Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent, tested at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of October last
past, and in the ninth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain know-
ledge and meer motion, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, ANTHONY DRUMMOND, of Gateshead, in the County of Durham,
Mason, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Anthony Drummond,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by himself and
themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Anthony Drummond, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with (not exceeding five persons in number),
and none others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of lis
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Anthony
Drummond, my executors, adiñors, and assigns, or any of us, should in our

page_text: discretion seem meet, my "NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR POLISHING
OR PLAINING OF MARBLE FLAGSTONES, PAVING AND OTHER STONES, UPON A CONSTRUC-
TION OR PRINCIPLE NEVER INVENTED, USED, OR MADE KNOWN," and which I, by
long study, application, and labour, by many experiments, and at great
expence, found out, invented, and brought to perfection, with such other
powers, liberties, and priviledges as is and are in and by the said Letters
Patents expressed, subject nevertheless to a proviso therein contained, that if
I, the said Anthony Drummond, 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 His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four callendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, whereunto relation being bad, may
and doth more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anthony Drummond, in pursuance of
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the said new-invented machine or
engine consists of the ground frame, composed of timber, and which is marked
in the Plan thereof below with the letter A, and that the letter B represents
the frame at the top, which is also composed of timber, and that the letter C
denotes the main spur wheel, and the letter D the horseway whereby the same
is put in motion, and that the letter E points out the small spur wheel with
cogs, which are connected with the cogs of the large spur wheel, and that F 1
denotes the cog wheel, made of timber, under which is placed F 2, called the
rimd of solid iron which has communication with F 3, called the trinnel wheel,
composed of timber, which is acted by F 4, called the spear or spinnel, com-
posed of iron, and which is fixed in the rind; and that the letter G denotes
the fly, whereon the marble, flagstones, glass, or paving stones are placed, and
which are all wedged close in it; and that the letter H points out a crank of
iron, to which is fixed an iron spear, marked in the Plan with the letter I,
which has communication with a lever composed of wood, marked K, whereto
are fixed shackles marked L, which is joined with the wooden peal marked M,
to which is fixed the rubber or polishing block, composed of stone, marked
N, which slides back and forward; and that the letter O denotes a face wheel,
which has communication with P, a smaller face wheel; and that the letters
Q, Q, Q, describe the three cylinders for the course, fine, and finer sands
used in the rubbing or polishing aforesaid; all which are particularly laid down

page_text: n the Plan below of the said machine or engine, which may be worked
ither by horse, wind, or water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anthony Drummond, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the ninth
year of the reign of His said present Majesty Georgo 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 sixty-nine.
DAVIDSON.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of January,
in the year last abovesaid, the aforesaid Anthony Drummond came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Instrument 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.