Hancock's Patent Act, 1881
An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to James Hancock for Improvements in Bobbin Net or Twist Lace Machines. [8th April 1881.] WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain bearing date the eleventh day of August in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria Her Majesty did give and grant unto James Robinson Hancock in the said Letters Patent called James Hancock of the town and county of the town of Nottingham his executo...