MAKING OF SAPPING SIK LACING, BOTH ROUND AND FLAT, BY AN ENGINE WHICH MAKES SIXTEEN AND MORE BY ONE SINGLE MOČON, TO BE WORKED BY ONE MAN ALONE, AND THE SAID LACES ARE IN ALL RESPECTS AS GOOD AS THOSE VSUALLY MADE BY HAND LABOUR, BY MEANS WHEREOP ONE MAN CAN MAKE AS MUCH OF THE SAID LACING IN A DAY BY HELP OF THE SAID ENGINE AS TWENTY MEN CAN NOW DO ACCORDING TO THE METHOD HITHERTO. KNOWN AND VSED IN MAKING THE. SAID LACING WHICH HAS BEEN BY HANDWORK ONLY IN MAKING THEM ONE BY ONE
Year: 1727

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presente shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved ISAAC BLANCHARD, Gentleman, and
PETER BLANCHARD, Engine Weaver, have by their peticon humbly represented
vnto vs that they have, after several yeares labour and application, and at
very great expence of several hundred pounde, found out an Invention entirely-
new for "MAKING OF SAPPING SIK LACING, BOTH ROUND AND FLAT, BY AN ENGINE
WHICH MAKES SIXTEEN AND MORE BY ONE SINGLE MOČON, TO BE WORKED BY ONE
MAN ALONE, AND THE SAID LACES ARE IN ALL RESPECTS AS GOOD AS THOSE VSUALLY
MADE BY HAND LABOUR, BY MEANS WHEREOP ONE MAN CAN MAKE AS MUCH OF THE
SAID LACING IN A DAY BY HELP OF THE SAID ENGINE AS TWENTY MEN CAN NOW DO
ACCORDING TO THE METHOD HITHERTO. KNOWN AND VSED IN MAKING THE. SAID LACING
WHICH HAS BEEN BY HANDWORK ONLY IN MAKING THEM ONE BY ONE," that by
means of the said engine the said lacing may be manufactured in such
quantities as to enable a very great exportacon to be made thereof to forreign
parts where there is a much greater call for this commodity than the trade in
the trade in the common method can at present supply for want of a more
expeditious way for making, the same, and which will be effectually supplyed
by this engine, to the great advantage of this nation, and considerable quanties
of the peticoners' manufacture have already been exported for Holland,
Flanders, and Germany, and as the petitioners have been at so great an
expence of time and money in discovering and finding out the said Invention,
and as the same is indisputably a new Invention, there having no method

page_text: hitherto been found out for making the said lacing by an engine in quantities,
but only handwork, as aforesaid, and as the same will be of very great vse and
benefit to the publick, they have humbly prayed vs to grant them our Royal
Letters Patent for the sole vse of the said engine for such term of years as
wce should think proper, wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which may be for the publick vse and benefit are gratiously
pleased to gratify them in their request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Isaac
Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
our especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, tho
said Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by themselves or by their deputy and
deputies, servants or agente, or such others as they, the said Isaac Blanchard
and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter
during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse,
exercise, and enjoy their said new Invention for making of sapping silk lacing,
both round and flat, by an engine, as above described, within that part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said Isaac Blanchard
and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that they, the said Isaac
Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and ad-
vantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing. and ariseing by
reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the full term of yeares herein
menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto
the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, for and during and vntill the full end and term of fourteen
years 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
provided. And to the end that the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard,
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

page_text: every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our
subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condition
soever they be, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
that neither they or any of them at any time during the continuance of the said.
term of fourteene yeares hereby either direcly or indirectly, do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by
the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard 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 himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Isaac Blauchard.
and. Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing.
vnder their hands and scales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon.
such paines 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 Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors,. adininis-
trators, 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 comand all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever 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 terme hereby
granted in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Isaac Blanchard and
Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
or their deputies, servants, or about the due and lawfull making, vse, or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or anything 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 successors, or any six or more
of our or their Privy Council, that this our graut is contrary to law or
preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise
thereof within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed afore-
said, or not invented and found out by the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter
Blanchard as aforesaid, then vpon signification and declaration thereof to be
made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or-privy-seal,
or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more.
.

page_text: of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Isaac
Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which
hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subiects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that part of our said
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patente or pri-
viledges have been already granted, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter
Blanchard, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall Inventions by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patent and of these
Presente Provided likewise, neverthelesse, and these our Letters Patente are
vpon this expresse condičon, that if the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter
Blanchard, 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 claime any right, tytle, 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 hereby granted, shall make any transferr or
assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignement, 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 november of persons exceeding the
number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any book or book? for
publick subscriptions to be made by any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money vnder
pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall
by him or themselves, or his or their agent or servants, receive any summe or
sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons exceeding in the whole
the number of five for such or the like intent 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
comitted or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as

page_text: such person or persons shall have any right or title either in law or equity
in or to the said premisses which would be contrary to the true intent and
meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of our reign,
intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges in-
tended 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 menconed),
if these our Letters Patente 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 representatives 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 Patente, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages
whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Isaac Blanchard and Peter Blanchard, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm,
valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning hereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Isaac Blan-
chard and Peter Blanchard, their executors, administrators, and assignes, as
well in all Courte of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ininisters whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part
of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiect of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwith-
standing the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnessc. &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Thirtieth day