A NEW METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING OF LIGHTS, WHEREBY ONE LIGHT ERECTED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF SHIPPING MAY BE PERFECTLY KNOWN FROM ANOTHER, AND CONSEQUENTLY EVERY SHIP'S CREW OR SINGLE MARINER BE INFORMED AND KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, OR WHAT COAST THEY ARE OFF, AS WELL IN THE NIGHT AS IF IT WERE DAY
Year: 1730

page_text: WHEREAS His most Excelent Majesty George the Second, by the grace
of God of Great Brittain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
&c., hath by His Royal Letters Pattent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourth day of this instant July granted ynto Captain Robert Hamblin, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, in that part of Great Brittain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and all
the sea coasts thereof and thereunto adjoyning, the sole use and benefitt of his
usefull Invention of "A NEW METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING OF LIGHTS, WHEREBY
ONE LIGHT ERECTED FOR THE GUIDANCE OF SHIPPING MAY BE PERFECTLY KNOWN
FROM ANOTHER, AND CONSEQUENTLY EVERY SHIP'S CREW OR SINGLE MARINER BE
INFORMED AND KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, OR WHAT COAST THEY ARE OFF, AS WELL IN
THE NIGHT AS IF IT WERE DAY;" to hold to the said Robert Hamblin, his
executors, admors, and assignes, for and dureing and to the full end and terme
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Pattents, next and
imediatly ensueing and fully to be compleated and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made & provided, upon condition that he, the said
Robert Hamblin, shall and do, within one kalender month after the date of
the said Letters Pattent, by writing under his hand and seale, to be enrolled
in the High Court of Chancery, particularly describe his said new Invention...
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
Robert Hamblin, in most dutifull obediance to His Majestie's Royall com-
mands, do hereby describe my said new Invention, or method for distinguishing
of lights for the guidance of shipping by night, in the manner following (that
is to say):

page_text: That the said lights be composed of oyle, tallow, wood, coales, pitch, tarr,
or any other combustables, appart or mixed, as will best iluminate, and in
such a proportion and magnitude as may best be seen at a convenient or
proper distance, and that the said lights be placed in such various formes,
elevations, numbers, and possissions, that one of them shall not resemble
another in forme; that as soon as the posission of the said severall distinguish-
ing lights can be agreed upon and settled, I, the said Robert Hamblin, will
prepare and publish a new chart of all the sea coasts of that part of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in which chart all the lights for the guidance of shipping by night,
with yo severall forms, posissions, and numbers, shall be distinctly expressed in
their proper places, and in the best manner for distinguishing the same one
from another, so that every ship's crew or single mariner, by compareing the
chart with the lights, may know where they are, and what coast they are off,
as well in the night as the day. And this I do hereby declare and describe
my new Invention or method for distinguishing of fixed lights for the guidance
of shipping by night.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
first day of the said July, in the fourth year of His said Majestie's
reign, and in the year of our Lord 1780.
ND
Sealed and delivered in the presence of,
HEN. BROWNB.
JN° CUET.
ET MEMORANDUM, quod vicesimo primo die Julij, anno suprascripto,
prefat Robtus Hamblin venit coram dicto Domino Rege in Canč sua, et
recognovit Scriptum dick ac omnia et singula in eadem content et spificat
in forma suprascript. Necnon Scriptum predict impress fuit scam tenorem
Statuti fact anno regni nuper Regis et Regine Gulielmi et Marie Anglie, &c.