AN ENGINE FOR THE DRAWING OF BOTH SPANISH AND SWEDISH IRON INTO ALL SORTS OF ROUNDS FOR BOLTS FOR SHIPPING AND OTHER VSES IN A MUCH BETTER AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THEN THE SAME HAVE HITHERTO BIN PERFORMED BY THE SMITH'S HAMMER
Year: 1679

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall come
greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS IIARVEY hath by his humble peticon informed us that
he, having for above fourteene yeares past bin a considerable dealer in iron
and iron workes, hath by his long study, industry, travell, and great charge
invented and framed "AN ENGINE FOR THE DRAWING OF BOTH SPANISH AND
SWEDISH IRON INTO ALL SORTS OF ROUNDS FOR BOLTS FOR SHIPPING AND OTHER VSES
IN A MUCH BETTER AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THEN THE SAME HAVE HITHERTO
BIN PERFORMED BY THE SMITH'S HAMMER," and that by the helpe of this engine
all sorts of round iron for shipping and other vses will be much better and
cheaper made here in our realme of England then hitherto the same have bin,.
to the great advantage of shipping, and therefore humbly praying that for his.
encouragement wee would be graciously pleased to grant him our licence
and priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit of his said Invention for
the terme of foureteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and:
provided, out of our princely inclination to encourage and promote such
inventions as may be of publick vse and benefit, wee are graciously pleased to.
condescend vnto the said request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these Pnts,
for us, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Harvey, his exec", adm", and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power,.

page_text: priviledge, and authority, that he and they, and his and their servants and
workmen, and no others, shall and may during the terme of fourteene yeares
next ensueing the date of these pnts vse, practise, exercise, and enjoy the
said art or Invention within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of
Wales, in such manner as to him and them shall seeme meot, and shall have
and enjoy the sole benefit and advantage ariseing thereby or by reason thereof,
to have, hold, and enjoy the said licence, power, priviledge, and authority, and
other the misses hereby granted or intended to be granted to the said
Thomas Harvey, his exec", adm", and assignes, from the day of the date of
these Presents, for and during the terme of fourteen yeares from thence next
ensucing, fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in that
case made and provided. And to the end the said Thomas Harvey, his exec",
adm", and assignes, and every of them, may the better enjoy the full and
whole benefit, and the solo vse and exercise of his said Invention, aswell
within liberties as without, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
success", require and streightly charge and command all and every pson and
psons, bodies politicą and corporate, that they nor any of them, during the
terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse
or put in practice the said art or Invention, nor doe or shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor doo or shall make any addičon therevnto
or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers
or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said
Thomas Harvey, his exec", adm", or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their
hands & seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this.
our command in that behalfe, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas
Harvey, his exec", adm", or assignes, according to law and justice for his and
their dammages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by these pnts, for
us, our heires & successors, give and grant vnto the said Thomas Harvey,
his exec's, adm", and assignes, full power and authority that he, they, and every
of them, his, their, and every of their deputies, servants, or agents, or any of
them (having first obteyned a warr in this behalfe from the Lord Chiefe
Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the time being) may, with the assist-
ance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within liberties as
without, at convenient times in the day during the time aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other
places where there shall be just cause of suspition for discovering and
finding out of all such persons as shall within the said terme of fourteen
yeares imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice.

page_text: the art or invention aforesaid, that so such offenders may be proceeded
against & punished according to their demerits. And further, wee doe by
these puts, for us, our heires and success", authorize and require all and
singular the justices of the peace, mayo, sheriffes, bayliffs, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers of us, our heires and success,,, for the
time being, that they and every of them respectively be from time to.
time during the said terme hereby granted in their respective places, favoring,
ayding, helpeing, and assisting vnto the said Thomas Harvey, his exec",
adms, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputies, agents and
servants, in all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execucon of the powers and
priviledges hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid. And.
moreover, wee will and command by these Presents, for us, our heires and
succ", that our said officers or any of them doe not molest, trouble, or
interrupt the said Thomas Harvey, his exec", adm", or assignes, or his or
their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or any of them, in or about the
vse or exercise of the said art or Invention in any matter or thing concerning
the same: Provided alwaies, that if at any time during the said terme of.
fourteene yeares it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or succ", or to any.
six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this grant is Pjudiciall
or inconvenient to the common weale, or that the said art or Invenčon is not
a new invenčon of the said Thomas Harvey as to the vse and practice thereof
within our Kingdome of England, then, vpon significacon and declaračon to
be made by vs, our heires or success", vnder our or their signett or privy seale,
or by the Lords and others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them for
the time being, in writing vnder their hands, of such prejudice and incon-
venience, these our Lřes Patents and all things therein conteyned shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes,
any thing herein-before conteyned. to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Lřes Patents, or anything therein conteyned, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas
Harvey, his exec", adm", or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invention or worke found out or invented by any other pson or psons, and
publickly exercised in our said Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales,
vnto whom we have already granted our like Lřes Patents of priviledge for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Thomas Harvey, his ex", adm", and assignes, and all other pson & psons to
whom we have already granted our like Lřes Patents of priviledge, shall
distinctly vse and practice their severall Inventions by them invented and found

page_text: out, according to the true intent and meaning of the said severall and respective
Lies Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, we doe by these pnts, for:
us, our heires & suce, grant vnto the said Thomas Harvey, his exec", adm":
and assignes, that these our Lres Patents and the inrollment thereof shall be:
in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according
to the true intent & meaning of these Presents, and shall be taken, construed,.
and adjudged most favorably & beneficially for the best benefit and advantage.
of the said Thomas Harvey, his exec", adm", and assignes, as well in all our:
Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describeing of the said art or Invention, or of the certaine vse or benefit
thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects, incertainties, or impfeccons in
these puts conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamaĉon,
or restraint to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse, &c.
May it please your most excellent Majestie.
Ex. W. JONES.
This containes For Mats grant vnto Thomas Harvey of the sole benefit of
his newly invented engine for the drawing of both Spanish and Swedish iron
into all sorts of rounds for bolts for shipping and other vses in a much better
& more expeditious manner then the same have hitherto bin formed by the
smith's hammer, for the terme of fourteene yeares, with such prohibitions,
provisoes, and clauses as are vsuall in grants of like nature.
Signified to be yer Matic's pleasure by warrant under pet regel signs:
manuall.
W. JONES.
11 Feb, 1678.