A WAY OF RAISING SEE
Year: 1718

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN APLETRE, Esquire, hath, by
his peticon, humbly represented vnto vs that he hath by his great industry,
study, and skill, found out "A WAY OF RAISING SEE," in this our Kingdom of
Great Britain, to as great a perfection as in any part of Europe, by a parti-
cular Invenčon of his own, which will tend very much to the benefit and
advantage of our subiects, and will employ a great many poor: And the
petičoner by his affidavit thereunto annext, hath sworn that he hath invented
a certain machine, called an evaporating stove, whereby to keep in a constant
and vniform warmth (during the cold of the severest winters) the eggs of the
silkworms, thereby to prevent their being spoiled by the frosts; and that he
hath invented a certain engine, called the egg chest, to keep the said eggs in
during the winter's cold, which will be an infallible security for the preserva-
tion of the said silkworms' eggs; and that he hath a certain and infallible
method of feeding the said worms with vndoubted successe, let the weather
be ever so wett, which said method will supply all defects which have hitherto
happened in feeding of silkworms with mulberry leaves that are gathered in
wett and rainy weather; and that he hath invented a way of feeding the said
silkworms that are produced annually from the sowing of the seed of ripe
mulberries, which said method effectually supplies the want of mulberry trees
that are of a sufficient growth to yield leaves for the food of the silkworms;
and that by the carrying on of the said intended work of raising or growing of

page_text: silk in Great Britain, great multitudes of the poor of both sexes will in a few
yeares be maintained and employed by the petičoner and his partners and
assignes; and that by the means above specified will be produced as good sik
of British growth as any comes from abroad: And having humbly prayed vs
to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole exercise of his said
Invencon for the terme of fourteen years:
KNOW YEE, that wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace,
certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
John Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that be, the said John Apletre, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and them-
selves, or by bis or their deputy and deputies, servants or agent, or such
others as he, the said John Apltre, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise,
work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, bis said
new Invenčon as is above described, in such manner as to him, the said John
Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said John Apletre, his execu
tors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the whole
profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing
accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the
full term of yeares herein menčoned. To have, hold, exercise, and enioy the
said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
menčoned to be granted vnto the said John Apletre, his executors, adminis
trators, and assignes, for and during, and vnto the full end and term of four
teen yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensuing
and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such case made
and provided: And to the end that the said John Apletre, his executors, admi
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefitt
and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our gratiou
intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies
politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate
quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever they may be, within that part o
our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales

page_text: and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them
at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said
Invenčon, or any part of the same so attained vato by the said John Apletre
as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereunto or substracčon from
the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said John. Apletre, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing, vnder
his or their hande and seals, first had and obtained in that behalf, 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 Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes according to
law for his and their damages thereby occasioned: And moreover, wee do by
these Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all'and
singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffs, constables, head-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and
successors for the time being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any
time bereafter during the said term hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble,
or hinder the said John Apletre, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or
any of them, or his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due
and lawfull making vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing
relating thereto: Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall
be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted
it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or prejudiciall or
inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new
invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within that part of our
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the
said John Apletre as aforesaid, then, vpon signification and declaračon thereof
to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy
seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or
more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void, to all intent and purposes, any thing
herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Apletre,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any

page_text: invenĉon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented
by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised
within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom
like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that the said John
Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other
person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been
already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
invenčons 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, wee do by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the
said John Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our
Letters Patents, or the enrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and
by all thing good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according
to the true intent and meaning hereof, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of
the said John Apletre, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in
all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects
of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invencon,
or of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe, at Westminster, the Three-and-