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<HEAD>THE <HI>Letters Patents</HI> OF THE States-General, (Tran&s;lated out of DUTCH) GRANTED TO William Walcot, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Upon their Seeing the Demon&s;trations of his ART of Making <HI>Sea-Water</HI> Fre&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And <HI>Putrified-Water</HI> Whole&s;ome.</HEAD>
<P>THE States General of the United <HI>Netherlands,</HI> To all that &s;hall &s;ee the&s;e Pre&s;ents, or hear the &s;ame to be read, Greeting. We do make known, That we Received the Humble Petition to us pre&s;ented, in the Name, and on the behalf of <HI>William Walcot;</HI> purporting that he the Petitioner, by the U&s;e of his own Indu&s;try had found out a New Invention, not only to make Foul Stinking Water u&s;eful to be Drank, but al&s;o and principally Salt or Bracki&s;h Water come|ing out of the Sea, to make Sweet and Fre&s;h in a &s;hort time, in great quantities, for all Ships, in long Voyages at Sea; upon Rea&s;onable Termes; and to Make and U&s;e the &s;ame as occa&s;ion &s;hall be in Cities, Legers and Ships, or el&s;ewhere, where no Fre&s;h Water is to be had, and where Annoyed with Bracki&s;h or Stinking Water, for the Ea&s;e and Su&s;tenance of all Men, as well by Land, as upon the Water, upon any occa&s;ion what&s;oever: For the finding out of which Invention, the Petitioner had been at great Expence, and that therefore he ought to en|joy he Benefit thereof: And that he the Petitioner was informed that
<PB N="2" REF="2">&s;ome Ill De&s;igning Per&s;ons were endeavouring to Imitate his &s;aid Inven|tion, and &s;o to draw the Benefit from him. He thereupon de&s;iring our Octroy or Patent, and we having taken the &s;ame into our Con&s;ideration, and finding our &s;elves inclined to the Prayer of the Petitioner, Have Con&s;ented, Agreed, and Granted unto him; and by the&s;e Pre&s;ents do Con&s;ent, Agree, and Grant unto him, that he only, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> of all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">ers,</HI> Make, Practi&s;e, let at Work, and U&s;e, and al&s;o Sell the &s;aid New Invention for the Term of Fifteen Years now next En&s;uing, in the&s;e <HI>&V;nited Netherlands,</HI> A&s;&s;ociated Countreys, Cities, and Mem|bers thereof, for making Stinking Waters u&s;eful to be Drank, and Salt, or Bracki&s;h Water Sweet and Fre&s;h: And we therefore Prohibit all, and every the Inhabitants of the afore&s;aid <HI>&V;nited Netherlands,</HI> A&s;&s;o|ciated Countreys, Cities, and Members thereof, within the &s;aid Space of Fifteen Years next En&s;uing, the &s;aid New Invention in part, or in whole, either great or &s;mall, to Imitate, or cau&s;e to be Imitated; or being Imitated, to Import, Sell, or U&s;e the &s;ame, under forfeiture of all the Imitated Works and In&s;truments: And moreover, of the Sum of Three Thou&s;and <HI>Carolus Gilders;</HI> One Third Part thereof to go to the Officer who &s;hall Inform, another Third Part to the U&s;e of the Poor, and the remaining Third Part to the U&s;e of the Petitioner; Ordering and Commanding all Officers, Ju&s;tices, Magi&s;trates, and Inhabitants of the afore&s;aid Countreys, and all others whom it may Concern: that they permit and &s;uffer the &s;aid Petitioner to Enjoy and have the full Effect of this our Octroy, Con&s;ent, and Priviledge, any Let or Oppo|&s;ition to the contrary, notwith&s;tanding. He the Petitioner being never|thele&s;s bound by this our Octroy, to De&s;ire, and al&s;o Obtain an Octroy from &s;uch Province or Provinces, where he &s;hall Practice, and &s;et at Work his afore&s;aid New Invention.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the <HI>Hague</HI> under the Seal of the State, and the Firm of the Lord pre&s;iding in our A&s;&s;embly, and the Hand of our Secre|tary, <DATE>the 16<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>Septemb.</HI> 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>By the Command of the afore&s;aid Lords States General.
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<ITEM>L. S.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Francis Verbolt.</ITEM>
<ITEM>H. Fagell.</ITEM>
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<P>This Agrees in Sub&s;tance with the Original,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>London, <DATE>the 17<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>January,</HI> 1692.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM SCOREY,</HI> Not.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="3" REF="2">
<HEAD>THE <HI>Letters Patents</HI> OF THE States of Holland, (Tran&s;lated out of DUTCH) GRANTED TO William Walcot, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> Upon their Seeing the Demon&s;trations of his ART of Making <HI>Sea-Water</HI> Fre&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And <HI>Putrified-Water</HI> Whole&s;ome.</HEAD>
<P>THE States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Friezeland</HI> do make known, That Whereas <HI>William Walcot,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> hath &s;hewed unto Us, That he, Petitioner, by Long Study, and Unwearied Labour, and very great Charge in making In&s;truments for Tryal of Experiments, hath perfectly Attained the &s;o long &s;ought for Art of Making of all Impure, Stinking, as al&s;o Salt and Bracki&s;h Water, Sweet, Fre&s;h, and Whole&s;ome for the Service and Support of all Men, by great Quantities in a Short Time, and with &s;mall Charge; the Clear Proof whereof the Petitioner had &s;hewn in part to the Lords Deputies out of the A&s;&s;embly of Their High and Mightine&s;&s;es, and likewi&s;e to &s;eve|ral of Our A&s;&s;embly: But the further Serviceablene&s;s and Benefit, he will make more clearly appear, when the &s;ame &s;hall be brought under the Protection of our Grant (with Exclu&s;ion of all other Gain-&s;eeking Men) for a General U&s;e both by Sea and Land. The Petitioner humbly reque&s;ts that We would plea&s;e to take into Con&s;ideration the Re&s;olution of
<PB N="4" REF="3">their High and Mightine&s;&s;es, Dated the 11th of <HI>March,</HI> 1684. Exhibi|ted unto us, taken upon a Reque&s;t of the Petitioner delivered to their High and Mightine&s;&s;es, therein Offering, That if his Adver&s;ary Mr. <HI>Fitz-Gerald,</HI> with his Adherents, could in all things Out-do, and better Manage and Work the Petitioners Invention than the Petitioner, they might then obtain a Free Grant; and the Petitioner, notwith&s;tanding the Great Charges he hath been at, would be content to depart without Speaking of a Conjunction, or Asking a Grant. And fora&s;much as it did very Clearly Appear to their High and Mightine&s;&s;es, and to di|vers of Our A&s;&s;embly, by the Petitioners Grant from the King of <HI>England,</HI> Dated the 28th. of <HI>October,</HI> 1675, That the Petitioner was the True In|ventor, and the fir&s;t who had given Right Demon&s;tration thereof; and that his Opponents could as yet do no otherwi&s;e, than what in times of Nece&s;&s;ity many Years pa&s;t had been done in Ships, but was never Approved for Good or Whole&s;ome Water; In pur&s;uance whereof, the Petitioner de&s;ires the Benefit of the above-mentioned Re&s;olution: Al&s;o the Allowing of Two Grants for one and the &s;ame Invention, was a thing contrary to the General Cu&s;tom of Nations, and would hinder the Practice of Art, as appear'd in <HI>England,</HI> and at once di&s;courage the Petitioner to put forward in the &s;ame; for then his Opponents making them&s;elves Ma&s;ters thereof, would quickly Vaunt it over all the World, (of which the Petitioner hath already had &s;ome effect) and thru&s;t the Petitioner thereout; they as is now clearly manife&s;t had not the Art to make Salt-Water, &s;tanding, Foul and Stinking Water Whole&s;ome, or to do more or otherwi&s;e than any Ordinary Di&s;tiller, who might altoge|ther pretend to as much Right to a Grant as his Opponents: The Peti|tioner mo&s;t humbly Reque&s;ted, that we would plea&s;e to ob&s;erve that the whole Regard and De&s;ign of his Opponents appears here to be as they have done in <HI>England,</HI> to hinder the Petitioners pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">t De&s;ign of putting in Practice his Laudable Invention, (a Matter of &s;o great E&s;teem and Ser|viceablene&s;s for the Whole World) and to force him to a Complyance, whereby the Fruits of the Petitioners Study, Co&s;t, and Labour might be brought to them, as they had Endeavoured to do in <HI>England,</HI> by Great Expences of Money, and Powerful Intere&s;t of Friends; again&s;t which the Petitioner did not u&s;e &s;uch Means, but &s;ubmitted his Ca&s;e to the Ju&s;tice and High Wi&s;dom of Our Famous A&s;&s;embly, on which it now depends to keep alive this Serviceable Secret, that it may be made Pra|cticable in the World. The Premi&s;&s;es being con&s;idered, the Petitioner mo&s;t humbly prayed, That We would plea&s;e to be&s;tow on him a Grant, Prohibiting all others directly or indirectly, by Sea or by Land, to Serve them&s;elves therewith, and that for &s;o many Years as has been Granted by Us to other Finders out of Inventions of great Weight. Now, So it is, That We having Con&s;ider'd the afore&s;aid Ca&s;e and Reque&s;t; and being Inclined at the Petitioners Prayers, (after having taken the Judg|ment and Advice of the Lords Deputies of the City of <HI>Dort,</HI> and others by Us Appointed for Sea-Affairs and Manufactures) Have of Our Right Knowledge, Soveraign Power and Authority, Con&s;ented, Agreed and Granted, We do Con&s;ent, Agree, and Grant unto the Pe|titioner by the&s;e pre&s;ents, That he, during the Time of Fifteen Years next following, with his Heirs, Executors, and A&s;&s;igns, his &s;aid Inven|tion of making Foul, Stinking, and Salt-Water Sweet and Good, as well by Sea as on Land, within our &s;aid Countreys, Only &s;hall and may Make and U&s;e, and Cau&s;e to be Made, U&s;ed, and Practi&s;ed. Forbid|ding therefore all and every Per&s;on to make U&s;e of his &s;aid Invention, and Works, Directly or Indirectly, at Sea or on Land, or to Imitate the
<PB N="5" REF="3">&s;ame, or the &s;ame being Counterfeited, to bring or Sell the &s;ame in Our &s;aid Countreys, upon Forfeiture of the Imitated Works, and a Fine of Fifteen Hundred Gilders to be Forfeited over and above, to be Ap|plyed, One Third Part to the Informer, One Third Part to the Poor of the Place where it &s;hall happen, and the Remaining Third Part to the Petitioner, his Heirs, Executors, and A&s;&s;igns. And to the End, the Petitioner may Enjoy this Our Con&s;ent and Grant, as he ought; We Charge all and every, Whom it may Concern, that they may Permit and Suffer the Petitioner peaceably, quietly, and fully to U&s;e and Enjoy what is here contained, any thing to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Done at the <HI>Hague</HI> under Our Great Seal here Appending, <DATE>the Fourteenth of <HI>September,</HI> in the Year of Our Lord and Saviour, One Thou&s;and, Six Hundred, Eighty Four.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED>Ga&s;p. Fagel.</SIGNED>
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<P>By Ordinance of the States,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Simon Van Beaumont.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>It Agreeth in Sub&s;tance with the Original: Which I Te&s;tifie,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>London,</HI> <DATE>16th. <HI>January,</HI> 1692.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM WIGHTMAN,</HI> Not.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="7" REF="4">
<HEAD>THE <HI>Letters Patents</HI> OF THE States of Zeeland, (Tran&s;lated out of DUTCH) GRANTED TO William Walcot, <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> For the Encouragement of his ART of Making <HI>Sea-Water</HI> Fre&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And <HI>Putrified-Water</HI> Whole&s;ome.</HEAD>
<P>THE States of the Land and Earldom of <HI>Zeeland,</HI> do make known, That we having &s;een the Octroy Granted by the High and Mighty Lords, States General of the <HI>&V;nited Netherlands,</HI> and of the Lords States of <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Frieze|land,</HI> to <HI>William Walcot,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR> for the Space of Fifteen Years, all Salt, Bracki&s;h, and Stinking Water, Fre&s;h, Clear, Sweet, and Sound, to make; but chiefly Salt and Bracki&s;h Water coming out of the Sea, in a &s;hort Time, and great Quantities, for all Ships in long Voyages at Sea, upon Rea&s;onable Terms, to make Sweet and Fre&s;h Water; and as occa&s;ion &s;hall &s;erve to cau&s;e the &s;ame to be made for, and u&s;ed in Cities, Legers, and Ships, or el&s;ewhere, where no Fre&s;h-Water can be obtained, and where Annoyed with Salt, Bracki&s;h, or Stinking Water, for the Ea&s;e and Support of all Per&s;ons, as well by Land, as upon the Water, upon any Occa&s;ion what&s;oever; for the finding out of which Invention, great Charges had been Expended, &s;o that of Right he ought to Enjoy the Benefit thereof; but the Petitioner being Informed that
<PB N="8" REF="5">&s;ome Ill De&s;igning Per&s;ons Endeavoured to Imitate his afore&s;aid Inven|tion, and &s;o to deprive him of the Benefit of the &s;ame; He therefore de&s;ired Our Octroy: Which having con&s;ider'd, So it is, That we finding our &s;elves inclinable to the Prayer of the afore&s;aid Petitioner, have Con|&s;ented, Agreed, and Granted unto him; and do Con&s;ent, Agree, and Grant, by the&s;e Pre&s;ents, That he Only, <HI>with Exclu&s;ion of all others,</HI> for the Space of Fifteen Years next En&s;uing, in this <HI>Province,</HI> the afore|&s;aid New Invention of Making Stincking-Water fit to be Drank, and Salt or Bracki&s;h, Sweet and Fre&s;h Water, may Make, Exerci&s;e, Set at Work, and U&s;e; al&s;o Sell, and Di&s;po&s;e of the &s;ame. Forbidding all and every the Inhabitants within the afore&s;aid time of Fifteen Years, next En&s;uing, the &s;aid New Invention, in Whole, or in Part, Great, or Small, to Imitate, or cau&s;e to be Imitated, or U&s;ed; or Imitated el&s;e|where; to be Brought, Sold, or U&s;ed in this Province, under Forfeiture of all the Imitated Works and In&s;truments. And moreover, the Sum of Fifteen Hundred <HI>Gilders;</HI> One Third to go to the Officer who &s;hall Inform, One Third to the Poor of the Place where the Matter &s;hall hap|pen, and the remaining Third Part to the Petitioner. We Charging and Commanding all, and every one, whom it may Concern, That they Permit and Suffer the Petitioner, Peaceably, Quietly, and Entirely, to Enjoy and U&s;e the Contents of this Our Octroy, all Impediments to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<CLOSER>With a Hanging Seal. <DATELINE>Thus done at the Court of <HI>Zeeland,</HI> at <HI>Middlebrough,</HI> <DATE>the 30<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>April,</HI> 1685.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>By Command of the afore&s;aid Lords States.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>V. Verheye.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>This Agrees in Sub&s;tance with the Original,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>London,</HI> <DATE>the 17th. of <HI>January,</HI> 1692/3.</DATE></DATELINE> <SIGNED><HI>WILLIAM SCOREY,</HI> Not.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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