A NEW SPECIES OR KIND OF EMBROIDERY FOR CLOATHS (TO BE MANUFACTURED IN GOLD OR SILVER, ON SILK RIBBAND, AND WOOLLEN, LINNEN, COTTON, OR MOHAIR, TO MATCH ANY COLOUR, WHICH I CALL LOOM EMBROIDERY
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
ALSOP, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Robert Alsop, did by my petition, humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that, having
been in many different foreign countries in Europe, I had, by means of some
lights and informations I acquired from artificers in some of them, and with
much study, labour, and expence, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW
SPECIES OR KIND OF EMBROIDERY FOR CLOATHS (TO BE MANUFACTURED IN GOLD OR
SILVER, ON SILK RIBBAND, AND WOOLLEN, LINNEN, COTTON, OR MOHAIR, TO MATCH ANY
COLOUR, WHICH I CALL LOOM EMBROIDERY;" that, for as much as the said Invention
of Loom Embroidery was entirely new, and of my own finding out and
discovering, and had not hitherto been used and put in practice by any other
person or persons (save my self, or those employed by me,) to the best of my
knowledge and belief, I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that
He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said Robert Alsop, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use and benefit of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, for
the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and Inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request, and, therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of March, in the tenth

page_text: year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said
Robert Alsop, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Robert Alsop, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by my self and themselves, or
by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the
said Robert Alsop, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonics and Planta-
tions abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Robert Alsop, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet;
and that I, the said Robert Alsop, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein
mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privi-
ledges, and advantages therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto
me, the said Robert Alsop, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the
said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Robert Alsop,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, any thing therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Alsop, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following (that
is to say)-
This loom embroidery is manufactured in a loom with one, two, or more

page_text: shuttles, with warps either composed of silk, worsted, thread, cotton, or hair
yarns, gold or silver threads or plate, with either or all the above materials
together, with or without gold or silver plate, or gold or silver threads, as
required, and to be varied in the working of the looms, with respect to
shuttles, warps, and shutes, as the pattern or circumstances shall make
it necessary.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Alsop, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy, and in the tenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth