A NEW IMPROVEMENT OF MAKING A SORT OF BAYS FOR THE SPANISH AND PORTUGAL TRADE, QUITE UPON A NEW INVENTION, IMITATING THOSE MANUFACTURED IN FRANCE, BY WHICH THE FRENCH HAVE HAD SO CONSIDERABLE AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE ENGLISH MANUFACTORIES
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOSEPH DE
MAGES, of the Parish of Saint Mary-le-Bone, in the County of Middlesex,
sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS the said Joseph De Mages, together with John Baker, of the
Parish of Saint Martin's, Colchester, Baysmaker, and John Cook, of Allhallows,
London Wall, in the County of Middlesex, did, by their Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
they had, with great application, pains, and expence, found out and invented
"A NEW IMPROVEMENT OF MAKING A SORT OF BAYS FOR THE SPANISH AND PORTUGAL
TRADE, QUITE UPON A NEW INVENTION, IMITATING THOSE MANUFACTURED IN
FRANCE, BY WHICH THE FRENCH HAVE HAD SO CONSIDERABLE AN ADVANTAGE
OVER THE ENGLISH MANUFACTORIES;" that the said improvement was intirely
new, and of the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John Cook their
finding out and discovering, and had not been used or put in practice by any
other person or persons save the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John
Cook, and those employed by them, to the best of their knowledge and belief;
wherefore, and forasmuch as they, the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and
John Cook, apprehended the same would prove useful and agreeable to many
of His said Majesty's subjects, they, the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages,
and John Cook, humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto them, their
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for securing

page_text: to them the sole use and benefit of their said Invention in that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be for the publick
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to their request, and therefore, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day
of November, in the tenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give
and grant unto the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John Cook,
their executors, admors, and assigns, His especiall licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that they, the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages,
and John Cook, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by themselves, or by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as they, the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John Cook,
their executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all time thereafter, during, the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend their said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said John Baker, Joseph De
Mages, and John Cook, their executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretions seem meet, and they, the said John Baker,
Joseph De Mages, and John Cook, their executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the
said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John Cook, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if the said John Baker, Joseph De Mages, and John Cook, or one of
them, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of
them, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of

page_text: Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties aud
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent (rela-
tion being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph De Mages, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the aforesaid
Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following
(that is to say):-
:-
Mixt Bays for the Spanish and Portugal Trade.-The bay consists of
different sorts of wool, according to the quality of the bay. The chain is single
worsted, sometimes dyed in the wool, and sometimes dyed in the chain, of various
colours, according to fancy. The different preparations are as follow:-First,
the wool is sorted, that is to say, to separate the course from the fine; when so
done, it is scoured, and then dyed, washed, and dryed, picked, willied, oyled,
mixt, combed, spun into worsted, reeled, wound on bobbins, worpt in a mill, papt
or sized, then is fit for the weaver. If the chain is made before dyed, it is as
follows:-Sorted as above, then scoured, combed, spun, reeled, dyed, washt,
dryed, wound on bobbins with a spooning turn, then worpt in a mill, then
sized, and is fit for the weaver. The shoot or woof is likewise made of
different sorts of wool, according to the quality of the bay, properly sorted and
mixed together; then it is broke and opened in an engine, then dyed of various
colours according to fancy, then willied, picked, scribled upon a horse with
cards, then scribled again; afterwards carded and spun into yarn; when so
done, it is reeled, wound on bobbins with a spooning turn, then with the chain
is fit for the weaver. When wove it is sent to the picker's, from thence to the
scourer's to be scoured and milled, afterwards rowed with a gig mill or by
hands with teazles, then set or dryed on tenters, and then framed or folded
ready for market.
Striped Bays for the Spanish and Portugal Trade.-The bays are made of
the same sorts of wool as the mixt bays. For a white chain, the wool is
washed, then combed, spun, wound on bobbins with a spooning turn, worpt in
a mill, papt or sized, then is fit for the weaver. The chain is in general
white; but if dyed, to make the chain it's scoured, combed, spun, reeled, dyed,
washed, dryed, wound on bobbins, worpt, and sized; then is fit for the weaver.
The shoot or woof is made of the same sorts of wool, prepared as for mixt
bays. First, it's broke and opened in an engine, after which it is oyled,
carded and spun into yarn, reeled, scoured, dyed, washed, dryed, wound on

page_text: bobbins with a spooning turn, then with the chain is fit to be wove, and is
wove with as may shittles as there are different colours in the shoot of the
bay. When wove it goes through the following hands,-pickers, scourers,
millers, and rowers; it's rowed in a gig mill, or by hands with teazles, then
sett or dryed on tenters, then framed or folded ready for market.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph De Mages, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy, and in the tenth year
of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith &c.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of January, in the year above written.