A WAY FOR MELTING AND REFINEING LEAD ORE IN CLOSE OR REVERBERATORY FURNACES WITH PITT COAL OR SEA COAL, TURP, PEAT, OR OTHER MIXT FEWELL, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE MELTED AND REFINED MUCH CHEAPER THEN FORMERLY IT HATH BEEN, BY REASON OF THE DEARNESSE AND SCARCITY OF WooD
Year: 1690

page_text: Psente shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our wellbeloved subiect, JoпN HODGES, Gentleman, hath by his
humble peticon repsented vnto vs, that with great charges and after much time
spent, he has found out "A WAY FOR MELTING AND REFINEING LEAD ORE IN CLOSE
OR REVERBERATORY FURNACES WITH PITT COAL OR SEA COAL, TURP, PEAT, OR OTHER
MIXT FEWELL, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE MELTED AND REFINED MUCH CHEAPER
THEN FORMERLY IT HATH BEEN, BY REASON OF THE DEARNESSE AND SCARCITY OF
WooD;" which said Invenčon was never knowne or vsed in our Kingdome of
Ireland before, and prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patent for the
sole excise and benefitt thereof; wee are gratiously pleased to condescend
therevnto.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and incourage
all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiecte as have by their
industry found out vsefull and pfitable arte, mysteries, and invenčons, and
that the said John Hodges may accordingly reape some fruite and benefitt
of his labour and charge in and concerning the Pmisses, of our especiall grace.
certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
Psente do give and grant, vnto the said John Hodges, his executors, adminis
trators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority, that
he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their deputies, servant(",
agente, and workinen, and such others only as he, the said John Hodges, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree with, shall and may, from
time to time and at all times hereafter during the space of fourteen yeares
next ensueing the date of these psente, at his and their owne pper cost and
charges, erect, vse, teach, excise, and putt in practice his said new Invencon
so by him contrived and found out as aforesaid in any place or places within
our Kingdome of Ireland; and also shall and may receive, take, and enioy,
all the benefitte, pfitte, comodities, and advantages of and by the said new
Invenĉon to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to his and their owne pper
benefitt, vse, and vses, to have, hold, excise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the misses by these
Psente granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said John Hodges, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and to the full end and
terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these sente next
ensucing and fully to be compleate and ended. And to the end the said John
Hodges may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt and the sole vse and
excise of his said new Invencon, wee do by these psente, for vs, our heires,
and successors, streightly charge, require, and command all and every pson and
psons, body
politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or
condičon soever they be, within our said Kingdome of Ireland, that neither
they nor any of them, during the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly do vse, excise, or putt in practice the
said new Inventon so by the said John Hodges invented and found out
as aforesaid, nor do nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the said new
Invenčon or any materialle therevnto belonging, nor do nor shall make any
addičon therevnto or substracčon therefrom, whereby to Ptend themselves the
inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement
of the said John Hodges, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writeing vnder his or their hande and scales first had and obteyned in
that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted
on the offender or offenders therein for the contempt of this our royall
comand, and further to be answearable to the said John Hodges, his execu-
the vtmost rigor of the law,
And further, wee do by these
tors, administrators, and assignes, according to
for his and theire damages thereby susteyned.
Psente, for vs, our heires, and successors, give and grant vnto the said John
Hodges, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority
that he, they, and every of them, his, their, and every of theire deputies,
agent, and servante, having first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe froni the
Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King Bench of our said Kingdome
of Ireland for the time being, with the assistance of a constable or other

page_text: lawful officer (aswell within liberties as without), at convenient times in the
day during the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, shall and may make
search in any place or places within our said Kingdome of Ireland where
there shall be iust cause of suspicon for discovering and finding out of all
such pson or psons as shall imitate, make, or vse, or cause to be imitated,
made, or vsed, within our kingdome aforesaid, the said new Invencon so by
the said John Hodges found out and invented as aforesaid, that so such
offender may be pceeded against and punished according to the vtmost rigor
of the law. And further, wee do by these our Letters Patente, for vs, our
heires, and successors, will, authorize, require, and command all and singular
justices of the peace, mayors, sherifle, bayliffe, constables, headboroughes,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires, and suc-
cessors, now and for the time being, whom it may concerne, that they and
every of them respectively be from time to time, during the terme hereby
granted, in their respective offices, and according to their and every of their
best skill and endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John
Hodges, his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, agente, and
servante, in and by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the execucon of the severall
powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee do
by these sente, for vs, our heires, and successors, will and command that our
said respective officers and ministers before iconed, or any of them, do not
nor shall at any time hereafter, during the terme hereby granted, in anywise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said John Hodges, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, deputies, agent, or servante, in or aboute the vse or excise of
the aforesaid Invencon, or any part thereof, or any thing relating thereto.
Provided alwaies, that these cur Letters Patente are and shall be vpon this
condicon, that if at any time during the said terme of fourteene yeares
hereby granted, it shall be made appeare to ys, our heires, or successors, or
any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary
to law or Piudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the
Inventon before menconed is not a new Invenčon as to the publick vse and
excise of the same, and not invented and found out by the said John Hodges
as aforesaid; then vpon significacon and declaracon of such Piudice or
inconvenience, to be made by vs, our heires, or successors, vnder our or their
signet or privy seale, or by the Lorde or others of our or their Privy Council,
or any sixe or more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intente and pur-
poses, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding.

page_text: Provided also, that these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein con-
teyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said John Hodges, his executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate
any invenĉon or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore invented or
found out by any other of our subiect whatsoever, and publickly excised
within our kingdome aforesaid, to whom wee or any of our royall predeces-
sors have already granted the like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole
excise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Hodges, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other
pson, and psons to whom the like Letters Patente have been granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall Invencons, by them
respectively found, out, according to the true meancing of such Letters Patent
and of these sente. And lastly, wee do hereby, for vs, our heires, and
successors; grant vnto the said John Hodges, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patente or the inrollment thereof, shall
be and continue in and by all thing good, valid, and effectuall in the lawe,
according to the true meaneing of the same, notwithstanding the not full and
!certaine describeing or menconing of the said Invenĉon, or of the materialle,
'wayes, or meanes of vseing or exciseing the same, or of the certaine vse
or benefitt thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or impfeccon in these
Psente, or any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in
anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westin, the Six-and-twentieth