A NEW INVENCON FOR MAKING SQUARE WINDOW GLASSES FOR SASHES AND COACHES, EXCELLING Y* NORMANDY FOR STRENGTH & CLEERNESSE, BEING SUCH AS WERE NEVER HERETOFORE MADE & USED IN ANY OF YO MAIESTIES DOMINIONS
Year: 1685

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty & welbeloved JOHN BELLINGHAM, Esq', one of the
Groomes of our Privy Chamber in ordinary, hath humbly represented unto vs,
that by his study and industry, & att his great costs & charges, he hath found
out "A NEW INVENCON FOR MAKING SQUARE WINDOW GLASSES FOR SASHES AND
COACHES, EXCELLING Y* NORMANDY FOR STRENGTH & CLEERNESSE, BEING SUCH AS
WERE NEVER HERETOFORE MADE & USED IN ANY OF YO MAIESTIES DOMINIONS."
And whereas the said John Bellingham, hath humbly besought vs to grant
bim ye sole making & useing of such glasse for the terme of fourteene yeares,
wee are gratiously pleased to condescend to that his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that y said John
Bellingham may reape some reasonable recompence & compensation for his
great paines and expences in & about the misses. & to incourage y° inventors
of such arts as may be of publick vse & benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, & ineere motion, have given & granted, and by these psents, for
us, our heires & successors, do give & grant unto ye said John Bellingham,
his executo", admirator, & assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge
& authority, that he, the said John Bellingham, his executo", admirato", &
assignes, & every of them, by themselves or their deputy & deputyes, servants
or agents, or such as he, the said John Bellingham, his executo", adiñrato",
and assignes, shall att any tyme agree with, and no others, from tyme to

page_text: tyme & att all tymes during y° terme of yeares herein expressed, shall &
lawful may use, execise, & enjoy the said. Invencon within any part or parts,
place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our kingdomes of England &
Ireland, dominion of Wales, and, all and every or any of our kingdomes &
dominions whatsoever, in such maner & according to such reasonable & lawfull
rates & limitations as to him, the said John Bellingham, his executo",
adirato, & assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet,
and that he, y said John Bellingham, his executo", adiirato", & assignes,
shall & may have & enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, & advantage,
from tyme to tyme coming. growing, and arising by reason of y° said Invencon,
for & during y° full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have; hold;
exercise, and enjoy ye said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-
before granted, or menconed to be granted, unto y" said John Bellingham, his
executors, admirators, & assignes, for & during & unto yo full end & terme of
fourteene yeares from yo day of yo date of these psents next and & immediately
ensuing. & fully to be compleate & ended, according to ye statute in y' case
made & provided. And to the end ye said John Bellingham, his exccuto",
admirato, & assignes, & every of them, may enjoy the full benefitt & the sole
vsc & exercise of the said Invenĉon, according to our gratious intencons
herein-before declared, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires & successor,
require and strictly comand all & every person & persons, bodyes politique and
corporate, & all other our subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quallity
or degree, name or condičon, socuer they be, within all & every our king-
domes & dominions, y neither they nor any of them at any tyme during
the contynuance of yo said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either
directly or indirectly, do vse or putt in practice the said Invenčon, or any part
of same, soe attained unto by yo said John Bellingham as aforesaid, nor
shall in anywise counterfiet or resemble ye same, nor shall make, or cause to
be made, any addition thereto or substraction from the same, whereby to
Ptend themselves the inventor or devisers thereof, without ye licence, consent,
or agreem of the said John Bellingham, his exrs, adñirs, or assignes, in
writing under bis, their, or some of theire, hands and scales first had and
obteined in that behalfe, upon such paines and penaltyes as can or may be
justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command,
and, further, to bee answerable vnto the said John Bellingham, his executors,
adñirs, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occa
sioned. And wee doe, of our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and
meer metion, for vs, our heirs and successors, grant unto the said John
Bellingham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that

page_text: law.
he, they, and every of them, and his, theire, and eucry of their deputyes, agents,
and servants, hauing first obteyned a lawfull warrant from the Lord Chief
Justice of our Court of King's Bench, att Westin, for the time being, and
with the assistance of a constable, or ony other lawfull officer, att convenient
tymes in ye day dureing the terme hereby granted, & in lawfull mañer, may enter
into & make search in any place or places whatsoeuer within any of our
kingdomes or dominions where. there shalbe iust cause of suspicion for yo
discovery & finding out of all & every person and persons as shall imitate, or
cause to be imitated, or shall use or putt in practice ye said Invenĉon, or shall
make or counterfict any instrum or materialls to ye same belonging, that soe
such offendor or offenders may be proceeded against & punished according to
And further, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires and successor,
authorise and command all & singular justices of ye peace, majors, sheriffes,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, & all other officers & ministers whatsoever
of vs, our heires & successors, for the tyme being, aswell within our king
domes of England & Ireland, dominion of Wales, as within all & every
other our kingdomes & dominions, that they & every of them respectively be
from tyme to tyme dureing ye terme hereby granted, in their respective offices,
favouring, aiding, helping, & assisting vnto y said John Bellingham, his
executors, adirs, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputyes
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 priviledges 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, doc not nor shall att any time hereafter during the said terme hereby
granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Bellingham, his
executors, admirs, or assignes, or any his or their deputyes, servants, or agents,
in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or
anything relating thereto Provided alwaics, and these our Lies Pattents are
and shall be upon this condition that if att any time during the said terme
hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heirs or succors, or any six
or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our present grant is contrary
to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the
said Invention is not a new invention as to the public vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said John
Bellingham as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaration thereof, to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale,
or by yo lords & others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of
:

page_text: them, under their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, & be utterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing before
herein conteyned to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe,
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteyued, shall not
extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge unto the said John
Bellingham, his executo, admirato", or assignes, or any of them, to use or
imitate any invention or worke whatsoeuer which hath beene heretofore found
out or invented by any other of our subjects whatsoeuer, and publickly vsed or
exercised within our said realmes & dominions, or any of them, unto whom wee
have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Bellingham, his ex", adñirs, and assignes, and all and singul other person and
persons to whom we have already granted our like Lies Pattents or priviledges
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respectiue Lřes Pattents and of these psents. And lastly, wee do by these
Psents, for us, or heires and successors, grant unto ye said John Bellingham,
his executors, adñirato", and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or yo
inrollm thereof, shalbe in & by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, &
effectuall in y law, according to yo true intent & meaning thereof, and shalbe
taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence,
for the best advantage of yo said John Bellingham, his executors, admirato",
and assignes, as well in all courts of records as essewhere, and by all & singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heires & successors, in all &
singular our realmes & dominions whatsoever, and amongst all & every thes
subjects of us, our heires and successors, whatsoeuer & wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describing the nature or quality of the said
Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other
defects or incertainetys in these 'sents conteyned, or any act, statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamation, or restriction, or other matter, cause, or a
thing whatsoever to yo contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c., witnesse our selfe att Westminster, y Seaventh day of
January, in ye thirty-sixth year of our reigne.