A NEW METHOD OF MAKING BASH FRAMES, WHICH, BY CONCEALING THE LINE AND PULLY, WILL BE A GREAT ORNAMENT TO THE BETTER SORT OF BUILDINGS, THAT THE SASHES WILL NOT REQUIRE SO MUCH LIBERTY TO SLIDE UP AND DOWN, OR BE SO LIABLE TO BE OUT OF REPAIR AS THOSE NOW IN USE, BUT WILL BE CONFINED SO THAT THE MOST PREVAILING WINDS WILL NOT OCCASION THEIR MAKING ANY NOISE, AND WILL HAVE THIS PECULIAR PROPERTY, THAT NO NAUSEOUS FOGGS OR PENETRATING WINDS SO PERNICIOUS TO HEALTH CAN ANYWAYS AFFECT THE ROOM
Year: 1752

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BAYNES, of King Street, in the Parish of Saint George, Bloomsbury, Carpenter,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Baynes, by my Petition, did humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, that I had,
by application and study, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW METHOD
OF MAKING BASH FRAMES, WHICH, BY CONCEALING THE LINE AND PULLY, WILL BE A
GREAT ORNAMENT TO THE BETTER SORT OF BUILDINGS, THAT THE SASHES WILL NOT
REQUIRE SO MUCH LIBERTY TO SLIDE UP AND DOWN, OR BE SO LIABLE TO BE OUT OF
REPAIR AS THOSE NOW IN USE, BUT WILL BE CONFINED SO THAT THE MOST PREVAILING
WINDS WILL NOT OCCASION THEIR MAKING ANY NOISE, AND WILL HAVE THIS PECULIAR
PROPERTY, THAT NO NAUSEOUS FOGGS OR PENETRATING WINDS SO PERNICIOUS TO
HEALTH CAN ANYWAYS AFFECT THE ROOM;" that in regard I was the first and sole
Inventor thereof, I did, by my said Petition, most humbly pray His Majesty to
grant unto me His Royal priviledge & lycence for the sole benefit & advantage
of my said Invention for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in
such case made and provided; His said Majesty, therefore, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions tending to the publick good, did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of February, in the twenty-fifth year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Baynes, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said John Baynes, my exors, admors, & assigns, should & lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me; the said John
Baynes, my executors, admors, and assigns, should seem uncet, for & during

page_text: and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, and that I, the said John Baynes, my exors, adññiors, & assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, and advan-
tage, from time to time comeing, growing, or ariseing from my said Invention,
during the said term; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a pro-
viso obliging me, the said John Baynes, to describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo performed, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, and to cause the same to be
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within three kalendar months next
& iiiediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, otherwise the
said Letters Patent, & everything therein contained, should cease & become
void, as in & by the said Letters Patent, (relation being thereunto had), may
more fully & at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said John Baynes, in pursuance of the said
proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, & the manner
in which the same is to be performed, is particularly set forth & described in
a Draught or Plan, with the several explanations thereof, hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Baynes, have hereunto, as also to
the Plan hereunto affixed, sett my hand & seal, this Second day of
May, in the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of His said Majesty King
George the Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and fifty-two.