Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TUTIN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Buckle Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty hath been graciously pleased, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Thirteenth day of June last past, to grant unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by me or their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term of years therein and herein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my Invention therein mentioned,
within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretion seem meet; and that I, my executors, administrators, 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 and herein-after
mentioned; to have and to hold, exercise and enjoy, the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages, herein-before granted or mentioned, unto me, my

page_text: extors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and. unto the full end and
term of fourteen years from the date of these Presents next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; with a proviso therein contained, that if I, the said
William Tutin, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next
and immediately after the date of those Letters Patent, that-then those 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, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
William Tutin, in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the said proviso
therein contained, by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
be inrolled in the said High Court of Chancery, do hereby particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, in manner following (that is to say) :-
By taking iron, steel, or copper, and smoothing or polishing the same, and
then silvering the same over with leaf silver, then paint them with Persian
blue, and varnish them over with a varnish made of gum copoll; then put them
into a stove untill the varnish and paint are well dryed, when they will be fit
for use.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thir-
tieth day of September, in the twelfth year of the reign of His
present Majesty George the Third, 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 seventy-two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Thirtieth day of September,
in the year of our Lord 1772, the aforesaid William Tutin 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.