A CERTAINE SORT OF PLAISTER OF AN EXTRAORDI- NARY HARDNESSE CALLED GLASSIS, WHICH MAY BE VSED INSTEAD OF FREESTONE FOR PAVEING OF FLOORES, BEING, AS IS PTENDED, HANDSOMER, CHEAPER, AND FULL AS DURABLE; AND AN INVENCON OF WATERMILLE FOR CORNE, WHICH WILL GOE WITH AS LITTLE FALL AS ANY VNDERSHOTT MILL, AND WITH A FIFTH PART OF THE WATER, WHEREBY THE GREAT INCONVENIENCE OF WANT OF WATER TO MILLE MAY BE AVOIDED
Year: 1677

page_text: CHARLEN
DECON
grace
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved KENRICK EDISBURY, of Hammer-
smith, in our County of Midd., Gent., hath by his humble peticon repsented
vnto vs, that in his travelle he hath observed twoe thing which are not yett
vsed in England (vidett): "A CERTAINE SORT OF PLAISTER OF AN EXTRAORDI-
NARY HARDNESSE CALLED GLASSIS, WHICH MAY BE VSED INSTEAD OF FREESTONE FOR
PAVEING OF FLOORES, BEING, AS IS PTENDED, HANDSOMER, CHEAPER, AND FULL AS
DURABLE; AND AN INVENCON OF WATERMILLE FOR CORNE, WHICH WILL GOE WITH
AS LITTLE FALL AS ANY VNDERSHOTT MILL, AND WITH A FIFTH PART OF THE WATER,
WHEREBY THE GREAT INCONVENIENCE OF WANT OF WATER TO MILLE MAY BE
AVOIDED;" and haveing humbly besought vs to graunt him our Letters Patent(
for the sole vse of the said Inventons for the terme of foureteene yeares,
wee are graciously pleased to condescend therevnto:
KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certayne
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and graunted, and by these psente,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt, vnto the said Kenrick
Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full
and sole power, priviledge, and authority, that he and they, and his and
theire servant and workemen, and noe others, shall and may, dureinge the
terme of foureteene yeares next ensueing the date of these sente, vse,
practice, excise, and enioy the said arte or Invenčons, and all engines and
instrument relateing therevnto, within our Kingdome of England, Dominion

page_text: of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-1 weed, in such manner as to him or
them shall seeme meet, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advan-
tage ariseing thereby, or by reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy the said
licences, powers, priviledges, authorityes, and other the misses hereby
graunted or intended to be graunted to the said Kenrick Edisbury, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, from the day of the date of these
Psente for and dureing the terme of fouretecne yeares from thence next ensue-
ing, fully to be compleate and ended, according to the Statute in that case
made and pvided. And to the end the said Kendrick Edisbury, his exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full
and whole benefitt and the sole vse and excise of his said Invenĉons aswell
within the libertyes as without, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and streightly charge and comand all and every
pson and psons, bodyes politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name,
or addičon they be, that they nor any of them, dureing the terme of yeares
hereby graunted, either directly or indirectly, doc or shall vse or putt in prac-
tice the said arte or Invenĉons, or either of them, nor doe or shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the same, or any the engines or instrumente relateinge
vnto either of the said arte or Invenčons, nor doe or shall make any addicon
therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the
inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vndler his or their hande and seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon
such paines and penalties as canne or may be inflicted on such offenders for
the contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and, further, to be answer-
able to the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, or assigues,
according to law and justice, for his and their damages thereby susteined.
And, further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give
and graunt vnto the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, full power and authority, that he, they, and every of them, his,
their, and every of their deputies, servante, or agente, or any of them,
baveing first obteined a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice
of the Court of King Bench for the time being) may, with the assistance of
a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within liberties as without, vpon
request, at convenient times in the day dureing the time aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places
where there shall be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of
all such psons as shall, within the terme of foureteene yeares, imitate or cause
to be imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice the said arte or Invenčons, or

page_text: either of them, that soe such offenders may be pcceded against and punished
according to their demeritte. And, further, wee doc by these psente, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require all and singular justices
of the peace, maiors, sherriffes, bayliffes, headboroughes, 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 said terme
hereby graunted, in their respective places, favouring, aiding, helpeing, and
assisting vnto the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputyes, servante and agente, in and
by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure
herein declared, and the excise and execucon of the powers and priviledges
herein and hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesaid. And,
moreover, wee will and comand by these psente, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, that our said officers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or inter-
rupt the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
his or their deputy, deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, in or aboute
the vse or excise of the said arte or Invenčons or either of them, in any
matter or thing concerneing the same. Provided alwayes, that if at any time
dureing the said terme of foureteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our
leires or successors, or any sixe or more of our or their privy councell, that
this grant is Piudiciall or inconvenient to our cōmon weale, or that the said
arte or Invencons, or either of them, is or are not the newe Invenčon of the
said Kenrick Edisbury, as to the vses and practices thereof within our Kingdome
of England, then, vpon significacon and declaracon to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the
lord and others of our privy councell, or six or more of them, for the time
being, in writeing under their hande, of such piudice and inconvenience, these
our Letters Patent and all thing therein conteined shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly voide, to all intent and purposes, anything herein-
before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that these
our Lřes Patente, or anything herein conteined, shall not extend or be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Kenrick Edisbury, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other pson or psons, and
publickly excised in this our Kingdome of England, vnto whome wee have
already graunted our like Letters Patente or priviledge for the sole vse, excise,
and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said Kenrick
Edisbury, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other pson and psons to whome wee have already graunted our like Letters

page_text: Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall invenĉons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective Letters Patent and of
these psente. And, lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and
successors, graunt vnto the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, that these Letters Patente, and the inrollment thereof, shall
be in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe,
according to the true intent and meaneing of these psente, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best
benefitt and advantage of the said Kenrick Edisbury, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as elsewhere, not-
withstanding the not full and certaine describeing of the said arte or Invenčons,
or of the certaine vses and benefitte of them or either of them, and notwith-
standing any other defecte, incertainetyes, or impfeccons in these psent
conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint,
to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c
Witnesso the King at Westm, the Twelfth day of
January.
P bře de privato sigillo, &c.