DIVERSE WAYES AND MEANES FOR THE BETTER MANUREING AND YMPROVEING OF GROUND OF ALL SORTE NOT FORMERLY FOUND OUT NOR PRACTISED BY ANY
Year: 1636

page_text: CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland, Defender of the Fayeth, &c., to all to whome theise psente shall come
greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiecte JOHN SHAWE, by his humble Peticon
to vs exhibited, hath informed vs that hee, att his greate charge and expence
for aboute seaven yeares last past, hath found out by bis invenčon and arte,
"DIVERSE WAYES AND MEANES FOR THE BETTER MANUREING AND YMPROVEING OF
GROUND OF ALL SORTE NOT FORMERLY FOUND OUT NOR PRACTISED BY ANY," which
hee conceaveth will bee a greate benefitt to the common wealth, and hath
therevpon humbly besaughte vs to bee graciously pleased to graunte vnto him
and his assignes our Lřes Patente of priviledge for the sole exerciseing of the
saide wayes and Invenčon for the ?me of fourteene yeares, vnder the yearely
rente of five pounde.
KNOWE YEE, that wee, graciously favouring, and willing, to encourage
our subiecte in all lawfull and vsefull invenĉons, and intending to reward
and recompence the industrie and expence of the Peticoner in the Pinisses
by appropriating vnto him for the said terme of yeares the benefitt of his
saide Invenĉon, of our especiall grace tayne knowledge, and mere močon,
have gyven and graunted, and by theise psente, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, doe give and graunt vnto the saide John Shawe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, full and sole licence, power, priviledge, and authoritie, that
hee, the saide John Shawe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, by him
or themselves, or by his or theire deputies, servante, or workemen, att all tymes
and from tyme to tyme-hereafter for and dureing the terme of yeares by theise

page_text: Psent graunted, shall and may make, vse, exercise, and putt in practice the
saide art and invenčons for the manureing and ymproveing of ground of
what sorte soever, after the diverse and severall wayes and meanes by him
soe found out and devised as aforesaide, within this our realme of England
and domynion of Wales, for his and theire beste proffitt and advantage; and
to the end that the saide John. Shawe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, may have and eniove the full and sole proffitt and advantage of the
saide arte and invenčons by him soe found out as aforesaide, our will and
pleasure is, and wee doe by theise psente, for vs, our beires and successors,
require, comaund, charge, and inhibitt all and every person and persons, of
what estate, degree, or condičon soever hee or any of them bee, that they nor
any of them, other then the saide John Shawe, his executors, administrators,
assignes, or his or theire deputies, servaunte, or workemen, doe or shall,
dureing the saide terme hereafter in theise sente graunted, directly or
indirectly vse, exercise, or putt in practice the saide arte or invenĉons for the
manureing, and, ymproveing of grounde of what sorte soever after any the
saide wayes, and meanes, by and with any of his saide Invencons by him soe
found out and devised as aforesaide, nor shall make, counterfeyte, or resemble
the same, nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substraccon from the same,
whereby to tend themselves inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, and agreement of the saide John, Shawe, his executors, administrators,
and assignees, firste had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon payne of our highe
displeasure, and such punishment as by the lawes cr statutes of the realme or
otherwise shall or may be inflicted vpon them for their contempte of our
royall comaund herein; to have and to hould the saide licences, powers,
priviledges, and authorities by theise sente graunted or mencoed, to bee
graunted vnto the saide John Shawe, his executors, administrators,, and
assignes, for and dureing the terme and vnto the full end and terme of four-
teene yeares from henceforth nexte ensueing, and fully to be compleate and
ended, yeilding and paying therefore yearely, and the saide John Shawe, for
himselfe, bis executors, administrators,, and assignes, doeth coveñnt and
promise to and with vs, our heires and successors, by theise sente, to yeild
and. pay to vs, our heires and successors, during, the saide terme hereby
graunted, the yearely rente or some of five pound of lawfull money of England
into the receipte of our Exchequer at, Westminster,, att the feast of the Birth
of our Lord God and Sainte John the Baptiste, by even and equall porcons,
and wee doe by theise psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and
graunte, full power and authoritie, vnto the saide John, Shawe,, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and his and theire deputies, servaunte, and

page_text: agent, with the assistance of. a constable, or any other lawfull officer, att
convenient tyme and tymes, and in lawefull manner, to enter and make search
in all or any house or houses, workhouse, warehouse, shopp, or other place.
within this realme of England and domynion of Wales where any iuste
cause of suspicon shalbee bad, for the discoverie and finding out of all such
persons as shall make, resemble, or counterfeyte any of the saide invenĉons,
or that shall vse, exercise, or putt in practice any of the saide artes and
invenčons for the manureing or ymproveing of grounde, after the wayes and
by the invenĉons and meanes by him, the saide John Shawe, soe found out:
and invented as aforesaide, contrary to the true. intent and meaning of theise.
Psente, and the delinquente beeinge discovered, to bee peeeded againste and
punished according to theire contempt and offences; and wee doe by theise
Psente will, authorize, and require, for vs, our heires and successors, the Lord
Treasurer, Chauncellor, Undertreasurer, and Barons of our Exchequer, and
all and singuler maiors, sheriffe, justices of peace, bayliffe, constables, head-
boroughes, and other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors
for the tyme beeing, that they and every of then bee from tyme to tyme,
dureing the terme aforesaide aydeing, helping, and assisting to the saide John
Shawe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and his and theire deputies,
servaunte, and agente, in and by all thing in and aboute the accomplishment
of our pleasure herein declared, and in the exercise and execuĉon of the saide
Pmisses hereby graunted or menconed to bee graunted as aforesaide, and that
they or any of them doe not att any tyme hinder, moleste, or interrupte the
saide John Shawe, his executors, administrators, deputies, or assignes, or any
of them, in any wise, as they tender our royall pleasure, and will avoide the
contry at theire perille, and theise our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment
thereof, shall bee a sufficient warrant in that behalfe: Provided alwayes that
if the saide yearely rent hereby reserved as aforesaid shall happen to bee
behinde and vnpaied by the space of thirtie dayes nexte after the saide feaste
in which the same is lymitted and coveñnted to bee paid as aforesaide, or if
the saide John Shawe shall not inroll, or cause to bee inrolled, this our psent
graunte before the Clarke of the Pipe for the tyme being within sixe moneths
after the date hereof, that then the saide John Shawe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall forfeyte and pay to vs, our heires or successors, the
some of five pounde noie pene as well for every such thirtie dayes defaulte of
payment as the like sōme of five pounde nōie pene for every sixe moneths in
which theise sente shall not bee inrolled as aforesaide; and our will and
pleasure is that if att any tyme dureing the saide terme of fourteene yeares
hereby graunted itt shall appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors, or vnto

page_text: the Lord or others of the Privie Councell of vs, our heires or successors, that
this our graunte or Lřes Pattente of lycense or priviledge is contry to our lawes,
or in any sorte mischeevous or inconvenient to the state of this our realme, then
vppon significačon and declaračon to bee made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our signett or privie seale, or by or from the Lorde and others the Privie
Councell of vs, our heires or successors, or any sixe or more of them respec-
tively for the tyme beeing, of such mischeife or inconvenience, theise our Lřes
Patent shall forthwith cease, determyne, and bee vtterly voide, to all intente
and purposes, any thing in theise psente conteyned to the contry notwithstand-
ing, althoughe expresse mencon, &c.
In witnes, &c. Witnes our selfe att West, the Fifth day of July.
.P bře de priuato sigillo, &c.