A METHOD FOR THE IMPROVE- MENT AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MAKING LACE AND OPEN WORK, IN SILK, COTTON, THREADS, AND WORSTED, AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION AN ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXED A COMPLEAT SET OF WORKING NEEDLES; AND SUCH ENGINE OR MACHINE IS TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME POR MAKING, BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, LACE AND OPEN WORK, AS MITTS, GLOVES, CAPs, HANDKERCHIEFS, APRONS, STOCKINGS, PIECES, AND OTHER THINGS OF THAT SORT OF WORK THAT MAY BE WORKED OR MANUFACTURED UPON THE STOCKING FRAME
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
TAYLOR, of the Town, and County of the Town, of Nottingham, Frame Smith,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Taylor, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I
had with great study, labour, and expence, for a considerable space of time
then and now past, employed myself to find out "A METHOD FOR THE IMPROVE-
MENT AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MAKING LACE AND OPEN WORK,
IN SILK, COTTON, THREADS, AND WORSTED, AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION AN
ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXED A COMPLEAT SET OF WORKING NEEDLES;
AND SUCH ENGINE OR MACHINE IS TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME POR MAKING,
BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, LACE AND OPEN WORK, AS MITTS, GLOVES, CAPs,
HANDKERCHIEFS, APRONS, STOCKINGS, PIECES, AND OTHER THINGS OF THAT SORT OF
WORK THAT MAY BE WORKED OR MANUFACTURED UPON THE STOCKING FRAME;"
and that I was the only contriver and maker of such engine; that in
regard I had been at such great trouble and expence in bringing my said
engine or machine into a state of perfection, and I apprehending the afore-
said engine or machine would (if extended) prove of great publick utility.
to His Majesty's subjects, I therefore most humbly prayed that His, said:

page_text: Majesty would become graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under His Great Seal
of Great Britain, for the sole making and vending of my said new-invented
engine or machine (so by ine invented, contrived, and found out as aforesaid)
within His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided: His said Majesty, being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request; and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Sixteenth day of May, in the eighteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Him, His heirs and successors, did
give and grant unto me the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, .sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adiñors, & assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Taylor,
my executors, admors, 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 said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adñiors, and
assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the
said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adiñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time coming, growing, accrewing, 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-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas
Taylor, my executors, adññiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next
and immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent, is con-
tained a provisce that if I, the said Thomas Taylor, 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 said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calender months next and immediately after the

page_text: 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 in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Taylor, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars appearing
in the Plan or Drawing thereof (hereunto annexed) and herein-after men-
tioned (that is to say) :-
A represents the machine; B is the rafter rail of the stocking frame to
which the machine is screwed; C, standards fixed to the rafter to support the
machine; D, a spindle barr fixed to the standards; E, two joints from the
spindle barr to which two side arms are jointed; F, a cross barr from the
two joints to support the machine; G, a spring from the rafter that raises
the machine; E, a spring screwed to the rafter to keep the machine in proper
places; I, arms on each side the machine to support it; J, a cross barr to
keep the arms steady; K, a barr that the needle barr rests upon, which
is fixed to the arms by a center axle on each side, so that the barr may turn
up and down at pleasure; L, tumbler and catch which keeps the needle barr
in its proper positions; M, sliding barr with the working needles screwed to
it; N, a spring with nicks to it, answerable to the needles of the frame; O, a
screw and tumbler that moves the machine from one needle to another;
P, pushing plate to move the loops or stitches from off the working needles
to and upon the frame needles; Q. stops to the machine to prevent its rising
higher or sinking lower than needfull; R, a slide fixed to the stocking frame
to couple the needles when the machine delivers the loop or stitch upon the
frame needles; S, the back of one the leads which are screwed to the needle
barr M. The working needles are hollowed so as to cover two or more o
the frame needles, whereby the loop or stitch, when pushed by the pushing
plate from off the working needles, is pushed upon as many of the frame
needles as such working needle is made to cover. T represents the back part
of the machine. And I do hereby declare that the machine is worked with
the stocking frame to which it is fixed, and that it is performed in manner
following (that is to say):-
In working the stocking frame, the working needles of the machine go
back with the stocking frame, and then, going over the arch betwixt the
frame needles, as the frame brings forwards the machine, catches the loop or
stitch, and by rising up each working needle covers two or more frame

page_text: needles; then with the use of the pushing plate P the work is pushed from
off the working needles to and upon the frame needles, whereby the work
s made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Taylor, have hereunto, and to
the Plan annexed, set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of
August, in the eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven and seventy-eight.
The within-written Instrument in writing
was signed, sealed, and delivered
by the within-named Thomas Taylor
(being first duly stampt), and also
the Plan thereto annexed was signed
and sealed by the said Thomas
THOMAS (L.S.) TAYLOR.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fifteenth day of August,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Taylor came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery aforesaid, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation above mentioned, and also the Plan thereunto annexed, 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 Eighteenth day of August, in the year above mentioned.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAB
TAYLOR, of the Town, and County of the Town, of Nottingham, Frame Smith,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Taylor, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I
had with great study, labour, and expence, for a considerable space of time.
then and now past, employed myself to find out "A METHOD FOR THE IMPROVE-
MENT AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF MAKING LACE AND OPEN WORK,
IN SILK, COTTON, THREADS, AND WORSTED, AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION AN
ENGINE OR MACHINE ON WHICH IS FIXED A COMPLEAT SET OF WORKING NEEDLES;
AND SUCH ENGINE OR MACHINE IS TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING,
BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, LACE AND OPEN WORK, AS MITTS, GLOVES, CAPS,
HANDKERCHIEPS, APRONS, STOCKINGS, PIECES, AND OTHER THINGS OF THAT SORT OF
WORK THAT MAY BE WORKED OR MANUFACTURED UPON THE STOCKING FRAME;"
and that I was the only contriver and maker of such engine; that in
regard. I had been at such great trouble and expence in bringing my said.
engine or machine into a state of perfection, and I apprehending the afore-
said engine or machine would (if extended) prove of great publick utility
to His Majesty's subjects, I therefore most humbly prayed that His said-

page_text: Majesty would become graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under His Great Seal
of Great Britain, for the sole making and vending of my said new-invented
engine or machine (so by me invented, contrived, and found out as aforesaid)
within His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided: His said Majesty, being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request; and
therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Sixteenth day of May, in the eighteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Him, His heirs and successors, did
give and grant unto me the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adiñors, & assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Taylor,
my executors, adiñors, 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 said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adiñors, and
assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the
said Thomas Taylor, my executors, adññors, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy. the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time coming, growing, accrewing, 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-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas
Taylor, my executors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next
and immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent, is con-
tained a provisoe. that if I, the said Thomas Taylor, 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 said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calender months next and immediately after the

page_text: date of the said Letters I atent, 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 in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Taylor, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars appearing
in the Plan or Drawing thereof (hereunto annexed) and herein-after men-
tioned (that is to say):-
A represents the machine; B is the rafter rail of the stocking frame to
which the machine is screwed; C, standards fixed to the rafter to support the
machine; D, a spindle barr fixed to the standards; E, two joints from the
spindle barr to which two side arms are jointed; F, a cross barr from the
two joints to support the machine; G, a spring from the rafter that raises
the machine; H, a spring screwed to the rafter to keep the machine in proper
places; I, arms on each side the machine to support it; J, a cross barr to
keep the arms steady; K, a barr that the needle barr rests upon, which
is fixed to the arms by a center axle on each side, so that the barr may turn
up and down at pleasure; L, tumbler and catch which keeps the needle barr
in its proper positions; M, sliding barr with the working needles screwed to
it; N, a spring with nicks to it, answerable to the needles of the frame; O, a
screw and tumbler that moves the machine from one needle to another;
P, pushing plate to move the loops or stitches from off the working needles
to and upon the frame needles; Q, stops to the machine to prevent its rising
higher or sinking lower than needfull; R, a slide fixed to the stocking frame
to couple the needles when the machine delivers the loop or stitch upon the
frame needles; S, the back of one the leads which are screwed to the needle
barr M. The working needles are hollowed so as to cover two or more o
the frame needles, whereby the loop or stitch, when pushed by the pushing
plate from off the working needles, is pushed upon as many of the frame
needles as such working needle is made to cover. T represents the back part
of the machine. And I do hereby declare that the machine is worked with
the stocking frame to which it is fixed, and that it is performed in manner
following (that is to say):-
In working the stocking frame, the working needles of the machine go
back with the stocking frame, and then, going over the arch betwixt the
frame needles, as the frame brings forwards the machine, catches the loop or
stitch, and by rising up each working needle covers two or more frame

page_text: needles; then with the use of the pushing plate P the work is pushed from
off the working needles to and upon the frame needles, whereby the work
is made.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Taylor, have hereunto, and to
the Plan annexed, set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of
August, in the eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven and seventy-eight.
Inrolled the Eighteenth day of August, in the 3.
bove mentioned.