A NEW AND EXTRAORDINARY WAY OR INVENTION OF FORMING GLASSES IN CONICALL FIGURES AND LAMPS, PECULIAR TO HIMSELFE, THAT WILL TO ADMIRACON INCREASE, DISPERSE; AND CAST LIGHT EQUALLY AND CERTAINLY, AT ALL CONVENIENT DISTANCES, NEVER BEFORE VSED OR KNOWNE, AND NO WAYES SUBIECT TO THE GLARING AND INCERTAINTY OF THE LIGHTS HOW CHEIFLY VSED, AND THAT THE SAID INVENCON WILL VERY MUCH TEND TO THE PUBLICK GOOD OF ALL OUR SUBIECTS IN THE TIME OF NIGHT, TO BE VSED NOT ONLY IN STREETS AND OTHER PUBLICK AND PRIVATE PLACES,BUT ALSO IN MINES AND QUARRIES VADER GROUND AND IN SHIPS AT SEA, WITHOUT THE LEAST DANGER OF ANY ACCIDENT BY FIRE TO HAPPEN THEREBY
Year: 1704

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD COLE, Gentleman, hath
by his humble peticon represented vnto vs that he hath, by his long study
and application, and at his great expence and charge, discovered "A NEW
AND EXTRAORDINARY WAY OR INVENTION OF FORMING GLASSES IN CONICALL FIGURES
AND LAMPS, PECULIAR TO HIMSELFE, THAT WILL TO ADMIRACON INCREASE, DISPERSE;
AND CAST LIGHT EQUALLY AND CERTAINLY, AT ALL CONVENIENT DISTANCES, NEVER
BEFORE VSED OR KNOWNE, AND NO WAYES SUBIECT TO THE GLARING AND INCERTAINTY
OF THE LIGHTS HOW CHEIFLY VSED, AND THAT THE SAID INVENCON WILL VERY MUCH
TEND TO THE PUBLICK GOOD OF ALL OUR SUBIECTS IN THE TIME OF NIGHT, TO BE
VSED NOT ONLY IN STREETS AND OTHER PUBLICK AND PRIVATE PLACES, BUT ALSO
IN MINES AND QUARRIES VADER GROUND AND IN SHIPS AT SEA, WITHOUT THE
LEAST DANGER OF ANY ACCIDENT BY FIRE TO HAPPEN THEREBY ;" and therefore
hath humbly besought vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse
and benefitt of the said Invenčon for the terme of fourteen yeares..
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being minded and willing that the
said Richard Cole may reape and receive some reasonable recompence and
compensation for such his great paines and expences in and about the
P misses, and to encourage inventors of such arts as may be of publick
vse and benefitt, wee, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer
močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our heires and

page_text: successors, do give and grant, vnto the said Richard Cole, his executors,
administrators, and assigues, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Richard Cole, his exccutors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their deputy or deputys,
servants or agents, or such others as the said Richard Cole, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time or times agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the terme of yeares herein-
after expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and enioy the said
Invenčon within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or
belonging to this our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, in such
manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons as
to him, the said Richard Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall, in their discretions, seem meet, and that he, the said
Richard Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have
and enioy to his and their own vse and vses, the sole benefitt, profitt,
comodity, and advantage, from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing,
and ariscing by reason of the said Invencon, for and during the full terme of
yeares hereafter menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted, or meant, men-
tioned, or intended to be hereby granted, vnto the said Richard Cole, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end
and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and ime-
diately ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according to the statuto
in this case made and provided. And to the end that the said Richard
Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have
and enioy the full and entire benefitt and the sole makeing, vending, vse, and
exercise of the said Inventon, according to our gratious intentions herein-
before declared, and wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly comand 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 whatsoever they be, within our
kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, that neither they nor any
of them, at any time or times during the continuance of the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vsc, vse,
exercise, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, soo
attained vnto by the said Richard Cole, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make, or cause to be
inade, any addition thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend
himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, deviser or devisers thereof,

page_text: without the Iscence, consent, or agreement of the said Richard Cole, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of.
their band 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 tho
contempt of this our royall comand, and, further, to be answerable to the
said Richard Cole, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law, for his and their damages occasioned thereby. And further, wee do by
these presents, for vs, our 'heires and successors, will and cōmand all and
singulár 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 terme hereby granted, in any wise
molest, trouble, disturb, or hinder the said Richard Cole, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in
or about the due and lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention, or any thing relateing thereunto. Provided alwaies, and these our
Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be con
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Richard Cole, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse, exercise, or put in practise
his said Invenčon within the city of London or liberties thereof, before
the expiračon or other sooner determinacon of the terme of one and twenty'
yeares (which comenced the Four and twentieth day of June, in the years
One thousand six hundred and ninety-four), to the damage or preiudice
of the proprietors of the publick glass lights, called the convex lights, now
or late vsed in the said city and liberties, by vertuo of a lease or grant
thereof made for that terme by the mayor, cōmonalty, and citizens of
the said city, pursuant to an Act of Parliament made in the fifth yeare of
the reigne of our late royall brother and sister King William and Queen
Mary, intituled (An Act for Releife of the Orphans and other Creditors
of the City of London), or to vsc, exercise, or imitate any other inven-
tion or worke whatsoever which hath been heretoforo found out, or invented
by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised
within our realme of England and dominion of Wales, or in either of them,
vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Privi-
ledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Richard Cole, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and the said propricters of the said convex lights, within the city and
liberties aforesaid, during their said terme or sooner expiracon thereof, and all
and singular other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or

page_text: priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and
practise their severall inventions, by them respectively invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective grants and of
these presents. Provided also, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be
vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said terme hereby granted,
it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of
our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or incon-
venient or preiudiciall to our service or the good of our subiects in generall, or
any abuse therein discovered, or that the said Invention is not a new invention
as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not
invented and found out by the said Richard Cole, as aforesaid, then vpon
significacon and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or
their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, 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. And, lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Richard Cole, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these presents, 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 adjudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the
best advantage of the said Richard Cole, his exccutors, administrators, and
assignes, as well in all our courts of record as elswhere, 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
the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresover,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describeing the nature or quality
of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witness die Witnesso our solfe at Westminster the Nineth day of
July.
By Writt of Privy Seale.