A WAY FOR MAKEING BETTER ALLOM, AND IN A CHEAPER WAY, THEN IS USED OR EVER WAS ATT ANY SUCH WORKE, AND ALSO OUT OF THE SAYD ALLOM MINES TO MAKE CURIOUS CHRISTALLINE ALLOM OF ALLOM-GLASSE FOR SEVERALL GOOD USES AND ORNAMENTS FOR THE PUBLICK GOOD, AND PREPARATIONS OF ALLOM WITH OTHER MATTERS FOR MEDICINAL, CHIRURGICALL, METTALLICK, AND MINERALL IMPROVE- MENTS, BEING NEW INVENTIONS NEVER YETT PRACTICED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES OR DOMINIONS, AND OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO ALL OUR LOVEING SUBJECTS
Year: 1685

page_text: WHEREAS by the humble peticon of our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS
MOORE, of Loftus, in our County of Yorke, Esquire, wee are given to vnderstand
that with considerable charge & paines he, the said Thomas Moore, hath found
out "A WAY FOR MAKEING BETTER ALLOM, AND IN A CHEAPER WAY, THEN IS USED
OR EVER WAS ATT ANY SUCH WORKE, AND ALSO OUT OF THE SAYD ALLOM MINES TO
MAKE CURIOUS CHRISTALLINE ALLOM OF ALLOM-GLASSE FOR SEVERALL GOOD USES AND
ORNAMENTS FOR THE PUBLICK GOOD, AND PREPARATIONS OF ALLOM WITH OTHER
MATTERS FOR MEDICINAL, CHIRURGICALL, METTALLICK, AND MINERALL IMPROVE-
MENTS, BEING NEW INVENTIONS NEVER YETT PRACTICED IN ANY OF OUR KINGDOMES OR
DOMINIONS, AND OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO ALL OUR LOVEING SUBJECTS;" and whereas
the said Thomas Moore hath humbly besought us to grant him our Letters
Patents for ye sole vse of such his art and invenons for the terme of
fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that we, having a inore especial and
favourable regard unto the said art and invenčon. aforesaid, and being
willing to cherish and encourage all laudable endeavours & designes. of such
our subjects as shall find out vsefull and profitable arts, misterys, and inven-
tions by granting and appropriating unto them for some tyme of yeares the
fruit and benefitt of their industry, whereby not only a marke of our favour
may be sett upon such their ingenuity, but also that their labour and expences

page_text: in the attainment thereof may in some measure be recompenced & rewarded
to them, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon haue
giuen and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our heires & successors, doe
giue and grant unto the said Thomas Moor, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, especiall licence, power, priviledge & authority, that he & they, by
him & themselues, & by his and theire deputyes, servants, agents, & workmen,
& such others as only as he, the said Thomas Moore, his executors, adminis-
trators, & assignes, shall agree with, & noe others, shall and may from tyme
to tyme and all and every tyme and tymes hereafter dureing the terme of
fourteene ycares next ensuing the date of these presents, vse, practice,
exercise, and enjoy y said inventions for makeing better allom, and for
makeing christoline allom of allom glasse, and preparacons of allom, with other
matters for the good uses and ornaments aforesaid, and to cast and put some
of them into such moulds, formes, figures as may be advantagous for his said
mettallick and minerall improvements so by him found out as aforesaid, within
our Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and our dominions and
territoryes thereunto belonging, and also shall and may have, receive, take, &
enjoy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage of and by such new
inventions ariseing, or to be made, acquired, or gotten, to his and their owne
proper uses and behoofes, to have, hold, & enjoy the said lycence, priviledge,
power, and authority, and other the premisses by these presents granted, and
every of them, to the said Thomas Moore, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, for and during the terme of fourteene yeares from henceforth next
insuing, and fully to be compleate and ended; and to the end the said Thomas
Moore, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enjoy the
full and wholle benefitt, and the sole use and exercise of the said inventions,
wee doe by these presents, for us, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and comand all and every person and persons, bodyes politick and
corporate, of what quallity, degree, name, and condičon soever they be, that
neither they or any of them, during the said tearme of fourteene yeares hereby
granted, neither directly nor indirectly, doe, use, exercise, or putt in practice
the said arts or invenčons, or any of his said wayes or formes for his panns,
furnaces, fires, saveing of and from his carriages or other his artifices so by the
said Thomas Moore found out as aforesaid, nor do nor shall make any addičon
thereunto or substraction from y same, whereby to pretend themselves the
inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Thomas Moore, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing under
his or there hands and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, upon such
paines and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the

page_text: contempt of this our comand, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas
Moore, his executors, administrators, & assignes, according to law & justice
for his and theire damages thereby sustained; and further, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, giue and grant unto the said
Thomas Moore, his exccutors, admr, & assignes, full power & authority that
he & they & cuery of them, his, theire, & euery of their deputyes, agents, &
servants, and euery of them (hauing first obteined a warrt in that behalf from
the Chiefe Justice of the Court of King's Bench, of vs, our heires &
successores, for ye time being, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, as well within libtyes as without, upon request, att convenient
times in the day durcing the tyme aforesaid, & in lawful manner, enter &
make search in any houses or other places where there shall be just cause of
suspicon for discovering and finding out all such psones as shall, within the
said terme of fourteene years, imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or
put in practice ye said invenčons, or any of them, soc by the said Thomas
Moore found out as aforesaid, that soc such offenders may be proceeded
against according to theire demeritts; and further, wee do by these presents,
for us, our heires & successors, will, authorize, require, & comand all and
singular justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, & all other officers & ministers of us, our heires and successors for
the tyine being, that they and every of them respectively from tyme to tymc
dureing y said terme hereby granted in their respective places be favouring.
helping, aiding, and assisting unto the said Thomas Moore, his executors,
administrators, & assignes, and to his or their deputyes, agents, and servants,
in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure
herein declared, and in the exercise & execucon of the powers, priviledges,
and authorityes herein & hereby given & granted as aforesaid, and, inoreover,
that they nor any of them do not att any tyme molest, hinder, or interrupt the
said Thomas Moore, his executors, administrato", or assignes, or his or their
deputyes, agents, or servants, or any of them, in or about the exercise of
any of the said invenčons, or in any matter or thing concerneing the same.
Provided allwayes, that if att any tyme dureing the said terme of fourteene
yeares it shalbe made appeare unto us, our heires and successors, or any six or
more of our or theire Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law or
5 prejudiciall or inconvenient, or not of publick use or benefitt, or that the said
invenčons are not new invenčons of the said Thomas Moore, then, upon
significačon & declaračon to be made by us, our heires or successors, under
our or their signet or privy seale, or by yo lords and others of our Privy
Councill, or any six of them for the tyme being, in writing under their

page_text: hands, of such prejudice or inconveniency, these our Letters Patents, and
everything herein conteyned, shall from thenceforth cease, determine, & be
vtterly voyd, anything herein-before conteyned to y° contrary notwithstanding.
And lastly, wee doe by these presents, for us, our heires and successors, grant
unto the said Thomas Moore, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by
all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true
intent and meaning of these presents, and shalbe taken, construed, and adjudged
most favourably and beneficially for the benefitt & advantage of the said
Thomas Moore, his executors, adññirato", and assignes, as well in all our
courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describeing y materialls, way, or manner of makeing, useing, or exerciseing
the said invenčons, or of the certaine vse and benefitt thereof, and notwith-
standing any other defects, incertaintyes, or imperfections in these presents
conteyned, or any law, act, statute, ordinance, proclamacon, provision, or
restriction, or other matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &. Witnesse our selfe att Westminster, the Thirteenth day
of Aprill, in the First yeare of our reigne.
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