AN ENGINE MADE OF ROPES OR CHAYNES IN WHICH CROSSE STAVES ARE FIXED, VPON Wch STAVES ARE PLACED CERTAYNE INSTRUMENT, WHICH, BY THE BENEFITT AND ADVANTADGE OF VALVES, WILL EMITT AYRE, AND YETT RETAYNE WATER, WHEREBY WATER OUT OF MYNES AND PITT MAY, WITH MORE EASE THEN HATH BEEN YETT KNOWNE, BE DRAYNED AND EXHAUSTED, AND HATH ALSOE FOUND OUT A WAY FOR THE EXHALING OB DRAWING FORTH WATER IN PIPES WITHOUT THE HELP OR BENEFITT OF SUCKERS OR BUCKETT, NEVER BEFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED WITHIN ANY OF OUR DOMINIONS, THE VSE WHEREOF MAY BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUBIECT
Year: 1663

page_text: P'sent shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have been informed by the humble peticon of THOMAS
TOGOOD, Gentt, that by his study and much chardges and expences hee hath
invented "AN ENGINE MADE OF ROPES OR CHAYNES IN WHICH CROSSE STAVES ARE
FIXED, VPON Wch STAVES ARE PLACED CERTAYNE INSTRUMENT, WHICH, BY THE
BENEFITT AND ADVANTADGE OF VALVES, WILL EMITT AYRE, AND YETT RETAYNE
WATER, WHEREBY WATER OUT OF MYNES AND PITT MAY, WITH MORE EASE THEN
HATH BEEN YETT KNOWNE, BE DRAYNED AND EXHAUSTED, AND HATH ALSOE FOUND
OUT A WAY FOR THE EXHALING OB DRAWING FORTH WATER IN PIPES WITHOUT THE
HELP OR BENEFITT OF SUCKERS OR BUCKETT, NEVER BEFORE KNOWNE OR PRACTISED
WITHIN ANY OF OUR DOMINIONS, THE VSE WHEREOF MAY BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO
OUR SUBIECT;" and whereas the said Thomas Togood hath humbly besought,
that in consideračon of his great paynes, trouble, and expences, and for his
better encouragem to putt in practise his said engines and invenčons, wee
would be graciously pleased to graunt vnto him our Letters Patente of Privi-
ledge for the sole vse and benefitt of the same in our dominions of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, and the Island therevnto belonging, according to the
Statute in such case made and pvided.
NOW KNOWE YEE, that wee being willing to give all lawfull and fitting
encouragement to the inventors of such arte, engines, and invenčons as may
be of publique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certayne knowledge, and
meer močon, and vpon the humble peticon of the said Thomas Togood, have
given & granted, and by theis psente, for vs, our heires and successors, doo
give and graunt vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators,

page_text: and assignees, spiall licence, full power, priviledge and auctority, that hee and
they, by hymselfe and themselves, or by his or theire deputy or deputyes,
servante, workmen, or agente, att all tymes, and from tyme to tyme hereafter
during the tme of yeares hereafter in theis psente expssed, shall and may
lawfully vse, exercise, and putt in practise the aforesaid engines and invenčons
by hym invented and herein-before described as aforesaid, and that hee and
they, during the said terme, may vse and putt in practise the said engines and
invenčons in any place or places within our dominions of England, Scotland,
Ireland, and Islande aforesaid, and shall and may have and enioy the wholle
benefitt and advantage comeing and ariseing by reason of the said engines
and invenčons during the terme of yeares hereby graunted; and to the end
the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignees, may the
better haue and enioy the full and wholle benefitt and the sole vse and
exercise of his said engines and invenčons, wee doe by theis psente, for vs,
our heires and successors, require and straightly chardge and comand all and
every pson and psons, bodyes politique and corporate, of what estate, degree,
quality, nature, or condičon soever they be, that neither they nor either of
them, during the terme of yeares hereby graunted, either directly or indirectly,
doe vse or putt in practise the said engines and invenčons soe invented by
the said Thomas Togood as aforesaid, nor shall counterfaite, ymitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make any addičon therevnto or substraccon
from, the same, whereby to ptend themselves the inventors or devisors
thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas
Togood, his executors, administrators, or assignees, in writing vnder his or
theire or some of theire hand and seales first had obtayned in that behaulfe,"
vpon such paynes and penaltyes as can or may be inflicted on such offenders
for theire contempt in this our comand in that behaulfe, and further to be
answeareable to the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and
assignees, according to the law and justice, for his and theire damages thereby
sustayned; to have and to hould the said lycences, powers, priviledges, and
authorityes hereby graunted as aforesaid vnto the said Thomas Togood, his
executors, administrators and assignees, for the terme of foweteene yeares from
the date of theis sente next ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the statute in such case made and pvided; and further wee doe
by theis psente, for vs, our heyres and successors, give and graunt vnto the
said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignees, that hee
and they, and his and theire deputyes, servante, and agente, having first
obtayned a warrant in that behaulfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
King Bench for the tyme being, and with the assistance of a constable or

page_text: any other lawfull officer, att convenient, during the tune aforesaid, and in lawfull
manner, may enter into and make search in any mynes, pitte, howses, and
other places within our dominions aforesaid where there shall be iust cause
of suspicon, for discovering and fynding out of all such psons as shall ymitate
or cause to be ymitated, or shall vse or putt in practise, the said engines and
invenĉons soe invented by the said Thomas Togood as aforesaid, that soe such
offenders may be pceeded against and punished according to theire demeritte,
and theire engines then and theire found seized vpon, broken in peeces, and
defaced, and the materialle thereof to be left in the custody of some constable or
officer to be disposed of in such manner and forme as wee, our heyres and suc-
cessors, shall from tyme to tyme direct and appoint; and further wee doe by theis
Psente, for vs, our heyres and successors, will, auctorize, and require all and
sigular justices of the peaces, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables, head-
boroughes, and all and singular other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our beyres aud successors, within theis our domynions for the tyme being, that
they and every of them resptiuely be from tyme to tyme during the said ĭme
hereby graunted, in theire respectiue places, favoring, ayding, helping, and assist-
ing vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignees,
and to his and theire deputyes, servante, and agente, in and by all thing in
and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and
in the exercise and execučon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby
granted or menčoned to the graunted as aforesaid; and moreover wee will and
comand by theis sente, for vs, our heyres and successors, that our said
officers and ministers doe not att any tyme hynder, molest, trouble, or intupt
the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and assignees, his or
theire deputyes, servante, or agente, or any of them, in or about the vse or
excise of the aforesaid engines or invenĉons: Provided alwayes, that yf att
any tyme during the said terme of fowerteen yeares, itt shall be made
appeare vnto vs, our heyres or successors, that this our graunt is contrary to
lawe or piudiciall and inconvenient, and not of publique vse and benefitt, or
that the said engines are not the invenĉons of the said Thomas Togood, then,
vpon significacon and declaračon thereof to be made by vs, our heyres or
successors, theis our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determyne, and be
vtterly voyd to all intente and purposes, anything herein contayned to the
contrary notwithstanding: Prouided alsoe, that theis our Letters Patente, or
anything therein contayned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
giue priviledge vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators,
and assignees, or any of them, to vse or imitate any engines or workes found
out and devised by any other pson or persons for rayseing water and such

page_text: like purposes, vnto whome wee have already graunted or Letters Patente of
Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will
and pleasure that the said Thomas Togood, his executors, administrators, and as-
signees, and all and singular other pson and persons to whome wee have already
graunted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practise theire severall engines by them resptiuely invented according
to the true intent and meaneing of our saide severall and resptiue Lřes
Patent and of theis psente; and lastly, wee doe by theis psente, for vs, our
heires and successors, graunt vnto the said Thomas Togood, his executors,
administrators, and assignees, that theis our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in
lawe, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged most favorably and beneficially, and for the best
benefitt and advantage of the said Thomas Togood, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignees, aswell in all our courte of record as elsewhere, not-
withstanding the not full and certayne describing the manner, forme, and
fashion of the aforesaid engines invented by the said Thomas Togood, or of
the vse and benefitt of the same, and notwithstanding any other defect,
ymperfeccon or incertaynty in theis Psente contayned, or any act, statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restraynt to the contry hereof in anywise
notwithstanding.
December.
P bře de privato sigillo.