"A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING COTTON, SHEEP'S WOOL, AND FLAX FOR THE LOOM MATERIAL, AND NECESSARY ARTI- CLES USED IN THE MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF COTTON, WOOLLEN, AND LINEN CLOATHS IN A MUCH BETTER, MORE EXPERT, AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN THE SAME WHERE THEN DONE,
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, CHARLES
LEWIS MORDAUNT, of Halsall, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eleventh day of August, in the eighteenth year of His
said Majesty's reign, after reciting that the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt had
by his petition humbly represented that he had by great study and at a con-
siderable expence found out and invented "A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING
COTTON, SHEEP'S WOOL, AND FLAX FOR THE LOOM MATERIAL, AND NECESSARY ARTI-
CLES USED IN THE MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF COTTON, WOOLLEN, AND LINEN
CLOATHS IN A MUCH BETTER, MORE EXPERT, AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN THE
SAME WHERE THEN DONE," and which, he apprehended, would be of great publick
utility, and therefore prayed that His Majesty would be most graciously
pleased to grant unto him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use and
benefit of the said Invention, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided, did give and grant unto the said Charles Lewis
Mordaunt, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Charles Lewis.
Mordaunt, his executors, adññiors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself
and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt, his executors, adors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term of years therein and herein-before expressed,

page_text: should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention
within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Charles
Lewis Mordaunt, his executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should, in
his or their discretions, seem meet, and that he, the said Charles Lewis Mor-
daunt, his executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein and herein-before mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-
before granted unto the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt, his executors, admors,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date thereof next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be complete
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained, among other things, a proviso, that if the said
Charles Lewis Mordaunt should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to
be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next
and immediately after the date thereof, that then the same recited Patent, and
all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt doth, by this instru-
ment in writing under his hand and seal, and intended to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery, pursuant to the proviso in the said recited Letters
Patent, declare that his Invention is of the nature and description, and to be
performed in manner following, that is to say :-
The nature and use of the said Invention is to make cardings of wool,
cotton, or flax prepared on a waved or other cylinder into rovings, and from
thence into twist and weft fit for the loom, and the same is to be performed by
three different machines in manner following, that is to say:-In the first
machine cardings are placed in a can or other proper vessel, and from thence
by counteracting pullies drawn through a brass instrument called a fly, which
consists of several wheels and rolling pullies with different movements, and the
cardings passing through the same are lengthened, and after passing over a
reel of duction the same are receiveived upon a bobbing, and become wavings
fit for the making of weft by the, next machine, and the whole are set on

page_text: motion by one wheel, which turns the several movements.
The second
machine is for making the wavings so made as aforesaid into weft. The
bobbing with the waving thereon is placed in a like brass fly, and by counter-
acting pullies the delivery of the thread regulated and drawn through the fly,
and made into weft by being received upon a bobbing of duction, and this is
also set on motion by turning one wheel, which is connected with the whole.
The third machine is for making of cardings into twist, and the same is
performed by placing a can or vessel of cardings over two of the like brass
flies, and after passing through the first fly the carding receives a successive
opperation of twist and duction by the two flies moving in two contrary
directions, and from thence received into the lower fly, which fly has the same
counteracting movements as the upper fly, and further prepares the thread for
completion on the bobbing of the spindle placed below both flies, and this third
machine is also set on motion by turning one wheel connected with the whole.
That the said three several principal wheels to each machine are intended to
turn a great number of flies, by which any number of threads may be drawn,
reduced, or spun at the same time, and the said three several wheels to each
set of flies are intended to be set in motion by a large wheel intended to be
carried about by water.
In witness whereof, the said Charles Lewis Mordaunt hath hereunto set
his hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of September, in the eighteenth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-eight.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the First day of October, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Charles Lewis Mordaunt came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the year above mentioned.