A MILL UPON A METHOD ENTIRELY NEW, AND OF MY OWN INVENTION, FOR THE GRINDING ALL SORTS OF MINERAL OARS, IN A MANNER NEVER HERETOFORE PRACTIZED; THAT THE SAID MILL WOULD BE OF UTMOST PUBLICK BENEFIT AND UTILITY TO ALL HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS USING, EXERCISING, AND DEALING IN MINES OR MINERALS
Year: 1757

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
Rowe, of Parransands, in the County of Cornwall, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I did, by my humble Petition to the King's most Excellent
Majesty, setting forth that I had, by great application, labour, and at a
considerable expence, found out, invented, and erected "A MILL UPON A METHOD
ENTIRELY NEW, AND OF MY OWN INVENTION, FOR THE GRINDING ALL SORTS OF
MINERAL OARS, IN A MANNER NEVER HERETOFORE PRACTIZED; THAT THE SAID MILL
WOULD BE OF UTMOST PUBLICK BENEFIT AND UTILITY TO ALL HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS
USING, EXERCISING, AND DEALING IN MINES OR MINERALS;" therefore praying His
said Majesty would grant to me, my executors, administrators, and assignes,
His Royal Letters Patent for the sole erecting, using, exercising, and vending
my said Invention within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales.
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years; and
whereas His said Majesty did, by Ilis Royall Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date Twenty-seventh day of May, in
the thirtieth year of His reign, grant unto me, the said John Rowe, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the John Rowe, my executors, administrators,
and assignes, 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 John
Rowe, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during the
term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise
my said Invention within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Ilis Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to me, the said John Rowe, my executors, administrators, and

page_text: assignes, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that I,
the said John Rowe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profitt, benefit, comodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, accrueing, and ariseing by reason of
the said Invention, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said John Rowe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for
and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Letters Patent then next and imediately ensueing, and fully to
be compleat and ended; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said John Rowe, by a writing under my hand and seal, par-
ticularly to describe the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within three calendar months next and imediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, otherwise the same should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) amongst other things therein contained, may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said proviso I, the said
John Rowe, do hereby declare that my said Invention does consist and is to
be performed in manner hereafter expressed (that is to say):-
By building or erecting a mill in the same manner as any common mill
for corn or grist, either with wind or with water; if by water, with a water or
over-shot wheel, and with such sort of stones, and hung upon the same manner
and principle, but the inside of such stones, between them, are fixed or
inlaid with iron, faced with steel half ways, more or less, off the collar to the
brim of the said stones; and at the mill's mouth, where the ore is delivered,
hangs a copper or iron sieve for sifting and sizing the ore, fixed upon lines or
other materials so as to give it a quick motion; and if by a windmill, the stones
and seive are to be made and fixed in the same form and position.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Rowe, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Eleventh day of July, in the thirty-first year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Second, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven.
Sealed and delivered, in the presence of
JAMES LEGGATT.
THO JENNINGS.
JOIN (L.S.) ROWE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eleventh day of July, in the
year above written, the aforesaid John Rowe came before our Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter
and thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And the said
Writing was stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of July, in the thirty-first year of the reign
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of July, in the thirty-first year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Second, 1757.