A NEW WAY AND METHOD OF MAKEING SALT- PETRE IN GREAT QUANTITIES AND AT FARR LESSE CHARGE THEN IN THE COMION WAY
Year: 1691

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbebeloved ROBERT PRICE, WILLIAM WARDOUR,
ANDREW BARRY, and JOHN NUTT, have by their humble petition represented
vnto vs, that they have found out "A NEW WAY AND METHOD OF MAKEING SALT-
PETRE IN GREAT QUANTITIES AND AT FARR LESSE CHARGE THEN IN THE COMION
WAY," and prayed vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole making of
of saltpetre in the said new way or method.
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that wee being graciously pleased to condescend
to their request, and willing to encourage the inventors of such arts as may be
of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge and
mcere motion, have given and granted, and by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Robert Price, William
Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they,
the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves,
their deputy and deputyes, servants, or agents, or such others as the said
Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their execu-
tors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe others,

page_text: from time to time and at all times dureing the tearme of yeares herein
expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invention
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our
Kingdome of England, 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 lymit-
tacons as to them, the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry,
and John Nutt, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them
shall in their discretions seeme meete, and that they, the said Robert Price,
William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy, the sole benefitt, profitt,
comodity, and advantage, from time to time comeing, growing, 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, privi-
ledges, and advantages advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and
John Nutt, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these psents
next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to
the Statute in this case made and provided, and to the end that the.said
Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, many enioy the full
benefitt and sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gratious intentions, 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 politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condičon soever they be, within all
and every our kingdoms and dominions, that neither they nor any of them at
any time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares.hereby
granted either directly or indirectly doe vse or put in practice the said Inven-
tion, or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Robert Price,
William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, as aforesaid, nor shall in
any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addition thereto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend
themselves the inventers or devisors thereof without the lycence, consent or
agreement of the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and
John Nutt, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their
or some of their hands and scales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon

page_text: such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our Royall comand, and further to be answerable to
the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for their
damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe of our further especiall grace,
certaine knowledge and meere motion, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John
Nutt, their executors, administrators, and assignes, by these psents, that
they and every of them, and their and every of their deputies, servants, and
agents, haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice
of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time being, and with
the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer) at convenient times
in the day durcing the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may
enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within any of
our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of suspition),
for the discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons as shall
imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said
Invention, or shall make or counterfeit any instruements or materialls to
the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded
against and punished according to law. And further, wee doe by these.
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command:
all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's, bayliff's, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our
heires and successors for the time being, aswell within our Kingdome of
England and Dominion of Wales, as within all and every other our king-
domes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively be, from time
to time dureing the terme hereby granted in their respective oflices favouring,
aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Robert Price, William Wardour,
Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their executors, administrators, and assignes.
and to their deputy and deputyes, servants and agents, in and by. all things
in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-
before declared, and in the exercise and execution of the powers and privi
ledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our
respective officers and ministers before mentioned, or any of them, doe not
nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted
in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Robert Price, William
Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, or any of their deputies, servants

page_text: or agents, in or about the duo and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention, or any thing relating thereunto. Provided allwayes, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any
time durcing the terme 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects
in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new Invention as to the publick
vsc and exercise thereof, and not invented and found out by the said Robert
Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt as aforesaid, then
vpon signification and declaraĉon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signet or privy scale, or by the Lords and
others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, under their
hands, these Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly
void to all intents and purposes, anything before herein contained to the con-
trary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters
Patents, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to
extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew
Barry, and John Nutt, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any Invention or worke whatsoever which hath been
heretofore found or invented by any other of our subicct whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of
them, vnto whom like Letters Patente of priviledge have been already granted
for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure
that the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John
Nutt, their executors, administrators and assignes, and all and singuler other
person and persons, to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been
already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise 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 psents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Robert Price, William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John
Nutt, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
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 favour-
able and beneficiall sense, for the best advantage of the said Robert Price,
William Wardour, Andrew Barry, and John Nutt, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all

page_text: and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, in all and singuler 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 Invention, or the materialls thereto conduceing
and belonging, or any other defects or incertainties in these sents con-
tained, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Seaventh day