A NEW INVENTION OF MAKEING OF CALLICOES, MUSLINES, AND OTHER FINE CLOATHES OF THE SORTS OUT OF COTTON WOOLL OF THE GROWTH AND PRODUCT OF OUR PLANTATIONS IN THE WEST INDIES TO AS GREAT A PERFECTION AS THOSE THAT ARE BROUGHT OVER AND IMPORTED HITHER FROM CALECUT AND OTHER PLACES IN EAST INDIA
Year: 1691

page_text: resents SIRIT
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN BARKSTEAD, of our Citty of
London, Merchant, hath by his humble peticon represented vnto vs that by
his industry and at his great expence and charge he hath found out "A NEW
INVENTION OF MAKEING OF CALLICOES, MUSLINES, AND OTHER FINE CLOATHES OF THE
SORTS OUT OF COTTON WOOLL OF THE GROWTH AND PRODUCT OF OUR PLANTATIONS IN
THE WEST INDIES TO AS GREAT A PERFECTION AS THOSE THAT ARE BROUGHT OVER AND
IMPORTED HITHER FROM CALECUT AND OTHER PLACES IN EAST INDIA," the incou-
ragement of which manufacture is apparently like to be of great advantage
to the publick, and the said John Barkstead prayed vs to grant him our
Letters Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to condescend
to that his request, and willing to incourage the inventers of such arts as may
be of publick vse and bonefit, of our speciall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer
močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, doe give and grant vnto the said John Barkstead, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority that he, the said John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or his or their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as the said John Barkstead, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree with, and noe others, from
time to time and at all times durcing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall

page_text: and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enjoy the said Invention within any part
or parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome
of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and
all and every of our kingdoms or dominions whatsoever, in such manner
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons as to
him, the said John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet; and that he, the said
John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may havo
and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, commodity, and advantage from time to time
comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention for and
dureing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted vnto] the said John Barkstead, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end
and terme of fourteen yeares from the date of these Presents next and
immediately ensueing, 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 Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention
according to our gratious intentions herein-before declared, wee doc by these
Presents for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command all and
every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, and all other our
subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever
they be, within all and every our kingdoms and dominions, that neither they
nor any of them, at any time durcing the continuance of the said terme of
fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in
practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, soe attained vnto by tho
said John Barkstead as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition
thereto or substraction from the same whereby to pretend themselves the
inventors or devisers thereof without the lycence, consent, or agreement of
the said John Barkstead, his exccutors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing
vnder his, their, or some of their hande and seales first had and obtained in
that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall command, and further to
be answerable to the said John Barkstead, bis executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And
wee doe of our further especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer mocon,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Barkstead, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, by these Presents that he, they, and
every of them, and his, their, and every of their deputies, servants, and agents
(haveing first obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Chiefe Justice of our
Court of King's Bench at Westminster for the time being, and with the
assistance of a constable or any other lawful officer,) at convenient times in
the day, dureing the terme hereby granted, and in lawfull manner may enter
into and make search in any place or places whatsoever within any of our
kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be iust cause of suspition), for the
discovery and finding out of all and every person and persons as shall imitate
or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said Invention, or
shall make or counterfeite any instruements or matterialls to the same belong-
ing, that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded against and punished
according to law. And further wee doc by these Presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, will, authorize, and command all and singular justices of the
peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers
and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being,
aswell within our Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales as within all
and every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them
respectively be from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted, in their
respective offices favouring, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said John
Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and deputy
and deputies, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about the
accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in
the exercise and execution of the powers and priviledges hereby granted as
aforesaid. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and command that our respective officers and ministers before
mentioned, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter durcing the
said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John
Barkstead, his exccutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or any of
his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfuli vse
or exercise of the aforesaid Invention or anything relating thereto: Provided
alwies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon,
that if at any time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall be made appeare
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
subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new Invention as to the
publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented
and found out by the said John Barkstead as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon
and declaraĉon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or

page_text: their signet or privy seale, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy
Councill, or any six or more of them, vnder vnder their hande, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, anything before herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything therein
contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the
said John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse or imitate any Invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vuto
whom like Letters Patents of priviledge have been already granted for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the
said John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
singuler other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall Inventions by them invented and found out according to the true intent
and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents, and of these Presents.
And lastly, wec doe by these Presents, for vs, our heiros and successors,
grant vnto the said John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by
all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectual 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 John Barkstead, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in
all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singuler the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our
realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of
vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certaine describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or
of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnessc, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Two-and-
twentieth day of September.