A WOVEN-WYERE ENGINE, MOST ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE VSE OF BAKERS, MILLERS, MEALEMEN, GARBLERS, GLASSMEN, AND SUCH PROFESSIONS, FOR THE BOLTING, DRESSING, SIPTING, AND. CLEANSING OF MEALE TO ANY DEGREE OF FINENESSE, AND FOR CLEANING OF DUST OR DROSSE FROM ALL SPICES OR METALL, FARR BEYOND ANY WAYES OR MEANES HERETOFORE USED OR PRACTISED, NOR NEVER YET KNOWNE IN THIS OUR KINGDOME OF ENGLAND, THE ADVANTAGE WHEREOF WILL BE GREAT TO SEVERALL OF OUR SUBIECTS, AS SMITHS, TURNERS, WEAVERS, WIREDRAWERS, &C., AND INSTEAD OF VSEING FORREIGNE MANUFACTORY FOR THE VSES AFORESAID WILL SETTLE A MANUFACTORY IN THIS OUR KINGDOME
Year: 1686

page_text: presents shall come, grecting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN FINCH, JOHN NEWCOMBE,
and JAMES BUTLER, have humbly represented vnto vs, that with great care,
costs, and charges, they have found out and invented "A WOVEN-WYERE ENGINE,
MOST ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE VSE OF BAKERS, MILLERS, MEALEMEN, GARBLERS,
GLASSMEN, AND SUCH PROFESSIONS, FOR THE BOLTING, DRESSING, SIPTING, AND.
CLEANSING OF MEALE TO ANY DEGREE OF FINENESSE, AND FOR CLEANING OF
DUST OR DROSSE FROM ALL SPICES OR METALL, FARR BEYOND ANY WAYES OR
MEANES HERETOFORE USED OR PRACTISED, NOR NEVER YET KNOWNE IN THIS OUR
KINGDOME OF ENGLAND, THE ADVANTAGE WHEREOF WILL BE GREAT TO SEVERALL
OF OUR SUBIECTS, AS SMITHS, TURNERS, WEAVERS, WIREDRAWERS, &C., AND
INSTEAD OF VSEING FORREIGNE MANUFACTORY FOR THE VSES AFORESAID WILL
SETTLE A MANUFACTORY IN THIS OUR KINGDOME," and the said John Finch, John
Newcombe, and James Butler, haveing humbly besought vs to grant them our
lycence for the sole vse and benefitt of the said art or invenčon or engine for
the terme of fourteen yeares, wee being willing to give all fitting encourage-
ment to an art or invenčon which wee are satisfied will be soe vsefull and
beneficiall to the publick,-
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these psents, for vs,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said John Finch, John

page_text: Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and the executors and administrators of the survivor of them, and to noe
others, especiall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they
and every of them, their and every of their execs, administrators, and assignes,
and every of them, by themselves, or their deputy and deputies, servants and
agents, or such others as they, the said John Finch, John Newcombe, and James
Butler, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree
with, from time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares hereafter
in these sents expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the
said art or invenĉon, within any part or parts, place or places, whatsoever of,
in, or belonging vnto our kingdomes of England and Ireland, dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our
kingdoms and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such
reasonable and lawfull rates and limitaĉons as to them, the said John Finch,
John Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, administrators, and as-
signes, or any of them, shall in their discreacons seeme meet, and that they, the
said John Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, adminis-
trators, 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 art or invenĉon for and durcing. tho full terme of yeares
hereafter menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
privileges and advantages herein and hereby granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said John Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler, and
the survivors and survivor of them, his and theire executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen
yeares from the date of these presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully
to be compleate and ended, according to the statute in this case made and pro-
ivided. And to the end that the said John Finch, John Newcombe, and James
'Butler, and every of them, their and every of their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and sole vse and
exercise of the said Invencon,' according to our gracious intenčons herein-
'befóré 'declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
'require' and strictly comand all and every pson and psons, bodies politique and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality,
or degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within all and every our king
domes 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 doe vse or put in practise the said art or invencon, o
any part of the same soe atteined vnto by the said John Finch, John

page_text: Newcomb and James Butler, nor shall in any manner imitate the same, or
make or cause to be made, any addičon thereto or substraccon' from the same,
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the
licence, consent, and agreement of the said John Finch, John Newcombe, and.
James Butler, the survivors and survivor of them, his and their executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing under their or some or one of their
hands and scales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines &
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 John,
Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, 'administrators;.
and assignes, according to law, for their damages thereby occasioned to be
susteined. And wee doe of our further especiall grace, certaine knowledge,
and meer mocon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Jobn
Finch, John Newcomb, and James Butler, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, by these psents, that they, the said John Finch, John New-
comb, and James Butler, and every of them, their and every of their deputies,
agents, and servants (having first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord
Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time
being, and with the assistance of a constable or any lawfuli officer), at conve-
nient 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 or belonging to any of our kingdoms and dominions (where there shall
be iust cause of suspicon), for the discovery and findeing out of all and every
person and persons as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put
in practice the engine, art, or invenčon aforesaid, or shall make or counterfeit.
any instruements or materialls to the same belongeing, that soc 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, baliffs,,
constables,, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever,
of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, as well within our
kingdome of England and dominion of Wales, as within all and every our
kingdoms and dominions, that they and every of theni respectively be
from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted, in their respective
offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Finch,
John Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, administrators, and,
assignes, and to every of them, their and every of 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

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execučon of the powers and privileges hereby granted as aforesaid. And,
moreover, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires, and successors, will and
comand that our said respective officers and ministers before menčoned, or any of
them, doe not nor shall att any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby
granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Finch, John
Newcombe, and James Butler, or any or either of them, or any or either of
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or their or any or either of their
deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse
exercise of the aforesaid engine, art, or invenčon, or any thing relateing
thereto Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be
vpon this condičon, that if at any time durcing the said terme of fourteen
yeares 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 present grant is contrary to
law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale,
or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more
of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing before
herein 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 construed to extend to give privelege vnto the said
John Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler, or any of them, their
or any or either of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, to vse or imitate any invenĉon or work whatsoever which hath
been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever,
and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any
of them, vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or
privelege for the sole vse and exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will
and pleasure that the said John Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person
and persons to whome wee have already granted our like Leters Patents or
priviliges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall invenčons
by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaneing of
the said respective Leters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said
John Finch, John Newcombe, and James Butler, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof,

page_text: 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 sense for the
best advantage of the said John Finch, John Newcomb, and James Butler,
their 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 relmes 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 art, or of the
materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other defects or incer-
tainties in these sents conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamačon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the
contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
day of June.
By Writt of Privy Seale.