NEW METHOD OF WEAVING AND QUILTING IN THE LOOM, CLOTH OR LINNEN, WOOLEN, SILK, WORSTEDS, COTTON, AND MOHAIR, EITHER SEPA- RATE, OR ANY TWO OR MORE OF THEM MIXED OR JOINED TOGETHER, IN EVERY METHOD, FASHION, AND FIGURE, AS WELL IN IMITATION OF THE COMMON MANNER OF QUILTING, AS OF INDIA, FRENCH, AND MARSEILLES QUILTING
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ROBERT
ELSDEN, of Saint Luke, Old Street, in the City of London, Weaver, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Ninth day
of March last, gave and granted to the said Robert Elsden, and to George
Glasgow of the Town of Manchester, Weaver, their executors, adiñors, and
assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority
for the said Robert Elsden and George Glasgow, their executors, adiñiors, and
assigns, by themselves, or by their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as they should agree with, from time to time, to make, use,
exercise, and vend their "NEW METHOD OF WEAVING AND QUILTING IN THE LOOM,
CLOTH OR LINNEN, WOOLEN, SILK, WORSTEDS, COTTON, AND MOHAIR, EITHER SEPA-
RATE, OR ANY TWO OR MORE OF THEM MIXED OR JOINED TOGETHER, IN EVERY METHOD,
FASHION, AND FIGURE, AS WELL IN IMITATION OF THE COMMON MANNER OF QUILTING,
AS OF INDIA, FRENCH, AND MARSEILLES QUILTING," within that part of Great
Britain called England, 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, in such manner as to them, the said Robert Elsden and
George Glasgow, their executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, should
seem meet; and that he and they should and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time arising
by reason of the said Invention, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,

page_text: powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto the said Robert
Elsden and George Glasgow, their, executors, adñiors, 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 that case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Robert Elsden and
George Glasgow should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by
an instrument in writing under their hands and seals, or the hand and seal
of one of them, and cause the same to be inrolled in the 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, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had, may
more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Elsden, in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, as follows, viz:-
A weaver's loom, filled with warp, many cords or lasshes fixed in wheels or
pullys, before the harness, from the ceiling to the floor, with lingoes to cach
cord; one or two simples, as may be required, fixed on one side the loom.
A person stands at the side of the loom, draws the cords or lasshes by one or
more at a time, every time the shuttle is thrown, which makes the figure
intended; and every time the lasshes is so drawn, and shuttle thrown, it makes
the stiches in the manner of quilting.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Elsden, have to this present
Instrument set my hand and scal, this Sixth day of July, in the third
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.'

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Sixth day of July, in the year
above said, the said Robert Elsden came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument of Specification, 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 Seventh day of July, in the year above said.