A NEW METHOD OF MAKING GOODS OF THE SAME NATURE OR KIND, AND EQUAL IN GOODNESS AND BEAUTY TO THE ABOVE-SAID GOODS, BY MIXING A CERTAIN MATERIAL OF THE GROWTH OR PRODUCT OF THESE KINGDOMS, MANUFACTURED HERE WITH SILE INSTEAD OF MOHAIR YARN, WHICH WOULD IMPLOY SOME THOUSANDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S POOR SUBJECTS, AND WOULD IN ALL RESPECTS ANSWER THE END OF MOHAIR YARN IN MAKING THE BEFORE-MENTIONED GOODS, WHICH SAID MOHATE YARN COMES ALMOST MANUFACTURED, FROM TURKEY
Year: 1744

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GARRETT, of the Parish of Christchurch, Spitalfields, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Weaver, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing.
date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of December, in the eighteenth year
of His reign, reciting that whereas I, the said George Garrett, had by my
Petition humbly represented unto His said Majesty that my chief business had
been for many years past to manufacture silk and mohair yarn which comes
from Turkey into goods commonly called Lutherines, Rufferines, Princes
stuffs, or Prunellas. which was chiefly used in making clergymen's gowns, of
which four-fifths was mohair, and after some time and expence I had invented
and brought to perfection "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING GOODS OF THE SAME
NATURE OR KIND, AND EQUAL IN GOODNESS AND BEAUTY TO THE ABOVE-SAID GOODS,
BY MIXING A CERTAIN MATERIAL OF THE GROWTH OR PRODUCT OF THESE KINGDOMS,
MANUFACTURED HERE WITH SILE INSTEAD OF MOHAIR YARN, WHICH WOULD IMPLOY
SOME THOUSANDS OF HIS MAJESTY'S POOR SUBJECTS, AND WOULD IN ALL RESPECTS
ANSWER THE END OF MOHAIR YARN IN MAKING THE BEFORE-MENTIONED GOODS, WHICH
SAID MOHATE YARN COMES ALMOST MANUFACTURED, FROM TURKEY;" which Invention
I, the Petitioner, apprehended would be of vast advantage to these Kingdoms, as

page_text: it would save large sums of money annually paid to the Turks for mohair yarn,
and instead thereof increase the consumption of a very valuable product of
these Kingdoms; His Majesty did therefore, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, & meer motion, give and grant unto me, the said George Gar-
rett, my executors, adiñors, & assigns, His especial licence, full power, solo
priviledge and authority, to make, use, exercise, & vend my said Invention
within that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to hold to me, the said George Garrett, my
executors, aditiors, & assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said recited Letters Patent; in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a provisoe that if I, the said George Garrett, 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 Maty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and the libertys and advantages thereby
granted, should cease and be void, as in and by the same Letters Patent
(relačon being thereunto had) may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Garrett, in pursuance of the
said provisoe contained in the said recited Letters Patent, do hereby describe
& ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, as herein-after is mentioned; that is to say:—
Take the finest combing wools of these or either of these Kingdoms, and
let it be spun from number twenty-four to thirty-six, or as high as it can;
then have it thrown once two threads together and scoured, and then have it
thrown again very hard. After that let it be wound and wharped, and put
into the lomb for wharp. Wharp it to the count that will weigh about
eighteen pounds at one hundred and ten yards, and shute it down with Italian
sherbaffe, China, or any other fine raw or thrown silk. After it is wove, let it
be dyed and cullendred and drest over a condraw.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Garrett, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and forty-five.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
GEORGE GARRETT. (L.s.)
CHA' HEYLYN.
WILL EVANS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Eighth day of April, iu
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & forty-five abovesaid,
the aforesaid George Garrett came before the said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument, and all and every thing
therein contained and specifyed, in form above written. And also the
Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William & Mary
of England, & so forth.