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ANOTHER LIST, 1601

(Townshend, pp. 243-244.)

1. To Sir Henry Neville, the patent for ordnance.

2. To Simon Farmer, the patent for lists, shreds, and horns to be

transported.

3. To Henry Noell, the patent for stone pots and bottles.*

4. To Bryan Annesley, the patent for steel.

5. To Elizabeth Matthews, the patent of oil of blubber.

6. To Richard Drake, the patent for aqua composita and aqua vitae.

7. To Michael Stanhope, the patent for Spanish wools.

8. To Thomas Cornwallis, a license to keep unlawful games.

9. To Mr. Carre, a patent for brewing of beer to be transported. 10. To John Spillman, a patent to make paper.

11. To Edward Darcy, a patent for cards.

12. To Mr. John Pakington, a patent for starch. 13. To Sir Walter Raleigh, a patent for wines.

*The patent for bottles was lately made void by judgment in the Exchequer.

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*NOTE OR CATALOGUE SHOWED, ONLY ALTERED IN SOME PLACES FOR ORDER'S SAKE." 1601

(D'Ewes, p. 650.)

To Sir Henry Neville the patent for ordnance.
To Sir Jerome Bowes the patent for glasses.

To Simon Farmer the patent for lists, shreds, and horns to be transported.

To Sir Henry Noell the patent for stone pots and bottles.
To Bryan Annesley the patent for steel.

aqua vitae.

To Elizabeth Matthews the patent for oil of blubber.
To Richard Drake a patent for aqua composita and
To Michael Stanhope a patent for Spanish wools.
To Thomas Cornwallis the license to keep unlawful games.

To William Carre a patent for brewing of beer to be transported.

To John Spillman a license to make paper.

To Edward Darcy a patent for cards.

To Sir John Pakington the patent for starch.

To Sir Walter Raleigh the patent for tin.

To William Wade, Esq. the making of sulphur, brimstone, and oil. To James Chambers a license for tanning.

To William Watkins and James Roberts a license to print almanacs. To Richard Welsh to print the History of Cornelius and [sic]

Tacitus.

To John Norden to print Speculum Britanniae.

To certain merchants to traffic.

To William Allin to sow six hundred acres of ground with woad. To Mr. Hale to provide steel beyond the seas.

To Mr. Robert Alexander for anise-seeds.

To Edward Darcy a patent for steel.

To Valentine Harris to sow six hundred acres with woad.

To Sir Henry Singer touching the printing of school-books.

To Arthur Bassaney a license to transport six thousand calf-skins.

To Thomas Morley to print songs in three parts.
To Sir John Pakington for starch and ashes.

To Thomas Wight & Bonham Norton to print law-books.

And divers others of no great moment touching the transportation of iron and tin, the sowing of hemp and flax, the gashing of hides, the forfeiture of gig-mills, the making of mathematical instruments, the making of saltpeter, the printing of the Psalms of David, and touching fishers, pouldavies, and certain forfeitures.

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BACON'S SPEECH, NOVEMBER 20, 1601

(Townshend, pp. 231-2.)

For the prerogative royal of the prince: For my part, I ever allowed of it; and it is such as I hope I shall never see discussed. The queen, as she is our sovereign, hath both an enlarging and restraining liberty of her prerogative; that is, she hath power by her patents, to set at liberty things restrained by statute-law or otherwise: And by her prerogative, she may restrain things that are at liberty.

For the first: She may grant non obstantes, contrary to the penal laws; which truly, in my own conscience, are as hateful to the subject as monopolies. For the second: If any man out of his own wit, industry, or endeavor, find out anything beneficial for the commonwealth, or bring any new invention, which every subject of this realm may use; yet in regard of his pains, travail, and charge therein, her Majesty is pleased (perhaps) to grant him a privilege to use the same only by himself, or his deputies, for a certain time: This is one kind of monopoly. Sometimes there is a glut of things, when they be in excessive quantities, as of corn; and perhaps, her Majesty gives license to one man of transportation: This is another kind of monopoly. Sometimes there is a scarcity, or small quantity; and the like is granted also.

These, and divers of this nature, have been in trial, both in the Common-Pleas, upon actions of trespass, where if the judges do find the privilege good for the commonwealth, they will allow it, otherwise disallow it. And also, I know, that her Majesty herself, hath given command to her attorney-general, to bring divers of them (since the last Parliament) to trial in the Exchequer. Since which, fifteen or sixteen to my knowledge, have been repealed: Some upon her Majesty's own express command, upon complaint made unto her by petition; and some by quo warranto, in the Exchequer. But, Mr. Speaker (said he, pointing to the bill), this is no