THE ART AND MISTERY FOR MAKING OF PAPER AND PASTBOARDS IN WHOLE SHEETS, WITHOUT PEICEING, FOR HOTT AND COLD PRESSING OF CLOATH, WHICH WILL BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE, AND NEVER BEFORE PRACTISED IN ENGLAND
Year: 1684

page_text: WHEREAS wee have been informed by the humble peticon of ROBERT
FULLER, Baysmaker, that hee hath with great care, industry, & charge, found
out "THE ART AND MISTERY FOR MAKING OF PAPER AND PASTBOARDS IN WHOLE
SHEETS, WITHOUT PEICEING, FOR HOTT AND COLD PRESSING OF CLOATH, WHICH WILL
BE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE, AND NEVER BEFORE
PRACTISED IN ENGLAND;" and hee haveing humbly besought vs to grant vnto
him our Letters Patents for the sole vse and exercise of the same for the
terme of fowrteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case pvided, wee
are gratiously pleased to condescend to that his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being willing that the said Robert
Fuller may reape some reasonable recompence and compensacon for his
great paines and expences in and about the premisses, and to incourage the
inventers of such arts as may bee of publicke vse and benefitt, of our especial!
grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted, and by
these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto the
said Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that hee, the said Robert Fuller, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or
their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as the said
Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and noc others, from time to time and at all times dureing the
terme of yeares bercin expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, and
enioy the said Invencon within any part or parts, place or places whatsoever,

page_text: of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and all
and every or any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner
and according to such reasonable and lawfull rates and limitačons as to him, the
said Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them,
shall in their discrečons seeme mecte; and that hee, the said Robert Fuller,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the
sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing,
growing, and arising by reason of the said Invenčon, for and dureinge the
full terme of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the
said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages herein-before granted, or
menconed to be granted, vnto the said Robert Fuller, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteene yeares from the day of the date of these presents next and imediately
ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that
ease made and provided; and to the end that the said Robert Fuller, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full
benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our
gratious intendons berein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and
persons, bodys politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality or degree, name or condicon soever they bec, within all
and every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them att
any time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly, doe vse or put in practice the said
Invencon, or any part of the same soc attained vnto by the said Robert
Fuller as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor
shall make or cause to bee made any addičon thereto or substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof, without
the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Robert Fuller, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his, their, or some of their hands
and scales first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines and
penaltys as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their con-
tempt of this our royall comand, and further to be answerable to the said
Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And wee doe further, of our
especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon, for vs. our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, by these presents, that hee, they, and every of them, and
his, their, and every of their deputys, agents, and servants, (haveing first

page_text: obtained a lawfull warrant from the Lord Cheife Justice of our Court of
King's Bench at West for the time being), and with the assistance of a
constable or any other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the day, dureing
the terme hereby granted, and in lawful manner, may enter into and make
search in any place or places whatsoever within any of our kingdomes or
dominions, where there shalbe iust cause of suspicon for the discovery and
finding out of all and every person and persons as shall imitate, or cause to
be imitated, or shall vse or put in practise, the said Invencon, or shall make
or counterfeit any instruments or materialls to the same belonging, that soe.
such offender or offenders may be proceeded against and punished according
to law. And further, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will, authorise, and comand all and singular 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, aswell
within our kingdome of England and dominion of Wales as within all and
every other our kingdomes and dominions, that they, and every of them,
respectively be from time to time dureing the terme hereby granted, in their
respective offices, favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting, vnto the said
Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and to his and their
deputy and deputys, servants and agents, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and
in the exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges hereby granted
as aforesaid. And moreover, wee doe by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, will and comand that our said respective officers and ministers
before menconed, or any of them, doe not nor shall att any time hereafter,
durcing the said terme hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Robert Fuller, his exccutors, administrators, or assignes, or any his
or their deputys, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invencon, or any thing relateing thereto Provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall bee vpon this condicon,
that if att any time dureing the said terme 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 present grant is contrary to law, or pre-
iudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invencon
is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof, within
this our kingdome, and not invented and found out by the said Robert
Fuller as aforesaid, then, vpon significacon and declaračon thereof, to bee
nade by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale,
or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more

page_text: of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease
determine, and bee vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing before
herein conteined to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding: Provided alsoe,
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing therein conteined, shall not
extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge vnto the said Robert
Fuller, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath beene heretofore
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said realme and dominions, or any of them, vnto
whom wee have already granted our like Letters Patents of Priviledge for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, itt being our will and pleasure that
the said Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and singular other. person and persons to whom wee have already granted
our like Letters Patents or privileges as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and
practice their severall invenĉons by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of
these presents. And lastly, wee doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Robert Fuller, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in
and by all things, good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, accord-
ing to the true intent and meaneinge thereof, and shalbe taken, construed and
adiudged in the most favorable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage
of the said Robert Fuller, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell
in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all and singular our
realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subiects of
vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding
the not full and certeine describing the nature or quality of the said In-
venčon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging, or any other
defects or incerteintys in these presents conteined, or any act, statute, ordi-
nance, provision, proclamacon, or restriccon, or other matter, cause, or thing
whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe att Westmi, the Sixth day of
In
Witnesse, &c.
Witnesse
August.
By Writt of Privy Scale.
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