A NEW ART OF MARBLING PAPER WITH A MARGENT, NEVER PRACTISED BY ANY PERSON WHATSOEVER BEFORE HE INVERTED IT, WHICH IS PERFORMED BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, BY TAKING OFF THE COLOURS FROM A BODY OF WATER PREPARED AFTER A PARTICULAR MANNER, WITH A PROPER STRENGTH FOR SUPPORTING THE SAID COLOURS AND MAKE THEM FLOW UPON THE SURFACE IT, WHEREBY THE SAID COLOURS ARE MORE EASILY TAKEN OFF UPON PAPER, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT SERVICE TO THE PUBLICK, BY PRE- VENTING THE COUNTERFEITING OF SUCH NOTES, BILLS, BONDS &c.
Year: 1731

page_text: presents snall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved SAMUEL POPE, Citizen and Draper,
London, hath, by his peticon, humbly represented unto vs, that the practice of
counterfeiting of bank and other notes, &c. at this time appears very notorious,
to the great detriment of the trade and cōmerce of this kingdom, and that
the making use of paper marbled with a margent for merchant notes, bills of
exchange, company's notes or bonds, receipts for subscripcons, or any other
instruments that admit of a cheque being generally allowed to be the most
effectual remedy to prevent so great a evil, he has, by long study and with
great industry, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW ART OF MARBLING
PAPER WITH A MARGENT, NEVER PRACTISED BY ANY PERSON WHATSOEVER BEFORE
HE INVERTED IT, WHICH IS PERFORMED BY A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, BY TAKING OFF
THE COLOURS FROM A BODY OF WATER PREPARED AFTER A PARTICULAR MANNER,
WITH A PROPER STRENGTH FOR SUPPORTING THE SAID COLOURS AND MAKE THEM
FLOW UPON THE SURFACE IT, WHEREBY THE SAID COLOURS ARE MORE EASILY TAKEN
OFF UPON PAPER, WHICH WILL BE OF VERY GREAT SERVICE TO THE PUBLICK, BY PRE-
VENTING THE COUNTERFEITING OF SUCH NOTES, BILLS, BONDS, &c.; and he, having
humbly prayed vs, in regard he is the first Inventor of the said new art, to
grant unto him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and benefitt of
his said Invenčon of a new art for marbling paper with a margent, wee
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and invenčons that may, be
for the publick use. and benefitt, are graciously pleased to gratify him in his
request.

page_text: 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 unto the said Samuel
Pope, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Samuel Pope, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the suid Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully
may exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, his said Invention of a new art of marbling paper with a margent,
performed by a method entirely new, by taking off the colours from a body
of water prepared after a particular manner, with a proper strength for sup
porting the said colours and make them flow upon the surface of it, whereby
the said colours are the more easily taken off upon paper, as above described,
and that he, the said Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by
reason of the said Invenčon for and during the term of years herein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges
and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the
said Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of these
presents next and imediately 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 Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise
of the said Invenčon according to our gracious intenčon herein-before
declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality,
degree, name, or condition soever they be, within the said part of our kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them, at any time
during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, do make, use, or putt in practice the said In-
vention or any part of the same so attained unto by the said Samuel Pope

page_text: as aforesaid, nor in anywise 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 himself or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing under
his or their hands and seals, first had and obteined 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 comand, and further to be answerable
to the said Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, and assignes, accord-
ing to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover wee
do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all
and singular the iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, 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 anywise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Samuel Pope, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or
about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any
thing relating thereto. Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be upon this condition, that if at any time during the said term
hereby granted it shall 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 preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the
said Invenčon is not a new invention as to the publick use and exercise
thereof in the said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not in-
vented and found out by the said Samuel Pope as aforesaid, then upon
signification or declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
under our or their signet or privy seal, or by the lords and others of our or
their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them, under their hands, these
our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void,
to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contened 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 unto the said Samuel Pope, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work
whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other
of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in the said part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or

page_text: town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patents or
priviledges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Samuel Pope, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person or persons
to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as
aforesaid, shall distinctly use and practice their severall inventions by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patents, and of these presents. Provided likewise, never-
theless, and these our Letters Patents are upon this express condition, that
if the said Samuel Pope, his executors or administrators, or any per-
son or persons which shall or may, at any time or times hereafter during
the continuance of this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest in
law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole
use and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transfer
or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assignment, of the said liberty
and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefitt or profit thereof, or shall
declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the num-
ber of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any book or books for publick
subscripcons, to be made by any number of persons exceeding the number of
five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money under 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 is 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 priviledge hereby by vs granted, into any number
of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall comit or do, or procure to
be cōmitted or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time
as such person 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 the reigne 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
Maiesty by two charters for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea,
and for lending money upon bottomry, and for restraining severall extra-
vagant and unwarrantable 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 representatives at any one time,

page_text: (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the single person whom
they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be entitled to in night
of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said cases,
these, our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages what-
soever hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, any-
thing herein-before conteined to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstand-
ing. And, lastly, wee do by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant unto the said Samuel Pope, his 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 thereof, and shall be taken,
construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the
best advantage of the said Samuel Pope, his 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, in 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 subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and where-
soever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describeing the nature or
quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.