A HAND MILL OR MACHINE, MADE OF STONE OR MARBLE, WHICH EFFECTUALLY GRINDS AND PREPARES WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN FOR ALL SORTS OF BREAD, MALT FOR BREWING, OATS, PEASE, BEANS, AND OTHER GRAIN FOR HORSES AND CATTLE, AND MAY BE VERY BENEFICIALLY USED FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES; AND THE SAID MILL OR MACHINE MAY BE WORKT BY ANIMAL AS WELL AS BY OTHER POWERS
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHAL CORE,
greeting.
KNOW YE, that His present Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-sixth day of November, in the fifteenth year of His reign, hath, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, given and granted unto SAMUEL WATSON,
of Baslon, in the County of Derby, Mill Stone Maker, and to his executors,
administrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain
called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, a
certain Invention of "A HAND MILL OR MACHINE, MADE OF STONE OR MARBLE,
WHICH EFFECTUALLY GRINDS AND PREPARES WHEAT AND OTHER GRAIN FOR ALL SORTS
OF BREAD, MALT FOR BREWING, OATS, PEASE, BEANS, AND OTHER GRAIN FOR HORSES
AND CATTLE, AND MAY BE VERY BENEFICIALLY USED FOR VARIOUS OTHER PURPOSES; AND
THE SAID MILL OR MACHINE MAY BE WORKT BY ANIMAL AS WELL AS BY OTHER POWERS,"
together with the whole.profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to
time growing,.accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of fourteen years, according to the form of the Statute in that
case made and provided; in which Letters Patent, amongst other things, it is
provided, that if the said Samuel Watson shall not particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery in four calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties; and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
before in the said Letters Patent contained to the contrary in anywise
notwithstanding.
21.
THEREFORE FURTHER KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Watson, in
pursuance of the intention of the said Letters Patent, and of the proviso therein
contained, do hereby fully and particularly describe-the-nature, form, and
manner of my said Invention in manner following (that is to say):-
The said Invention, with regard to its nature, is an engine or machine
worked by hand, for the grinding and preparing of wheat and other grain
for all sorts of bread, malt for brewing, oats, pease, beans, and other grain
for horses and cattle, and may be very beneficiably used for various other
purposes. And the said engine, machine, or handmill, with regard to its
form, is described in and by a perspective elevation thereof, as appeareth in
the Plan annexed to these Presents, and in the table of references there-
under written.
And the said business's of grinding or preparing of wheat and other
grain for all sorts of bread, malt for brewing, pease, beans, and other grain
for horses and cattle, are also capable of being performed by any other
inanimate or animate powers that may be applied "ör affixed to the said mill.
All which is a full and true description of my said Invention."
..1'
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourth
day of March, in the fifteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King
George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-five.
Sealed and delivered (being duly stamped
with one five shilling stamp) in the
presence of us,
•
SAMUEL (L.S.) WATSON.
ANTHONY CLAYTON.
JN° MANDER..
JAMES MANDER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Sixth day of March instant, in the
year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Watson came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt
according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign
of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of March, in the year last above said.