MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF STUFFS BY ME CALLED 'THE PRINCE'S EVERLASTING UNION, AND WHICH STUFFS MAY BE EITHER PLAIN, PEARLED, STRIPED, FIGURED, CUT, OR UNCUT
Year: 1784

page_text: BENNETT'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSHUA
BENNETT, late of the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, but now of Fulham,
in the County of Middlesex, Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing late the
Nineteenth day of June, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Joshua Bennett, His special licence that I, the
said Joshua Bennett, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and within all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF STUFFS
BY ME CALLED 'THE PRINCE'S EVERLASTING UNION, AND WHICH STUFFS MAY BE
EITHER PLAIN, PEARLED, STRIPED, FIGURED, CUT, OR UNCUT;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the the said Joshua Bennett,
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and how. the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months next after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joshua Bennett, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Making and
Manufacturing of Stuff's by me called the Prince's Everlasting Union, and
which Stuff's may be either Plain, Pearled, Striped, Figured, Cut, or Uncut,

page_text: consists of and is made with worsted, mohair, and silk, in the manner follow-
ing, that is to say:-
First, the Prince's everlasting union pearl or terry. The ground worsted
doubled, or worsted and silk thrown together, wove with a tabby, whale, sattin,.
or velvet back; the shute worsted, single or double, or silk and mohair thrown
together, or both; the poles, either one, two, or more, to consist of mohair and
silk thrown together, and wove either with or without one or more poles of
mohair doubled; the mohair if used must be cut, the silk and mohair, pearl,
or terry, or wove, to float as a sattin, either plain, striped, or figured, which
is done with one, two, or more harnesses, viz', ground, space, figure, or
mounture.
Second, the Prince's everlasting union sattin. The cane consists of mohair
and silk thrown together and shute with worsted, cither single or double, or
thrown with a thread of silk or mohair, and wove as a Florentine, Calamanco,
Denmark sattin, sattinet, or any other tye or mode of weaving, so that the
mohair and silk floats on the face or back or both, either entire or in part,
with or without a figure or figures, stripe or stripes.
Third, the cane to consist of worsted, doubled either with silk or mohair
or without it, and shute with mohair and silk thrown together, and wove as a
Montrief or De Rouen, or any other tye or mode of weaving, so that the
mohair and silk thrown together floats on the face or back, either entire or in
part, with or without a figure or figures, stripe or stripes.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joshua Bennett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand cowon hundred and eighty-four
JOSHUA BENNETT. (L.s.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of October, in the
year above mentioned, the said Joshua Bennett came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
mentioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of October, in the year above written.