A STEEL WORK OR ROWLING SPRING, TO BE VSED IN COACHES, CHARIOTS, OR ANY ANY OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1724

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS ROGERS, Artificer, hath by
his petition humbly represented vnto vs, that he having been at great
expence in bringing to perfection "A STEEL WORK OR ROWLING SPRING, TO BE
VSED IN COACHES, CHARIOTS, OR ANY ANY OTHER CARRIAGES," which proves of very
great vse, and much to the ease of our subiecte when made vse of in any the
aforesaid carriages, and, it being the first ever made of that kind in cur
kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, he hath humbly prayed vs to grant
him our royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending the said steel
worm or rowling spring, during the term of fourteen yeares pursuant to the
statute in that behalf, wee being willing to give encouragement to all arte
and inventions that may be for the publick benefit, are gratiously pleased to
gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Rogers, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such

page_text: others as he, the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with and no others, from time to time, and
at all times during the terme of years herein expressed, shall lawfully may make,
vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented steele. worm or rowling spring,
to be vsed in coaches, chariots, or any other carriages as above described,
within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to
him, the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said
Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and
lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of yeares herein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages berein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said
Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during
and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended according to the statute in such case made and provided, and to the end
that the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invention according to our gratious intention herein-before
declared, wee do by these presente, for vs, our heires and successors,
requiro and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick
and corporate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, of what estate,
quality, or degree, name, or condition soever they be, in that said part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said dominion
of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that neither they or any of
them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the
said Thomas Rogers, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand 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 their contempt of this our royal command.

page_text: And further to be answerable to the said Thomas Rogers, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his or their damages
thereby occasioned. And moreover wee do by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and comand all. and singular the justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, 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-term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
their or any of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto.
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall
be made appeare to vs, our heires or successor, or any six or more of our
or their privy council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial
or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not
a new invention, as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, in that said .part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called. England; our said dominion of Wales,
or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by the said
Thomas Rogers, as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaration thereof,
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or
privy seal, or by the lords and others of our or their privy council or any six or
more of them vnder their hands, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith
cense, détermine, and be vtterly void; to all intente and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary in anywise notwitstanding. Provided
also, that these our Letters Patente, or anything herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Rogers,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them; to vse or imitate any
invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore. been found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever and publickly vsed or
exercised in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our said dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, vnto whom like
Letters -Patente- or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like, Letters Patente or
priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and
practice their severall invenčons-by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meaning of the same-respective Letters Patents and of

page_text: these presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents
aro vpon this express condition, that if the said Thomas Rogers, his executors
or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or
times bercafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claime any right,
title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge or
authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or pretended transferr or assignment,
of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit
thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, or shall open, or cause to be opened, any book
or books for publick subscriptions to be made by any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes
of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby
granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants,
receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intente
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benef of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by
vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
cōmitt or do or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have any right
or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, which would
be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament
made in the sixth year of our reign, intituled an Act for the better
securing certain powers and priviledges intended to be granted to His Maiestic
by two charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for
lending money vpon bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and
vnwarrantable practices therein menconed, if these our Letters Patente
had not been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall
at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number
of five persons, or their representatives, at any one time (reckoning executors
or administrators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such
interest as they are or shall be intitled to in right of such their testator
or intestate), that then, and in any of the said cases, these our Letters
Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby
granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And,
lastly, wec do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto
the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these

page_text: our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in
and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the
best advantage of the said Thomas Rogers, his executors, 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 heirs and suc-
cessors, in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our said dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and amongst
all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature
or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conduceing and
belonging.