A NEW MANUFACTURE OF STUFF OR CLOTH MADE OF HEMP, LINNEN, OB COTTON YARN OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, AND VARIOUSLY FIGURED AND STRIPED, KNOWN IN ITALY UNDER THE NAME OF RENSETTE RIGATI, RABATI, SPINATI, AND OPERATI, AND WHICH I INTEND TO CALL OR DENOMINATE (RENSETTY) PROPER TO BE USED AS CLOATHING, ESPECIALLY IN SUMMER AND IN HOT COUNTRYS AND ALSO FOR FURNITURE
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
HAYWARD, of Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the First day of April, in the thirteenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Francis Hayward, His special licence, that I, the said
Francis Hayward, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW MANUFACTURE OF STUFF OR CLOTH
MADE OF HEMP, LINNEN, OB COTTON YARN OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, AND VARIOUSLY
FIGURED AND STRIPED, KNOWN IN ITALY UNDER THE NAME OF RENSETTE RIGATI,
RABATI, SPINATI, AND OPERATI, AND WHICH I INTEND TO CALL OR DENOMINATE
(RENSETTY) PROPER TO BE USED AS CLOATHING, ESPECIALLY IN SUMMER AND IN
HOT COUNTRYS, AND ALSO FOR FURNITURE;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas Hayward, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Maty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Hayward, do hereby declare that my said Invention, of A New Manu-

page_text: facture of Stuff or Cloth, made of Hemp, Linnen, or Cotton Yarn, of Different
Colours and Variously Figured and Striped, known in Italy under the Name of
Rensetti Rigati, Rasati, Spinati, and Operati, and which I intend to call or
denominate (Rensetty) proper to be Used as Clothing, especially in Summer
and in Hot Countries, and also for Furniture, is described in the manner
following (that is to say):-
A particular kind of cloth made of linnen yarn, or of linnen and cotton
yarn mixed, or of cotton yarn figured with various figures of different colours,
also striped variously, and with groundwork of different kinds after the
manner of sattins, damasks, russels, and tabbies, all which may be more
particularly seen by the patterns annexed, distinguished by the Italian manu-
facturers by the names and titles of rensette rigati, rasati, spinati, and
operati.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-three
FRANS HAYWARD. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Thirtieth day of July, in
the year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Hayward came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation of his Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification 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 and Mary of England, and
so forth.
Inrolled the Thirty-first day of July, in the year above said.