A PARTICULAR ART AND METHOD OF PRINTING, PAINTING, STAINING, AND COLOURING OF FLANNELLS AND OTHER WOOLLENS
Year: 1751

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ELLIOTT, of College Street, in the City of Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Elliot, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His present Majesty that I had, at a very great risque, pains, and
expence, acquired, and that to a very great perfection, "A PARTICULAR ART
AND METHOD OF PRINTING, PAINTING, STAINING, AND COLOURING OF FLANNELLS AND
OTHER WOOLLENS," which had never been performed, or anything of the like
nature, by any person or persons within His Majestie's Dominions, and which
I, the said John Elliot, humbly conceived would be of very great national
benefit, as it would occasion a large consumption and exportation of that
commodity, whereby great numbers of His Majestie's poor subjects would
be daily employed; that in consideration of such my great risque, pains, and
expence, and to enable me to prosecute and carry the said work into execution,
which would still be attended with greater expence, I therefore humbly
prayed His Majesty would be pleased to grant unto me, my executors,
admors, and assigns, His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, for the sole printing, painting, staining, colouring, and vending,
of the said flannells and other woollens, within England, Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to an Act

page_text: of Parliament in that behalf; in pursuance of which Petition His Majesty,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of January last past before the
date hereof, did give and grant unto me, the said John Elliott, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said John Elliott, my executors," administrators,
and assigns, by my deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said John Elliott, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Elliott, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet,
and that I, the said John Elliott, my executors, admors, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profitt, benefit, comodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Elliott,
my executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof then next ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case
made and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said John Elliott, did not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within
four kalendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should cease and become void.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said John Elliott, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that the Method of Printing, Painting, Staining,
and Colouring of Flannells and other Woollens is in manner following (that
is to say)-
By models cutt according to the pattern intended, so many colours, so many
pair of modells fitted to each other; the flannells or other woollens intended
to be printed, painted, stained, or coloured are laid between these models,
and the colours then poured through the models.

page_text: In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Twentieth
day of May, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of our Soverign
Lord George the Second, 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 seven hundred and fifty-one.
JOHN ELLIOTT. (LS.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
THOS WALL
MARY CLARK.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twentieth day of May, the
aforesaid John Elliott came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt according
to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twentieth day of May, in the said twenty-fourth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second.