NEW INVENTIONS HEREAFTER MENCOHED FOR IMPROVING THE ART OF THROWING OF RAW SILE, VIS', THE FIRST OF SUCH INVENTIONS IS BY SUPPLYING THE PLACE OF THE HAND IN WINDING, AND THE WANT OF THE LEAD IN THROWING OF RAW BILK BY THE PRESSURE OF TWO SHOOTH SURFACES; ALSO TWO MACHINES FOR DOUBLING AND YIELDING TOGETHER THREE THREADS OF RAW SILK; AND ANOTHER MACHINE (WITH RIBINS FITTED THERETO) TO DOUBLE RAW SILK ON THE SPINDLE AS THE SAKE MOVES ROUND IN THROWING, ANDLIKEWISE FRAME AND BOBBIN TO PUT ON THE SPINDLE, FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIOUS THROWING OF SINGLE AND DOUBLERAW SILE; AND ALSO A NEW-INVENTED FOOT WHEEL FOR THE MORE EVEN PERFECT DRAWING OF SINGLE RAW SILE,
Year: 1730

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS RICHARD WILDER, of our city of London, Silk Thrower, hath,
by his petition, humbly represented vnto vs, that notwithstanding the present
impost laid on foreigne thrown silke were intended for the encouragement of
the silk-throwing trade of this our kingdom, yet great quantities of the same
are yearly imported, the throwing of them here being in a manner neglected
by reason of the imperfection of the engines in present vse to perform the
work; that the petičoner, being a member of the Silk Throwers Company, and
observing with concern the general want of employment, hath, with much
labour, study, and at a great expence, found out and brought to perfection the
several "NEW INVENTIONS HEREAFTER MENCOHED FOR IMPROVING THE ART OF
THROWING OF RAW SILE, VIS', THE FIRST OF SUCH INVENTIONS IS BY SUPPLYING
THE PLACE OF THE HAND IN WINDING, AND THE WANT OF THE LEAD IN THROWING
OF RAW BILK BY THE PRESSURE OF TWO SHOOTH SURFACES; ALSO TWO MACHINES
FOR DOUBLING AND YIELDING TOGETHER THREE THREADS OF RAW SILK; AND
ANOTHER MACHINE (WITH RIBINS FITTED THERETO) TO DOUBLE RAW SILK ON THE
SPINDLE AS THE SAKE MOVES ROUND IN THROWING, AND LIKEWISE FRAME AND
BOBBIN TO PUT ON THE SPINDLE, FOR THE MORE EXPEDITIOUS THROWING OF SINGLE
AND DOUBLE RAW SILE; AND ALSO A NEW-INVENTED FOOT WHEEL FOR THE MORE
EVEN AND PERFECT DRAWING OF SINGLE RAW SILE, BY THE VSE OF WHICH THE SAID
NEW INVERCON THE TRADE OF THROWING SILK MAY BE MUCH INCREASED, A GREATER

page_text: NUMBER OF THE POOR IMPLOYED, THE MANUFACTURED SILKS OF THIS KINGDOMB
RENDERED CHEAPER, AND THEREBY GREAT SUMES OF MONEY WILL BE SAVED TO THIS
NATION THAT ARE NOW ANUALLY PAID TO FOREIGNERS FOR THROWING THE SAME;"
that in regard the petitioner is the first and only inventor of the said several
new machines, and machines and methods for working and throwing of raw
silk, and the great benefit and advantage the same will be to our subiects in
generall, and that the petitioner is willing to comunicate the same vpon reason-
able terms to all others concerned in the silk-throwing trade, he hath therefore
humbly prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole making, vsing,
and vending the said several new machines for the term of fourteen yeares,
pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided; wee, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick
benefit, are graciously pleased to gratyfy him 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 Richard
Wilder, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Richard Wilder, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Richard Wilder, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times hereafter during the term of ycares herein expressed, shall and
lawfully may make, exercise, work, vend, and enioy, within that part of our
kingdome of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed, his said severall and respective Invenčons herein-before
sett forth and described, n such manner as to him, the said Richard Wilder,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seem meet, and that he, the said Richard Wilder, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, 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 men-
Coned to be granted, vnto the said Richard Wilder, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto the full end and term of
fourteen yeares from the date of these presents next and immediately 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 Richard Wilder, his execu-

page_text: tors, 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 psents, 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 what-
soever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever they be,
within that said part of our kingdome 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 Inventions, or any part of the same, so attained vnto
by the said Richard Wilder as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor shall make, or cause to be made, any addition
thereunto or substraction 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 Richard Wilder,. his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande and seales first
had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties às 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 Richard Wilder, 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, shiriffs, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time;
that they, or any of them, do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during the
said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Richard Wilder, his executors, administrators, 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 said Inventions, 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 terme hereby granted it shall be made
appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy
Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preiudicial or inconvenient
to our subiects in generall, or that the said Inventions are not new inventions
as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-
pon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Richard
Wilder as aforesaid, then vpon significacon or declaradon thereof, to be made.

page_text: by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, 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 tho 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 Richard Wilder, his
exccutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vso or imitate any
invention or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or
invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or
excrcised in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, 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 is, that
the said Richard Wilder, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practise their
severall inventions by them invented and found out, 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 condičon, that if the said Richard Wilder, his
executors or administrator, 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, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power,
priviledge, and authority of the sole vsc and benefit of the said Inventions
hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended
transforr or assignment, 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 be
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 sumo 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 whatsoover 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 priviledge
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of
five, or shall comitt or do, or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter, or

page_text: thing whatsoever, during such time as such person shall have any right or
title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses, which would
be contrary to the true intend 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 Maiestie 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
menčoned), 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 singlo
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, determine, and become void, any-
thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
And, lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Richard Wilder, bis 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 Richard Wilder, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well
in all courts of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers
and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, in that said part of
our kingdome 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 Invenčons, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Twenty-first