THE TRUE AND PROPER ART AND WAY OF MAKING ENGLISH PAPER FOR WRITING, PRINTING, AND OTHER VSES,.. BOTH AS GOOD AND SERVICEABLE IN ALL RESPECTS, AND ESPECIALLY AS WHITE, AS ANY FRENCH OR DUTCH PAPER (WHICH HATH BEEN THE GREAT DEFECT OF ALL OTHER. PRETENDERS AND VNDERTAKERS WHO HAUE HITHERTO HAD PATTENTS FOR MAKING PAPER HERE), AND THAT BY SUCH MEANES AND METHODES AS HAUE NOT HITHERTO BEEN. FOUND OUT OR PRACTICED BY ANY IN OUR DOMINIONS, WHEREBY MUCH ADVANTAGE. WILL REDOUND TO THE PUBLICK BY THAT MANUFACTURE'S BEING MADE ATT HOME, & GREAT NUMBERS OF POOR PEOPLE EMPLOYED THEREVPON
Year: 1685

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WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN BRISCOE, by his humble peticon
hath represented vnto vs that with great paines, study, and charge in many
experiments att last hath invented and found out "THE TRUE AND PROPER ART
AND WAY OF MAKING ENGLISH PAPER FOR WRITING, PRINTING, AND OTHER VSES,..
BOTH AS GOOD AND SERVICEABLE IN ALL RESPECTS, AND ESPECIALLY AS WHITE, AS ANY
FRENCH OR DUTCH PAPER (WHICH HATH BEEN THE GREAT DEFECT OF ALL OTHER.
PRETENDERS AND VNDERTAKERS WHO HAUE HITHERTO HAD PATTENTS FOR MAKING
PAPER HERE), AND THAT BY SUCH MEANES AND METHODES AS HAUE NOT HITHERTO BEEN.
FOUND OUT OR PRACTICED BY ANY IN OUR DOMINIONS, WHEREBY MUCH ADVANTAGE.
WILL REDOUND TO THE PUBLICK BY THAT MANUFACTURE'S BEING MADE ATT HOME, &
GREAT NUMBERS OF POOR PEOPLE EMPLOYED THEREVPON;" and the said John.
Briscoe having humbly besought vs to grant unto him our Letters Pattents
for the sole vse and exercise of the same for the terme of fourteene yeares,
according to the statute in that case provided, wee are graciously pleased
to condescend to that his request.
KNOWE YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said John
Briscoe may reap some reasonable recompence and compensačon for his great
paines and expences in and about the premises, and to encourage the inventers
of such artes as may be of publick vse and beneffitt, of our especiall grace,

page_text: certaine knowledge, and meer močon, haue giuen and granted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe giue and grant unto the said
John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Briscoe, his exe-
cutors, adm's, and assignes, and euery of them, by themselves or their deputy
and deputyes, servants or agents, or such others as the said John Briscoe, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, shall att any time agree with and noe
others, from time to time and att all times during the terme of years
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said
Invenčon within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or
belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and
euery or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoeuer, in such manner and
according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitations as to him, the
said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them,
shall in theire discretions seeme meete, and that he, the said John Briscoe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may haue and enioy the sole
beneffitt, proffitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing,
and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon for and dureing tho full terme of
years herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence,
powers, priviledges and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteene yeares from the
day of the date of these presents next and imediately ensucing, and fully to be
compleate and ended according to the statute in this case made and provided;
and to the end that the said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and euery of them, may enioy the full beneffitt, and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invenĉon, according to our gracious intencons herein-before
declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and euery person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoeuer, of what estate, quallity, or
degree, name, or condicon soc euer they be, within all and euery our kingdomes
and dominions, that neither they nor any of them att any time during the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fourteene years hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly doe vse or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the
same, soe attained vnto by the said John Briscoe as aforesaid, nor shall in any
wise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addičon thereto or substracčon from the same whereby to pretend themselves
the iuventers or devisers thereof without the licence, consent, or agreement of
the said John Briscoe, bis executors, administrators, or assignes in writeing

page_text: vnder his, their or some of theire handles and seals, first had and obteined in
that behalf, vpon such paines and penaltyes as can or may bo iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command. And further
to be answerable to the said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law for his and theire damages theroby occasioned. And
wee doe of our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer mocon,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Briscoe, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, by these presents, that he, they, and
euery of them, and his, theiré, and euery of theire deputyes, servants, and
agents, having first obteined an lawfull warrant from the Lord Chiefe Justice
of our Court of Kinges Bench att Westminster for the timo being, and with
the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient times
in the day dureing the terme hereby granted and in lawful manner, may
enter into and make search in any place or places whatsoeuer within any of
our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of suspicon) for
the discovery and finding out of all and euery pson & persons as shall imitate
or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice, the said Invencon, or
shall make or counterfeit any instruments or materialls to the same belonging,
that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded against and punished
according to law. And further wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors; will, authorize, and command all and singular justices of the
peace, mayors, sherriffs, baylyffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoeuer of vs, our heires and successors for the time
being, as well within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as
within all and cuery other our kingdomes and dominions, that they and cuery
of them respectively be from time to time, dureing the terme hereby granted,
in theire respectiue offices favouring, ayding, helping, & assisting unto tho
said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and
their deputy and deputyes, servants and agents, in & by all thinges in and
about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before
declared, and in the exercise and execučon of the powers and priviledges
hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee doe by these presentes for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command that our said respectiue officers
and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall att any
time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said John Briscoe, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any his or theire deputyes, servants, or agents, in or about the duo
and lawful vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or anything relating
thereto. Provided alwayes, and these our Letters Pattents are and shall bo

page_text: vpon this condičon, that if att any time during the said terme hereby granted
it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of
our or their Privy Councell, that this our present grant is contrary to law or
preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publique vse and exercise thereof
within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said John
Briscoe as aforesaid, then vpon signiflicacon and declaracon thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, under our or their signett or privy scale, or by
the lords and others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them,
vnder their handes, these our Lies Pattents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything before herein conteined
to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. Provided alsoe that these our Lřes
Pattents or anything therein conteined shall not extend or be construed to
extend to giuc priviledge unto the said John Briscoe, his exccutors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or worke
whatsoeuer which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of
our subiccts whatsoeuer and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realme
and dominions, or any of them, unto whom we baue already granted our
like Letters Pattents of Priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and beneffitt
thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said John Briscoe, his exe-
cutors, adm", and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to
whom wee haue already granted our like Letters Pattents of Priviledges as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Pattents and of these presents. And lastly, wee doc by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John
Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Pattents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all thinges good, firme,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
fauourable and benefficiall sence for the best advantage of the said John
Briscoe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all courts of
record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors in all and singular our realmes and
dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heires
& successors, whatsoever & wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certaine describeing the nature or quality or the said Invenčon, or of the
materialls there to conduceing & belonging or any other defects or incertaine-
tyes in these presents contained, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,

page_text: proclamacon, or restriction, or other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att Westminster, the Fourth day of
July, in the first yeare of our reigne.