A NEW WAY OF BEAUTIFYING SEVERALL SORTS OF CLOATH, SERGES, STUFFS, AND OTHER MANUFACTURES OF THESE OUR REALMES BY IMPRES SING THEREON CERTAINE INVENTED LINES OR CREASES RESEMBLING THE WALE OF TABBY OR MOHAIRE, AND THEREBY WATERING, DAMASKING, AND FLOWERING THE SAME, TO THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE SAID MANUFACTURES
Year: 1684

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, &c., to all to whome these psents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS JOSHUA HASKINS, of London, Merchant Taylor, hath, by his
humble peticon, informed vs that with great paines, study, and expense he
hath invented "A NEW WAY OF BEAUTIFYING SEVERALL SORTS OF CLOATH,
SERGES, STUFFS, AND OTHER MANUFACTURES OF THESE OUR REALMES BY IMPRES
SING THEREON CERTAINE INVENTED LINES OR CREASES RESEMBLING THE WALE
OF TABBY OR MOHAIRE, AND THEREBY WATERING, DAMASKING, AND FLOWERING
THE SAME, TO THE GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE SAID MANUFACTURES," and hath
thereupon humbly besought vs to grant vnto him our Letters Patents for the
sole vse and and exercise of the same for the terme of fourteen yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided, wee are graciously pleased to
condescend to that his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee being willing that the said Joshua
Haskins may reape some reasonable recompense and compensation for his great
paines and expences in and about the premisses, and to encourage the inventers
of such arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, cer-
taine knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these psents,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Joshua
Haskins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Joshua Haskins, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or their deputy
and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Joshua Haskins,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and
noe others, from time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said

page_text: Invention, within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever, of, in, or
belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and
every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitacons as to him,
the said Joshua Haskins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
then, shall in their discretions seeme meet; and that he, the said Joshua
Haskins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage, from time to time
coming, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenĉon, for and durcing
the full terme of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said licence, power, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
menčoned to be granted into the said Joshua Haskins, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the day of the date of these presents next and imediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended according to the statute in this case made and
provided; and to the end that the said Joshua Haskyns, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the
sole vse and exercise of the said Invention according to our gratious intencons
herein-before declared, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, require and strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodies
politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate,
quality, or degree, name, or condicou soever they be, within all and every our
kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any time
dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, do vse or put in practise the said Invention or
any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Joshua Haskins as afore-
said, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall make
nor cause to be made any addition thereto or substraccons from the same,
whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Joshua Haskins, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hande
and scales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penal-
ties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of
this our royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said Joshua
Haskins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his
and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe of our further especiall
grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Joshua Haskins, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
by these presents, that hee, they, and every of them, and his, their, and
every of their deputies, agents, and servants, haveing first obteined a

page_text: lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench
at Westminster for the time being, and with the assistance of a constable or
any other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the day, durcing the terme
hereby granted, and in lawfull manner, may enter into and make search in any
place or places whatsoever, within any of our kingdoms or dominions (where
there shall be iust cause of suspition) for the discovery and finding out of all
and every person and persons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated or shall
vse or put in practise the said Invention, or shall make or counterfeite any
instruements or materialls to the same belonging, that soc such offender or
offenders may be proceeded against and punished according to law. And
further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will,
authorise, and comand, all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, aswell
within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as within
all and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they and every
of them respectively be from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted,
in their respective offices, favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto
the said Joshua Haskins, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and
to his and their deputy and deputies, servants and agents, in and
by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execution of the powers and
privileges hereby granted as aforesaid; and moreover, wee do, by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand that our said
respective officers and ministers before menčoned, or any of them, do not nor
shall at any time hereafter during the said terme hereby granted, in any
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Joshua Haskins, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of his or their deputies, servants, or agents,
in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or
anything relateing thereto provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patents
are and shall be vpon this condiĉon, that if at any time dureing the said terme
hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires and successors, or
any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our present grant is
contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or
that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and
exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by
the said Joshua Haskins as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaracon
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 Councill or
any six or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall

page_text: forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes,
anything before herein conteined to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
Provided also that these our Letters Patents, or anything therein conteined,
shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said
Joshua Ilaskins, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever and pub-
lickly vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any
of them, vnto whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patents
of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being
our will and pleasure that the said Joshua Haskins, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents or priviledges as aforesaid,
shall distinctly vse and practise their severall inventions by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective
Letters Patents and of these presents. And lastly, wee doe by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Joshua Haskins, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,
inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient,
,and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Joshua Haskins, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, as well in all courts of record and 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 subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing of the
nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materialls thereto con-
duceing and belonging, or any, other. defects or incertainties in these presents
conteined, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision, proclamacon, or restriccon,
or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise not-
withstanding.
or the
In witnesso &e Witnesse ourselfe att Westminster the Second day of
October.
By Writt of Privy Scale.'