A NEW ART OR METHOD, AS WELL FOR STAINING, VAINING, SPOTTING, CLOUDING, DAMASKING, OR OTHERWISE IMITATING THE VARIOUS KINDES OF MARBLE, PORPHIRY, AND OTHER RICH STONES AND TORTOISHELL, ON WOOD, STONE, AND EARTHENWARE, AND ALL AND EVERY SUCH GOOD, WARES, VTENSILLS, AND THINGS AS ARE CUT, MADE, OR FASHIONED THEREOUT, AS FOR THE MAKING, MARBLING, VEINING, SPOT- TING, STAINING, CLOUDING, AND DAMASKING ANY LINNEN, SILKS, CANVAS, PAPER, AND LEATHER
Year: 1724

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS ROBERT REDRICH and THOMAS JONES have by their petition
humbly represented vnto vs, that they have, through great pains, study,
industry, and expence, found out and invented, and brought to perfection "A
NEW ART OR METHOD, AS WELL FOR STAINING, VAINING, SPOTTING, CLOUDING,
DAMASKING, OR OTHERWISE IMITATING THE VARIOUS KINDES OF MARBLE, PORPHIRY,
AND OTHER RICH STONES AND TORTOISHELL, ON WOOD, STONE, AND EARTHENWARE,
AND ALL AND EVERY SUCH GOOD, WARES, VTENSILLS, AND THINGS AS ARE CUT,
MADE, OR FASHIONED THEREOUT, AS FOR THE MAKING, MARBLING, VEINING, SPOT-
TING, STAINING, CLOUDING, AND DAMASKING ANY LINNEN, SILKS, CANVAS, PAPER,
AND LEATHER," and having humbly prayed vs to grant vnto them our Royal
Letters Patents for the sole vseing and exerciseing the said new art and
Invention for their sole vse and benefitt, during the term of fourteen years,
wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and Inventions which
may be for the publick vse and benefitt, are graciously pleased to gratify them
in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for 'vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Robert Redrich and
Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Robert Redrich
and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, by themselves or by their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as they, the said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors,

page_text: 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 vse and exercise within that part of our Kingdome of
Great Britaine called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed, the said new art or method as well for staining, veining, spotting,
clouding, damasking, and otherwise imitating the various kinds of marble,
porpiry, and other rich stones and tortoisshell, on wood, stone, and earthen-
ware, and all and every such goode, wares, vtensils, and things as are cut,
made, and fashioned thereout, as for the making, marbling, veining, spotting,
staining, clouding, and damasking any linnen, silks, canvas, paper, and
leather, as above described, in such manner as to them, the said Robert
Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that they, the said
Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, and
'assignes, shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrueing, and ariseing by
. reason of the said Invention, for and during the full term of yeares herein
. menčoned; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
vnto the said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, adminis-
.trators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of four-
. teen yeares 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 Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have
and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention
. according to our gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do by these
Presents, 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, or degree, name or condition
soever they be, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
.England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed afore-
said, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of
the said terme 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 Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones as aforesaid
nor shall in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shal
make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraction from the
same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors

page_text: devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, or:
assignes, in writing vnder their hande and seales first had and obtained in that:
behalf, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly infliced on.
such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command; and further:
to be answerable to the said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their exe-:
cutors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for 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
pence, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said:
Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, or assigns,.
or any of them, or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and:
lawfull making, vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything
relating thereto Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and.
shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said terme 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:
preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Inven-
tion is not a new invention as to the publick vse 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 Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones as aforesaid, then.
vpon signification and declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and:
others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder.
their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forth cease, determine, and be
vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our
Letters Patents, or anything herein contained shall not extend or be construed
to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
5 any invention or worke whatsoever, which hath 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, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges.have been already granted, for

page_text: the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that
the said Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their severall Inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents, and of these Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these
our Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the said Robert
Redrich and Thomas Jones, the executors or administrators of them, or any of
them, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or times here-
after during the continuance of this present 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 Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or
assignment, 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 books for publick subscriptions, to be made by
any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising
any summe or summes 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 intents 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 or persons
shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses,
which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act
of Parliament 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 vnwarrantable Practices therein menconed,) if these our Letters Patents
had not been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall
at any time hereafter become vested in or 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

page_text: interest as they are or shall be intituled to, in right of such of 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 the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: And lastly, wee do by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Robert
Redrich and Thomas Jones, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification 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 Robert Redrich and Thomas Jones, their exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courts of Record as
elswhere, 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
certaine describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the.
materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth