A NEWE ARTE, MISTERY, OR INVENCON OF GREATE VSE AND BENEFITT TO THIS WHOLE NATION, AND OUR OTHER COUNTRYES, NEVER BEFORE PUBLICKLY VSED OR PRACTIZED WITHIN THESE OUR KINGDOMES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, OR ANY OTHER OUR DOMINIONS, TERRYTORYES, OR COUNTRYES, FOR PLATEING AND TYNNING OP IRON, COPPER, STEELE, AND BRASSE, AS ALSOE FOR THE COMPRESSING AND PLATEING OP ALL OTHER METTALLS
Year: 1673

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome these
Psents shall come, greeteing.
WHEREAS our trusty & welbeloved subiect WILLIAM CHAMBERLAINE, Esqr.,
did severall yeares since att and by his noe small charge and industry, finde out
and discover "A NEWE ARTE, MISTERY, OR INVENCON OF GREATE VSE AND BENEFITT
TO THIS WHOLE NATION, AND OUR OTHER COUNTRYES, NEVER BEFORE PUBLICKLY VSED OR
PRACTIZED WITHIN THESE OUR KINGDOMES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND, OR
ANY OTHER OUR DOMINIONS, TERRYTORYES, OR COUNTRYES, FOR PLATEING AND TYNNING
OP IRON, COPPER, STEELE, AND BRASSE, AS ALSOE FOR THE COMPRESSING AND PLATEING
OP ALL OTHER METTALLS;" And whereas by reason of the long imprisonm, and
other psonall troubles of the said William Chamberlaine, aswell in the times
of the late intestine warrs as since, and other vnavoydable interrupcons and
obstruccon, he hath not nor could hitherto put in practice bis said arte,
mistery, or invenčons, and haveing made his humble peticon to us that wee
would be gracously pleased to grant vnto him our Letters Patents of Privi-
ledge to put in practice by him, his extors, administrators, and assignes, bis said
arte, mistery, and invenčons, for his and their sole and onely proper vse and
benefitt, as the true first inventor thereof, for the terme and time of fourteenc
yeares to come, according to the forme and effect of the Statute in that case
made & pvided.
KNOWE YEE THEREFORE, that wee, willing that all due & lawfull
encouragem be given to the first inventors of such arts & misteryes as may be
of publique vse and benefitt, vpon the said humble peticon of the said William

page_text: Chamberlaine, and for diverse other good causes and considačons vs therevnto
especially moveing, of our especiall grace, certain knowledge, and meere močon,
have given, granted, and confirmed, and by these psents for vs, our heires and
successors, doe give, grant, and confirme vnto the said William Chamberlaine,
as the true, sole, and first inventor of the said arte and mistery, as alsoe to his
extors, administrators, & assignes, our especiall lycence, with the powers, privi-
ledges, immunityes, and authorityes herein-after menconed; (that is to say),
that hec, the said William Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by him or themselves, or his or their deputy
or deputyes, agents, servants, and workemen, from tyme to tyme and
att all tymes dureing the terme and tyme of fourteene yeares from hence-
forth to come, shall and lawfully may, and hee, they, and every of them
hath and have hereby full power, lycence, and authority to vse, exercise,
imploy, and put in practice, or cause to be vsed, exercised, employed, and put
in practice, within our said kingdome of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and
all and any other our said realmes, dominions, territoryes, and countryes, the
said new Invenčons of plateing and tynning of iron, copper, steele, and brasse,
and of compressing and plateing of all. or any metalls whatsoever, in such
manner and forme, and by such engines, instruments, or other wayes and meanes
as to him, them, every or any of them respectively in their discrecons shall
seeme fitt and meet; and to have and enioy, and shall and may have and enioy,
the sole and whole benefitt and advantage thereof, and all and singuler
the pffitts and emoluments whatsoever thereof, or thereby comeing, ariseing,
or happening, or to come, arise, or happen, to have, hold, pceive, receive,
and enioy, to his and their onely vse and benefitt, and that without any
disturbance, molestačon, impedim, or, interrupcon of or by any the
officers or ministers of us, our heires or successors, or of or by any other
person or persons whatsoever by any wayes or meanes, or by or vnder any
pretence or colour' whatsoever for and dureing and vnto the full end and
tearme of fourteene yeares from the date hereof; and to the end that
hee, the said. William Chamberlaine, his extors, adiñors, and assignes, and
every of them, may the better and more freely, quietly, and fully exercize and
put in practice the said ȧrtė, mistery, and invenčons, and have, hold, and enioy
the full and whole benefitt and advantage thereof, togeather with the sole vse
and exercise of the said arte, mistery, and invenčons, according to this our
royall will & pleasure, and the tenor and true intent and meaneing of this our
grant, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires and successors, require and
streightly charge and comand that noe pson or psons, bodyes polityq, or cor-
porate, of what estate, degree, quality, condičon, or name soever hec or they bee
or shalbe, vnder what Ptence soever dureing the said terme and time of four-
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page_text: teene yeares hereby granted, doe or shall psume directly or indirectly to vse,
exercise, imploy, or put in practice the said arte, mistery, or invenčons soe by
him the said William Chamberlaine found out and attained vnto, nor doe nor
shall in any wise employ or make vse of any the engines or instruemts of
him, the said William Chamberlaine, or any like vnto the same, or any of
them, for such the plateing and tynning of iron, copper, steele, and brasse,
or for the compressing and plateing of any mettall or mettalls whatso-
ever, without the especiall lycence, authority, & agreem of him, the said
William Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, or assignes, in that behalfe
first had and obtained in writeing vnder his or their hands and scales; and
further wee will & comand that noe pson or psons whatsoever att any time
or times from henceforth dureing the said terme and time of fourteene yeares
to come, doe or shall vnder what ptence soever psume by any artifice, engine,
or device whatsoever, to counterfeit, imitate, or any way resemble or practice
the said arte, mistery, or invenčons with the same or any of them, or any
parte thereof, or make any alteration or addicon therevnto, or any substraccon
or diminucon whatsoever therefrom, or otherwise to Ptend or make title to
the said arte, mistery, or invenčons, engines or instruem, or any of them or
any parte thereof, without such lycence and agreem' as aforesaid, on paine of
our high displeasure, and of such other paines, penaltyes, and forfeitures as
shall or may be lawfully inflicted on all and every or any such pson or psons
as shall sume soe to doc in contempt or disobedience of this our royall will
and comandem', besides his and their being answereable according to lawe &
justice, vnto the said William Chamberlaine, his extors, administors, and
assignes, for such damages and costs as hee or they shall sustaine or be putt
vnto by occacon of the misses, or any of them; to have and to hold, vse,
exercise, pceive, receive, and enioy all & every the said licences, powers, privi-
ledges, imunities, and authorities, with the benefitts, advantages, emoluem",
and all and singuler other the misses whatsoever herein menconed or
intended to be by these our Letters Pattents given and granted vnto the said
William Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, and assignes, from and
imediately after the day of the date of these psents, for, by, & dureing the full
and whole terme & time of fourteene yeares from thence next ensueing and
fully to be compleate and ended, according to the aforesaid Statute or Act of
Parliam in that behalfe made & pvided. And further, wee will and doe by
these sents, for us, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said William
Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, that
hee, they, and every of them, and his, their, and every of their lawfull deputies,
agents, servants, and workemen, by and with the ayde & assistance of any

page_text: constable or constables, or other officers of us, our heires and successors, whome
wee will & comand by these psents to be aideing and assisting vnto him
and them from time to time in this behalfe, shall and may, att all or
any fitting and convenient times in the day dureing the said terme and
time of fourteene yeares hereby granted or menconed or intended to be
granted as aforesd, enter into and make search and searches in any house,
houses, or other place or places whatsoever, where there is or shalbe iust
cause of suspicon, for the findeing out & discovering of all such workes,
engines, and instruem", and of all and every person and psons as shall sume
to imitate, vse, or put in practice, or cause or pcure to be imitated, vsed, or
put in practice, the said arte, mistery, or invenĉons, or any of the said workes,
engines, or instruem therevnto vsefull, or to any parte or parcell thereof
incident or belonging, to the intent that the offenders therein may be knowne,
pceeded ag, and duely punished, according to their demerritts, as contempners
of our lawes and of this our royall will and comandem'. And wee further
will and comand, that all such the workes, engines, and instruemts of all and
every the said offender & offenders then or there or any wayes else found,
shall and may be seized, defaced, and broaken in peeces, and the materialls
thereof dained and kept in the hands, possion or custody of such constable
or constables, or other officer or officers, to be disposed of as wee, our heires
and successors, shall from time to time thinke fitt to direct and appointe. And
further, wee doe by these psents, for us, our heires and successors, require and
comand all and singuler our judges, justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs,
bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they, & every of
them respectively, bec, from tyme to tyme, durcing the said terme hereby
granted, in their respective places favouring, aydeing, & assisting vnto the said
William Chamberlaine, his extors, adñiors, and assignes, and to his and their
deputyes, servants, workemen, and agents, in and by all things wch may any
way conduce to and for the accomplishm of our royall will and pleasure herein
declared, and in the exercise and execucon of the powers & priviledges
herein and hereby granted or menconed to be granted as aforesaid. And,
morcover, we will and comand by these psents, for us, our heires & successors,
that our said officers and ministers, or any of them, doe not in the least molest,
trouble, inquiet, or interrupt, or (in as much as in them lyes), doe suffer any
other person or person whatsoever to molest, trouble, inquiett, or interrupt
the said William Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, or assignes, or their
deputy or deputyes, servants or agents, or any of them, in or about the free
vse, exercise, benefitt, or execučon of the aforesaid arte, mistery, or inventons,

page_text: or any parte thereof, or of or in any of the misses: pvided alwayes, & our
will and pleasure neverthelesse is, that if att any time or times within the said
terme and time of fourteene yeares hereby granted it can and shall legally
and plainely be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or
more of our Privy Councell, (vpon due sumons in that behalfe to be first given
to the said William Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, or assignes, to
the end that hee or they may be heard therein,) that this our sent grant is
contrary to our lawes, or that the said new Invencons, or any of them, are or is
Piudiciall or inconvenient, and not of publiq, vse and benefitt, or that such
plateing and tynning of iron, copper, steele, and brasse, and such compressing
and plateing of mettalls is not nor was re vera a new Invencon of the said
William Chamberlaine as to and for the publiq, vse & exercise thereof within
our said realmes, dominions, territoryes, or countryes, or any of them, or that
hee, the said William Chamberlaine, had not the priority of inventon of the
Pmisses, then and in such case, and from thenceforth, upon significacon or
declaracon by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our signe mannuall, signett,
or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our Privy Councell, or any six or
more of them for the time being, in writeing vnder their hands to that purpose,
these our Letters Pattents of grant and confirmacon, and every clause and
thing therein contained, shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and be vtterly
voide & of none effect, to all intents, construccons, and purposes, as if the
same had never been had nor inade, these psents or anything herein contained
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: pvided alsoc, that theso
our Letters Pattents, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend, or be
construed to extend, to give priviledge to the said William Chamberlaine, his
extors, adññiors, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any inventon or
workes publickly practiced wch shalbe made legally & plaine to appeare to us,
our heires or successors, were found out or invented by any other person or
persons in time before the Invenĉon or Invenčons aforesaid of him, the said
William Chamberlaine, within these our realmes, or any the dominions or
territories thereunto belonging, for the plateing and tynning of iron, copper,
steele, and brasse, and the plateing and compressing of other mettalls as
aforesaid, to whome wee had already granted our like Letters Pattents of
Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof before his the said
William Chamberlaine's, itt being our royall intencon, and wee hereby declare
our expresse pleasure and comandmt to bee, that the said William Chamber-
laine, his extors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person
and persons to whome wee have duely grantedour Letters Pattents of Priviledge
in that behalfe, shall differrently and distinctly vse, exercise, and practice their

page_text: severall invenčons by them found out and discovered as the first true and sole
inventor & inventors thereof, and whose right the same is really bona fide, wch
wee will shalbe saved to him or them, according to his or their seniority or
priority of such Invenčon or Invenĉons, these Psents, or any thing therein
contained, or any other matter, thing, or Ptence whatsoever to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And, moreover, wee will and doe, for us,
our heires and successors, grant unto the said William Chamberlaine, his extors,
administrators, and assignes, by these psents, that these our Letters Patents
or the exemplificačon or enrollm' thereof, are & shalbe, in and by all things,
good, valid, effectuall, and sufficient in the lawe, according to the true intent
and meaneing thereof, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourable & beneficiall for the best benefitt and advantage of the said William
Chamberlaine, his extors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts
of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not describeing, or not full or not
certaine describeing, the nature or natures of the said arte, mistery, or
invenčons, or any of them, or of all, every, or any of the engines or instruem",
or of the manner or forme and quality of the plateing and tynning of iron,
steele, brasse, and copper, or any of them, or of the compressing or plateing
of any other mettalls, or the vse or benefitt thereof; and notwithstanding
the statutes made in the Parliam" of our royall pdecessors, King Henry the
Fourth and King Henry the Sixth, late Kings of England; (that is to say)
in the first yeare of the raigne of King Henry the Fourth, and in the
eighteenth yeare of the raigne of King Henry the Sixth; and notwithstanding
that of the true yearely value & certainety of the Pmisses, or any of them, in
these Psents there is noe mencon, or noe certaine, true, or expresse mencon,
and notwithstanding any other defect or defects in not menconing or reciteing
any Letters Pattents, guift or guifts, grant or grants, of the misses, or any
parte thereof, by us or our most deare lord and father King Charles the First,
of glorious memory, of record, or not of records, heretofore given or granted;
and notwithstanding any other defect or defects, incertainety or incertainetyes
in these our Letters Pattents contained, or any other lawe, act, statute, ordi-
nance, pvision, pelamacon, restraint, or other matter or thing whatsoever to
the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In wittnes, &c. Wittnes the King att Westin, the Twelfth day of
In wittnes, &c. Wittnes the King att Westin, the Twelfth day of
November.
By Writt of Privy Seale.