METHOD OF PRINTING WITH TYPES OF FIGURES SO CONNECTED AS TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF ERROR IN ALL BUSINESS WHERE FIGURES ARE USED, PARTICULARLY IN TAKING DOWN THE NUMBERS OF BLANKS AND PRIZES IN THE LOTTERY
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Ninth day of November, in the nineteenth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, HENRY JOHNSON, of Vauxhall, in the Parish of.
Lambeth, in the County of Surry, Gentleman, his especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Henry Johnson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, during the term of
fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and
vend my said new Invention or "METHOD OF PRINTING WITH TYPES OF FIGURES SO
CONNECTED AS TO PREVENT THE POSSIBILITY OF ERROR IN ALL BUSINESS WHERE
FIGURES ARE USED, PARTICULARLY IN TAKING DOWN THE NUMBERS OF BLANKS AND
PRIZES IN THE LOTTERY;" within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said Henry Johnson, 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery

page_text: within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever, should cease, determine, and become void, as in and by
the said Letters Patent more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Johnson, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso, and the purport and true intent and
meaning of the said Letters Patent, and of His Majesty's said most gracious
intentions, do by this instrument in writing under my hand and seal duly
executed, declare that my said new Invention or Method of Printing with Types
of Figures so Connected as to prevent the Possibility of Error in all Business
where Figures are Used, particularly in taking down the Numbers of Blanks
and Prizes in the Lottery, newmerically arranged, is performed by means of
types of figures cast in a body so as at one impression to form any number
or numbers, figure or figures, without being liable to the usual errors of
misplacing, inverting, or substituting one figure or figures for any other;
which said types, so new invented, may be made of iron, lead, brass, copper, or
any other metal, which is capable of being melted or dissolved in the fire and
cast into moulds proper for forming the said figures; or said types may be cut
in wood, metal, stone, or cement, or any other composition fit for the purpose
of making the impression of figures in a body as aforesaid; and when tho
said types or figures are used they are placed in a frame made of wood or
any other substance, and placed in a common printing press, with all such
other materials, utensils, and apparatus (and performed in the same manner)
as hath been heretofore used and adopted for printing and publishing in
general.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Johnson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Eighth day of March, in the nineteenth year
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George 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 sever
hundred and seventy-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Eighth day of March,
in the year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Henry Johnson came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and 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.