METHOD OR PLAN FOR PREVENTING AND CURING SMOKING CHIMNIES
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, Jonn
JOHNSON, of Tildsley Banks, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Clerk,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King Georgo the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Third day of May, in the thirty-sixth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said John Johnson, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, by
myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as I, the said John Johnson, my executors, administra-
tors, 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, my new invented
"METHOD OR PLAN FOR PREVENTING AND CURING SMOKING CHIMNIES," within that
part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, in such manner as to me,
the said John Johnson, 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 John 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
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-

page_text: tages whatsoever thereby granted should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise not-
withstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Johnson, in pursuance of and com-
pliance with the said proviso, do hereby declare that my said Invention is
fully described and ascertained in the plan thereof drawn in the body of these
presents.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Johnson, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-six.
JOHN JOHNSON. (L.B.)
Scaled and delivered (being first
duly stamped) in the presence
of,
JOHN DAVIES,
WILLIAM GROOM.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on tho Tenth day of May, in the thirty-
sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
John Johnson came before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written; and also the instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made
in the sixth year of the reign of the lato King and Queen, William and Mary
of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the
reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Tenth day of May, in the year last above written.