AN ENGINE FOR THE PUMPING OF WATER, AND HATH LIKEWISE INVENTED AND PERFECTED SEVERALL OTHER WATER WORKES AND MILLS FOR THE DREYNEING OF GROUNDS AND RAISEING OF WATER TO A GREAT HEIGHT, FOR THE SERVICE OF CITIES, TOWNES, OR CASTLES
Year: 1675

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WHEREAS our loving subject JAMES WARD hath by his humble peticon
informed vs that hee hath, with great study, paines, and charge invented and
made "AN ENGINE FOR THE PUMPING OF WATER, AND HATH LIKEWISE INVENTED
AND PERFECTED SEVERALL OTHER WATER WORKES AND MILLS FOR THE DREYNEING OF
GROUNDS AND RAISEING OF WATER TO A GREAT HEIGHT, FOR THE SERVICE OF CITIES,
TOWNES, OR CASTLES," and doth therefore humbly desire our grant of licence and
priviledge for the sole vse, benefitt, and exercise of his said Inventons for the
terme of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided, out of our princely inclinacon to promote and incourage such
invenĉons as may bee for the vse and service of the publique, wee
graciously pleased to condiscend thereunto.
are
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said James
Ward, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and
sole power, priviledge, and authority, that hec, and they by him and them-
selves, and by his and their deputies, servants, and workmen, and noe others,
sball and may dureing the terme of fourteene yeares next ensueing the date
of these Presents, vse, practise, exercise, and enioy the said arts or Inventons,

page_text: & either of them, within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him or them shall seeme
meet, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing
thereby, or by reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy the said licenses,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and other the premisses hereby granted
or intended to bee granted to the said James Ward, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these Presents, for and
durcing the terme of fourteene yeares from thence next ensueing, and fully to
bee compleat and ended according to the Statute in that case made and
provided. And to the end the said James Ward, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them may the better enjoy the full and whole
benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said arts or invenĉons & either
of them, aswell within the liberties as without, wee doc by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly charge and command all
and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever
degree, name, or addicon they bee, that they nor any of them durcing the
terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doc or shall vso
or put in practice the said arts or Invenĉons, or either of them by the said
James Ward invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeit,
mitate, or resemble the same arts or Inventons, or any the inward worke
thereof in anywise, nor doc or shall make any addicon thereunto or sub-
stracton from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or
devisors thereof without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said James
Ward, his executors, adm's or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hands
and scales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of
this our command in that behalfe, and further to be answerable vnto the said
James Ward, his executors, administrators, or assignes, according to law and
justice, for his and their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by
these sents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
James Ward, his executor, administrators, and assignes, full power and
authority, that hec, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of their
deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them (haveing first obteyned a warrant
in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's Bench for
the time being), may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull
officer, aswell within the liberties as without, vpon request at convenient
times in the day durcing the time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and
make search in any houses, shopps, or other places where there shall be iust
cause of suspicion for discovering and finding out of all such persons as shall

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within the terme of fouretecne yeares imitate or cause to bee imitated, or shall
vse or put in practice the said arts or Inventons or either of them, soe by the
said James Ward invented and contrived as aforesaid, that soe such offenders
may bee proceeded against and punished according to their demeritts.
farther, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successo", will,
authorize, and require all and singular justices of the peace, majors, sheriff's,
baylifse, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires
and successors for the time being, that they and every of them respectively bee
from time to time dureing the said terme hereby granted in their respective
places favouring, aydeing, helping and assisting vnto the said James Ward,
his executo", administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputie and
deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about the accom-.
plishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and
execution of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or men-
coned to be granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee will and command by
these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers or any of
them doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said James Ward, his executors,
adm", or assignes, or his or their deputie, deputies, servants, or agents, or any
of them in or about the vse or exercise of the said arts or Invenĉons in any
matter or thing concerning the same: Provided always, that if at any timo
durcing the said terme of fourteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councel, that this
grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to our common weale, or that the said arts
or Invenĉons are not new arts or invenčons of the said James Ward as to the
vse and practice thereof within our Kingdome of England, then, vpon signifi-
cacon and declaračon to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or
their signett or privie seale, or by the Lords and others of our Privy Councell,
or six or more of them for the time being, in writing vnder their hands of such
Piudice and inconvenience, these our Letters Patents and all things therein
contained, shall forthwith cease, determine, and bec vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwith-
standing: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents or any thing therein
contained shall extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the
said James Ward, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse, or imitate any invenĉon or worke found out or invented by any other
person or persons (and publickly exercised in this our Kingdome of England),
vnto whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge
for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure
that the James Ward, his executors, adms, and assigues, and all and singular

page_text: other person or persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent
and meaning of the said severall and respective Letters Patents and of these
Presents. And, lastly, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said James Ward,his executor, adm", and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents and the inrollment thereof shall bee in and by
all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meaneing of these Psents, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged most favourably and beneficially, for the best benefitt and
advantage of the said James Ward, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
aswell in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describeing of the said arts or Invenĉons, or either of
them, or of the certaine vse and benefitt of them or either of them, and not-
withstanding any other defects, incertainties, or imperfections in these psents
contained, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse, &c.
May it please yo' most excellent Matio.
This conteynes yo" Matic's grant vnto James Ward and his assignes of the
sole benefitt of his new invented engine for the pumping of water, wch by the
strength of one man shall pump two tunns of water in a minute's time, and
severall other water workes and mills for the dreyncing of grounds and raiseing
This conteynes yo' Matic's grant vnto James Ward and his assignes of the
sole benefitt of his new invented engine for the pumping of water, wch by the
strength of one man shall pump two tunns of water in a minute's time, and
severall other water workes and mills for the dreyncing of grounds and raiseing
of water to a great height for the service of cities, townes, or castles, for the
terme of 14 yeares, with such powers, prohibicons, and provisoes as are vsuall
in grants of like nature.
Signifyed to bee yo' Matic's pleasure vnder yo' royall signe manuall.
WI. JONES,
7 Dec. 1675