To PEINT VPON OYL CLOATH, AS ALSO VPON ALL SORT OF LEATHER, GOLD AND SILVER FLOWERS, AND OTHER FIGURES IN ALL SORT OF COLOURS, WHICH SAID FLOWERS AND FIGURES SO PRINTED WILL ENDURE WETT AND DRY WEATHER, AND WILL LAST AS LONG AS THE STUFFE ITSELFE,
Year: 1694

page_text: Psente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS SIMON THENNEMANS, of London, Merchant, hath by his humble
peticon repsented vnto vs that he hath invented "How To PEINT VPON OYL
CLOATH, AS ALSO VPON ALL SORT OF LEATHER, GOLD AND SILVER FLOWERS, AND
OTHER FIGURES IN ALL SORT OF COLOURS, WHICH SAID FLOWERS AND FIGURES SO
PRINTED WILL ENDURE WETT AND DRY WEATHER, AND WILL LAST AS LONG AS THE
STUFFE ITSELFE," and that the said Invenčon was never before vsed or practiced
within any of our dominions, and is like to prove of great vse and benefitt to
the publick, and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patent for
the sole vse, excise, and benefitt of his said new Invenčon.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to encourage the inventers of all such art
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certain knowledge,
and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these psente, for vs, our
heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Simon Thennemans,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Simon Thennemans, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or
their deputy or deputyes, servante, or agente, or such others as the said
Simon Thennemans, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
tyme agree with, and no others, from tyme to tyme and at all tymes during
the terme of yeares herein expssed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, excise,

page_text: and enioy the said art or Invenĉon within our Kingdoms of England and
Ireland, dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any
other our dominions in such manner and according to such reasonable and
lawful rates and limittacons as to him, the said Simon Thennemans, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discreccons
seem meet; and that he, the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole profitt, benefitt,
comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and
ariscing by reason of the said Invenĉon for and during the full terme of
yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, excise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the date of these psente next and immediately ensucing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in this case made and pvided:
And to the end that the said Simon Theunemans, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benefitt and the sole making, vse, and excise of the said Invenĉon according
to our gratious intenčons herein-before declared, wee do by these psente, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subiecte whatso-
ever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within all
and every our kingdoms and dominions, that neither they or any of them, at
any time during the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doc make, vse, or put in practice the said
Invenĉon or any part of the same soc attained vnto by the said Simon
Thennemans as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeite, imitate, or
aresemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addicon therevnto
or substraccon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the inventer or
inventers, deviser or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hande and seales first
had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or
may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall
command; and further to be answerable to the said Simon Thennemans, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and theire
damages thereby occasioned: And moreover wee doe by these psente, for
vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular our justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other

page_text: officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, now and
for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any time
bereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted in any wise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of his or their deputics, servante, or agente in or aboute
the due and lawfull makeing, vse, or excise of the aforesaid Invenĉon or any
thing relating thereto: Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patente are
and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time during the terme hereby
granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six
or more of our or their Privy Councill that this our grant is contrary to law,
or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the said
Invencon is not a new Inventon as to the publick vse and excise thereof
within this our Kingdome of England, and not invented and found out
by the said Simon Thenuemans, as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and
declaraton thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or
their signet or privy seale, 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
Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intente and
purposes, any thing before herein contained to the contrary in any wise not-
withstanding Provided also, that these our Letters Patente, or any thing
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
vnto the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or initate any invenĉon or work whatsoever which
hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiecte
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or excised within our said realmes and
dominions, or any of them, vnto whom like Letters Patente or priviledge
have been already granted for the sole vse, excise, and benefitt thereof, it being
our will and pleasure that the said Simon Thennemans, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to
whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invenĉons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the
same respective Letters Patent and of these sente: And, lastly, wee do by
these sente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Simon
Thennemans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thing good,
firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent
and meaneing thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the
most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said Simon

page_text: Thennemans, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts
of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes
and dominions whatsoever, and, amongst all and every the subicct of us,
our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Inventon,
or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves, at Westin, the Seaventeenth day