NEW-INVENTED FRICTION BOXES FOR ALL SORTS OF WHEEL AND OTHER CARRIAGES, FOR SHIP-WORK, HOUSE-WORK, MILL-WORK, AND ENGINES AND MACHINES OF EVERY KIND
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHAL COME, WILLIAM
SOMERTON, of the City of Bath, in the County of Somerset, Carrier, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourteenth day of June last,
gave and granted unto the said William Somerton, his exors, admors, and
assigns, His Majestie's special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
for the said William Somerton, his exors, admiors, and assigns, and every of
them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such other as he, the said William Somerton, his exors,
adors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, not exceeding the number
of five, and no other, 'from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend his "NEW-INVENTED
FRICTION BOXES FOR ALL SORTS OF WHEEL AND OTHER CARRIAGES, FOR SHIP-WORK,
HOUSE-WORK, MILL-WORK, AND ENGINES AND MACHINES OF EVERY KIND," to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power, privilege, and advantage to
the said William Somerton, his exors, admors, and assigns, for the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next 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

page_text: that if the said William Somerton should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument under his hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majestie'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,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Somerton, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, is described in the Plan hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth
day of October, in the twentieth 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.
Signed and sealed, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
THO MENDIAM
W* (L.S.) SOMERTON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1780, the aforesaid William Somerton 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 Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen Wm and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seven-
teenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.