PRINTING VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSICK OF ALL KINDS WITH TYPES, IN A NEATER AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ARNOLD, of Great Pulteney Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster,
in the County of Middlesex, Doctor in Musick, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of May, in the twenty-fourth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Arnold, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Samuel Arnold, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel Arnold, my exors, adñors, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, 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, within that part of His Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "PRINTING VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL
MUSICK OF ALL KINDS WITH TYPES, IN A NEATER AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER

page_text: THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN USED," as to me, the said Samuel Arnold, my exors,
adiñiors, or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet; and
that I, the said Samuel Arnold, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted unto me, the said
Samuel Arnold, my exors, adiñors, 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 Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Samuel Arnold, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within
four calender months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Samuel Arnold, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described as
follows:-
An entire new specimen of notes, together with all the characters, &c. used
in musick, cast on purpose in types. Heretofore all the notes have been cast
in seperate pieces. Many in my new Invention are cast together; two, three,
four, five, and six in one piece. The breaks in the lines are rendered less
frequent, sometimes having but one in a whole bar, and sometimes having
no break for a whole line together. The musick is printed sometimes at
once and sometimes at twice, according to the nature of the composition
of the musick. The lines are sometimes cast with the notes and sometimes
without the notes; this also depends on the nature of the composition of the
musick.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Sixteenth day of September, One thousand seven hundred and

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Sixteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid Samuel Arnold 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 for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.