Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSIAH
CRANE and RICHARD MARCH, of Barnstaple, in the County of Devon,. Hosiers,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of
May, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, did give and grant unto us, the
said Josiah Crane and Richard March, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we,
the said Josiah Crane and Richard March, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by ourselves and themselves, or by our deputy and
their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as we, the said Josiah
Crane and Richard March, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by themselves, or by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as we, the said Josiah Crane and Richard March, our executors,
administrators, or assigns shall at any time agree with and no others, from
time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, shall and lawfully may make, use, exercise, and vend their
said Invention within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom called
England, and His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,

page_text: our Invention of "A METHOD OF DOUBLE SEAMING AND UNITING THE INSIDE OF
STOCKING NETWORK, SO AS TO CONSOLIDATE AND MAKE IT ONE COMPACT AND ELASTIC
BODY, FOR CUTTING INTO ANY SHAPE REQUIRED AND CONVERTING IT INTO ALL OR ANY
OF THE ARTICLES IN HOSIERY OR OTHER GARMENTS OR WEARING APPAREL TO BE
WORN DOUBLE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe
obliging us, the said Josiah Crane and Richard March, or one of us, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal
of one of us, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner. the same is to be performed, and cause
the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, we, the said
Josiah Crane and Richard March, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, as follows:-
When a piece of common stocking knitwork is made, and the ends joined
by the person who makes it, the sides must then be seamed inside out as
usual, leaving a part unseamed to turn it right side out, which part when
so turned must be seamed on the right side; if more than one breadth is re-
quired to make round garments, such as petticoats, two or more seamed
breadths must be again seamed together. When stockings or other articles
are shaped in the stocking frame, two pairs must be made, and each
pair seamed double to make one pair of doubled work stockings; but
when stockings and garments are cut into shape, the breadths when seamed
must first be washed; if only a slight uniting is required, the breadths must
when washed be gently rubbed by hand in proportion to the degree of uniting
required. If a strong uniting is required, it must be washed in a washing mill,
in which it may also be united to any degree of firmness required, which will
be in proportion to the length of time it may be operated upon by the action
of the mill. When any of these degrees of uniting are finished, and the
breadths dry, it is then ready to be cut into any shape required, and may then
be seamed in any way or manner fancy or custom may suggest. The inside of
the work coming in contact and being thus united to be worn double, either
side may be worn outward; one side may be made one colour, the other side
white or any other colour; one side woollen, the other side cotton or any other
material required. This double work having what is commonly called no
wrong side but two right sides, either side may be worn outward. The same

page_text: variety and advantages extend to apparel. Blankets and sheets may also be
made in one, or woollen on one side for the blanket, and cotton or linen on the
other side for the sheet, which, being elastic, will be found more pleasant in
summer than the blankets and sheets now in use.
In witness whereof, we, the said Josiah Crane and Richard March, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day of May, in the
forty-fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the
Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of May, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Josiah Crane and Richard March
came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Spe-
cification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor
of the Statute in that case made and provided.