AN INVENCON FOR MAKEING OF FLANDERS COLBERTINE AND ALL OTHER LACES OF WOOLLEN TO BE VSED IN AND ABOUT THE ADORNEING OR MAKEING-VPP OF DRESSES AND OTHER THING FOR THE DECENT BURIALL OF THE DEAD OR OTHERWISE
Year: 1678

page_text: WHEREAS AMY POTTER, Widdow, hath presented vs with "AN INVENCON
FOR MAKEING OF FLANDERS COLBERTINE AND ALL OTHER LACES OF WOOLLEN TO BE VSED
IN AND ABOUT THE ADORNEING OR MAKEING-VPP OF DRESSES AND OTHER THING FOR
THE DECENT BURIALL OF THE DEAD OR OTHERWISE," which we are informed will bo
to the increase of the woollen manufacture, and encourage obedience to a lato
Act of Parliament, entituled an Act for Burying in Woollen.
NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, well likeing the said Invencon, have att the
humble peticon of the said Amy Potter, of our especiall grace, certaine
knowledge, and meere močon, given and granted, and by these presente, for
vs, our heires and successors, doc give and grant vnto the said Amy Potter, her
executors, admistrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and sole power,
priviledge, and authoritie, that shee and they, and her and theire servant and
workefolkes, and noe others, shall and may, dureing the tearme of foureteene
yeares next ensueing the day of the date of these presents, vse, practice,
exercise, and enioy the said art or Invencon of makeing all and all manner of
laces of woollen within our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and
towne of Berwick-vppon-Tweed, in such manner as to her or them shall
seeme meete, and shall have and enioy the sole benefitt and advantage ariseing
thereby, or by reason thereof, to have, hould, and enioy the said licences,
powers, priviledges, authorities, and other the premisses hereby granted, or
intended to be granted, to the said Amy Potter,. her executors, adnistrators,

page_text: and assignes, from the date of these presents, for and dureing the tearme of
fouretcenc yeares from thence next ensucing, and fully to bee compleate and
ended, according to the statute in that case provided. And to the end that
the said Amy Potter, her executors, admistrators, and assignes, and everie of
them, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and
exercize of her said Invencon, aswell within liberties as without, wee doe by
these presents, for vs, our heires & successors, require and streightlie charge
and comand all and everie person and persons, bodies politique and corporate,
of whatsoever degree, name, or addičon they bee, that they nor any of them,
dureing the tearme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe
or shall vse or putt in practice the said art or Invencon, nor doe or shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addicon
herevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves
inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Amy Potter, her executors, adnistrators, or assigns, in writeing vnder
her or theire hands and scales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vppon
such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the
contempt of this our comand in that behalfe, and, further, to bee answearable
to the said Amy Potter, her executors; adññistrators, or assignes, according to
law and justice, for her and theire damages thereby sustained. And further, wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto
the said Amy Potter, ber executors, ad₁istrators, and "assignes, full power
and authoritie, that shee, they, and everie of them, her, 'theire, and everie
of theire deputies, servants, and agente, or any of them, haveing first
obtained a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the
Court of King Bench for the time being, may, with the assistance of a cou-
stable or any other lawful officer, as well within liberties as without, vppon
request, att convenient times in the day dureing the said "
said "tearme, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places
where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon for discoverie and findeing out of all
such persons as 'shall, within the said tearme of foureteenie yeares, imitate, or
cause to be imitated, or shall vse or putt in practice the said art or Invencon
aforesaid, that soe such offenders may bee proceeded against and punished
according to theire'demeritts. And further, wee doe by these presente, for vs,
our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require all and singular justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffe, bayliffe, headboroughes, and all other officers
and ministers of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they
and everie of them respectivélie bee from time to time durcing the said tearine
hereby granted, in theire respective places, "favoureing, äiding, helpeing, and

page_text: assisting vnto the said Amy Potter, her executors, adñistrators, and assignes,
and to her and theire deputie and deputyes, servants and agente, in and by all
thing in and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein
declared, and the exercize and execučon of the powers and priviledges herein
and hereby granted.or menčoned to bee granted as aforesaid. And moreover,
wee will and comand by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, that
our said officers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said
Amy Potter, her executors, admistrators, or assigns, or her or theire deputie,
deputies, servants or agents, or any of them, in or about the vse or exercise of
the said art or Invencon, in any matter or thing concerncing the same: Pro-
vided alwayes, that if att any time dureing the said terme of foureteene yeares
it shalbe made appeare to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of
our or theire privic councell, that this grant is preiudiciall or inconvenient to
our cōmon weale, or that the said art or Invenčon is not a new Invenčon of
the said Amy Potter, as to the vse and practice thereof within our kingdome
of England, then vppon significačon or declaracon to bee made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or theire signett or privie sealc, or by the
Jorde and others of our Privie Councell, or six or more of them, for the time
being, in writeing vnder theire hands, of such piudice and inconvenience,
these our Letters Patents, and all thing therein contained, shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrarie notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that
these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend or
lice construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Amy Potter, her
executors, admistrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or worke found out or invented by any other person or persons, and
publickly exercized in this our kingdome of England, vnto whome wee have
alreadie granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse,
exercize, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that the said Amy
Potter, her executors, admistrators, and assignes, and all and singular other
person or persons to whome wee have alreadie granted our like Letters Patents
or priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice theire severall
invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaneing of the said severall and respective Letters Patents, and of these
presents. And further, wee doe by these presente, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Amy Potter, her executors, adiistrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, and the inrollment thereof, shall bec
in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according
to the true intent and meancing of these presente, and shalbe taken, construed

page_text: and adiudged most favourably and beneficially for the best benefitt and
advantage of the said Amy Potter, her executors, adiistrators, and assignes,
aswell in all our courte of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describeing of the said art or Invenčon, or of the certaine
vse or benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incertaine-
ties, or imperfeccons in these present contained, or any act, statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamačon, or restraint, to the contrarie in any wise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selle att Westminster, the Fourth of
October.
P priuatum sigill.