A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GOODS WITH COTTON WHOOPS, OR WOOLLEN, LINNEN, OR COTTON WARPS, AND DRESSING SUCH GOODS WITH A LONG SHAG ON THEIR SURFACE
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD.
WILLIAMS, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman; sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said Richard Williams did, by his Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
he had invented and found out "A NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GOODS
WITH COTTON WHOOPS, OR WOOLLEN, LINNEN, OR COTTON WARPS, AND DRESSING
SUCH GOODS WITH A LONG SHAG ON THEIR SURFACE," and that he apprehended
the said Invention would be of great utility; therefore, and in regard he was
the first inventor thereof, and that the same had not been used or put in
practice by any other person whomsoever, to the best of his kn wledge or
belief, he most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant to him, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use and benefit of bis said Invention, within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations
abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case
made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement.
to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good, was most:
graciously pleased to condescend to the said Petitioner's request, and there-
fore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth
day of October, in the twelfth year of His Majestie's reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant, for Himself,

page_text: His heirs and successors, unto him, the said Richard Williams, his exccutors,
adiñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Richard Williams, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, and by his or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Richard
Williams, his executors, administrators, 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend his said Invention within that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and. Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in
such manner as to him, the said Richard Williams, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, should, in his or their discretions, seem
meet, and that he, the said Richard Williams, his executors, administrators, and
assigns should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, 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 mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto the said Richard Williams, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
for and during and unto the full end and terme of fourteen from the date
of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that if he, the said
Richard Williams, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
his Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters 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 Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoc, he, the said
Richard Williams, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows, that
is to say:
The goods are to be fabricated in the loom with one or more threads of

page_text: warp in each reed of the slay, made either with linnen, cotton, or wool, as the
strength or other circumstances may require, to be wove from one quarter to
sixteen quarters of a yard wide, plain or twill'd, with woofs made of single or
double cotton or woollen yarns, seperately or united, as the. thickness or other
quality requir'd may indicate, and to be finished by drawing on then a long
shag with casils or wire cards, in imitation of bed blanketting, or duffils, coat-
ings, to answer the purposes of those different manufactures.
In witness whereof, he, the said Richard Williams, hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, the Tenth day of February, in the thirteenth 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 so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-three.
JOHN BOULGER.
JOHN CUMBERBATCH THOMAS.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Tenth day of February, in the year
last above said, the said Richard Williams came before the said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the Instrument 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 England, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Tenth day of February, in the year last above written.