AN ENGINE DEVISED, INVENTED, AND FOUND. OUT. FOR THE CUTTING OF TYMBER INTO THYNN PEECES, CALLED SCALES, FOR THE MAKEING OF BAND BOXES, SCABODE OF SWORD, AND OTHER LIKE VSES:
Year: 1638

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WHEREAS wee, by our Letters Patente vnder our Greate Seale of England,
bearinge date the One-and-thirtyth day of October, in the eleaventh yeare of our
raigne, recyting as therein is recyted, did graunte to our welbeloved subiecte,
SARA JEROME, Widdowe, and att her nomynacon and request, to WIHM WEBB,
theire executors, administrators, and assignes, full and sole licence, liberty,
power, priuileg and authority, that they, the said Sara Jerome and William
Webb, theire executors, administrators, and assignes, by themselves, or by
theire deputies, servante, and workemen, att all tymes thenafter, for and duringe
the terme of fowerteene yeares, should and might lawfully make, excise, and
put in practise "AN ENGINE DEVISED, INVENTED, AND FOUND. OUT. FOR THE
CUTTING OF TYMBER INTO THYNN PEECES, CALLED SCALES, FOR THE MAKEING OF BAND
BOXES, SCABODE OF SWORD, AND OTHER LIKE VSES:" and whereas the said
Jerome and William Webb have surrendred vnto vs, the said Letters Patente,
to the intent, nevertheles, that wee would bee graciously pleased to graunt to
the said Sara Jerome the like Letters Patente of priuileg for the exercise
and vse of the said engine for the reasidue of the said terme of fowerteene
yeares, with some further enlargement or addičons for her better haveing and
enioying the benefitt thereof; which said surrender wee have and doe accept
of by theis Presente.
KNOWE YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, att the humble peticon of the said
Sara Jerome, and for her better haveing and enioying the misses, of our

page_text: especiall grace, certaine knowledg, and meere mocon, have given and graunted,
and by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt
vnto the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and assignes, full and
sole licence, liberty, power, and authoritie, that she, the said Sara Jerome, her
executors, administrators, and assignes, by her or by her deputies, servante, or
workemen, att all tymes, and from tyme to tyme hereafter, for and during the
reasidue of the said tyme or terme by our said former Letters Patente men-
Coned to be graunted, shall and may lawfully make, vse, excise, and put in
practize the said engine soe devised, invented, and found out as aforesaid, and
shall or may have and take all such benefitt and advantage as shall or may
lawfully bee had or made thereby. And to the end the said Sara Jerome, her
executors and assignes, may the better receave and take the sole benefitt and
comodity of the said engine soe invented as aforesaid, our will and pleasure is,
and by theis psente, of our more especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere
mocon, wee doe for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge and comaund
that noe person or persons whatsoever, of what trade, mistery, or condicon sover,
other then the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, or assignes, or
her or their deputies, servante, or workemen, during the reasidue of the said
tyme or terme of fowereteene yeares, within this our Realme of England and
Domynion of Wales, shall make, vse, and put in practise, directly or indirectly,
the saide engine soe invented as aforesaid, nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor make any addičon therevnto, or substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend themselves inventors thereof, without the licence,
consent, and agreem of the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators,
deputies, or assignes, first had and obteyned in writing in that behalfe, vppon
paine of the losse and forfeiture to vs, our heires and successors, of all and everie
such engines soe made or to bee made, and of all such scales as shall bee soe
cutt, contrarie to the true intent and meaning of theis psente, and vpon such
further paynes and penalties as by the lawes and statute of this realme or other-
wise cann or may bee inflicted vpon such offendor or offendors for theire neglect
or contempte of our royall pleasure and commaund in the premisses, the one
moyety of all which saide forfeitures to bee to vs, our heires & successors,
and the other morety thereof wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors,
graunt to the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, or assignes; to
have and to hould the saide licences, powers, privileges, and proffitte, and
other the misses by theis psente graunted or menčoned to be graunted, vnto
the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
'dureinge the reasidue of the said tyme or terme of fowerteene yeares in and by
our said former Letters Patente menconed and graunted yet to come and

page_text: vnexpired, yeilding and payinge therefore yearely. And the said Sara Jerome,
for herselfe, her executors, administrators, and assignes, doe covenant and
promise to and with vs, our heires and successors, during the reasidue of the
said terme or tyme of fowerteene yeares as aforesaid, to yeild and pay to vs,
our heires and successors, the yearely rente or some of twenty shilling of
lawfull money of England into the receipte of our Exchequer att West, att
the Feast of Saint Michaell the Arch Angell yearely. And wee doe by theis
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and graunte full power and
authority vnto the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and as-
signes, and her deputies, servante, and agente, with the assistance of a con-
stable or any other lawfull officer, att convenient tyme and tymes, to enter into
and make search in all or any house or houses, or other place or places within
this our realme of England and the Domynion thereof, where any iust cause of
suspicion shall bee, for discovering and finding out such as shall have, make,
put in practise, or vse the said engine contrarie to the true intent and meaning
of theis psente; and the same engine or engines, and the scales therewith
made or cutt, being soe found, to seise, take, and carry away, to and for the
vses herein-before menčoned and graunted, as aforesaid. And wee doe by
theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and require the Lord
Treasurer, Chauncellor, Vndertreasurer, and Barons of our Exchequer, and
all and singuler justices of peace, maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe, constables, hed-
boroughes, and other officers, ministers, and subiect of vs, our heires and
successors for the tyme beinge, that they and every of them, vpon re-
quest to bee made in that behalfe by the said Sara Jerome, her executors,
administrators, deputies, or assignes, shalbee from tyme to tyme, during
the reasidue of the time or terme aforesaid, favouring, aydinge, and assisting
to the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and assigns, and
her deputies, servante, and agente, in and by all lawfull matters and thing
in and aboute the accomplishment of our pleasure, herein declared, touching.
the misses, without any further or other warrant to be from vs, our
heires or successors, had or obteyned in that behalfe; and that they or any
of them doe nott att anie tyme hinder, molest, or interrupt the said Sara
Jerome, her executors, administrators, deputies, or assignes, or any of them,
concerning the haveing, receaveing, and enioying the benefitt of this our graunt
according to our gracious intent and meaning herein declared, as they tender
our royall pleasure, and will avoide the contrary att theire vttermost pille, and
theis our Letters Patente or the inrollment thereof shalbee vnto them and
everie of them a sufficient warrant and discharge in that behalfe: Provided
allwaies that if the said yearely rent or some hereby reserved or any parte

page_text: thereof shalbee behinde and vnpaid by the space of thirty dayes next after
the said Feast, in which the same is lymitted to be yearely paid as aforesaid, that
then and in such case the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall forfeict and pay vnto vs, our heires and successors, tenn shilling
in name of a penalty for every such thirty dayes in which the same rent or
some shall soe be behinde and vnpaid as aforesaid contrarie to the true intente,
and meaning of theis Presente; or if the said Sara Jerome, her executors
administrators, or assignes, shall not inroll or cause to be inrolled this our
present graunt before the Clarke of the Pipe for the tyme being within six
monethes after the date hereof, that then the said Sara Jerome, her executors,
administrators, or assigns, shall forfeict and pay to vs, our heires and successors,
forty shilling in name of a penalty for the same, and soe for every six monethes
after the like some of forty shillinge, vntill the said Letters Patente shalbee
soe inrolled as aforesaid; prided alsoe, and our will and pleasure is, that if att
any tyme during the said terme of fowerteene yeares it shall appeare vnto vs,
our heires and successors, or vnto the Lorde and others of the Privie Councell
of vs, our heires and successors, that this our graunt is contraire to our lawes,
or in any sorte mişcheivous or inconvenient to the state of this our realme,
that then vpon significaĉon and declaračon thereof to bee made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our signett or Privie Seal, or by warrant or order
vnder the hand of six or more of our Privic Councell, theis our Letters
Patent shall from thenceforth cease, determyn, and bee vtterly voide to all
intent and purposes, any thing herein conteyned to the contrary notwith-
standing. And wee doe hereby graunt, for vs, our heires and successors, vnto
the said Sara Jerome, her executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis
our Letters Patente of priuiledge or the inrollment thereof shalbe firme, good,
and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true meaning of the same, not-
withstanding the not discribing or not certaine discribing of the manner,
forme, or fashion of the said engine, and notwithstanding any other defect,
impfeccon, or inčtainty in this our present graunt, or any act, statute,
ordinance, provision, or restriccon to the contrary thereof in any wise not-
withstanding; although expresse mencon, &c.
In witnes whereof, &c. Witnes our selfe att West, the Twentith