheel, iron barrs,
plates, pinns, &c., to be fixed to any sort of coach, waggon, or cart, for
preserving the roads from being cutt and worn out as they now are, and
rendring the same comodious and passable in winter, as above described,
within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our domi-
nion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him,
the said Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Anthony Barlow,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and
enioy the whole profit, benefit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to
time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon,
for and during the term of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Anthony Barlow, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and
term of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and imediately
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 Anthony Barlow, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy
the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according
to our gracious intencon herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person
and persons, bodies bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiectf
whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condicon soever they
be, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon Tweed aforesaid, that neither
they, or any of them, 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 Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the

page_text: said Anthony Barlow as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition there-
unto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves
the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence,
5 consent, or agreement of the said Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writing vader his or their hand and seales first had and
obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may be justly
inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command, and
further, to be answerable to the said Anthony Barlow, his executors, admini-
strators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned; and moreover wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bailiffs, 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 terme
hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Anthony Barlow,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their
deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise
of the aforesaid Invencon, or any thing relateing thereto. Provided always,
and these our Letters Patente 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 heires 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 Invencon
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 Anthony
Barlow as aforesaid, then, vpon signification or declaration thereof to bo
made by vs, our heirs or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal,
or by the Lord and others of our or their Privy Councel, or any six or
more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cense, determine, and be vtterly void to all intente and purposes, any
thing herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
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
Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse
or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore 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,

page_text: our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like
Letters Patent or priviledges have been already granted, for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the said
Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patente 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 true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patent and of these
presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are
vpon this express condition, that if the said Anthony Barlow, 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,
title, or interest, in law or equity, 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 assignment of the
said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefitt or profitt
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
books for publick subscripĉons to be made by any number of persons exceeding
the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sūmes of money vnder
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 sumos
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 presume to act
as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefitt 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 committ, or do or procure to be
comitted or done any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as
such persons shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the
said misses, which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a
certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of our reigne, intituled (An
Act for the better securing certain powers and priviledges intended to bo
granted by His Maiestic by two charters for assurance of ships and mer-
chandizes 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, privi-
ledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust
for more than the number of five persons, or their representatives, at any
one time, (reckoning executors or administrators ns and for the single

page_text: 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, privi-
ledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Anthony
Barlow, his executors, administrators and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in
the most favourable and beneficiall sense, for the best advantage of the said
Anthony Barlow, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
courte or 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-upon-Tweed, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs,
our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or
of the matterialls thereto conducing and belonging.
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