SEVERALL WAYES OF MANUFACTURING AND ORDERING CERTAINE ROOTES AND BARKES WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS, SOE AS TO MAKE THEM VERY VSEFULL FOR DYING OF SILKES, WROUGHT AND VNWROUGHT, AND WOOLLEN AND LINNEN CLOATH IN MANY SORTS OF COLOURS, IN GRAINE AND OTHERWISE, WITH OR WITHOUT FIRE, AND WILL ALSO BE VSEFULL FOR LIMNERS AND PAINTERS, AND FOR PERFORATEING GLASSE, AND FOR DIVERS OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1693

page_text: WILLIAM AND MARY, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved MATHIEW ELLISTON, ROBERT DODS-
WORTH, SAMUEL WEALE, and ROBERT MAN, have by their humble petition
represented vnto vs that at their great charge, after much difficulty and
danger, by travelling into America, and converseing with the native Indians
there, they have found out and invented "SEVERALL WAYES OF MANUFACTURING
AND ORDERING CERTAINE ROOTES AND BARKES WITH OTHER INGREDIENTS, SOE AS
TO MAKE THEM VERY VSEFULL FOR DYING OF SILKES, WROUGHT AND VNWROUGHT,
AND WOOLLEN AND LINNEN CLOATH IN MANY SORTS OF COLOURS, IN GRAINE AND
OTHERWISE, WITH OR WITHOUT FIRE, AND WILL ALSO BE VSEFULL FOR LIMNERS AND
PAINTERS, AND FOR PERFORATEING GLASSE, AND FOR DIVERS OTHER PURPOSES;"
which Invention will be of publick benefit and advantage, and have prayed
our grant for the sole vse and benefitt thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wec, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may be of publick vse and benefitt; of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these psents,
for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Mathew
Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that they, the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel
Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and

page_text: every of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel
Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times
dureing the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse,
exercise, and enioy the said Invention within any part or parts, place or
places, whatsoever, of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of England, Dominion
of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or any of
our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to
such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitations as to them, the said Mathew
Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seeme meet;
and that they, the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale,
and Robert Man, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole vse, exercise, benefitt, profit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention,
for and durcing the full terme of yeares herein mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Mathew
Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteen yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in this case made
and provided. And to the end that the said Mathew Elliston, Robert
Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse
and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gratious intentions
herein before declared, wee doe, by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies
politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate,
quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be, within all and every our
kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any time
dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted,.
either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practice the said Invention or
any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Mathew Elliston, Robert
Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise
counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves
the inventers or devisers thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement

page_text: of the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert
Man, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their or
some of their hands and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon
such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our royall comand; and further to be answerable
to the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert
Man, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
their or any of their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee
doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our
heires and successors, for the time being, that they or any of them doe not nor
shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted, in anywise
molest, trouble, or hinder the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth,
Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
or their or any of their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawful vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relateing
thereto: Provided alwaies, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon
this condition, that if at any time dureing the terme hereby granted it shall
be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall
or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not
a new Invention, as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within this our
kingdome, and not invented or found out by the said Mathew Elliston,
Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, or any of them as
aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaration thereof to be made by vs,'
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the
Lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing before herein con-
tained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these
our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Mathew Elliston,
Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invention or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said
realmes and dominions or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or
priviledge have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt

page_text: thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Mathew Elliston, Robert
Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practice their severall Inventions by them invented and
found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective
Letters Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee doe by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Mathew Elliston, Robert
Dodsworth, Samuel Weale, and Robert Man, their exccutors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall
be in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said Mathew Elliston, Robert Dodsworth, Samuel Weale,
and Robert Man, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all
Courts of Record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and succsssors, in all and singular our
realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects
of vs, our heires and successors, notwithstanding the not full and certaine
describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materialls
thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Nineteenth