A NEW FANCY WATCH, WITH AN IMPROVE- MENT ON THE PENDULUM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORK, IN ORDER TO GAIN POWER AND TIME
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I THOMAS
HARRIS, of the Parish of Saint Sepulchre's, in the City of London, Watch-
maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Harris, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
after much application and many tryals, attended with expence, I had at last
invented and brought to perfection "A NEW FANCY WATCH, WITH AN IMPROVE-
MENT ON THE PENDULUM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE WORK, IN ORDER TO GAIN
POWER AND TIME;" and that in regard I was the first and true Inventor
thereof, and that the same had not been made by any other person or
persons to my knowledge or belief, I therefore most humbly prayed His
said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use and benefit of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day
of July, in the tenth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give
and grant unto me, the said Thomas Harris, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that
I, the said Thomas Harris, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or
deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Harris,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thercafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Harris, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet;
and that I, the said Thomas Harris, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the
said Thomas Harris, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said
Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and
ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Harris,
should 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 said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four 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,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by
the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Harris, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is to be performed in manner following (that is
to say):-
The middle of the dial plate of the watch, being with any thought painted,
will point the time, because it goes round. The middle may be a standard,
and the figures go round, which will answer the same end.

page_text: N.B. The fancy of some may want to have their watches useful to their
profession, as, in tides, when it will be high water, or for application of physick,
by knowing the age and change of the moon. This I can do, with the day of
the month at one time, without any communication of going or burthen to the
main spring.
The pendulum may be applyed many ways, or used in conjunction with
the leaver to augment force or power, to quench fires, to drain land or ships,
and to all sorts of grinding and craneing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Harris, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy, and in the tenth year of the
reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Taith and so forth