A METHOD OF MAKING A FINE, THIN, AND LIGHT CLOTH, OF SILK AND WOOL, WITH THE SAME APPEARANCE OF SUPERFINE SPANISH CLOTH AND SUPERFINE IRISH RATTEEN, THAT IS LITTLE MORE THAN HALF THE WEIGHT OF CLOATHING MADE OF BROAD CLOTH, AND GOODS OF SUCH KIND THAT HAVE A WOOL OR NAP UPON THEM, WHICH WILL ANSWER EVERY EXPECTATION, EITHER IN ENGLAND OR IN THE WARMER CLIMATES OF ITS SETTLEMENTS, AS WELL AS IN OTHER SOUTHERN PROVINCES AND KINGDOMS
Year: 1765

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
WILLIAMS, of the Parish of Saint Clements Danes, within the City and Liberty
of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Richard Williams, did, by my Petition, humbly
represented unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that, after three years' study, with great application and expences, I had
discovered "A METHOD OF MAKING A FINE, THIN, AND LIGHT CLOTH, OF SILK AND
WOOL, WITH THE SAME APPEARANCE OF SUPERFINE SPANISH CLOTH AND SUPERFINE
IRISH RATTEEN, THAT IS LITTLE MORE THAN HALF THE WEIGHT OF CLOATHING MADE
OF BROAD CLOTH, AND GOODS OF SUCH KIND THAT HAVE A WOOL OR NAP UPON THEM,
WHICH WILL ANSWER EVERY EXPECTATION, EITHER IN ENGLAND OR IN THE WARMER
CLIMATES OF ITS SETTLEMENTS, AS WELL AS IN OTHER SOUTHERN PROVINCES AND
KINGDOMS;" and as it might increase the manufactures in this His said
Majesty's Kingdom, and prove of public as well as private utility, I had
therefore prayed His said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to
grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole making and vending
my said new-invented fabrick within that part of His Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and in His Colonies and Plantations belonging to His Kingdom and
Dominions, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided, His said Majesty, being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good, was
graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal

page_text: Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of Ja-
nuary, in the fifth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge,
and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto me, the said Richard Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the
said Richard Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every
of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy or deputies, ser-
vants or agents, or such others as I, the said Richard Williams, 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 and
herein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my
said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and in His Colonies and Plantations belonging to his Kingdom and
Dominion, in such manner as to me, the said Richard Williams, my exe-
cutors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem
meet; and that I, the said Richard Williams, 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 and herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted, or
mentioned to be granted, unto me, the said Richard Williams, 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 compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a pro-
viso that if I, the said Richard Williams, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Richard Williams, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my aforesaid
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that
is to sax).

page_text: The warp, though never proved before, and contrary to every fixed maxim
of making silk warps) is to be composed of unorganzin'd or slack-thrown
silks, such as have hitherto been used by all manufacturers for shoot only,
and to be worked in the loom, but with one thread in a reed for plain cloths,
and with three or four threads in a reed for twilled or kersey cloths, as best
suits it's size, weight, strength, or other variable qualities. The shoot is to be
superfine Spanish abb-yarn, which (though contrary also to every former
maxim and established rule of working Spanish abb-yarns) is to be shot on the
warp without wetting it in water or other liquor, either before or after it is
quilled. The pieces when wove are to be further manufactured and finished
either upon the principles of superfine Spanish broad cloths or superfine Irish
ratteens, as the effects of the different processes they go through may indicate
and direct.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of February, in the fifth 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 sixty-five.
Inrolled the said Sixteenth day of February, in the fifth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Third, 1765.