A NEW MODE OP WORKING TWO OR MORE PUMPS FOR DELIVERING WATER OUT OF LEAKY SHIPS, STONE QUARRIES, OR MINES OF A MODERATE DEPTH; EMPLOYING IN THE OPERATION ONLY ABOUT HALF THE USUAL MANUAL FORCE, AND DELIVERING NEARLY DOUBLE THE QUANTITY OF WATER
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROGER.
THOMPSON, of North Shields, in the County of Northumberland, Shipwright,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and-by His,
Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of August last past, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Roger Thompson, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Roger
Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Roger Thompson, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 specified,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England and
Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW MODE
OP WORKING TWO OR MORE PUMPS FOR DELIVERING WATER OUT OF LEAKY SHIPS,
STONE QUARRIES, OR MINES OF A MODERATE DEPTH; EMPLOYING IN THE OPERATION
ONLY ABOUT HALF THE USUAL MANUAL FORCE, AND DELIVERING NEARLY DOUBLE THE
QUANTITY OF WATER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Roger Thompson, particularly to 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
to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery,
within two calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said

page_text: Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereto
had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Roger Thompson, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the Plan or Drawing hereto annexed marked
No. 1, represents and contains a perpendicular front view thereof, and the Plan
or Drawing marked No. 2 represents and contains a horizontal view thereon,
and that my said Invention doth comprise the following particulars, that is
to say:-
A, A, cast-iron chambers; B is an iron standard or fulcrum prop; C, C, are
spear boxes; D is the beam or sector; E, E, are iron braces; F, F, is wood
casing; G, G, G, G, G, G, are iron hoops; II, H, are lower boxes; I, I, are
iron pumps; K is an iron clasp for the standard; L, four inch-plank on the
supposed deck of a ship; M, the deck; N, N, N, N, screw bolts to screw the
chambers and pumps together; 0, 0, 0, 0, fore-lock bolts to take out to
unrigg the pumps; P, P, small sheaves to keep the spears in their places;
and Q, Q, iron levers or brakes; and that this machine is worked in the
usual manner of pumps, either by manual labour or the application of any
other power.
In witness whereof, I, the said Roger Thompson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-sixth day of September, in the fifty-second
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and twelve
ROGER THOMPSON. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above-
named Roger Thompson, in the presence of
HENRY DALE.
JOHN CODLING, Jun'.
Henry Dale, of the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gentleman,
maketh oath and saith, that he did this day see Roger Thompson, of North
Shields, in the County of Northumberland, Shipwright, duly sign, seal, and
as his act and deed deliver the Deed Poll or Specification hereto annexed,
in the presence of this deponent and of John Codling, the younger, of New-
castle-upon-Tyne aforesaid, gentleman; and that the name "Roger Thompson"
subscribed thereto as the party executing the same is of the proper hand-
writing of the said Roger Thompson; and the names or characters, "Henry

page_text: Dale" and "John Codling, jun"," subscribed thereto, as the witnesses attesting
the execution thereof, are of the respective proper handswriting of the said
John Codling, the younger, and this deponent.
Dale" and "John Codling, jun'," subscribed thereto, as the witnesses attesting
the execution thereof, are of the respective proper handswriting of the said
John Codling, the younger, and this deponent.
Sworn at the Town and County of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne aforesaid, this Twenty-sixth day
of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred & twelve, before me,
HENRY DALE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of
September, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Roger Thompson came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of September in the voor above written