NEW INVENTED NAUTICAL WINDLESS
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, MICHAEL
LOURENCO BERFORD, son of Lancellot Berford, late of Lisbon, in the Kingdom
of Portugal, but now of the Middle Temple, London, Esquire, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Eleventh day of March
last, gave and granted to said Michael Lourenco Berford, his executors,
adñiors, and assigns, His Majesty's spial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, for the said Michael Lourenco Berford, his executors, adñiors,
or assigns, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as the said Michael
Lourenco Berford, his executors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no other, from time to time' and at all times hereafter, to make, use,
exercise, and vend, his "NEW INVENTED NAUTICAL WINDLESS," adapted by the ap-
plication of men to all mechanic powers, but especially to the use of navigation,
such as. rowing and craining, &c., to have and to hold, exercise and enjoy,
the said licence, power, privilege and advantage, to the said Michael Lourenco
Berford, his executors, adñiors, and assigns, for the 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 that case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Michael Lourenco Berford, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the 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 kalendar months next

page_text: immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. then the said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Michael Lourenco Berford, in pursuance
of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare
that the nature of my said Invention, called the nautical windless, and the
manner in which the same is performed, is described in a plan or Drawing
hereunto annext.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
fifth day of June, in the sixteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
MICHAEL LOURENCO BERFORD. (LS.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt),
in the presence of us,
PATT. O'FERRALL.
THOS. MENDHAM.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fifth day of
June, in the year above-mentioned, the aforesaid Michael Lourenco Berford
came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification of his Invention aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained & 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-sixth day of June, in the year above said..

page_text: The Gudgeons of the Windless or axel-tree.
The three teeth which are fixed on each Gudgeon
The pauls or stops which fall on the teeth of the Gudgeon
The staples whose three rows must go in a straight line with the teeth of the gudgeon
The hooks which are put into the staples to turn the Windless or axel-tree
The sticks round which the hooks of the first rank are placed by which the Men-turne the Windless or axel-tree/ see 1
The ropes or straps that communicate the different rows of men which may be employed at pleasure.
A Board which is to be placed paralele to the Windless or axel-tree above the first row of sticks & from three to six feet
high as most convenient to suspend the Sticks.
The uprights or supporters of the above Board.
The rope to which the hook is suspended and consequently the sticks with which the men work.
The spike fixed into the end of the Stick by which they join.
The Two ropes of each stick which is to hang on the Men's shoulders except the first row of sticks which are supported by
the ropes L
The stauncheon or prep to be fixed on each side of the Windless whereon the Gudgeons B are to turn!
4. hinge or clasp to shut over and keep the Gudgeon Bin its place and which is fastened by a piu going through it into
a staple.