A CERTAIN NEW COMPOSICON OR MIXTURE (WITHOUT ANY SORT OF CLAY) FOR MAKING OF WHITE WARE, WHICH IS FORMED AND MOULDED IN A METHOD HITHERTO NOT KNOWN OR PRACTISED, AND FAR SURPASSES THE FINEST OF DELF WARE, OR ANY OTHER SORT MADE IN ANY OTHER SORT MADE IN ANY PART OF EUROPE, AND ALSO BY THEIR NEW METHOD OF IMPRESSION MAKE THE FABRICK OF EARTHENWARE OF A MORE EXQUISITE SHAPE THAN THE PRESENT METHOD OF TURNING COULD EVER PERFORM OR ARRIVE TO, BY WHICH MEANES OUR SUBIECTS WILL BE ABLE TO EXCELL ALL EUROPE, AND NOT ONLY EMPLOY A GREAT MANY OF OUR OWN POOR, TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF TRADE AND THE MANUFACTURES OF OUR KINGDOM,BUT ALSO PREVENT THE CLANDESTINE RUNNING OF 'DELF WARE, &C., FROM FOREIGN PARTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN
Year: 1722

page_text: WEVENATE, DY
come, greeting.
Bruc
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD HOLT and SAMUEL LONDON,
Gentlemen, have by their peticon humbly represented vnto vs that they had
by many years labour and experience, and at great expence and charges,
found out and invented "A CERTAIN NEW COMPOSICON OR MIXTURE (WITHOUT
ANY SORT OF CLAY) FOR MAKING OF WHITE WARE, WHICH IS FORMED AND MOULDED
IN A METHOD HITHERTO NOT KNOWN OR PRACTISED, AND FAR SURPASSES THE FINEST
OF DELF WARE, OR ANY OTHER SORT MADE IN ANY OTHER SORT MADE IN ANY PART
OF EUROPE, AND ALSO BY THEIR NEW METHOD OF IMPRESSION MAKE THE FABRICK
OF EARTHENWARE OF A MORE EXQUISITE SHAPE THAN THE PRESENT METHOD OF
TURNING COULD EVER PERFORM OR ARRIVE TO, BY WHICH MEANES OUR SUBIECTS WILL
BE ABLE TO EXCELL ALL EUROPE, AND NOT ONLY EMPLOY A GREAT MANY OF OUR OWN
POOR, TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF TRADE AND THE MANUFACTURES OF OUR KINGDOM,
BUT ALSO PREVENT THE CLANDESTINE RUNNING OF 'DELF WARE, &C., FROM FOREIGN
PARTS INTO GREAT BRITAIN;" and having humbly pray'd vs to grant them our
Royal Letters Patente for the sole right and vse of their said new invented
composition, and said new way of forming and moulding it, for the term of
fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in such case made and provided,
wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which may
be for the publick vse and benefit, are graciously pleased to condescend to
their request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs,

page_text: our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Richard Holt and
Samuel London, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Richard Holt and
Samuel London, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, by themselves or by their deputy and deputies, servante or agente, or
such others as they, the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of yeares herein expressed,
shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and vend their said new invented
composicon or mixture (without any sort of clay) for making of white ware,
and their said new way of forming and moulding it, as above described,
within that part of our kingdome of Great Britain called England, our do-
minion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to
them, the said Richard Holt and Samel London, their executors, admini-
strators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet,
and that they, the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the whole profit,
benefit, cömodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrew-
ing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the full term
of yeares hercin menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vntill the full end and term of
fourteen yeares from the date of these presente next and imediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case made
and provided; and to the end that the said Richard Holt and Samuel London,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have
and enioy the full benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention,
according to our gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all
and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our
subiccts whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or condicon
soever they be, within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance
of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly
do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same,
50 attained vnto by the said Richard Holt and Samuel London as aforesaid,
nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall

page_text: make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder their hands and seales, first had and obtained in
that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal comand, and further
to-be answerable to the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their.
executors, administrators, and assignes according to law, for their damages
thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee do by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and comand all and singular our justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other.
officers and 'ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, for the
time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall, at any time hereafter
during the said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, or their deputies, servants or agents, in or about
the due and lawfull making, vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or
anything relating thereto; provided always, and these our Letters Patents
are and shall be vpon this condition, that if, at any tiine during the said term
hereby granted, it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to
law or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said
Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof,
within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not
invented and found out by the said Richard Holt and Samuel London as
aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaration thereof, to be made by vs,
our heires and successors, vnder' our or their signet or privy seal, or by the
lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intente and purposes, anything herein-before con-
tained to the contrary in anywise. notwithstanding.; provided also, that theso
our Letters Patents, or anything herein. contained, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Richard Hold and
Samuel London, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse or imitate any inveucon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly
vsed- or exercised within that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain

page_text: called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed
aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already
granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to
whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as afore
said, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inventions by them invented
and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respec-
tive Letters Patente and of these presents: provided likewise nevertheless,
and these our Letters Patents are upon this express condition, that if the
said Richard Holt and Samuel London, or the executors or administrators
of them, or any of them, or any person or persons which shall or may at
any time or times hereafter, during the continuance of this grant, have or
claime any right, title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or to the power,
priviledge and authority, of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invencon
hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended
tranferr or assignment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or
shares of the benefit or profit thereof thereof, or shall declare any trust
thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or
shall open or cause to be opened any book or books for public subscriptions
to be made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order
to the raising any sume or sūmes of money vnder pretence of carrying on
the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall, by him or themselves,
or his or their agent or servante, receive any sume or sūmes of money
whatsoever, of any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of
five, for such or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume or act as a
corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these our Letters Patente or
the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted into any number of shares
exceeding the number of five, or shall commit or do or procure to be comitted
or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, during such time as such
person shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said
premisses, which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain
Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of our reign, entituled (an Act
for the better securing certain powers and priviledges intended to be granted
by His Maiestio by two charters for assurance of ships & merchandizes at
sea, and for lending money vpon botomry, and for restraining several
extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein menconed,) if these our
Letters Patents had not been granted; or in case the said power, priviledge,
or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust for

page_text: more than the number of five persons or their representatives at any one
time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the single persons
whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be intituled to
in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said
cases, these our Letters Patente, and all the liberties, priviledges and advan-
tages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease determine, and become
void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Richard Holt and Samuel London, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or
the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
firm, valid, sufficient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning hereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Richard
Holt and Samuel London, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as
well in all court of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of
our said: kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnessa, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Thirteenth
day or June.
By Writt of Privy Seal.