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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... realme, nor constantlie or openlie used before the granting of the said letters patents by any other then the said patentees, and those whom they set on worke; nor that the said wyer drawers had ever brought up any spinners to worke and make the same as it ought to be wrought." Dike and Fowle surrendered their patents "to the end that or Soverayne Lord the Kinge should and might make the like grante for the consideracion aforesaid, and other consideracions hereafter expressed," to Richard Dike, Mathias Fowle, and Francis Dorrington. "Whereupon our said Soveraigne Lord the Kinge, considering that the said patentees during the said terme weare not likelie to reape proffitt answearable to theire chardge and expence, was graciouslie pleased to grante the like privilege unto the said Richard Dyke and Mathias Fowle, and unto the said Frauncis Dorrington, who had allsoe beene at chardge in furthering the said misterie and use thereof within this realme, and was named allsoe at the request of the said first named patentees. And thereupon certaine indentures dated the tenth day of Januarie in the thirteenth year of his Maj""" raigne were made betweene" the King and the patentees, under the Great Seal, to bring in 5,000, and to pay a sum to be afterwards fixed in lieu of customs. The patentees have "to theire greate costes, chardges, and expenses of money, to the value of eight thousand pounds att the least, brought the said arte, misterie, trade, and feate, to perfeccion within this realme, and have taught and instructed diverse of this nation in the same, and enabled many hundred poore people to live by the exercise thereof. But now, soe it is, if it may please your Lordshipps, that one Thomas Williams and Thomas Ledsam, wire drawers of...