DAMASK- ING, STRIKING, AND FIXING OF COLOURS INTO LEATHER AND ALL SORTS OF STUFFS, CLOTHES, AND VELVETS AND HAIRE ON BOTH SIDES, AND ALSOE THE MAKEING OF TAPESTRY WITH GROGRAM YARNE
Year: 1695

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS THOMAS MATTHEWS and THOMAS FERRERS have by their
humble peticon represented vnto vs that they have, after a very great charge
and expence in tryalls and experiments, arrived to the perfecčon of "DAMASK-
ING, STRIKING, AND FIXING OF COLOURS INTO LEATHER AND ALL SORTS OF STUFFS,
CLOTHES, AND VELVETS AND HAIRE ON BOTH SIDES, AND ALSOE THE MAKEING OF
TAPESTRY WITH GROGRAM YARNE," by diverse waies and meanes never before
vsed in our kingdome, and which will be of great vse and benefitt to tho
publick, and have humbly prayed vs to grant them our Letters Patents for
the sole vse thereof dureing the terme of fourteene yeares, according to the
Statute in that behalfe.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to con-
descend to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such
arts as may bee of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine
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 Thomas
Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledgo & authority, that they the said
Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves or their deputy and deputys,
servants or agents, or such others as they, the said Thomas Matthews and
Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time

page_text: agree with, and noe others, from time to time and at all times durcing the
terme of yeares herein-after expressed shall and lawfully may make, vsc
exercise, and enioy the said new Invenčons within any part or parts, place
or places whatsoever of, in, or belonging to our Kingdome of England
Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-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 limitačons as to them, the
said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators
or assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons seeme meete; and that
they, the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt
profitt, commodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and
ariseing by reason of the said Invenčons, for and dureing the full terme
of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and cnioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein and hereby granted or menconed
to be granted into the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end
and terme of fowrtcene yenres from the date of these Presents next and ime-
diately ensucing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in
this case made and provided. And to the end that the said Thomas Matthews
and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, may enioy the full benefitt, and the solo makeing, vse, and exercise
of the said Invenčons, according to our gracious intenčons herein-before
declared, wee doe by these Presents for vs, our heires and successors, require
and strictly command all and every person and persons, bodies politick and
corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or
degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within all and every our kingdomes
and dominions, that neither they or any of them at any tinio dureing the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fowrteeno yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly doe vse or put in practice the said Invenčons or any part of the
same soc attained vnto by the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers as
aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addičon therevnto or substracĉon from the
same whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without
the lyconce, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas
Ferrers, their executors, administs, or assignes, in writeing vnder their or
some of their hands and scales 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 comaud, and further to be answerablo

page_text: to the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, adininis-
trators, and assignes, according to law for their or any of their damages
thereby occasioned. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, will and command all and singular 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 doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the said
terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Thomas
Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, or either of them, their or either of their
executors, administrators, or assignes, or their or any or either of their.
deputys, servants, or agents in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of
the aforesaid Invenčons, or anything relating therevnto: Provided always,
and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at
any time dureing the terme of fourteene yeares 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 graut is contrary to law or preiudicial
or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčons are not
new invenčons as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our
kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Thomas Matthews
and Thomas Ferrers as aforesaid, then vpon significañon and declaracon
thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet
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
Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, or either of them, their or either of
their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate
any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore found out or
invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exer-
cised within our said realmes and dominions, or any of them, vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledges have beene already granted for the sole use, exer-
cise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Thomas
Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
and all and singular other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents
or priviledge have beene already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and
practice their severall Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to
the true intent and meaneing of the same respective Letters Patents and of

page_text: these Presents. And lastly, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas Ferrers, their
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 meancing thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficiall senco for the best advantage of the said Thomas Matthews and Thomas
Ferrers, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of
Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and
dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires
and successors, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describing the
nature or quality of the said Invenčons, or of the materialls thereto conduceing
and belonging.
37334
December.
By Writt of Privy Seale.
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