ART OF MAKEING WATER CORRUPTED FITT FOR VSE, AND SEA WATER, FRESH, CLEARE, AND WHOLESOME IN VERY LARGE QUANTITIES, BY SUCH WAYES AND MEANES AS ARE VERY CHEAP AND EASY, AND WHICH MAY BEE DONE AND PRACTISED WITH GREAT SPEED AND EXPEDICON
Year: 1675

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall come
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved WILLIAM WALCOT, Esquire, hath
with long study and very great expence, invented and brought to perfeccon the
"ART OF MAKEING WATER CORRUPTED FITT FOR VSE, AND SEA WATER, FRESH,
CLEARE, AND WHOLESOME IN VERY LARGE QUANTITIES, BY SUCH WAYES AND MEANES
AS ARE VERY CHEAP AND EASY, AND WHICH MAY BEE DONE AND PRACTISED WITH
GREAT SPEED AND EXPEDICON," some evident demonstracons whereof wee have
scene to our great satisfacčon, and doe beleive the same may prove very
vseful as well to our Royal Navy as alsoe to all other shipps and vessells
belonging to our subjects, and likewise highly advantageous to the trade of
our subjects, and may tend to the advancement of our Customes, and being
(as wee are informed) never before vsed or knowne in any of our dominions
may likewise bring severall other considerable
to vs subjects;
and the said William Walcott hath assured vs that bee will make very con-
siderable and vsefull improvements for and in order to greater ease and
conveniency in the misses, and accordingly hee hath by his humble peticon
besought vs to grant him our licence for the sole vse and benefitt of the said
Invencon for the space of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in such
cases made and provided.

page_text: KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said William
Walcott may reap some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his great
paines and expences in and about the premisses, and likewise that hee may
receive some encouragement for the future to make such further improve-
ments and addicons thereunto as aforesaid, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these psents,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said William
Walcott, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full power,
sole priviledge, and authority that hee the said William Walcott, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or their deputy
and deputies, servants or agents, and such others as the said William Walcott,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe
others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the terme of yeares
hereafter in these Presents expressed, shall and lawfully may vsc, exercise, and
enioy the said Invenĉon before particularly menconed and described within any
part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to all, every, or any
of our dominions whatsoever, and in and vpon the seas, coasts, havens, creekes,
rivers, and shoares situate within our said dominions, or any the territoryes,
parts, or bounds of them or any of them, and in all shipps and vessells what-
soever belonging to all or any of our dominions, and in all shipps and vessells
whatsoever which are or hereafter shall bee in the service of any of our sub-
jects, or wherein any of our subjects have or shall have any right, interest, or
trade in what part of the world soever they commence or bee, in such manner
and according to such rates, allottments, and limitačons as to him the said
William Walcott, his executors, adm", and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discrecons seeme most meet, and that hee the said William Walcott, his
executors and administrators, shall and may have and enjoy the sole benefitt,
profitt, commoditie, and advantage from time to time comeing, groweing, and
ariseing by, reason of the said Invenĉon for and dureing the full time and
terme of yeares hereafter in these Presents menconed, to have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to bee granted vnto him the said William Walcott, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end
and terme of fourteene yeares from the day of the date of these psents next
and immediately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in this case made and provided; and to the end that the said William
Walcott, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of the said

page_text: Invencon according to our gracious intencons herein-before declared and ex-
pressed, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and
strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate,
and all other our subjects whatsoever of what estate, quality, degree, name, or
condicon soever they bee, that neither they nor any of them, at any time or
times dureing the said terme of fourteene yeares herein-before granted or men-
coned to bee granted in any place or places within any of our said dominions
or elsewhere, doe either directly or indirectly vse or put in practice the said
Invencon, or any part thereof soc atteyned vnto by the said William Walcott
as aforesaid, nor shall make or cause to bee made any manner of instruments,
or other materials touching or relateing to the said Invenčon, nor shall convert
or cause to bec converted any matter or thing whatsoever whereby or by
meanes whereof the said Invention or anything relateing thereunto may be
put in practice, contrary to the true meaneing of these Presents, nor shall in
anywise counterfeit or resemble the said Invenčon or any part thereof, nor
shall make or cause to bee made any addičon thereto or substraccon from the
same, whereby to Ptend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without
the licence, consent, or agreement of the said William Walcott, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hands
and scales first bad and obtained in that bebalfe, vpon such paines and penalties
as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
royall command, and further to bee answerable to the said William Walcott, his
executo", adm", and assignes, according to the vtmost rigour of the law for
his and their damages thereby occasioned to bee susteyned. And wee doe of
our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said William Walcott, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, by these Presents, that hee, they, and every
of them, and his, their, and every of their deputies, servants, and agents,
having first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our
Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time being, or from our
Comission" of the Admiralty or Judge of the Admiralty for the time being, or
from any other of our officers or ministers whatsoever and wheresoever, within
whose particular powers or iurisdiccons any abuses shall bee committed touching
the Pmisses, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawful officer
at convenient times in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and in
lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any house, tenements,
shipps, or vessells whatsoever, within any of our said dominions, or the coasts
or territoryes of the same, or any other place or places whatsoever (where

page_text: there shall be iust cause of suspicon), for and in order to the discovery and
finding out of all and every such person and persons as shall imitate or cause
to bec imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said Invencon, or any part
thereof soce atteyned vnto by the said William Walcott as aforesaid, or shall
make or counterfeit any instruments, materialls, or other matters or things to
the same belonging or in anywise appertaining, that soe such offender or
offenders may bee procceded against and punished according to his and their
demeritts, and his and their pretended invenčons and workes then and thero
found to bee seized vpon, broken in pieces, and defaced, and the materialls
thereof left in the hands or custody of some constable or other officer, to be
disposed in such manner and forme as wee, our heires or successo", shall from
time to time direct and appoint. And further, wee doe by these our Letters
Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and command all and
singular justices of the peace, majors, sheriff's, bayliffes, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, for the time being, within all and every of our dominions what-
soever, that they and every of them respectively bee from time to time
dureing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective offices and according
to their and every of their best skills and endeavors, favouring, aydeing,
helping, and assisting vnto the said William Walcott, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputies, servants and
agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execučon of
the powers and priviledges herein granted or menconed to bee granted as
aforesaid. And, moreover, wee doc by these Psents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before menconed, or any of them, doe not, and shall not at any time hereafter
lureing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said William Walcott, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, or his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or any of them,
in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any part thereof,
or any thing relateing thereto. Provided alwayes, and these our Letters
Patents are and shall bee vpon this condičon, that if at any time dureing the
said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, it shall bee made appeare to vs,
our heires or successo", or any six or more of our or their Privic Councell,
that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our
subjects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the
publique vse and exercise thereof within our said dominions, where the same

page_text: shall bee vsed, practiced, or exercised, then, vpon significacon and declaračon
thereof to bee made by vs, our heires or successo", vnder our or their signet
or privie scale, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Councell, or
any six or more of them, vnder their hands, of such preiudice or inconveniency,
these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and bee vtterly void
to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before menconed to the contrary
in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or any thing therein contained, shall not extend or bee construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said William Walcott, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever
which hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subject
or subjects whatsoever; and publiquely exercised within our said realmes and
dominions, or any of them, vnto whom wee have already granted our like
Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole vse, exercise and benefitt thereof, it
being our will and pleasure that the said William Walcott, his exccuto",
admrs, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whom
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or priviledges as aforesaid,
shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invenčons by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meancing of the same Letters
Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee doc by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said William Walcott, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall bee in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meancing thereof, and shall bee
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense
for the best advantage of the said William Walcott, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and
singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors,
in all and singular our said réalmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst
all and every the subjects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing the natures,
manners, or qualities of the said Invenĉon herein-before particularly menconed,
or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other defects,
incerteynties or imperfeccons in these Presents conteyned; or any statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint, or other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse. &c. Witnesse. &c.

page_text: May it please yo' most excellent Matic.
This conteynes yor Maties grant to William Walcot, Esq, of the sole vse
and benefitt of his new Invenčon of making water corrupted fitt for vse, and
sea water fresh, cleare, and wholesome, in very large quantities, for the terme
of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case provided, with such
clauses, priviledges, and provisoes as are vsuall in grants of the like nature.
Signified to be yo' Maties pleasure by warrants, vnder vo' rovall signe
manual.
FRA. WINNINGTON.
17 Oct. 1675.