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The charter of the Royal Lustring Company
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Royal Lustring Company (London, England)
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1697
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Wing C3725; ESTC R230945
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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
THE CHARTER OF THE Royal Lustring Company WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of God King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith c. To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas Our well beloved Subjects Paul Cloudesly Peter Lekeux and Hillary Renew on behalf of themselves and several others have by their humble Petition represented unto us That they have with great Expence and Industry attained to the New Invention of Making Dressing and Lustrating of Silks called plain black Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings and have already caused to be made great Quantities of the said Silks at least equalling the Manufacture of France as well in Lustre as otherwise for the sole Use Exercise and Benefit of which said Invention the said Paul Cloudesly together with William Sherrard and also Peter Du-cloux who is since gone into Parts beyond the Seas obtained of the late King James II. Letters Patents bearing date the Three and Twentieth Day of November in the Fourth Year of his Reign for the Term of Fourteen Years from the Day of the Date of the said Letters Patents King James's Patent to Mr. Cloudesley and Company recited 4. Jac. 11. And whereas they have also informed us That they are further Resolved Industriously to promote the said Work to the Honour and Common Good of this Nation by Imploying many Thousands of Poor People as well in Working the said Silks as by other Dependencies upon the same as also by saving the vast Expences of Money that used to be sent Yearly into France for the said Commodities And have humbly besought us to Incorporate them and divers others hereafter mentioned to Manage and Carry on the same by a Joynt-Stock Know ye therefore That We being desirous to promote all Endeavours tending to the Publick Good of this Our Kingdom and to encourage so commendable an Undertaking of Our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion Have Given Granted Constituted Declared and Appointed and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Give Grant Constitute Declare and Appoint That Our Right Trusty and Right well-beloved Cousin and Counsellour Thomas Earl of Pembrooke and Montgomery the said Paul Cloudesly William Sherrard Peter Lekeux and also Our Trusty and well-beloved John Blondell Lewis Gervaize Peter Lauze Stephen Noguier Paul Rey John Lekeux Peter Floyer Thomas Blythe Joseph Paice Robert Hackshaw Edward Lloyd William Grosvenor Richard Cooper and Hillary Renew and such others as shall be admitted into the said Society from henceforth be and shall be One Body Corporate and Politick in Deed and in Name by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England The Earl of Pembrooke and 17 Persons more and their Successours are Incorporated for ever by the name of The Royal Lustring Company And them by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company We do for the purpose aforesaid really and fully for Us Our Heirs and Successors Make Erect Ordain Constitute Establish Confirm and Declare by these Presents to be one Body Corporate and Politick in Deed and in Name for ever for the Making and Dressing of Alamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England according to the Tenour of the aforesaid Letters Patents and that by the same Name of the Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England they shall have perpetual Succession and that they and their Successors by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England be and at all times hereafter shall be Persons Able and Capable in Law to Have Purchase Receive Enjoy and Retain Lands Rents Privileges Liberties Franchises and Hereditaments of what Kind Nature and Quality soever they be to them and their Successors The Company by the same Name may Buy and Sell Land c. and also to Give Grant Alien Assign and Dispose of Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and to Do and Execute all and singular other things by the same Name that to them shall or may Appertain to do And that they and their Successors by the Name of the Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England The Company may Plead and be Impleaded in any Courts c. may Plead and be Impleaded Answer and be Answered unto Defend and be Defended in whatsoever Courts and Places and before any Judges Justices or Officers of Us Our Heirs and Successors in all and singular Actions Pleas Suits Plaints Matters and Demands of what Kind or Quality soever they shall be in the same Manner and Form and as fully and amply as any of Our Subjects of this Our Realm of England may or can do Plead or be Impleaded Answer and be Answered unto Defend and be Defended And that the said Royal Lustring Company for Making and Dressing of Allamodes Renforces and Lustrings in England and their Successors may have a common Seal for the Expedition of the Business and Affairs of the said Company The Company may have a Common Seal which they may break alter c. or make anew as they shall think fit One of the Company shall be Governour And that it shall and may be lawful for them and their Successors the same Seal from Time to Time at their Wills and Pleasures to Break Change Alter or Make anew as to them shall seem expedient And further We will and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors do Ordain that there shall be from henceforth one of the said Company to be Elected and Appointed in such Manner and Form as hereafter in these Presents is Directed Mentioned and Expressed who shall be and be called Governour of the said Company And there shall also be from henceforth a Deputy-Governour and Twelve Assistants of the said Company There shall be a Deputy-Governour and 12 Assistants to be Elected and Appointed in such Manner and Form as hereafter in these Presents is Directed Mentioned and Expressed for the Managing and Carrying on all Business and Affairs belonging to the said Company And we do hereby Nominate Make and Ordain the said Thomas Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery to be the First and Present Governour of the said Company The Earl of Pembrooke Nominated Governour to continue till another of the Company be Chosen and Sworn to continue in the said Office of Governour from the Date of these Presents until another of the said Company in due Manner be Chosen and Sworn into the said Office according to the Ordinances and Provisions hereafter in these Presents Expressed and Declared if the said Thomas Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery shall so long live And also We have Assigned Named and Appointed and by these Presents for Us Our Heirs and Successors We do Assign Mr. Peter Lekeux Deputy-Governour until the 25th of Jan. 1692 3. c. Nominate Constitute and Make the said Peter