A NEW WAY OR METHOD FOR MAKING OR DYING MEN AND WOMEN'S BLACK HATTS WITH WHITE OR ANY OTHER COULOURED BUFFS, THAT THE COMMON METHODE OF MAKING HATTS WITH RUFFS ARE ONLY BLACK, AND NO OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER HATH DISCOVERED THE INVENTION OF MAKING OR DYING HATTS WITH BUFFS OF ANY OTHER COLOUR
Year: 1730

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS GEORGE KETTLE, has by his petition humbly represented vnto
vs that he hath, by much labour, paines, and a great expence, invented,
found out and brought to perfection "A NEW WAY OR METHOD FOR MAKING OR
DYING MEN AND WOMEN'S BLACK HATTS WITH WHITE OR ANY OTHER COULOURED
BUFFS, THAT THE COMMON METHODE OF MAKING HATTS WITH RUFFS ARE ONLY
BLACK, AND NO OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS WHATSOEVER HATH DISCOVERED THE
INVENTION OF MAKING OR DYING HATTS WITH BUFFS OF ANY OTHER COLOUR;"
that in regard the petitioner is the first and only inventor of making or dying
hatts with white or couloured ruffs as before set forth, he hath therefore
humbly pray'd vs to grant him our royall Letters Patents for the sole benefit
and advantage of making, dying, and vending the said new invented hatts
with white or coloured ruffs, for the term of fourteen yeares, pursuant to the
statute in such case made and provided, wee, being willing to give encourage-.
ment to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick benefit, are
gratiously pleased to gratifie bim in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said. George
Kettle, his extors, admors, & assignes, our special licence, full power, sole

page_text: priviledge & authority, that he, the said George Kettle, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and themselves,
or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as
he, the said George Kettle, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise, work,
vse, and enioy his said new Invention, way, or method of making or dying
men or women's black hatte with white or coloured ruffs, as above described,
within that part of our kingdome of Great Britain called England, our
dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to
him, the said George Kettle, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said George
Kettle, his exec", adm", & assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy
the whole profit, comodity, benefit, and advantage, from time to time comeing,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and
during the term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said George Kettle, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and termi
of fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and imediately ensueing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case made
and provided. And to the end that the said George Kettle, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invention, according to our
gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do 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, degree, name, or condition soever they be, within that
said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of
Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of
them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares
hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in practice
the said Invention, or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said
George Kettle as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble
the same, nor shall make, or cause to be made, any addition thereunto or
substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said George Kettle, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writing vnder his or their hands and seales, first had and obtained

page_text: in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal command, and further
to be answerable to the said George Kettle, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And
moreover, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
command all and singular the 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 do not
nor shall at any time hereafter, during the said term hereby granted, in any-
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said George Kettle, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invenčon, or anything relating thereto. Provided always, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during
the said term hereby granted, it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or suc-
cessors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant
is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or
that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and
exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdome of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
or not invented and found out by the said George Kettle as aforesaid, then,
vpon significačon or declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or
successors, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six
or more of them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
George Kettle, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed afore-
said, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already
granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will
and pleasure that the said George Kettle, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and every other person or persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their several inventions by them invented and found out.

page_text: according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these presents: Provided likewise, neverthelesse, and these
our Letters Patents are vpon this expresse condicon, that if the said George
Kettle, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall
or may, at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant,
have or clayme any right, tytle, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the
power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Inven-
tion hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended
transferr or assignement, of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or
shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or
for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or
cause to bo opened any book or books for publick subscriptions, to be made
by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the
raising any sume or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or
their agents or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of
any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or
the like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five,
or shall cōmitt or do, or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter, or
thing whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have
any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses,
which would be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act
of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Father
King George the First, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain
powers and priviledges intended to be granted by His Maicstie by two charters
for assurance of ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money vpon
bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable practices
therein menconed), if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in
case the said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter
become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or
their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators
as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest as
they are or shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate),
that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all
liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly
cease, determin, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by these presents,

page_text: for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said George Kettle, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said George
Kettle, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our courts
of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our said kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs,
our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or
of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
day of October.
ana
CTETITIA S
By Writt of Privy Seal.