A METHOD OF MAKING SILK STRINGS FOR ALL SORTS OF STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRU MENTS
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, PETER NOUAILLE,
of Greatness, in the Parish of Seven Oaks, in the County of Kent; Silk
Throwster, sends greeting.
WHEREAS, the said Peter Nouaille did by his Petition humbly represent
unto His most. Excellent Majesty George the Third, that he had invented "A
METHOD OF MAKING SILK STRINGS FOR ALL SORTS OF STRINGED MUSICAL INSTRU
MENTS," which being new and of publick utility, the said Petitioner thereby
prayed His said Majesty to grant unto him, the said Peter Nouaille, his exe-
cuts, admors, and assigns, His Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making and
vending of the said silk strings for the term of fourteen years, according to the
form of the Statute in that case made and provided; and His said Majesty
being pleased to condescend to his request, did;.. by: His royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster the Twenty-second day of January, in the four-
teenth year of His reign, give and grant, unto the said Peter Nouaille, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privi-
ledge and authority, that he, the said Peter Nouaille, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, by himself and themselves, or by his or their deputy or
deputies, servants or, agents, or such others as he, the said Peter Nouaille, his
executors, admors, and assigns,, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
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page_text: expressed should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to him, the said Peter Nouaille, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and
that he, the said Peter Nouaille, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto the said
Peter Nouaille, his executors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according
to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a provisoe, that if the said Peter Nouaille should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Peter Nouaille, in pursuance of the said
recited provisoe, doth, by this Instrument in writing under his hand and seal,
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, in manner and form following
(that is to say)-Take fine raw silk of any sort, tho' the finest and the whitest
is the most eligible, and double it into any given number of threads suited to
the size of the string required, and when doubled they are to be strongly satu-
rated in any animal or vegetable mucus that will make them adhere sufficiently
together; they are then to be spun in the single cord preparitory to their
being afterwards twisted into any number of cords, or a number of them may
either singly or unitedly be twisted together without the previous operation of
spinning. They are then to be put on a stretcher, that they may dry in a
proper tension, and, when sufficiently dry, finish them with a varnish of any
kind, and they will be found to remain perfectly elastic and sonorous when

page_text: applied to any kind of instrument, where those under the denomination of
catgut are generally used.
In witness whereof, the said Peter Nouaille hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Seventeenth day of May, in the fourteenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
&c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-four.
Sealed and delivered, in the presence of
PETER NOUAILLE. (L.S.)
ROBT WRIGHT.
WILL LYON.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Seventeenth day of May, in
the year above said, the aforesaid Peter Nouaille came before our said Lord.
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his Inven-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Eighteenth dex of Mor in the woos above coid