ENGINE OR CARRIAGE WITH FOUR WHEELES AND DOUBLE TROUGHES, WHICH OPEN IN THE MIDDLE AND SHOOT OUT THE LOAD AT ONCE, AND RETURNE INTO THEIR PLACES AGAINE, WHICH IS WROUGHT TOGETHER WITH LINGS AND SCHRAGES OR STAGES THAT ARE REMOVED AND WROUGHT EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT WHERLES
Year: 1698

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
STEL-
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JAMES VAN DAALEN hath by his
humble petičon represented vnto vs that by his great paines, study, and
expence he hath found out, an "ENGINE OR CARRIAGE WITH FOUR WHEELES AND
DOUBLE TROUGHES, WHICH OPEN IN THE MIDDLE AND SHOOT OUT THE LOAD AT ONCE,
AND RETURNE INTO THEIR PLACES AGAINE, WHICH IS WROUGHT TOGETHER WITH
LINGS AND SCHRAGES OR STAGES THAT ARE REMOVED AND WROUGHT EITHER WITH
OR WITHOUT WHERLES," in such manner as was never before practiced, which
Invention bath not been heretofore vsed in England, and prayed vs to grant
him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt thereof for the terme of
fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case provided, wee being
graciously pleased to condescend thereunto.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being willing to cherish and encourage
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by their
industry found out vsefull and profittable arts, misteries, and inventions, and
that the said James Van Daalen may accordingly reape some fruite and bene-
fitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meer mocon, wee have given and granted, and:
doe by these Presents give and grant vnto the said James Van Daalen, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and au- .
thority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputies,
servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as he, the said James

page_text: Van Daalen, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall agree with, shall
and may, from time and at all times hereafter dureing the space of fourteene
Fears next ensueing the date of these Presents, at his and their own proper
costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice the said
new Invenčon soe 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 enioy all the
benefitts, proffitts, commodities, and advantages of and by the said new Inven-
tion to be had, made, acquired, and gotten, to his and their owne proper
benefitt, vse and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by these
Presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said James Van Daalen,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full
end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these psents
next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute
in that case made and provided. And to the end the said James Van Daalen,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and dureing and
vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
Presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the
Statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said James
Van Daalen, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enjoy
the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new
Invention, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge, require, and command all and every person and persons, bodies
politick and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they
be, within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, that neither they or any of them, dureing the said terme
of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exer-
cise, or put in practice the said new Invention soe by the said James Van
Daalen invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the said new Invention, or any matterialls thereunto
belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addition therevnto or substracčon there-
from, whereby to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without
the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said James Van Daalen, his execu-
tors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hande and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties
as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein for the contempt
of this our royall command, and further be answerable to the said James Van
Daalen, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost

page_text: rigor to the law, for his and their damages thereby sustained. And further,
wee doe by these our Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors will,
authorize, require, and command all and singular justices of the pence, mayors,
sherriffes, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and for the time' being
whome it may concerne, that they and every of them respectively be from time
to time dureing 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 Jaimes Van Daalen, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all things in
and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the execution of the severall powers and priviledges hereby
granted, as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and command that our said respective officers and
ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time here-
after dureing the terme hereby granted in any manner of wise molest,. trouble,
or hinder the said James Van Daalen, his executors, administrators, administra-
tors, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servants, in or about the vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invencon, or any part thereof, or any thing relateing thereto: Pro-
videl alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon,
that if at any time dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted
it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires and successors, or any six or more
of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiu-
diciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the Invenčon before
menčoned is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise of the same
and not invented and found out by the said James Van Daalen as aforesaid, then,
vpon significačon and declaration of such preiudice or inconveniency to be made
by vs, our heires and successors, vnder our or their signet 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 Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or
anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said James Van Daalen, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, to imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been here-
tofore invented and found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly exercised within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales
or Towne of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to whome wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being

page_text: our will and pleasure that the said James Van Daalen, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome wee
have already granted our like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practico
their severall Inventions by them respectively found out according to the true
meaning of such our Letters Patents, and of these Presents. And lastly, wee
doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said James Van
Daalen, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment 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 describeing or menconing
of the said Invenčon, or of the matterialls, wayes, or meanes of makcing, vseing,
or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thereof, or any
other defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these Presents, or any other matter,
cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnessc, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Five-and-