A NEW & SPEEDY WAY FOR PRINTING OF BROAD CALLICOE & SCOTCH CLOTH WITH A DOUBLE-NECKED ROWLING PRESSE, WHICH BEING THE ONELY TRUE WAY OF EAST INDIA PRINTING & STAYNEING SUCH KINDE OF GOODE, WAS NEVER TILL NOW PERFORMED IN OUR KINGDOME OF ENGLAND OR DOMINION OF WALES, AND THEREFORE MAY, AS WEE ARE CREDIBLY INFORMED & DOE BELEEVE, BEE OF NOE SMALL VSE & ADVANTAGE TO OUR LOVEING SUBIECT(
Year: 1676

page_text: Psent shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty & welbeloved subiect WILLIAM SHERWIN, Esqr., hath
humbly repsented vnto vs that with greate paines & expence hee hath lately
invented & found out "A NEW & SPEEDY WAY FOR PRINTING OF BROAD CALLICOE
& SCOTCH CLOTH WITH A DOUBLE-NECKED ROWLING PRESSE, WHICH BEING THE ONELY
TRUE WAY OF EAST INDIA PRINTING & STAYNEING SUCH KINDE OF GOODE, WAS NEVER
TILL NOW PERFORMED IN OUR KINGDOME OF ENGLAND OR DOMINION OF WALES, AND
THEREFORE MAY, AS WEE ARE CREDIBLY INFORMED & DOE BELEEVE, BEE OF NOE SMALL
VSE & ADVANTAGE TO OUR LOVEING SUBIECT(;" and whereas the said William
Sherwin hath by his humble petičon besought vs to grant vnto him our licence
for the sole vse, fruit, & benefitt of the said Invenčon for the space of fourteen
yeeres, according to the Statute in such cases made & pvided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give due encou-
ragem to all ingenious & vsefull arte & invenčons, & pticulerly that the said
William Sherwin may reape some compensacon for his paynes & expences in
the Pmisses, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, & meere močon, have
given & granted, and by these psente, for vs, our heires & successors, doc give
& grant vnto the said William Sherwin, his executors, admors, & assignes,
special licence, full power, sole priviledge & authority, that hee, they, or
any of them, by him or themselves, or by his or their deputies, agente;
& servant, or such other persons as hee or they shall agree with, and noe
other, from tyme to tyme & att all tymes hereafter dureing the terme here-
after menconed, shall & lawfully may vse, exercize, and enioy the said

page_text: Invenčon before pticulerly described, within any place or places whatsoever in
our kingdome of England, domynion of Wales, & towne of Berwicke-vpon-
Tweed, in such manner & according to such rates & limitačons as to him, the
said William Sherwin, his executors, admors, & assignes, in their discrecons
shall seeme most meete; and that hee, the said William Sherwin, his exceu-
tors, admors, or assignes, shall & may have & enioy the sole benefitt, profitt,
comodity, & advantage from tyme to tyme comeing, growing, and arriseing by
meanes or reason of the said Invenčon, to have, bold, exercize, & enioy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, profitte, & advantages herein-before menčoned
vnto the said William Sherwin, his executors, adñors, & assignes, for & dureing
and vnto the full end & terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of
these sente next and imediately ensueing, and fully to bee compleate & ended,
according to the statute in this case made & provided; and to the end that
the said William Sherwin, his executors, adiñors, & assignes, may enioy
the full benefitt of this our grant, & the sole vsc & exercise of the said Inven-
Con, according to our gracious intencons above specified, wee doe by these
Psente, for vs, our heires and successors, require & streightly charge & comand
all & every person & persons, bodies politique & corporate, and all other our
subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, or condicon soever they
bee, that they nor any of them att any tyme during the said terme of fourteen
yeeres herein-before granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or putt in
practice the said Invencon, or any part thereof soe atteyned to by the said
William Sherwin as aforesaid, nor shall make or cause to bee made any instru-
ment or other materialls whatsoever touching or relateing to the said
Invenčon, nor shall convert or cause to bee converted from or out of any
former shape or fashion, any matter or thing whatsoever whereby the Invencon
aforesaid, or any parte thereof, may bee putt in practice contrary to the true
meancing of these psente, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble the
said Invenčon, or any parte thereof, nor shall make or cause to bee made any
addičon to or substracčon from the same, whereby to Ptend themselves the
inventors or contrivors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of
the said William Sherwin, his executors, adiñors, or assignes, in writeing
vnder his, their, or some of their hande and seales first had & obteyned in
that behalfe, vpon such paines & penalties as can or may bee inflicted on such
offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be
answereable to the said William Sherwin, his executors, adiñiors, & assignes,
according to the vtmost rigor of law, for his & their damages thereby sus
teyned. And wee doe of our further speciall grace, certaine knowledge, &
meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said William

page_text: Sherwin, his executors, adñiors, & assignes, by these psente, that hee & they,
and his & their deputies, servante, & agente, haveing first obteyned a warrant
from the Lord Cheefe Justice of our Court of Kinge Bench at Westin
for the tyme being, & with the assistance of a constable or any other
lawful officer, att convenient tymes in the day, durcing the terme hereby
granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into & make search in any
houses, tenem, or other places whatsoever within our said kingdome of
England, dominion of Wales, & towne of Berwick-upon-Tweed, where there
shalbe iust cause of suspicon for & in order to the discovery & finding out of
all & every such person & persons as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or
shall putt in practice, the said Invenčon, or any parte thereof, soe atteyned
vnto as aforesaid, that soe such offender or offenders may bee pceeded against
& punished according to his & their demeritte, and his & their Ptended
invenčons & workes then and there found may bee seized vpon, broken in
peeces, & defaced, and the materialls thereof left in the bande & custody of
some constable or other officer, to bee disposed in such manner & forme as wec,
our heires or successors, shall from tyme to tyme direct & appoint. And
further, wee doe, by these our Letters Patente, for vs, our heires & successors,
will, authorize, & comand all & singuler justices of the peace, mayors, bayliffe,
constables, headboroughs, & all other officers & ministers whatsoever, of vs,
our heires & successors, now & for the tyme being, that they, and every of
them, be respectively, from tyme to tyme, during the terme hereby granted, in
their respective offices, and according to their & every of their best skills &
endeavors, favering, ayding, & assisting, vnto the said William Sherwin, his
executors, adiñors, & assignes, deputies, agente, & servante, in and by all
thing in and about the accomplishment of our royall will & pleasure herein-
before declared, and in the executon of the powers & priviledges herein
granted as aforesaid. And, moreover, wee doe, by these psente, for vs, our
heires & successors, will & comand that our said respective officers & ministers
before mencoed, or any of them, doc not nor shall att any tyme hereafter,
during the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said William Sherwin, his executors, adñiors, or assignes, or his or their
deputys, servante, or agente, in or about the vse or exercize of the aforesaid
Invenčon, or any parte thereof, or any thing relateing therevnto. Provided
always, and these our Letters Patente are and shalbe vpon this condicon, that
if att any tyme during the said terme of fourteen yeeres hereby granted, itt
shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or to any six or more of
our or their Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law, or Piudiciall
or inconvenient to our subiecte in generall, or that the Inventon before

page_text: menconed is not a new invenčon as to the publique vse & exercize thereof,
and not invented and found out by the said William Sherwin as aforesaid,
then, vpon significačon & declaračon thereof, to bee made by vs, our heires or
successors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, or by the lorde & others
of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of them, vnder their hande,
of such piudice or inconveniency, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith
cease, determine, & bee vtterly voyd to all intente & purposes, any thing
herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding; provided alsoc, that
these our Letters Patente, or any thing therein conteyned, shall not extend, or
bee construed to extend, to give viledge vnto the said William Sherwin, his
executors, adñiors, or assignes, to imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever
wch hath beene heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiect or
subiect whatsoever, & publiquely exercized within our kingdome of England,
dominion of Wales, & towne of Berwick aforesaid, vnto whome wee have
already granted our like Lřes Patente of Priviledge for the sole vse & benefitt
thereof, itt being our will & pleasure that the said William Sherwin, his
executors, adiňors, & assignes, and all & singuler other person & persons to
whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patente of Priviledge, shall
distinctly vse & practice their severall invenĉons by them invented & found
out, according to the true intent & meaneing of the same respective Lřes
Patent & of these psente. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant to the said William Sherwin, his exors, adñiors, or
assignes, that these our Lřes Patente, or the enrollm, thereof, shall be &
continue in all thing a good, firme, valid, & effecuall grant in the law of the
licence, powers, & priviledges hereby granted, notwithstanding the not
describeing or ill describeing the said Inventon, or any parte thereof, or of any
the instrumente, materialls, or other thing thereto belonging, or any defect or
incertainty in these psente conteyned, or any act, statute, pvision, pelamačon,
or restriccon heretofore had or made, or hereafter to be had or made, or any
other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise not-
withstanding.
In wittnes. &c. Witnes the King at Westii. the Fifteenth day of