Year: 1813

page_text: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we RICHARD COUPLAND
and FREDERICK COUPLAND, both of Leeds, in the County of York, Manu-
facturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on
the behalf of His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the
fifty-third year of His reign, gave and granted unto us, the said Richard
Coupland and Frederick Coupland, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by ourselves, or themselves, or by our or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others, as we, the said Richard Coupland
and Frederick Coupland, our executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully

page_text: might make, use, exercise, and vend, our Invention of "OUR MANUFACTURE
OF SHAWLS, CORDS, BRUNSWICKS, RIBB'D AND PLAIN KERSEYMERES, AND MILL'D
CLOTHS FROM
A MIXTURE OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE WOOL, PREPARED AND
SPUN INTO YARN WITHOUT OIL," within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to us, the said Richard
Coupland and Frederick Coupland, our executors, administrators, or assigns,
should in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, that if we, the said Richard Coupland and Frederick
Coupland, or one of us, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and inmediately 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 in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
(relation being thereunto had,) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Richard Coupland and Frederick Coupland, do hereby declare that our said
Invention is described in manner following, that is to say :-
Our new method of manufacturing shawls, cords, Brunswicks, ribb'd and
plain kerseymeres, and milled cloths from a mixture of animal and vegetable
wool, prepared and spun into yarn without oil, consists,-first, by making yarn
from a mixture of vegetable and animal wool in the common method now
used in the manufacturing of the yarn in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and
other manufacturing places within this realm, known by the name of winter
marine, or vigonia, which yarn is used in the manufacture of hosiery.
Secondly, that the yarn being so made is then woven (in the common method
now used in the weaving of cords, Brunswicks, ribb'd and plain kerseymeres,
and milled cloths, respectively,) into cords, Brunswicks, ribb'd and plain kersey-
meres, and milled cloth.
Thirdly, after the cords are so woven they are cut, scoured, and cropped in
the common method as now used in the manufacture of cords, made of cotton
warp, and woollen weft.
Fourthly, the Brunswicks, ribb'd and plain kerseymeres, and milled cloths
are milled, dressed, and finished in the common method now used in the
milling, dressing, and finishing of woollen cloth, and the shawls are made out

page_text: f such plain kerseymeres by printing the same with figures thereon, in the
ame manner as the figures are commonly printed on woollen cloth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Coupland and Frederick Coup-
land, have hereto set our hands and seals this Sixteenth day of June,
in the year of Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, (being first
duly stamped), by the above-named
Richard Coupland and Frederick
Coupland, in the presence of
(L.S.)
FRED. COUPLAND. (L.S.)
THO COUPLAND. of Leeds. Distiller.