Year: 1730

page_text: GASTINEAN AND MONS' PATENT.
GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN GASTINEAN and WILLIAM MONS, of Spittlefielde, Weavers,
have by their petition humbly represented vnto vs, that mourning crapes made
of silk, and commonly known by the name of Vallee Cypress or Bolognia crapes,
are at this time manufactured in Italy only, and from thence, to the great profit
of the Italians, imported into this kingdom,, that the petitioners at a great
expence, and by their indefatigable pains and industry, have at length attained
to the knowledge of manufacturing the said crapes here at home, which hath
been in vain atteined at vast expence and the ruin of many families, that if
the said manufacture be introduced into this our kingdom, which the peti-
tioners are able to do, great numbers of the poor will be imployed, the impor-
tačon of raw silks will be encreased, and the said goode, being in every respect
as good as those imported, will be sold considerably cheaper, to the great
advantage of our subiects, and in consideration thereof, they having humbly
prayed vs to grant them our Royal Letters Patents for the, sole making and
manufacturing the said mourning crapes for the term of fourteen yeares, as the
Statute has provided for in such cases, wee, being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and Inventions which may be for the publick vse and benefit,
are grationsly pleased to gratify them in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and, successors, do give and grant vnto the said John
Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes,

page_text: our especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the
said John Gastincan and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or by their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said John Gastinean and
William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make and manufacture the
said silk mourning crapes as above described, within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the John Gastinean and
William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem mect, and that they, the said John
Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the whole profitt, benefitt, commodity, and
advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing, by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the full term of yeares herein men-
tioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said
John Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vntill the full end and term 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 such case made and pro-
vided. And to the end that the said John Gastinean and William Mons, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy
the full benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according
to our gratious intention herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatso-
ever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condition soever they bo within
that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they nor any
of them at any time, during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the said John
Gastinean and William Mons, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himsel
or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, withou
the licence, consent, or agreement of the said John Gastinean and Willian

page_text: Mons, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder their hande
and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties
as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our
royal command, and further to be answerable to the said John Gastinean
and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to
law for their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular
the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, 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 do not nor shall at any time hereafter
during the said term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the
said John Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due
and lawfull making, vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing
relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall
be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said 'term hereby granted
it shall be made appear 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 general, or that the said
Invention is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in
that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or. not invented and found
out by the said John Gastinean and William Mons as aforesaid, then vpon
signification or declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
or by the Lord and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more
of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith' cease,
determine, and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise 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 John
Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention, or work whatsoever which
hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects what-
soever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, our: Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents of priviledges have been
already granted for the sole -vse, exercise, and benefit thereof,- it being our
will and pleasure, that the said John Gastinean and William Mons, their
executors, administratörs, and assignes, and all and every other person and

page_text: persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their several inventions by thom
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patents and of these Presents: Provided likewise nevertheless,
and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the said
John Gastinean and William Mons, or the executors or administrators of them or
any of them, or any person or persons which shall or may at any time or times
hereafter during the continuance of this grant have or clayme any right, title,
or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of
the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention bereby granted, shall make any
transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignment, of the
said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit
thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any
book or books for publick subscriptions to be made by any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or suius of
money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby
granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants,
receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the like intents or
purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs
granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
committ or do, or procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have any right
or title either in law or equity in or to the said pmisses, which would be
contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made
in the sixth year of the reign of our late royal father King George the
First, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges
intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance of
Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein
mentioned,) if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case
the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become
vested in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or their repre-
sentatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for
the single person whom they represent as to such interest, as they are or shall
be intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate,) that then and in
any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and

page_text: advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any
wise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, grant vnto the said John Gastinean and William Mons,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,
or the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good,
firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent
and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the said John
Gastinean and William Mons, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as
well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that said
part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
* In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Nineth day
of October