❧ By the King.  

¶ The effect of certain Letters Patents granted to joseph Usher of London Clothworker, Warner Rich, and Godfrey de Vette, free Denizens, for the making and erecting of certain Engines.  
WHereas the said joseph Usher, Warner Rich, and Godfrey de Vette, having to the benefit of the Common weal, devised a new apt commodious and compendious form or kind of Engine or Instrument to be put in ure, driven and wrought withal by water of waterwork, or by wind, or by man or horse, for a quick and more speedy way and mean, then heretofore hath been used, aswell for the raising, mounting, and bringing of water for the sevice of whole Cities, Towns, private houses, and places, as for the emptying, cleansing, and draining of all overflowed, drowned or surrounded grounds, low valleys, or any standing Pools, Mere, Marshes or Mines underground, overflowed or annoyed with water; And of the same Engine or Instrument, having delivered to the Lord Chancellor of England a perfect Model that bringeth up water, there remaining, and to be disposed as the said Lord Chancellor should think fit; IT hath pleased his Majesty by his highness Letters Patents, sealed with his great Seal of England, to grant unto them and their Assigns, free Licence and Authority for the sole making, exercising and putting in ure within this Realm of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick, the said new kind or form of Engine or Instrument, whereof they are or shallbe the first Devisors or Inventors, and whereof they have exhibited a Model to the Lord Chancellor of England, AND his Majesty hath also thereby straightly prohibited all persons, That none of them do attempt the making, using or exercising of any the like Engine or Instrument, upon pain of forfeiture thereof, and to have the same wholly defaced, or overthrown and pulled down, and upon such other pains and penalties, as in the same Letters Patents are expressed.  
THESE are therefore to give notice and knowledge thereof, to all and every person & persons whatsoever, That none of them, other than the said joseph Usher, Warner Rich, and Godfrey de Vette, their Executors, Administrators, Deputies, servants, Factors, or Assigns, or some of them do at any time or times hereafter, contrary to the tenor of his Majesties, said Letters Patents, attempt, presume, go about, or take in hand by any manner of way, directly or indirectly, to make, devise, imitate, use, exercise, practice, put in ure or counterfeit by the Pattern, example, copy or fashion of the said Engine or Instrument, whereof the said josehp Usher, Warner Rich, and Godfrey de Vette, or any of them, are or shallbe the first Devisors or Inventors, any other the like Engine, Instrument or device whatsoever, that shall be by them devised, erected made, and set up as aforesaid.  
Given at Whitehall the one and twentieth day of September 1612, in the tenth year of Our Reign of Great Britain, France and Ireland. 
 God save the King.   

¶ The offer of the Engineers.  
ALso these are to give notice and knowledge to all and every Person and persons, that are or shall be willing to have the use and commodity of any such Engine or Instrument, That if they please to resort to the house called Goodman's house, near Goodman's fields in the Minories without Algate, London, or to the dwelling house of the said johseph Usher in Townes-end Lane, near Queene-hithe in London, There the said joseph Usher, Warner Rich, and Godfrey de Vette, or their Dequties, will be ready to confer and agree with any such person or persons, for the making and erecting of any such Engine or Instrument to be used as aforesaid. And upon composition or agreement in that behalf, will undertake to make such Engine or Instrument at their own charges, to be first tried and put in practice, and then to be paid for the same according to such agreement.  
And that all and everysuch person and persons, as for their better satisfaction shall be desirous to see an experiment of the said Engine or Instrument, if they please at any time or times hereafter, to resort to any the houses or places aforesaid, They the said Engineers or their Deputies, will show, or cause to be showed unto them a sight and trial of the same Engine or Instrument, which hath been already seen and tried by certain of the Right Honourable Lords of his majesties most Honourable Privy Counsel, and that hath been by them approved as commodious and necessary to be put in use within this Realm.  
God save the King.    

❧ Imprinted at London by ROBERT BARKER, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. ANNO 1612.