A NEW ENGINE FOR THE STAMPING AND DRESSING OF THREAD, BY WHICH ENGINE ONE PERSON ALONE, BY TURNING THE MAIN WHEELS WITH THE HAND, CAUSETH THE ENGINE OF ITSELF TO STAMP, SPREAD, STRETCH, TURNE, PULL OVER, AND FINISH THE THREAD, NOT ONLY IN A MUCH BETTER MANNER THAN THE BEST INSTRUTED HAND CAN DO ANY OTHER WAY, BUT ALSO WITH MUCH MORE EXPEDITION AND SAFETY TO THE WORKER, WHEREBY MUCH COST AND LABOUR IS SPARED, AND THE THREAD ITSELFE MADE BOTH MORE MERCHANTABLE AND FIT FOR VSE, AND AT A MUCH EASTER EXPENCE THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD HERETOFORE VSED, TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF THE PUBLICK
Year: 1723

page_text: come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved SAMUEL TAYLOR, of Moston, in the
Parish of Manchester, in our County of Lancaster, Yeoman, hath, by his
petition humbly represented vnto vs, that he has, by long study, applicačon,
and great expence, found out and invented "A NEW ENGINE FOR THE STAMPING
AND DRESSING OF THREAD, BY WHICH ENGINE ONE PERSON ALONE, BY TURNING THE
MAIN WHEELS WITH THE HAND, CAUSETH THE ENGINE OF ITSELF TO STAMP,
SPREAD, STRETCH, TURNE, PULL OVER, AND FINISH THE THREAD, NOT ONLY IN A
MUCH BETTER MANNER THAN THE BEST INSTRUTED HAND CAN DO ANY OTHER WAY,
BUT ALSO WITH MUCH MORE EXPEDITION AND SAFETY TO THE WORKER, WHEREBY
MUCH COST AND LABOUR IS SPARED, AND THE THREAD ITSELFE MADE BOTH MORE
MERCHANTABLE AND FIT FOR VSE, AND AT A MUCH EASTER EXPENCE THAN BY ANY
OTHER METHOD HERETOFORE VSED, TO THE GREAT BENEFIT OF THE PUBLICK;" and
having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royall Letters Patents for the
sole vse and benefit of the said new engine for the stamping and dressing of
thread for the term of fourteen yeares, according to the statute in such case
made and provided, wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
invenčons which may be for the publick vse and benefit, are graciously pleased
to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certain
knowldge, and .meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Samuel

page_text: Taylor, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, especiall
lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Samuel
Taylor, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by him-
self or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servante or agents,
or such others as he, the said Samuel Taylor, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully
may make and vend, within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, his said
new-invented engine for the stamping and dressing of thread as above
described, in such manner as to him, the said said Samuel Taylor, his exe
cutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretion
seem meet; and that he, the said Samuel Taylor, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit,
benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrue
ing, and arising by reason of the said Invenčon of making the said engine,
for and during the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold,
exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Samuel
Taylor, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto
the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
presents next and īmediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended
according to the statute in such case made and provided; and to the end
that the said Samuel Taylor, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and
every of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and
exercise of the said Invenĉon, according to our gracious intenčon herein-
before declared, wee do by these presents for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies poli-
tick and corporate, and all other our subiecte whatsoever, of what estate,
quality, or degree, name, or condition soever they be, in that said part of our
kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them at any
of them at any time during the continuance of the said terme of fourteen
years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invention so attained vnto by the said Samuel Taylor as
aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substration from the
same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the

page_text: said Samuel Taylor, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder
his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon
such pains and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our royal command; and further to be answer-
able to the said Samuel Taylor, his executors, administrators, and assignes
according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and more-
over wee do by these present for vs, our heires and successors, will and
command all and singular our iustices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of
vs, our heirs and successors for the time being, that they or any of them do
not nor shall, at any time hereafter during the said term hereby granted, in
anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Samuel Taylor, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servante
or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invenčon or anything relating thereto; provided alwaies, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time
during the said term hereby granted it shall be made appear to vs, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our
grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in
generall, or that the said Invenĉon is not a new invenčon as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britaine
called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed
aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Samuel Taylor as afore-
said, then, vpon significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lorde
and others and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of
them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cense,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intent and purposes, anything herein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: pro-
vided also, that these our Letters Patents or anything herein contained shall
not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge to the said Samuel
Taylor, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse cr
imitate any invenčon whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exer-
cised within that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto
whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted as afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inventions by them invented
and found out according to the true intent and meaning of the same respec-

page_text: tive Letters Patent and of these presents; provided likewise nevertheless,
and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the
said Samuel Taylor, his exccutors or administrators, or any person or persons
which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of
this grant have or claime any right, tytle, or interest in law or equity, of, in,
or to the power, priviledge and authority, of the sole vse and benefit of the
said Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment or any
pretended transferr or assignment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any
share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust
thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any book or books for publick subscriptions to
be made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order
to raise any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or
their agents or servante, receive any sume or sumes of money, summe or
summes of money whatsoever of any number of persons exceeding in the
whole the number of five, for such or the like intents or purposes, or shall
presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these our
Letters Patent, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any
number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall committ or do, or
procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during
such time as such person or persons shall have any right or title, either in
law or equity, in or to the said premisses which would be contrary to the
true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth
year of our reigne, intituled (an Act for the better securing certain powers
and priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by two char-
ters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money
vpon bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable
practices therein menčoned), if these our Letters Patent had not been
granted, or in case the said power, priviledge or authority, shall at any time
hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five per-
sons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or adminis-
trators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest
as they are or shall be intituled to in right of their testator or intestate), that
then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patente, and all liberties,
priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and lastly, wee do by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Samuel Taylor, his executors,

page_text: administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all thing good, firm, 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 favourable
and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Samuel Taylor, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our courts of record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, within that said part of our kingdome of Great
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and
successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and cer-
tain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materials
thereto conducing or belonging.
In witnesse, &c.
February.
Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, the Sixth day of
By Writt of Privy Seale.