Year: 1675

page_text: CHARLES TH
Psents shall come, greeting.
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WHEREAS wee have beene informed by the humble peticon of GEORGE
SPART, PHILLIPP EDWARDS, ANDREW WARDLOWE, JOHN CRISPING, ROBERT MORSE,
JOHN MORSE, RICHARD PIDGEON, and WILLIAM LANDWELL, that they, together
with many other masters of shipps, vscing the northerne coast, have had great
losses att sea, and especially of late neare the mouth of Humber, vpon a very
broad long sand throwne vpp, and discovered about six or seaven monethes
since, in the plaine course by the northward, by reason whereof they and all
passing that way sayle in great hazard and danger, and especially in the
night; and considering that lights erected vpon the Spurne Point, att the
mouth of Humber, would for the future vent such danger and losses, and
be a great safety to the petičoners and the rest in their passage, the peti-
Coners did apply themselves to JUSTINIAN ANGELL, of London, Merchant, hee
being proprietor of a peece of ground fitt for such purpose, and pposed to
him that if he would erect two lights vpon the said ground, the petičoners
would freely contribute to pay him toward the charges and maintenance
thereof one farthing a tonn: And whereas the said Justinian Angell hath
accordingly, att the petičoners request, erected two lights att the mouth of

page_text: Humber vpon the Spurne Point, hee being owner of the same, which the
peticoners find to be soe well built, and soc well placed, and of that height,
that they will be a very great benefitt, and an absolute safety and pservacon
to all navigators vpon that coast, and especially the traders of Newcastle, and
into Humber in stresse of weather, there being noe ground vpon all the coast
that any light cann be erected vpon, to doe any service to the navigators
tending to the aforesaid sands and harboure but the aforesaid place; and the
matter and charge of mainteineing the said lights being to be of the peticoners
owne free and voluntary payments, and the rest of the traders vpon the said
coasts, and for their owne safety, both for their psons and estates, the
said peticoners have therefore humbly prayed that wee would be graciously
pleased to grant vnto the said Justinian Angell full power and authority to
kindle and maintaine the said lights for the good of our people in generall, and
Pticularly the peticoners, who have beene great sufferers for want of them:
And whereas wee did referre the consideracon of the said peticon to the
master, wardens, assistants, and elder brethren of the Trinity House of New-
castle, who have examined and certified to vs the necessity of the said lights,
and that the same will be of great vse and benefitt to navigacon.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wec, vpon the humble peticon aforesaid, and for
the pmoteing and continucing of soc good and necessary a worke for the
benefitt and safety of our subiects and servacon of their estates, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted,
and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto
the said Justinian Angell, his heires and assignes, full and free liberty, lycence,
power, and authority, that hee and they, and every of them, shall and may
continue, renew, and maintaine, or cause to be continued, renewed, and main-
tained, the said lighthouse, with lights to be continually burneing therein in
the night season, whereby the said shipps may the better come to their
harbours and ports without pill. And wee doe further, according to the said
peticoners desire, for the defraying the necessary charges and constant main-
tenance of the said lighthouse, of our special grace, certaine knowledge, and
meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, declare and grant that for
ever hereafter there may be collected and taken, and the said Justinian Angell,
his heires and assignes, may collect, have, and take of and for every shipp or
vessell passing by the said lighthouses, and belonging or tradeing to the ports
of Newcastle or Sunderland, or either of them, or any the creeks or members
thereof, one farthing the tunn, according to the burthen of the said shipps or
vessells respectively; to have, hold, and enioy the said libertyes. lycences,

page_text: powers, and authorities, and the said contribucous, dutyes, and sumes of
money, and other the pmisses before, in and by these psents granted, and
every of them, vnto the said Justinian Angell, his heires and assignes for ever,
in as large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as the masters of
Trinity House att Debtford Strand, in our County of Kent, or any other
pson or psons, any the like libertyes, Lycences, powers, and authorityes now
have, hold, or enioy, or may or might have, hold, or enioy in any other place
or places within this our realme, yeilding and paying therefore yearely, and
every yeare, to vs, our heires and successors, the yearely rent or sume of five
pounds of lawfull money of England, into the receipt of the Exchequer att
West, or to the bayliffe or receiver generall of the County of Yorke for the
time being, att the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangell, only. And för-
asmuch as other order cannott be well taken for the receiving of the said one
farthing p tunn for the establishing and continuance of this good worke, then
in the ports, roades, creekes, havens, and harbours, vnto which the said
merchants and marrinors doe and shall trade and arrive, wee doe, therefore,
for vs, our heires and successors, ordeine and appoint, and alsoe streightly
charge and command all and every the customers, collectors, comptrollers,
surveyors, searchers, and waiters, and their and every of their clerkes respec-
tively within the ports of Newcastle and Sunderland aforesaid, and all captaines,
lievtennants, and all other our officers, belonging to them, or any of them, and
alsoe all wardens, portreeves, and keepers of any of our said ports, roades,
harbours, and havens, and all wharfingers, porters, and labourers belonging to
the waterside, and all other the officers of the Customes, to vs, our heires and
successors now being, and which for the time hereafter shall be in the said
ports, harbours, roades, creekes, havens, and places to whome it shall or may
appertaine, that they nor any of them att any time hereafter doe or shall take
or receive any entry or cocquett, or give, make, or certifie any cocquett,
returne, victualling bill, or discharge or pmitt any goods or stores to be laid on
land, or discharged or shipped out from or on any of the said shipps, or suffer
any shipps or other vessells, tradeing and lyable to the payment aforesaid, to
passe by or from them without a ticquett or note, vnder the hand writeing of
the said Justinian Angell, his heires or assignes, or his or their deputy or
deputyes, testifying the payment thereof, vpon paine of our high displeasure,
and such punishment, as by the lawes and statutes of our said realme may be
inflicted on the offenders for such their contempt or neglect of our royall will and
comandment. And to the end and intent the said Justinian Angell, his heires
and assigues, shall and may the better have and enioy the full force, benefitt,

page_text: and effect of this our psent grant, wee doe alsoe by these p'sents, for vs,
our heires and successors, require, charge, and authorize all mayors, sherriffes,
justices of the peace, bayliffes, and other oflicers and ministers of vs, our
heires and successors to whome it doth or may appertaine, that they and every
of them, in their severall oflices and places respectively, be from time to time
hereafter favouring, ayding, and assisting vnto the said Justinian Angell, his
heires and assignes, and every of them, and his and their deputyes, in and con-
cerning the misses vpon request in that behalfe by him or them, to be made
according as to justice appertaineth: Provided, and it is our will and pleasure,
and wee doc hereby declare our intent and meancing to be that these our
Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not extend to charge the
said merchants, masters, and owners of shipps and other vessells, with any
other or further toll or duty then in these our Letters Patents is menconed
and expssed, and not with any double toll or duty. And alsoe our will and
pleasure is, and wee doe hereby for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said Justinian Angell, his heires and assignes, that he and they, and his
and their deputy and deputyes, shall and may, for the better mannagement
and collecon of the said dutyes, have a place in all custome houses in the
ports and places where the same is or shall be collected; and that these our
Letters Patents, or the inrollment of them, shall be good, firme, effectuall,
and of validity in law, according to the true intent and meaneing of the same,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in all our Courts of Record, and
elsewhere, favourably and beneficially for the said Justinian Angell, his heires
and assignes, and every of them, notwithstanding the not full expressing the
certaine yearely value or worth of the pmisses, and notwithstanding the not
sueing any writt of Ad id damnum out of our Court of Chancery, or any statute,
lawe, Act of Parliament, restriccon, or pvision heretofore had, made, or pub-
lished, or any other impfeccon, incertainty or defect, matter or thing, to the
contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alwayes, that if these
Psents be not inrolled before the auditor of the County of Yorke, within six
monethes next after the date hereof, or if the said yearely rent shall be behind
or vnpaid by the space of three monethes next after the said feast day whereon
the same is herein-before appointed to be paid, then and in either of these
cases these our Letters Pattents, and all things therein conteyned, shall
define and be void, any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:
Provided alsoe, that if att any time hereafter it shall be made appeare
to vs, our heires or successors, that this grant is piudiciall or inconvenient,
or not of publique vse or benefitt, then vpon significacon and declaračun

page_text: to be made by vs, our heires, or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy
seale, of such Piudice or inconvenience, these our Letters Patents, and all
things therein conteyned, shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void,
to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att West, the Five-and-twentieth
day of October.
Dho do privat civill
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att Westin, the Five-and-twentieth
day of October.
P bro de privat sigill