A NEW METHOD OF MAKING PLATED FURNITURE FOR FIRE STOVES AND GRATES, WITH OR WITHOUT GLASS ORNAMENTS
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HORSLEY the elder, of Haberdashers' Walk, Hoxton, in the County of
Middlesex, Founder and Brazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Horsley, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, after much labour, trouble, and expence, found out and invented
"A NEW METHOD OF MAKING PLATED FURNITURE FOR FIRE STOVES AND GRATES,
WITH OR WITHOUT GLASS ORNAMENTS," which I apprehend would be of publick
utility, and that I was the first and true Inventor thereof, and that the same had
never been made or used by any other person or persons to my knowledge or
belief, and I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that He would
be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, His Majestic's Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my said Invention,
within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided;
and His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fifteenth day of November, in the twenty-

page_text: fourth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto
me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, 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, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times and hereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said John Horsley, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretions seem
meet; and that I, the said John Horsley, 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 mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said John Horsley, 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 next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent was contained a proviso, that if I, the said John
Horsley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said 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, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Horsley, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows, that
is to say:
Plates or leaves of silver are placed in the moulds in which the furniture is

page_text: o be cast, and then the moulds are filled with a composition of melted tin and
pelter, or any other composition that will make tin hard.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Horsley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
Que thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and in the twenty-fourth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid John Horsley came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One