A CERTAINE WAY OF GRAVEING, GARNISHING, AND COLOURING OF SHIPPS, BARGES, WHERRIES, AND OTHER VESSELLS, AND ALSOE FOR THE GARNISHING, COLOURING, OR VARNISHING, IN YMITATION OP GILDING AND OTHERWISE, OF WOOD, IRON, STONE, PLAISTER, AND OTHER THING, BY A LIQUOR DRAWNE FROM CERTAINE GRAINE GROWING WITHIN THIS KINGDOME OF ENGLAND, AND SOME OTHER INGRE- DIENT, BEING THEIR OWNE INVENCON, AND NEVER BEFORE VSED OFEOF,; AND THEID WAY OFNISHING, HING, AND COLOURING OF WOOD AND OTHER THING IS OF A GREAT AND LONG ENDURANCE, AND MUCH CHEAPER THAN WHAT HATH BYN HITHERTO VSED
Year: 1668

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France and Ireland, Defendor of the Faith, &c., to all to whome
these sente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have byn informed by the humble peticon of our
welbeloved subiecte Sir PHILLIPP HOWARD, Knight, and FRANCIS WATSON,
Esquire, that they, by their great industry and care, have found "A
CERTAINE WAY OF GRAVEING, GARNISHING, AND COLOURING OF SHIPPS, BARGES,
WHERRIES, AND OTHER VESSELLS, AND ALSOE FOR THE GARNISHING, COLOURING,
OR VARNISHING, IN YMITATION OP GILDING AND OTHERWISE, OF WOOD, IRON,
STONE, PLAISTER, AND OTHER THING, BY A LIQUOR DRAWNE FROM CERTAINE
GRAINE GROWING WITHIN THIS KINGDOME OF ENGLAND, AND SOME OTHER INGRE-
DIENT, BEING THEIR OWNE INVENCON, AND NEVER BEFORE VSED IN THIS OUR
KINGDOME, WCH WAY OF GRAVEING WILL NOT ONELY P SERVE THE SAID SHIPPS
AND VESSELLS MORE THEN ORDINARY GRAVEING, BUT WILL ALSOE RENDER THE
SAID SHIPPS OR VESSELLS, BY THE SMOOTHENESSE THEREOF, APTER TO SAYLE; AND
THE SAID WAY OF VARNISHING, GARNISHING, AND COLOURING OF WOOD AND
OTHER THING IS OF A GREAT AND LONG ENDURANCE, AND MUCH CHEAPER THAN
WHAT HATH BYN HITHERTO VSED;" and whereas the said Sir Phillipp Howard
and Francis Watson have humbly besowte vs, for their better encouragement
to exercise and putt in practice the said Invenĉon, that wee would bee gra-
ciously pleased to graunt them our Letters Patent of Privilledge for the sole
vse and benefitt thereof thoughout our said Realme of England & Dominion
of Wales, for the terme and tyme of fowerteene yeares, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided,
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull and fitting

page_text: encouragement to the inventors of such arte as may bee of publique vse and
benefitt, of our especial grace. certayne knowledge, and meere močon, and
vpon the humble peticon of the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis
Watson, have given and graunted, and by these psente for vs, our heires and
successors, doe give and graunt vnto the said Sir Phillipp Howard and
Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall
lycence, full power, priviledge and -authority, that hee, they, and every of
them, by themselves or their deputy or deputyes, servante and workemen, att
all tymes and from tyme to tyme hereafter durcing the terme of yeares
hereafter in these psente expressed, shall and lawfully may have, vse, exercise,
imploy and enioy the said new Invencon of graveing, garnishing, and colour-
ing of shipps, vessells, and other thing, as aforesaid, with liquors extracted
out of graine as aforesaid, in such manner as to them, either, or any of them
in their discretions shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioy the
sole benefitt and advantage comeing or ariseing by reason thereof dureing the
terme of yeares hereby graunted; and to the end the said Sir Phillipp
Howard and Francis Watson, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and
sole vse and exercise of their said Invenĉon, wee doe by these psente, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly comand all and every
pson and psons, bodyes politique and corporate, of whatsoever quality, de-
gree, name, or condicon soever they bee, that neither they nor any of them,
during the terme of yeares hereby graunted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse
or put in practice the said Invencou of graveing, garnishing, & colouring of
shipps, vessells or other thing as aforesaid, soe by the said Sir Phillipp Howard
and Francis Watson vsed as aforesaid, nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or re-
semble the same, nor shall make any addition to or substraccon from the
same, whereby to Ptend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof,
without the lyconce, consent, or agreement of the said Sir Phillipp Howard
and Francis Watson, or their executors, administrators, or assignes in writing,
vnder their or some of their hande and seales first had and obteyned in
that behalfe, vpon such paynes and penaltyes as can or may bee inflicted on
such offenders for their contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and
further to bee answeareable to the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis
Watson, their executors, administrators and assignes, according to lawe and
justice, for his and their damages thereby susteined, to have and to hold all
the said lycences, powers, priviledges and authorityes hereby graunted as
aforesaid vnto them, the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing the terme of fowerteené
yeares to bee accompted from the makeing of these scute next ensucing

page_text: and fully to bee compleate and ended according to the statute in such case
made and pvided. And further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires &
successors. give and graunt vnto the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis
Watson, their exccutors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority,
that they and their deputyes, servante and agente (having first obteyned a
warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King
Bench for the tyme being), may with the assistance of a constable, or any
other lawful officer, at convenient tymes of the day during the terme
aforesaid, and in lawful manner, enter into and make search in any place
where there shall bec iust cause of suspicion for discovering and finding out
of all such psons as shall imitate or cause to be ymitated, or shall vse or putt
in practice the said Invencon, soc by the said Sir Phillipp Howard and
Francis Watson invented and attayned vnto as aforesaid, that soc such
offenders may be peeeded against and punished according to their demeritte,
and their workes then and there found to bee seised vpon and left in the
hand and custody of some constable or officer to bee disposed of according
to lawe. And further, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorize, and require all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headborrowes, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors for the tyme being, that they and
every of them respectively bee from tyme to tyme during the said terme hereby
graunted in their respective places favouring, ayding, and assisting vnto the
said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, theire executors, administrators,
and assignes, and to their deputyes, servante and agente in and by all thing
in and about the accomplishm' of our will and pleasure herein declared,
and in the exercise and execučon of their powers and priuiledges herein and
hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesaid, and moreover wee
will and comaund by these sente for vs, our heires and successors, that
our said officers and ministers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, or their deputyes, servante or agente, or
any of them, in or about the vse or exercize of the said Invencon
or in any matter or thing concning the same: Provided alwayes, that if att
any tyme dureing the said terme of fowerteene yeares it shall be made appeare
vuto vs, our heires or successors, that this our graunt is contrary to lawe or
Piudicial or inconvenient, and not of publique vse or benefitt, or that the said
graveing or garnishing, or colouring of shipps, vessells, wood, and other thing
as aforesaid, is not a new invention of the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis
Watson, or one of them, then, vpon significacon or declaracon thereof to bec
made by vs, our heires or successors, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith

page_text: cease, determyne, and bee as void in lawe to all intente and purposes any thing
berein-before menconed to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe,
that these our Letters Patente or any thing herein contayned, shall
not extend or bee construed to extend to give priuiledge vnto the said Sir
Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, their 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 publiquely exercized within
our said realme of England, or any the dominions and territories therevnto
belonging, for graveing shipps and other vessells, or such like worke as
aforesaid, vnto whome wee have allready graunted our like Letters Patente
of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will
and pleasure that the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, theire
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other pson and
psons to whome wee have allready graunted our like Letters Patent of
Priuiledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invencons
by them invented and found out according to the true intent and meaneing
of the said severall and respective Letters Patente and of theise psente.
And lastly, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors,
graunt vnto the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente or the
inrollment thereof, shall bee in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and
effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and
shall bee taken, construed, and adiudged most favourable and beneficiall for the
best benefitt and advantage of the said Sir Phillipp Howard and Francis Watson,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all our courte of record as
elsewhere; notwithstanding the not full and Etaine describing the manner and
quality of the said Invenčon for graveing shipps and other vessells, or of the
materialls, way, or manner thereof, or of the vse and benefitt thereof; and
notwithstanding any other defecte, incerteynties, or impfeccons in these psente
conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, pelamacon, or restraynt to
the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse whereof, wee have caused these our Letters to bec made
Patent. Wittnes our selfe att Westminster, the Second day of
March