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the Profit, Benefit, and Advantage which shall any ways arise, 

 happen, or accrue by means or reason of the aforesaid Engine and 

 new Invention. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, 

 That one full tenth part of the accruing Benefit thereof (without 

 deduction or abatement for or by reason of any Charges or Expences 

 whatsoever) shall be paid and answered, and accounted for by the 

 said Edward Marquess of Worcester, his Executors, Administrators, 

 and Assigns, for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, into His 

 Majesties publick receipt of Exchequer yearly, and every year at the 

 Feasts of Saint Michael the Arch-angel and the Annunciation of the 

 Blessed Virgin Mary, during the said Term of Ninety nine years, 

 the first payment to be made at the Eeast of Saint Michael the 

 Arch-angel, which shall be in the year of our Lord God, One thou 

 sand six hundred sixty and three ; And be it further Enacted by the 

 Authority aforesaid, that if any Person or Persons whatsoever within 

 his Majesties Kingdom of England & Dominion of Wales, and Town 

 of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Dominions and Territories there 

 unto belonging, do, or shall at any time hereafter, during the said 

 term, Counterfeit, Imitate, put in practice, or erect the said Water- 

 commanding Engine (without the consent and License first had and 

 obtained in writing from the said Edward Marquess of Worcester, 

 or his Assignes) That it shall, and may be lawful to and for the said 

 Edward Marquess of Worcester, or his Assignes, with his, or their 

 Agents or Work-men by a Warrant from the Lord Chief Justice, or 

 from any two Justices of Peace within the respective County or 

 Liberty, where such search shall be made, and assisted by the 

 Constable or Constables neer adjacent, to enter into, or upon the 

 said place or places where the said Work or Engine shall be made or 

 erected ; And upon discovery of any such Engine, to proceed against 

 the said Person or Persons by Action, Information or Indictment ; 

 and after Conviction thereof in due course of Law in any Assizes, or 

 publique Sessions of the Peace, or any of the Courts at Westminster, 

 or any other His Majesties Courts of Record in any City, Burrough, 

 or Town Corporate, or in any Stanary Court, or Jurisdiction of Lead- 

 mines ; Then such Engines to be forfeited, and seized to and for the 

 use of the said Edward Marquess of Worcester, his Executors, Ad 

 ministrators and Assignes respectively : And further, that the said 

 Actor or Actors, Contriver or Contrivers thereof, and every of them, 

 shall lose, and forfeit Eive pounds of lawful Money of England an 

 Hour for every Hour, he or they shall be Convicted, by one or more 

 credible Witnesses upon Oath, to use the same, after such Convic 

 tion without the consent and License of the said Edward Marquess 



