A NEW MACHINE OR WATER ENGINE, NEVER AS YET KNOWN OR VSED IN THIS OUR KINGDOM, WHEREBY THE BEVERALL CITIES, CORPORATIONS, AND TOWNS IN THIS OUR KINGDOM MAY BE SUPPLIED WITH WATER, FAR MUCH EASIER THAN ANY OTHER MACHINE OR ENGINE HITHERTO KNOWN OF FRACTISED,
Year: 1725

page_text: NUTTALL AND KIKINS
1.
GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c, to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS NUTTALL and JOSEPH SKYRIN have by their peticon
most humbly presented vnto vs that they for many yeares (after much labour,
time, paines, and expence) have found out and invented "A NEW MACHINE OR
WATER ENGINE, NEVER AS YET KNOWN OR VSED IN THIS OUR KINGDOM, WHEREBY THE
BEVERALL CITIES, CORPORATIONS, AND TOWNS IN THIS OUR KINGDOM MAY BE SUPPLIED
WITH WATER, FAR MUCH EASIER THAN ANY OTHER MACHINE OR ENGINE HITHERTO
KNOWN OF FRACTISED," and as it excells all other water engines in this particular,
so likewise it does also in draining of tinn, lead, and coale mines in this our
kingdom, and may drain any of the said mines at the fifth part of the charge
and expence that any other engine can do, whereby our subiectf will reap
several benefits; that this new invented machine can be set vp for any of the
purposes aforesaid at an expence not exceeding fifty pound at the most, and
capable of draining the deepest mines in our kingdom, and maintained at a
small charge not exceeding the prime cost annually, and by which two
hundred tunns of water may be raised to a proporconable height in every
hour; that the proprietors of the severall mines of tin; lead, and coles in
our Kingdom of Great Britain, will hereby free themselves from the vast
expences of draining the water from their respective mines by expensive
engines drawn by horses and fire engines, which are very expensive at the
first cost, and the maintenance of them after is very great, for the fire engines
must be always attended and kept in repair, because they frequently break out
by violence of the fire, which very often breakes out and destroys the whole;
that the mines in our kingdom which are now vseless will be by this engine

page_text: rendered vsefull, and it will also be of singular vse and service for draining of
overflowed land and marshes, which will be a great advantage to those whose
misfortune it is to have most part of their estates vnder water, and it will be
likewise of great vse on shipboard in case of leakes, and the charges of such
an engine for that purpose will be very small; praying vs to grant ynto them,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, our Royal Letters Patents for the
sole vse and benefit of the said Invention for the term of fourteen yeares
within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided, wee being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arte and inventions which may be of publick benefit, are gratiously
pleased to gratifie them in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge and meer mocon have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
our especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority that they, the
said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves or by their deputy or deputies,
servants, or agents, or such others as they, the said Thomas Nuttall and
Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, or assignes shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and vend
the said new invented engine, as above described, within that said part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said Thomas.
Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that they, the said
Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit,
comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of yeares
herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted
vnto them the said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of
fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Presents next and ime-
diately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said Thomas

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Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may have and eniny the full benefit and sole vse and exercise
of the said Invenčon, according to our gratious intenčon herein-before
declared, wee do by these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name, or condičon soever they bee, within that said part of our King-
dom of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they or any of them during the continu-
ance of the said term hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make,
vse, or put in practice the said Invention so attained vnto by the said Thomas
Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin as aforesaid, or in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereunto
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder their hande and seales first had
and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal comand,
and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph
Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for their damages thereby occasioned. And, moreover, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and coñand all and sin-
gular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our
heires and successors, for the time being that they or any of them do
not nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted in any
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of
their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or.
exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto: Provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon,
that if at any time during the term hereby granted, it shall be made appear to
vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council;
that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our
subiect in general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the
publick vse and exercise thereof, within that said part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by the said Thomas Nattall

page_text: and Joseph Skyrin, as aforesaid, then vpon significaton and declaračon thereof
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or six or more
of them viler their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthŵ cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intente and purposes, any thing herein
contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained shall not extend or bo
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Nuttall and
Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, or assignes or any of them to
vse and imitate any Invenčon or work whatsoever, which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto
whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been already granted, for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said Thomas Nuttall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practise their severall Invenčons by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patente, and of these Presents: Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patente are vpon this express condičon, that if the said Thomas Nuttall
and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, or any person or persons
which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of
this grant have or claime any right, title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or
to the power, priviledge, and authority, of the sole vse and benefit of the said
Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pre-
tended transferr or assignement of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share
or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof, to
or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or
cause to be opened any book or book for publick subscriptions, to be made
by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising
any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or bis or their
agent or servante, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the
like intent or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of there our Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted into any number of shares exceeding the number of

page_text: five, or shall comitt or do or procure to be committed or done any act, matter,
or thing whatsoever during such time as such person or persons shall have any
right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premises which would
be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament
made in the sixth year of our reign, intituled (An Act for the better securing
certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two
Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrant-
able Practices therein menčoned), if these our Letters Patents had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time
hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five
persons or their representatives at any one time (reckning executors, or adminis-
trators, as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest as
they are and shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate),
that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patente, and all
liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly
cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Pre-
sents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas, Nuttall
and Joseph Skyrin, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these
our Letters Patent, or the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall shall
be in and by all thing good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the
Jaw, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the
best advantage of the said Thomas Nutall and Joseph Skyrin, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and
by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our said Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and amongst
all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature
or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.