Item Description: | "Sexto martii, 1647. An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, to enable the Commissioners of the Great Seal, to grant His Majesties letters patents to William Petty or to his assignes, for his having and quiet enjoying the sole benefit of his late invention of double and multiple writing for the term of 14 yeares, according to the proviso of the statute of the 21 yeare of King James in that behalf made": p. [1] at end. - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 00963.3. - OCLC, 20888662. - Reproduction of original from Beinecke Library, Yale University. - Wing, P1917 |