NEW INVENTION AND NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND FINISHING GOODS FROM COTTON, COTTON AND WOOLLEN, COTTON AND SILK, COTTON. AND LINEN, OR COTTON AND MOHAIR, IN SUCH MANNER AS TO MAKE THE SAME APPEAR AS IP COVERED WITH ERMINE OR FURR, AND IN IMITATION THEREOF
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FRYER, of Rastrick, in the Parish of Halifax, in the County of York, Woollen
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of October, in the forty-second year of His
reign, of His special grace, give and grant unto me, Thomas Fryer, my exe-
cutors, admors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Thomas Fryer, and my executors, adñiors,
and assigns, and every of us, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Fryer, my executors, adññiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my "NEW INVENTION AND NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING AND
FINISHING GOODS FROM COTTON, COTTON AND WOOLLEN, COTTON AND SILK, COTTON.
AND LINEN, OR COTTON AND MOHAIR, IN SUCH MANNER AS TO MAKE THE SAME
APPEAR AS IP COVERED WITH ERMINE OR FURR, AND IN IMITATION THEREOF," within
that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Fryer, my executors, adñiors,
and assigns, or to any of us, should in my or their discretion seem meet, and
that I, the said Thomas Fryer, my executors, admiors, or assigns, should and

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lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein expressed,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be thereby granted unto me,
the said Thomas Fryer, my executors, adiiors, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof then
next and immediately ensuing, and fully-to-be complete and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and--provided, to the end that I, the said
Thomas Fryer, my executors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of us, might
have and enjoy the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said
Invention according to His said Majesty's most gracious intention therein-
before declared; and by the said-Presents. His said Majesty did, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politic, and corporate, and all other His said Majesty's
subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever
they might be, within that part of His United Kingdom of Great Britain-and
Ireland called England; His Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they, nor any of them, sliould at
any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years thereby
granted, either directly or indirectly do make, use, or put in practice the said
Invention, or any part of the same, so attained, unto by me, the said Thomas
Fryer as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble. the same,
for should make, or cause to be made, any addition thereunto or subtraction
from the same; whereby to preténd himself or themselves the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors, without the licence, consent, or agreement" of
me, the said Thomas Fryer, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, in writing under
my or their hands and seals first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such
pains and penalties as could or might be justly inflicted on. such offenders for
their contempt of His said Majesty's Rojal command; and further, to be
answerable to ine, the said Thomas Fryer, my executors, admors, and assigns,
according to law, for iny and tlieir damages thereby, occasioned'; and in the
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Fryer,
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 Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month then next immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that the same should be
void (anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise

page_text: notwithstanding), as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Fryer, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a New Method of
Manufacturing and Finishing Goods from Cotton, Cotton and Woollen, Cotton
and Silk, Cotton and Linen, or Cotton and Mohair, in such Manner as to
make the same Appearance as if covered with Ermine or Furr, and in Imita-
tion thereof, is described in manner following, that is to say:-
My New Method of Manufacturing and Finishing Goods from Cotton, Cotton
and Woollen, Cotton and Silk, Cotton and Linen, or Cotton and Mohair :-
First, after the cloth has been woven, I cause it to be rubbed with pumice
stone, boards covered with emery, or metal blades called reverses, so as to
remove or destroy in great measure the knots or knobs upon the surface
thereof.
Secondly, I then shear or singe the same, and afterwards raise it with cards
or teazles to a shag, which appears like furr or ermine, or I raise it with cards
or teazles without rubbing, shearing, or singing, as before described, until
it appear like furr or ermine, which finishes the process for manufacturing and
finishing goods from cotton, cotton and woollen, cotton and silk, cotton and
linen, or cotton and mohair, in such manner as to make the same appear as if
covered with ermine or furr, and in imitation thereof.
In witness whereof, J, the said Thomas Fryer, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One thousand eight