A WAY OF MAKEING SEVERALL SORT OF VESSELL OR FABRICK, SMALL AND GREATE, TO NAVIGATE IN A STREIGHT LINE, WITH ALL WIND, THOUGH CONTRARY, AND TO CONTRIVE ANY SHIPPS OR BOATES TO THAT PURPOSE, WHICH WILL BE MANY WAYES VSEFULL AND PFITABLE, BOTH IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIQUE WORKES OF STRENGTH AND MOCON BY SEA AND LAND, THE SAME BEING HIS OWNE INVENČON, AND NEVER BEFORE PRACTICED IN THIS OUR KINGDOME
Year: 1668

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England,
Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome
theis sente shall come, greeteing.
WHEREAS wee have beene informed that our trusty and welbeloved PETER
CHAMBERLAINE, Doctor in Phisicke, hath by his great industry, study, and
charge found out and attained vnto "A WAY OF MAKEING SEVERALL SORT OF
VESSELL OR FABRICK, SMALL AND GREATE, TO NAVIGATE IN A STREIGHT LINE,
WITH ALL WIND, THOUGH CONTRARY, AND TO CONTRIVE ANY SHIPPS OR BOATES
TO THAT PURPOSE, WHICH WILL BE MANY WAYES VSEFULL AND PFITABLE, BOTH IN
PRIVATE AND PUBLIQUE WORKES OF STRENGTH AND MOCON BY SEA AND LAND,
THE SAME BEING HIS OWNE INVENČON, AND NEVER BEFORE PRACTICED IN THIS
OUR KINGDOME;" And whereas the said Peter Chamberlaine hath humbly
besought vs, for his better encouragement, to exercise and putt in practice the
said Invenčon, that wee would be graciously pleased to graunt hym our Lřes
Patent of Priviledge for the sole vse and benefitt thereof, through our
realme of England and dominion of Wales, for the tyme and tearme of
foureteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and prided.
NOWE KNOWE YEE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull and
fitting encouragement to the inventors of such arte as may be of publique vse
and benefitt, of our espiall grace, taine knowledge, and meere močon, and
vpon the humble peticon of the said Peter Chamberlayne, have given and
graunted, and by theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give

page_text: and graunt, vnto the said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, espiall licence, power, priviledge and anthority, that hee, they,
and every of them, by themselves or his and theire deputy and deputyes,
servant and workemen att all tymes and from tyme to tyme hereafter
dureing the tearme of yeares hereafter in theis psent exprest, shall and
lawfully may have, vse, excise and employ, and enioy the said newe Invencon
in such manner as to hym, them, or any of them, in his or theire discrecons
shall seeme meete, and shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt and
advantage comeing or ariseing by reason thereof, dureing the tearme of
yeares hereby graunted. And to the end the said Peter Chamberlayne,
his executors, administrators, and assignees, and every of them, may the
better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and excise of his said
Invencon, wee doe by theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and streightly comand all and every pson and psons, bodyes politique and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, that
neither they nor any of them, dureing the tearme of yeares hereby graunted,
either directly or indirectly doc vse or putt in practice the said Invencon
soe by the said Peter Chamberlayne attayned vnto as aforesaid, nor
shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make any addicon
therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to Ptend themselves the
inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of
the said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder his or theire hande and seales, first had and obtayued in
that behalfe, upon such paynes and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on
such offendors for their contempt of this our comand in that behalfe;
and further to be answearable to the said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to the lawe and justice, for his and
theire damages thereby susteyned, to have and to hold all the said licences,
powers, priviledges, and authorityes hereby graunted as aforesaid vnto hym, the
said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
dureing the tearme of foureteene yeares from the makeing of theis psente next
ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and prided. And further wee doe by theis sente, for vs, our
heires and successors, give and graunt vnto the said Peter Chamberlayne, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that hee,
they, and his and theire deputyes, servante, and agente, haveing first obtayned
a warrant on this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of Kinge
Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, att convenient tymes of the day dureing the tearme aforesaid,

page_text: and in lawful manner, enter into and make search in any houses or other places
where there shall be iust cause of suspicon, for discovering and finding out of
all such psons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or putt in
practice, the said Invenčon soe by the said Peter Chamberlayne invented and
attained vnto as aforesaid, that soc such offenders may be peceded against
and punished according to theire demerritte, and theire invenčons and workes
then and there, found to be seized vpon and left in the hande and custody of
some constable or officer to be disposed of according to lawe. And further
wec doc by theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorise and
require all and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffes, bayliffe, con-
stables, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors for the tyme being, that they and every of
them respectively, be from tyme to tyme dureing the said tearme hereby
graunted in theise respective places, favoring, aydeing, helping and assist-
ing, vnto the said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and to his and theire deputy and deputyes, servante, and agente, in
and by all thing, in and about the accomplishement of our will and pleasure
herein declared, and in the exercise and exccucon of the powers and privi-
ledges therein and hereby graunted or menconed to be graunted as aforesaid.
And moreover wee will and comand, by theis psente, for vs, our heires, and
successors, that our said officers and ministers, or any of them, doe not molest,
trouble, or interrupt the said Peter Chamberlaine, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or his or theire deputy or deputies, servant or agente, or
any of them, in or about the exercise of the said Invenĉon, or in any matter
or thing coneneing the same: Provided alwayes, that if att any tyme dureing
the said tearme of foureteene yeares it shall be made appeare vnto vs, our heires
or successors, that this our graunt is contrary to lawe or piudiciall or incon-
venient, and not of publique vse or benefitt, or that the said Invenčon is not
a newe Invenčon of the said Peter Chamberlayne, then vpon significaton
and declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, theis our
Lřes Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be as voyde in lawe to
all intent and purposes, any thing herein-before menconed to the contrary
notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that theis our Lřes Patente, or any
thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said Peter Chamberlayne, his executors, ad-
ministrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invencon
or worke found out or invented by any other pson or psons and publiquely
excised within our said realme of England, or any the dominions or terri-
toryes thereto belonging, vnto whome wee have already graunted our like

page_text: Lřes Patent of Priviledge, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof.
Itt being our will and pleasure that the said Peter Chamberlayne, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other pson and
psons to whome wee have already graunted our like Lies Patent of
Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall invencons
by them invented and found out according to the true intent and meancing of
the said severall and respective Lies Patente, and of theis Psente. And lastly,
wee doe by theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, graunt vnto the
said Peter Chamberlaine, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that theis
our Lies Patente or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true intent and
meancing thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged most favorable
and beneficiall for the best benefitt and advantage of the said Peter Chamber-
layne, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Court of
Records as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and taine describeing the
manner and quality of the said Invenčon, or of the matterialle, way, or
manner of makeing thereof, or of the vse and benefitt thereof; and not-
withstanding any other defecte, intaineties or impfeccons in theis sente
contained, or any act, statute, ordinance, pvision, proclamačon or restraint
to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.
In wiffinesse Xc Wittmesse our solto aft Westm the Lichteenth day
In wiffnesse e
February.
Wittnesse our selfe aft Westm, the Eighteenth day of
P bře de privato sigillo.