NEW INVENTED, CHEAP, AND SIMPLY CONSTRUCTED WATER ENGINE (MADE PRINCIPALLY OF WOOD, EXCEPT THE AIR VESSELL THERETO BELONGING), WHICH WILL THROW A CONSTANT STREAM OF WATER WITH GREAT FORCE AND AT A GREAT DISTANCE, AND WILL BE VERY USEFULL IN EXTINGUISHING FIRES
Year: 1771

page_text: EDGELL'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EDGELL, of Frome Selwood, in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, serd
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date on
or about the Twenty-second day of April, One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-one, in the eleventh year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said James Edgell, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
James Edgell, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED,
CHEAP, AND SIMPLY CONSTRUCTED WATER ENGINE (MADE PRINCIPALLY OF WOOD,
EXCEPT THE AIR VESSELL THERETO BELONGING), WHICH WILL THROW A CONSTANT
STREAM OF WATER WITH GREAT FORCE AND AT A GREAT DISTANCE, AND WILL BE
VERY USEFULL IN EXTINGUISHING FIRES;" in which said recited Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said James Edgell, shall 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 four calendar 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, shall utterly cease,
determine, and be void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
James Edgell, do hereby declare that my said new invented water engine is
made and used in manner following (that is to say) :-
It is constructed either with a single or double force pump and a vessell
wherein the air is contained and compressed. When the engine is worked, the
pump or pumps and air vessell are fixed at or near the bottom by a mettal
bond or screw upon or against a block of wood, in which block of wood one
or more holes are bored, which convey the water from the pump or pumps into
the air vessell, from whence it passes through a small pipe, and is thrown to a
great distance; the said pump or pumps and air vessell being so fixed together
are fastened into a tub or cistern. The piston or pistons of the said pump or
pumps is or are worked up and down with a leaver or handle of wood.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Edgell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventh day of August, in the eleventh year of the
reign of our Soverign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of
Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-one.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt),
in the presence of
JA' WICKHAM,
JOHN NAPIER, Jun'.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventh day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1771, the aforesaid James Edgell came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, 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.
Inrolled the Ninth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-one.