A METHOD OF MAKING STOCKINGS, GLOVES, MITTS, SOCKS, CAPS, COATS, WAISTCOATS, BREECHES, CLOAKS, AND OTHER CLOATHING, AND LININGS FOR THE SAME, FOR PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH THE GOUT, RHEUMATISM, OR OTHER COMPLAINTS REQUIRING WARMTH, AND FOR COMMON USE IN COLD CLIMATES, AND FOR MAKING FALSE OR DOWNY CALVES IN STOCKINGS, A THING NEVER BEFORE PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT PUBLICK USE AND UTILITY
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GEORGE
HOLLAND, of Broad Street, in the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, in the
County of Middlesex, Framework Knitter, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by Letters Patent,
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
second day of September last past, after reciting that the said George Holland
had, by his Petition, humbly represented that he had, by great study and
application, found out and invented "A METHOD OF MAKING STOCKINGS, GLOVES,
MITTS, SOCKS, CAPS, COATS, WAISTCOATS, BREECHES, CLOAKS, AND OTHER CLOATHING,
AND LININGS FOR THE SAME, FOR PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH THE GOUT, RHEUMATISM,
OR OTHER COMPLAINTS REQUIRING WARMTH, AND FOR COMMON USE IN COLD CLIMATES,
AND FOR MAKING FALSE OR DOWNY CALVES IN STOCKINGS, A THING NEVER BEFORE
PUT IN PRACTICE, AND WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT PUBLICK USE AND UTILITY," did
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said George
Holland, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His especiall licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said George Holland, his
executors, administrators, or assigns, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said George Holland, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein mentioned, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention within
that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion

page_text: of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said George Holland, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in his or their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said
George Holland, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, and accruing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said George Holland,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Lettters Patent
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; and it is by the said Letters
Patent (amongst other things) provided, that if the said George Holland
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within one calender month 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, anything therein-before contained. to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as by the said Letters Patent
may appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said George Holland doth, by this present
Instrument in writing, under his hand and seal, by him duly executed and
intended to be inrolled as aforesaid, testify, declare, and describe the nature of
his Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be as
follows (that is to say):-
Having the common stocking frame, twisted silk, cotton yarn, flaxen or
hempen thread, worsted or woollen yarn, or any such like twisted or
spun materials, begin the work in the common manner of manufacturing
hosiery; and having worked one or more course or courses in the common
way, begin to add a coating thus:-Draw the frame over the arch, and then
hang wool or jersey, raw or unspun, upon the beards of the needles, and slide
the same off their beards upon their stems till it comes exactly under the
nibs of the sinkers; then sink the jacks and sinkers, and bring forward
the frame till the wool or jersey is drawn under the beards of the needles;
and having done this, draw the frame over the arch and place a thread of spun
materials upon the needles under the nibs of the sinkers, and proceed in

page_text: finishing the course in the usual way of manufacturing hosiery with spun
materials. Anything manufactured in this way has on the one side the
appearance of common hosiery, and on the other side the appearance of raw
wool. The raw or unspun materials may be worked in with every course, or
with every second, third, or other course or courses, in quantity proportioned
to the warmth and thickness required. The above mentioned raw or unspun
materials may be fixed also thus:-Having drawn the frame over the arch,
hang them upon the beards of the needles, slide them off their beards upon their
stems, and, without sinking the jacks and sinkers, draw the frame off the arch
and bring the raw or unspun materials forward under the beards of the needles;
then draw the frame over the arch and proceed in finishing the course as before
directed. The said raw or unspun materials may be fixed likewise thus:-
Hang them upon the beards of the needles without having the frame over the
arch, and slide them off their beards upon their stems; then bring forward the
frame till the raw or unspun materials are drawn under the beards of the
needles, and having done this, draw the frame over the arch, and proceed in
finishing the course as before directed. Hosiery may be coated by any of these
methods not only with wool and jersey, but also with silk, cotton, flax, hemp,
hair, or other things of the like nature, raw or unspun; but the method first
described fixes them most firmly. The common stocking frame is mentioned
above, but any other frame, upon a similar principle, may answer the purpose.
The method of making y false or downy calves in stockings is by working
raw or unspun wool or jersey, or any other raw or unspun materials, into the
calves of stockings, in the different methods before described, and to any
required form and thickness.
In witness whereof, the said George Holland hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
GEORGE HOLLAND. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
presence of
JOHN TUBB,
Clerk to Mr. Lawson,
Gray's Inn.