A MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR WORKING AND MAKING ALL KINDS OF LACE, AND ALSO A MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR WORKING AND MAKING ALL KINDS OF NETS FROM VARIOUS MATERIALS AND OF EVERY KIND AND FABRICK, AND WHICH SAID, MACHINES OR ENGINES THE SAID RESPECTIVE WORKS ARE DONE WITH MORE EXPEDITION AND AT A LESS EXPENCE THAN BY THE METHODS NOW PRACTISED
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
BROTHERSTON, of the Town of Leith, in that part of Great Britain called
Scotland, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of June, in the fourteenth year
of His Majesty's reign, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Brotherston,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Peter Brotherston, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself or them-
selves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others.
as I, the said Peter Brotherston, my executors, adñiors, or assigns, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in all the Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention
of "A MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR WORKING AND MAKING ALL KINDS OF LACE, AND
ALSO A MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR WORKING AND MAKING ALL KINDS OF NETS FROM
VARIOUS MATERIALS AND OF EVERY KIND AND FABRICK, AND WHICH SAID, MACHINES
OR ENGINES THE SAID RESPECTIVE WORKS ARE DONE WITH MORE EXPEDITION AND
AT A LESS EXPENCE THAN BY THE METHODS NOW PRACTISED;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Peter Brotherston,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe

page_text: and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four callendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Peter Brotherston, do by these Presents declare that my said Invention of A
Machine or Engine for Working and Making all Kinds of Lace, and also a
Machine or Engine for Working and Making all Kinds of Nets from various
Materials and of every Kind and Fabrick, is described in the Plans thereof
references thereto hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth
day of October, in the fourteenth year of the reign of our said
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-four..
PETER BROTHERSTON. (L.B.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stampt), in the presence of
ALEX ROBERTSON.
ANT LAMBERT.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twelfth day of October,
in the year last mentioned, the afores Peter Brotherston came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of
his Inventions aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written, and in the Plans thereof and references
thereto hereunto annexed. 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 & Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of October, in the year above said.

page_text: Engine
4. The upright posts of the Machine, Loom or
The horizontal bars binding the posts together.
The arms fastened to the bars by skrew nails.
The upper hooks which are raised or lowered in the arm
The handle for turning the hooks upon their centre.
The director, which, moves horizontally in the arms.
Its handle for turning it also up or down on its centre
The pinions or Cranks with hooks and springs that turn
The sinkers, with their hooks.
The joints which connect them with the jacks.
The slay between each interval of which a jack passes.
A Comb through which they also pass and move on a bot
Another Comb, in which are placed the Catches.
The Catches, which, together with the Comb move up and a
A Locker for the Catches, to put them off the ends of the Jac
A stop to prevent the sinkers going too far down.
A cock to push up the Sacks,
one
byone as it passes.
The slur bar upon which the Cock moves.
The pressure which lifts the hooks of the pinions.
Support for the pulley of the cord that turns the pinions.
A bit of wood for the pinion-cord to pass through.
The slur wheel that drives the cock or slur.