AN INVENCON FOR RAYSEING OF WATER FROM THREE FOOTE TO SIX FOOTE, AND SOE TO TWELVE FOOTE, AND SOE FOR RAYSEING OF WATER FROM FIVE HUNDRED TO A THOUSAND TONN IN AN HOURE, TO BE DONE BY MAN, HORSE, WIND, OR WEIGHT, OF REASONABLE QUANTITIES TO GREAT HEIGHT, FROM TWENTY FOOTE TO AN HUNDRED FOOTE; SECONDLY, FOR BOARING OF TYMBER WITH A WOODEN AWOER FASTER AND BIGGER THEN ANY MAN CAN DOE WITH IRON OR STEELE ; THIRDLY, FOR PUTTING IN OP PILES INTO THE GROUND WITHOUT DRIVEING; AND, FOURTHLY, FOR RAYSEING OF PONDEROUS WEIGHTе
Year: 1642

page_text: CHARLES, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, &
Ireland, Defender of yo Faith, &c., to all to whome theis psente shall come
greeting.
WHEREAS wee have been informed by the humble petičon of our wel-
beloved subiect Wilfm Wheeler, Gent, that hee by his great chardges, study,
and labour, hath attayned the skill of some new and pfitable Inventons,
conening waterworkes and otherwise, which may be very commodious for our
Svice, and very benificiall for our subiects, the like whereof have not by any
others been formly made or vsed within this our Kingdome of England, that is
to say, "AN INVENCON FOR RAYSEING OF WATER FROM THREE FOOTE TO SIX FOOTE,
AND SOE TO TWELVE FOOTE, AND SOE FOR RAYSEING OF WATER FROM FIVE HUNDRED
TO A THOUSAND TONN IN AN HOURE, TO BE DONE BY MAN, HORSE, WIND, OR
WEIGHT, OF REASONABLE QUANTITIES TO GREAT HEIGHT, FROM TWENTY FOOTE
TO AN HUNDRED FOOTE; SECONDLY, FOR BOARING OF TYMBER WITH A WOODEN
AWOER FASTER AND BIGGER THEN ANY MAN CAN DOE WITH IRON OR STEELE ;
THIRDLY, FOR PUTTING IN OP PILES INTO THE GROUND WITHOUT DRIVEING; AND,
FOURTHLY, FOR RAYSEING OF PONDEROUS WEIGHTе;" And whereas by his said t
petičon, hee hath further informed vs that hee hath in the Vnited Nether-
lande pformed some of his said Invenĉons to good contente, whereby hee
hath obtayned from the States Gefall, and pticulerly of Holland and West
Vriesland an Octroy, or Lřes Patente, for the sole vseing of those Invenčons

page_text: as a reward of his great expences and labour therein, where upon hee bath
humbly besought vs, for his better encouragement herein, to graunt vnto hym
and to John Cropley, Gent, their executors and assignees, our Lřes Patente
of licence and priviledge for the sole makeing and vseing of the said Invencons
within our realme of England and dominion of Wales, for the tearme of foure-
teene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and puided.
KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, willing to give encouragement to our
subiecte in the study and investigacon of such lawful and commendable arte
and inventons as may be of good vse and pfitt to vs and our subiecte, of our
espial grace, tayne knowledge, and meere mocon, (and to recompence the
chardge, industry, and paynes of the said Witm Wheeler bestowed in and about
the said seall invenčons,) have given and graunted, and by theis psente, for
vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt to the said Willm Wheeler
and John Cropley, their executors, administrators, and assignes, full and sole
power, priviledge, licence, and authority to vsc, cxcise, and putt in practice,
within our realme of England and dominion of Wales, the said sedall Invencons
herein-before menconed, and every of them, by hym, the said Willm Wheeler,
soe first invented and found out, as aforesaid; that is to say, the said Invencon
by hym, the said Willm Wheeler, soe first invented and found out for the
raiseing of waters from three foote to six foote, and soe to twelve foote,
and soe for raiscing of water from five hundred to one thousand tonn in
an houre, to be done by man, horse, wind, or weight, of reasonable quanti-
ties, to great heighte, from twenty foote to an hundred foote; and the said
Invenčon for boaring of tymber with a wooden auger, faster and bigger then
any man can doe with iron or steele, by hym, the said Willm Wheeler
soe first invented and found out as aforesaid; and the said. Invenčon for
putting in of piles into the ground without driveing, by hym, the said Wittm
Wheeler soe first invented and found out as aforesaid: and the said Invencon
for rayseing of ponderous weight by hym, the said Willm Wheeler, soe first
invented and found out as aforesaid, for the reasonable and lawfull benefitt, pfitt,
and advantage of the said Willm Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors
and assignes And to the end that the said Willm Wheeler and John Cropley,
and either of them, and the executors, administrators, and assignes of them and
either of them, may have and enjoy the full and sole pfitt and advantage of
the said arte and invenčons by bym; the said Willm Wheeler, soc first devised
and found out, as aforesaid, our will and pleasure is, and wee doe by theis
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, straightly chardge and command all
and every pson and psons, of what estate, degree, or condicon soever hee or
they or any of them be, that they nor any of them, other then the said Willm

page_text: Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors, administrators, and assignees,
or their deputies, Svante, or workemen, doe or shall during the tearme
hereafter in theis psente graunted, directly or indirectly vse, excise, or putt in
practice the scuall arte or invenčons aforesaid, or any of them, by hym, the said
Wittm Wheeler, soc first found out and devised as aforesaid, nor shall make,
counterfeite, or resemble the same, whereby to Ptend themselves inventors
or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, and agreement of them, the
said Wittm Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors, administrators, and
assignes, first had or obtayned in that behalfe, vpon payne of our high dis-
pleasure, and such punishment as by the lawes or statutes of the realme
shall or may be inflicted on them for contempt of our royall command
herein; to have and to hold the said licences, powers, priviledges, and
authorities by theis Psente graunted or menconed to be graunted vnto the
said Willm Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors, administrators, &
assignes, for and dureing the tearme and vnto the full end and tearme of four-
teene yeares from henceforth next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and
ended, yeilding and paying therefore yearely. And the said Willm Wheeler
and John Cropley, for themselves, theire executors, administrators, and assignes,
doc covenant and pmise to and with vs, our heires and successors, by theis
Psent to yeild and pay to vs, our heires and successors, dureing the said tearme
hereby graunted, the yearly rent or some of five pounde of lawfull money of
England, to be raysed and payed out of the pfitte and benefitte which shall
be made by the sayd Invencons, or any of them, into the receipt of our
Excheq att Westi att the feast of the Añunciacon of the blessed Virgin
Mary yearely. And wee doe by theis psente for vs, our heires and successors,
will, authorise, and require the Lord Trear, Chancellor, Vndertrear, and
Barons of our Excheqr, and all and singuler justices of peace, maiors, sherriffe,
bayliffe, constables, headboroughes, and other officers and ministers of vs,
our heires and successors for the tyme being, that they and every of them respec-
tively from tyme to tyme dureing the tearme aforesaid be favouring, aydeing,
and assisting to the said Willm Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors,
administrators, and assignes, and their deputyes, Svante, and agente, in and by
all lawfull matters and thing touching the accomplishment of this our sent
graunt, and the due excise and execučon of the said priviledges, licences, and
Pmisses hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesaid. And that
they or any of them doe not att any tyme hinder, molest, or interrupt the
said Wittm Wheeler and John Cropley, theire executors, administrators, depu-
tyes, or assignees, Svante or agente, or any of them, in the lawful execucon of
the misses; and theis our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall be to

page_text: them and every of them a sufficient warrant & discharge in that behalfe:
pvided all wayes, that if the said yearely rent or some hereby reserved as afore-
said shall happen to be behinde and vnpayd by the space of forty dayes next
after the said feast in which the same is lymitted and covenanted to be paid
as aforesaid, or yf the said Willm Wheeler and John Cropley shall not inroll
or cause to be inrolled this our psent graunt before the clerke of the pipe for
the tyme being, within twelve moneths next after the date hereof, that then this
our psent graunt of priviledge shall be vtterly voyd, and of none effect to all
intent and purposes whatsoever, anything herein contayned to the contrary in
anywise notwithstanding; pvided alsoe, that if att any tyme dureing the said
tearme of foureteene yeares hereby graunted, it shall appeare that theis our
Lřes Patent of licence or priviledge aro contrary to the lawe, or in any sort
mischevious or inconvenient to the state of this our realme, contrary to the
forme of the Statute in that case pvided, that then and from thenceforth
theis our Lřes Patente shall cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all
intente and purposes, anything in theis sente conteyned to the contrary
notwithstanding, although expesse menčou, &c.
In wittnes whereof, &c. Wittnes the King att Yorke, the Eight and
twentyeth day of June.
In the absence of any further official details,. place will be given in a
supplementary volume to the Translation of a Dutch Treatise containing a full
account of the subject of the foregoing Patent, and for which the Inventor
had previously obtained an Octroi, or Letters Patent, in the Netherlands. The
original is in Mr. Woodcroft's collection, in the Library of the Great Seal
Patent Office, and bears the following title :-
66
Bewys van de Hoedanigheyt en Wercking der Geoctroyeerde Waterschep-
66
66
raden, geinventeert by Iker Willem Wheler; vergeleken tegen de
tegenwoordigh gebruyckelijcke Heef-raden, door I. B. W. T'Am-
sterdam, gedruckt by Iohan Blaev. Voor de gemeyne Participanten,
en zijn te bekomen by Ian Wybrantsz Colck woonende in de Lange-
"Straet, 1645."