ing "A NEW INVENTION OF BUILDING THE BODY OR LOWER WORKS OF A SHIP, PINK, BRIGG, SLOOP, BOAT, AND ALL OTHER MARINE VESSELLS, BY WHAT NAME SOEVER CALLED OR DISTINGUISHED, WHICH SAID NEW INVENTED FORM, BEING NEARER THAN ANY OTHER TO THE SOLLED OF LEAST RESISTANCE, WILL BOTH CARRY A GREATER BURTHEN AND SAIL OR ROW MUCH BETTER THAN ANY OTHER FORM HITHERTO BUILT OR MADE USE OF, AND WILL LIKEWISE HAVE ALL SUCH OTHER GOOD QUALITIES AS CAN BE DESIRED IN A MARINE VESSELL AND SO WILL BE LESS LIABLE TO SHIPWRECKS BY BEING DRIVEN ON LEE SHORES, OR BY OTHER ACCIDENTS, THAN THE VESSELLS HOW IN USE
Year: 1736

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN WATTS,
of London, Merchant, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Second, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-
second day of May now last past, hath given and granted unto the said John
Watts, his executors, adiñiors, and assignes, for the term of fourteen years from
the date thereof, especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, of
making, building, useing, exerciseing, and vending "A NEW INVENTION OF
BUILDING THE BODY OR LOWER WORKS OF A SHIP, PINK, BRIGG, SLOOP, BOAT, AND ALL
OTHER MARINE VESSELLS, BY WHAT NAME SOEVER CALLED OR DISTINGUISHED, WHICH
SAID NEW INVENTED FORM, BEING NEARER THAN ANY OTHER TO THE SOLLED OF LEAST
RESISTANCE, WILL BOTH CARRY A GREATER BURTHEN AND SAIL OR ROW MUCH BETTER
THAN ANY OTHER FORM HITHERTO BUILT OR MADE USE OF, AND WILL LIKEWISE HAVE
ALL SUCH OTHER GOOD QUALITIES AS CAN BE DESIRED IN A MARINE VESSELL, AND SO
WILL BE LESS LIABLE TO SHIPWRECKS BY BEING DRIVEN ON LEE SHORES, OR BY
OTHER ACCIDENTS, THAN THE VESSELLS HOW IN USE;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a provisoe that if the said John Watts should not particularly
describe the nature and form of his said Invention, by an Instrument in
writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within two kalendar months next and imediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as by the said in part recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, may more fully & at large appear.

page_text: NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS that in pursuance of the aforesaid
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, he, the said John Wasts, doth
hereby own, confess, declare, and acknowledge that the nature and form of
his said Invention for building ships, pinks, brigantines, sloops, boats, and
all other kind of marrine vessells, consists in a certain rule and manner of
forming the body of the vessell, so as it may appear to be a regular solid,
intirely convex in all its outward parts, in such manner that no hollows may
appear, either in the entrance or the run of the vessel, which regular con-
vexity will be produced from the uniformity of the timbers that compose and
form the shape of the body, which timbers from stem to stern will be all and
every one of them circular, bending all one way, and none of the curves of
the timber are to be reverted, as is usual in the entrance and run of vessels
built in the coñion manner. The stem is not to be so round, circular, or
crooked as is usual in other vessels, but is to be less crooked or nearer to a
streight line, or may be quite streight, as the stern post and both the stem and
stern post are to stand more upright than usual, or may stand quite perpen-
dicular to the keel, in order that this vessel may have less rake either forward
or aftward then other vessels commonly have, or it may have but little or no
rake at all, which said form and position of the stem and stern post will give a
greater length and breadth of floor than vessells built in the common manner
can anyways admitt of, so that by means of the uniform curvilinial timbers
bending all one way, as also by means of the form and possition of the stem
and stern post, productive of an uncommon length and breadth of floor, the
whole body of the vessell will be formed in such a regular convex manner that
if an horrizontal line or a line paralell to the keel be drawn from stem to
stern, or any part of the body, sides, or bottom of this vessell, that line will be
a regular curve bending all one way, and not reverted in the entrance or run,
as such sections or paralell lines would be if drawn on the bottoms of vessels
built in the common forms.
In witness whereof the said John Watts hath hereunto set his hand and
seal, the Fifteenth day of July, One thousand seven hundred and thirty-
six, and in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Second.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
BENJ. COOKE, Jun".
W* SIBSON.
JOHN WATTS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifteenth day of July, in the year
above written, the aforesaid John Watts came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invention aforesaid, and all and every
thing thereby contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Invention aforesaid was stamp'd 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.