MELTING OR SMELTING OF COPPER OARE AND TINN OARE WITH SEA COALE OR PITT COALE BY WAY OF FURNACE, NEVER YET PRACTISED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES
Year: 1684

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whom these presents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved HENRY HOWARD and RICHARD BRETT,
Esquires, have by their humble petičon informed vs, that with great industry
and charge they have found out a new Invenčon of "MELTING OR SMELTING
OF COPPER OARE AND TINN OARE WITH SEA COALE OR PITT COALE BY WAY OF
FURNACE, NEVER YET PRACTISED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES," and they haveing
humbly besought vs to grant vnto them our Letters Patents for the sole vse
and exercise of the same for the term of fourteene yeares according to the
statute in that case provided, wee are gratiously pleased to condescend to that
their request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee being willing that the said Henry
Howard and Richard Brett may reap some reasonable recompence and
compensacon for their great paines and expences in and about the premisses,
and to incourage the inventors of such arts as may be of publick vse and
benefitt, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have
given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
doe give and grant vnto the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, special! licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that they, the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett,

page_text: their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by them-
selves or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such other as
they, the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, shall att any time agree with, and noe others, from
time to time, and att all times dureing the terme of yeares herein ex-
pressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invencon
within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of
our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever in such manner and according to
such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitačons as to them the said Henry
Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
or any of them, shall in their discrecons seeme meet. And that they, the said
Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and arising, by reason
of the said Invenčon for and durcing the full terme of yeares herein men-
Coned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers, privileges,
and adantages herein-before granted or menconed to bee granted vnto them,
the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene
yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and immediately ensucing
and fully to be compleate and ended according to the statute in that case
made and provided. And, to the end that they, the said Henry Howard
and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, or assignes, and every
of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the
said Invenĉon according to our gratious intencons herein-before declared,
wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and
strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodys politique and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name, or condiĉon soever they bee, within all and every our kingdomes
& dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any time dureing the
continuance of the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly doe vse or put in practise the said Invenčon, or any
part of the same soe attained vnto by them, the said Henry Howard and
Richard Brett, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble
the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addicon thereto or
substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or
devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of them, the
said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, or

page_text: assignes, in writeing vnder their or some of their hands and scales first had
and obteyned in that behalfe upon such paines and penaltys as can or may
bee iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall
comand, and further to be answerable to them, the said Henry Howard and
Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law for their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe, of our further
especial grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that they and every
of them, and their and every of their deputys, agents, and servants, haveing
first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court
of King's Bench att Westñi for the time being, and with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer att convenient times in the day durcing
the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make
search in any place or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or
dominions where there shalbe iust cause of suspition for the discovery and
finding out of all and every person and persons as shall imitate or cause to be
imitated, or shall vsc or put in practise the said Invenĉon, or shall make
or counterfeite any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that
soc such offender or offenders may bec peeeded against and punished according
to law. And further, wee doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, will, authorise & comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors,
sherifles, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heires or successors, for the time being, aswell within
our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as within all and every
other our kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively
be from time to time, durcing the terme hereby granted, in their respective
offices, favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Henry Howard
and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and to their
deputy and deputys, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared,
and in the exercise and execucon of the powers and privileges hereby granted
as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before menconed, or any of them, doe not, nor shall, att any time hereafter
dureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any their deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the said Invencon, or any thing relateing thereto;

page_text: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall bee vpon this
condiĉon, that if at any time dureing the said terme hereby granted it shall be
made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Councill that this our present grant is contrary to law or preiu-
dicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invencon
is not a new invenčon, as to the publique vse and exercise thereof, within
this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Henry Howard
and Richard Brett as aforesaid, then vpon significañon and declaracon
thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett
or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill,
or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents
shall forthwith cease, determine, and bec vtterly void, to all intents and
purposes, any thing before herein conteined to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
therein conteined, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privilege
vnto the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke
whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any other
of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said
realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents of Privilege for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt
thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said Henry Howard and
Richard Brett, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whom wee have already granted our
like Letters Patents or privileges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
their severall invent̃ons by them invented and found out according to the
true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
presents. And lastly, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Henry Howard and Richard Brett, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or
the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient,
and effectuall in the law according to the true intent and meaneing thereof,
and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and
beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Henry Howard and Richard
Brett, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of
record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes
and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all & every the subiects of vs, our
heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not

page_text: full and certeine describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of
the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other defects or
incerteintys in these psents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamačon or restriccon or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding.