Ax ENGINE NEWLY INVENTED BY HIM THE SAID JOHN TUITE, FOR MAKING STONE PIPES TO CONVEY WATER, AND FOR MAKING MARBLE AND STONE COFFINS
Year: 1734

page_text: TUITE'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty by His Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of November, now last
past, gave and granted unto John Tuite, of the Parish of St. Anne, West-
minster, in the County of Middlesex, Goldsmith, His extors, admors, and
assignes, His said Majestie's special lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said John Tuite, his extors, adñññors, and assignes,
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 John Tuite, his
extors, adñiors, or 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, "Ax
ENGINE NEWLY INVENTED BY HIM THE SAID JOHN TUITE, FOR MAKING STONE
PIPES TO CONVEY WATER, AND FOR MAKING MARBLE AND STONE COFFINS;" which
said Invention by the said Letters Patent is directed to be particularly de-
scribed, by an instrument in writing under the hand and seal of the said
John Tuite, to be enrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within.
two calendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent, within
that part of His Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to him, the said John Tuite, his extors, admors, or assigns, should seem
meet, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said power, priviledges, liberties,

page_text: and advantages therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said
John Tuite, his extors, adñors, and assigns, for and during the term of four-
teen years from and immediately ensuing the date of the said Letters Patent,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN by these Presents, that he, the said John Tuite,
by the direction and in pursuance of the said Letters Patent, doth by these
Presents describe the said new-invented Engine, in manner and form
following, that is to say :-
The same is invented for making, boring, or turning stone pipes, and
marble coffins; and the said new-invented engine consiss of a large wooden
wheell to be turned by wind, water, horse, or men, and which large wheel
commands several other lesser wheels, which, together with several insido
and outside springs, command severall instruments or bores that work or bore
the stone or marble.
J. LIGHTBUUN.
JOHN TUITE. (LS.)
AND BE. IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Eighteenth day of January,
in the year above written, the aforesaid John Tuite came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the abovesaid Instru-
ment & all and every thing therein contained & specified, in form above
said. And also the said Instrument was stampt according to the form of
tho Statuto made & provided in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, & so forth.
Inrolled the said Eighteenth day of January, in the year above written.