AN ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXED A SETT OF WORKING NEEDLES, WHICH ENGINE OR MACHINE IS FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR THE MAKING OF OILET-HOLES, OR NETTWORK IN SILK, THREAD, COTTON, OR WORSTED, AS MITTS, GLOVES, HOODS, APRONS, HANDKERCHIEFS, AND OTHER GOODS USUALLY MANUFACTURED UPON STOCKING FRAMES, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN MORRIS,
of the Town of Nottingham, Hosier, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster the Twenty-
eighth day of March last past, gave and granted to Thomas Morris and the
said John Morris, both of the Town of Nottingham aforesaid, Hosiers, and
John and William Betts, of the Town of Mansfield, in the County of Notting-
ham, their executors, adññiors, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, for the said Thomas and John Morris, and
John and William Betts, their extors, adiñors, and assigns, by themselves, or
by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as they sho
agree with from time to time, to make, use, exercise, and vend their Invention
of "AN ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXED A SETT OF WORKING NEEDLES,
WHICH ENGINE OR MACHINE IS FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME, FOR THE MAKING OF
OILET-HOLES, OR NETTWORK IN SILK, THREAD, COTTON, OR WORSTED, AS MITTS,
GLOVES, HOODS, APRONS, HANDKERCHIEFS, AND OTHER GOODS USUALLY MANUFACTURED
UPON STOCKING FRAMES, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW," within that part of Great
Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, according to the Statute in that case made and provided, in such
manner as to them, the said Thomas and John Morris, and John and William
Betts, their executors, adññiors, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet;

page_text: and that they should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, coiodity, and advantage from time to time arising by reason of the
said Invention; to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages therein granted unto the said Thomas and John Morris,
and John and William Betts, their executors, adiñors, 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 that case made & provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Thomas and John
Morris, and John and William Betts, or any one of them, should not parti-
cularly describe the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under their hands and
seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and cause the same to be
inrolled in the 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 whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the same Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said John Morris, in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare, that the said
Invention of an Engine or Machine on which is fixed a Sett of Working
Needles, which Engine or Machine is fixed to a Stocking Frame, for the
making of Oilet-holes or Nettwork in Silk, Thread, Cotton, or Worsted,
as Mitts, Gloves, Hoods, Aprons, Handkerchiefs, and other Goods usually
Manufactured upon Stocking Frames, by a Method entirely New, is particu-
larly described in the Plans thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Morris, have hereunto and to the
Plans annexed sett my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June,
in the fourth year of the reign of His present Majesty King George
the Third over Great Britain, and so forth, and in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-first day of June,
in the year last mentioned, the aforesaid John Morris came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
and Plans annexed, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification and Plans were stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, & so forth.
Inrolled the aforesaid Twenty-first day of June, in the year above
mentioned.