A METHOD TO PREVENT THE FREQUENT REMOVAL OF THE PAVEMENT AND CARRIAGE PATHS FOR LAYING DOWN AND TAKING UP PIPES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, IN STREETS, ROADS, AND PUBLIC WAYS
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
WILLIAMS, of Cornhill, in the City of London, Stationer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at Westminster, the
Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, in the
third year of His Majesty's reign, give and grant unto me, the said John
Williams, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Williams, my exors, admors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, shall and lawfully
may make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD TO PREVENT THE FREQUENT
REMOVAL OF THE PAVEMENT AND CARRIAGE PATHS FOR LAYING DOWN AND TAKING UP
PIPES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, IN STREETS, ROADS, AND PUBLIC WAYS;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said John
Williams, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar 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,

page_text: shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Williams, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
To effect this object, I construct sub-ways and passages capable when once
formed of preventing the frequent opening of the streets and roads. They
may be of various descriptions as to capacity, figure, or shape, situation, and
materials so as in most if not in all cases to prevent the paving or surface of
the ground being removed. In constructing these sub-ways, I propose to open
the ground to the required depth, say, of ten feet, lay a course of bricks, stones,
or iron nearly level, or rather curved on the ground, five feet wide, with drains
to go into the sewer; raise a wall on each side five feet high, and arch it over,
so as to leave the height in the centre of it seven and a half feet clear; leave
openings of nine inches in each upright wall at the distance of every twenty
feet three feet from the base; from these openings carry tunnels to the sides
of the streets, and at the end of the tunnels fix gratings or doors, to be opened
from the inside; leave similar openings in the top of the arch at the distance
of every hundred feet for the admission of light and air, and doorways five feet
high and three wide in each side wall where these openings are made. These
sub-ways may be entered at the sides by doors and passages wherever required
from the houses and buildings in the streets and roads, in the same manner as
into cellars that are under the streets, and the main pipes for every purpose
may be placed therein on iron cradles or otherwise, and the service pipes for
the supply of the public through the tunnels or openings in the side walls.
These sub ways may also be formed double, or another parellel to the first one
for water and the other for gas pipes, and in any number that may be required
with or without doors communicating into each or either of the other sub-ways.
From these sub-ways and passages access may be had into the sewers and
drains, or springs and wells of water, for their original construction, by tunnel-
ling or otherwise, and for repairing them, and also generally for almost every
other purpose for which the pavements and carriage paths in streets, roads, and
public ways have hitherto been opened.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Williams, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
JOHN (L.s.) WILLIAMS.

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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Tenth day of December, in the
year of our Lord 1822, the aforesaid John Williams came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
Inrolled the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.