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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>OBJECTIONS Again&s;t Pa&s;&s;ing the BILL, As De&s;ired by the <HI>Proprietors of the Lights</HI> Now generally U&s;ed.</HEAD>
<P>THE Patent under which they pretend to Claim, is granted to <HI>Edmund Windus,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The&s;e dre the Words of their Patent.</NOTE> Gent. on his Petition, That he with great La|bour and Expence had obtain'd a Di&s;covery of a new Experi|ment, for the great and durable Encrea&s;e of Light, by extraordi|nary Gla&s;&s;es and Lamps; very u&s;eful for the great Improvement of Ship-Lanthorns, Light-hou&s;es: di&s;per&s;ing of Light in Mines, and other nece&s;|&s;ary and like profitable U&s;es which require Light and Heat: And therefore craves a Patent for 14 Years: Which is accordingly granted.</P>
<P>In which Patent, are the&s;e Clau&s;es: That if the Invention thereby granted be not a new Invention: Or if <HI>Windus</HI> be not the fir&s;t Inventor: Then the Patent to be void.</P>
<P>That this Patent is void in Law, is mo&s;t evident: For the&s;e pre&s;ent Pro|prietors have &s;ugge&s;ted in <HI>Chancery,</HI> That the Patent was granted to <HI>Windus</HI> in tru&s;t for one <HI>Samuel Hutchin&s;on:</HI> (as in truth it was.) And in truth the&s;e Gla&s;&s;es u&s;ed by <HI>Hutchin&s;on,</HI> and now by the Proprietors, are not a new Invention: Such Gla&s;&s;es for Light having been u&s;ed in Lanthorns, above Twenty Years &s;ince; as will be fully proved if required. And to convince the World that this Patent is void, &s;everal Tin-men &s;et up the Proprietors own Lights again&s;t them, with|out any Variation. And the Proprietors brought Actions again&s;t them on their Patent. To which the Tin-men appeared and pleaded: And the Proprietors dur&s;t not proceed in their Suit.</P>
<P>And the Per&s;ons who now oppo&s;e the Proprietors, will pre&s;ently try with them the Validity of the Patent, whether good in Law, or not. And have gi|ven the Proprietors a fair Opportunity &s;o to do, by having now &s;et up a new and better Light of Convex-Gla&s;s in the City of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>That the Proprietors knowing the Invalidity of their Patent to &s;upport their Pretence to the Convex-Lights: (Of which they have not a Word in their Pa|tent:) Have in the Bill in&s;erted a Clau&s;e to exclude all others from u&s;ing Con|vex-Gla&s;&s;es. And if any body do u&s;e them, on Oath made thereof before a Ju&s;tice of the Peace, that he &s;hall grant his Warrant to have them taken down and delivered to the Proprietors.</P>
<P>Which is de&s;tructive and prejudicial to the Publick, tending to di&s;courage Ingenuity and Invention for the publick Good: (No great or publick Light be|ing to be made but by Convex-Gla&s;&s;es:) There being a much better Light for the Publick now Invented.</P>
<P>So it is al&s;o, e&s;tabli&s;hing a Monopoly of a pretended new Invention of Con|vex-Lights: Which was many Years in U&s;e before the Patent:</P>
<P>And executing by Act of Parliament a Patent void in Law, and which can|not by any means in Law be &s;upported.</P>
<P>The which was never done in any time before: It having been the Wi&s;dom of all Parliaments rather to condemn Monopolies, than e&s;tabli&s;h them.</P>
<P>And whereas it is pretended, That the Proprietors have been at great Charge about the &s;aid Lights, they have had about Nine Years already, and may have upon their Patent (if good) five Years more. But if naught, it is con|ceived they ought to have no Countenance.</P>
<P>For if a Man will lay out his Money in a bad Title, it is conceived a Parlia|ment will not make that Title good.</P>
<P><HI>For which REASONS it is humbly hoped the Bill &s;hall not pa&s;s.</HI></P>
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