WORKING FINE THREAD IN NEEDLEWORK. AFTER THE MANNER OF DRESDEN NEEDLEWORK, AND FOR ERECTING A MANUFACTURE OF THAT SORT IN THIS KINGDOM, SO AS TO BE OF PUBLICK UTILITY, AND ENABLE POOR GIRLS OF EIGHT YEARS OLD TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES WITHOUT BEING BURTHENSOME TO THE PARISHES TO WHICH THEY BELONG
Year: 1755

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FREDERICK WEISENTHAL, of the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iis most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the Twenty-ninth year of Ilis reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Frederick Weisenthal, my executors,
adiors, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said Charles Frederick
Weisenthal, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, should, within that
part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, use, exercise, and vend my new Invention for
"WORKING FINE THREAD IN NEEDLEWORK. AFTER THE MANNER OF DRESDEN
NEEDLEWORK, AND FOR ERECTING A MANUFACTURE OF THAT SORT IN THIS KINGDOM,
SO AS TO BE OF PUBLICK UTILITY, AND ENABLE POOR GIRLS OF EIGHT YEARS OLD
TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES WITHOUT BEING BURTHENSOME TO THE PARISHES TO
WHICH THEY BELONG;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a pro-
visoc obliging me, the said Charles Frederick Weisenthal, by a writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be inrolled in His Majestic's High Court of Chancery within three kalendar
months next and inediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had, may more at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Charles Frederick Weisenthal, do hereby describe my said Invention for
Working Fine Thread into Needlework after the Manner of Dresden Needle-
work, and declare that the same is to be performed in the manner herein-after
mentioned (that is to say):
The muslin being put into a frame, is to be worked with a needle that has
two points, one at the head, and the other point as a common needle, which is
to be worked by holding it with the fingers in the middle, so as not to require
turning.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Frederick Weisenthal, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September,
in the said twenty-ninth year of our Sovereign Lord George the
Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fifty-five.
Stampy the presen
HEN. ROOKE.
HEN. RAMINGER.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twentieth day of Septem-
ber, in the year above written, the above-named Charles Frederick Wiesenthal
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the aforesaid Writing, and all and every matter and thing therein contained and
specified, in form above said. And also the said Writing was stampt according
to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the lates
King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of September, in the year above written.