A NEW METHOD OF PAINTING WALLS OF APARTMENTS AND OTHER SUR- PACES, BY THE PREPARATION, USE, AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1814

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS JOHN VANCOUVER, of Ickenham, in the County of Middlesex,
Esquire, hath by his petition humbly represented unto us, that he hath
invented "A NEW METHOD OF PAINTING WALLS OF APARTMENTS AND OTHER SUR-
PACES, BY THE PREPARATION, USE, AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR
THAT PURPOSE;" that he is the first and true inventor thereof, and that the
same hath not been practiced by any other person or persons whomsoever to
his knowledge or belief; the Petitioner, therefore most humbly prayed that we
would be graciously pleased to grant unto him, his executors, admors, and
assigns, our Royal Letters Patent under, the Great Seal of our United King-
dom for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of his said Invention, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided;
and we, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which
may be for the public good, are graciously pleased to condescend to the
Petitioner's request.
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that we, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said John
Vancouver, his executors, adñors, and assigns, our especial license, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said John Vancouver, his
executors, adiuors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and them-

page_text: selves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said John Vancouver, his executors, adñiors, or assigns,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times hereafter during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully
may make, use, exercise, and vend his said Invention, within that part of our
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, our Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the
said John Vancouver, his executors, adññiors, and assigns, or any of them,
shall in his or their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said John
Vancouver, his executors, adñors, and assigns, shall and lawfully may 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 herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said license, powers, privileges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said John Vancouver, his exe-
cutors, adññors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of these Presents next and immediately en-
suing, and fully to be complete and ended, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided. And to the end that he, the said John Vancouver, his
executors, admiors, and assigns, and every of them, may have and enjoy the
full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said Invention according to
our gracious intention herein-before declared, we do by these Presents, for
us, our heirs and successors, require and strictly command all and every person
and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subjects what-
soever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition soever they be,
within that said part of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed
aforesaid, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance
of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same,
so attained unto by the said John Vancouver as aforesaid, nor in anywise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addition thereunto or subtraction from the same, whereby to pre-
tend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the license, consent, or agreement of the said John Van-
couver, his executors, admors, or assigns, in writing under his or their
hands and seals first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains and
penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt
of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to the said John

page_text: Vancouver, his executors, admors, or assigns, according to law, for his and
their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, we do by these Presents,
for us, our heirs and successors, will and command all and singular the justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors, for the time
being, that they or any of them do not, nor shall at any time hereafter during
the said term hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
John Vancouver, his executors, admors, or assigns, or any of them, or his
or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawful use
or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto: Pro-
vided always, and these our Letters Patent are and shall be upon this express
condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted, it shall
be made appear to us, our heirs or successors, or any six, or more of our
or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or prejudicial or
inconvenient to our subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a
new Invention as to the public use and exercise thereof in that said part of
our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, our Do-
minion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented
and found out by the said John Vancouver, as aforesaid, then upon signi-
fication or declaration thereof to be made by us, our heirs or successors,
under our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them under their hands, these our
Letters Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void to all
intents and purposes, anything herein- before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patent,.
or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to
give privilege unto the said Johu Vancouver, his executors, admors, and.
assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work whatsoever
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subjects
whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in that said part of our United:
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, unto whom like Letters.
Patent or privileges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise;
and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said John Van-:
couver, his executors, admors, and assigns, and all and every other person and
persons to whom like Letters Patent or privileges have been already granted:
as aforesaid, shall distinctly use and practice their several Inventions by them.
invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patent and of these Presents: Provided likewise, never-

page_text: theless, and these our Letters Patent are upon this express condition, that if
the said John Vancouver, his executors or admiors, or any person or persons
which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of
this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity of, in,
or to the power, privilege, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the
said Invention hereby granted, shall make any transfer or assignment, or
any pretended transfer or assignment, of the said liberty and privilege, or
any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any transfer
thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any book or books for public subscriptions, to be
made by any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, in
order to the raising any sum or sums of money under pretence of carrying on
the said liberty or privilege hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or
his or their agents, servants, receive any sun or sums of money whatsoever of
any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such
or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body,
or shall divide the benefit of these. our Letters Patent, or the liberty and
privileges hereby by us granted, into any number of shares exceeding the
number of five, or shall commit or do, or procure to be committed or done,
any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such person or
persons shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said
premises, which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain
Act of Parliament, made in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Great
Grandfather King George the First, intituled "An Act for the better securing
certain Powers and Privileges intended to be granted by His Majesty by
Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lend-
ing Money upon Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and
unwarrantable Practices therein mentioned," or in case the said power, privi-
vilege, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust
for more than the number of five persons or their representatives at any one
time (reckoning executors or adññiors as and for the single person whom
they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be entitled to in
right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said
cases these our Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatso-
ever hereby granted; shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing Provided also, that if the said John Vancouver shall not particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by au instrument in writing under his

page_text: hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in our High Court of
Chancery within fifteen calendar months next and immediately after the date
of these our Letters Patent, that then these our Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease, deter-
mine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding. And, lastly, we do by these Presents, for us, our
heirs and successors, grant unto the said John Vancouver, his executors,
adiiors, and assigns, that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or ex-
emplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient
and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof,
and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and bene-
ficial sense for the best advantage of the said John Vancouver, his execu-
tors, admors, and assigns, as well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere,
and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs
and successors, in that part of our said United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heirs and
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness, &c., the Seventeenth day of May.
By Writ of Privy Seal.

page_text: VANCOUVER'S SURRENDER OF LETTERS PATENT.
JOHN VANCOUVER, of Ickenham, in the County of. Middlesex, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day
of May, in the fifty-fourth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said John Vancouver, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Vancouver,
my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term
of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW
METHOD OF PAINTING WALLS OF APARTMENTS AND OTHER SURFACES, BY THE PRE-
PARATION, USE, AND APPLICATION OF CERTAIN MATERIALS FOR THAT PURPOSE,"
as by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Vancouver, for divers good
causes and considerations me hereunto moving, have surrendered and
yielded up, and by these Presents do surrender and yield up, into the hands
of His said most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, the said recited

page_text: Letters Patent, and the licence, powers, privileges and advantages thereby
granted to me, the said John Vancouver, my exors, admors, and assigns, and
all my estate, right, title, and interest of, in, and to the same, together with
the said recited Letters Patent to be cancelled.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1815, the aforesaid John Vancouver came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Deed Poll
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Deed Poll aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.