NEW METHOD OF UNLOADING OR DISCHARGING OF COALS, CULM, CORN, MERCHANDIZE, OR OTHER MATTER OUT OF SHIPS, VESSELS, KEELS, BOATS, LIGHTERS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF CRAFT, AND ALSO FOR MEASURING OR WEIGHING THE SAME
Year: 1766

page_text: LIDDELL, of the City of London, Gentleman, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-
fifth day of November last, gave and granted unto the said Richard Liddell,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence,
full power, sole priviledge, and authority for the said Richard Liddell, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said Richard Liddell, his exccutors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter, to make, use, exercise, and vend his "NEW METHOD OF
UNLOADING OR DISCHARGING OF COALS, CULM, CORN, MERCHANDIZE, OR OTHER
MATTER OUT OF SHIPS, VESSELS, KEELS, BOATS, LIGHTERS, OR ANY OTHER KIND OF
CRAFT, AND ALSO FOR MEASURING OR WEIGHING THE SAME," within that part of
Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in the Colonies and Plantations abroad, and all the profit,
benefit, and advantage thereof; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages to the said Richard Liddell, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, for the 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 that case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said Richard
Liddell should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next and immediately
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, as by the said Letters Patent may more
fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Liddell, in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that the nature
of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
appears and is described and ascertained in the schedules or drawings hereunto
annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Liddell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of March, in the seventh 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 sixty-seven.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the day and year last above men-
tioned, the aforesaid Richard Liddell came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
Specification aforesaid was stampt 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.

page_text: from the Ends of the Ship to the Main Hatchway.
Skidds or Ways for the Wheel Carriages to run upon, plated
with Iron.
Bolts to join different Lengths of Skidds together as
may be wanted.
Nut Screw Hammer to put on and take off the different
nutts used in the several Parts.
An Air Level to regulate the Skidds.
Steel Yard to weigh Coals, Stone &c.
A Scotch to stop the Carriage
A Section of a Collier delivering Coals according to the
new method.
A Clasp and Axis for the Beam.
The Beam to raise or heave the Coals &c. out of
the Ship's Hold.
A Bar hung at the End of the Beam with Swivel
Rings at each End.
Three and a half Inch Rope with two Thimbles &
two looks to hang the Tub by.
Two Inch Rope thrumb'd with a Thimble and a Hook
to fasten to the Bar to hoist at, three of which are
• generally used by three Men.
Coal Tubs with an Axis for the easier emptying the
same.