AN ENGINE FOR THE BETTER AND MORE EASIE RAISEING OF WATER OUT OF THE DEEPEST WELL, PITTS, OR MINES, TAKEING OF THE ONE HALFE OF THE REALL WEIGHT OF THE WATER ITT SELFE
Year: 1682

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS we have beene informed by our trusty and welbeloved subiect
ROBERT ALDERSEY, Cittyzen and Salter, of our Citty of London, that he hath,.
with considerable charge and paines, found out a new Invenčon, being " AN
ENGINE FOR THE BETTER AND MORE EASIE RAISEING OF WATER OUT OF THE
DEEPEST WELL, PITTS, OR MINES, TAKEING OF THE ONE HALFE OF THE REALL
WEIGHT OF THE WATER ITT SELFE," never before found out or vsed by any
other, which being put into practice may be of greate advantage to our-
subiects in generall, and hath humbly besought vs to grant vnto him Letters
Patents vnder our Greate Seale of England, to impower and enable him to
put in execučon the said Invenčon, to continue for the terme of fourteene-
yeares, according to the statute in that behalfe made.
NOW KNOW YE, that wee, being desireous to encourage the inventors of
such arts as may be of publicke vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,.
certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, have given and granted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said..
Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence,
full and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that, he and they, by himselfe
and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants, workemen, or
agents, and noe other, shall and may, dureing the terme of fouretecne yeares.
next ensucing the date hereof, vse, practice, exercise, enioy, and put in exe-

page_text: cucon the said art or Invenĉon, within our kingdome of England, or any
other our dominions, in such manner as to him shall seeme meete, and shall
have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing thereby or by reason
thereof, to have, hold, and enioy the said licence, power, priviledge, and
authority, and other the premisses hereby granted or intended to be granted
to the said Robert Aldersey, bis executors, administrators, and assignes,
from the day of the date of these presents, for and dureing the terme of
foureteene yeares from thence next ensueing, fully to be compleate and ended,
according to the statute in that case made and provided. And to the end
that the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and tho
sole vse and exercise of the said Invenĉon, aswell within liberties as without,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and
strictly charge and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique
and corporate, that they, or any of them, doe not or shall not, durcing the
terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, vse or put in
practice or execučon the said art or Invenĉon, nor doe or shall coun-
terfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addi-
Con thereto or substraccon from the same, whereby to ptend themselves the
inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement
of the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder his or theire hand and seale, 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; and, further, to be answereable
to the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, or assignes, for
his or theire damages susteyned thereby. And further, we doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, & assignes, full power and
authority, that he and they, his and theire deputyes, agents, or servants,
or any of them, haveing first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the
Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the time being, may,
with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within
liberties as without, vpon request, att convenient times in the day dureing the
time aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter and make search in any place
or places where there shall be just occasion of suspicon for discovering and
finding out of all such persons as shall within the said terme of foureteene
yeares imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the art
or Invenčon aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be proceeded against and
punished according to theire demerrits. And further, we doc by these

page_text: presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require all and
singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers of vs, our heires and successors, for the time
being, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time, dureing
the terme hereby granted, in theire respective places, favouring, aiding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, or his or theire deputy or deputies, servants, and agents,
or any of them, in and about the accomplishm' of our will and pleasure
herein declared, and the exercise and execučon of the powers and priviledges
herein and hereby granted, or menconed to be granted, as aforesaid; and
moreover, we will and comand by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, that our said officers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or his or theire deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them, in or
about the vse or exercise of the said art or Invencon in any matter or thing
concerning the same. Provided allwaies, that if att any time dureing the said
terme of fourteene yeares itt shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or
successors, or any six or more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this
grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to our cömonwealth, or that the
said art or Invencon is not a new invenčon of the said Robert Aldersey,
as to the vse and practice thereof within this our kingdome of Eng-
Jand, then vpon significacon and declaracon, to be made by vs, our heires
and successors, vnder our or theire signett or privy scale, or by the lorde
and others of our or theire Privy Councill, or six or more of them for the
time being, in writeing vnder theire hande, of such preiudice and inconvenience,
these our Letters Patente, and all things therein conteyned, shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, any thing
herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoc, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Aldersey, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Inventon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons, and
publickly exercised in our kingdome of England or dominion of Wales, vnto
whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or priviledge for
the sole vse and benefitt thereof, itt being our will, and pleasure that the said
Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all other
person and persons to whome we have already granted our like Letters
Patents or priviledge, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall invencons
by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meancing

page_text: of the said severall and respective Letters Patents and of these presents.
And lastly, we doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Robert Aldersey, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrolement thereof, shall be in and by
all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meaneing of these presents, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged most favourable and beneficiall for the best benefitt and advantage.
of the said Robert Aldersey, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as.
well in all courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not menconing
of the full and certaine vse or benefitt of the said Invencon, and notwith-
standing any other defects or incertainties in these presents conteyned, or any
act, statute, ordinance, provision, or restraint to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse be Witnesse, our selfe att Westminster, the Sixteenth
day of June.
By Writt of Privy Seale.