A NEW ART OR INVENCON OF MAKEING A CERTAINE POWDER WHICH, BEING PUT INTO FAIRE WATER, BEERE, ALE, OR WINE, DOTH IMEDIATELY TURNE THE SAME INTO VERY GOOD BLACK WRITING INK, AND CAN BE AFFORDED VERY CHEAPE, TO THE GENERALL ADVANTAGE OF OUR SUBIECTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE COUN- TRY AND ATT SEA
Year: 1688

page_text: WHEREAS our welbeloved subject, CHARLES HOLMAN, bath, by his humble
peticon, represented to vs, that with great study and industry he hath found
out "A NEW ART OR INVENCON OF MAKEING A CERTAINE POWDER WHICH, BEING
PUT INTO FAIRE WATER, BEERE, ALE, OR WINE, DOTH IMEDIATELY TURNE THE
SAME INTO VERY GOOD BLACK WRITING INK, AND CAN BE AFFORDED VERY CHEAPE,
TO THE GENERALL ADVANTAGE OF OUR SUBIECTS, ESPECIALLY THOSE IN THE COUN-
TRY AND ATT SEA;" and hath prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for
the sole vse of the said Invenčon dureing the terme of fourteene yeares.
KNOW YE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and
encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subjects as have,
by their industry, found out vseful and pfitable arts, misteries, and invenčons,
and that the said Charles Holman may accordingly reape some fruite and
benefit of his, labour and charge, in and concerning the premisses, of our
especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meer notion, wee have given and
granted, and by these presents do give and grant ynto the said Charles Hol-
man, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power,
priviledge, and authority that hee and they, by him and themselves, and by his
and their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others only as he,
the said Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter,

page_text: during the space of fourteene yeares next ensueing the date of these presents,
at his and their owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and
put in practice the said new Invenčon so by him contrived and found out as
aforesaid, in any place or places within our kingdome of England, dominion
of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and also shall and may receive,
take, and enjoy all the benefitte, profitte, commodityes, and advantages of and
by the said new Invenãon, to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to his and
their owne propper benefit, vse, and vses.; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorityes, and all other the
premisses by these psents granted or menčoned to be granted vnto the said
Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
and to the full end and terme of fourteene yeares from the day of the date
of these presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended according
to the statute in that case made and provided; and to the end the said Charles
Holman, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Invenčon,
wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge,
require, and comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they bee, within
our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise,
or putt in practice the said new Invenĉon soe by the said Charles Holman
invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the said new Invenĉon, or any materialls or ingrediente
therevnto belonging, nor do nor shall make any addičon therevnto or sub-
stracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Charles Holman,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande
and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vuder such paines and
penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein for
the contempt of this our royall comand, and further to bec answerable to the
said Charles Holman, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, according
to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and their damages thereby susteyned;
and further, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give
and grant vnto the said Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, full power and authority that he, they, and every of them, his, their,
and every of their deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first obteyned a
warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's

page_text: Bench for the time being, with the assistance of a constable or other lawfull
officer, as well within libertyes as without, at convenient times in the day
durcing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, shall and may make search
in any place or places within our said kingdomes of England, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwicke-vpon-Tweed, where there shall be iust cause
of suspition for discovering and finding out of all such person or persons as
shall imitate, make, or vse, or cause to be imitated, made, or vsed, within our
kingdome or dominion aforesaid, the said new Invenčon soe by the said
Charles Holman found out and invented as aforesaid, that soe such offender
may bee pceeded against and punished according to the vtmost rigor of the law;
and further, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorize, require, and comand all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffe, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers & ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time being, whome
itt may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from time to time,
during the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, and according to
their and every of their best skills and endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting
vnto the said Charles Holman, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes,
deputies, agente, and servants, in and by all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our royall will and and pleasure herein-before declared, and in
the execucon of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as
aforesaid; and moreover wee do by these presents, 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
during the terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the
said Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies,
agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon,
or any part thereof, or any thing relating thereto; provided alwaies, and these
our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if att any time,
dureing the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, it shall be made
appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law, or Piudiciall or
inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invencon before
menčoned is not a new invenĉon as to the publick vse and exercise of
the same, and not invented and found out by the said Charles Holman as
aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaračon of such Piudice or incon-
veniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signett or privy seale, or by the lorde or others of our or their Privy
Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters

page_text: Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void, to all intents
and purposes, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwith-
standing; provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein
conteyned,shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the
said Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any
invenĉon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or found
out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within
our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, to 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 Charles Holman, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to
whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly
vse and practice their several invenons by them respectively found out,
according to the true meaning of such our Letters Patents and of these
Psents. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Charles Holman, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be and
continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the
law, according to the true meaning of the same, notwithstanding the not full
and certaine describing or menconing of the said Invenĉon, or of the materialls,
ingredients, wayes, or meanes of making, vseing, or exerciseing the same, or
of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or
imperfeccon in these presents, or any act, statute, provision, proclamaĉon, or
restricčon heretofore had, made, or provided, or any other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse the King at Westmi, the Scaventh day of
In witnesse, &c.
February.
Vyitnesse
westry
CLIC
By Writt of Privy Seale.