Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
FRYER, of Rastrich, in the Parish of Halifax, in the County of York,
Woollen, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of May, in the fortieth year of His reign,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Fryer, together with Samuel Fryer, of Rastrich aforesaid, in
the Parish of Halifax aforesaid, in the County of York aforesaid, Woollen
Manufacturers, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that we, the said Robert Fryer and Samuel Fryer, our exors, adññiors, and
assigns, and every of them, by ourselves, or by. our deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as we, the said Robert Fryer and Samuel
Fryer, our exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time 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 His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to us, the said Robert Fryer and Samuel Fryer, our exors,
admiórs, and assigns, or any of them, should in our discretion seem meet, our

page_text: Invention of "A NEW MODE OF MANUFACTURING THE DOWN OR WOOL OF SEALS,
BY MIXING IT WITH LAMBS' OR SHEEP'S WOOL, AND PREPARING IT TO BE CARDED,
ROAVED, AND SPUN INTO YARN, WHICH YARN WILL BE CAPABLE OF BEING WOVE WITH
SILK, LINEN, WOOLLEN, OR COTTON, INTO A CLOTH PIT FOR GARMENTS;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us, the said Robert
Fryer and Samuel Fryer, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same, referenco being thereto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Fryer, do hereby declare that our said Invention consists in employing
the down or wool of seals in the making and manufacturing of cloths of
different kinds, and fabricks for general uses and purposes; and that the same
is performed in the following manner :-
The yarn or thread used or employed in making and manufacturing such
cloths is made by mixing, blending, or incorporating seals' wool in carding,
roaving, and spinning the same with sheep's or lambs' wool, either in the
raw state of the materials or after either or all the articles have been carded
or scribled, or by carding, roaving, and spinning seals' wool alone, and after-
wards mixing, blending, or incorporating the same, in the course of warping
or of weaving, by disposing or introducing therewith threads or yarn spun
from lamb or sheep's wool, flax, silk, or cotton, either into the warp, or weft,
woof, or shoot, or by entwining or twisting two or more threads together
of the above respective articles, that is to say, by twisting one or more threads
made from seals' wool, or from a mixture of seals' wool with any or either of
the before-mentioned articles, along with one or more threads of woollen,
silk, linen, or any kind of yarn now in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Fryer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the fortieth 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, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred:

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1800, the aforesaid Robert Fryer came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.