AN ENGINE VERY VSEFULL FOR THE BEAUTIFYING OF CLOATHS, FREEZES, AND OTHER WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES OF OUR KINGDOMES, IN NAPPING THE SAME, MUCH BETTER THEN THE MANNER NOW VSED, AND THAT THE SAID ENGINE NEVER HATH BEENE SEENE OR VSED IN OUR DOMINIONS
Year: 1684

page_text: these presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS JAMES DELABADIE hath, by his humble peticon, informed vs
that hee hath beyond the seas made discovery of "AN ENGINE VERY VSEFULL FOR
THE BEAUTIFYING OF CLOATHS, FREEZES, AND OTHER WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES OF
OUR KINGDOMES, IN NAPPING THE SAME, MUCH BETTER THEN THE MANNER NOW VSED,
AND THAT THE SAID ENGINE NEVER HATH BEENE SEENE OR VSED IN OUR DOMINIONS,"
and hee haveing humbly besought vs to grant vnto him our Letters Patents
for the sole vse and exercise of the same for the terme of fourteene yeares,
according to the statute in that case pvided, wee are gratiously pleased to
condescend to that his request.
KNOWE YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to incourage the
inventers of such arts as be of publick vse and benefit, of our especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grante vnto the said
James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that hee, the said James Dela-
badie, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves, or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as
the said James Delabadie, his 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 hereafter in these presents expressed, shall and
lawfully may vse, exercise, & enioy the saide engine within any part or

page_text: parts, place or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England
dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions
whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates
and limitačons as to him, the said James Delabadie, his executors, admini
strators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons seeme meet
and that he, the said James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and may have and enjoy the sole bencfit, profit, comodity
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason
of the said engine, for and durcing the full terme of yeares hereafter menconed
to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence, powers, privileges and
advantages herein-before granted or menčoned to bee granted vnto the said
James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and durcing
vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the day of the date
of these presents nexte and immediately ensueing, and fully to bee compleat
and ended, according to the statute in this case made and provided: and to
the end that the said James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse &
exercise of the said Invenĉon, according to our gratious intenčons herein-
before declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodys peli-
tique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate,
quality, or degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within all and every onr
kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor either of them, att any time
durcing the continuance of the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly doe vse or put in practise the said engine or any part
of the same soe found out by the said James Delabadie, as aforesaid, nor shall in
any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made
any addičon thereto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pretend them-
selves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said James Delabie, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hands and seales first had and
obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys as can or may be iustly
inflicted vpon such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand,
and further to be answerable to the said James Delabadie, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned. And wee doe, of our further especiall grace, certeine know-
ledge, and meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the
said James Delabadic, his executors, administrators, and assignes, by these
presents, that he, they, and every of them, and his, theire and every of

page_text: theire deputys, agents, and servants (haveing first obteined a lawfull warrant
from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westii for the
time being, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull
oflicer, at convenient times in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and
in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any place or places
whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or dominions (where there shall be
iust cause of suspition, for the discovery and finding out of all and every
person and persons as shall imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vse
or put in practice the said engine, or shall make or counterfeite any instru-
ments or materialls to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders
may be proceded against and punished according to law. And further wee
doe by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and
comand all and singular iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes,
constables, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever,
of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, aswell within our king-
dome of England and dominion of Wales as within all and every our
kingdomes and dominions, that they and every of them respectively, be from
time to time dureinge the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices,
favouringe, aiding, helping, and assisting vnto the said James Delabadie, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and deputys,
servants and agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of
our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and
exccucon of the powers and privileges hereby granted as aforesaid. And
moreover wee doe by presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
comand that our said respective officers and ministers before menconed, or
any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said
terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said James
Delabadie, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any his or their
deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invenčon, or anything relateing thereto: Provided always, and
these our Letters Patents are and shalbe vpon this condicon, that if at any
time dureing the said terme hereby granted it shalbe made appeare to vs, our
heires and successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that
this our present grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon or engine, as to the publick vse
and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, is not found out or discovered
by the said James Delabadic as aforesaid; then vpon significacon and decla-
racon thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their
signet or privy scale, 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

page_text: forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void, to all intents and purposes,
anything herein-before conteined to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding:
Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything therein conteined,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said
James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
to vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath been hereto-
fore found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and
publickly vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any of
them, vnto whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Privi-
lege, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said James Delabadie, his exccutors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and singular other person and psons to whom wee have
already granted our like Letters Patents or privileges as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practise their severall Invenčons by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meaneing 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 James Delabadie, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shalbe in and by all things good, firme, valid, suflicient, and effectuall
in the law, according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and shalbe taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense; for the
best advantage of the said James Delabadie, his executors, administrators, &
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires & successors, in all and
singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every
the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certeine describing the nature or quality of
the said engine, or of the materialls thereto conduceing & belonging, or any
other defects or incerteintys in these presents contained, or any act, statute,
ordinance, pvision, proclamacon, or restricčon, or other matter, cause, or thing
whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding,
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westin, the First day of
In witnesse, ac.
August.
Quasing
By Writt of Privy Seale.
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