THE BETTER PRESERVING OF ALL SORTS OF SHIPPS OR VESSELLS FOR NAVIGATION, ALREADY BUILT OR HEREAFTER TO BE BUILT, FROM FOUNDERING KITHER AT SEA OR IN ANY HARBOURS, BAYS, RIVERS, OR CREEKS, BY REASON OF ANY LEAKES FROM GREAT SHOTT, OR BY WORMHOLES, OR BY WANT OF GOOD CAWKING, OR BY THE DECAY OF CAWKING, OR BY THE DECAY OF BOLTS, TRUNNELLS, OR PLANK, OR BY THE STARTING OR SPRINGING OF THE BUTTS OF PLANES AND OF HURD ENDE, TO BE EFFECTED BY A CONTRIVANCE OF WORKE TO BE DONE IN THE INSIDE OF ANY SHIP OR OTHER VESSELL FOR NAVIGATION (AND THAT THE SAID CONTRIVANCE OF WORKE WILL NEITHER HINDER THE SAILEING NOR THE STOWAGE) BY MEANES WHEREOF ALL WATER THAT MAY ENTER THE HOLD OF THE SHIP OR VESSELL BY REASON OF ANY LEAKE, SHALL, IN MOST, IF NOT ALL CASES BE FREED OR CAST OUT BY TWO PUMPS, PART OF THE SAID INVENTION THAT SHALL NOT TAKE VP MORE ROOME FOR REQUIRE MORE STRENGTH THAN COMO PUMPS,
Year: 1697

page_text: WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c. to all whome these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved GEORGE OLDNER, senior, and
ANDREW PRUNE, senior, of London, Merchants, have by their.humble petitions
represented vnto vs, that they have, or one of them hath lately found out a new
Invention for "THE BETTER PRESERVING OF ALL SORTS OF SHIPPS OR VESSELLS FOR
NAVIGATION, ALREADY BUILT OR HEREAFTER TO BE BUILT, FROM FOUNDERING KITHER
AT SEA OR IN ANY HARBOURS, BAYS, RIVERS, OR CREEKS, BY REASON OF ANY LEAKES
FROM GREAT SHOTT, OR BY WORMHOLES, OR BY WANT OF GOOD CAWKING, OR BY THE
DECAY OF CAWKING, OR BY THE DECAY OF BOLTS, TRUNNELLS, OR PLANK, OR BY THE
STARTING OR SPRINGING OF THE BUTTS OF PLANES AND OF HURD ENDE, TO BE
EFFECTED BY A CONTRIVANCE OF WORKE TO BE DONE IN THE INSIDE OF ANY SHIP OR
OTHER VESSELL FOR NAVIGATION (AND THAT THE SAID CONTRIVANCE OF WORKE WILL
NEITHER HINDER THE SAILEING NOR THE STOWAGE) BY MEANES WHEREOF ALL WATER
THAT MAY ENTER THE HOLD OF THE SHIP OR VESSELL BY REASON OF ANY LEAKE,
SHALL, IN MOST, IF NOT ALL CASES BE FREED OR CAST OUT BY TWO PUMPS, PART
OF THE SAID INVENTION THAT SHALL NOT TAKE VP MORE ROOME FOR REQUIRE MORE
STRENGTH THAN COMO PUMPS," and that the said Invention will be of great
vse and benefitt to our service, and alsoe to our subiects in generall, and the
said George Oldner and Andrew Prune have prayed vs to grant them our
Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of the said new Invention.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being graciously pleased to con-
discend to that their request, and willing to encourage the Inventors of all such

page_text: arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said George
Oldner and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall
lycence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority that they the said George
Oldner and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them by themselves, or their deputy and deputies, servante, or agents,
or such others as they the said George Oldner and Andrew Prune, their
executors, administrators, or assignes shall at any time agree with, and noe
others, from time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and enioy the said Inven-
tion within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging
to our Kingdomes of England and Ireland, and the dominions and territories
thereunto belonging, in such manner and according to such reasonable and
lawfull rates and limittačons as to them the said George Oldner and Andrew
Prunc, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them shall in their
discretions seemo meet. And that they, the said George Oldner and Andrew
Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes shall and may have and
enioy the sole profitt, benefitt, commodity, and advantage from time to time
comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention,
for and durcing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-before granted or menčoned to be granted vnto the said George Oldner
and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes for and
dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of
these Presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleate and
ended according to the Statute in such case made and provided: And to the end
that the said George Oldner and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefitt and the
sole makeing, vse, and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gracious intenčons herein-before declared, wee doe by these Presents for vs,
our heires, and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiccts what-
soever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condicon soever they be,
within all and every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they or any
of them at any time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invention, or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the
said George Oldner and Andrew Prune, or one of them as aforesaid, nor shall

page_text: in any wise counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or
cause to be made any addition thereto or substracčon from the same whereby
to pretend themselves the inventer or inventers, deviser or devisers thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said George Oldner and
Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes in writeing vnder
their, or some of their hand and seales first had and obtained 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 George Olduer and Andrew Prune, their executors,
administrators, and assignes according to law, for their or any of their damages
thereby occasioned; and moreover wee doe by these Presents for vs, our heires
and successors will and command all and singular our justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors now and 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
George Oldner and Andrew Prune, or either of them, their, or either of their
executors, administrators, or assignes, or their, or either of their deputies,
servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull makeing, vse or exercise
of the aforesaid Invention or any thing relatoing thereto: Provided alwaies,
and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at
any time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs,
our heires, or successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy Councill,
that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to
the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our Kingdome of England,
and not invented and found out by the said George Oldner and Andrew
Prune, or one of them as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon
thereof to be maile 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 Patents shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any
thing before herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding;
Provided alsoo that these our Letters Patents or any thing herein contained
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
George Oldner and Andrew Prune, or either of them, their, or either of their
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Invention or work whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or
invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or

page_text: exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome
like Letters Patents or priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
George Oldner and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their severall Inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, wee doe by these Presents for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said George Oldner and Andrew
Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents or the inrollment thereof shall be in and by all things good, firmo,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficiall senco for the best advantage of the said Georgo
Oldner and Andrew Prune, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell
in all Courts of Record as elswhere, 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 subiects
of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invencon,
or of the materialls, thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse Thomas, Archbishopp of Canterbury, &c.,
at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of September.
By Writt of Privy Scale.