TO MAKE OUT OF THE VSELESS DUST OR POWDER OF INDIGO, STONE BLEWE, FLATT INDIGO, AND POWDER BLEW, SUCH AS IS MADE IN HOLLAND AND THESE PARTE, VERY VSEFULL AND NECESSARY FOR THE RENSING AND CLEANSING OF LYNNEN CLOATHS
Year: 1675

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WHEREAS wee have bin informed by the humble petion of our trusty and
welbeloved Captaine GILBERT THOMAS, that by his greate industry, he hath
obteyned the knowledge of a secret "TO MAKE OUT OF THE VSELESS DUST OR
POWDER OF INDIGO, STONE BLEWE, FLATT INDIGO, AND POWDER BLEW, SUCH AS IS
MADE IN HOLLAND AND THESE PARTE, VERY VSEFULL AND NECESSARY FOR THE
RENSING AND CLEANSING OF LYNNEN CLOATHS," and hath humbly besought vs to
grant him the benefit of the said Invenčon for the terme of fouroteene yeares,
according to the Statute in that behalfe provided.
NOW KNOWE YE, that wee, being willing to incourage inventors of such
arte as may be of publique vse and benefit, of our especiall grace, certeine
knowledge and meere močon, have given and granted, and by theis presente,
for vs, our heires and successors, doc give and grant vnto the said Gilbert
Thomas, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall licence, full and
sole power, priviledge, and authority, that he, they, or any of them, by him and
themselves, and by his and their deputies, servante, and workemen, and no
others, shall and may, during the terme of foureteene yeares next ensuing the
date of theis Presente, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said art or
Invencon within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in any other our kingdomes and dominions, in such
manner as to him or them shall seeme meete, and shall have aud enioy the

page_text: sole benefit ariseing thereby, or by reason thereof; to have, hold, and enioy
the said licences, powers, priviledges, and authorities hereby granted, or
intended to be granted to the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administra-
tors, or assignes, from the day of the date of theis Presente for and during the
terme of foureteene yeares from thence next ensuing, and fully to be compleate
and ended according to the Statute in that case made and provided, as afore-
said. And to the end the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may the better enioy the full and whole
benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of his said Invencon, aswell within
liberties as without, wee doe, by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and succes-
sors, require and streightly charge and command, all and every person and
persons, bodies politique and corporate, of whatsoever degree, name, or
addičon they be, that they, nor any of them, during the terme of yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in practice the
said art or Invencon by the said Gilbert Thomas invented or contrived, as
aforesaid, nor doc or shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe
or shall make any addicon therevnto, or substraccon from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventors or devisers thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement, of the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administra-
tors, or assignes, in writing, vnder his or their bande or seales, first had and
obteyned in that behalf, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
inflicted on such offendors for the contempt of this our command in that behalfe,
and further, to be answerable to the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, according to law and justice, for his and their damages
thereby susteyned. And further, wec do by theis Presente, for vs, our heires
and successors, give and grant vnto the said Gilbert Thomas, his exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, full power and authority, that he, they, and every
of them, his, their, and every of their deputies and servante, or any of them,
having first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from the Lord Chicfe Justice of
the Court of King Bench for the tyme being, may, with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer, aswell within liberties as without, vpon
request, at convenient tymes in the day during the tyme aforesaid, and in
lawful manner, enter and make search in any houses, shopps, or other places
where there shall be iust cause of suspicion, for discovering and finding out of
all such persons as shall, within the terme of foureteene yeares, imitate or
cause to be imitated, or shall vse, or put in practice the said art or Invencon, so
by the said Gilbert Thomas invented and contrived, as aforesaid, that so such
offendors may be proceeded against and punished according to their demeritte
And further, wee doc by theis Presente, for vs, our heirs and successors, will,

page_text: authorise, and require all and singuler justices of the peace, maiors, sheriffe,
bayliffe, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers, of vs, our heires
and successors for the tyme being, that they and every of them respectively be,
from tyme to tyme during the said terme hereby granted, in their respective
places favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Gilbert Thomas,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputy and
deputies, servante, and agente, in and by all thing in and about the accom-
plishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and the exercise and exccu-
Con of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted or menconed to be
granted, as aforesaid. And moreover wee will and command by theis Presente,
for vs, our heires and successors, that our said officers, or any of them, doe not
molest, trouble, or interupt the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or his or their deputy, deputies, servant, or agente, or any
of them, in or about the vse or exercise of the said art or Invencon, or any
matter or thing concerning the same: Provided allwayes, that if, at any tyme
during the said terme of fouretcene yeares, it shall be made appeare to vs, our
heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this
our grant will be preiudiciall or inconvenient to our common wealth, or that the
same was not a new art, mistery, or invenĉon in this our Kingdome of of Eng-
land till introduced by the said Gilbert Thomas, then vpon significacon and
declaračou to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signett
or privy seale, or by the Lorde and others of our Privy Counce!, or six or moro
of them for the tyme being, in writing vnder their lande, of such preiudice
and inconvenience, theis our Letters Patente, and all thing therein conteyned,
shall forthwith ccase, determine, and be vtterly voyd, to all intent and pur-
poses, any thing herein-before conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided also, that theis our Letters Patente, or any thing herein conteyned,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse
or imitate any Invencon or worke found out or invented by any other person
or persons, and before the vse and practice of his, the said Gilbert Thomas'
Invencon, publiquely exercised in theis our said realmes, or any the dominions
or territories therevnto belonging, vnto whome wee have already granted our
like Letters Patente of priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof,
it being our will and pleasure that the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons, to
whome wee have already granted our like Letters Patente or priviledges, as
aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall Invencons by them
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the

page_text: said several and respective Letters Patente, and of theis Presente. And
lastly, wee doe by theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that theis our Letters Patente, and the inrollment thereof, shall be, in and by
all thing, good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the
true intent and meaning of theis Presente, and shall be taken, construed, and
adiudged most. favourably and beneficially for the best benefit and advantage
of the said Gilbert Thomas, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell
in all our Courte of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and
certeine describeing of the said art or Invencon, or of the certeine vse and
benefit thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incerteinties or imper-
feccons in theis Presente conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamacon, or restraint, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes our selfe at Westñi, the Eleaventh day of June.
P bře de priuato sigillo, &c.