MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF SILK MITTS AND SILK GLOVES
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MARTIN, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Martin, together with Ann Robinson, of
Woburn, in the County of Bedford, Spinster, did, by our Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that we had, by long study, application, and great expence, invented a method
entirely new, and not thitherto practised, of "MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF
SILK MITTS AND SILK GLOVES," which said Invention we had, with great care,
application, and at a considerable expence, brought to perfection, so as to
be of general utility and benefit to the subjects of His said Majesty's Kingdom,
we therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto us, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, Letters Patent under H Great Seal
of Great Britain, for the sole use and benefit of his said Invention within
that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in
His Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, under such restrictions
as to His said Majesty should seem meet; His said Majesty, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to our request, and therefore
by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of
February, in the sixth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain

page_text: knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant unto us, the said William
Martin and Ann Robinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
William Martin and Ann Robinson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves and themselves, or by our or their suffi-
cient deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or- such others as we, the said
William Martin and Ann Robinson, our 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 of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend our said Invention within that
part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within
His Plantations abroad, in such manner as to us, the said William Martin
and Ann Robinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretions seem meet, and that we, the said William Martin
and Ann Robinson, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein
mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages, therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted,
unto us, the said William Martin and Ann Robinson, our exccutors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and until the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if we, the said William Martin and Ann Robinson,
or one of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand
and seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Martin, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of our said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be as

page_text: in a Plan or Draught of the said mitts and gloves; and of the method of
working the same, with a description thereof, is hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Martin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Third day of June, in the sixth 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 seven hundred and
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