AN ENGINE DRAWING VP WATER BOTH AT THE THRUSTING DOWNE AND PULLING VP OF THE SAME RODD OR PUMPSTAFFE, WITH VALVES OPENING FROM BOTH SIDES, AND FAST IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH ENGINE MAY BE OF GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUBIECTS IN GENERALL
Year: 1687

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WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect Sir ROBERT GORDON, Knight,
hath represented vnto vs that with great charge and study he hath found out
and discovered a new Invention of "AN ENGINE DRAWING VP WATER BOTH AT
THE THRUSTING DOWNE AND PULLING VP OF THE SAME RODD OR PUMPSTAFFE, WITH
VALVES OPENING FROM BOTH SIDES, AND FAST IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH ENGINE MAY BE
OF GREAT VSE AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUBIECTS IN GENERALL," and having there-
fore humbly besought vs to grant him our special licence and priviledge for
the sole vse and benefitt of his said Invention for the terme of fourteen yeares
according to the Statute in that behalfe, wee, being desirous to encourage the
invention of such things as may be of publick vse and benefitt to our subjects,
are graciously pleased to condiscend vnto that his request.
KNOW YE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said Sir Robert
Gordon may reape some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his
great paines and expences in and about the misses, of our especiall grace,
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doc give and grant vnto the said
Sir Robert Gordon, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that the said Sir Robert Gordon, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or
their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said
Sir Robert Gordon shall at any time agree with, and noe others, from time to
time and at all times dureing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and
lawfully may vsc, exercise, and enioy the said Invenčon within any part or
parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of
England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and

page_text: dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable and
lawful rates and limitačons as to him, the said Sir Robert Gordon, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their dis-
cretion seeme meet, and that he, the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt,
profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and durcing the full terme 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 the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the day of the date of these psents next and immediately ensueing, and
fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in this case made and
provided, and to the end that the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and
sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, (according to our gracious
intenčons herein-before declared), wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly comand all and every pson and psons,
bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subiccts whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them at any
time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, loe vse or put in practise the said
Invention, or any part of the same, soe attained vnto by the said Sir Robert
Gordon as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereto or
substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or
devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vnder his, theire, or some of theire hands and scales, 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 royall comand, and further to
be answerable to the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned.
And wee doe of our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and mcerc
močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Sir Robert
Gordon, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these psents, that he,
they, and every of them, and his and their and every of their deputies,
servants, and agents (haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord

page_text: Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time
being), and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at
convenient times in the day, dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull
manner, may enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoever,
within any of our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of.
suspicon) for the discovery and findeing out of all and every pson and psons
as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vsc or put in practise the said
Invencon, or shall make or counterfeit any instruments or materialls to the.
same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded against
and punished according to law. And further, wee doe by these psents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorise, and comand all and singular justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all
other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the
time being, aswell within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales
as within all and every other our kingdomes and dominions; that they and
every of them respectively be from time to time durcing the terme hereby
granted, in their respective offices favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto
the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to
his and their deputy and deputies, 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 execution of the powers and
priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doc by these
sents, 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 durcing the said terme hereby
granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Sir Robert Gordon,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputies,
servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Juvenčon, or any thing relateing thereto Provided allways,
and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condiĉon, that if
at any time dureing the said terme hereby granted, it shall be made appeare
to vs, our heires & successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Councell, that this our psent grant is contrary to law or piudiciall or incon-
venient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invencon is not a new
inventon, as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within this our king-
dome, and not invented or found out by the said Sir Robert Gordon, as
aforesaid, then vpon significaĉon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the lords
and others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder

page_text: their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to
the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patents, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Sir Robert Gordon, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or
invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within our said realmes and dominions or any of them, vnto whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge, for the sole
exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Sir
Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators and assignes, and all and
singular other pson and psons to whome wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents or priviledges, as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
their several Inventions by them invented and found out according to the
true intent and meaneing of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
Psents. And lastly, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Sir Rob Gordon, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patens or the inrollment thereof, shall be in
and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed,
and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said Sir Robert Gordon, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires, and successors, in all and
singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every
of the subects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of
the said Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conduceing and belonging,
or any other defects or incertainties in these psents contained, or any act,
statute, ordinance, provision, proclamačon or restriccon, or other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse wherof, &c.
teenth day of January.
Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Nine-