WORKING & WAVEING OF POINT LACES AFTER THE MANNER OF POINT DE VENICE & POINT DE ESPAYNE
Year: 1675

page_text: these psente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have been informed that our trusty & welbeloved WILLIAM
FANSHAW, Esqr, GABRIEL Cox, & REBECCA CROXTON, have invented & found
out the arte or way of "WORKING & WAVEING OF POINT LACES AFTER THE
MANNER OF POINT DE VENICE & POINT DE ESPAYNE," and have humbly besought
vs to grant them the benefitt of their said Invenčon for the terme of
fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that behalfe:
NOW KNOW YEE, that we, being willing to give all due incouragem³ to
the inventors of such arte as may bee of publique vse & benefit, of our especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, & meere moĉon have given & granted, and by
these sent, for vs, our heires & successors, doe give and grant vnto the
said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, and Rebecca Croxton, their executors,
administrators, & assignes, especiall licence, full & sole power, priviledge &
authority, that they, their deputies, servante, & workmen, and noe others, shall
& may, during the terme of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these
Presente, vse, practice, exercise, & enioy the said art or Invenčon within our
Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, & Towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, in such manner as to them shall seeme meet, and shall have & enioy
the sole benefitt & advantage arriseing thereby or by reason thereof, to have,
hold, and enioy the said licences, powers, priviledges, authorities, & other the
p misses hereby granted or intended to be granted to the said William
Fanshaw, Gabriel Cox, & Rebecca Croxton, their executors, admors, &

page_text: assignes, from the day of the date of these Presente, for and during the terme
of fourteen yeares from thence next ensueing, & fully to be complete & ended,
according to the statute in that case made and pvided, and to the end
the said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebacca Croxton, their exe-
cutors, adiñiors, & assignes, & every of them, may the better cnioy the full
& whole benefitt and the sole vsc & exercise of their said Invenĉon, aswell
within liberties as without, wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires
& successors, require and streightly charge & command all & every person &
persons, bodies politick & corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or addičon
they bee, that they nor any of them, during the terme of yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doe or shall vse or putt in practice the
said art or Invenčon by the said William Fanshaw, Gabriel Cox, & Rebecca
Croxton invented or contrived as aforesaid, nor doc or shall counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addičon thereto
or substracčon from the same, whereby to Ptend themselves the inven-
tors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebecca Croxton, their executors,
adinistrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their hande & seales first had
& obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our comand in that behalfe,
and further to be answercable to the said William Fanshaw, Gabriel Cox, &
Rebecca Croxton, their exccutors, adñiistrators, or assignes, according to
law & justice, for their damages thereby susteyned. And further, wee doe by
these sente, for vs, our heires & successors, give & grant vnto the said
William Fanshaw, Gabriel Cox, & Rebecca Croxton, their executors, adñiors,
.& assignes, full power & authority that hee, they, and every of them, his;
their, & every of their deputies, servant, or agent, or any of them, haveing
first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer aswell within liberties as without, vpon
request at convenient tymes in the day during the tyme aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places
where there shall be iust cause of suspicon for discovering & finding out of
all such persons as shall within the terme of fourteen yecres imitate or cause
to be imitated or shall vse or putt in practice the said art or Invenčon soc
by the said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebecca Croxton invented &
contrived as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be pceeded against &
punished according to their demeritte. And further, wee doe by these sente,
for vs, our heires & successors, will, authorize; & require all & singuler

page_text: justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffe, bayliffe, headboroughs, & all other
officers & ministers of vs, our heires & successors, for the time being, that
they and every of them respectively be, from time to time during the said
terme hereby granted, in their respective places, favoring, ayding, helping, &
assisting vnto the said William Fanshaw, Gabriel Cox, and Rebecca Croxton,
their executors, adññiors, & assignes, & to his & their deputy & deputyes,
servant and agente, in and by all thing in and about the accomplishment
of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and execučon of
the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or menčoned to bee
granted as aforesaid. And moreover, wee will and command by these psente,
for vs, our heires & successors, that our said officers or any of them doe not mo-
lest, trouble, or interrupt the said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebecca
Croxton, their executors, adiñors, or assignes, or his or their deputy, deputies,
servant, or agente, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the
said art or Invenčon in any wise: Provided, that these our Letters Patente, or
any thing herein conteyned shall not extend or be constued to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebecca Croxton,
their executors, admors, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
Invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons &
publickly exercised in this our Kingdome of England vnto whome wee have
already granted our like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said
William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, and Rebecca Croxton, their executors, adiñors,
& assignes, & all and singuler other person & persons to whome wee have
already graunted our like Letters Patent or priviledges as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse & practice their severall Invenĉons by them invented & found
out, according to the true intent & meaneing of the said severall & respective
Letters Patent and of these psente: Provided alsoe, that if att any tyme
during the said terme of fourteene yeares itt shalbe made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that
this grant is piudicall or inconvenient to our common weale, or that the said
art or Invenčon is not a new Invenčon of the said William Fanshaw, Gabriel
Cox, and Rebecca Croxton, or some or one of them, as to the vse & practice
thereof within our Kingdome of England, then, vpon significačon & declaračon
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett or privy
seale, or by the Lords & others of our Privy Councell, or six or more of them
for the tyme being, in writing vnder their hande, of such Piudice & incon-
venience, these our Letters Patente, and all thing therein conteyned, shall
forthwith cease, deterinine, & bee vtterly void to all intente & purposes, any-

page_text: thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. And lastly,
wee doe by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, grant vnto the said
William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, and Rebecca Croxton, their executors,
admiors, & assignes, that these our Letters Patent and the enrollment thereof
shalbe in and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, & effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent & meaneing of these psente, and shalbe taken,
construed, and adiudged most favorably & beneficially for the best benefitt &
advantage of the said William Fanshaw, Gabriell Cox, & Rebecca Croxton,
'their executors, adñiors, & assignes, aswell in all our Courte of Record as
elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing of the said art
or Invencon, or of the certaine vse & benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any
other defect, incertainties, or impfeccons in these psente conteyned, or any
act, statute, ordinance, pvision, pelamacon, or restraint to the contrary in
anywise notwithstanding.
T vitnos Sea
the King of W
مداء
Thirtieth day of Isl