A Loom OR MACHINE TO WEAVE ALL SORTS OF WOOLEN, LINNEN, COTTON, AND SILK GOODS, AND WHICH WILL WORK ONE OR SEVERAL PIECES AT THE SAME TIME, EITHER BY HAND, LATH, POLE, STEAM ENGINE,
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
GORTON, of Cuckney, near Mansfield, in the County of Nottingham, Weaver,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Eleventh day of May, in the thirty-first year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Richard Gorton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Richard Gorton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Richard Gorton, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from.
time to time and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A Loom OR MACHINE TO WEAVE ALL
SORTS OF WOOLEN, LINNEN, COTTON, AND SILK GOODS, AND WHICH WILL WORK ONE OR
SEVERAL PIECES AT THE SAME TIME, EITHER BY HAND, LATH, POLE, STEAM ENGINE,

page_text: OR BY WATER MACHINERY," in such manner as to me, the said Richard Gorton, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their
discretions seem meet. And that I, the said Richard Gorton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, 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 mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence.
powers, privileges and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be
granted unto me, the said Richard Gorton, my executors, administrators, 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 compleated and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided. In which said Letters l'atent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Richard Gorton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner it is made and performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being
thereto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Gorton, do hereby declare that the said Invention is particularly
described and the manner in which the same is male and performed is fully
and truly explained in the Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness wliereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth
day of May, in the thirty-first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
RICHD GORTON. (L.B.)
The above Deed or Declaration was, on the Thirtieth day of May, in the year g
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, signed and sealed
by the above-named Richard Gorton, and by him acknowledged; and he, at
the same time, prayed that the same might be enrolled. Before me,