YмBRODERING OR HUPLING OF GUILDED LEATHER VPON SEVERALL GROUND FITT FOR HANGING, OR OTHER FURNITURE FOR HOUSES
Year: 1638

page_text: Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whome theis Presente shall come
greeting.
WHEREAS our welbeloved subiect ✗POFER HUNT, by his humble peticon to vs
lately exhibited, hath informed vs, that by his great charge and industry, with
long practise, he bath found out a very beneficiall worke and newe invenčon,
by way of "YмBRODERING OR HUPLING OF GUILDED LEATHER VPON SEVERALL
GROUND FITT FOR HANGING, OR OTHER FURNITURE FOR HOUSES," whereby many
of our poore subiecte nowe wanting meanes may have ymployment and releife;
and he hath humbly besought vs to graunt vnto him our Lřes Patente of
priviledge for the sole working and vsing of his said Invenčon, within. our
Kingdomes of England and Ireland, according to former president of our
gracious favour to other our subiecte in the like cases afforded.
KNOWE YE, that we, being willing to cherish all our loving: subiect( in
their just designes, of our especiall grace, certeyne knowledge, and meere
mocon, for the yearely rent and vnder the provisions and limittacons hereafter
in theis Present reserved and conteyned, have given and graunted, and by
theis Presente, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and graunt vnto the
said xpofer Hunt, his executors, administrators, and assignes full, free, and
absolute licence, power, priviledge, and authority, that the said pofer Hunt,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, deputies, substitute, servante,
agent, and workmen, and none other person or persons whatsoever, shall and

page_text: may from tyme to tyme, and at all and every tyme and tymes hereafter,
during the terme of yeares hereafter menconed, at his and their wills and
pleasures, exercise, practise, and put in vse, within our Kingdomes of England
and Ireland, or either of them, the sole way of ymbrodering or huffling of
guilded leather vpon severall grounde, fitt for hanging or other furniture for
houses, according to the said Christopher Hunt, his owne way and Invenčon,
and the same soe ymbrodered or huffled, to vtter, sell, and putt to sale, within
our said kingdomes, or elsewhere, for his and their best benefitt, profitt, and
advantage, wherefore our will and pleasure is, and we doe hereby, for vs, our
heires and successors straightly charge and command, prohibit, and forbidd all
and every other person and persons whatsoever, of what estate, degree, or
condicon soever he, or they, or any of them shalbe, that none of them other
then the said Christopher Hunt, his executors, administrators, deputies, sub-
stitutes, workemen, or assignes, doe or shall during the terme of yeares herein-
after menconed, directly or indirectly make or vse, exercise, practise, or putt
in vse, the way of ymbrodering or huffling of guilded leather, after the way
and manner by him the said Christopher Hunt first invented, and not
formerly vsed or practised by any others, without the special licence and
consent of him, the said Christopher Hunt, his executors, administra-
tors, or assignes, or one of them, first had and obteyned; to have,
hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said licences, priviledges, powers, and
authorities, and other the premisses by theis Presente graunted or men-
Coned to be graunted from the date of theis Presente vnto the full end and
terme and for and during the full terme and tyme of fourteene yeares from
thence next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, yielding and paying
therefore, and the said Christopher Hunt, for himselfe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and for every of them, doth hereby covenant and promise
to, and with vs, our heires and successors, by theis Presente to yield and pay
during the said terme, vnto vs, our heires and successors, the yearely rent of
five pound of lawfull money of England at the receipt of the Exchequer of
vs, our heires and successors, of this our Kingdome of England, at the Feast of
the Añunciacon of the Blessed Lady the Virgin Mary onely. And we doc
hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, give full power and anthority to the
said Christopher Hunt, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every
of them, with the assistance of a constable or other officer, at all convenient
tyme and tymes to search in all place or places, house or houses, in either of
our kingdomes aforesaid, where any iust cause of suspicon shalbe for discovery
of such as shall make or putt in practise the ymbrodering or huffling of guilded
leather contrary to our will and pleasure herein declared. And the true intent

page_text: and meaning of theis Presente to the end the delinquente may be discovered
and receave condigne punishment according to their demieritte; and we doc
alsoc by theis Presente, will, require, and command all and singuler, maiors,
sheriffe, justices of peace, bayliffe, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers, ministers, and subiect of vs, our heires and successors, of our
kingdomes aforesaid whome the same shall concerne, that they and every of
them be, from tyme to tyme during the terme aforesaid, ayding, helping,
furthering, and assisting to the said Christopher Hunt, his executors, admi-
nistrators, deputies, agente, workemen, and assignes, in all thing in
and about the accomplishment of our pleasure herein declared, and in the
exercise and execucon of this our graunt, and that they, nor any of them,
doe in anywise hinder or interrupt him, them, or any of them concerning the
same, as they tender our pleasure and will avoide the contrary at their perills:
Provided alwaies, that yf the said yearely rent or some of five pounde, hereby
to vs, our heires and successors reserved, as aforesaid, shall happen to be
behinde and vnpayed in part or in all by the space of forty dayes next after
the said feast in which the same ought to be payed, as aforesaid, or yf the
said Christopher Hunt, his executors, administrators, or assignes shall not
inroll or cause to be inrolled this our present graunt before the Clarke of the
Pipe of this our Kingdome of England for the tyme being within six moneths
next after the date of theis Presente, that then the said pofer Hunt, his exe-
cutors, administrators, or assignes, shall forfeit and pay vnto vs, our heires and
successors, payable as aforesaid, aswell the some of tenne shilling of
currant money for every moneth in which the said rent shall happen to be
behinde and vnpayed next after the said forty dayes, as aforesaid, and alsoe the
some of tenne shillinge in the name of a payne for every sixe moneths default
of the inrollment of theis Presente before the Clarke of the Pipe, as aforesaid.
And, lastly, yf that at any tyme during the said terme of fourteen yeares, yt shall
shall appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors, or vnto the Lorde and others of
our Privy Councell, that this our graunt shalbe inconvenient or preiudiciall to
the common wealth of either of our kingdomes aforesaid, then vpon significacon
and declaracon 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 Councell, or
sixe of them, for the tyme being of either of our kingdomes aforesaid respec-
tively, in writing vnder their hande, of such preiudice or inconvenience theis our
Lies Patent to either of our said kingdomes, wherevnto the Invenĉon aforesaid
shall happen to be preiudicall or inconvenient, as aforesaid, vpon the respective
significacons aforesaid shall forthwith cease, determyne and be vtterly voide
and of none effect, anything in theis Present conteyned to the contrary

page_text: in anywise notwithstanding, and we doe hereby graunt for vs, our heires and
successors, that theis our Lřes Patente, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe firme,
good, and effectuall to the true intent and meaneing of the same, although
expresse mencon, &c.
In witnes, &c. Witnes ourselfe at Cañbury the Seaventeenth day of
July.
P bre de Priuato Sigillo.