MAKEING, STAYNING, AND COLOURING OF STUFFE TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT IT HATH BEEN AND IS TAKEN FOR TAPESTRY HANGINGS
Year: 1684

page_text: VHARDES
presents shall come, greeting.
grace of
WHEREAS MARY MARSHALL, Widdow, hath, by her humble peticon,
informed vs that John Marshall, her late husband, deceased, had in his life-
time, with great paines, study, and charge, found out and brought to per-
feccon a certeine new Invenĉon for the "MAKEING, STAYNING, AND COLOURING
OF STUFFE TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT IT HATH BEEN AND IS TAKEN FOR TAPESTRY
HANGINGS," and many of our subiects have beene and are now, to their great
advantage, imployed in the makeing thereof, which was never practised in any
of our realmes or dominions vntill devised by her said late husband, who had
spent the greatest part of his fortune, and what shee should now have sub-"
sisted on, in that experiment and Invenčon.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give all lawfull
incouragement to soe ingenious and vsefull an invencon, of our especiall'
grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the
said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall'
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that shee, the said Mary
Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as"
shee, the said Mary Marshall, shall at any time agree with, and noc others,"
from time to time durcing the terme of yeares hereafter in these presents"

page_text: expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and enioy the said Invencon,
within any part or parts, place or places, whatsoever of, in, or belonging to
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all and every or any of
our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner and according to
such reasonable and lawfull rates & limitačons as to her, the said Mary
Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discrečons seeme meet, and that shee, the said Mary Marshall, her
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole
benefit, profit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
and arising by reason of the said Invencon, for and dureing the full terme of
yeares hereafter menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the
day of the date of these presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to be
compleate and ended, according to the Statute in this case made and pvided.
And to the end that the said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse
and exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our gratious intencons herein-
before declared, wee doe, by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
require and strictly comand all and every person and persons, bodys politique
and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality,
or degree 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 fowrteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
doe vse or put in practise the said Invencon, or any part of the same, nor
shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addičon thereto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Mary Marshall, her executors, admi-.
nistrators, or assignes, in writing vnder her, theire, or some of their hands and
seales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys 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 Mary Marshall, her
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for her and their
damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe, of our further especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere močon, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes, by
these presents, that shee, they, and every of them, and her, their, and every of

page_text: their deputys, agents, and servants, haveing first obteined a lawfull warrant
from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of King's Bench at Westni for
the time being, and with the assistance of a constable or any other lawfull
officer, at convenient times in the day dureing the terme hereby granted, and
in lawful manner, may enter into and make search in any place or places
whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or dominions where there shalbe iust
cause of suspicon for the discovery and finding out of all and every person &
persons as shall imitate or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practise,
the said Invenĉon, or shall make or counterfeite any instruments or materialls
to the same belonging, that soe such offender or offenders may be proceeded
against and punished according to law. And further, wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and comand all and
singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, bead-
boroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, for the time being, as well within our kingdome of England and
dominion of Wales as within all and every other our kingdomes and
dominions, that they and every of them respectively be, from time to time
dureing the terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, favouring, aiding,
helping, and assisting vnto the said Mary Marshall, her executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and to her and their deputy and deputys, servants and
agents, in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our royall
will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the exercise and execucon of
the powers sand priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee
doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will & comand that
our said respective officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them,
doe not, nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said terme hereby granted,
in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Mary Marshall, her executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any her or their deputys, servants or agents, in
or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or any
thing relating thereto Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are
and shalbe vpon this condicon, that if att any time dureing the said 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 present grant is
contrary to law, or preiudicial or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or
that the said Invencon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and
exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by
the said John Marshall as aforesaid, then, vppon significacon and declaracon
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or sucessors, vnder our their signett or
privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any

page_text: six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents & purposes, anything
before herein conteined to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided
alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or anything therein conteined, shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the said Mary
Marshall, her executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any inventon or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found
out or invented by any other our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom
wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Privilege for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Mary
Marshall, her executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other
person and persons to whom wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents or priviledges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their
several invenĉons by them invented and found out, according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these
presents. And, lastly, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, grant vnto the said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in
and by all things good,. firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shalbe taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sence for the best
advantage of the said Mary Marshall, her executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever, 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, not-
withstanding the not full and certeine describing the nature or quality of the
said Invenĉon or of the materialls thereto conduccing and belonging, or any
other defects or incertaintys in these presents conteined, or any act, statute,
ordinance,. provision, proclamacon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or
thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnessc, &c. Witnesse ourselfe att Westñi, the Third day of July..