A POT OR PAE, TO BE APPLIED TO A NIGHT STOOL OR NECESSARY OR OTHER PURPOSES, WHICH WOULD PREVENT OFFENSIVE SHELLS, AND HE OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES CREABE,
of Wellington, in the County of Somerset, Painter, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS the said James Crease did, by his Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that
he had, by great application and study, invented "A POT OR PAE, TO BE
APPLIED TO A NIGHT STOOL OR NECESSARY OR OTHER PURPOSES, WHICH WOULD
PREVENT OFFENSIVE SHELLS, AND HE OF PUBLIC UTILITY;" he therefore prayed
His said Majesty would please to grant unto him, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His Majesty's Royal. Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain for the sole making and vending the said
pot or pan, and exercising the said Invention, with England, His Dominion
of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of four-
teen years; and His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of August, in the twenty-
second year
of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and
meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant
unto the said James Crease, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the
said James Crease, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as he, the said James Crease, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and d go others,

page_text: 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 his said
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to him, the said James Crease, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretion seem meet, and that
he, the said James Crease, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might 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 therein mentioned,
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto him, the
said James Crease, his executors, administrators, 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 form of the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said James
Crease should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
.should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by
the said Letters Patent, refference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
James Crease, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said
.Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows, that
is to say:
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The pot or pan may be made of copper, tin, pewter, or any other metal,
glass, earthenware, or of any materials, shape, or size whatever, capable of
holding or containing water or any other liquid or fluid. The pot or pan has
either fixed round on
a groove or channel, made of any discretionary dimensions,
the brim, or on the inside or outside, near or at any distance below the brim
as circumstances require. The said groove or channel is for the purpose of
receiving water or any other liquid or fluid, through which offensive smells
cannot pass. The pot or pan has a lid or cover, the closing part of which

page_text: drops or falls into the said groove or channel, which groove or channel must
be supplied with a sufficient quantity of water, or any other liquid or fluid, to
immerse the closing part of the said lid or cover in it.
In witness whereof, the said James Crease hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Eighteenth day of November, in the twenty-third 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 seven hundred
and eighty-two.