Description | [16 Jas I] i) John Robinson of Westminster, Middlesex, Esq. ii) Edward, Lord Dudley
Patent for making iron ('licence and authoritie to melt produce and make Iron stone or Iron Ewre [ore] into Iron...') in Dudley and Kingswinford, Staffs. Recites Letters Patent 3 Apr 1613, granting i) power to 'make worke produce and acquire heate melt fyre... and bring forth Iron and diverse other mettalls and materialls... and to make and provide Furnaces fyerworkes blomeries', etc. throughout the realm of James I.
Royalty specified.
Signed, sealed [red wax] and witnessed.
Endorsed: '16/20' |