NEW MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS OR HOSE, GLOVES, MITTENS OR MITTS, NIGHT CAPS, SACKS, COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND BREECHES PIECES, OR PIECES OF ANY LENGTH, OR ANY OTHER ARTICLES OF GOODS OF ANY KIND, TO BE WORKED OR WOVE UPON A COMMON STOCKING OR OTHER FRAME, OB KNIT WITH NEEDLES, PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR THE WEAR OF PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH THE GOUT, RHEUMATISM, PALSY, OR OTHER LAMENESS, WEAKNESS, OR INFIR- MITY
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
VALLOTTON, of Charing Cross, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in
the Liberty of Westminster, Haberdasher and Hosier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixteenth day of November, in the eleventh year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Peter Vallotton, His especial licence that I, the said
Peter Vallotton, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, my Invention of an entire "NEW MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS OR
HOSE, GLOVES, MITTENS OR MITTS, NIGHT CAPS, SACKS, COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND
BREECHES PIECES, OR PIECES OF ANY LENGTH, OR ANY OTHER ARTICLES OF GOODS OF
ANY KIND, TO BE WORKED OR WOVE UPON A COMMON STOCKING OR OTHER FRAME,
OB KNIT WITH NEEDLES, PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR THE WEAR OF PERSONS AFFLICTED
WITH THE GOUT, RHEUMATISM, PALSY, OR OTHER LAMENESS, WEAKNESS, OR INFIR-
MITY;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me,
the said Peter Vallotton, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within

page_text: four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Peter Vallotton, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an entire New
Manufactory of Stockings or Hose, Gloves, Mittens or Mitts, Night Caps,
Socks, Waistcoats, and Breeches Pieces, or Pieces of any Length, or any
other Articles of Goods of any Kind, to be Worked or Wove upon a com-
mon Stocking or other Frame, or Knit with Kneedles, peculiarly Adapted
for the Wear of Persons afflicted with the Gout, Rheumatism, Palsy, or other
Lameness, Weakness, or Infirmity, is described in the manner following (that
is to say).:-
Of waste silk, or other silk carded and spun, seperate from or with rabet or
coney wool, hare wool, beaver wool, Vigonia wool or Spanish wool, cotton wool
or camell's hair, or any other kind of wool, furr, or hair of any other animal or
beast, down of birds or fowls, as also tow, hemp, or flax, mixed, carded, and
spun, seperately or with each other, and afterwards thrown or twisted together
with a thread of wrought silk or thread of any other material, to strengthen the
same; and afterwards worked or wove upon a common stocking or other
frame, or knit with kneedles, and made into men's, women's, and children's
hose, men's, women's, and children's gloves with fingers, women's and children's
mittens or mitts, men's, women's, and children's night caps, men's, women's,
and children's socks, knee caps, scul caps, coats, waistcoats, or breeches pieces,
or pieces of any length, or any other article of hosiery prepared and worked
in the same manner. And also the various articles above specified, made of
common materials and in the usual manner, with the addition of laying upon
the needles of the stocking frame or knitting kneedles, with the hand brush,
comb, heckle, or any other instrument, such kinds and sorts of wool, hair,
down, and unwrought silk, in every particular as mentioned above, for the
purpose of making a kuap within or without or on both sides of the above
articles particularly enumerated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Vallotton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of March, One thousand seven hun-
dred and seventy-one.
PETER VALLOTTON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Seventh day of March, in
the year above said, the aforesaid Peter Vallotton came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, 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 Eighth day of March, in the year above written.