A NEW AND PERFECT INVENCON OF HEARTHS OF CAST IRON, BRASSE, OR COPPER, WHICH WILL NOT ONLY BE DURABLE, BUT VSEFULL IN ALL KIND OF CHIMNEYS AND FOR ALL SORT OF FUELL, AND VERY MUCH PREVENT THE GREAT EXPENCE THEREOF
Year: 1667

page_text: PATENT.
CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome theis
present shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee are informed by our servante Sir SAMUELL MORELAND,
Knight and Baronett, RICHARD WIGMOBE, ROBERT LINDSEY, and TпоMAS
CULPEPER, Esquiers, that by their greate studdy and charge they have found
out "A NEW AND PERFECT INVENCON OF HEARTHS OF CAST IRON, BRASSE, OR
COPPER, WHICH WILL NOT ONLY BE DURABLE, BUT VSEFULL IN ALL KIND OF
CHIMNEYS AND FOR ALL SORT OF FUELL, AND VERY MUCH PREVENT THE GREAT
EXPENCE THEREOF :" And whereas the said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard
Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, have humbly desired our
Royall graunt of licence and priviledge for the sole vse and benefit of their
said Invenčon within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales,
for and during the terme of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that
behalfe made and provided.
KNOWE YE, that wee, of our princely inclinacon, being willing to give
all fitting and due incouragement to the inventors of such arte as may be of
publique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere
močon, and vpon the humble petičon of the said Sir Samuell Moreland,
Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, have given and
graunted, and by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give
and graunt vnto the said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert

page_text: Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall licence, full power, priviledge, and authority, that they and either
and every of them, by themselves, their or any of their deputy or deputies,
servant, workemen, and assignes, at all tymes, and from tyme to tyme here-
after during the terme of yeares hereafter in theis Presente expressed, shall
and may have, vse, exercise, ymploy, and enioy the said newe Invenčon in
and throughout our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales, and
in and throughout all and singuler other our dominions and countries, and
every or any of them, in such manner as to them, either or any of them,
in their discrecons shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and onioy
the sole benefitt and advantage coming or arrising thereby or by reason
thereof during the terme of yeares hereby graunted; and to the end the said
Sir Samuel Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas
Culpeper, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may the better enioy the full and wholle benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise
of their said Invenĉon, aswell within liberties as without, wee doe by theis
Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly comand
all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever
quality, degree, name, or addičon they be, that neither they nor any of them
during the terme of yeares hereby graunted, either directly or indirectly, doe or
shall vse or put in practice the said Invenčon, so by the said Sir Samuell
Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, invented
or attayned vnto as aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeitė, imitate, or resemble
the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon therevnto or substraccon from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof,
without the licence, consent, and agreement of the said Sir Samuell Moreland,
Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder their or either of their handes
and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offendors for their contempt of
this our 'comaund in that belialfe, and further to be auns wereable to the said
Sir Samuel Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas
Culpeper, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to lawe and
justice for their damages thereby susteyned; to have and to hould all and
every the licences, powers, privileges, and authorities hereby graunted o
menconed to be graunted as aforesaid, vnto the said Sir Samuell Moreland
Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, their executors
administrators, and assignes, aswell within liberties as without, for and during
the terme of fourteeñe yeares from the making of theis Presente next ensuing

page_text: and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in such case
made and provided; yeelding and paying therefore yearely and every yeare
during the said terme into our receipt of the Exchequer at Westñi, to and for
the vse of vs, our heires and successors, the yearely rent or sume of forty
shilling of lawfull money of England, at the Feast of Sainct Michaell the
Archangell and the Añunciacon of the Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin, by
even and equal porcons. And further wee doe by theis Presente, for vs, our
heires and successors, give and graunt vnto the said Sir Samuell Moreland,
Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that they and every
or any of them, their, every, or any of their deputies, servante, and agente,
or any of them, having first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the
Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may
with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within
liberties as without, vpon request at convenient tymes in the day, during the
tyme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses 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 fourteene yeares
aforesaid, imitate or cause to be imitated or shall vse or put in practice the
said Invenĉon, soc by the said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore,
Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper found out and attayned vnto as afore-
said, that soc such offendors may be proceeded against and punished according
to their demeritte. And further wee doe, by theis Presente, for vs, our heires
and successors, will, authorise, and require all and singuler justices of peace,
maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other .officers
and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, for the tyme being,
that they and every of them respectively be from time to time during the said
terme hereby granted in their respective places favouring, ayding, helping,
and assisting vnto the said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert
Lindsey, and Thomas Culpeper, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and to their and every of their deputy and deputies, servante and agente, in
and by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure
herein declared, and in the exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges
herein and hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid, and more-
over wee will and.comand by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors,
that our said officers and ministers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey,
and Thomas. Culpepper, theire executors, administrators, or assignes, or theire
or any of theire deputy or deputyes, servante or agente, or any of them, in or

page_text: about the vse or exercise of the said Invencon or in any matter or thing
concerning the same. Pvided alwayes, that if at any tyme during the said
termo of foureteene yeares it shall be made appeare vnto vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this our
graunt is contrary to law, or preiudiciall, or inconvenient, or not of publique
vse or benefit, or that the making of such hearths of cast iron is not a new
Invencon of the said Sir Samuel Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert
Lindsey, and Thomas Culpepper, as to the publique vse or exercise thereof,
within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales aforesaid, then vpon
significacon and declaracon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
these our Letters Patente, and all thing therein conteined, shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be void to all intente and purposes, and the said
Invenčon not to be further vsed, exercised, or imployed by virtue or colour
thereof, anything herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided alsoe, that if the said Sir Samuel Moreland, Richard Wigmore,
Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpepper, theire executors, administrators, and
assignes, doe not inroll these psente, or cause the same to be inrolled, before
the Clarke of the Pipe, within six moneths next after the date hereof, or if
the said yearly rent hereby reserved or any part thereof shalbe behind or
vnpaid by the space of three moneths next after either of the said Feast on
which the same ought to be paid as aforesaid, that then alsoe and in either
of these cases these psente and the graunt hereby made shall cease and be
voyd Provided further, that these our Letters Patente or any thing therein
conteyned shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge to the
said Sir Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas
Culpepper, theire executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, to vse
or imitate any Invenĉon or worke found out or invented by any other person
or psons and publiquely exercise within this our realme or any the dominions
and territories therevnto belonging, vnto whom we have already graunted
our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt,
thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the said Sir Samuel Moreland,
Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpepper, theire executors;
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to
whom we have already graunted our like Letters Patente of priviledge as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall Invenĉons by them
invented and found out according to the true intent and meaning of the said
severall and respective Letters Patente and of these psente. And lastly, we
doe by these sente, for vs, our heires and successors, graunt vnto the said Sir
Samuell Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lindsey, and Thomas Culpepper,

page_text: theire executors, administrators, or assignes, that these our Letters Patente,
or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient,
and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning of these
Psente, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favourable and
beneficial for the best benefitt and advantage of the said Sir Samuell
Moreland, Richard Wigmore, Robert Lyndsey, and Thomas Culpepper, theire
executors, administrators, & assignes, aswell in all our Courte of Record as
elcewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certeine describing the manner
and quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialle, way, and manner of
working, making, or casting of the said bearths, or of the true and certeine
vse and benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incerteintyes,
or impfeccons in these Presente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance,
pvision, pelamacon, or restraint, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing.
In witnes, &c. Witnes our selfe at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of
January.
P bře de priuato sigillo, &c.