THE SOLE MAKEING OF ALL SORTS OF BLEW, PURPLE, AND OTHER COLOURED PAPERS
Year: 1692

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved NATHANIEL GIFFORD hath by his
humble petičon represented vnto vs, that he haveing lately obtained our Letters
Patents vnder our Great Seale, for "THE SOLE MAKEING OF ALL SORTS OF BLEW,
PURPLE, AND OTHER COLOURED PAPERS," by such waies, methods, engines, and
instruments as never were before vsed within our dominions, by some
neglect the words (beautifying, figuring, imprinting, and imbellishing of the
said papers) were omitted in our warrant for the said Letters Patents (which
words have a perticular respect to the engines and instruments vsed in the
said Nathaniel Gifford's Invention), whereby the said Letters Patents may
seeme to be defective in expressing the said Invention, and that he, the said
Nathaniel Gifford, is the first and true inventer of the said engines and
instruments for the vses aforesaid, and at his great industry and expence
contrived the same for the beautifying, figureing, imprinting, and imbelishing
of the said papers, and hath humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters
Patents for the sole vse thereof.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that his request, and willing to incourage the inventers of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Nathaniel Gifford,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole

page_text: priviledge and authority, that be, the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors,
administrators, and assigues, and every of them, by themselves or his or their
deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Nathaniel
Gifford, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree
with and noe others, from time to time and at all times during the terme of
yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and
enioy the said Invention of beautifying, figureing, imprinting, and imbellishing
of all sorts of blew, purple, and other coloured papers by the engins and
instruments aforesaid, within any part or parts, places whatsoever, of, in, or
belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and all and every or any of our kingdomes and
dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to such reasonable
and lawfull rates and lymittations as to him, the said Nathaniel Gifford, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seeme meet, and that he, the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt,
profitt, comodity, and advantage, from time to time comeing, growing, and
ariseing, by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing the full terme of
yeares herein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
priviledges and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted,
vnto the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and durcing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the
date of these presents next and imediatly ensueing, and fully to be compleate
and ended according to the statute in this case made and provided; and to
the end that the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them may enioy the full benefitt, and the sole makeing
vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gracious intentions
herein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and persons,
bodies politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicòn soever they be, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they, nor any of them, at
any time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practise the said
Invention, or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Nathaniel
Gifford as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the same,
nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereto or substraccon from
the same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof,
without the lycense, consent, or agreement of the said Nathaniel Gifford, his

page_text: lawfull makeing vse
Provided allwaies,
condicon, that if at
executors, administrators, or assignes in writeing, vnder his, their, or some of
their hands and seales 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 royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said
Nathaniel Gifford, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for his and their damages thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heirs and successors, will and comand all and singuler our
justices 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 terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the
said Nathanel Gifford, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of his or
their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
or exercise of the aforesaid, or anything relating thereto.
and these our Letters Patente are and shall be vpon this
any time dureing the terme hereby granted, it shall be made appeare 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 preiudiciall or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to the
publick vse and exercise thereof, within this our kingdom, and not invented
and found out by the said Nathaniel Gifford as aforesaid, then vpon significa-
tion and declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder
our or their signett or privy seale, 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 forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, anything before herein contained to the contrary in
anywise notwithstanding. Provided alsoe that these our Letters Patents, or
anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge vnto the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever
which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our subiects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realmes and domi-
nions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledge have bin
allready granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our
will and pleasure that the said Nathaniel Gifford, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and singuler other person and psons, to whome like
Letters Patents or priviledges have bin allready 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

page_text: Letters Patents, and of these psents; and lastly, wee doe by these sents,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Nathaniel Gifford,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,
or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, 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 beneficiall sence, for the best advantage of the said Nathaniel
Gifford, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of
record as elsewhere, and by all and singuler the officers and ministers what-
soever, of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singuler 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 certain describeing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of
the materials hereto conduceing and belonging.
in witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selves at Westminster, the Nineteenth
Witnesse, &C.
day of October.
By Writt of Privy Seale.
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