any Member that hath or shall agree by Writing under his Hand to Adventure or pay in Money towards the Joint-Stock and shall not within ten Days after Warning bring in the same that then the Company or the Major Part whereof the Governor or Deputy to be one at a General Court to disfranchise such Members And of Our more abundant Grace and Favour to the said Governor and Company We do hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure to be That if it shall so happen that any of the Persons herein before particularly Named or who shall hereafter become Members of the said Company who hath Promised and Agreed or shall Promise or Agree by Writing under his or their Hands or Hands to Adventure or to pay in any Sum or Sums of Money towards the Joynt-Stock of the said Company and shall not within Ten Days next after Warning given to him or them bring in and deliver to the Treasurer appointed by the Company such Sum or Sums of Money as shall have been expressed or set down in Writing and Subscribed by the said Person or Persons that then and at all times after it shall and may be Lawful to and for the said Governor and Company or the Major Part of them present whereof the said Governor or Deputy-Governor to be one at any of their General Courts or Assemblies to Remove and Disfranchise such Person or Persons from and out of the said Corporation or Company so refusing to Pay or Answer his or their Subscription Money The Earl of Pembrook is required to take the Oaths before Mess Peter Lekeux Blondel and Gervaize or any two of them And further Our Will and Pleasure is and We do also hereby Ordain That the said Thomas Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery herein before-named to be Governor of the said Company shall take his Corporal Oath before the said Peter Lekeux John Blondel and Lewis Gervaize or any Two of them and the aforesaid several Persons herein before-named to be the present Deputy-Governor and Assistants of the said Company The present Deputy and Assistants shall take the Oaths before the present Governor and Company or the Major Part in Publick Court shall take their Corporal Oaths before the present Governor of the said Company in such Manner and Form as by the Governor and Company or the greater Part of them in any Publick Court to be held for the said Company shall be Lawfully and Reasonably set down and devised To whom severally and respectively We do hereby for Us our Heirs and Successors Give full Power and Authority to administer the said Oaths to the said Officers accordingly And We do hereby further for Us All Judges Justices and other Officers are Commanded to Favour and Aid the Company Our Heirs and Successors Will Authorize and Command all and singular our Judges Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables Headboroughs and all other the Officers and Ministers whatsoever of Us Our Heirs and Successors now and for the time being within this our Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales That they and every of them respectively be from time to time in their several and respective Offices Favouring Aiding Furthering Helping and Assisting unto the said Governour and Company and their Successors their Agents and Servants in all things according to Our Royal Will and Pleasure herein before declared And of our further Especial Grace Certain Knowledge and meer Motion for the carrying on and promoting the Interest of the Company aforesaid We have given and granted and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Give and Grant unto the said Company and their Successors That they the said Governour and Company and their Successors shall and may be hereafter Persons able and capable to have and We do by these present for Us Our Heirs and Successors Grant that they shall and may have Full Free and Lawful Licence Power and Authority to Take Have Purchase Receive Enjoy The Company may purchase Lands and Hereditaments not exceeding 1000l. per Annum above all Charges and Reprizes and Possess to them and their Successors for ever any Manners Lordships Messuages Mills Waters Streams Rents Services Reversions Lands Mines Tenements and other Hereditaments whatsoever so as the same Mannors Messuages Lordships Mills Waters Streams Rents Services Reversions Lands Tenements and other Hereditaments do not exceed the Yearly Value of one Thousand Pounds above all Charges and Reprizes and also Goods and Chattels The Company may buy Goods and Chattels of what Nature or Value soever of what Value Nature or Kind soever and also to Give Grant Alien Assign and Dispose of Mannors Lordships Messuages Mills Waters Streams The Company may Sell their Lands c. and do all other Lawful Acts by the Name aforesaid Rents Services Reversions Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods Chattels Liberties Priviledges Franchises and Jurisdictions and also to Do and Execute all other Lawful Acts and Things whatsoever by the Name aforesaid And further We have Given and Granted and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Give and Grant unto all and every Subject and Subjects whatsoever of Us our Heirs and Successors Especial Licence Power and Authority to Give Grant Sell and Alien unto the said Governour and Company Power given to all the Kings Subjects to Sell Land c. to the Company and their Successors any Mannors Lordships Messuages Mills Waters Streams Rents Services Reversions Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever so as the same do not exceed the Clear Yearly Value of One Thousand Ponnds above all Charges and Reprizes whatsoever and also Goods and Chattels of what Nature or Value soever And We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Give and Grant unto the said Governour and Company and their Successors full Power and Authority to Make and Raise a Joynt-Stock The Company may raise what Stock they please and increase manage or diminish the same as they shall think fit of any Value whatsoever and the same Joynt-Stock to Order Manage and carry on from time to time for the purposes aforesaid and to receive the Benefit and Advantage of the same to the use of them the said Governour and Company and their Successors according to such Shares and Proportions as they or any of them have or shall have therein And the same Joynt-Stock to Augment and Increase or Reduce and Diminish from time to time as they the said Governour and Company and their Successors shall find most fitting and convenient Provided always That these Presents or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to discharge any of the Covenants or Proviso's contained in the before-mentioned Letters Patents A Proviso for keeping in Force the Patent Granted to Mess Granted to the said Paul Cloudesly William Sherrard and Peter Ducleu for the sole Use and Benefit of the said Invention of Making Lustrating and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings
Lekeux to be the First and Present Deputy-Governour of the said Company to continue in the said Office of Deputy-Governour until the Five and Twentieth Day of January next ensuing the Date of these Our Letters Patents and from and after that Time until some other fit Person shall be duly Elected and Sworn into the said Office of Deputy-Governour of the said Company if the said Peter Lekeux shall so long live And Our further Will and Pleasure is and We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors Direct and Appoint That from and after the said Five and Twentieth Day of January next ensuing or the Election of some other fit Person into the said Office of Deputy-Governour of the said Company the said Peter Lekeux shall be and continue an Assistant of the said Company until the Five and Twentieth Day of January That from the 25th of Jan. 1692 3. or new Election Peter Lekeux shall be an Assistant until the 25th of Jan. 1696 c. which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Six and from that Time until some other fit Person shall be Elected and Sworn an Assistant of the said Company in his Stead if he shall so long live and We have Constituted Nominated and Appointed and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Constitute Nominate and Appoint the said John Blondel Lewis Gervaize Mess Blondell Gervaize Claudesly Sherrard Lauze Paul Clowdesly William Sherrard Peter Lauze Stephen Noguier Paul Rey John Lekeux Peter Floyer Joseph Paice William Grosvenor and Robert Hackshaw Noguier Rey. John Lekeux Floyer Paice Grosvenor and Hackshaw Assistants to be the First and Present Assistants of the said Company the said John Blondel Lewis Gervaize Paul Cloudesly William Sherrard Peter Lauze Stephen Noguier and Paul Rey to continue in their said Offices of Assistants until the said Five and Twentieth Day of January which shall be in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred The first Seven to continue till the 25th of January 1696 c. Ninety and Six and from and after that Time until some other fit Persons shall be duly Elected and Sworn into their said Offices of Assistants of the said Company The other Five till the 25th of January 1696. if they shall so long live and the said John Lekeux and Peter Floyer Joseph Paice William Grosvenor and Robert Hackshaw to continue in their said Office of Assistants until the Five and Twentieth Day of January next ensuing the Date hereof and from and after that Time until some other fit Persons shall be duly Elected and Sworn into their said Offices of Assistants of the said Company if they shall so long live And further We do hereby for Us Our Heirs and Successors The Company have Power upon the 25th of Jan. 1692 3. or within 14 Days after to chuse five Persons out of the said Mess Floyer Lekeux Blithe Paice Hackshaw Lloyd Grosvenor and Cooper to be Assistants till the 25th of Jan. 1693 c. Give and Grant unto the said Company and their Successors or the Major Part of them full Power and Authority upon the said Five and Twentieth Day of January next ensuing or within Fourteen Days after to Elect and Chuse Five Persons out of the before-named Peter Floyer John Lekeux Thomas Blithe Joseph Paice Robert Hackshaw Edward Lloyd William Grosvenor and Richard Cooper who shall be and continue Assistants of the said Company from the Time of their Election until the Five and Twentieth Day of January which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Three and from thence until some other fit Persons shall be duly Elected and Sworn into their said Offices of Assistants of the said Company And likewise We do by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors Give and Grant unto the said Company and their Successors or the Major Part of them whereof the Governour or in his Absence the Deputy-Governour The Company have Power upon the 25th of Jan. 1693. or within 14 Days after and so yearly till the 25th of Jan. 1696. to chuse five Persons of the Company having 10 Shares a piece at least to be Assistants and in the Absence of the Governour and Deputy-Governour the Treasurer of the said Company for the Time being to be always one full Power and Authority upon the said Five and Twentieth Day of January which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Three or within Fourteen Days after and so Yearly and every Year upon every Five and Twentieth Day of January following or within Fourteen Days after until the Five and Twentieth Day of January which shall be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety and Six to Elect and Chuse Five Persons being Members of the said Company and have each of them Ten Shares at least in the Joint-Stock of the said Company who after they are duly Sworn into their Offices shall be and continue Assistants of the said Company from the Time of their Election until the Five and Twentieth Day of January then next following and from thence until some other fit Persons shall be duly Elected and Sworn into their said Offices of Assistants of the said Company And We have further Given and Granted and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Give and Grant to the said Company and their Successors full Power and Authority That they the said Governour and Company and their Successors or the Major Part of them whereof the Governour or in his Absence the Deputy-Governour and in the Absence of the Governour and Deputy-Governour the Treasurer of the said Company for the Time being to be one on the said Five and Twentieth Day of January Yearly or within Fourteen Days after The Company shall on the 25th of Jan. yearly or within 14 Days after Chuse out of the then Assistants two fit Persons to be Governour and Deputy-Governour to continue for 1 Year shall and may Elect and Chuse out of the Then Assistants of the said Company Two fit Persons to be Governour and Deputy-Governour of the said Company who shall continue in their said Offices for one whole Year next following such their Election and from thence till some other fit Persons shall be duly Elected and Sworn into the said Offices of Governour and Deputy-Governour of the said Company And further We do by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors Give and Grant to the said Company and their Successors or the Major Part of them for the Time being whereof the Governour and in his Absence the Deputy-Governour and in the Absence of the Governour and Deputy-Governour the Treasurer of the said Company for the Time being to be one full Power and Authority to Elect and Chuse upon the said Five and Twentieth Day of January which shall be in the Year of our Lord The Company
for the Term of Fourteen Years But that the same shall be and continue in as full force to all Intents and Purposes as if these Presents had never been had or made any thing herein before contained to the contrary A Proviso that the Company shall not have the Sole Benefit of the Invention for any longer Term than the Remainder of the 14 Years Granted in the Patent But that after the End of that Term all Persons may have Liberty notwithstanding Provided also That this our Grant or any thing herein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to the Granting the said Governour and Company the sole Exercise and Benefit of the aforesaid Invention for any 〈◊〉 time than the Remainder of the said Term of Fourteen Years but that after the â—â—â—â—tion of that Term all Persons who otherwise might Work the same may have full â—â—â—â—ty so to do any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Proâ—â—â—â— likewise A Proviso that this Charter shall not prejudice the Corporation of Weavers London That nothing herein contained shall be prejudicial to the Corporation of â—â—â—â—rs London and that all Persons their Apprentices and Servants that shall at any 〈◊〉 hereafter Weave any of the said Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings within the â—â—â—â—s of the Charter of the said Company shall from time to time be bound Apprentices That all Persons who shall Weave Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings within the Limits of the Weavers Charter shall be Apprentices or Members of that Company Subject to the Ordinances of the same 〈◊〉 Members of the said Corporation according to the purport of their Ordinances and 〈◊〉 to Government and Regulation of the said Corporation of Weavers And 〈◊〉 We have Granted and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Suecessors do 〈◊〉 unto the said Company and their Successors That these our Letters Patents or 〈◊〉 Enrollment thereof shall be in and by all things Good Firm Valid Sufficient That this present Charter shall in all things be construed in Favour of the Company and â—â—â—tual in the Law according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof and shall be taken â—â—â—rued and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial Sense for the best Advanâ—â— of the said Governour and Company and their Successors as well in all Courts as â—â—ere and by all and singular the Officers and Ministers whatsoever of Us Our 〈◊〉 and Successors in this Our Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales any Deâ—â—â— or Incertainties in these Presents contained or any Matter Cause or thing whatâ—â—â— to the contrary in any wise notwithstandnig In Witness whereof We have 〈◊〉 these Our Letters to be made Patents Witness Our selves at Westminster the â—â—â—th Day of October in the Fourth Year of our Reign By Writ of Privy Seal A Clause out of an Act of Parliament pass'd in the Ninth and Tenth of William the Third confirming the Charter of the Royal Lustring Company AND whereas the King 's most Excellent Majesty together with the late Queen of Blessed Memory by their Letters Patents or Charter under the Great Seal of â—â—â—â—d bearing Date the Fifteenth Day of October in the Fourth Year of Their said â—â—â—â—ies Reign Reciting or taking Notice that several Persons therein Named did 〈◊〉 the late King James the Second's Letters Patents bearing Date the Three and â—â—â—ieth Day of November in the Fourth Year of his Reign for the Sole Use Exâ—â—â— and Benefit of a New Invention of Making Dressing and Lustrating of Silks 〈◊〉 Plain Black Alamodes Renforces and Lustrings for the Term of Fourteen Years 〈◊〉 the Day of the Date of the said Letters Patents Their said Majesties did for the â—â—â—raging so Commendable an Undertaking Give Grant Constitute Declare and â—â—point Thomas Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomery and several other Persons in the 〈◊〉 Charter mentioned and Contained and such others as should be admitted into their â—â—â—ety to be from thenceforth One Body Corporate and Politick in Deed and in 〈◊〉 by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of â—â—â—odes Renforces and Lustrings in England and by that Name to have Perpetual â—â—â—ession and divers and sundry Priviledges Liberties Powers and Authorities with 〈◊〉 Matters and Things in the said Charter of Incorporation Mentioned and Expressed 〈◊〉 thereby Granted to and Vested in the said Company and their Successors in 〈◊〉 Sort Manner and Form as in and by the said Charter or Letters Patents or Inâ—â—â—ent thereof is Mentioned and Expressed and as thereby it more fully Appears 〈◊〉 forasmuch as the said Company have with great Labour and Charges brought the 〈◊〉 Manufacture to Perfection but by reason of the fraudulent Importation of Alaâ—â—â— and Lustrings by divers Persons more regarding their own Interest than the 〈◊〉 of England their Duty to the King and Obedience to the Laws of the Land the said Company have not Enjoyed the Benefit and Advantage intended them in and 〈◊〉 the said Charter but wasted their Time and Stock in Contesting with many Diffâ—â—â—â—ties and Obstructions which they have met with since the Granting thereof And it â—â—pearing that the said Manufacture cannot be so well Carried on and Secured to 〈◊〉 Kingdom by any other Means as by Establishing a Company to Carry on the saâ—â— Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the aforesaid Company 〈◊〉 their Successors shall and may at all Times from henceforth Stand Continue and 〈◊〉 a Body Politick and Corporate in Deed and in Name by the Name of the Roâ—â—â— Lustring Company And that the said Company and their Successors shall and may 〈◊〉 Do Use Exercise and Enjoy all and singular the Liberties Priviledges Powâ—â—â— Authorities Matters and Things in the said Letters Patents or Charter of Incorporâ—â—â—on mentioned to be Granted to them as Amply Fully and Largely to all Inteâ—â—â— Constructions and Purposes as if the same were Word for Word Recited and Set dâ—â—â— at large in this present Act. 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