AN ENGINE OR MACHINE WHICH WILL BE OF SINGULER VSE AND BENEFITT TO THE PUBLICK FOR THE RAISEING, DRAWING VP, FORCEING, AND DISCHARGEING OF WATER IN VERY GREAT QUANTITIES IN SHORT TIME OUT OF ANY DROWNED MINES, PITTS, COALE DELPHS, AND GROVES, WITH THEIR SUCKS AND SHAFTS, AND OTHER PLACES WHATSOEVER, AS ALSOE FOR ALL MANNER OF DRAINES, AND THE SUPPLYING PIPES AND CONDUITS WITH WATER IN CITTIES AND TOWNES, AND
Year: 1691

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS HOLLAND, Clerke, hath by his humble peticon repre-.
sented vnto vs, that haveing, by his industry and skill in the arts mathematicall
and meckanicks, and at his very great charge and expence in trying the experi-
ments previous thereunto, arrived to the perfeccon of makeing "AN ENGINE OR
MACHINE WHICH WILL BE OF SINGULER VSE AND BENEFITT TO THE PUBLICK FOR THE
RAISEING, DRAWING VP, FORCEING, AND DISCHARGEING OF WATER IN VERY GREAT
QUANTITIES IN SHORT TIME OUT OF ANY DROWNED MINES, PITTS, COALE DELPHS, AND
GROVES, WITH THEIR SUCKS AND SHAFTS, AND OTHER PLACES WHATSOEVER, AS ALSOE
FOR ALL MANNER OF DRAINES, AND THE SUPPLYING PIPES AND CONDUITS WITH
WATER IN CITTIES AND TOWNES, AND LAYING VNDER WATER DRY GROUNDS WHERE-
UNTO RIVERS ARE ADIOYNING WITH FARE LESSE CHARGE AND LABOUR THEN WHAT
HATH BEEN NECESSARILY REQUIRED IN THE WAYES HITHERTO VSED AND PRACTISED,
THE SAME BEING ALSO APPLICABLE TO SEVERALL OTHER VSES, ASWELL AT SEA AS ON
LAND;" and the said Thomas Holland hath prayed vs to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that bis request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas Holland,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Holland, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or their

page_text: deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Thomas
Holland, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agreo
with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme 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 kingdoms and dominions
whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull
rates and limittacons, as to him, the said Thomas Holland, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme
meet, and that he, the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators, 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 dureing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said
Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of theso
presents next and immediately ensucing, and fully to be compleate and ended
according to the statute in this case made and provided. And to the end that
the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and sole vse and exercise of the said
Invention according to our gracious intenčons herein-before declared, wee doe
by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand
all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and all other
our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or condicon
soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes 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
make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same soc
attained vnto by the said Thomas Holland as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise
counterfeit 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 inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of
the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators; or assignes, in writeing
vnder his, their, or some of their hands 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 comand; and further to
be answerable to the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators and

page_text: assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And
wee do, of our further especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere motion,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Holland, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that he, their, and
every of them, and his, 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 dureing 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 and dominions (where there shall be iust cause of suspition) for the
discovery and findeing 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 soc 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 comand all and singuler justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and
ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, as
well within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as within all
and every other our kingdoms and dominions, that they and every of them
respectively be from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted in their.
respective offices favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Thomas
Holland, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their
deputy and deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before described,
and in the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder'
the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
bis or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relateing thereto: Provided
alwayes, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon,
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 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 vse and exercise thereof, and not invented and found out by

page_text: the said Thomas Holland as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaracon
thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet
or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any
six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing
herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Pro-
vided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall
not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas.
Holland, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vsc or
imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found
out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whome
like Letters Patents of Priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Holland, bis 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 practice their
several inventions by them invented and found out, according to the truo
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 suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Thomas Holland, his 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, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best
advantage of the said Thomas Holland, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singuler:
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and
singuler our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every of
the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certaine describeing the nature or qality of the
said Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selves at Westminster, the Seaventeenth