To MULTIPLIE AND MAKE SALTPETER IN AN OPEN FEILDE IN FOWER ACRES OF GROUND SUFFICIENT TO SERVE ALL OUR DOMINIONS; TO RAISE WATER PROM LOWE PITT BY FIRE; TO MAKE ANY SORT OF MILL TO GOE ON STANDING WATERS BY CONTINUALL MOČON, WITHOUT THE HELPE OF WINDE, WAITE, OR HORSE; TO MAKE ALL SORTS OF TAPISTRIE WITHOUT ANY WEAVING LOOME OR WAY EVER YET IN VSE IN THIS KINGDOME; TO MAKE BOATES, SHIPPES, AND BARGES TO GOE AGAINST STRONGE WINDE AND TYDE; TO MAKE THE EARTH FIRTILE MORE THEN VSUALL; TO RAYSE WATER FROM LOW PLACES AND MYND AND COALEPITT BY A NEW WAIE NEVER YET IN VSE; TO MAKE HARD IRON SOFT, AND LIKEWISE COPPER TO BEE TUFFE AND SOFT, WHICH IS NOT IN VSE WITHIN THIS KINGDOME, AND TO MAKE YELLOW WAX WHITE VERIE SPEEDILY,
Year: 1630

page_text: CHARLES, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, France, and
Ireland, Defendor of the Faith, &c. to all to whome theise sente shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved servante DAVID RAMBEYE, Esquire, and one of
the Groomes of our Privie Chamber, hath by his humble peticon shewed vnto
vs that hee, by his greate paines, industry, and chardge, hath found out,
invented, and perfected diverse new waies, meanes, and invenčons; that is to
say, "To MULTIPLIE AND MAKE SALTPETER IN AN OPEN FEILDE IN FOWER ACRES OF
GROUND SUFFICIENT TO SERVE ALL OUR DOMINIONS; TO RAISE WATER PROM LOWE
PITT BY FIRE; TO MAKE ANY SORT OF MILL TO GOE ON STANDING WATERS BY
CONTINUALL MOČON, WITHOUT THE HELPE OF WINDE, WAITE, OR HORSE; TO
MAKE ALL SORTS OF TAPISTRIE WITHOUT ANY WEAVING LOOME OR WAY EVER YET
IN VSE IN THIS KINGDOME; TO MAKE BOATES, SHIPPES, AND BARGES TO GOE AGAINST
STRONGE WINDE AND TYDE; TO MAKE THE EARTH FIRTILE MORE THEN VSUALL; TO
RAYSE WATER FROM LOW PLACES AND MYND AND COALEPITT BY A NEW WAIE
NEVER YET IN VSE; TO MAKE HARD IRON SOFT, AND LIKEWISE COPPER TO BEE
TUFFE AND SOFT, WHICH IS NOT IN VSE WITHIN THIS KINGDOME, AND TO MAKE
YELLOW WAX WHITE VERIE SPEEDILY," and hath informed vs that the vse of
theise Invenĉons would tend greately to the benefitt of vs, and the common-

page_text: wealth, and that they, or any of them, weare never yet practised by any
other within our Dominions, and therevpon hath made humble suite vnto vs
that wee would be pleased to give him sole licence for putting in vse of his
said Invenčons within our Dominions.
KNOW YEE, that wee, graciously favouring and willing to cherish such
ingenious and profitable Invenčons, and houlding it fitt in honour and justice
and it being agreeable to the lawes of this our Realme of England that the
inventors and authors of soe laudable works should in some measure reape the
fruites of theire owne labours, of our especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and
mere mocon, have given and graunted, and by theise psente, for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and graunto vnto the said David Ramseye, his
executors, administrators, assignes, deputie, and deputies, and every of them,
full and free licence, libertie, power, and authoritie, that hee and they and
every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or any of them, and none other
person or persons whatsoever, shall and may, at all tyme and tymes and from
tyme to tyme for and dureing the tearme of foureteene yeares next ensueing the
date hereof, vse, exercise, practise, and put in vre, within our Realmes of
England and Ireland, and our Dominion of Wales, or any of them, or in any
place or places in them, or any of them, at his and theire will and pleasure,
the said wayes or meanes, or any engine, devise, art, or misteric (by him
invented, and not formerly practised by any other within our] Dominions,)
to the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, and to that end to make,
frame, erect, and sett vp in anie place or places convenient whin our said
Realmes and Dominion, or any of them, any furnaces, howses, vessells, engines,
or instrument, fitt and necessary for the putting in vsc and practise of the
said arte, misterics, waies, or meanes to the purposes aforesaid or any of them,
and to take the full and whole benefitt thereof, and vtter, sell or dispose of the
same to his and theire best benefitt, profitt, and advantage.
And to the end this our pleasure may take the better effect, wee doe
hereby for vs, our heires and successors, straightly chardge, inhibite, and
command that no person or persons whatsoever, Englishmen, denizens or
strangers, borne of what estate, degree, or condičon soever hee or they or
any of them be or shalbe, other then the said David Ramseye, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and such as shall by him or them be authorized,
shall or doe, at any tyme or tymes dureing the said tearme of fowreteene
yeares, practise, exercise, or put in vre the said artes, misteries, formes,
waies, or meanes or any of them, or make, erect, vse, set vp, or counterfeit
the same or any of them, or by the example or president of the said
David Ramseye, his executors, administrators, or assignes, make or doe

page_text: doe any thinge tending to the purposes aforesaid or any of them, which is or
shalbe by him or them or any of them put in practise, and not formerly done or
practised within our said realmes and dominions or any of them, vpon payne
of forfeiture vnto vs, our heires and successors, of all such manufactures,
engines, instrumente or devises as shalbe made, framed, erected, or vsed
contrarie to the true intent and meaning of theise psente, and alsoo vpon
paine of the displeasure of vs, our heires and successors, and such further paynes,
penalties, punishment, and imprisonment as by any the lawes or statutes
of our said realmes, or either of them, can or may bee inflicted or imposed vpon
the offendors for theire disobedience in contemning our royall commaund.
And further wee doe hereby for vs, our heires and successors, give full power
and authoritie vnto the said David Ramseye, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that hee or they by himselfe or themselves, or his or theire deputie
or deputies, factors or servante, shall and may and at all tymes convenient, and
from tyme to tymo durcing the said tearme of fowertecne yeares, with the assis-
tance of a constable or some other officer, enter into all or any place or places
convenient within our saide Realmes of England and Ireland, and Dominion
of Wales, or any of them, as well within liberties as without, where hee
or they or any of them shall have iust cause to suspect any manufactures
to be made, or any engines, instrumente, howses, devises, or practises to
bec framed, erected or vsed, contrarie to the true intent and meaning of
theise sente, and there carefully and diligentlic to tric and search for all
such manufactures, engines, instrumente, devises, and other thing as
shalbe made, framed, crected, counterfeited or vsed, contrarie to the true
meaning hereof, and finding any such, to seize the same to the vse of vs, our
heires and successors; the one full moyetie or halfe parte of the cleare benefitt
and profitt of all which manufactures, engines, instrument frames, and devises
soe to be forfeited and seized, as aforesaid, (over and above all charges and
expences, any waio concerning the seizures thereof, being first allowed and
deducted, wee doe, by these psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and
graunt to the said David Ramseye, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
to his and theire owne proper vse and behoofe for ever. And if in the execucon
thereof hee or they shall finde any resistance, that then hee or they or some or
one of them doe certifie the same into the Court of Exchequer, or any other
of the corte of justice of vs, our heires or successors, within any of our said
realmes or dominions respectively where any such offence shall be committed,
to the end the offendors therein may receive condigne punishment for the same,
theire offences vnto which court and every of them wee doe hereby, for vs,
our heires and successors, give power and authoritie vpon such certificates as

page_text: aforesaid, and due proofe thereof, to inflicte such imprisonment or other
punishment vpon the offendors as theire offences shall deserve, or to the said
Court or any of them shall be thought meet; to have and to hould the said
licences, powers, priviledges, authorities, and all other the premisses before, in,
and by theise Presente menčoned to be given and graunted, and every of them
vnto the saide David Ramseye, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for
and during the tearme and vnto the full end and tearme of fowreteene yeares
next ensueing the date hereof, yeldinge and paieng.
And the said David Ramseye, for himselfe, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, doth covenant, promise, and graunt to and with vs, our heires
and successors, by theise Presente, to yeild and pay therefore yearely vnto vs,
our heires and successors dúreing the said tearme, the yearely rent of three
pounde, six shillinge, and eight pence of lawfull money of England, at the
receipte of the Exchequer of vs, our heires and successors at Westminster,
within our Realme of England, the Feast of the Nativitie of Saint John
Baptist, and the Birth of our Lord God, by even and equall porcons to bec
paid, the first payment thereof to begine at the Feast of the Nativitie of
Saint John Baptist next ensueing the date hereof.
And for the better helpe and assistance of the said David Ramseye, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, in and abouto the execuĉon of this
our graunte, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, will and coni-
maunde all and singuler maiors, justices of peace, sheriffe, bayliffe, con-
stables, headborroughs, and other officers, ministers, and subiecte whatsoever,
of vs, our heires and successors, that they and every of them be, from tyme to
tyme dureing the tearme aforesaid, aydeinge, helping, and assisting to the
said David Ramseye, his executors, administrators, assignes, deputies, servants,
and workemen, in all thing in or aboute the execučon of this our graunte as
they tender our pleasure. And theise Presente, or the inrollment thereof shalbe
vnto them and every of them a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalfe;
provided allwayes, that this our present graunt or anything therein conteyned
shall not extend or be construed to extend to the preiudice or hinderance of
any person or persons whatsoever, in or aboute the doeing or performing any
thinge by them or any of them heretofore vsed or put in practise to any the
purposes aforesaid, or other purposes whatsoever; but that they, and everie of
them shall and may have vse, and put in practise any engines, iustruments,
devises, waies or meanes by them heretofore put in practise to the purposes
aforesaid, or any of them or other vses, in as ample manner as hec and they
have heretofore vsed, done, or performed any thing in theise Presente conteyned
to the contrarie in anywise notwithstanding.

page_text: And lastly, our will and pleasure is, and wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires
and successors, graunte that these, our Letters Patente, or the inrollment
of them in Ireland as well as in England, shalbe in all things good, firme,
and availeable within our said Realmes and Dominions, and elsewhere,
according to the true intent and meaninge of the same; although expresso
mencon, &c.
In witnes, &C. Witnes our selfe at Westminster, the One-and-twentieth
day of January.
P bře de privat sigillo, &c.