A CERTAIN NEW-INVENTED MANUFACTURE OF LACE CALLED FRENCH OR WIRE GROUND LACE, WHICH IS MUCH STRONGER THAN ANY HITHERTO INVENTED OR FOUND OUT, AND ALSO OF AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ARTHUR
ELSE, of the Town of Nottingham, Hosier and Lace Manufacturer, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His Sovereign Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the twentieth year of His
reign, reciting, amongst other things, that the said Arthur Else had, by his Peti-
tion, represented to His said Majesty that, by great study, labour, and expence,
he, the said Arthur Else, had invented and brought to perfection "A CERTAIN
NEW-INVENTED MANUFACTURE OF LACE CALLED FRENCH OR WIRE GROUND LACE,
WHICH IS MUCH STRONGER THAN ANY HITHERTO INVENTED OR FOUND OUT, AND ALSO OF
AN INTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" His said Majesty did give and grant unto the
said Arthur Else, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said
Arthur Else, his executors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself
and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Arthur Else, his executors, adñiors, and 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 law.
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend his 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 him, the said Arthur Else, his executors, admors, and assigns, or any of

page_text: them, should in his and their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said
Arthur Else, his executors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the sole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arisising 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 the said Arthur Else, his 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 such cases
made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is, amongst other things,
contained a provisoe that if the said Arthur Else should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calender 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, anything therein-before contained to the contrary in any-
wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, may and doth more fully and at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that in pursuance of the said
Letters Patent, and in conformity to the provisoe therein contained, the said
Arthur Else hath described and ascertained, and by these Presents doth fully
and particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of the said new-invented
manufacture of lace called French or wire ground lace, and also the manner
of working the same (that is to say :)-
By mingling, mixing, or twisting a fine thread of silk, or such other material
that may answer the purpose of silk, to and with thread, flax, hemp, cotton,
or any other manufacture which usually hath been or may be worked on a
stocking frame, which addition of silk to thread, flax, hemp, cotton, or other
manufacture gives strength, firmness, and durability to the work, binding the
other materials, and preventing the same being or appearing to be so rowey
and uneven as works of that sort are and hitherto have been without such
addition. The manner of working the same is, as is common in the making
or working open work, eyelet hole, net work, or lace work, and on the
stocking frame, with the addition of the machine, fixed thereto, and which is
commonly and usually worked and made use of in the making of any such
work or by such other engine or machine by which any such work can or may

page_text: e made, and may be made to any particular stitch that the workman may
hink proper, which is a full and true description of the said Invention, and
n what manner the same is to be performed.
In witness whereof, the said Arthur Else hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.
ARTHUR (L.B.) ELSE.
Sealed and delivered, by the within-
named Arthur Else, in the pre-
sence of,
GEORGE SCRAGOS.
JOHN WELLS.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of
November above mentioned, the said Arthur Else came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 their late
Majesty's King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty.