A CERTEINE ENGINE WITH PIPES AND BAGG FOR THE RAYSING OF WATER, WHEREIN ALL FRICTION BEING TAKEN AWAY, A THING NEVER HITHERTO FOUND OUT BY ANY OTHER PERSON, MORE WATER CAN BE TAKEN VP, AND WITH FARR LESSE CHARGE THEN BY ANY OTHER WAY ASYETT KNOWNE, AND WILL NOT ONLY PROVE OF GREATE VSE FOR THE DREYNING OF ALL KINDE OF MYNES,BUT MAY ALSO BE APPLYED WITH SINGULER ADVANTAGE FOR THE CLEERING OF SHIPPS FROM WATER AND WATERING OF GROUND FARR BEYOND THE WAY OF PUMPES FORMERLY VSED OR LATELY FOUND OUT; AS ALSO A NEWE ART AND MISTERY NEVER HERETOFORE KNOWNE FOR TINGEING OF SILKES, SATTENS, AND STUFF BY WAY OF IMPRESSION AND OTHERWISE TO THE LIVELYNES OF PAINTING IN ALL KINDE OF FIGURES AND LANDSKIPP FOR THE VSE OF HANGING AND ANY OTHER FURNITURES ANSWEREABLE THEREVNTO, OR OF THE LIKE NATURE
Year: 1675

page_text: theis present shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have bin informed, by the humble peticon of our trusty
and welbeloved THOMAS TOGOOD, Gentleman, that he hath, at his great
charge and expence, invented and found out, "A CERTEINE ENGINE WITH PIPES
AND BAGG FOR THE RAYSING OF WATER, WHEREIN ALL FRICTION BEING TAKEN AWAY,
A THING NEVER HITHERTO FOUND OUT BY ANY OTHER PERSON, MORE WATER CAN BE
TAKEN VP, AND WITH FARR LESSE CHARGE THEN BY ANY OTHER WAY ASYETT KNOWNE,
AND WILL NOT ONLY PROVE OF GREATE VSE FOR THE DREYNING OF ALL KINDE OF
MYNES, BUT MAY ALSO BE APPLYED WITH SINGULER ADVANTAGE FOR THE CLEERING OF
SHIPPS FROM WATER AND WATERING OF GROUND FARR BEYOND THE WAY OF PUMPES
FORMERLY VSED OR LATELY FOUND OUT; AS ALSO A NEWE ART AND MISTERY NEVER
HERETOFORE KNOWNE FOR TINGEING OF SILKES, SATTENS, AND STUFF BY WAY OF
IMPRESSION AND OTHERWISE TO THE LIVELYNES OF PAINTING IN ALL KINDE OF
FIGURES AND LANDSKIPP FOR THE VSE OF HANGING AND ANY OTHER FURNITURES
ANSWEREABLE THEREVNTO, OR OF THE LIKE NATURE."
KNOWE YE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give all due encou-
ragement to the inventors of such arte as may be of publique vse and benefitt,
of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and
granted, and by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and
grant vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
especiall licence, full and sole priviledge, power, and authority, that he and

page_text: they, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputies, servante, and
workemen, and noe others, shall and may, during the terme of foureteene
yeares next ensuing the date of theis Presente, vse, practice, excrcise, and
enioy the said newe Invenčons, within our said kingdome of England,
dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to
him or them shall seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefit and
advantage arriscing thereby or by reason thereof, to have, hould, and enioy
the said licences, powers, priviledges, authorities, and other the premisses
hereby granted or intended to be granted vnto the said Thomas Togood, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of theis
Presente, for and during the ternic of foureteene yeares from thence next
ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; and to the end that the said Thomas Togood, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better
enioy the full and wholle benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said
Invenĉons, aswell within liberties as without, wee doe by theis Presente, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and comand all and every person and
persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or
addičon they be, that they, nor any of them, during the terme of yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in practice the
said art or Invenĉons so by the said Thomas Togood, invented or contrived as
aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe
or shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Togood, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writing, vnder his or their 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 in that behalfe,
and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Togood, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, according to lawe and iustice, for his and their
damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by theis Presente, for vs,
our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said Thomas Togood, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that he, they,
and every of them, his, their, and every of their deputies, servante, or agente,
or any of them, having first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord
Chiefe Justice of the Court of Kinge 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 lawfull manner; énter and make search in any houses, shopps,

page_text: or other places where shall be just cause of suspicon for discovering and
finding out of all such persons as shall, within the terme of foureteene yeares
aforesaid, imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the
said arte or Invenĉons so by the said Thomas Togood invented and contrived as
aforesaid, that so such offenders may be proceeded against and punished
according to their demeritte. And further, wee doc by theis Presente, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorise, and require all and singuler iustices
of the peace, maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors for the tyme being,
and every of them respectively, be from tyme to tyme during the said terme
hereby granted, in their respective places, favouring, ayding, helping, and
assisting vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and to
his and 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
the exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby
granted, or menconed to be granted, as aforesaid; and moreover, wee will and
comand by theis presente, for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers,
or any of them, doc not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Thomas Togood,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or their deputy or deputies,
servante, or agent, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said
or Invenĉons, or any of them, in any matter or thing concerning the same:
Provided allwayes, that if at any tyme during the said terme of foureteenc
yeares it shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or
more of our or their Privy Councell, that this grant is contrary to lawe or preiu-
diciall or inconvenient, or not of publique vsc orbenefit, then, vpon significacon
and declaračon to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lordf and others of our Privy Councell, or
six of them for the tyme being, in writing under their hande, of such preiudice
or inconvenience, theis our Letters Patente, and all thing therein conteyned,
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be voide to all intente and purposes,
any thing before herein conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. And lastly,
wee doc by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the
said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis our
Letters Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true intent and
meaning of theis Presente, and shall be iudged, construed, and taken most
favourably and beneficially for the best benefit and advantage of the said
Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our
Court of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certeine

page_text: describing the manner and qualities of the said arte or Invenĉons, or of the
certeine vse or benefit of them, or either of them, and notwithstanding any
other defecte, incerteinties, or imperfeccons in theis presente conteyned, or
any act, statute, ordinance, proclamacon, or restraint to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding.
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