NEW-INVENTED MACHINE FOR WEAVING
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EDMUND
CARTWRIGHT, of the Parish of Doncaster, in the County of York, Master of
Arts, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth day of April
instant, gave and granted unto the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, by himself or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such other person or persons as be, the said Edmund
Cartwright, should at any time agree with, and no other, from time to time
and at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein and herein-after
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his
"NEW-INVENTED MACHINE FOR WEAVING" within that part of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to him, the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, or any of them, should, in their discretion, seem meet, and that
he, the said Edmund Cartwright, his exccutors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time and at all times hereafter accruing and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein and herein-after mentioned, to have and to hold, exercise and enjoy,
the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages hercin-before mentioned
to be granted unto the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors, administrators,

page_text: and assigns, for the sole use, exercise, and vending of his said New-invented
Machine for Weaving, for and during and unto the full end and term of four-
teen years from the date of these said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; His Majesty, in such Letters Patent, thereby strictly
commanding all and every person or persons, bodies politick and corporate,
and all other His Majesty's subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality,
degree, name, or condition soever they be, within that part of His Majesty's
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that neither they or any of them, at any time
during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years thereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, to make, use, or put in practice the said In-
vention, or any part thereof, so attained, unto the said Edmund Cart-
wright, his exccutors, administrators, and assigns, as aforesaid, nor in any
wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor make or cause to be
made any addition thereto or substraction from the same, whereby to
pretend himself or themselves the Inventor or Inventors, devisor or devisors,
thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Edmund
Cartwright, his executors, administrators, or assigns, in writing under his
or their hands or seals, first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such
pains or penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such offender or
offenders for their contempt of His Majesty's said Royal command; and
further to be answerable to the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, according to law, for his or their damages occa-
sioned thereby; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if
the said Edmund Cartwright, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any
other person or persons which shall or may at any time thereafter during the
continuance of the said grant have or claim any right, title, or interest at law
or in equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole use
and benefit of the said Invention, should make any transfer or assignment, or
any pretended transfer or assignment, of the said liberty or priviledge, or any
share or shares of the benefit or profits thereof, to or for any number of persons
exceeding the number of five; and also that if the said Edmund Cartwright
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said New-
invented Machine for Weaving, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said Royal Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertips and advantages

page_text: whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edmund Cartwright, in pursuance of
and in compliance with the said proviso in the said recited Royal Letters
Patent contained, do, by this present Instrument, hereby declare that the
nature of my said New-invented Machine for Weaving, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed (is as follows):-
It is worked by a mechanical force. The warp, instead of lying horizontally,
as in the common looms, is in this machine (which may be made to hold any
number of webs at pleasure) placed perpendicularly. The shuttle, instead of
being thrown by hand, is thrown either by a spring, the vibration of a pendu-
Jum, the stroke of a hammer, or by the application of one of the mechanical
powers, according to the nature of the work and the distance the shuttle is
required to be thrown. And lastly, the web winds up gradually as it is woven.
And for the better illustration of my said New-invented Weaving Machine, the
same is more particularly described and ascertained in the Plan or Drawing
hereunto annext.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Cartwright, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the twenty-
fifth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third,
by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, De-
fender of the Faith, and so forth, and so forth, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-five.
EDMUND (L.s.) CARTWRIGHT.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the said Edmund Cartwright came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing contained and specified, in form above
mentioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their Majestics
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
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