Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
UNDERWOOD, of Ampthill, in the County of Bedford, Plumber and Glazier,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath been
graciously pleased, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the fifteenth year of His said
Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said Francis Underwood, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His espécial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Francis Underwood, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by my myself or themselves,
or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Francis Underwood, my executors; administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might, from time
to time and at all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my new Invention of "CASTING

page_text: AND WORKING INTO FRAMES, OF ANY FIGURE OR SIZE, FOR SMALL BAR SASHES,
FAN LIGHTS, SKY LIGHTS, OR ANY OTHER LIGHTS, DOORS, OR PARTITIONS, A
COMPOUND WHICH WILL IN EVERY RESPECT ANSWER THE PURPOSE OF WOOD, IRON,
BRASS, OR COPPER," in such manner as to me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet; and that I,
the said Francis Underwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, arising,. and
accruing by reason of the said Invention, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said license, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto me,
the said Francis Underwood, 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: And
whereas in the said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the
said Francis Underwood, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next
after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said Francis Underwood, do hereby declare
my said new-invented frames are made and performed in manner following,
that is to say:-
The composition for the said frames is block or grain tin, mixed or melted
down with lead to any degree of hardness which the work may require ;
the barrs or mouldings of the angles for the frames are cast solid in moulds of
brass or stone, in some of the three following forms, viz, +, T, L, or any
other angles the work may require, and the points of the barrs are afterwards
burnt together in a reverse mould. The rabitts of the barrs are either of
brass, copper, or iron tinned, or tin plates made in the mouldings before
described, and soddered thereto with sodder of the same composition of the
mouldings themselves. The points of the mouldings or barrs are let into wood
frames, and fastened by the rabbitts with plates and screws or nails, so as
not to be seen when glazed. and puttied; and the bars for circular, oval, or.

page_text: emispherical work or figures are cast in angles as afore described, the points
curved or afterwards set or bent to the form required.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
third day of March, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third, by the grace of God King of Great Britain,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of
our Lord Christ One thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
FRANS (L.S.) UNDERWOOD.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of us,
W. LAWSON.
JA INGHAM Jun
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1775, the aforesaid Francis Underwood 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 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-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-five
Inrolled the Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and coventy-five