A NEWE WAY TO TEXT AND FLORISH VELOMS AND PARCHMENT WITH OUR NAME, POURTRACTURE, IMPERIALL ARMES, BADGES, AND OTHER ORNAMENT, BY PRINTING THE SAME WITH A ROLLING PRINTING PRESSE AND ENGRAVEN PLATES, TO THE GREATE BENEFITT OF OUR SUBIECT, FOR THAT AS GOOD WORKE OTHERWISE WROUGHT CANNOTT WELL BE AFFORDED FOR TENN TYMES THE PRICE, THE WORKE BEING LIKEWISE VERY NEATE AND OF GOOD ORNAMENT TO OUR LETTERS PATENT AND OTHER EXEMPLIFICACONS
Year: 1662

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome theis
presente shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS wee have bin informed by the humble peticon of GEORGE
TOMLYN, Citizen and Stationer, of London, to vs lately exhibited, that he
having with greate paines and charges invented "A NEWE WAY TO TEXT AND
FLORISH VELOMS AND PARCHMENT WITH OUR NAME, POURTRACTURE, IMPERIALL
ARMES, BADGES, AND OTHER ORNAMENT, BY PRINTING THE SAME WITH A ROLLING
PRINTING PRESSE AND ENGRAVEN PLATES, TO THE GREATE BENEFITT OF OUR
SUBIECT, FOR THAT AS GOOD WORKE OTHERWISE WROUGHT CANNOTT WELL BE
AFFORDED FOR TENN TYMES THE PRICE, THE WORKE BEING LIKEWISE VERY NEATE
AND OF GOOD ORNAMENT TO OUR LETTERS PATENT AND OTHER EXEMPLIFICACONS,"
and that the said George Tomlyn might receive incouragement for his said
Invenčon according to lawe, he, by his suffringe for our late royall father of
blessed memory, having bin reduced to greate necessities, humbly besought
our royall graunt for the sole vse and benefitt thereof for fourteene yeares,
according to lawe, which wee referred to our attorney generall, whoe finding
the said allegačons to be true, and request fitt to. be graunted, wee by our
Letters Patente, dated at Westñi, the First day of February, in the thirteenth
yeare of our raigne, were graciously pleased to graunt the same vnto him for
fourteene yeares, as by the said Letters Patente more at large may appeare.

page_text: And the said George Tomlyn having further informed vs that he cannott
reape the benefitt of our intended favour for some reasons suggested vnto vs
by the said George Tomlyn, and bath therefore humbly besought vs to graunt
him other Letters Patent for the sole printing of our royall name and titlo
in text hand, both in Latin and English, vpon veloms and parchment, with
our royall pourtracture, imperiall armes, badges, and other ornamente, with a
rolling printing presse and engraven plates, for the terme of twelve yeares,
remainder of the said fourteene yeares, according to our most gracious and
royal intencon, he surrendring vp the said recited Letters Patente to be
cancelled and made voyde. And the said George Tomlyn hath further humbly
prayed vs that wee would in our said Letters Patente likewise graunt vnto
him the like printing of the name and title of our royall and deare consort
Queene Katherine.
KNOWE YE, that wce, being willing to give all lawfull incouragement to
ingenuous arte, and to inable the said George Tomlyn to reape the benefitt of
our intended favour, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere
mocon, have given and graunted, and by theis presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, doc give and graunt vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, deputies, agente, servante and workemen, full
power, privilege, licence, and authority, solely to print the name and title of vs,
our heires and successors, in text hand, both in Latine and English, vpon vellom
or parchment, and soly to print the pourtractures, imperiall armes, badges,
and other ornamente, of vs, our heires and successors, with a rolling
printing presse and engraven plates, for the terme of twelve yeares, remainder
of the said terme of foureteene yeares; and also full power, priviledge,
licence, and authority soly to print the name and title of our most deare
and royal consort Queene Katherine in text hand, both in Latine and
English, vpon any vellome or parchment, and of the pourtracture, armes,
and badges of our said deare and royall consort, with a rolling printing
presse and engraven plates, for the like terme of twelve yeares. And wee doe
further give and graunt vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, the printing on vellom or parchment the name and
title of vs, our heires and successors, in text hand, and the printing with
a rolling printing presse and engraven plates the pourtractures, imperiall
armes and badges of vs, our heires and successors, and the name and title
of our said deare and royall consort Queene Katharine in text hand, and
her pourtracture, armes, and badges, and every of them, to be ioinctly or
severally printed, to be sole and only proper coppy and coppies of him, the
said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for the said

page_text: terme of twelve yeares; and that he, the said George Tomlyn, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, shall and may have, receive and take all sumes of
money, benefitte, advantages, and profitte whatsoever thereby arrising, or to
be thereof hadd, made, acquired, or gotten from tyme to tyme during the
terme hereby graunted, to have, hould, and enioy the said coppy and coppies,
licence, privilege, power, and authority, sume and sumes of money, advantages,
profitte, and other the premisses by theis presente graunted or menconed to bo
graunted to the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, from the day of the date hereof, for and during the terme of twelve
yeares from thenceforth next ensuing, and fully to be compleate and ended,
yeelding and paying, and the said George Tomlyn, for himselfe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, doth covenant and graunt to and with vs, our
heires and successors, to yeeld and pay to vs, our heires and successors, at the
receipt of our Exchequer, the yearely rent or sume of twelve nobles, during
the said terme of twelve yeares, at the twoc vsuall feast of the yeare, videft,
the Feast of Sainct Michael the Archangell and the Annunciacon of the
Blessed Virgin Mary, by even and equall porcons, the first payment to begin
and to be made at the Feast of Sainct Michaell the Archangell next ensuing
the date of theis our Letters Patente. And to the end the said George
Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may have and take the
benefitt wee intend him by this our present graunt, of our more especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere močon, wee doe, for vs, our heires and successors,
straightly charge and comand all and every person and persons, of what estate,
degree, or condicon soever he, they, or any of them be, that they or any of
thein, during the said terme of twelve yeares, doe not presume, directly or
indirectly, to print, text, or flourish, or put to sale any printed, texted, or florished
velom or parchment with the name or title of vs, our heires or successors,
in text hand, either in Latin or English, or the pourtracture, imperiall armes or
badges, or other ornamente of vs, our heires or successors, or the name, title,
or pourtracture of our said deare and royall consort Queene Katherine, printed
with a rolling printing presse or engraven plates, without the licence, consent, and
agreement of the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
first had and obteyned in writing vnder bis or their handes and seales in that
behalfe, vpon such forfeiture, paine, and losse, as by the lawe may be had or
recovered by vs, our heires and successors, of all such respective printe so
printed or put to sale, and of the presses and instrumente as any person or
persons shall presume to attempt, vse, contrive, or put in practise for the
printing or stamping thereof; and that all and every the delinquent herein
shall be respectively proceeded against and punished according to our lawes

page_text: for their contempt or neglect of our royall will and comandement herein
declared, and, further, shall be aunswerable to the said George Tomlyn, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for all such damages, coste, penalties,
and forfeitures, as by lawe or custome can or may be recovered or obtcyned by
the said George Tomlyn, his exccutors, administrators, or assigns, or which he
or they can or may lawfully inflict vpon such delinquente for such their con-
tempt or neglect of this our said royal will and comandement. And wee doc
further by theis presente, for vs, our heires and successors, give and graunt
vnto the said George Tomlyn, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full
power, licence, and authority, from tyme to tyme, during the continuance of
this our present graunt, to proceed, act, and prosecute in the discovering of
offendors against our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, in such
manner, and according as is expressed, enacted, and declared concerning the
better discovering of printing in corners without licence, in an Act of Parlia-
ment made in the foureteenth yeare of our raigne, intituled An Act for
preventing the frequent abuses in printing seditious, treasonable, and vn-
licensed bookes and pamphlete, and for regulating of printing and printing
presses, as if this our present graunt were therein expressly named and par-
ticularly provided for. And wee doe by theis presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand all maiors, sheriffe, justices of the peace, bayliffe,
constables, headboroughes, and other the officers and ministers of vs, our heires
and successors, for the tyme being, to whome it shall appertaine, and every of
them, during the terme aforesaid, that they and every of them be from tyme to
tyme favouring, ayding, and assisting to the said George Tomlyn, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, in all lawfull thing in and about the accomplish-
ment of this our present graunt and pleasure herein declared, and for the
due suppression of all such as shall any wayes endeavour to infringe or oppose
the same; and this our Letters Patente, or the inrollment of them, shall be
their sufficient warrant in that behalfe. Provided allwayes, and our pleasure
is, that if at any tyme during the said terme it shall appeare vnto vs, our heires
and successors, that this our graunt shall be preiudiciall to our cōmonwealth,
then vpon significačon and declaracon to be made by vs, our heires or suc-
cessors, vnder our or their signett or privy scale, theis our Letters Patente shall
forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyd, any thing before menconed to
the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also, that if this our graunt is not
inrolled with the Remembrancer of our Exchequer within six monthes after
the date hereof, that then this our graunt shall be voide and of none effect,
anything in theis presente conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding. And
wee doe hereby graunt, for vs, our heires and successors, that this our Letters

page_text: Patent, or the inrollment thereof, shall be firme, good and effectuall in
the lawe, according to the true meaning of the same, although expresse
mencon, &c.
In witnes, &c. Witnes ourselfe at Westii, the Eight and twentieth day