A NEW INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR BAISING WATER FROM ANY DEPTH TO ANY HEIGHT AS HIGHT BE REQUIRED OUT OF PITS OR MINES, AND FOR THE BETTER SUPPLYING OF CITIES, Towns, &C: WITH WATER THAN HAD BEEN DONE HERETOFORE BY ANY;LIKEWISE FOR FLOATING SHIPS OUT OF DOCKS AT ANY TIDE, WHICH NOW ARE
Year: 1724

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these fresent
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved ROBERT BUMPSTED, Gentleman, hath
by his petičon humbly represented vnto vs, that by his own sole study and
labour he had lately contrived and found out "A NEW INVENTED ENGINE OR
MACHINE FOR BAISING WATER FROM ANY DEPTH TO ANY HEIGHT AS HIGHT BE
REQUIRED OUT OF PITS OR MINES, AND FOR THE BETTER SUPPLYING OF CITIES,
Towns, &C: WITH WATER THAN HAD BEEN DONE HERETOFORE BY ANY; LIKEWISE FOR
FLOATING SHIPS OUT OF DOCKS AT ANY TIDE, WHICH NOW ARE OBLIGED TO STAY FOR
A SPRING TIDE, WHICH MIGHT PROVE DETRIMENTAL BY THEIR LONG STAY; THAT IT
WOULD ALSO DRAINE AND CLEANSE RIVERS, DOCKS, OR POND, AND CARRY OFF THE MUD
WITH IT, AND WOULD LIKEWISE DRAIN LAND OVERFLOWNE WITH WATER, WITH WONDER-
PULL EXPEDITION, AND WOULD SUPPLY DRY AND BARREN LANDE WITH WATER THAT
NOW LYE WASTE AND VSELESS, SO THAT THOSE LANDS MIGHT BE CULTIVATED AND
NUMBERS OF POOR PEOPLE BE EMPLOYED AND EARN THEIR DAILY BREAD, WHICH WERE
BURTHENSOME TO THEIR RESPECTIVE PARISHES; THAT LIKEWISE THENCHES MIGHT
THEREWITH BE DRAINED WITH SUCH EXPEDITION THAT IT WOULD THROW OUT THE
WATER AS FAST AS IT CAME; THAT IT WOULD ALSO WORK A MILL OR MILLS WHERE
NO RUNNING STREAMES ARE, AND WITHOUT WIND OR THE TWENTIETH PART OF ANY
ADDITIONAL POWER AS IN SUCH CASES ARE REQUIRED, AND IS FIT FOR SUNDRY OTHER
BENEFICIAL VSES;" and haveing humbly prayed vs to grant to him, his executors

page_text: or assignes, our Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending the said
engine or machine of such new Invention for the publick good for the term of
fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in such case made and provided,
in this our realm, in in our dominions in America, wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and Inventions which may be of publick service and
benefit, are graciously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heirs and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Robert
Bumpsted, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Robert Bumpsted, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agente, or such
others as he, the said Robert Bumpsted, 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 yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented engine or machine for
raising water and other beneficial vses, as above described, in that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and in our Dominions in America, in such manner as to
him, the said Robert Bumpsted, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Robert
Bumpsted, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may
have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, grow, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention,
for and during the term of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Robert Bumpsted, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and
term of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Presente next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said Robert
Bumpstead, 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
Invention according to our gratious intention herein-before declared, wee do
by these 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 subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condition soever they be, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain

page_text: called England, our Dominion of Wales, Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
in Dominions in America aforesaid, 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 Robert Bumpsted as aforesaid, nor in any wise
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pre-
tend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Robert Bump-
sted, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their
hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to the said Robert
Bumpsted, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
his or their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Pre-
sente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular our
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires 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 Robert Bumpsted, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, their or any of their deputies, servante, or agente, 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 Patente are and shall be
vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted, it
shall be made appear 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 generall, or that the said Invention is not a
new Invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or'
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or in our Dominions in America aforesaid, or
not invented or found out by the said Robert Bumpsted as aforesaid, then
vpon significačon and declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires 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 Patente shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intente and purposes, any thing herein-before
contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that
these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend, or

page_text: be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Bumpsted,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exer-
cised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or in our Dominions
in America aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have
been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our
will and pleasure that the said Robert Bumpsted, his executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practice their several Inventions by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patent and of these Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these
our Letters Patents are vpon this express condičon, that if the said Robert
Bumpsted, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which
shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this
grant, bave or claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to
the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said
Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, 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 the number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any book 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 agents 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 a corporate body,
or shall divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and
priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the
number of five, or shall commit 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 cer-
tain Act of Parliament, 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 Mer-

page_text: chandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining
severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein menconed,) if these
our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case the said power, privi-
viledge, 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 Patente, 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 notwith-
standing. And, lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Robert Bumpsted, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment or exemplifi-
cation thereof, shall be in and by all thing 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 Robert Bumpsted, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courte of Record as elsewhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and in
our Dominions in America aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiecte
of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invencon,
or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our self at Westminster, the Fourth day of