"A NEW SORT OF WATCH OR CLOCK WITH THE BALLANCE WHEELE OF SWING WHEELE EITHER FLATT OR HOLLOW, TO WORKE WITHIN AND CROSSE THE CENTER OF THE VERGE OR AXIS OF THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM, WITH A NEW SORT OF TEETH MADE LIKE TINTERHOOK, TO MOVE THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM WITHALL, AND THE PALLETT OF THE AXIS OR VERGE OF THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM!:ARE TO: BE CIRCULAR, CONCAVE, AND CONVEX, OR OTHER TEETH OR PALLETTE THAT WILL NOT GOE BUT BY THE HELPE OF THE SPRING TO THE BALLANCE, WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH WATCH OR CLOCK GOB MORE TRUE AND EXACT, AND BE OF GREATER VSE TO OUR SUBIECT BOTH AT SEA AND LAND,THAN ANY OTHER HERETOFORE MADE. ORNOW USED
Year: 1695

page_text: WILLIAM THE THIRD by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
Psente shall come greeting..
WHEREAS EDWARD BOOTH, of Wulston, in the County of Lanc, Gent,
WILLIAM HOUGHTON, of Chorley, in the said County of Lanč, Gent., and
THOMAS TOMPION, Clockmaker, have by their peticon repsented that they
have with great study, charge, and paines invented and brought to pfeccon
"A NEW SORT OF WATCH OR CLOCK WITH THE BALLANCE WHEELE OF SWING
WHEELE EITHER FLATT OR HOLLOW, TO WORKE WITHIN AND CROSSE THE CENTER OF
THE VERGE OR AXIS OF THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM, WITH A NEW SORT OF TEETH
MADE LIKE TINTERHOOK, TO MOVE THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM WITHALL, AND THE
PALLETT OF THE AXIS OR VERGE OF THE BALLANCE OR PENDULUM!:ARE TO: BE
CIRCULAR, CONCAVE, AND CONVEX, OR OTHER TEETH OR PALLETTE THAT WILL NOT
GOE BUT BY THE HELPE OF THE SPRING TO THE BALLANCE, WHICH WILL MAKE SUCH
WATCH OR CLOCK GOB MORE TRUE AND EXACT, AND BE OF GREATER VSE TO OUR
SUBIECT BOTH AT SEA AND LAND, THAN ANY OTHER HERETOFORE MADE. OR NOW
USED;" and the said Edward Booth, William Houghton; and Thomas Tompion,
have humbly prayed our Letters Patent for the sole makeing, vse, and
benefitt of the said Invenčon, for the terme of fourteene yeares according to
the Statute in that behalfe.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being gratiously pleased to con-
descend to that their request, and willing to incourage the inventers of such
arte as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall graco, certaine
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these psente¨

page_text: for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Edward
Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their executors, adminis
trators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority
that they, the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion
and every of them, their and every of their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputyes,
servant or agente, or such others as they the said Edward Booth, William
Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all
times dureing the terme of yeares herein-after expssed, shall and lawfully may
vse, excise and enioy the said Invenčon within any part or parte, place or
places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our Kingdomes of England and
Ireland, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and
every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitačons as to them
tho said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discreccons
seem meet; and that they the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and
Thomas Tompion, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole benefitt, pfitt, comodity, and and advantage from timo
to time comeing, groweing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and
dureing the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, excise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein and
hereby granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Edward Booth,
William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, theire executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen
yeares from the date of these psente next and immediately ensueing, and
fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in this case made and
pvided. And to the end that the said Edward Booth, William Houghton,
and Thomas Tompion, and every of them, their and every of their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt
and the sole makeing, vse, and excise of the said Invenčon according to our
gratious intendons herein-before declared, wee doc by these psente for vs,
our heires and successors require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodyes politique and corporate, and all other our subiect(
whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever
they be, within all and every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither
they nor any of them at any time dureing the continueance of the said
terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly doo

page_text: Vse or putt in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the same soe
attained vnto by the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas
Tompion as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves the inventers or devisers
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Edward Booth,
William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writeing vnder their or some of their hande and seales first had
and obtayned 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 Edward Booth, William
Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to law, for their or any of their damages thereby occasioned. And
moreover wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffe, con-
stables, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors for the time being, that they or any of them doe not,
nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any-
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and
Thomas Tompion, or any or either of them, or any or either of their executors,
administrators, or assigns, or their or any or either of their deputies, servante,
or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or excise of the aforesaid
invenčon, or any thing relating therevnto. Pvided allwayes, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time
dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares 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 Piudiciall or incon-
venient to our subiecte in generall, or that the said Iuvenčon is not a new
Invenčon as to the publick vse and excise thereof within this our kingdome,
and not invented and found out by the said Edward Booth, William Houghton,
and Thomas Tompion as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett
or privy seale, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill,
or any six or more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void, to all intente and pur-
poses, anything before herein conteyned to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing: Pvided alsoe, that our Letters Patent, or any thing herein conteyned,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, or any of them,

page_text: their or any of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath been here-
tofore found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or excised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of
them, vnto whome like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already
granted, for the sole vsc, excise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas
Tompion, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other person and persons to whome like letters or priviledge have been
already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaneing of the same respective Letters Patent and of these psente. And,
lastly, wce doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said Edward Booth, William Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, theire exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the
Inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, firme, valid, sufficient,
and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficial sense for the best advantage of the said Edward Booth, William
Houghton, and Thomas Tompion, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
aswell in all Courte of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and
singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every
the subiect of vs, our heires and successors, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the
materiall thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse, Thomas Archbishopp of Canterbury and the
rest of the Keepers and Justices of the Kingdome, at Westin, the
Three-and-twentieth day of September.
Dhro do privato sigillo. &c.