AN ENGINE WHICH WILL TAKE VP NO MORE ROOK IN A SHIP, NOR POWER TO WORK IT THAN A COMMON PUMP, AND WILL WITH MUCH LESS LABOUR AND PAINS DISCHARGE EIGHTY GALLONS IN A MINUTE, WHICH IS AT LEAST DOUBLE THE QUANTITY VSUALLY DISCHARGED BY COMON PUMPS, AND IN LIME PROPORCON TO THE POWER MADE VSE OF WITH LARGER ENGINES (IF SUCH ARE REQUIRED), AND AS A FURTHER CONVENIENCY, IT SO ORDERED THAT BY THE ADDICON OF A LEATHER HOSE ANDPE INSTANTLY TOS ORING F IMEDIATE VSE AND BENEFIT ON BOARD ANY SHIP, IN OTHER CASES OF EXTREMITY AND DISTRESS, AND OF GREAT SERVICE FOR MANY OTHER VARFULL PURPOSES
Year: 1724

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved HENRY WHITE, of our City of Bristol,
Gentleman, hath by his petičon humbly represented vnto vs, that he having
often observed the method of dischargin water out of ships by common pumps,
to be performed by the vtmost labour, has, with continued applicačon, paines,
and expences, invented and brought to perfeccon "AN ENGINE WHICH WILL
TAKE VP NO MORE ROOK IN A SHIP, NOR POWER TO WORK IT THAN A COMMON PUMP,
AND WILL WITH MUCH LESS LABOUR AND PAINS DISCHARGE EIGHTY GALLONS IN A
MINUTE, WHICH IS AT LEAST DOUBLE THE QUANTITY VSUALLY DISCHARGED BY
COMON PUMPS, AND IN LIME PROPORCON TO THE POWER MADE VSE OF WITH LARGER
ENGINES (IF SUCH ARE REQUIRED), AND AS A FURTHER CONVENIENCY, IT SO ORDERED
THAT BY THE ADDICON OF A LEATHER HOSE AND PIPE INSTANTLY TO BE FIXED TO THE
BAID ENGINE, THE WATER HIGHT NOT ONLY BE RAISED BUT DISCHARGED ON ANY PART
OF THE SHIP'S DECK OR RIGGING, IN CASE A FIRE SHOULD HAPPEN IN THE SAME, WHICH
SAID ENGINE WOULD ALSO BE OF IMEDIATE VSE AND BENEFIT ON BOARD ANY SHIP, IN
OTHER CASES OF EXTREMITY AND DISTRESS, AND OF GREAT SERVICE FOR MANY OTHER
VARFULL PURPOSES; " that the said engine is so contrived that by the application of
any power, as the strength of man or beast, wind, or fall of water, vacuums are
made by a crank working boxes or forcers near the top of the said engine, by
meanes whereof the water constantly ascend through a tube. or set of tubes
from any depth proposed, even five hundred feet or more, by the pressure of
the atmosphere only during such applicačon; that he has with great charge

page_text: made severall experiments of his said Invention, whereby he knows the same
will fully answer all the ende above proposed; and being desireous to introduce
the same into practice for the vse and benefit of the publick, and for the
security of his property therein, having most humbly prayed vs that wee would be
pleased to grant vnto him, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our
Royal Letters Patente for the sole making and vending his said engine within
England and Wales, for and during the term of fourteen yeares, according to
the Statuto in such case made and provided, wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arte and Invenčons which may be of publick service and
benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Henry
White, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Henry White, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agent, or such
others as he, the said Henry White, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make,
vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented engine for raising and discharging
water in and out of ships, and other vsefull purposes above directed, within
that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said
Henry White, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them,
shall in their discrečons seem meet; and that he, the said Henry White, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantago from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invencon, for and
during the term of years herein menčoned; to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Henry White, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the day of the date of these Presents next and
immediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said Henry White,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and
enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon,
according to our gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by these

page_text: Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command all
and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our
subiecte whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condition
soever they be, in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our said Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that
neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make,
vse, or put in practice the said Invention so attained vnto by the said Henry
White, as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereunto or sub-
stracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor
or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or
agreement of the said Henry White, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing, vnder his or their hande and seales, first had and obtained in that
behalf, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted ou
such offenders for their contempt of this our royal command; and further to
be answerable to the said Henry White, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned.
And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heirs and successors,
will and command all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever of vs, our heres and successors, for the time being, that they or any of
them do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby
granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Henry White, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of their
deputies, servants, or ngents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise
of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and
these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any
time during the said term hereby granted, it shall be made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this
our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in
general, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse
and exercise thereof in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or
not invented and found out by the said Henry White, as aforesaid, then vpon
signification and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heirs or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all

page_text: intent and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in
any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or
any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give priviledge vnto the said Henry White, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work what-
soever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of
our subiect whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales,
or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, vnto whom like Letters Patent or privi
ledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof,
it being our will and pleasure that the said Henry White, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to
whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted as afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invencons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patents and of these Presents: Provided likewise, never-
theless, and these our Letters Patente are vpon this express condition, that
if the said Henry White, his executors or administrators, or any person or
persons which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the con-
tinuance of this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest in law
or equity of, in, or to the power, power, priviledge and authority of the
sole vse and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make
any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assignment of
the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or
profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be
opened any booke or books for publick subscriptions, to be made by any
number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any
sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall, by him or themselves, or his or their
agent or servante, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the
like intent or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of
five, or shall committ or do, or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter,
or thing whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have
any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, which
would be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parlia-

page_text: ment, made in the sixth year of our reign, intituled (An Act for the better
securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His
Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea,
and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant
and vnwarrantable Practices therein menčoned, if these our Letters Patent(
had not been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall
at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number
of five persons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors
or administrators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such
interest as they are or shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or
intestate), that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents,
and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall
vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do, by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Henry
White, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment or exemplication thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the
true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said
Henry White, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts
of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that said part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our said Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires
and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the
materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster the Twenty-third day