AN INTIRE NEW, TWISTING MACHINE, FOR THE MANUFACTURING AND MAKING OF BRUSSELLS POINT LACE, AND OF ALL OTHER OPEN WORKED LACE MADE OF SILK, COTTON, THREAD, AND WORSTED
Year: 1781

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MORRIS, of the Town and County of Nottingham, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King. George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Fifth day of March, in the twenty-first year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said John Morris, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said John Morris, my executors, adiñors, and assugns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said John Morris, my executors, admors, or
assigns, should 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, within that part of Great Britain called.
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "AN INTIRE NEW, TWISTING MACHINE, FOR THE MANUFACTURING
AND MAKING OF BRUSSELLS POINT LACE, AND OF ALL OTHER OPEN WORKED
LACE MADE OF SILK, COTTON, THREAD, AND WORSTED," in such manner as
to me, the said John Morris, my executors, admors, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said John Morris,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to
time-coming,-growing, 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 me, the said John Morris, my executors,
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page_text: admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately, ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statutes in such case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Morris, by an instrument in 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
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of, the said 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 proviso, I, the said
John Morris, do hereby declare that the Paper Writing hereunto annexed,
marked with letter A, contains a true and particular description of my said
new-invented twisting machine divided in four distinct Drawings, at the bottom
of which are four seperate explanations of each Drawing, and of the method
in which my said Invention is to be performed. And the said Drawings and
explanation are accurate and true, to the best of my knowledge, as I have
carefully compared and examined the same with the original model of my said
new-invented twisting machine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nine-
teenth day of June, in the Twenty-first 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, &c., and in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.