Year: 1718

page_text: GEORGE by the grace of God, &c., to
come greeting.
Mese
WHEREAS THOMAS LOMBE, of our City of London, Merchant, hath by his
peticon humbly represented vnto vs, that he has by long studies, paines, and
travels, and at great expence found out and brought to perfecčon three sorts
of engins never before made or vsed in this our Kingdom of Great Britain,
.one to wind the finest raw silk, another to spin, and the other to twist
the finest Italian raw silk into orgazine in great perfeccon, which was never
before done in this our Kingdom, by which meanes many thousand families
of our subiects may be constantly employed, Great Britain be furnished
with silks of all sorts of the manufacture of our subiects, and great quantities
thereof exported into forreign parts by being made as good and cheap as any
forreign silk can be afforded, and having humbly prayed vs to grant to him our
Royal Letters Patents for the sole making and vsing the said three engines
for the term of fourteen years, but the Peticoner thinks it not safe to specify
in what his said Invenčon constists, but proposes as soon as the Patent shall
be passed the same shall be by him ascertained vnder his hand and seal to be
inrolled in our High Court of Chancery, to which the Patent may referr to
makes the grant therein certain.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
Invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer močon have given and granted, and by these.

page_text: Presents for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Lombe, his
executors, administrators and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Thomas Lombe, his 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
exercise, work, vsc, and enioy within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
his said new Invenčon, as is above described, in such manner and with such
materialls as shall be ascertained to be the said new Invenčon by writing vnder
the hand and seal of the said Thomas Lombe, and inrolled in our High Court
of Chancery within four kalenar months from the date of these Presents, and
that ho, the said Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said
Invencon for and during the full term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold,
exercise, and onioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
hercin-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Thomas
Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto
the full end and torm of fourteen years from the date of these Presents
next and immediately 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 Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may have and enjoy the full benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of
the said Invenčon, according to our gracious intenčon hercin-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 subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condičon soever they be, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
T'weed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them at any time during the con-
tinuance of the said term of fourteen yeeares hereby granted either directly or
indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of
the same so attained vnto by the said Thomas Lombe as aforesaid, nor shall
in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addičon thereunto, or substracčon from the same, whereby to
tead himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors

page_text: thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Lombe,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their bands
and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties
as can or may be inflicted on such offenders, for their contempt of this our
royal command, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Lombe,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command all and singular our justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever of us, 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 Thomas
Lombe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his 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 condičon,
that if at any time 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 Privý
Council that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or inconvenient to
our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as
to the publick use 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 Thomas
Lombe as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, under 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 Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before con-
tained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these
our Letters Patents or any thing herein contained shall not extend or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Lombe, his
executors, administrator or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any invention or work whatsoever, which has heretofore been found out
or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
vnto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that
the said Thomas Lombe, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and all

page_text: and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
their severall Invenčons 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 do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Thomas Lome, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificacon
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
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 Thomas Lombe, 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, within
that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and
every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witness our selfe, at Westminster, the Nineth day of

page_text: GEORGE by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom those Prosents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS LONDE, of our City of London, Merchant, hath by his
peticon bumbly represented vnto vs, that ho has by long studies, paines, and
travels, and at great expence found out and brought to perfecčon threo sorts
of engins never before mado or vsed in this our Kingdom of Great Britain,
one to wind the finest raw silk, another to spin, and the other to twist
the finest Italian mw silk into orgazine iu great perfecčon, which was nover
before dono in this our Kingdom, by which meanes many thousand families
of our subiects may be constantly employed, Groat Britain bo furnishod
with silks of all sorts of the manufacture of our subiccts, and great quantities
thereof exported into forreign parts by being mado as good and cheap as any
forreign silk can be afforded, and having humbly prayed vs to grant to him our
Royal Letters Patents for the solo making and vsing the said threo engines
for the term of fourteen years, but the Petičoner thinks it not safe to spocify
in what his said Invenčon constists, but proposes as soon as the Patent shall
be passed the same shall be by him ascertained vnder his hand and seal to bo-
inrolled in our High Court of Chancery, to which the Patent may referr to
makes the grant therein certain.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
Invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer moĉon have given and granted, and by these

page_text: Presents for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Lombe, his
executors, administrators and assignes, and overy of them, by himselfo and
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputics, servants or agents, or
such others as ho, the said Thomas Lombe, his 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
exercise, work, vsc, and enioy within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
his said new Inventon, as is above described, in such manner and with such
inaterialls as shall be ascertained to be the said new Invenčon by writing vnder
the hand and scal of the said Thomas Lombe, and inrolled in our High Court
of Chancery within four kalenar months from the date of these Presents, and
that ho, the said Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and onioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said
Invončon for and during the full term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold,
exercise, and onioy the said lycenco, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-beforo granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Thomas
Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto
the full end and torm of fourteen years from the date of these Presents
next and immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended according
to tho Statute in such caso made and provided. And to tho end that the
said Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may have and enioy the full benefit, and the sole vso and exercise of
the said Invencon, nccording to our gracious intenčon herein-beforo declared,
wee do by theso Presents, for vz, our heires and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condičon soever thoy be, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them at any time during the con-
tinuance of tho said term of fourteen yecares hereby granted either directly or
indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice tho said Invenĉon, or any part of
the same so attained vnto by the said Thomas Lombe as aforesaid, nor shall
in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the saine, nor shall make or causo
to be made any addičon thereunto, or substraccon from the samo, whereby to
Stoud himselfo or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors

page_text: thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Lombe,
bis executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hands
and scales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties
as can or may be inflicted on such offenders, for their contempt of this our
royal command, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas Lombe,
his executors, alministrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command all and singular our justices of tho
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever of us, our heires and successors for the time being,
that they or any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter during tho said
term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas
Lombe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or
their deputies, sorvants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull making vso
or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or anything relating thereto: Provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall bo vpon this condičon,
that if at any time during the said term hereby granted, it shall be mado
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 subiects in generall, or that the said Invencon is not a new invencon as
to the publick use 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 Thomas
Lombo as aforesaid, then vpon significacon and declaraton thereof to bo mado
by vs, our licires or successors, under our or their signet or privy seal, or by
the Lord and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them
vnder their hande theso our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and bo vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before con-
tained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these
our Letters Patents or any thing herein contained shall not extend or
bo construed to extend to givo priviledgo vnto tho said Thomas Lombe, his
executors, administrator or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitato
any invention or work whatsoover, which has heretofore been found out
or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
5 exercised within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
vato whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been already granted for
tho solo vso, exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that
the said Thomas Lombo, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all

page_text: and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or privi
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
their severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to tho
truo intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of theso
Presents. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Thomas Lome, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificacon
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meaning hereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial senso for the
best advantage of the said Thomas Lombe, 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, within
that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Twoed aforesaid, and amongst all and
every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoover and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invencon, or of the materialls theroto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witness our selfe, at Westminster, the Nineth' day of

page_text: LONDON:
PRINTED BY GEORGE E. EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJENTY:
PUBLISHED AT THE GREAT SEAL PATENT OFFICE,
⚫ 25, SOUTHAMPTON BUILDINGS, HOLDORN.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING.
WHEREAS His Majestie hath been graciously pleased, by Letters Patents
vnder the Great Seale of Great Britaine, bearing dato at Westminster tho
Ninth day of September now last past, before tho date of these Pesents, to
give and grant vnto me, THOMAS LOMBE, of London, Merchant, my executors,
administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, full power, solo priviledge, and
authority from time to time and at all times duroing tho termo of fourteen
yeares therein expressed, to exercise, work, vse, and enjoy, within that part of
Great Britaine called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Towne of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, "A NEW INVENTION OF THREE SORTS OF ENGINES SEVER
BEFORE MADE OR VSED IN GREAT BRITAINE, ONE TO WIND THE FINEST BAW SILE,
ANOTHER TO SPIN, AND THE OTHER TO TWIST THE FINEST ITALIAN RAW SILK INTO
ORGANSINE IN GREAT PERFECTION, WHICH WAS NEVER BEFORE DONE IN THIS
KINGDOM," in such manner and with such materialls as should be ascertained
to be the said new Invention, by writeing vnder my hand and scale, aud
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calender months from the
date of the said Letters Patents, as in and by the said Lotters Patonts; relation
boing thereunto had, may more fully and at large appeare.
NOW BE IT KNOWNE, that I, the said Thomas Lombe, according to tho
directions of the said Letters Patents, doc, by this writing vnder my hand and
scale, ascertain the discription of the three sorts of engines mentioned in the
said Letters Patents, the manner of a them, and tho materialls vsed
theroin to be as followeth :-

page_text: And, first, I declare that by constant application and endeavours for
severall years past, and employing a great many agents and workmen both
here and in forreigno parts, I have at very great expenco and hazards found
out, discovered, and brought into this kingdom the art of makeing tho threo
capital engines or setts of working tools called in Italy Il inganatore or
incaruator-fillato, and iltort-and all the soverall parts and materialls
belonging to them, with all the arts vsed in, with, or about them to work
their fino raw silk into orgazine, which aro now vsed in Bolognia, Piedmont,
and some other foreigno parts according to the best and latest improvements;
with the first of which they wind their finest raw silk, with the second spin it,
and with the third tivist it into the organzine silks, coñionly called hero by tho
names of Bolognia, Piedmont, Bergamo, Bassan, and all such like organzino
silks which this kingdom hath hitherto been supplied with ready worked from
thenco, because the art of makeing those tools or performing the work soe as
to turno to any account was never before found out or practiced in England,
these, together with the improvements and additions I have made to them, I
declaro to bo thd engines and the silks aforenamed, to bo tho organzine mcant
in my potition and tho Patent; and, farther, to give undeniablo demonstration
of the promisses, I proceed to specifyo and describe soverall of the principall
parts, machines, wheels, and instruments, and thoir offices and vscs, which
compose the same, together with the additions and improvements which I
havo made to thom in order to bring them to tlio greatest perfection, and to
adapt and render them as vscfull in our own country and climato as in any othor
part of the world; and altho' thero are not proper English names for things
that have never been knowno or vsed here, yett I will montion tho names by
which severall of them are known in Italy, and soo describe others with my
own additions and improvements that they may be ascertained and at all
times plainly known or proved and distinguished from any thing made o
vsed in this kingdomo before.
The first engino to wind the finest raw silk, called Il inganator o
eincaruator, consists of severall divisions, and receives its originall motion
from a cogg wheel which is communicated from thence to tho vprigh
shafts, on all which are fixed eithor rounds or heads of coggs, which giv
motion to the laying shafts and those to the small vprights of the sovera
divisions of which this engino consists, and each division of the cugin
itsolfo receives its own primary motion from a concave wheel which comu
nicates to the crown or large wheels which have lesser concavo wheels fixe
on them, and thereby they put forward and alsoo draw back the motion o
pulleys; each of the largo concave wheels will very well give motion to abo

page_text: two hundred and fifty other wheels of various sorts and sizes which per-
forme their respective parts of the work in that division. The raw silk is
extended and put vpon machines called tavelle, with double arms of wood, with
cords and implements to keep them at a proper distance, fixed into blocks or
preces of wood with holos mado in them, vpon each of which hang a small
weight to govorn the motion and make it regular. Theso machines all
bang on supporters below the wheels and goo round vpon wiros, pins,
or sticks; wires put thro' them and bent downe keep them in tho moro
oven course and draw the thred straight; wharles at the ends carry the
machines freo from obstructions.. The rollers or machine called rochito, vpon
which the silk winds, have square taper holes thro' which goes a wooden pin
vpon which they are turned by wheels and supported by small cheeks or
boards which have nicks or holes for those pins to turn in, and alsoc spare
nicks or grooves to stop them from going when the thredd is broke. This
fino silk is strengthened and preserved from breaking in tho working by a
furnace in which the hett air is conveyed to this engine by cavityes and pipes.
Every thred has a hand or holder which guides and holds it over a rail of
glass, and receives its motion from a sido wheel, and is carried by a supporter
on rowling pulleys. Tho coupling irons that joyn tho axcs on which the
wheols goe that are turned by the crown wheels aro in two parts, and have
rings or roundings at one end of ench and holes quito thro' thom near the
other. A small implement by springing or riscing vp as soon as the thread
breaks stops the roller from going vntill it bo tyed againe. Propor placus aru
loft throughout the wholo engine to containe the persons that work therein
and those that take care of the movements and repaires, and boards, railes, or
cloths fixed keep tho workfolks at a distance, and all air or wind from bronking
tho threads or hindring the motions. Irons about eighteen inchos long, squaro
near tho vper end and pointed at the other ond, sett in socketts, turnod round
with the hand, and alsoo another sort of irons, taper and pointed towards both
ends, with a round poico of plate or iron about four or five inches diameter on
the middle, fixed in a little wooden frame which is commonly sett on the Inp
and turned without any wheel, only by rubbing the hand or such like vpon it
on one side of the iron plate while the silk winds on the other, are both vsed
to wind it double when spun or any difficult part of a skain single.
The engine to spin the finest Italian raw silk called fillats is a lofty machino
which receives its originall motion from the long shafts of timber which turn on
gudgeons of steel in brass socketts. The laying shafts are turned by the main.
vprights or cogg wheels, and have rounds or heads of coggs fixed on them to tooth
in with the great wheel which gives the first motion to this engine, whose middle

page_text: part turns on the point of a steel gudgeon in a brass pott. The outermost
parts of this engine consist of vpright standards or pillars of wood sett about
two or three feet distance, which support the work, with the wheels and
machines callod Trombos Bachetti's fusi Campanini's voltino chochette strolli
pontiselli o barbinere. The middle part consists of a largo framework of
wood, called Ilarbero con sua feramenta built vpon a shaft, with cords, turner's
pullyos, and weirhts pendent fixed thoreon, which the Italians called L'arboro
staffiness corn calle a pessi, which receives its motion from a wheel fixod
thereon and by its own motion with the serpo (as called in Italy) turns tho
Principall wheels of the work. Tho rowlers or rochots, on which tho raw silk
is that is to bo spun, aro put vpon instruments composed partly of lend and
partly iron, havo squaro places about the middle, and aro round at each end,
which goc in socketts, and have holes at the top for wooden pins to goo thro';|
vpon these the rowlers aro turned round extremely swift, on ench of which is
placed a coronet of wood with an hole thro' tho samo). By the motion of the
main middle frame, which gives alsoe motion to the great wheels in cach row,
and they communicate to all the rest of the wheels in the whole engine. A
small band is fixed on a thin board which receives its motion from a sido
wheel, guides every thread vpon a glass rail to the receivers, which the Italians
call rochetti's or rochelle, which receive it as fast as it is sufficiently worked;
these receivers goe vpon poles of wood, called Bachetti's, with wires severall,
togather, and aro turned by wheels on the trombès joyned by their coupling
irons. Weights regulate the motions of the rowlers, and a small wheel for
that purpose makes any threads receive more or less work then tho others
according as it requires. Places are made all about the engine and scaffolds
or floors built round it for the persons to stand on that work at it all the way
vp to tho lop and for those that look after the movements; tho warm air
which preserves the silk working at this ongine is to be brought to it by pipes
from the furnaco.
The third engine to twist the same into organzine, called iltort, is either
fixed over or vnder the former to receive the benefit of tho samo motion in
a very lofty building or seperato by it selfo; in the latter caso it receives its
motion by a wheel fixed on its shaft above or below it, or by coggs quite round
the whole circumference of the movcing part. The outer part has standards,
ns the fillats only may be made more distant, moveable, and in two lengths;
the inner frame alsoo goes round, has serpe fixed to it, and large arms for
vpholders of the long shafts, and this movement carrys round the capitall wheels
which turn the rest. The sides of this engine are made to open to tako out
the orgazine silk when done. Here the instruments on which the receivers

page_text: turn which have the spun silk vpon them aro single, like those of the second
engine, made with lead & iron; if the silk be double, only larger and more
weighty; but if the silk is put on here to be made into organzine directly
from the second engine, then the iron instrument must have two ends, fork
fashion, on each of which can goe but one of the receivers called rochotti's,
with coronetts of wood on their top, and with hands to cach to hold the throad
These then pass over a small wire, which when either of the ends
break breaks the other also. Above this is a band which receives both tho
threads togother and guides them on to little frames called haspo with iron
pins and wheels which are fixed one above another, vpon which the skains of
organzine aro formed, and are afterwards mado vp into knots or hanks by an
iron instrument with wheels for that purpose, which when the designed
quantity is hanged vpon the hook imediately twists it vp into the proper
forme. This engine alsoe receives the warm air from a furnaco below it; and
its hoped by means of the Invention for warming the air. Wo shall be ablo
to work this fine orgazine silk in England at all seasons of the yeare, at least
as well as it is dono in Bolognia, Piedmont, or any other hot country, and
even bo able to performe the work by daylight, whereas the Italians work
it all day long by lamplight in dark closo hott rooms without windows. The
cogg wheels, shafts, and originall motions aforemenčoned suppose theso
engines are to be worked by water, whereas if they were to be used any
other way then the originall motions may be different, tho' the bodies of all
the engines remaine the same.
In wittnesse whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seale, this Three-
and-twentieth day of December, in the fifth yeare of the roigno of our
Soveraigne Lord George, by the grace of God of Great Britaine,
France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., annoq, Dãi
One thousand seaven hundred and eighteen.
THOMAS LOMBE. (L.B.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first stamped with a singlo crown
stamp) in the Psonce of
JOHN MARSI,
Capel Billingsley.
I tertio die Januarij, anno quinto Regis supradict.

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page_text: AN ACT for providing a Recompense to Sir THOMAS LOMBE, for Dis-
covering and Introducing the Arts of Making and Working the
Three Capital Italian Engines for Making Organzine Silk, and for
Preserving the Invention for the Benefit of this Kingdom.
WHEREAS the riches, strength, and prosperity of this kingdom depend on
the trade thereof: And whereas tho introducing and improving such new
Arts and Inventions as will imploy great numbers of our poor, keep our money
at home, and increase the profitable trado carried on by the exportation of our
own manufactures, tend greatly to the securing and enlarging the general
trade and commerce of Great Britain, and ought by all proper ways and means
to be encouraged: And whereas Thomas Lombe, of London, Merchant, now
Sir Thomas Lombe, Knight, did with the utmost difficulty and hazard, and at
a very great expence, discover the arts of making and working the three
capital engines made use of by the Italians to make their organzino silk,
and did introduce those arts and Inventions into this kingdom: And whereas
His late Majesty King George was graciously pleased by His Letters Patents
bearing date tho Ninth day of September, in the fifth year of 1lis reign, under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, to give and grant unto the said, Thomas
Lombe, now Sir Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
especial license, full power, solo privilege, and authority, to exerciso, work, uso,
and enjoy, his new Invention of three sorts of engines by him the said Thomas
Lombe found out, never before mats used in Great Britain, one to wind

page_text: the finest raw silk, another to spin, and the other to twist the finest Italian
raw silk into organzine, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and the wholo profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Inven-
tion, during the full term of, fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patents, according to the statute in that case made and provided, and did
thereby require and strictly command all and every other person or persons,
bodies politick and corporate, within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they, nor any of them, do directly or indi-
rectly make, use, or put in practice tho said Invention, or any part of the
same during the said term: And whereas the said Sir Thomas Lombe sinco
the granting the said Letters Patents, hath at a farther great expence erected
large buildings, and therein set up the said engines or machines, and put tho
said Invention in use and practice on the river Derwent, at the town of
Derby, for making organzino silk, and applied himself with the utmost care
and diligence to improve the same, in order to render it of the greater use and
benefit to this kingdom; but by reason of the long time required to finish
and compleat the said buildings and engines, and to instruct so great a number
of people as were necessary to work the said engines, and the great obstruc-
tion this undertaking received by the King of Sardinia's prohibiting the
exportation of the raw silk which the said engines were made to work, and
afterwards by reason of the great difficulty of bringing the manufacturo to full
perfection, which could not be offected by the most diligent application until
about a year ago, the said Sir Thomas Lombo has been deprived of the benefit
intended by the said Letters Patents; therefore, for providing a proper recom-
pence to the said Sir Thomas Lombe, and preserving the said Invention for
the benefit of the trade of this nation: May it please Your Majesty that it
may be onacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by
and with the advico and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that out of all or any of the aids or supplies granted to His Majesty for
the service of the year One thousand seven hundred and thirty-two, there shall
and may be applied and paid to the said Sir Thomas Lombo, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, the sum of fourteen thousand pounds as a roward
and recompence to him, for the eminent service he has done this nation in
discovering, introducing, and bringing to full perfection at his own great
expence as aforesaid, a work so useful and beneficial to this kingdom, and

page_text: the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or the Lord High Trea-
surer for the time being, are hereby authorized and empowered to direct the
payment of, and issue the said sum of fourteen thousand pounds to the said
Sir Thomas Lombe, his executors, administrators, or assigns accordingly :
Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for
His Majesty, his heirs or successors, under bis or their Royal sign manual, to
appoint any person or persons, from time to time, to view and inspect the said
threo engines, to take a perfect and exact model thereof, and to deposit tho
same in such place as His Majesty, his heirs or successors shall appoint, to
securo and perpetuate the art of making the like engines for the advantage
of this kingdom; and in case the said Sir Thomas Lombe shall refuse or
not permit such person so authorized to take such model, he shall forfeit
and pay the sum of fourteen thousand pounds to the use of Ilis Majesty, His
beirs and successors, to be recovered by information in any of His Majesty's
Courts of Record at Westminster.