Year: 1664

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these Psents
shall come, greeting.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to cherish and incourage all laudable
endeavours and designes of such our subiects who shall find out vsefull and
pfitable arts and invenĉons for the comoditie of our people, by granting and
and appropriateing vnto them, for some terme of yeares, the fruite and benefitt
of theire industry, whereby theire labours and expences in the attainement
thereof may bee recompensed and rewarded vnto them, and being also willing
to encourage and countenance as much as wee may these severall invenčons
hereafter specified and expressed, not heretofore vsed in our kingdome of
England, but found and invented by our welbeloved ABRAHAM HILL, of our
citty of London, Esqr., and Fellow of the Royall Society of London for
Improveing of Natural Knowledge, and his assistants, and to bee brought
into vse in this our said kingdome of England by his and theire industrye
and expence, the fabrics whereof are hereafter described, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meere, haue given and graunted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grante vnto the said
Abraham Hill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full and sole power,
lycence, priviledge, and authority, that hee, the said Abraham Hill, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, by himselfe or themselues, or by his or
their deputies, agents, factors, workemen, and such others as hee, the said
Abram Hill, shall at any tyme agree with, shall and may, at all and every

page_text: tyme and tymes hereafter dureing 'the' terme of fowertecne yeares next
ensueing the date hereof, make, vse, practice, teach, and put in vre the
"MAKEING OF A CARRIAGE, CHAIRE; COACH, OR CHARRIOTT WITH TWOE WHEELES
VPON ONE AXELTREE, HAVEING A SEATE OR CHAIRE SETT VPON Two SHAFTS OR
PEIRCHES, ONE END RESTING VPON THE AXELTREE, THE OTHER VPON THE HORSE;
AND OF ANOTHER SORTE OF A CARRIAGE, CHAIRE, COACH, OR CHARRIOTT WHICH HATH
TWOE OR MORE SUCH SHAFTS OR PEIRCHES WITH FOURE WHEELES; AND OF ANOTHER
SORTE OF A CARRIAGE, CHAIRE, COACH, OR CHARRIOTT WICH HATH A SEATE OR CHAIRE
PLACED VPON. Two. WHEELES..OR. MORE, WHEREOF TWOE_MOVE ON THE END OF A
CROOKED ALELTREE, WITH ROLLERS OR OTHERWISE; AND OF ANOTHER SORTE OF A
CARRIAGE, CHAIRE, COACH, OR CHARRIOT HAVEING THE SEATE OR CHAIRE HUNG VPON
LONG SPRINGS BEFORE AND BEHIND; AND OF ANOTHER SORTE OF A CARRIAGE, CHAIRE,
COACH, OR CHAIRES WHICH HATH THE SEATE OR CHAIRE PLACED UPON WINDING
SPRINGS PASTNED TO THE PEARCH, OR TO THE AXELTREE, AND WINDING ABOUT THE
SAME;" and likewise that hee, the said Abraham, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, by himselfe or themselves, or by his or theire deputies, agents,
servants, factors, & workemen, and such others as hee, the said Abraham
Hill, shall at any tyme agree with, shall and may, at all and every tyme and
times hereafter dureing the said terme of foureteene yeares next. ensueing the
date hereof, make, vse, practice, teach, or put in vre the "NEW WAY. OF
MAKEING OF A GUN OR PISTOLL THE BREECH WHEREOF RISETH VPON AN HINDGE BY
A CONTRIVANCE OF A MOTION FROM VNDER IT, BY WICH IT IS ALSOE LET DOWNE AGAINE
AND BOLTED FAST BY ONE AND THE SAME MOTION; AND ALSOE OF ANOTHER GUN OR
PISTOLL-WHICH HATH A HOLE ATT THE VPPER END OF THE BREECH TO RECEIVE THE
CHARGE, WHICH HOLE IS OPENED AND STOPT BY A PEECE OF IRON OR STEELE THAT
LIES ALONG THE SIDE OF THE PEECE, AND MOVEABLE BY A READY AND EASY MOTION;
AND ALSOE OF ANOTHER GUN OR PISTOLL WHICH IS CHARGED AND. PRIMED AT A HOLE
VNDER THE SIGHT OR VISIER AT THE VPPER END OF. THE BREECH, AND SHUTTS
WITHIN WITH A CARTRIDGE OR ROUNDISH PLATE OF IRON, AND WITHOUT WITH THE
SIGHT OR VISIER; AND ALSOE OF ANOTHER GUN THAT 18. CHARGED, AND PRIMED IN
LIKE MANNER AT A HOLE BELOWE THE SIGHT OR VISIER, WHICH IS SHUTT WITH A
SCREW SMALLER BELOW THEN ABOUE; AND ALSOE OF ANOTHER GUN OR PISTOLL FOR
SMALL SHOTT CARRYING SEAVEN OR EIGHT CHARGES OF THE SAME IN THE STOCKE
OF THE GUN, WHICH IS LETT INTO THE GUN BY THRUSTING FORWARD THE SIGHT,
AND BY A SQUARE CARTRIDGE WITHIN THE PEECE NEERE THE BREECH, SOE THAT THE
POWDER BEING PUT IN BY A HOLE VNDER THE SIGHT BOTH FOR CHARGEING AND
PRIMEING THE SAME, TOGEATHER WITH A TOUCHHOLE, BEING SHUTT BOTH WITHIN
AND WITHOUT BY THRUSTING BACK THE SIGHT TO HIS PLACE; AND ALSOE OF A POWDER
HORNE OR Box WHICH OPENS BY PRESSING WITH THE FINGER. THE END OF THE
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page_text: CHARGE OR ALLOWANCE,, AND SHUTS BY A SPRING WITHIN IT, AND LIKEWISE OF AN
INSTRUMENT OR ENGINE FOR BREAKING OF HEMP AND FLAXE, AND DRESSING THE
SAME IN A NEW WAYE; AS ALSOE POR WASHING OF ALL SORTES OF LINNEN; AND,
LASTLY, A NEW...WAY OF MAKEING OF WATCHES, AND CLOCKS TO BEE VSED AT
SEA FOR EXACT: MEASURING, OF TYME TOWARDES THE FINDING THE LONGI-
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TUDE AND KNOWING, THE TRUE COURSE AND PLACE. OF A SHIPP, DIFFERENCED
FROM ALL OTHER. SORTE OP, WATCHES BY HAVING,
INSTEAD OF A BALLANCE, A
RODD OF WYER OR A THYNN NARROW PLATE WITH A WEIGHT AT THE LOWER
END THEREOF CALLED. A PENDULUM, AND AT, THE VPPER END AN ARME WITH
TWOE CATTCHES OR HOLES, TO MOUE IT,, AND CERTAINE CROOKED PLACES OR
CHEEKES FOR REGULATING THE...MOTION, THEREOF, W WHICH MOTION IS DUCED
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BY ONE OR MORE SPRINGS OR WEIGHTS, THE SAID WATCHES BEING FITTED WITH
BALLS AND SOCKETTS TO HANG BY FOR GOEING STEADILY AT SEA;" and that
hec, the said Abraham Hill, his executors, administrators, and, assignes,
shall and may, haue, receiue, and take all sumes of money, benefitts, ad-
vantages, and pfitts whatsoever by the said severall inventions or any of
them ariseing or to bee thereof had, made, acquired, or gotten. from tyme to
tyme dureing the terme hereby granted, to haue, hould, and enioy the said
lycence, priviledge, power, and authority, and all and every the sume and
sumes of money,. advantages, pfits, and emolumit thereby ariseing, and other
the premisses by theise presents granted or mentioned to bee graunted to the
said Abraham Hill, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
during the terme of fowerteene yeares from henceforth next ensueing, and
fully to bee compleate and ended. And to the end the said Abraham Hill,
bis executors, administrators, and assignes, may haue and take the benefitt of
this our present grante without any disturbance or interruption, of our more
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion, wee doe, for vs, our
heires and successors, streightly: charge and comand all and every person and
persons, of what estate, degree, or condition soever hee or they bee, that they
or any of them, dureing the said terme, of fouerteene, doe not presume to make
or cause to bee made, or to sell or put to sale, or to importe or cause to bee
imported from any our domynions or any partes, beyond the seas, any such
carriage, chaire, coach, or charriott, gun, pistoll, powder, box, engine, or
watch therein-before mentioned, or, made or to bee made according to the
severall and respectiue formes and descriptions aboue mentioned, or any of th
of them,
or differing therefrom by some small additions, or diversities onely, and not
considerably differing. both in the severall and respectiue figures and designes,
or make vse of the same or any of them, without the licence, consent, and
agreement of the said Abraham Hill, bis, executors, administrators, or
or assignes,
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page_text: first had and obteyned in writeing vnder his or theire handes and seales, in
that behalfe, vpon paine of forfeiture and losse of all and every such carriage,
coach, and charriot, gun, pistoll, powder box, engine for washing, or watch, by
breaking a-peeces and defacing the same, by the said Abraham Hill, bis
executors, administrators, or assignes, or his and theire deputies and servants,
and vnder such further paines, penalties, and forfeitures as by the law or our
prerogatiue royall may bee inflicted, had, or recovered by vs, our heires or
successors, of all such pson or persons that shall psume to attempt the con-
trary. And our further will and pleasure is, and wee doe hereby, for vs, our
heires and successors, giue and graunt vnto the said Abraham Hill, his ex-
ecutors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that hee, they,
and every or any of them, his, theire, every or any of theire deputies, servants,
and agents, or any of them, having first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of our Courte of King's Bench for the tyme being,
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at con-
venient times of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner,
enter into and make search in any howses, shopps, warehouses, or other places
where there shall be iust cause of suspition for discovering and finding out
aswell of all such coaches, chaires, carriages and charriotts, guns, pistolls,
powder box, engine for washing, and watch, as shall bee made or imported
contrary to our will and pleasure herein-before declared, as of all such persons
as shall, within the terme of fowerteene yeares aforesaid, imitate or cause to
bee imitated, or shall vse or put in practice, the said severall and respectiue
inventions, or any of them, soe by the said Abraham Hill and his assistants
invented and attained vnto as aforesaid, that soe such offendors may bee
pceeded against, and punished according to their demeritts; and theire
materialls and workes tending to the end aforesaid, and there found, may bee
seized vpon and broken in peeces and defaced, and the materialls thereof left
in the hands or custody of a constable or other lawfull officer, to bee disposed
in such manner and forme as wee, our heires or successors, shall from time to
time direct and appoint. And wee doe by these presents will and desire
that our deare and intirely beloved brother James Duke of Yorke, our High
Admirall of England, and for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand
that the Lord Admirall for the time being, and all maritine officers, of what
degree or qualitie soever, and alsoe all maiors, sherriffes, justices of the peace,
bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and other the officers and ministers of vs,
'our heires and successors, for the tyme being, to whom it shall appertaine, and
every of them, dureing the terme aforesaid, bee favouring, aiding, and
assisting to the said Abraham Hill, his executors, administrators, and assignes,

page_text: in all lawful thing in and about the accomplishment of this our present
graunt and pleasure therein declared, and for the due suppression of all such
as shall any wayes endeavour to infringe or oppose the same, and that they
or any of them doe not at any tyme hinder, molest, or interrupt the said
Abraham Hill, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or theire
deputies or any of them, in the due and lawfull execucon of the premisses, as
they tender our displeasure and will answeare the contrary at theire perills,
and these our Letters Patents or the inrollment of them shall bee theire
sufficient warrant in that behalfe. Provided alwayes, and our will and pleasure
is, that if at any tyme dureing the said terme it shall appeare vnto. vs, our
heires or successors, or vnto the lords or others of our Privy Councell, that
this our graunt, as to all or any the aforesaid particular inventions, shall bee
inconvenient or preiududiciall to our subiects, and against the lawes and
statutes of this our realme, then, vpon significačon and declaracon to bee made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or theire signet or privy seale, or
by the lords and others of our Privy Councell, or six of them, for the tyme
being, in writeing vnder theire hands of such preiudice or inconvenience,
these our Letters Patents as to what shall bee soe expressed and declared, shall
forthwith cease, determine, and bee vtterly void, anything before mentioned to
the contrary notwithstanding. And wee doe hereby graunt, for vs, our heires
and successors, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall
bee firme, good, and effectuall in the law, according to the true meaneing of
the same, although expresse mencon, &c.
In witnesse, &c. Witnes our selfe at Westminster, the Third day of
March.