A WAY FOR SMELTING OR MELTING DOWNE ALL SORT OF TINN OARE, AND MAKEING THE SAME INTO GOOD MERCHANTABLE TINN, BY THE VSE OF PITTCOAL & SEACOALL, WITHOUT ANY CHARCOAL OR WOOD
Year: 1694

page_text: Psente shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN WATKINS, Gentt., hath by his humble peticon represented
vuto vs that, by great industry, study, and expence, he hath (with other
psons concerned with him) found out "A WAY FOR SMELTING OR MELTING
DOWNE ALL SORT OF TINN OARE, AND MAKEING THE SAME INTO GOOD MERCHANTABLE
TINN, BY THE VSE OF PITTCOAL & SEACOALL, WITHOUT ANY CHARCOAL OR WOOD,"
which will be of publick advantage, and save the consumption of wood and
timber now vsed for that ppose, and that the said Invention hath not been
heretofore knowne or practised, and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our
Letters Patente for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
discend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of all such
arts as may bee of publick vse and benefit, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John Watkins,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, spiall lycence, full power, solo
priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Watkins, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or theiro
deputy or deputyes, servants or agents, or such others as the said John Wat-
kins, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with,
and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vsc, exercise, and enioy

page_text: the said new Invenĉon within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of
Wales, and Towne of Berwicke-vpon-Tweed, or any other our dominions, in
such manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates & limit-
tacons as to him, the said John Watkins, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the
said John Wakins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole profitt, benefitt, commodity, and advantage from time to
time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invencon
for and dureing the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold,
exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-
before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said John Watkins, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end
and terme of fourteen years from the date of these psente next and immediately
ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statutes in
this case made and provided. And to the end that the said John Watkins,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and
enioy the full benefitt and the sole makeing, vse, and exercise of the said
Invencon, according to our gratious intendons herein before declared, wee doe
by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodyes politique and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or
condicon soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions,
that neither they or any of them at any time dureing the contineance of
the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
loe make, vse, or put in practice the said Inventon or any part of the same soc
attained vnto by the said John Watkins as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise
counterfeit, imitate, or. resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made
any additon therevnto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventer or inventers, deviser or devisers thereof, without the lycenec,
consent, or agreement of the said John Watkins, his extors, administrators, or
assignes, in writeing vnder his, theire, or some of theire hands and seales first
had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or
may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall
command, and further to be answerable to the said John Watkins, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to law for his and theire damages thereby
cccasioned. And moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and command all and singuler our justices of the peace, mayors,
sherriffs, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our licires and successors, now and for the time being, that

page_text: they nor any of them doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said
terme hereby granted in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John
Watkins, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or theire
deputyes, servante, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull makeing vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or any thing relating thereto : Provided
alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall bee vpon this condičon, that
if any tyme hereafter during the terme hereby grantedit shall bee made appeare
to ys, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy
Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient
to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as
to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our Kingdome of England,
and not invented and found out by the said John Watkins, as aforesaid, then,
vpon significa con and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the Lorde and others
of our and theire Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder theire
hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly
voyd to all intents and pposes, any thing before herein contained to the contrary
in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said John Watkins, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vsc or imitate any invenčon or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any
other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within
our said realms and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters
Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and
bencfitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said John Watkins, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other pson and
psons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall Invenčons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaneing of the same
respective Letters Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee doc by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Watkins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the law according to the true intent and meaneing
thereof, and shall bee taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and
beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said John Watkins, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and
by all and singuler the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and

page_text: successors in all and singuler our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the
nature or quality of the said Invencon, or of the materialls thereto conduccing
or belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse the King and Queen at Westmi. the Seaven-