& WAY BY HYDRAGOGIE IN PIPES, ENGINES, & VESSELLS, TO RAISE WATER OUT OF SHIPPS, TYNNE, COALE, LEAD, & OTHER MYNES, & TO DRAYNE OVERFLOWED LAND, TO RETAYNE BACK WATER OF ALL SORT OF MILLS, & NOT ONLY TO MAKE VNDERSHOOTE TO SERVE OVERSHOOTE MILLS, BUT ALSO BY REVERSING THE WATER TO SUPPLY THOSE MILLS IN THE DROUGHT OF SUMER WHEN THEY VSUALLY STAND DRY; ALSO, IF OCCACON BE, TO RAISE THE THAMES WATER OR ANY THE LIKE TO A MUCH HIGHER DEGREE & IN GREATER PPORCONS THEN IS NOW PRACTICED IN LONDON BY WATER MILLHOUSES, WITHOUT THE GREAT CHARGE & LABOUR OF MEN & HORSES, & ALL THIS IN A MUCH MORE CERTAINE & EASIER WAY THEN IS NOW PRACTISED INENGLAND
Year: 1679

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whom these psente shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS GEORGE BURTON, SILVESTER PLOTT, & JOHN DEIGHTON, have
by their humble peticon informed vs, that by their travells, great charge,
labour, payns, & expience, they have attayned the "ART & WAY BY HYDRAGOGIE
IN PIPES, ENGINES, & VESSELLS, TO RAISE WATER OUT OF SHIPPS, TYNNE, COALE,
LEAD, & OTHER MYNES, & TO DRAYNE OVERFLOWED LAND, TO RETAYNE BACK
WATER OF ALL SORT OF MILLS, & NOT ONLY TO MAKE VNDERSHOOTE TO SERVE
OVERSHOOTE MILLS, BUT ALSO BY REVERSING THE WATER TO SUPPLY THOSE MILLS
IN THE DROUGHT OF SUMER WHEN THEY VSUALLY STAND DRY; ALSO, IF OCCACON BE, TO
RAISE THE THAMES WATER OR ANY THE LIKE TO A MUCH HIGHER DEGREE & IN
GREATER PPORCONS THEN IS NOW PRACTICED IN LONDON BY WATER MILLHOUSES,
WITHOUT THE GREAT CHARGE & LABOUR OF MEN & HORSES, & ALL THIS IN A MUCH
MORE CERTAINE & EASIER WAY THEN IS NOW PRACTISED IN ENGLAND;" and there-
fore praying that for their encouragem wee would be graciously pleased to
grant them our licence & priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, & benefit of
their said Invenčon for the terme of fourteen years, according to the Statute
in that case made & pvided.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee being desirous to encourage the inventors of
such art as may be of publique vse & benefitt, of our espiall grace, certaine
knowledge, & meer močon, have given & granted, and by these psente, for vs,
our heires & successors, doe give & grant vnto the said George Burton,
Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assigns, espiall license,

page_text: full & sole power, priviledge & authority, that they & every of their servante,
workmen, & noe others, shall & may during the term of fourteen years next
ensuing the date of these psente, vse, practice, exercise, & enioy the said art
or invenčon within our kingdome of England & dominion of Wales, in such
maner as to them & every of them shall seeme meet, & shall have & enioy
the sole benefitt & advantage arising thereby or by reason thereof, to have,
hold, & enioy the said licence, power, priviledge, authority, & other the
Pmisses hereby granted or intended to be granted to the said George Burton,
Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assigns, from the day
of the date of these psente, for & during the terme of fourteen years from
thence next ensuing fully to be complete & ended according to the statute in
that case made & pvided; and to the end the said George Burton, Silvester
Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assigns, & every of them, may
the better enioy the full & whole benefitt & the sole vse & exercise of their
said Invenčon, aswell within libties as without, wee doe by these psente for vs,
our heirs & successors, require & streightly charge & comand all & every
pson & psons, bodies politick & corporate, that they nor any of them, during the
terme of years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or
putt in practice the said art or invenčon, nor doe or shall counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
straccon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves the inventors or devisers
thereof without the licence, consent, or agreem' of the said George Burton,
Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their ex, adm", or assigns, in writing
vnder their hande & seales first had & obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such
paines & penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the con-
tempt of such our comand in that behalfe, & further to be answerable to the
said George Burton, Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admor, &
assignes, according to law & justice for bis & their damages thereby susteyned.
And further wee doc by these psente, for vs, our heirs & successors, give &
grant to the said George Burton, Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their
exors, admo, & assigns, full power & authority, that they & every of them,
their & every of their deputies, servante, or agente, or any of them (having
first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
Court of King Bench for the time being) may, with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawful officer, aswell within litities as without, at
convenient times in the day during the time aforesaid, & in lawfull maner,
enter & make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shalbe
iust cause of suspicon for discovering & finding out of all such psons as shall
within the said terme of fourteen years imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall

page_text: vse or putt in practice the said art or invenčon aforesaid, that soe such
offenders may be peceded agt & punished according to their demeritte. And,
further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorise,
& require all singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffe, bayliffe, head-
boroughs, & all other officers & ministers, of vs, our heirs & successors, for
the time being, that they & every of them resptively be, from time to time,
during the said terme hereby granted, in their resptive places, favouring,
aiding, helping, & assisting vnto the said George Burton, Silvester Plott, &
John Deigton, their ex, admon, & assigns, & to their deputy & deputies,
agent & servante, in all thinge in & about the accomplishm of our will &
pleasure herein declared, & the exercise & execucon of the powers & priviledges
hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid. And, moreover, wee
will & comand by these psente, for vs, our heirs & successors, that our
said officers, or any of them, doc not molest, trouble, or interrupt the
said George Burton, Silvester Plott, or John Deigton, their exors, adñiors,
or assigns, or their deputy or deputies, servante or agente, or any of
them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said art or invenčon in any
other matter or thing concerning the same. Provided alwaies, that if at any
time during the said terme of fourteen years it shalbe made appeare to vs, our
heirs or successors, or to any six or more of our or their privy councell, that
this grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to the comon weale, or that the said
art or invenčon is not a newc invenčon of the said George Burton, Silvester
Plott, & John Deigton, as to the vse & practice thereof, within our kingdome
of England, then, vpon significačon or declaračon to be made by vs, our heirs
or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the lorde & others
of our privy counsell, or six or more of them, for the tyme being, in writing
vnder their hande, of such Piudice & inconvenience, these our Letters Patente
& all thing therein conteyned shall forthwith cease, determine, & be vtterly
void to all intente & purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the con-
trary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patente, or
any thing therein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge to the said George Burton, Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their
exo, admor, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any inventon or
worke found out or invented by any other pson or psons, & publickly exercised
in our said kingdome of England or dominion of Wales, vnto whom wee have
already granted our like Lřes Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise,
& benefitt thereof, it being our will & pleasure that the said George Burton,
Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assignes, & all other
pson & psons to whom wee have already granted our like Lies Patente of

page_text: Priviledg, shall distinctly vse & practice their severall invenĉons by them
invented & found out, according to the true intent & meaning of the said
severall &.resptive Lies Patente & of these psente. And, lastly, wee doe by
these sente, for vs, our heirs & successors, graunt vnto the said George
Burton, Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assigns, that
these our Letters Patente, & the inrollm, thereof, shall be in & by all thing
good, valid, sufficient, & effèuall in the law according to the true intent &
meaning of these psente, & shall be taken, construed, & adiudged most
favourably & beneficially for the best benefitt & advantage of the said George
Burton, Silvester Plott, & John Deigton, their exors, admors, & assignes, aswell
in all our courte of record as elswhere, notwithstanding the not full & certaine
describing of the said art or invencon, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof.
And notwithstanding any other defect, incertainties, or imperfecčons in these
Psente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or
restraint to the contrary in any-wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes our selfe att West, the Three & twentieth
day of May.