A CERTAIN MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION THAT FLUXETH SAND, AND MAKES GLASS AT A MUCH LESS CHARGE THAN WOOD, ASHES, OR ANY OTHER INGREDIENTS HITHERTO MADE VSE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND LIKEWISE SAVES A THIRD PART OF FIRE AND WORKMANSHIP
Year: 1727

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS
our trusty and welbeloved NICHOLAS TOOK, Gentleman,
has by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath with great
pains, industry, and expence invented and brought to perfeccon "A CERTAIN
MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION THAT FLUXETH SAND, AND MAKES GLASS AT A MUCH LESS
CHARGE THAN WOOD, ASHES, OR ANY OTHER INGREDIENTS HITHERTO MADE VSE OF FOR
THAT PURPOSE, AND LIKEWISE SAVES A THIRD PART OF FIRE AND WORKMANSHIP;"
that the Petičoner cannot proceed in managing and carrying on an vnder-
taking so vsefull and advantágious to our subiects in generall without great
charges and expences, and. having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal
Letters Patent for the sole making and vending of the said mixture or com-
posičon for the term of fourteen yeares, wee, being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and Inventions that may be for the publick vse and benefit,
are gratiously pleased to condescend to his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Nicholas Took,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Nicholas Tooke, 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 Nicholas Tooke, his executors, administrators, or assignes shall at

page_text: any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times here-
after during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented mixture or composičon
that fluxeth sand, and makes glass as above described, 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 Nicholas
Tooke, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Nicholas Took, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invenčon for and during
the terme of yeares herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted
or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Nicholas Tooke, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of
fourteen yeares from the date of these Presente next and immediately ensucing,
and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case
made and provided. And to the end that the said Nicholas Tooke his exo-
cutors, 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 intenčon 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, degree, name or condičon soever they be,
within that said part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, 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 Invenčon or any part of the same so attained vnto
by the said Nicholas Took as aforesaid, nor in any wise counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be mado any addition
thereunto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or them-
selves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Nicholas Tooke, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand and seals 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 Nicholas Tooke, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law for his and their

page_text: damages thereby occasioned: And moreover, wee do by. these. Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular. the justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the tinie
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
Nicholas Took, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, .or.
his or their deputics, servante, or agents, in or about the dus and lawfull
vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenĉon, or any thing relating thereto: Pro-
vided 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 appeare to vs, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of
our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or pre-
iudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the said Invencon
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 Dominion of
Wales; or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found
out by the said Nicholas Tooke as aforesaid; then, vpon signification and decla-
ration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy Council,
or any six or more of them vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents or
anything herein contained shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to
give priviledge vnto the said Nicholas Took, 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 subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised, in that said
part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted, for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the said.
Nicholas Took, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every.
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges. bavo
been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their several
invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these psents.. Pro-
vided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this

page_text: express condičon, that if the said Nicholas Tooke, his executors or adminis-
trators, or any person or persons, which shall or may at any time or times
hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have 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 Invenčon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assign-
ment, 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 bookes 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 servants, receive any sume or sums of money whatsoever, of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the
like intents 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 priviledge
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five,
or shall comitt or do, or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or
thing whatsoever, during such time as such person 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 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 Merchandizes at Sea, and for lend-
ing Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vn-
warrantable Practices therein menčoned.) If these our Letters Patents 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 Nicholas
Took, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificacon thereof, shall be in and by all

page_text: thing good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the
true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be construed, and adiudged in
the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the
said Nicholas Took, 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 part of our
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiect of vs, our heirs and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnosco & Witnesse our solfo at Westminster the Fourteenth day
or April.
By Writt of Privy Seal.