Section XIV The said Company to enjoy their said Invention for 14 Years, &c. from the 24th June 1698.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Royal Lustring Company and their Successors shall and may have and enjoy the Sole Use Exercise and Benefit of making dressing and lustrating of Plain Black Alamodes Renforcez and Lustrings within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed for and during the Term of Fourteen Years to be reckoned and accounted from the Four and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety eight and from thence to the end of the next Sessions of Parliament Any thing in the said Letters Patents made and granted by the late King James or in the said Letters Patents or Charter of Corporation made and granted by His present Majesty and the said late Queen or any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.