A METHOD OP SPINNING FLAX, HEMP, AND TOW, BY MEANS OF MACHINERY WROUGHT BY WATER, AND WHICH MAY BE WROUGHT BY STEAM ENGINES, HORSES, OR ANY OTHER POWER; THE SPINNING BEING DONE AT MUCH LESS EXPENCE AND MUCH MORE EXPEDITIOUSLY THAN IT CAN BE DONE IN ANY OTHER WAY HITHERTO PRACTISED
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COCHRAN, Yarn Merchant, in Paisley, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third bath, by His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of August,
One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, been most graciously pleased
to give and grant unto me, the said John Cochran, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and autho-
rity, to make, use, exercise, and vend, for and during the term of fourteen
years, within that part of Great Britain called England, His Majesty's Prin-
cipality of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His said
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my new Invention of "A METHOD
OP SPINNING FLAX, HEMP, AND TOW, BY MEANS OF MACHINERY WROUGHT BY WATER,
AND WHICH MAY BE WROUGHT BY STEAM ENGINES, HORSES, OR ANY OTHER POWER;
THE SPINNING BEING DONE AT MUCH LESS EXPENCE AND MUCH MORE EXPEDITIOUSLY
THAN IT CAN BE DONE IN ANY OTHER WAY HITHERTO PRACTISED;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said John Cochran, should, by
writing under my hand and seal, give a particular description of the nature

page_text: of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one kallendar month immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, otherwise the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and be void, as in and by
the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, I,
the said John Cochran, do hereby declare, that the nature of my said Invention
is as follows:-
The principle of my Invention consists in uniting the present cotton jeanny
spinning spindles and spindle carriage, and method of turning and twining
the same, with the flax spinning heads in use in the flax, hemp, or tow
spinning frames for drawing out the rove, and by laying aside the traverse,
the spindle, the bobbin, and fly presently used in spinning hemp, flax, or tow,
and by substituting in the place thereof the cotton jeanny spindles; and it will
be attended to, that as hemp, flax, or tow yarn will admit of but little or no
draught in receiving the twine, and in this respect differs from cotton, that
therefor the lowest or last delivering roller to which the said jeanny spindles are
presented to receive the sliver or rove in order to twine the same into yarn must
deliver with as nearly as possible the same speed that the spindles take it
away.
I have annexed hereto two Drawings, representing a front and end view of
the machine, including two spinning heads only. The parts of the apparatus
in use for spinning flax, hemp, or tow are marked with the letter A, and the
parts used for spinning cotton are marked with the letter B. As the different
parts of the machinery are well known, and my discovery consists in uniting
some parts of the machinery in use for spinning flax with some parts of the
machinery in use for spinning cotton, I think it unnecessary to give any
minute description of the different parts of the. machinery, as any person
acquainted with the nature of the business will, from the Drawings and de-
scription, be master of my discovery. At the same time, I do not confine my
discovery to the Drawings annexed, or to any one of the different forms of
machinery at present used in spinning flax, hemp, or tow, in so far as the
same is used to draw out and bring forward the sliver or rove to the very act
of receiving the twist or twine for yarn; nor do I confine myself to any one of
the different forms of machinery at present used in spinning cotton by any of
-the different jeannies now in use, so far as the same are applied in drawing

page_text: out or twisting the rove into yarn, as my Invention applies perfectly well by
thus uniting any of these different forms of machinery.. The machine may be
wrought by the hand, by horses, by steam, by water, or by any power that can
be applied to it.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cochran, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, at Edinburgh, in
that part of Great Britain called Scotland.
Signed, Sealed,
སSTI
duly stamped) in presence of
JA' GIBSON,
One of the Writers of His Majesty's Signet.
THOMAS GIBSON,
Writer, in Edinburgh.
Thomas Gibson, of the city of Edinburgh, North Britain, Writer, maketh
oath and sayeth that he did see John Cochran, in the Deed Poll hereunto an-
nexed, sign, seal, and, as his act and deed in due form of law, deliver the said
Deed Poll, and at the same time subscribe and indorse his name on the Drawing
mentioned and referred to in the said Deed Poll, in the presence of James
Gibson, of the city of Edinburgh aforesaid, one of the Writers to His Majesty's
Signet, and this Deponent; and that the name, John Cochran, appearing to be
set and subscribed at the foot of the said Deed Poll as the party executing the
same, and indorsed on the said Drawing referred to in the said Deed Poll, and
James Gibson and Thomas Gibson set and subscribed to the said Deed Poll as
witnesses attesting the due execution of the same, and as witnesses to the said
John Cochran subscribing and indorsing his name on the said Drawing, are
of the respective proper handwriting of the said John Cochran, James Gibson,.
and this Denonent.
Sworn at Edinburgh aforesaid, the
Twenty-seventh day of August, One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-
THOMAS GIBSON.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that upon 'the oath of Thomas Gibson, the
Instrument aforesaid was inrolled, word for word, as the same is above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
several Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary-of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-
third, and thirty-seventh years of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third.