A NEW MANUFATTURE OR WAY TO TEXT AND FLOURISH VELOMES AND PARCHMENT IN BLACKE AND WHITE, WITH OUR ROYALL NAME, BOTH IN LATINE AND ENGLISH, WITH OUR PORTRAIСTure, IMPIALL ARMES, BADGES, AND OTHER ORNAMENT, BETTER AND MORE EXACT THEN THE NAME AND TITLE OF ANY FORMER KING HATH HERETOFORE BEEN DONE BY ANY OTHER SON, FOR SUCH REASONABLE RATES AS HEE DOTH AND WILL TAKE FOR THE SAME, AND THAT THE SAID MANUFACTURE IS WROUGHT WITH A ROLLING PRINTING PRESSE AND INGRAVEN PLATES, AND IS OF MUCH BENEFITT AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR SUBIECT, IN RESPECT AS GOOD WORKE OTHERWISE WROUGHT CANNOT BE DONE FOR TENNE TIMES THE PRICE
Year: 1660

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scot-
land, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom theis
present shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee haue bin informed, by the humble peticon of GEORGE
TOMLYN, Cittizen and Stationer of London, that by his industry and paynes,
with much charges and expences, hee hath inuented "A NEW MANUFATTURE OR
WAY TO TEXT AND FLOURISH VELOMES AND PARCHMENT IN BLACKE AND WHITE,
WITH OUR ROYALL NAME, BOTH IN LATINE AND ENGLISH, WITH OUR PORTRAIСTure,
IMPIALL ARMES, BADGES, AND OTHER ORNAMENT, BETTER AND MORE EXACT THEN
THE NAME AND TITLE OF ANY FORMER KING HATH HERETOFORE BEEN DONE BY ANY
OTHER SON, FOR SUCH REASONABLE RATES AS HEE DOTH AND WILL TAKE FOR THE
SAME, AND THAT THE SAID MANUFACTURE IS WROUGHT WITH A ROLLING PRINTING
PRESSE AND INGRAVEN PLATES, AND IS OF MUCH BENEFITT AND ADVANTAGE TO OUR
SUBIECT, IN RESPECT AS GOOD WORKE OTHERWISE WROUGHT CANNOT BE DONE FOR
TENNE TIMES THE PRICE:" And whereas the said George Tomlyn hath humbly
besought vs, for his better incouragement, to put in practice his said Invencon,
that wee would bee graciously pleased to graunt him our Lřes Patente of
Priuiledge for the sole vse and benefitt thereof, for the terme of foureteene
yeares, according to the statute in that case made and puided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to giue all lawfull
and fitting incoragem' to the inuentors of such arte as may bee of pub-
lique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, Etaine knowledge and meere
močon, and vppon the humble peticon of the said George Tomlyn, have

page_text: giuen and granted, and by theis psente, for vs, our heyres and successors,
doc give and graunt vnto the said Georg Tomlyn, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, speciall licence, full power, priuiledge and authoritie,
that hee and they, by himselfe and themselues, or by hin or their deputy or
deputies, seruante or workemen, and at all times and from time to time bere-
after dureing the terme of yeare as hereafter in theis presente expressed,
shall and lawfully may vse, excise, and ymploy his said new Inventon or
manufacture vppon any velomes, parchment, or paper, in such manner as
they or any of them, in their discrecons, shall seeme meete, and shall and
may haue and enioy the sole benefitt and aduantage comeing and ariseing by
reason thereof, dureing the terme of yeares hereby graunted; and to the end
the said George Tomlyn, bis executor, administrators, and assignes, may the
better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and excise of his
said Inuenčon, wee doe, by theis sente, for vs, our heyres and successors,
require and straitly comand all and every pson and psons, bodies politique
and corporate, of what estate, degree, qualitie, name or condiĉon soeuer they
bec, that neither they nor any of them, durcing the terme of yeares hereby
graunted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practice the said
new Inuenčon or manufacture soc by the said George Tomlyn inuented as
aforesaid for anie the matters aforesaid, or any other, nor shall counterfeite,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make any addicon thereunto or sub-
tracčon from the same, whereby to- ptend themselves the inuenters or deuisers
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said George Tomlyn,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, some or
one of their hande and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vppon
such paynes and penalties as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders for
their contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and further, to bee answer-
able to the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according to lawe and instice, for his or their damages thereby susteyned; to
haue and to hold the said lycences, powers, priuiledges, and authorities hereby
graunted as aforesaid vnto him, the said George Tomlyn, his executors, admi-
nistrator, and assignes, for and dureing the terme of foureteene yeares from
the date of theis presente next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended,
according to the statute in such case made and puided; and further wee doe
by theis presente, for vs, our beyres and successors, giue and graunt vnto the
said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that hee and
they, and his and their deputies, seruante and agente, with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer, att conuenient times of the day, dureing
the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in

page_text: any houses, shopps, or other places where there shalbec iust cause of suspicon
for discoffing and finding out of all such psons as shall imitate or cause to be
imitated, or shall vse and put in practice the said Inuenčon soc by the said
Gorge Tomlyn inuented as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may bec pceeded.
against and punished according to their demerite, and their inuenčons and
work then and there found bee seized vpon, broken in pieces, 't defaced, and
the matialle thereof left in the custody of some cunstable or officer to be
disposed in such manner as wee, our heyres or successors, shall froni time
to time direct and appoint; and further, wee doe by theis psente, for vs, our
heyres and sucer, will, authorize, and require all and singuler justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heyres and successors, for the
tyme being, that they and ely of them respectiuely bee, from time to time
dureing the said terme hereby graunted, in their respectiue places favouring,
ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputies, seruante and
agente, in and by all thing in and about the accomplishment of our will
and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the excise and execučon of the.
powers and priuiledges herein and hereby graunted or menconed to be
graunted as aforesaid; and moreover, wee will and comand by theis psente,
for vs, our heyres and successors, that our said officers and ministers, or any
of them, doe not att anic time hinder, molest, trouble, or inPrupt the said
George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or their
deputies, seruante or agente, or anie of them, in or about the vse or excise of
the aforesaid Invencon: Prouided all waies, that if att any time durcing the
said terme of fourteene yeares it shalbee made appeare vnto vs, our heyres or
successors, that this our graunt is contrary to lawe, or piudiciall or incon-
uenient, and not of publique vse and benefitt, or that the said texting and
flourishing of velomes and parchm' in blacke and white, in manner as afore-
said, is not a new invenčon of the said George Tonlyn, then, vppon significa-
Con and declaračon thereof, to bee made by vs, our heyres or successors, theis
our Lřes Patente shall forthwith cease, delmine, and bee vtterly voyd to all
intent and purposes, anything in theis sente conteyned to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; prouided alsoe, that theis our Letters
Patent, or anything herein conteyned, shall not extend or bee construed to
extend to giue priuiledge vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any inventon or
worke found out by any other pson or psons for the texting and flourishing of
velomes and parchment in black and white, or such like worke, vnto whom

page_text: wee haue already graunted our like Lies Patente of Priviledge for the sole
vse, excise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and ey
other pson and psons to whom wee haue already graunted any like Lies
Patent of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
seulall inuenčons by them respectiuely inuented and found out according to the
true intent and meancing of the said selfall and respectiue Lřes Patent and
of theis sente. And, lastly, wee doe by theis presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, graunt vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that theis our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shalbee in
and by all thing good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according
to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shall bee taken, construed, and
adiudged most fauourable and beneficiall, and for the best benefitt and advan-
tage of the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
as well in all our courte of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding any defect(
or incertaineties in theis psente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance,
puision, pelamačon, or restraint to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, although expres mencon, &c.
In wittnes, &c. Wittnes. ourselfe att West, the First day of
February.
P ipm Regim.
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