A CERTAIN MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR THE SEVERAL BENEFICIAL USES AND PURPOSES THEREIN AND HEREIN AFTER MENTIONED (THAT IS TO SAY) :-FIRST, TO GET A ROPE ON SHORE IN CASE OF A SHIP'S BEING IN DISTRESS ON A LEE SHORE, ON A ROCKY BEACH, WHERE A BOAT CANNOT LIVE;, TO B PEOPLE ON SHORÉ WHEN A SHIP IS AGROUND OR WRECKED, AND THE MEN ARE FATIGUED BY PUMPING OROTHERWISE WORKING THE SAID SHIP ON SH ON BOARD A SHIP FOR HER ASSISTANCE, WHICH, IFTER THAN PUMPS CAN PRE, MAY BE THE OFING OR OF MERCHANDIZE HEN IN DISTRES
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN WINN,
of Spring Street, Shadwell, in the County of Middlesex, Shipwright, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth
day of July, in the seventh year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
the said John Winn, His especial license, that I, the said John Winn, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "A CERTAIN MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR THE SEVERAL BENEFICIAL USES AND
PURPOSES THEREIN AND HEREIN AFTER MENTIONED (THAT IS TO SAY) :-FIRST, TO GET
A ROPE ON SHORE IN CASE OF A SHIP'S BEING IN DISTRESS ON A LEE SHORE, ON A
ROCKY BEACH, WHERE A BOAT CANNOT LIVE;-SECONDLY, TO BRING PEOPLE ON SHORÉ
WHEN A SHIP IS AGROUND OR WRECKED, AND THE MEN ARE FATIGUED BY PUMPING
OR OTHERWISE WORKING THE SAID SHIP;-THIRDLY, TO CONVEY PERSONS FROM ON
SHORE ON BOARD A SHIP FOR HER ASSISTANCE, WHICH, IF SHE MAKES NO MORE WATER
THAN HER PUMPS CAN PREE, MAY BE THE MEANS OF SAVING HER;-FOURTHLY, TO
CONVEY PEOPLE OUT OF A SHIP AT THE DISTANCE OF FIFTY OR SIXTY FATHOMS, IN
CASE OF HER GOING ON SHORE AT HALF EBB IN A ROCKY BEACH AND TAKING THE
GROUND, EVEN SUPPOSING THE ROCK OR LAND TO BE NINETY OR ONE HUNDRED FEET
HIGH;-FIFTHLY, TO CONVEY BOXES OR BAILS OF MERCHANDIZE OUT OF A SHIP WHEN
IN DISTRESS; SIXTHLY, TO CONVEY A FAMILY, BY ONE OR TWO AT A TIME, INTO THE
STREET, OR INTO AN OPPOSITE HOUSE, THOUGH AT SEVENTY OR EIGHTY FEET DIS-

page_text: TANCE, OUT OF THE UPPER PART OF A HOUSE, IF THE LOWER PART THEREOF BE ON
FIRE, AND THE STAIRCASE BE IMPASSABLE; AND ALSO TO CONVEY ONE OR MORE FIRE-
MEN AT ONE TIME INTO ANY OF THE UPPER WINDOWS, SO THAT THEY MAY TAKE WITH
THEM THE PIPE OF AN ENGINE, THE BETTER TO PLAY WATER WHERE THE FIRE IS,
AND CANNOT OTHERWISE BE GOT AT, WHICH CAN BE DONE IN ONE MINUTE'S TIME AFTER
THE MACHINE IS FIXED, THE FIXING OF WHICH MAY BE PERFORMED IN THE SPACE
OF FOUR MINUTES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe
obliging me, the said John Winn, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within 1
four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Winn, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a machine or engine
for the several beneficial uses and purposes above mentioned is described in
the plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whomoof I the coid TaL 17:
and seal, this Twentieth day of August 1767.
JOHN WINN. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Twentieth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Winn 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
aforesaid. 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 Twenty-fifth day of August, in the year above written.