AN ENGINE FOR LESSENING THE CONSUMPTION OF STEAM AND FUEL IN FIRE OR STEAM ENGINES, AND GAINING CONSIDERABLE EFFECT IN TIME AND FORCE
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADAM
HESLOP, of Ketley, in the County of Salop, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of July, in the thirtieth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Adam Heslop, my exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Adam Heslop, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their
deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Adam
Heslop, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"AN ENGINE FOR LESSENING THE CONSUMPTION OF STEAM AND FUEL IN FIRE OR
STEAM ENGINES, AND GAINING CONSIDERABLE EFFECT IN TIME AND FORCE;" in
such manner as to me, the said Adam Heslop, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns,
or any of them, should in our discretion seem meet, and I, the said Adam
Heslop, my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time

page_text: 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, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Adam Heslop, my exors, adiñiors,
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 there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Adam Heslop, by an instrument in writing under my haud and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Adam Heslop, in compliance with
the said provisoc, do hereby describe, ascertain, and declare the nature and
form of my said Tuvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in
and by the Model or Plan of the same, and the explanation thereof subjoined,
hereunder delineated and written.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Adam Heslop, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One