A NEWE WAYE OF MAKING LIGHT ORDINANCE SHOOTING FROM A QUARTER OF A POUND BULLETT TO A DEMMY CANNON, A TRAINE WHEREOF OF SEAVENTEENE PEICES WAS TRYED IN OUR PSENCE BY A COUNCELL WARRE WITH PEECES OF BRASSE OF LIKE CALLIVER; AND HATH ALSOE FOUND OUT A WAY WHEREBY ALL MOTIONS CAUSED BY THE FORCE OF A RIVER, WINDE, OP HORSES MAY BE DONE BY THE STRENGTH OF ONE OR TWOE MEN, AS THE MAKEING OF ALL SORTS OF MILLS, AND LIFTING OF WAIGHTS OUT OF MINES & COLEPITT, AND DRAINEINGE OP THEM, AND ALSOE THE DRAINEINGE OF SUCH LANDS AS ARE OPPRESSED WITH WATER, BY AN ENGINE, THE STRENGTH THEREOF MAY BE DOBLED OR TREBLED AT PLEASURE, WCH INVENCONS AND WORKES, SOE FOUND OUT AS AFORESAID, WERE NEVER PUBLICKLY EXERCISED OR MADE VSE OP IN ANIE OF OUR KINGDOMES OR DOMINIONS and
Year: 1662

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
sents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subject JAMES WEYMS, Master Gunner, of
England, by his greate industry and studdy, with much charge and expences,
hath invented & found out "A NEWE WAYE OF MAKING LIGHT ORDINANCE
SHOOTING FROM A QUARTER OF A POUND BULLETT TO A DEMMY CANNON, A TRAINE
WHEREOF OF SEAVENTEENE PEICES WAS TRYED IN OUR PSENCE BY A COUNCELL
WARRE WITH PEECES OF BRASSE OF LIKE CALLIVER; AND HATH ALSOE FOUND OUT
A WAY WHEREBY ALL MOTIONS CAUSED BY THE FORCE OF A RIVER, WINDE, OP
HORSES MAY BE DONE BY THE STRENGTH OF ONE OR TWOE MEN, AS THE MAKEING
OF ALL SORTS OF MILLS, AND LIFTING OF WAIGHTS OUT OF MINES & COLEPITT,
AND DRAINEINGE OP THEM, AND ALSOE THE DRAINEINGE OF SUCH LANDS AS ARE
OPPRESSED WITH WATER, BY AN ENGINE, THE STRENGTH THEREOF MAY BE DOBLED
OR TREBLED AT PLEASURE, WCH INVENCONS AND WORKES, SOE FOUND OUT AS
AFORESAID, WERE NEVER PUBLICKLY EXERCISED OR MADE VSE OP IN ANIE OF OUR
KINGDOMES OR DOMINIONS;" and whereas the said James Weyms bath humbly
besought vs, for his better incouragement to exercise & put in practize the
said Invenčons, that wee would be gratiously pleased to graunt vnto him, the
said James Weyms and James Weyms his sonne, our Lřes Patents of
privilege, for the sole vse and benefitt thereof, for the tyme and terme of
fowerteen years, according to the statute in that case made and provided..

page_text: NOWE KNOWE YEE, therefore, that wee, of our princely inclynacon,
being willing to incourage and promote workes of this nature, and to give all
due and fitting incouragement to the inventors of such arts as may be of
publick vse and benifitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere
motion, and upon the humble peticon of the said James Weyms, have given
and graunted, and by the Psents for vs, our heyres and successors, doe give
and graunt, vnto the said James Weyms the father and James Weyms the
sonne, their executors, administrators, and assignes, spiall licence, full power,
priviledg, and authoritic, that they and every of them, by themselves, their or
anic of their deputie or deputies, servants, workemen, or assignes, at all tymes
and from tyme to tyme hereafter dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in
these psents expressed, shall and lawfully may have, vse, exercise, imploy,
and enioy the said newe Invenĉon and Invenĉons in and throughout all our
realmes and dominions, and every or anic of them, in such manner as to them,
or anie or either of them, in theire or anic of theyr discrecons shall seeme
meete, and shall and may have and enioy the sole benifitt and advantage
comeing or ariscing by reason thereof dureing the terme of yeares hereby
graunted; and to the end the said James Weyms the father and James
Weyms the sonne, theyr executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may the better enioy the full & whole benefitt, and the sole vse and
exercise of the Invencon and Invenčons aforesaid, wee doe by these Psents,
for vs, our heyres and successors, require and streightly comaund all &
every person and persons, bodyes politicke and corporate, of whatsoever
qualitie, degree, name, or addicon they be, that neither they nor anie
of them, dureing the terme of yeares hereby graunted, either directly or
indirectly doe or shall vse or putt in practize the said Invenĉon or
Invencons soe by the said James Weyms the father attained vnto or
invented as aforesaid, nor doc or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble
the same, nor doe or shall make anie addicon therevnto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to ptend themselves the inventors or devisors; thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said James Weyms the
father and James Weyms the sonne, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writeing vnder their hands and seales, first had and obteyned in
that behalfe, vpon such paines & penaltyes as can or may be inflicted vpon
such offenders for their contempts of this our comaund in that behalfe; and
further to be answereable to the said James Weyms the father and James
Weyms the sonne, their executors, administrators, & assignes, according to
lawe and justice, for their damages thereby susteined; to have and to hold all
the said lycenses, powers, priviledges, and authorities hereby graunted,

page_text: as aforesaid vnto the said James Weyms the father and James Weyms, the
sonne, for and dureing the terme of fowertecne years from the makeing of these
sente next ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the
statute in such case made and provided. And further, wee doc by these
Psence, for vs, our heyres and successors, given and graunted vnto James
Weims the father and James Weims the sonne, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, full power and authoritie that they, and every or anie
of them, theyr, every, or anie of theyr deputies, servants, and agents, or anie of
them, haveing first obteined a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Chief
Justice of the Courte of King's Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assist-
ances of a constable or anie other lawfull officer, at convenient times of the day,
durcing the terme aforesaid, and in lawfull manner, enter into and make search
in anic houses, shopps, or other places, where there shall be iust cause of
suspicon, for discovering and finding out of all such persons as shall, within the
terme of fowerteene yeares aforesaid, imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall
use or put in practize the said Invenčon or Invenčons soe by the said James
Weimes the father invented & found out as aforesaid, that soe such offenders
may be proceeded against and punished according to their demeritte, and
their Invencions & workes, tending to the ends aforesaid, then and there found
to be seized vpon, broken in peices, and defaced, and the materialls thereof
left in the hands and custody of some constable or officer to be disposed in
such manner and forme as wee, our heyres and successors, shall from time to
time direct and appoint. And further, wee doe by theis sents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will, authorise, and require all & singuler justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heyres and successors, for the
tyme being, that they & every of them respectively be, from time to time
durcing the said term terme hereby graunted, in their respective places,
favouring, helping, aiding, and assisting vnto the said James Weims the
father and James Weims the sonne, their executors, administrators, &
assignes, and to their and every of their deputie and deputies, servants and
agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and in the exercises and the execuĉon of the powers
and priviledges herein & hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted, as
aforesaid. And, moreover, wee will and comaund by these psentse, for vs,
our heyres and successors, that our said officers and ministers, or anie of them,
doc not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said James Weims the father and
James Weims the sonne, or cyther of them, their or either of their executors,

page_text: administrators, or assignes, or their or either of theyr deputic or deputies,
servants or agents, or anic of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the of the
said Invenĉon or Invenčons, or in anie matter or thing concerneing the same.
Provided alwayes, that if at anie tyme dureing the said terme of fowertecne
yeares, it shall be made appeare vnto vs, our heyres or successors, that this our
graunt is contrary to lawe, or Piudiciall or inconvenient, and not of publicke
vse or benefitt, or that the same Invenĉon or Inventons, or either of them,
are noe newe Invenĉon or Invenčons of the said James Weims the father, as
to the publicke vse and exercise thereof within this or anie other our relmes
or diminions, then vpon significačon and declaracon thereof, to be made by vs,
our heyres or successors, these our Lřes Patents, as vnto such and soc much
thereof as shall be so signified & declared to be contrary to lawe or piu-
dicial or inconvenient, and not of publicke vsc or benefitt, or noe newe
Invenčon or Invenĉons of the said James Weims the father, as aforesaid,
shall forthwith cease, determine, & be vtterly voyd to all intents and pur-
poses, and the same not to be further vsed, exercised, or imployed, anic thing
herein-before menconed to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that
these our Lies Patents, or anything herein conteined, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge to the said James Weims the father
and James Weims the sonne, or eyther of them, theyr or cither of their
exccutors, administrators, or assignes, or anie of them, to vse or imitate anie
Invenčon or worke found out or invented by anie other person or persons,
and publickly exercised within this our said relmes, or anic the dominions or
terretoryes thereto belonging, vnto whom wee have already graunted our like
Lies Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, & benefitt thereof; itt
being our will and pleasure that the said James Weims the father and James
Weims the sonne, theyr executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singuler other person or persons to whom wee have already graunted our like
Lies Patent of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practize their
several Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective Lies Patents and of
these presents. And lastly, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heyres and
successors, graunt vnto the said James Weims the father and James Weims
the sonne, their executors, administrators, and assigns, that these our Lřes
Patents, or the inrollem thereof, shall be in and by all things good, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true intent and meanene-
ing thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favorable and
beneficial for the best benefitt and advantage of the said James Weims the

page_text: father and James Weims the sonne, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all our courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding
the not full & certeine discribeing the manner and qualitic of the said In-
venčon or Invencons, or of the materialls, way, and manner of makeing
thereof, or of the true and certeine vse and benefitt thereof, and notwith-
standing anie other defects, incerteintyes, or impfeccons in these sents
conteined, anic act, statute, ordinance, pvision, proclamacon,
restreint to the contrary thereof in anic wise notwithstanding.
or
In witnes Ste Witnos the King at Westmi, the Fower and twentieth
day of March.
P bie de privat sigill.