A CERTAINE ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MAKEING OR TWISTING OF WHIPPS, IN WHICH SAID ENGINE MUCH FIRMER, MORE REGULAR, AND BETTER WORKE IS MADE THEN IS OR CAN BE MADE ANY OTHER WAY NOW VSED, WHICH MACHINE HAS NOT BEEN HERETOFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED BY ANY OF OUR SUBIECTS
Year: 1693

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN REEPE, junior, hath by his humble petition represented
vnto vs, that he hath spent many yeares and much money in the inventing,
contriveing, and makeing "A CERTAINE ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MAKEING
OR TWISTING OF WHIPPS, IN WHICH SAID ENGINE MUCH FIRMER, MORE REGULAR,
AND BETTER WORKE IS MADE THEN IS OR CAN BE MADE ANY OTHER WAY NOW
VSED, WHICH MACHINE HAS NOT BEEN HERETOFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED BY
ANY OF OUR SUBIECTS," and has humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge,
and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the said John Reepe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Reepe, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or his or their
deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said John
Recpe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree

page_text: with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme of
yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the
said Invention, within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or
belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and
dominions whatsoever, in such manner, and according to such reasonable and
lawfull rates and lymittations, as to him, the said John Reepe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme
meete, and that he, the said John Reepe, his executors, administrators, 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 Invention, for and dureing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycense, powers, priviledges, and
advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said
John Reepe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteene 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 provided. And to the end that the said
John Reepe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention,
according to our gratious intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and
every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and all other our
subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever
they be, within all and every our kingdomes 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
practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the said
John Reep, as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto or substrac-
con from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors
thereof, without the lycense, consent, or agreement of the said John Reepe,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some
of their hands and scales, 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, and further to be answerable to
the said John Reepe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And we doc, by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that all and

page_text: singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, and all
other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, that
neither they nor any of them doe nor shall at any time hereafter, dureing
the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Reepe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, his
or their deputies or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto. Provided alwnies, and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any
time dureing the terme hereby granted, it shall be made appeare to vs, our
our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill,
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 within this our kingdom, and not invented
and found out by the said John Reep, as aforesaid, then vpon signification
and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our
or their signett or privy scale, 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, anything before herein contained to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything
therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privi-
ledge vnto the said John Reepe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath
been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects what-
soever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realmes and dominions,
or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been
already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our
will and pleasure that the said John Reepe, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted, as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respec-
tive Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee doc by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Reep, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, 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 adiudged in the most favourable and
beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said John Reep, his executors,

page_text: administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elswhere, and
by all and singuler 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, what-
soover and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing
the nature or quality of the said Invention or of the materialls thereto
conduceing and belonging.