MAKEING OF SPINALL YARNE
Year: 1692

page_text: these sents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS RALPHI MARSHALL and JOHN ENGLEBERT TESIIMAKER have by.
their humble petition represented vnto vs that the "MAKEING OF SPINALL
YARNE" is a new Invention never practiced herebefore, and that they have at
their great cost and charges erected a bucking house, fitted and prepared a
whiteing ground, brought severall workmen out of Germany, educated and
skilled in makeing the said spinnall, and hazarded severall hundred pounds'
worth of browne yarne to try the experiment whether the air, water, and
other materialls vsed for doeing the same would be proper and effectuall here
in England, which has been found fully to answer their expectation and to be
nothing inferior to those in Germany, whereby a great quantity of the flax and
yarne of the growth and manufacture of this our kingdome may be imployed,
which is now supplied from beyond the seas, and severall poore people sett at
worke, and hath humbly prayed vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the
sole vse thereof, for the terme of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in
that case made and provided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to cherish and en-
courage all laudable endeavours and designes of such our subiccts as have by
their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and inventions,
and that the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshnaker, may
accordingly reape some fruite and benefitt of their labour and charge in and
concerning the misses of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere

page_text: these Presents doe give and grant vnto
Englebert Teshmaker, their exe cutors
močon, have given and granted, and
the said Ralph Marshall and John
administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence, power, priviledge, and authority
that they, by themselves, and by their deputies, servants, agents, and workmen
and such others onely as they, the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert
Teshmaker, their executors, administrators, and assignes shall agree with, shall
and may from time to time and at all times hereafter, dureing the space of
fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at their own proper
costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice the said new
Invention soe by them or one of them contrived and found out as aforesaid, in
any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and
Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitts, profitts, comodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Invention, to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to their own proper
benefitt, vse and vses; to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said lycence,
powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the pmisses by these psents
granted or mentioned to be granted vnto the said Ralph Marshall and John
Englebert Teshmaker, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
dureing and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of
the date of these psents next ensueing and fully to be compleate and ended,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the
said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshmaker, their executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, may the better enioy the full and whole benefitt, and
the sole vse and exercise of their said new. Invention, wee doc by these
Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and
command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate, of
what quality, degree, name, or condicon soever they be within our said
Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse, exercise, or putt
in practice the said new Invention, soe by the said Ralph Marshall and John
Englebert Teshmaker invented and found out, or introduced into this our
Kingdome as aforesaid, nor doe nor shall counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
said new Invention, or any matterialls or ingredients thereunto belonging, nor
doe nor shall make any addition thereunto or substraccon therefrom, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventors or devisers thereof, without the lycence,
consent, or agreement of the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Tesh-
maker, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their
hands and seals, first had and obtained in that behalfe, vnder such pains and

page_text: penalties as can or may be inflicted on the offender or offenders therein, for the
contempt of this our royall command; and further, to be answerable to the
said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshmaker, their executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for their
damages thereby sustoyned: And further, wee doe by these our Letters
Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and command
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's, bayliffs, constables,
headboroughs, and all other, the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our
heires and successors, now and for the time being, whome it may concerne,
that they, and every of them respectively, be from time to time durcing the
terme hereby granted, in their respective offices, and according to their and
every of their best skills and endeavours, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto
the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshmaker, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, deputies, agents, and servants, in and by all
things in and about the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure
herein-before declared, and in the execution of the severall powers and privi-
ledges hereby granted as aforesaid. And moreover wee do by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, will and command that our said respective
officers and ministers before menconed, or any of them, doc not nor shall, at
any time hereafter during the terme hereby granted, in any wise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshmaker,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or servants, in
or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any part thereof,
or any thing relateing thereto: Provided alwaics, and these our Letters
Patents are and shall be vpon this condicon, that, if at any time durcing the
said terme of fourteen 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 grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the Invention before mentioned is not a new
Invention as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not invented and
found out, or introduced into this our kingdome, by the said Ralph Marshall
and John Englebert Teshmaker, or one of them, as aforesaid, then vpon sig-
nification and declaracon of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the
lords or 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, any thing herein-before conteyned to
the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents,
or any thing herein conteyned, shall not extend or be construed to extend, to

page_text: give priviledge vnto the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert Teshmaker,
their executors, administrators, or assignes, to imitate any invention or worke
whatsoever which hath been heretofor invented or found out by any other of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly exercised within our kingdome or
dominion aforesaid, to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents of priviledge, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof. It being
our will and pleasure that the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert
Teshmaker, their exccutors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular
other person and persons to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents, shall distinctly vee and practice their severall Inventions by them
respectively found out, according to the true meaning of such our Letters
Patents and of these psents. And lastly, wee doe hereby, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Ralph Marshall and John Englebert
Teshmaker, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things
good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of
the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing
of the said Invention, or of the materialls, ingredients, wayes, or meanes of
makeing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt
thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfeccon in these psents, or
any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselves at Westminster, the Eleventh day
In witnesse, c.
of January.
By Writt of Privy Seale.