A NEW METHOD OF SUPPLYING WITH OIL, BRANCHES, SCONCES, AND LAMPS, ESTEEMED BY PROPER JUDGES TO BE THE BEST IMPROVEMENT OF THOSE KINDS FOR BURNING OF OIL SINCE THEY WERE FIRST INVENTED
Year: 1771

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JAMES HERIOT, of the Parish of Saint Alphage, London Wall, in the City
of London, Peruke Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS by certain Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of July last past, re-
citing that I, the said James Heriot, had, by great study, labor, and expence
in trying a variety of experiments, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW
METHOD OF SUPPLYING WITH OIL, BRANCHES, SCONCES, AND LAMPS, ESTEEMED BY
PROPER JUDGES TO BE THE BEST IMPROVEMENT OF THOSE KINDS FOR BURNING OF
OIL SINCE THEY WERE FIRST INVENTED;" that in regard I was the first and true
Inventor thereof, and that the same had never been used or practised by any
other person or persons whomsoever, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I
therefore had prayed that His Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto
me, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent, under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my
said Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion
of Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; His Majesty did
therefore, of His especial grace, give and grant unto me, the said James
Heriot, my exors, admors, & assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Heriot, my exors, admors,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said James
Heriot, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

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others, from time to time and at all times thenafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might, make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manuer as
to me, the said James Heriot, my exors, admors, or assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said James Heriot, my
exors, adñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, 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 James Heriot, my exors, admors,
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 to the end that I, the said James Heriot, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, and every of them, might have and enjoy the full benefit and the
sole use and exercise of the said Invention, according to His gracious intention
therein-before declared, His said Majesty did, by the said Letters Patent, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, require and strictly command all and every
person and persons, bodys politic and corporate, and all other His subjects
whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever they be,
within that said part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither
they, nor any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said term of
fourteen years thereby granted, either directly or indirectly, should make, use,
or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, as attained
unto by me, the said James Heriot, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor should make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself
or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without
the licence, consent, or agreement of me, the said James Heriot, my exors,
adñiors, or assigns, in writing under my or their hands and seals first had and
obtained in that behalf; in which said Letters Patent is contained a provisoe that
if I, the said James Heriot, 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 the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that the said

page_text: Letters Patent, and all libertys and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said
recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully & at
large appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
James Heriot, in pursuance of the above-recited provisoe, and in complyance
therewith, have, in and by the Plan delineated and set down in the margin of
these Presents, with the references thereon wrote, described and ascertained
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
used and performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Heriot, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-one.