AN ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHICH HE CALLS BY THE NAME OF A STRAITER, FOR THE BETTER AND MORE EASY PERFECTING THE THROWING AND MANUFACTURING OF ALL SORTS OF FINE, SINGLE, AND DOUBLE RAW SILK
Year: 1725

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS TEETON, of London, Silk Thrower, hath by his petition
humbly represented vnto vs that he hath, at a very great expence, labour,
and study, invented and contrived "AN ENGINE OR MACHINE, WHICH HE CALLS BY
THE NAME OF A STRAITER, FOR THE BETTER AND MORE EASY PERFECTING THE
THROWING AND MANUFACTURING OF ALL SORTS OF FINE, SINGLE, AND DOUBLE RAW
SILK," and which will prevent the generall and common fault which otherwise
happen in the throwing and preparing of silk, such as the vneveness, loopiness,
weakening, and breaking the said silk in the throwing: That the Invention
will be of very great advantage and benefit to the throwsters trade in the
expediting the working of silk, and of general vse and service to the publick,
other person
which Invenčon is entirely new, and hath not been vsed by any
besides the petičoner. And having, therefore, humbly prayed vs to grant
vnto him, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our royal Letters
Patente, vnder the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole making, vseing,
and vending his said engine or machine for the term of fourteen yeares, in
pursuance of the Statute in such cases made and provided, wee, being willing
to give encouragement to all arte and invenčons which may be for the publick
vse and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wes, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Teeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full

page_text: power, sole priviledge, and authority, that he, the said Thomas Teeton, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servante, or agents, or
such others as he, the said Thomas Teeton, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make
make, vse, exercise, and vend his said new invented engine or machine for
the better and more easy perfecting the throwing and manufacturing of
all sort of fine, single, and double raw silk as above described, within that
part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said Thomas Teeton, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discrečons, seem meet; and that he, the said Thomas
Feeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from
time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said
Invencon, for and during the term of yeares herein menconed: To have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages,
herein-before granted, or menconed to be granted, to the said Thomas
Teeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto
the full end and term of fourteen yeares from the date of these Presente next
and immediately ensueing, 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
Teeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may
have and enjoy the full benefit and the sole vsc and exercise of the said In-
vention, according to our gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by
these Presente, for vs, 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, degree, name or condičon
soever they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, aforo-
said, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of
the said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same,
so attained vnto by the said Thomas Feeton as aforesaid, nor in any wise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to přend
himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof,
without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Teeton, his

page_text: executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand and
seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as
can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this
our royal comand, and further to be answerable to the said Thomas
Teeton, 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
the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, 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 any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Thomas Teeton, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agente, in or
about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or any
thing relateing thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patente are
and shall be vpon this condition, 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 Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary
to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that
the said Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise
thereof in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not
invented and found out by the said Thomas Teeton as aforesaid, then vpon
significačon or declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or successors, vnder 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 Patente shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intent and purposes, anything herein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in any wise 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
Teeton, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vso
or imitate any invention or work whatsoever, which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subject whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, aforesaid
vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
for the sole vse and exercise and benefit thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Thomas Teeton, his executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patente
or priviledges 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 Patente, and
of these Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters
Patent are vpon this express condičon, that if the said Thomas Teeton, his
executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any
time or times hereafter dureing the continuance of this grant, have or claim
any right, title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge,
and authority, of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignement of the said liberty and priviledge, or
any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust
thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any book or book for publick subscripcons, to be
made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the
raising any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or
their agent or servante, receive any summe or sumes of money whatsoever of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the
like intent or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding [the number of
five, or shall committ or do or procure to be committed or done any act,
matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such person shall have any
right or title either in law or equity in or to the said premisses which would
be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Paliament
made in the sixth year of our reigne, intituled (An Act for the better securing
certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two
Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwar-
rantable Practices therein menconed), if these our Letters Patente had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority, shall at any time
hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five
persons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or
administrators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such
interest as they are or shall be intituled to in right of such their testator or
intestate); that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patente,
and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted shall
vtterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to

page_text: the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wes do wee do by
these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas-
Teeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patent, or the inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law according to the
true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the
said Thomas Teeton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in
all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiect of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness William Archbish. of Canterbury, &c., at
Westminster, the Fifteenth day of December.