A NEW MACHINE TO RAISE GREAT QUANTITIES OF WATER ANY HEIGHT OUT OF MINES, RIVERS, PITTS, POOLS, OR CONCAVITIES OF THE EARTH; AND THE SAME WORKS OF IT SELF, WITHOUT INTERMISSION, BY THE PONDEROUS QUALITY OF THE WATER, AS WELL AS BY A SECOND CAUSE WHEN REQUIRED; THAT THE SAID ENGINE IS PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS HITHERTO INVENTED, FOR THE DEEPER THE WATER LYES THE EASIER IT WORKS, AND IS NOT ANY WAY OBSTRUCTED BY THE POWER OF THE ATMOSPHERE; CITIES, TOWNS, &C. MAY BE SUPPLYED WITH WATER AT A VERY SKALL EXPENCE, AND WILL BE VERY USEFULL IN MOST KIND OF MILLWORK FOR GRINDING MALT, GRAIN, DYERS' WARE, BORKING GREAT GUNS, TREES, AND WATER PIPES, &c.
Year: 1723

page_text: WHEREAS MATHEW PALMER, of our city of London, Gent., hath, by his
peticon humbly represented unto us, that he hath, by great paines, study, and
expence, found out and invented "A NEW MACHINE TO RAISE GREAT QUANTITIES
OF WATER ANY HEIGHT OUT OF MINES, RIVERS, PITTS, POOLS, OR CONCAVITIES OF THE
EARTH; AND THE SAME WORKS OF IT SELF, WITHOUT INTERMISSION, BY THE PONDEROUS
QUALITY OF THE WATER, AS WELL AS BY A SECOND CAUSE WHEN REQUIRED; THAT
THE SAID ENGINE IS PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS HITHERTO INVENTED, FOR THE
DEEPER THE WATER LYES THE EASIER IT WORKS, AND IS NOT ANY WAY OBSTRUCTED
BY THE POWER OF THE ATMOSPHERE; CITIES, TOWNS, &C. MAY BE SUPPLYED WITH
WATER AT A VERY SKALL EXPENCE, AND WILL BE VERY USEFULL IN MOST KIND OF
MILLWORK FOR GRINDING MALT, GRAIN, DYERS' WARE, BORKING GREAT GUNS,
TREES, AND WATER PIPES, &c. ;" and having humbly pray'd us to grant him our
Royal Lies Patents for the sole use and benefit of his said pew Invention for
the term of fourteen years, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and invenčons which may be of publick use and benefit, are gratiously
pleased to gratify 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 us, our heires and successors, do give and grant unto the said Mathew

page_text: Palmer, his executors, admirators, and assignes, especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Mathew Palmer, his extors,
adairators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or by
his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said Mathew Palmer, his extors, admirators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time during the term herein expressed,
shall and lawfully may take, use, exercise, and vend his said new-invented
machine to raise great quantities of water any height out of mines, rivers,
pitts, pools, or concavities of the earth, as above described, within that part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Mathew
Palmer, his extors, admirators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Mathew Palmer, his extors,
adiñrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, accrew-
ing, and arising by reason of the said Invention for and during the term of
years herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto the said Mathew Palmer, his extors, admirators, and assignes,
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the
date of these presents next and imediately ensueing, and fully to be com-
pleat and ended, according to the statute in such case made and provided;
and to the end that the said Mathew Palmer, his extors, admirators, and
assignes, and every of them, may have and enjoy the full benefit and the sole
use and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious intention
berein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for us, our heires and suc-
cessors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name, or condition soever they be, within that
said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dñion
of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they
or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said terme of
fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, use,
or putt in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained
unto by the said Mathew Palmer, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substraction 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 Mathew Palmer, his extors,

page_text: admirators, or assignes, in writing under his or their hands and seals first had
and obtained in that behalfe, upon such pains and penalties as can or may
be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal
comand, and further to be answerable to the said Mathew Palmer, his
executors, admirators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages
thereby occasioned; and moreover wee do by these presents, for us, our
heires and successors, will and comand all and singular the justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever, of us, our heirs 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 anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Mathew Palmer, his extors, admirators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or
their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull use or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or anything relating thereto; provided
always, and these our Lřes Patents are and shall be upon this condition,
that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be made
appear to us, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or prejudicial or
inconvenient to our subjects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a
new invenčon as to the publick use and exercise thereof in that said. part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dñion of Wales, or
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or not invented and found out by the said
Mathew Palmer as aforesaid, then, upon signification and declaration thereof,
to be made by us, our heires or successors, under 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, under their hands, these our Lřes Patents
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void to all intents and
purposes, anything. berein-before contained to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding; provided also, that these our Lřes Patents or anything herein
contained shall not extend; or be construed to extend to give priviledge to the
said Mathew Palmer; his extors, admirators, or assignes, or any of them, to use
cr' imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found
out or invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and, publickly used
or exercised in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our doñion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, unto whom like Lřes.
Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise,
and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Mathew
Palmer, his extors, admirators; and assignes, and all and every other pson and
psons to whom like Lřes Patents or priviledges have been already-granted as

page_text: aforesaid, shall distinctly use and practise their severall invenčons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Lřes Patents and of these presents; provided likewise, neverthelesse,
and these our Lřes Patents are upon this expresse condition, that if the
said Mathew Palmer, his extors or admirators, or any pson or psons which
shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this
grant have or claym any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or
to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the
said Invenčon 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 book or books for publick subscriptions to
be made by any number of psons exceeding the number of five, in order
to the raising any sume or sumes of money under 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 sūmes of money whatsoever
of any number of psons 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 Lies Patents, or the liberty and
priviledge hereby by us 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 pson shall have
any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses which
will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certaine Act of Parlia-
ment made in the sixth year of our reign, intituled [an Act for the better
securing certaine powers and priviledges intended to be granted by His
Majestie by two charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea,
and for lending money upon bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant
and unwarrantable practices therein mentioned], if these our Lřes 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 psons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning extors
or admirators as and for the single pson whom they represent as to such interest
as they are or shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate),
that then and in any of the said cases these our Lřes Patents, and all liberties,
priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and lastly, wee do by these presents, for

page_text: us, our heires and successors, grant unto the said Mathew Palmer, his extors,
admirators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the law according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable
and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Mathew Palmer,
his extors, admirators, and assignes, as well in all our courts of record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of
us, our heires and successors, in that part of our said kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our dñion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heires and suc-
cessors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging.
the Lord Carteret.
D
ROB. RAYMOND.
7ber 4, 1722.