AN EASIE AND READY WAY AND MEANE, WITH THE HELPE OF AN ENGINE BY THEM NEWLY INVENTED, TO INFORCE AND CAUSE ALL MANNER OF MILLS OF WHAT NATURE OR KIND SOEVER TO GRINDE AND PFORME THEIRE WONTED LABOUR WITHOUT THE HELPE OF EITHER HORSE, WYNDE, OR WATER, TO BE SETT ON WORKE AND CONTYNUED IN PFORMAUNCE OF THE SAME BY THE STRENGTH AND LABOUR OF ONE MAN ONELY." KNOWE
Year: 1627

page_text: WHEREAS our welbeloved subiectes WILLM PARHAM, AMBROSE PREWETT,
and CHARLES JACOB, Gent, have, by theire labour and greate industric after"
many chardgeable experimentes, found out and invented "AN EASIE AND
READY WAY AND MEANE, WITH THE HELPE OF AN ENGINE BY THEM NEWLY
INVENTED, TO INFORCE AND CAUSE ALL MANNER OF MILLS OF WHAT NATURE OR
KIND SOEVER TO GRINDE AND PFORME THEIRE WONTED LABOUR WITHOUT THE HELPE
OF EITHER HORSE, WYNDE, OR WATER, TO BE SETT ON WORKE AND CONTYNUED
IN PFORMAUNCE OF THE SAME BY THE STRENGTH AND LABOUR OF ONE MAN ONELY."
KNOWE YEE that wee graciously favouring and willing to cherish such
ingenious and pffitable Inventons which tende to the publiq, good of our
subiectes, of our especiall grace, Etaine knowledge, and mecre moĉon, have given
and graunted and by theise sentes for vs, our heires and successors, doe give
and graunte vnto the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles
Jacob, theire executors, administrators and assignes, full and free littye, lycence,
power, and authority, that they and everie of them, by himselfe or themselves,
and his or theire deputies, shall and may, at all and every tyme and tymes"
and from tyme to tyme during the term of yeres hereafter in theise psentes
graunted, vsc, exercise, practize and putt in vse within this our Realme of
England and Domynion of Wales, or anye place or places in them, or any or
either of them at his, theire, or any of theire wills and pleasures, the saido'
way, micanes, engyne, instrumente, and newe Invencon for the setting on

page_text: worke, driveing, inforceing or causeing to go or to be driven all and all manner
of mille of what nature, kinde, or condicon soever, as well for the grinding of any
corne or graine whatsoever, and of all and all manner of edge tooles and other
tooles, and mettalls, Brasill reddwood, barke and all other thinges whatsoever,
needful, or necessarie to be ground or pformed in, by, or with any mill or mille,
and to doe any other matter or thing necessarie to be done or vsed in or aboute
the putting in practize, vse, or excise of the saide newe engine, way, meanes,
instrument, deuise, or newe Invenčon for the pposeses aforesaid, and every or
any of them by them, the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles
Jacob, or some or one of them first devised and newly invented as aforesaid.
And further wee doe, for theise psentes for vs, our heires and successors,
give and graunte, vnto the saide Wittm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles
Jacob, theire executors and assignes and everie of them, full and free libtye,
power, and authoritye during the saide terme to forge, make, frame, and
compose, or cause to be forged, made. framed or composed all and every
such newe engine and engynes, instrument and instrumentes, way, meanes,
deuise, and newe Invenčons aforesaide, not being alreadye invented and in vse
or practize in any of our Domynions as shalbe from tyme to tyme during the
saide terme, needfull or necessarie or desired to be made, framed, or composed
for the pposes aforesaide, and everie or any of them within this our Realme of
England and Domynion of Wales, or in any place or places in them or either
of them, and to thintente that this our graunte may take the better effecte wee
doe by theis psentes for vs, our heires and successors, straightly chardge, phibite
and comaunde, and doe also, of our more especiall grace, certaine knowledge and
meere močon for vs, our heires and successors, graunte vnto the saide Willm
Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, administrators,
and assignes, that noe pson or psons whatsoever borne within our realmes or
domynions, nor any other pson or psons, denyzens or straungers, whatsoever, of
what estate, degree, or condicon hee or they be or shalbe, other then the saide
Witm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, admini-
strators, or assignes, or such as shall be, by them or any of them or theire deputyes,
licenced or authorized, shall or may or doc, at any tyme or tymes during the
said terme in or by theise psentes graunted as aforesayde, practize, exercise,
vse, or putt in vre the saide newe way, meanes, engyne, instrumente, devise,
or new invenčon, to or for any ppose or pposes whatsoever, or shall or doe at
any tyme or tymes during the saide terme by theise psentes graunted, forge,
make, frame, or compose, or cause to be forged, made, framed, or composed,
any engyne, instrumente, way, meanes, deuise, or newe invenčon, to or for any
ppose or pposes whatsoever after the example or Psidente to be made or vsed

page_text: by the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, whether yt be in all
partes like or with any addičon or other alteračon to or from the same, or
forge, make, frame, or compose, or cause to forged, made, framed, or composed,
with any other engyne, instrumente, or deuise, to the pposes aforesaide, or any
of them which shalbe first putt in practize by them, the saide Willm Parham,
Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, or any of them, and not formerly done
and putt in practize within our realme, vpon paine of forfeiture to vs, our
heires and successors, of all such engynes or instrumentes as shalbe made
contrarie to the true intente and meaninge of theise psente, and alsoe vpon
payne of the high indignacon of vs, our heires and successors, and of such
further paines, penalties, punishments, and imprisonmentes, as by any lawes or
statutes of this our realme can or may be inflicted or ymposed vpon the
offendors in contempnyng our Royall commaunde.
And further, wee doe by these psentes give and. graunte full power and
authoritye to the saide Wittm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles
Jacob, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and everie or any
of them, or theire or any of theire deputies, at all tymes convenient and
from tyme to tyme in lawful manner during the saide terme, with the
assistance of a constable or some other officer or officers to enter into. all
and every place and places conveniente where they or any of them shall
knowe or have cause to suspecte any such newe invented engyne, instru-
mente, or deuise to be or remaine, or any thing done or practized contrary
to the true intente and meaneing of theise psentes, within this our Realme
of Englando or Domynion of Wales, as well within libties as without, and
there to seize and take away to the vse of vs, our heires and successors,
all such engynes, instrumentes, or deuises as shalbe soe made, framed, or vsed
contrary to the tenor of this our graunte; and yf in the execuĉon thereof they
or any of them shall fynde any resistance, that they or some of them' doe
tifye the same into our Court of Exchequer, or vnto the Attorney Genall of vs,
our heires and successors for the tyme being, to the ende the offendors therein
may receive condigne punishmente for the same theire offences in any our courte
or courtes of iustice within this our Realme of England according to the lawes
of this our realme.
And further, wee doe by theis psentes for vs, our heires and successors
give power and authoritye vnto the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett;
and Charles Jacob, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, and vnto there and everie of theire lawfull deputye and deputies, to
make composičons and agreement with any the subicctes of vs, our heire.

page_text: and successors, within this our Realme of England and Domynion of Wales,
or either of them which shall desire to vse the said engyne, instrumente,
or deuise, so to be made as aforesaide during the saide terme by theis psentes
graunted, or any parte thereof, for the pposes aforesaide or any of them; and
to have, take, collecte, gather, and receive to theire and everic of theire own
pper vse and behoofe all and every such some and somes of money as shalbo
.soe compounded or agreed upon to be paied or [satisfied unto the saide Willi
Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, adminis-
<trators or assignes, and also to sell, vtter, and putt to sale any such newe
.deuised engyne or engynes as aforesaide, which shalbe made, framed, or
composed by them the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles
Jacob, theire executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them to any
pson or psons whoe shall desire to buy the same; to have and to hould, vse,
excise, and enioye all and everie the saide licences, powers, priuiledges,
authorityes, benefitte, and other the misses to the said Wittm Parham,
Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, administrators, and
assignes from the date of theise psentes, for and during the terme of fourteene
yeres from thence nexte and ymedyaly following fully to be compleat and
ended yealding and paying; and the said Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett,
and Charles Jacob, for themselues, theire executors, and administrators, doe
covenante, pmise, graunte, and agree to and with vs, our heires and successors,
to pay yerely and every yere during the said terme of fourteen yeres vnto vs,
our heires and successors, at the receipto of our Exchequer the yerely rente or
some of one hundred poundes of lawfull money of England, vpon the feast
day of All Sauntes yerely and everic yere during the saide terme or within
thirtye dayes nexte after the same feast day.
And further for the better helpe of the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose
Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, administrators, and assignes,
and theire and everie of theire deputye and deputyes aboute the execucon
of this our graunte, wee doe hereby for vs, our heires and successors, will
and comaunde all and singuler maiors, justices of peace, sheriffs, bailiffe,
constables, headboroughes, tithingmen, and other officers and ministers of vs,
our heires and successors, that they and everic of them be from tyme to tyme
during the terme aforesaide, ayding, helping and assisting to the saide Wittm
Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theiro executors, administrators,
and assignes, and everie of them in all thinges in and aboute the execucon of this
our graunte and accomplishmente of our pleasure herein-before expressed, as
they tender our pleasure, and will answere for the contrarie at their pills.
And theis our Lřes Patentes or thinrolmente thereof shalbe theire sufficiente

page_text: warraunte and dischardge in that behalfe; prouided alwaies, and our will and
pleasure is that theis our Lies Patentes, or any thing therein conteined, shall
not extend to give any power, libty, lycence, or tolleračon for the vseing or
ymploying of the saide newe deuised engyne or engynes in or for the grinding
of any wheate for the making of starch, or of any logwood or other stuffe or
materialls, which by any the lawes or statutes of this our realme, or by any
our royall pelamacons are phibited to be vsed, nor in or for the grinding of
wheate to the Piudice of any auncyente mill or mills within this our Realme
of England or Domynion of Wales, anything before menconed in theise
Psentes notwithstanding. And alsoe of our espiall grace, Etaine knowledge,
and meere mocon, wee doe for vs, our heires and successors, graunte vnto the
saide Willm Parham, Ambrose Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors,
administrators, and assignes, that theise psentes or thinrolmente of the same
shall stande and be and shalbe construed and taken to be good, firme,
sufficiente and effectuall in the lawe for all the intentes and pposes aforesaide,
and most availeable for the benefytt of the saide Willm Parham, Ambrose
Prewett, and Charles Jacob, theire executors, administrators, and assignes,
notwithstanding the not pticuler writing or the not exacte discribing of the
saide engyne and newe Invencon or the manner of the working thereof, and
notwithstanding the not setting forth and declaring the scuall, vses, services,
and advauntages of the said engyne and Invenčon, or any other defecte or
inetainty whatsoever in theis our Lřes Patentes notwithstanding, and although
expresse mencon.
In witnes, &c. Witnes our selfe at Westñi, the Twoe-and-twentith of
December