The Particular grieuances of those His Maiesties subiects throughout England and Wales, which lye vnder the oppression of George Woods patent for the sole printing vpon linnen cloth This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A15679 of text S3290 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 25951.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A15679 STC 25951.5 ESTC S3290 33143273 ocm 33143273 28349 2240925479

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A15679) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28349) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1885:51) The Particular grieuances of those His Maiesties subiects throughout England and Wales, which lye vnder the oppression of George Woods patent for the sole printing vpon linnen cloth 1 sheet ([1] p.). W. Stansby, [London : 1621] Imprint information supplied from STC (2nd ed.). Petition to Parliament from those disadvantaged by the patent. Reproduction of original in: Society of Antiquaries. eng Linen industry -- England -- Early works to 1800. Textile crafts -- England -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 17th century. eebo The Particular grieuances of those His Maiesties subiects throughout England and Wales, which lye vnder the oppression of George Woods patent for the [no entry] 1621 1 713 5 0 0 0 0 0 70.13 D The rate of 70.13 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-08 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The particular grieuances of those his Maiesties subiects throughout England and Wales , which lye vnder the oppression of George Woods Patent for the sole printing vpon Linnen cloth .

FIrst , in that the same was obtained vpon a false pretence , that he the said Wood or one Ienkinson ( whose inuendon he saith , he hath bought ) was the first inuenter of this Art ; Wood is by trade a Printer of bookes . whereas in truth the said Wood is but newly attained to any knowledge therein ; and for Ienkinson , if he had any maner of inuention therein at all● , it was some very small thing about thirtie yeares ago , now out of vse , which inuention he hath also sold to a great number of persons , for 2 s. 3 s. 5 s. 〈◊〉 s. 20 s. 40 s. or any mony that he could get , and they sold it to others . And he hauing made ●is benefit thereof so many yeares , and in such kind , it cannot now be taken for a new inuention , seeing not onely the Art it selfe , but also the apprentices and people that haue bene trained vp therein ▪ are exceedingly increased , so that a great multitude of families both in this Cit ie and throughout the kingdome , would be impouerished by the continuance of this Patent , if it should hold .

2. For the validitie of the Patent , it was in way of triall by suite of some Freemen , in the Exchequer ; but vpon a Reference obtained from his Maiestie to the Lord Chancellor and now Lord Treasurer , vpon the false pretence aforesaid , they were stopped , and not suffered to proceed to triall .

3. The Patent is so generall , that it extends in preiudice to all his Maiesties subiects : for the goods therein prohibited , though they be bought and sold , paid for , and passed from hand to hand , yet they are forfeited in whose hands soeuer .

4. The Patentee may enter into the houses of the Kings subiects , and seize and cary away and dispose of the goods prohibited . And did execute this his power vpon some before this Parliament .

5. He hath imprisoned othersome by colour of the said Patent , since the Parliament began .

6. He pretended to the Drawers of the Citie , for his more easie obtaining of the Patent , and to gaine their assistance therein , great and good benefit vnto them , which Patent doth now vtterly begger them : for hee giues but a matter of 7 s. 4 d. for that worke which hee himselfe takes 24 s.

7. Hee hath by colour of this Patent , entred into some houses , and taken away goods not contained in the Patent .

8. He hath raised the prices of workes from 16 s. to 24 s. and by colour of the Patent may still raise at his pleasure .

9. He hath giuen out speeches , that he must raise the prises of worke : for that hee doth not onely pay 10. lib. a yeare to the King , reserued vpon the Patent , but also 200. lib. a yeare to some other or others that procured the Patent .

10. The Patentee makes himselfe hereupon so strong , that he hath affirmed hee will not giue three pence to haue the Parliament maintaine his Patent .

11. He had formerly a Patent , vpon pretence the inuention was his owne , whereupon was reserued 40 lib. per annum to his Maiestie : and by that Patent none were prohibited to vse the Art . Which Patent not seruing to his purpose , he then found out this new pretence ( though false ) and obtained this Patent , which is in benefit to him if it should hold , aboue a hund●●d for one beyond the other : and yet there is no more reserued vpon this vnto his ●a●est ▪ then was vpon the other .

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