A MACHINE WHICH WORKS BY WIND, WATER, OR HORSE, IN A QUITE NEW MANNER FROM ANYTHING OF THE KIND, AND WILL DO MORE WORK, WITH LESS EXPENCE & TROUBLE, THAN ANYTHING NOW INVENTED, FOR DRAINING OF LANDS WHICH ARE FLOODED, OR FOR FLOODING LANDS WERE THERE BE OCCASION, OR FOR SUPPLYING CITIES OR TOWNS WITH WATER, OR FOR PREVENTING THE SPREADING OF FIRES, OR FOR MAKING RIVERS NAVIGABLE, TAKING THE GROUND OP IN A QUITE LEVEL MANNER, OR FOR THE DEEPENING OF HARBOURS, BASONS, MOLES, OR WET DOCKS, AS IT WILL TAKE UP A TON AND A HALF INONE MINUTE, OR FOR GRINDING CORN AND ALL SORTS OF GRAIN, OR FOR GRINDING, POUNDING, AND RASPING, DYING WOOD OR COLOURS, FOR DYERS, SALTERS, OR PAINTERS USE, FOR THE TURNING OF BRASS CANNON, OR LARGE IRONWORK FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA, AND BORING OF WOODEN PIPES, & WILL SERVE TO PREVENT SHIPS FROM SINKING WHEN LEAKY, & LIKEWISE KEEP SHIPS OFF A LEE SHORE a,
Year: 1752

page_text: COLEMAND SPECI
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
COLEMAN, of the Parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry, Mariner, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Eleventh day of February, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Edward Coleman, His especial licence, that I, during
the term of years therein expressed, should & lawfully might use, exercise,
& vend my new Invention of "A MACHINE WHICH WORKS BY WIND, WATER,
OR HORSE, IN A QUITE NEW MANNER FROM ANYTHING OF THE KIND, AND WILL
DO MORE WORK, WITH LESS EXPENCE & TROUBLE, THAN ANYTHING NOW INVENTED,
FOR DRAINING OF LANDS WHICH ARE FLOODED, OR FOR FLOODING LANDS WERE THERE BE
OCCASION, OR FOR SUPPLYING CITIES OR TOWNS WITH WATER, OR FOR PREVENTING
THE SPREADING OF FIRES, OR FOR MAKING RIVERS NAVIGABLE, TAKING THE GROUND
OP IN A QUITE LEVEL MANNER, OR FOR THE DEEPENING OF HARBOURS, BASONS, MOLES,
OR WET DOCKS, AS IT WILL TAKE UP A TON AND A HALF IN ONE MINUTE, OR FOR
GRINDING CORN AND ALL SORTS OF GRAIN, OR FOR GRINDING, POUNDING, AND RASPING,
DYING WOOD OR COLOURS, FOR DYERS, SALTERS, OR PAINTERS USE, FOR THE TURNING
OF BRASS CANNON, OR LARGE IRONWORK FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA,
AND BORING OF WOODEN PIPES, & WILL SERVE TO PREVENT SHIPS FROM SINKING WHEN
LEAKY, & LIKEWISE KEEP SHIPS OFF A LEE SHORE;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edward Coleman,

page_text: by a writing under my hand & seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesties High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in & by the same,
relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Edward Coleman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
doth consist and is to be performed in the manner bereinafter mentioned
(that is to say):-
This machine when worked by wind has usually about eight sails or wings,
more or less, which may be made of canvas, tin, board, copper, iron, or any
such like materials, which are fixt to four stocks fixt crossways in an upright
sharp, placed below each other, so as not to prevent the wind from blowing
on the sails, the wind, having its power only upon one side of the sharp and sails,
forces round the machine, the returning wings spilling all the wind by their
flying up in a quadrental form. Upon the shaft of the machine are fixed
wallow or lanthorn wheels, spur or spur wheels, worms & cant wheels.
When worked by horse there is a large wheel, which the horse goes into,
armed only in the middle or at one side, for the conveniency of the horse's
pulling at a post, which has a gibbet end, by which means the horse forces
backwards the wheel with his whole strength. When worked by water it is
a water mill or wheel with spooners, wallows, and spur wheels, one or two of
which may be placed in a barge which hath a well & bridge through which
the tide or current runs which works the machine. They may also be fixt
between two barges, float or stage, on the water; and when it is still water it
may be worked, by horse as above. The ballast is taken up sometimes by a
range of receivers stretch'd out to the bottom of the river, which go continually
round; & sometimes the said mill or wheel is worked with long poles crossways,
which are brought up & let down between two sheives playing in a roll on
the outside of the barge; & the ballast so taken up by either of the above means
is discharged into barges on both sides at one time, with gratens & false
bottoms, which, opening quickly, discharge themselves of their burthen. The
wheels to be used for raising water are hollow, taking up the water in a semi-
circular or spirial form, and having in them fixt receivers, & sometime move
with swivels, and may be worked with a cog wheel, rope, or chain, either by
wind, horse, or water. The weather hold, which is to be used for the safe
riding of ships at sea, and to keep them off a lee shore, is a frame, cased or
boarded over, of strength agreeable to the ship's burthen. It must swim
edgeways downward, a foot or two under water, and must be slang at the

page_text: corners strong enough to hold the pull of the ship. There must be a buoy at
two or three fathom distance, which is to keep the harser or cable from
sinking. The bite of the harser is to be fastned sufficiently strong at each
end of the buoy, and when wared out thirty, forty, or fifty fathom. length the
ship comes head to wind, and rides wind rode securely & safe.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Coleman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of May, in the twenty-fifth year of
the reign of our Soveriegn Lord George the Second, by the Grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fifty-two.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
L. CARLETON.
EDWARD COLEMAN. (L.B.)
Тно. Савтиви.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the said Eighth day of May the
aforesaid Edward Coleman came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form abovesaid. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Eighth day of May, in the said Twenty-fifth year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Second.