A NEW PECULIAR WAY OR METHOD OF PRINTING, DYEING, OR STAINING OF CALLICOES IN GRAIN, WITH COLOURS MORE BRIGHT AND LASTING, AND WHICH SHALL BEAR WASHING AND WEATHER MUCH BETTER THAN ANY HERETOFORE VSED IN EUROPY, AND THAT SUCH CALLICOES SHALL EQUAL IF NOT EXCEED IN BEAUTY AND VSE THOSE STAINED IN THE INDIES
Year: 1715

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiect, PETER DUBISON, hath, by his.
peticon humbly represented vnto vs, that he hath with great paines and expence
invented "A NEW PECULIAR WAY OR METHOD OF PRINTING, DYEING, OR STAINING
OF CALLICOES IN GRAIN, WITH COLOURS MORE BRIGHT AND LASTING, AND WHICH SHALL
BEAR WASHING AND WEATHER MUCH BETTER THAN ANY HERETOFORE VSED IN EUROPY,
AND THAT SUCH CALLICOES SHALL EQUAL IF NOT EXCEED IN BEAUTY AND VSE THOSE
STAINED IN THE INDIES;" and that he hath by many experiments brought and
improved his said art to absolute certainty and perfeccon, and humbly presumes
the same, if duly encouraged, may be of great advantage to vs and the publick,
by preventing the importacon to and consumpčon in Great Britain of Indian
chints, that he shall be able to send his said printed, dyed, or stained callicoes
at rates much lower than for which Indian chints can be afforded, and very
little exceeding those ordinarily paid for callicoes now manufactured in England,
by which means he hopes great quantities may in time be exported from our'
dominions for sale in forreign countries instead of chints, which will greatly
improve our said revenue, be still more advantageous to the trade of the
nation in generall and to our subiects in particular employed in the said.
manufacture; and therefore humbly praying vs. to grant him our Letters:
Patent for the sole exercise and benefit of his said new art during the term.
of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in that behalfe.

page_text: NOW KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefit, 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 Peter Dubison, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial
lycence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that he, the said Peter
Dubison, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
himselfe and themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as he, the said Peter Dubison, his executors, adminis-
trators, or 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 exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, the said new peculiar way or method of printing, dyeing,
or staining of callicoes in grain; and that he, the said Peter Dubison, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the full terme of yeares herein menconed; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
menconed to be granted vnto the said Peter Dubison, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen
yeares from the date of these Presente next and immediately ensueing, and
fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in this case made and
provided. And to the end that the said Peter Dubison, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benefit, and the sole vsc and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gracious intencon berein-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, or degree, name or condicon 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 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 so attained vnto by the said Peter Dubison 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 substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors,

page_text: devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the
said Peter Dubison, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing
vnder his or their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe,
vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on offenders
for their contempt of this our royal comand, and further to be answerable
to the said Peter Dubison, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
according 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 our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other other officers and ministers whatso-
over 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 Peter Dubison, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or bis or their deputies,
servant, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull making, vse, or exercise
of the aforesaid Invention or anything relateing thereunto. Provided always,
and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at
any time during the said term hereby granted it shall and may be made
appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or incon-
venient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new
invention 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-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out
by the said Peter Dubison as aforesaid, then vpon signification and de-
claration 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 of them vnder their hande, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary 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 Peter Dubison, his executors, aministrators, 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
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, or Dominion of Wales, or Towne of Berwick-
vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being

page_text: our will and pleasure that the said Peter Dubison, his 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 practise 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 Presente. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Peter Dubison, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrolment
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall
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 Peter Dubison, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, as well in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and
singular the officers and ministers 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-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst
all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invenĉon, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.
In witnesso. &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, the Nineteenth day