MAKEING OF BRASSE, AND THEREOF PLATES FOR KETTLES AND THE LIKE, NEVER YET MADE IN ENGLAND, WITH MATERIALLS OF THE NATIVE GROWTH OF THIS KINGDOME, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE
Year: 1691

page_text: presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and wellbeloved THOMAS NEALE, Esquire, hath by
his humble petition represented vnto vs that with great paines and charges he
is come to the knowledge of "MAKEING OF BRASSE, AND THEREOF PLATES FOR
KETTLES AND THE LIKE, NEVER YET MADE IN ENGLAND, WITH MATERIALLS OF THE
NATIVE GROWTH OF THIS KINGDOME, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT VSE AND
ADVANTAGE;" and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him, by our Letters, the
sole vse of the said new Invention, dureing the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that bis request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of Our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas Neale, his
execs, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge,
and authority, that he, the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their deputy and
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Thomas Neale, his
executors, administrators, or assigns, 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 vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invention,
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to

page_text: our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, and all and every or any of our dominions whatsoever, in such manner,
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons as to him,
the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seeme meet; and that he, the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, commodity, and advantage, from time to time
comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing
the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein before granted or
menčoned to be granted vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing,
and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the Statute in this case
made and provided. And to the end that the said Thomas Neale, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enjoy the full benefitt,
and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious
intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and psons,
bodyes politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, and degree, name or condicon scever they be, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any
time durcing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practice the said
Invention, or any part of the same, soe attained vnto by the said Thomas
Neale, as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeite or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto, or substraction from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Neale, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of
their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines
and penalties 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
Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe of our further
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, by these Presents, that he, they, and every of them, and his,
their, and every of their deputies, servants, and agents (haveing first obtained

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a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench,
at Westminster, for the time being, and with the assistance of a constable, or
any other lawful officer, at convenient times in the daytime, dureing the terme
hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in
any place or places whatsoever, within any of our kingdomes or dominions
(where there shall be iust cause of suspition), for the discovery and finding out
of all and every person and persons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated,
or shall vse or put in practice the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeite
any instruements or materials to the same belonging, that soe such offender or
offenders may be proceeded against and punished according to law.
further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorize, and command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
Layliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever, of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, aswell within our
Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales as within all and every other our
Kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively be from
time to time dureing the terme hereby granted in their respective offices, favour-
ing, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Thomas Neale, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputies, servants
and agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execution of
the powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee
dce by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command that
our respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not
nor shall at any time hereafter. durcing the said terme hereby granted, in any-
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas Neale, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or
about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any-
thing relating thereto: Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time dureing the terme hereby
granted it shall be made appeare 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 subiects in generall, or that the said Inven-
tion is not a new Invention, as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within
this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Thomas Neale
as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy scale, or by the
Lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them,
viler their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,

page_text: and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything before herein con-
tained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these
our Letters Patents, or anything therein contained, shall not extend, or be
construed to extend, to give priviledge vuto the said Thomas Neale, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Invention 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 realmes and dominions, or any of them vnto whome
like Letters Patents of priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patents, and of these Presents. And
lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said Thomas Neale, 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 meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the
most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said Thomas
Neale, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of
Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatso-
ever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and
dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires
and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selves at Westminster, the Fifth day of
September.