A NEW INVENTION OR WAY FOR THE MAKEING OF SALT CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN ANY WAS EVER VSED BEFORE IN ANY OF OUR DOMINIONS, WHICH BEING TRYED MANY YEARES SINCE, BEFORE PERSONS OF THE BEST QUALITY AND SKILL IN SUCH AFFAIRES, WAS APPROVED AS A THING THAT WOULD (IF PUTT IN PRACTICE) BE OF GENERALL VSE AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUB- IECT, AND THAT HE HAVEING SINCE MUCH IMPROVED THE SAID INVENCON BY SEVE- RALL NEW ADDICONS, AND ALSOE FOUND OUT AN OTHER VERY VSEFULL INVENCON FOR THE DREINING AND DRAWING OF WATER OUT OF BRINE PITT AND MYNES WITH GREATER EASE AND SPEED AND LESSE CHARGE THEN IS DONE BY ANY OTHER MEANES YET VSED FOR THE LIKE OCCASIONS
Year: 1682

page_text: these present shall come, greeting.
.. WHEREAS JOHN DASON, Gentleman, hath, by his humble peticon, repre-
sented vnto vs that by greate paines, study, and expence, both of time and
money, he hath found out "A NEW INVENTION OR WAY FOR THE MAKEING OF
SALT CHEAPER AND BETTER THAN ANY WAS EVER VSED BEFORE IN ANY OF OUR
DOMINIONS, WHICH BEING TRYED MANY YEARES SINCE, BEFORE PERSONS OF THE
BEST QUALITY AND SKILL IN SUCH AFFAIRES, WAS APPROVED AS A THING THAT
WOULD (IF PUTT IN PRACTICE) BE OF GENERALL VSE AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUB-
IECT, AND THAT HE HAVEING SINCE MUCH IMPROVED THE SAID INVENCON BY SEVE-
RALL NEW ADDICONS, AND ALSOE FOUND OUT AN OTHER VERY VSEFULL INVENCON
FOR THE DREINING AND DRAWING OF WATER OUT OF BRINE PITT AND MYNES
WITH GREATER EASE AND SPEED AND LESSE CHARGE THEN IS DONE BY ANY OTHER
MEANES YET VSED FOR THE LIKE OCCASIONS;" and in regard the said peticoner
is an alien and not capable of takeing a grant in his owne name, having
humbly besought vs to grant vnto WILLIAM MARBURY, Esquire, our Letters
Patent for the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčons in this or any
other of our kingdomes and dominions for the terme of foureteene yeares
according to the statute in this case provided.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being desireous to encourage the Inventers of
such arts as may be of publicke vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these

page_text: presents for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said
William Marbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence,
full and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that he and they, by himselfe
and themselves, or by his or theire deputy or deputies, servants, workemen, or
agents, and noc other, shall and may, dureing the terme of foureteene yeares
next ensucing the date hereof, vse, practice, exercise, enioy, and put in
execučon the said arts or Invenčons within our kingdome of England, or any
other our dominions, in such manner as to him or them shall seeme meete,,
and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing thereby; to
have, hold, and enioy the said licence, power, priviledge, and anthority, and
other the premisses hereby granted or intended to be granted to the said
William Marbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day
of the date of these presents, for and dureing the terme of foureteene yeares
from thence next ensueing, fully to be compleate and ended, according to
the statute in that case made and provided; and to the end that he, the .said
William Marbury, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may the better enjoy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invenčons, aswell within liberties as without, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly charge
and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate,
that they, or any of them, doc not or shall not, dureing the terme of yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, vse or put in practice the said
artes or Inventons, or either of them, nor doc or shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor doc or shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventors or
devisers thereof without the licence, consent, or agreement of him, the said
William Marbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder.
his or theire hande and seales, first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such
paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the
contempt of this our comand; and further, to be answereable to the said
William Marbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for his or
theire damages susteyned thereby. And further, wee doe by these presents for
vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said William Marbury,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that he,
they, his and theire deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or any of them,
haveing first obteyned a warrant in that 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 liberties as without, vpon
request att convenient times in the day dureing the time aforesaid, and in

page_text: lawful manner, enter and make search in any place or places where there
shall be iust cause of suspicon for discovering and findeing out of all such
persons as shall within the said terme of foureteene yeares imitate or cause
to be imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice, the said artes or Invenčons, or
either of them, that soc such offenders may be proceeded against and
punished according to theire demerites. And further, wee doe by these
present for. vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require all and.
singuler iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors, for the time
being, that they, and every of them respectively be from time to time dureing
the said terme hereby granted in theire respective places, favouring, aiding,
helpeing, and assisting vnto the said William Marbury, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and his or theire deputy or deputyes, servants
and agents, or any of them, in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execucon of the powers and
priviledges herein and hereby granted or menčoned to be granted as aforesaid.
And morcover, wee will and comand by these presents for vs, our heires and
successors, that our said officers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said William Marbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or his or theire deputy or deputies, servant or agents, or any of them, in or
about the vse or exercise of the said arts or Invenčons, or either of them, in
any matter or thing concerning the same: Provided allwayes, that if att any
time durcing the said terme of foureteene yeares itt shall be mado appeare to
vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy Councell,
that this grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to our cömon wealth, or if there
be any abuse in the said Invenĉons, or either of them, discovered, or that the
said Invenčons are not new Invenĉons as to the vse and practice thereof
within this our kingdome, then vpon significacon and declaracon to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy scale, or
by the lorde and others of our or theire Privy Councell, or six or more of
them for the time being in writeing vnder theire hande, of such preiudice and
inconvenience or abuse, these our Letters Patents, and all things therein
conteyned shall forthwith cease, determine, and be ytterly 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 herein
conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said William Marbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke found out or invented by
any other person or persons, and publickly exercised in our kingdome of

page_text: England or dominion of Wales, vnto whome wee have already granted our
1 ke Letters Pattents or priviledge for the sole vse and benefitt thereof; itt
being our will and pleasure that the said William Marbury, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all other person and persons to whome we
have already granted our like Letters Patents or priviledge, shall distinctly
vse and practice theire severall Invenčons by them invented and found out
according to the true intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective
Letters Patents and of these presents. And lastly, wee doe by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said William Marbury, his
exccutors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollement thereof, shall be in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and
effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meancing of these
presents, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and
beneficially for the best benefitt and advantage of the said William Marbury,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as
elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing of the said
art or Invenĉons or either of them, or of the certaine vso or benefitt thereof,
and notwithstanding any other defects or incertainties in these presente
conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, or restreint to the contrary
in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the One and thirtieth