A NEW AND EXTRAORDINARY ART OR INVENTION OF ORDERING ALL SORTS OF LYNNEN AND WOOLLEN CLOATHES AND OTHER MANUFACTURES THEREOF, AND ALL SORTS OF STUFFES, SILKS, HATTS, AND LEATHER, SOE AS TO MAKE THEM HOLD OUT WATER, AND ALSOE FOR PREVENTING OF WOOLLEN CLOATHES, MANUFACTURES, AND HATTS PROM MOTHS AND MILL DEWE;
Year: 1691

page_text: these Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiect WILLIAM SUTTON, Gentleman, hath by
his humble petition represented vnto vs that he hath invented and found out
"A NEW AND EXTRAORDINARY ART OR INVENTION OF ORDERING ALL SORTS OF
LYNNEN AND WOOLLEN CLOATHES AND OTHER MANUFACTURES THEREOF, AND ALL
SORTS OF STUFFES, SILKS, HATTS, AND LEATHER, SOE AS TO MAKE THEM HOLD OUT
WATER, AND ALSOE FOR PREVENTING OF WOOLLEN CLOATHES, MANUFACTURES, AND
HATTS PROM MOTHS AND MILL DEWE;" which art hath not been heretoforo
knowne or practised by any of our subiects, and hath prayed vs to grant bim
our Letters Patents, for the sole vse of the said Invention dureing the terme.
of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encou
rage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have by
their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions,
and that the said William Sutton may accordingly reape some fruite and
benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premises, of our
especial grace, certaine knowledge, and meere mocon, wee have given and
granted, and by these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said William
Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, power,
priviledge, and authority, that he and they by him and themselves, and by his
and their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such other onely as he,

page_text: the said William Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
agree with, shall and may from time to time, and at all times hereafter dureing
the space of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents at his
and theire own proper costs and charges erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in
practice the said new Invencon soe by him contrived and found out as afore-
said, in any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of
Wales, and Towne of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive,
take, and enioy all the benefitts, profitts, commodities, and advantages of and
by the said new Invention to be had, made, acquired; or gotten to his and
theire owne proper benefitt, vse and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the
premisses by these Presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said
William Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing
and to the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these Presents next ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended, according
to the Statute in that caso made and provided; and to the end the said
William Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better
enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new
Invention, weo doe by these Presents for vs, our heires and successors,
streightly charge, require, and comand all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condicon
soever they be, within our said Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, that neither they nor any of them dureing the
said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
doe vse, exercise, or put in practise the said new Invention soc by the said
William Sutton invented and found out as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall coun-
terfeite, imitate, or resemble the said new Invention, or any matterialls or
ingredients thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shall make any addition there-
vnto or substracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend themselves the Inventors
or devisors thereof without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said
William Sutton, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder
his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder
such paines and penalties as can or may inflicted on the offender or
offenders therein for the contempt of this our royall command; and further
to be answerable vnto the said William Sutton, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his and their
damages thereby susteined. And further wee doe by these Presents for vs,
our beires and successors, give and grant vnto the said William Sutton, bis
executors, administrators, and assignes, full power and authority that he, they,

page_text: and every of them, his, their, and every of their deputies, agents, and servants,
haveing first obteyned a warrant in that behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice
of our Court of King's Bench for the time being, with the assistance of a
constable or other lawfull oflicer, aswell within liberties as without, at con-
venient times in the day durcing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner
shall and may make search in any place or places within our said Kingdome
of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, where
there shall be iust cause of suspition for discovering and finding out of all
such person or persons as shall imitate, make, or vse, or cause to be imitated,
made, or vsed, within our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, the said new
Invention soc by the said William Sutton found out and invented as aforesaid,
that soc. such offender may be proceeded against and punished according to
the vtmost rigour of the law. And further wee doe by these our Letters
Patents for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and comand
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bailiffs, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires
and successors, now and for the time being, whome it may concerne, that
they and every of them respectively be from time to time dureing the terme
hereby granted in their respective offices, and according to their and every of
their best skills and endeavours aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said
William Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents;
and servants, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our
royall will and pleasure herein-before declared and in the execution of the
severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover
wee doe by these Presents for vs, our heirs and successors, will and command
that our said respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of
them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter durcing the terme hereby
granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said William Sutton, his
executors, administrators or assignes, deputies, agents or servants, in or about
vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof, or any
relateing thereto: Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condicon, that if at any time dureing the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires and
successors, or.any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our
grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the Invention before menconed is not a new Invention as to
the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and found out by
the said William Sutton as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaracon
of such preiudice or inconveniency to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
tu

page_text: vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or by the Lorde or others of our or
theire Privy Councell, 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, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any-
thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said William Sutton, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, to imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been
heretofore invented or found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly exercised within our kingdome or dominion aforesaid, to whome
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of priviledge for the sole
exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
William Sutton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singular other person and persons to whome wee have already granted our
like Letters Patents, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Inventions
by them respectively found out according to the true meaneing of such our
Letters Patents and of these Presents. And, lastly, wee doe hereby for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said William Sutton, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things good, valid, firme, and
effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of the same, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describeing or menconing of the said
Invention, or of the materialls or ingredients, wayes or meanes of makeing,
vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt thercof,
or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these Presents, or any
other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding...
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Fifteenth