CONYEY WATER FROM PLACE TO PLACE, TO DRYE AND BARREN GROUND, TO MAKE THE SAME MORE FRUITFULL AND PROFFITABLE, BUT ALSOE TO DRAWE WATER PORTH OF AND FROM ALL AND ALL MANNER MYNES, AS WELL OF TYNNE, LEAD, COPPER, COLES, AS ALL OTHER MYNES, PITT, OR PLACES WHATSOEVER WHERE WATER BUNNETH OR STANDETH, IN HINDERANCE OF THE GETTING THEREOF, BY WHICH SAID MEANES THE MYNES, PITT, OR PLACES MAY BE CLEARED OF THE THE SAID WATER WITH PARRE LESSE DANGER AND CHARGE THEN THE SAME NOWE ARE, SOE THAT MUCH MORE TYNNE, COPPER, LEAD, COLES, AND OTHER OARE MAY HEREAFTER BE GOTTEN WITH MORE EASE THAN FORMERLY THEY HAVE BEENE
Year: 1627

page_text: CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland, Defendor of the Fayth, &c., to all to whome these Presente shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our well beloved subiecte, EDMUND FELLTON and JOHN DREWE,
have by their humble petičon given vs to vnderstand that they, by their sole
endeavours and greate charges, have found secrett wayes and meanes not here-
tofore vsed within any of our dominions, not onely therewith to "CONYEY
WATER FROM PLACE TO PLACE, TO DRYE AND BARREN GROUND, TO MAKE THE SAME
MORE FRUITFULL AND PROFFITABLE, BUT ALSOE TO DRAWE WATER PORTH OF AND
FROM ALL AND ALL MANNER MYNES, AS WELL OF TYNNE, LEAD, COPPER, COLES, AS
ALL OTHER MYNES, PITT, OR PLACES WHATSOEVER WHERE WATER BUNNETH OR
STANDETH, IN HINDERANCE OF THE GETTING THEREOF, BY WHICH SAID MEANES
THE MYNES, PITT, OR PLACES MAY BE CLEARED OF THE THE SAID WATER WITH
PARRE LESSE DANGER AND CHARGE THEN THE SAME NOWE ARE, SOE THAT MUCH
MORE TYNNE, COPPER, LEAD, COLES, AND OTHER OARE MAY HEREAFTER BE GOTTEN
WITH MORE EASE THAN FORMERLY THEY HAVE BEENE," which will turne to the
greate benifitt of vs, our heires and successors, by reason of our preemčon
or coynage of tynne, to be gotten within the severall counties of Corn-
wall and Devon, and also to the good and proffitt of all our loving sub-
iecte, owners of such mynes and otherwise, to the noe small benifitt of our
realmes and dominions, and therefore they have humbly besought vs to be
graciously pleased to grant vnto them our Lřes Patents vnder our Greate

page_text: Seale of England, with power thereby given vnto them and such other persons
as they should nominate, and their assignes, for the sole vse of the said wayes
and meanes, or any of them, for the purposes aforesaid and the like by them
invented, for some reasonable tyme:
KNOWE YE, that we, tendring the generall good of our loving subiecte,
and willing to cherrish such ingenious and pffitable invenčons, and fynding it
agreeable to justice that the authors and furtherers of soe laudable and vsefull
iuvenčons should in some measure onely reape the fruite of their owne labours,
and condiscending vnto their peticon, have therefore and for other good con-
sideracons vs therevnto moving, of our especiall grace, certeyn knowledge, and
meare mocon, given and granted, and by these Presente for vs, our heires and
successors, we doe of our said especiall grace, certeyne knowledge, and meere
močon, give and grant vnto the said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, full,
free, and sole liberty, lycence, priviledge, power and authority that they, the
said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, or eyther of them, their or eyther of
their executors, administrators, or assignes, by bimselfe or themselves, or his or
their deputies, factors, servante, or workemen shall and may at all and every
tyme and tymes, and from tyme to tyme during the tearme of fowerteene
ycares next ensueing the date hereof vse or exercise, practise or put in vre
within our Realmes of England and Ireland and the Dominion of Wales,
or any of them, or any parte of them, or any of them, all, every, or
any such wayes or meanes, and to frame, make, erecte, sett vpp; and vse
all such engines, devises, & instrumente as they ore yther of them, their or
eyther of their executors, administrators, deputies, factors, or assignes shall
thinke moste meete, and which have beene or shall be by them the said
Edmund Felton and John Drewe, or eyther of them, invented or found
out and not heretofore practised, put in vse, or pfected, within our said
realmes and dominions, or any of them by any other, for the conveying of
water from place to place to drye and barren grounde, to make the same more
fruitfull and proffitable, or for the drawing of water forth of or from any myne
or mynes, as well of tynne, lead, copper, coles, as other mynes, pitte, or places
where water doth or shall runne or stand, in hinderance of the getting theroof,
or for any other lýké proffitable vse or purpose. And to the intente that the
said Edmund Felton, and John Drewe, and eyther of them, their and eyther
of their executors, administrators, deputies, assignes, and factors shall, and may
have, take, and enioy such benifitt and proffitt to their owne vses, as shall or
may arise or come by putting in vse, and practise the said newe wayes' and
meanes, and by workeing with or vseing the said engines, instrumente, and
devises to the purposes aforesaid or any of them, during the terme aforesaid.

page_text: Our will and pleasure is, and we doe by these Presente for vs, our heires and
successors, of our certeyne knowledge and meare mocon, and of our supreame
power and authority, straightly prohibite, charge, and comaunde all and singuler
person and persons of what estate, degree, or condicon soever they or any of
them be or shall be, that none of them other then the said Edmund Felton
and John Drewe, their or eyther of their executors, administrators, factors,
deputies, servante and assignes, or some of them shall during the said tearme of
fowertecne yeares, attempt, presuine, or goe about directly or indirectly within
our said Realmes of England and Ireland, and the Dominion of Wales or any of
them, to vse, practise, or put in vre any of the said newe wayes, meanes, or
courses of workeing to the purposes aforesaid, or any of them as are or shall be
first invented, practised, or brought to pfeccon, by the said Edmund Felton and
John Drewe, or eyther of them, or to frame, make, erect, or vse any of the said
engines, instrumente, or devises or the like, by the example of the said Edmund
Felton and John Drewe, or eyther of them to the purposes aforesaid, or any of
them or any wayes to counterfeit the said wayes or meanes or any of them,
not formerly put in practice within our said realmes and dominion as aforesaid,
or any of them to the purposes aforesaid, vpon payne of forfeiture of all such
engines, instrumente, or devises as shall be soe framed, made, erected, or vsed
contrary to the true intent and meaneing of these Presente, and vpon such
paynes, penalties, and ymprisonment as by the lawes and statute of this realme
or by our prerogative royall may be assessed, adiudged or inflicted ypon or
against the offenders in that behalfe.
And we doe further by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors,
give and grant vnto the said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, their every
of their executors, administrators, deputies, servante, and assignes, and every
of them, full power, liberty, and authority, that they or any of them shall
and may from tyme to tyme and at all convenient tymes during the tearme
aforesaid with a constable or other officer enter into any house or howses,
and other place and places within our said realmes and dominion, or any
of them or any parte of them or any of them, as well within liberties
as without, where they or any of them shall knowe or have iuste cause
to suspecte any such engines, instrument or devises to be made, framed,.
erected, or vsed, or any of the wayes, meanes, aforesaid, practised or other
thing done contrary to the true meaneing of these Presente, and there to
trye and search by all lawful wayes and meanes for all such. engynes,
instrumente, devises, or other thing soe made, framed, erected, vsed, or
done contrary to the tenor hereof, and fyndeing any such, to seize the.
same as forfeited to the vse of vs, our heires and successors, and, to .de-

page_text: face and pull downe the said engynes, instrumente, and devises, soc made
erected, or vsed, the one moity whereof, soe farre as in vs lyeth we doe by
these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant to the said
Edmund Felton and John Drewe, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and the other moity thereof we will be reserved to the vse of vs, our
heires and successors, and yf in the execučon hereof they or any of them shall
fyude any opposicon or resistance, that they, or some or one of them doe certifie
the same into the Courte of Exchequer of vs, our heires or successors, vnder
their or some or one of their hande in writing, to the end the offendors therein
may receave condigne punishment for their offences, vnto which Courte of
Exchequer we doe hereby for vs, our heires and successors, give full power and
authority vpon such certificate as aforesaid, and due proofe thereof made, to
inflicte such punishment by fyne, ppre ymprisonment, or otherwise, vpon the
offendors as their offences shall deserve and to the said courte shall be thought
moste meete. To have and to hold the said lycences, priviledges, powers and
authorities, and all other the misses before in and by thes Presente men-
coned to be given and granted, and every pte and parcell thereof vnto the
said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, their executors, adminstrators, and
assignes, from the day of the date of these Presente vnto the full end and
tearme, and for and during the tearme of fowerteene yeares from thence next
ensueing fully to be compleate and ended, yielding and payeing therefore; and
the said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, for themselves, their executors and
assignes, doe covenant, promise, and grant to and with vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, to yeald and pay yearley vnto vs, our heires and successors, for the
liberties, priviledge, and other the premisses before menconed, to be granted
in manner and forme following; that is to say, for the firste twoe yeares of the
said tearme of fowerteene yeares, the yearley rent or some of forty shilling of
lawfull mony of England, and for the residue and remainder of the said tearme
of fowerteene Feares the yearly rent or some of tenne pound of like lawfull
anony of England, at the receipte of the Exchequer of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, at Westin at the Feast of the Nativity of St John Baptiste and the
Birth of our Lord God by even and equall porcons to be payd; the first pay-
ment to be made at the Feaste of the Nativity of Saint John Baptiste nowe
nexte comeing. And we doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, give power and authority vnto, and will and commannd all and singulur
mayors, sherifle, justices of peace, bayliffe, constables, headboroughes, and
other officers, ministers, and subiecte whatsoever of vs, our heires and succes-
sors, that they and every of them be from tyme to tyme, during the tearme
aforesaid, ayding, helping, and assisting to the said Edmund Felton and John

page_text: Drewe, their executors, administrators, assignes, deputies, servante, and worke-
men, in all thing in or about the accomplishment of our pleasure expressed in
these our Lřes Patente, and in the exercising and excučon of the same, and
not any way to hinder, moleste, interrupte, or lett them, or any of them, in any
thing concerning the misses, as they tender our pleasure, and will avoydo
the contrary at their perille, and these Presente or the inrollement of them
shall be their sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalfe. And lastly, our
will and pleasure is, and we doe by these Presente, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant that these our Lřes Patente, or the inrollement thereof, shall be
in all thing firme and avayleable, according to the true and playne meaning
of the same, although the pticuler wayes and meanes, and the formes of tho
engines, instrumente or devises to be vsed, made, sett vpp, and wrought with
by the said Edmund Felton and John Drewe, their executors, administrators,
deputies, servante, factors, or assignes, be not herein pticulerly or expressely
named, menconed, or described, and notwithstanding any defect in these
Presente in not reciting or menĉoning of any other matter or thing whatsoever
necessary herein to be expressed.
In withes whereof, &c. Witnes our schfe
January.
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Westin, the Twentith day
P bro de priuate sigillo, &c.