AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF RAISING WATER BY A MUCH DEEPER, EXTENSIVE, AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS WAY OF SUCKING AND FORCHING AND FORCHING IT THAN WAS EVER YET OR COULD BE EFFECTED BY THE LEAVER AND CRANK
Year: 1721

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WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN ORLEBAR, Gentleman, hath by
his petičon humbly represented vnto vs that he had with long study and
expence lately found out and invented "AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF RAISING
WATER BY A MUCH DEEPER, EXTENSIVE, AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS WAY OF SUCKING
AND FORCHING AND FORCHING IT THAN WAS EVER YET OR COULD BE EFFECTED BY
THE LEAVER AND CRANK," and which is the petičoners sole Invention; that
this new Invention is pformed by rotačon or circular motion of wheeles,
without either leaver or crank, and though some thing to the like intent had
been vainly attempted for many yeares past, yet the peticoner had now brought
it to such perfecčon that the same should vndoubtedly prove of very great
vse and benefit to our subiecte, for as much as he verily beleives that this
new method will raise water higher and at much less expence than hitherto
done; and having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents
for the sole vse and benefit of his said Invention in England, Wales, Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in our Plantačons; for the ferme of fourteen
yeares, according to the Statute in that behalfe, wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the publick vse
and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and-meer močon, have given and granted; and by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said John Orlebar, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full power, sole pri-
vildge and authority, that he the said John Orlebar, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe, or by his deputy and
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said John Orlebar, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no!
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and vend the said new
Invenčon of raising water by rotačon or circular močon of wheels, without
either leaver or crank, as above described, in that part of our Kingdome of
Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, and in our Plantačons in America, in such manner as to him,
the said John Orlebar, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discrecons seem meet; and that he, the said John
Orlebar, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may
have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time
to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said
Invenčon, for and during the term of yeares herein menčoned; to have, hold,
exorcise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-befor granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said John Orlebar,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full
end and term of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Presents
next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said
John Orlebar, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said
Invenčon according to our gratious intenčon berein-before declared, and
wee do, by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condičon soever they be, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and in our Plantačons in America aforesaid, that neither they or any of
them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doo make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invention so attained vnto by the said John Orlabar as aforesaid,
nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or
cause to be made any addičon thereunto or substracčon from the same,
whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor
or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said

page_text: John Orlebar, his executors, administrators, or assignes, vnder his or their
hands and seals first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their con-
tempt of this our royal comand, and further to be answerable to the said
John Orlebar, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for his or their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by
these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and
singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, 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 term hereby granted, in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said John Orlebar, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, their, or any of their deputies, servants, or agents,
in or about the due and lawfull vso or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or
any thing relating thereto: Provided always, that these our Letters Patents
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 Councill, that this our grant is contrary to
law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the said
Invenĉon is not a new invention 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-vpon-Tweed, or in our Plantacons
in America aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said John Orlebar
as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by
vs, our heires or successors, vader our or their signet or privy seal, or by
the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more
of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also,
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Orlebar, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon 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,
our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or in our Plan-
tacons in America, as aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or pri-
viledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John Orlebar, .his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and
persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invenĉons by
them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of
the same respectivo Letters Patent and of these Presente: Provided like-
wise nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express con-
dičon, that if the said John Orlebar, 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 clayme any right, title, or interest in
law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse
and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transfers
or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assignment, of the said liberty
and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit 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 subscripcons to be made by any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes 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 sumes 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 benefit of these our
Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any
number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall comitt or do, or
procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, during
such time as such person shall have any right or title, either in law or
equity, to the said premisses, which will be contrary to the true intent and
meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of our reign,
intituled An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges
intended to be granted by His Maiesty by Two Charters of Assurance of
Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restrayning severall extravegant and vnwarrantable Practices therein men-
Coned), if these our Letters Patente had not been granted, or in case the
said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested
in or in trust for more than the number of five persons, or their repre-
sentatives, at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for
the single 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,

page_text: priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Orlebar, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or
the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law according to the true 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 John
Orlebar, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts
of 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-
vpon-Tweed, or in our Plantačons in America, as aforesaid, and amongst all
and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.