A NEW-CONSTRUCTED VENETIAN WINDOW BLIND
Year: 1769

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EDWARD
BEVAN, of Air Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Carpenter,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh
day of December last, gave and granted to the said Edward Bevan, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, for him, the said Edward Bevan, 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 Edward Bevan, his executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, to make, use,
exercise, and vend, his method or Invention of making "A NEW-CONSTRUCTED
VENETIAN WINDOW BLIND," within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; for the term of
fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided,
in such manner as the said Edward Bevan, his executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that he
and they should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time arising by reason of the
said Invention during the said term, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
license, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto the said
Edward Bevan, 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 Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Edward Bevan
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Inven-
tion, 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 enrolled in the
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, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Bevan, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, as follows, that is to say:-
A brass wheel is to be fixed in a frame so as not to admit of a line getting
or slipping out, and then fixed into a lath thicker then the others in order
to conceal the same, and likewise opposite to the tapes that draw up and fall
down, by which means it causes a different shade, and deceives the eye from
observing the working of the pullies.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Bovan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, in the tenth year of
the reign of King 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
seventy

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fourteenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy, the aforesaid
Edward Bevan came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said 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 Fifteenth day of March, in the year above written.