A METHOD OF CUTING AND PREPARING PRINTS OR MOULDS OF WHOLE AND COMPLEAT OBJECTS AND DESIGNS, CALLED ARABESQUE, TO THE EXTENT OF FROM THREE FEET SEVEN INCHES (THE LARGEST HITHERTO MADE) TO TEN FEET AND UPWARDS IN LENGTH, AND FROM TWO FEET AND A HALF TO THREE AND FOUR FEET WIDE, OR MORE WHERE OCCASION SHALL REQUIRE, AND OF USING AND APPLYING SUCH PRINTS OR MOULDS IN PRINTING, PAINTING, OR STAINING OF PAPER, LINNEN, WOOLLEN, COTTON, OR SILK, OR ANY MANUFACTURE MADE OF THE SAID ARTICLES,EITHER ENTIRE OR MIXED, IN VARIOUS DESIGNS AND COLOURS, WHERE WITH SUCH PAPER OR OTHER FURNITURE MAY BE DONE AND LAID ON ROOMS OR APARTMENTS OF ANY DIMENSIONS, IN INTIRE AND COMPLEAT IMPRESSIONS, WITHOUT MUTILATION OR ADDITION,
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of April last past, reciting that I,
WILLIAM ROBERTS, of Brumpton Row, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, had, by my Petition, humbly represented that I had, with great study,
labour, and expence, devised, invented, and perfected "A METHOD OF CUTING
AND PREPARING PRINTS OR MOULDS OF WHOLE AND COMPLEAT OBJECTS AND
DESIGNS, CALLED ARABESQUE, TO THE EXTENT OF FROM THREE FEET SEVEN
INCHES (THE LARGEST HITHERTO MADE) TO TEN FEET AND UPWARDS IN LENGTH,
AND FROM TWO FEET AND A HALF TO THREE AND FOUR FEET WIDE, OR MORE
WHERE OCCASION SHALL REQUIRE, AND OF USING AND APPLYING SUCH PRINTS OR
MOULDS IN PRINTING, PAINTING, OR STAINING OF PAPER, LINNEN, WOOLLEN,
COTTON, OR SILK, OR ANY MANUFACTURE MADE OF THE SAID ARTICLES, EITHER ENTIRE
OR MIXED, IN VARIOUS DESIGNS AND COLOURS, WHERE WITH SUCH PAPER OR OTHER
FURNITURE MAY BE DONE AND LAID ON ROOMS OR APARTMENTS OF ANY DIMENSIONS,
IN INTIRE AND COMPLEAT IMPRESSIONS, WITHOUT MUTILATION OR ADDITION," did
give and grant unto me, the said William Roberts, His said Majesty's especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William

page_text: Roberts, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, during
the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend my said new Invention of arabesque prints or moulds for
the purposes therein mentioned, within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such
manner as to me, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso, that if I, the said William Roberts, should not describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same are
to be performed and used, 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 four calendar months next and immediately 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 by the said Letters Patent more at large doth
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Roberts, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the said proviso, do, by this Instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, duly executed, declare that my said new Invention of
arabesque patterns, prints, or moulds, consists in drawing and preparing
patterns, subjects, and designs of the magnitude in the said Letters Patent
particularly mentioned (which was never done by any other artist for the said
manufactures), and to cut and prepare prints or moulds suited to such subjects
and designs so as to give entire and compleat impressions thereof of the
dimensions aforesaid without repetition or addition, which has not been here-
tofore practiced in any of the manufactures aforesaid. And I, the said
William Roberts, do also hereby declare that my said new Invention extends
to the mode of using or applying the said arabesque prints or moulds in regard
the same from their magnitude cannot be handled about or dipped, or be used
or applied as prints of inferior dimensions have been hitherto used in the
said manufactures, and that the said arabesque prints or moulds must there-
fore be laid on the back, and being furnished with blacking, the prints may
be either laid upon the cloth, paper, silk, or cotton, and impressed in a rolling
press, or with a leaver, or beaten with a maul, and afterwards painted either
with hand or with stansills or grounds, according to the usual practice, or the
paper, cloath, silk, or cotton intended to be printed or stained may be laid on
the arabesque prints or moulds, and impressed thereon or rubbed with a pad, or

page_text: such like thing made of cloath list, by either of which methods compleat and
perfect impressions of such enlarged prints or moulds may be obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Roberts, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, in the twenty-first 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 hundred and
eighty-one.