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A SILVER COIN BALANCE TO DETECT BASE HALF CROWNS, SHILLINGS, AND SIXPENCES
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, grecting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third has, by
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Seventh day of January,
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, granted unto me, GEORGE
RABY, of Dunk Street, White Chapple, in the County of Middlesex, Gentle-
man, my executors, admors, and assigns, the sole priviledge of using,
exercising, and vending of my new Invention of "A SILVER COIN BALANCE TO
DETECT BASE HALF CROWNS, SHILLINGS, AND SIXPENCES," for the term of fourteen
years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; that I did,
within four calender months from the date of the said Letters Patent, 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 the High Court of
Chancery, otherwise the said Letters Patent to be void; in obedience to the
said provisoe in the said Patent contained, I do hereby certify that my said
Invention is performed in manner following, viz:—
The machine on which the coin is to be weighed is made of brass or other
metal, ivory, bone, horn, or wood, with an additional weight of metal or material
for a balance weight; it stands on three legs or feet, two of which towards the
middle is the axis or center of gravity, the other supports the balance weight.
The instrument is six inches long or thereabouts, two inches of which is the

page_text: balance weight; the other four inches is a scale graduated to the silver coin of
this Kingdom, and marked, Five shillings, Two shillings and sixpence, One
shilling, and Sixpence. To prove whether the piece intended to be weighed is
good or not, it must be placed against the stud marked according to its value;
if it is good silver, it will throw the balance down; if, on the contrary, it is base
metal, it will have no effect whatsoever on the balance, unless it is made
considerably larger than the common size, which may be easily discerned by
the eye, it being impossible to make any piece of coin of the proper size of
any metal but silver that will weigh the weight.
In witness, I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal, the Seventh day
of March, in the eighteenth 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
A LOCK FAR MORE SECURE THAN ANY HITHERTO MADE
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BARRON, of Hoxton, in the Parish of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirty-first day of October, in the nineteenth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said Robert Barron, His especial licence, that I,
the said Robert Barron, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England and Wales and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A LOCK FAR MORE SECURE THAN
ANY HITHERTO MADE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe
obliging me, the said Robert Barron, under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calender months after the date of the said recited
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 proviso, I, the said
Robert Barron, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Lock far more
Secure than anything hitherto Made, is described in the following manner
that is to say :-
An improvement on the tumbler and spring by means of a stub or projection
so exactly fitted to a passage or opening in the bolt as not to permit the bolt

page_text: to pass unless the said projection or stub is carried exactly opposite the opening
or passage in the bolt, which can only be done by its proper key. As the said
projection or stub is at liberty to pass the said passage or opening in the bolt
in another direction at the end of said passage or opening, by placing the
projection or stub on the bolt, and having the passage or opening in the
tumbler or spring, the same security may be obtained. One, two, three, or
more of said tumblers and springs may be us'd in the same lock, and may be
of different sizes, so that the part which comes in contact with the key at the
time of opening or shutting the lock may unequally distant from the centre of
the pipe or pin of the key, and which will admit of many different forms in
what is called the bit of the key.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Barron, have hereunto set my
ATLETT
JOHN
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
February, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Robert Barron came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation 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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
A PECULIAR METHOD OF PREPARING ESSENCES FROM VEGETABLES
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NEHEMIAH
SPIRES, of the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, in the City of West-
minster, Chymist and Druggist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Seventeenth day of February, in the eighteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Nehemiah Spires, His especial licence that I, the said
Nehemiah Spires, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "A PECULIAR METHOD OF PREPARING ESSENCES FROM
VEGETABLES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe
obliging me, the said Nehemiah Spires, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is
to be prepared, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calender months after the date of the said recited 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
Nehemiah Spires, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of a Peculiar

page_text: Inrolled the same day and year last above said.
THE ART OR METHOD OF MAKING SHAVEN OR BRIGHT LATTEN
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
HAWKINS, of Congleton, in the County Palatine of Chester, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Thirtieth day of March, in the eighteenth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said Edward Hawkins, His especial licence that I, the said
Edward Hawkins, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE ART OR METHOD OF MAKING
SHAVEN OR BRIGHT LATTEN;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a provisoc obliging me, the said Edward Hawkins, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the
same is to be performed, to be irolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calender months after the date of the said recited 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
Edward Hawkins, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the Art or
A METHOD OF PREPARING, GILDING, POLISHING, AND BURNISHING A METAL (OR METALS) PLATED WITH SILVER, FOR MAKING BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTICLES IN THE TOY WAY, BOTH FOR USE AND ORNAMENT, BY. LAYING ON THE GOLD WHEN THE METAL OR METALS PLATED ARE IN A STATE OF MUCH MORE CONSIDERABLE THICKNESS THAN WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN BEFORE USED FOR THE PURPOSES AFORESAID
Year: 1778

page_text: COLLINS SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO. WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
COLLINS, of Birmingham, Button and Toy Maker, send greeting."
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twentieth day of March, in the eighteenth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Collins, His spécial
licence, that I, the said William Collins, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and 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 "A METHOD OF PREPARING,
GILDING, POLISHING, AND BURNISHING A METAL (OR METALS) PLATED WITH SILVER,
FOR MAKING BUTTONS AND OTHER ARTICLES IN THE TOY WAY, BOTH FOR USE AND
ORNAMENT, BY. LAYING ON THE GOLD WHEN THE METAL OR METALS PLATED ARE
IN A STATE OF MUCH MORE CONSIDERABLE THICKNESS THAN WHEN THEY HAVE
BEEN BEFORE USED FOR THE PURPOSES AFORESAID;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Collins, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender months after
I

page_text: the date of the said recited 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 proviso, I, the said
William Collins, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Method
of Preparing, Gilding, Polishing, and Burnishing a Metal (or Metals) plated
with Silver, for making Buttons and other Articles in the Toy way, both for
Use and Ornament, is performed in the manner following (that is to say):-
By laying on the gold when the metal or metals plated with silver are in
a state of much more considerable thickness that when they have been before
used, and afterwards by rolling or extending the said metal or metals until
they are brought to the proper or usual size and thickness for the said uses,
and by passing such metal as is required bright thro' a pair of rollers of my
own invention, one of which, moving slower than the other, gives the metal
so roll'd a lustre superior to any heretofore produced by the common method
of rolling) in which both rollers move in an equal degree.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this
Fifteenth day of May, in the eighteenth year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One
INVENTION OF THE USE OF AN ELASTICK OR SPRING ADAPTED TO OR TO BE FITTED IN OR WITH BONNETS, HATS, MILITARY CAPS, HATBANDS, AND OTHER SUCH PIECES OF DRESS FOR BOTH SEXES
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL AND SUNDRY TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
I, WILLIAM CLARKSON, of the City of Edingburgh, 'Gentleman, send greeting."
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, "bearing
date at Westminster the Third day of Aprill, in the nineteenth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said William. Clarkson, my exécutors,
administrators, and assigns, his especial licence, full power, and sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said William Clarkson, my. executors, aditiors, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should, and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my "INVENTION OF THE USE OF AN ELASTICK OR SPRING ADAPTED TO OR TO
BE FITTED IN OR WITH BONNETS, HATS, MILITARY CAPS, HATBANDS, AND OTHER SUCH
PIECES OF DRESS FOR BOTH SEXES;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Clarkson, by an Instrument
under my hand and seal, to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calender months next after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same (relation thereunto being had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Clarkson, do hereby signify and declare that my said Invention is
by adapting to or fitting in or with the several pieces of dress in the said Letters

page_text: Patent mentioned a certain gun or vegetable elastick, called or known by the
name of cautcheau, or gum of Cayanne, vegitable elastic bottle or Indian
rubber.
In witness whereof I, the said William Clarkson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Seventeenth day of July, in the nineteenth 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 seventy-nine.
CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN WOMEN'S CLOGS, BY A GOLOSHOE OR CLOG OF AN ENTIRE NEW MAKE AND INVENTION
Year: 1779

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Burton, of Whitby, in the County of York,
Cordwainer, of his new invented "CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT IN WOMEN'S CLOGS,
BY A GOLOSHOE OR CLOG OF AN ENTIRE NEW MAKE AND INVENTION," which ho
apprehends will be of publick utility; to hold to him, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
for the term of Fourteen Years pursuant to the Statute; with a clause to
inroll the same within four calendar months from the date hereof. W. H. M.
at Westminster, the 3rd day of February, in the year above. By writ, &c.
Dated 3rd February 1779.
ART OF STAMPING AND PAINTING SILK GOODS CALLED TIFFANY, AND GAUZE AND OTHER GOODS IN IMITATION OF LACE, BUT WITH GREATER EXPEDITION AND AT A LESS EXPENSE, AND THAT SUCH DISCOVERY WILL BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1779

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Michael Biaggini, of Bateman's Buildings, in the
Parish of St. Ann's, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, Artificial Flower
Maker, of his new invented or discovered "ART OF STAMPING AND PAINTING
SILK GOODS CALLED TIFFANY, AND GAUZE AND OTHER GOODS IN IMITATION OF LACE,
BUT WITH GREATER EXPEDITION AND AT A LESS EXPENSE, AND THAT SUCH DISCOVERY
WILL BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY;" to hold to him, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed for the
term of Fourteen Years pursuant to the Statute; with a clause to inroll the
same within four calendar months from the date hereof.
Westminster, the 29th day of April, in the year above.
W. H. M. at
By writ, &c.
Dated 29th April 1779.
DRYING, TENTERING, AND SETTING, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN DYED OR WHITENED, ALL MANNER OF WOOLLEN GOODS, BY THE MEANS OF THE HEAT OF FIRES, IN A BUILDING PROPERLY ADAPTED TO THE SAID PURPOSE
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
LODGE, of Vauxhall, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Lambeth, in the County
of Surry, Packer and Setter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twelfth day of July, in the nineteenth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, the said James Lodge, His especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Lodge, during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention of "DRYING, TENTERING,
AND SETTING, AFTER THEY HAVE BEEN DYED OR WHITENED, ALL MANNER OF WOOLLEN
GOODS, BY THE MEANS OF THE HEAT OF FIRES, IN A BUILDING PROPERLY ADAPTED TO
THE SAID PURPOSE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said James Lodge, under my hand and seal, to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery, within four calender months next after the date of the
said recited 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 proviso, I, the said
James Lodge, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Building for

page_text: Drying, Tentering, and Setting, after they have been Dyed or Whitened, all
Manner of Woolen Goods, by the Means of the Heat of Fires, is described
in the Plan thereof, and references thereto, hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Lodge, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Eleventh day of November, 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 seventy-nine.
Inrolled the same Eleventh day of November, in the year last above
mentioned.
NEW-INVENTED MEDICINAL PREPARATION FOR THE MORE SAFE AND SPEEDY CURE OF INTERMITTING AND NERVOUS FEVERS AND CONSUMPTIVE DISSORDERS
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN BACON,
of the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chymist, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twentieth day of January
last, gave and granted unto the said John Bacon, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His Majestie's special licence, full power, and sole
privilege and authority, for the said John Bacon, bis executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such other as he, the
said John Bacon, his exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, 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
MEDICINAL PREPARATION FOR THE MORE SAFE AND SPEEDY CURE OF INTERMITTING
AND NERVOUS FEVERS AND CONSUMPTIVE DISSORDERS;" to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, power, privilege, and advantage to the said John Bacon,
his executors, administrators, 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, that if the said John.
Bacon should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four kelendar months imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters

page_text: Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Bacon, in pursuance of the said
proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that the nature
of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
is as follows, that is to say:-
Take the best Hungarian antimony; purify it by fusion and sublimation;
then unite to it a metallic substance; reduce to powder, which place in a glass
vessell, affuce a vegetable menstruum, and in a gentle heat extract the tincture;
separate the menstruum by distillation, and add to the essence as much balsam
as is sufficient to form it into pills; mix the mass remaining after the tincture
is extracted with a bezoar, and bring to a due degree of fineness by levigation.
Two grains of the pill, and seven grains of the powder, is in general the dose
for an adult.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Nine-
teenth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-nine.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seveny hundred and seventy-nine.
MAKING AND VENDING BRASS AND SPELTER BY A NEW METHOD
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHAMPION, senior, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third hath granted His
Letters Patent to me, dated the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the
twentieth year of His reign, for the sole benefit "MAKING AND VENDING
BRASS AND SPELTER BY A NEW METHOD," for the term of fourteen years; in
which Patent is contained a clause obliging me, within four months of its
date, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, 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, and on failure thereof that said Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything in the Patent contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding..
NOW I do, by this Writing under my hand and seal, declare, ascertain, and
describe the particular nature of my Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be as follow:-
I mix about four tenths granulated copper with six tenths of lapis calami-
naris, or prepared black jack, and a proper quantity of charcoal. I put these
mixtures into large clay potts, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. These
potts are to be closed, so that there may be as little as possible of the subli-
mation of the lapis calaminaris or black jack escape out of them. The
method hitherto hath been to suffer a considerable quantity of the sublimation

page_text: to escape, as it was not confined in close potts or crusibles; and it's certain
that the more the sublimation is imbibed by the copper, the greater is the
quantity of brass produced. Large potts holding twenty or thirty gallons each
I think preferable to small ones, as the operation is more gradual; I think
the brass is of a better quality. These large potts are put into a proper
furnace, and remain in a suitable heat till the copper is converted to brass,
and in the operation some spilter is also produced.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
sixth day of February. One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
Inrolled the Second day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.
ART OF PREVENTING AND CURING SMOKING CHIMNEYS
Year: 1779

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Pinto, a native of Lisbon, and now
residing in the City of London, of his new invented "ART OF PREVENTING AND
CURING SMOKING CHIMNEYS;" to hold to him, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for
the term of Fourteen Years pursuant to the Statute; with a Clause to inroll
the same within Four Calendar Months from the date hereof. W. H. M. at
Westminster, the 7th day of June, in the year above.
Dated 7th June 1779.
AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF MAKING MILLS FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRINDING MALT, WHEAT, BARLEY, BEANS, PEASE, GROATS, RICE, INDIAN CORN, COFFEE, PEPPER, SEEDS, DRUGGS, AND ALL KINDS OF SPICE, IN THE BAME MANNER THOSE ARTICLES ARE GROUND UPON WHAT ARE COM- MONLY CALLED STEEL MILLS
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
DEARMAN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Iron Master, send
greeting.
.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-second day of March, in the nineteenth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Richard Dearman, His especial licence that I, the
said Richard Dearman, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF MAKING
MILLS FOR THE PURPOSE OF GRINDING MALT, WHEAT, BARLEY, BEANS, PEASE,
GROATS, RICE, INDIAN CORN, COFFEE, PEPPER, SEEDS, DRUGGS, AND ALL KINDS OF
SPICE, IN THE BAME MANNER THOSE ARTICLES ARE GROUND UPON WHAT ARE COM-
MONLY CALLED STEEL MILLS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Richard Dearman, under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and how
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the said recited
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 proviso, I, the said
Richard Dearman, do hereby declare that my said Invention of an Entire

page_text: New Method of Making Mills for Grinding Malt, Wheat, Barley, Beans,
Pease, Groats, Rice, Indian Corn; Coffee, Pepper, Seeds, Drugs, and all. Kinds
of Spice in the same Manner those Articles are Ground upon what are
commonly called Steel Mills, is described in the manner following (that
is to say):-
To form the grinding parts of the mills, or what is called the inside and
outside thereof, melt iron in a furnace or crucible, and cast the same in
moulds, of a suitable shape and size for the different purposes they may be
intended; then to soften them, in order to file the teeth to a proper edge, neal
them in a gradual heat till that be effected; afterwards harden the grinding
parts of the mill with hooves, horns, or bones of animals, or charcoal pounded
or ground small, or common soot mixed with kelp, or common or morine salts,
laid on with grounds or lees of malt liquor, or other acid or glutinous matter.
Heat them in a furnace, muffle or open fire, and plunge them in water.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Dearman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of July, One thousand
.
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GOODS AND MERCHANDIZES CALLED WORSTED PIECES, SILK PIECES, AND OTHER PIECES MADE OF LINNEN, COTTON, AND OTHER COMMODITIES, UPON A STOCKING FRAME, TO BE USED FOR COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND BREECHES, AND ALSO STOCKINGS, GLOVES, SHOES, AND OTHER WEARING APPAREL IN LIKE MANNER, BY DOUBLE CROSS STITCH OR BASKET WORK, WHICH SAID WORSTED, SILK, AND OTHER PIECES MAY BE INLAID WITH GOLD AND SILVER, AND ALL OTHER PROPER COMMODITIES THAT CAN BE INTERMIXED THEREWITH
Year: 1779

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ward, of Hinckley, in the County of
Leicester, Hosier, of his new invented "METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GOODS AND
MERCHANDIZES CALLED WORSTED PIECES, SILK PIECES, AND OTHER PIECES MADE OF
LINNEN, COTTON, AND OTHER COMMODITIES, UPON A STOCKING FRAME, TO BE USED FOR
COATS, WAISTCOATS, AND BREECHES, AND ALSO STOCKINGS, GLOVES, SHOES, AND OTHER
WEARING APPAREL IN LIKE MANNER, BY DOUBLE CROSS STITCH OR BASKET WORK,
WHICH SAID WORSTED, SILK, AND OTHER PIECES MAY BE INLAID WITH GOLD AND
SILVER, AND ALL OTHER PROPER COMMODITIES THAT CAN BE INTERMIXED THEREWITH;"
to hold to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed for the term of Fourteen Years
pursuant to the Statute; with a clause to inroll the same within four
calendar months from the date hereof. W. H. M. at Westminster, the
10th day of April, in the year above.
By writ, &c.
Dated 10th April 1779.
(No Specification enrolled.)
ART OF EXTRACTING TAR OUT OF COAL IN THE OPERATION OF COAKING IT FOR BLAST FURNACES, WHICH HE APPREHENDS WILL BE OF GOOD PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1779

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Champion the younger, of Downend, in the
Parish of Magotofield, in the County of Gloucester, Esquire, of his new
invented "ART OF EXTRACTING TAR OUT OF COAL IN THE OPERATION OF COAKING IT
FOR BLAST FURNACES, WHICH HE APPREHENDS WILL BE OF GOOD PUBLIC UTILITY;"
to hold to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon Tweed for the term of Fourteen Years
pursuant to the Statute; with a clause to inroll the same within four
calendar months from the date hereof. W. H. M. at Westminster, the 17th
day of May, in the year above.
By writ, &c.
Dated 17th May 1779.
MAKING THE SEVERAL UTENSILS AND ARTICLES OF VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS AND SIZES USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKERY OR CONFECTIONERY, OR FOR BOYLING, BAKING, FRYING, STEWING, PRESERVING, OR FOR ANY OTHER USES OR PURPOSES WHATSOEVER, OF PURE GRAIN TIN, WITH OR WITHOUT ANOTHER METAL, 80 PREPARED AND UNITED THEREWITH AS TO RENDER IT PROPERLY HARD AND STRONG
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
ELWELL, of the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of Middle-
sex, Smith and Brazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of April, in the twentieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Elwell, His especial
licence that I, the said John Elwell, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within Eng-
land, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"MAKING THE SEVERAL UTENSILS AND ARTICLES OF VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS AND
SIZES USED FOR THE PURPOSES OF COOKERY OR CONFECTIONERY, OR FOR BOYLING,
BAKING, FRYING, STEWING, PRESERVING, OR FOR ANY OTHER USES OR PURPOSES
WHATSOEVER, OF PURE GRAIN TIN, WITH OR WITHOUT ANOTHER METAL, 80 PREPARED
AND UNITED THEREWITH AS TO RENDER IT PROPERLY HARD AND STRONG;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said John
Elwell, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calender
months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
saine (relation 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
John Elwell, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Making the several
Utensils and Articles of various Denominations and Sizes used for the Pur-
poses of Cookery or Confectionery, or for Boyling, Baking, Frying, Stewing,
Preserving, or for any other Uses or Purposes whatsoever, of pure Grain Tin,
with or without another Mettal, so prepared and united therewith as to render
it properly Hard and Strong, is described in the manner following (that is
to say):-
I propose to make all the above-mentioned culinary vessels or utensils of
the most perfect, refined, and pure tin mettal, with or without the addition of
another mettal to harden and strengthen the pure tin mettal, in a proportion
according as the various uses and the different sorts of vessells or utensils may
be put to, which additional mettal is commonly known by the name of tooth
and egg mettal, or white copper, or any other hard mettal of any kind, or by
whatever name it is known by, that will answer the different purposes as
above mentioned; and all such vessels I will cast from moulds or patterns, or
shape them with the hammer or otherwise, according to the shapes and con-
veniences in making them may require.
In witness whoroof I the coid John El...all
THE ART OF MAKING FROM WHEAT, THE GROWTH OF THIS KINGDOM, SEMOLINA, FROM WHICH VERMICELLI AND MACCARONI ARE MANU- FACTURED, EQUAL IN QUALITY AND GOODNESS TO THAT IMPORTED FROM ITALY
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JACOB LEVY,
of Garden Court, in the Parish of Saint Botolph, Aldgate, in the City of
London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Fifth day of July, in the twentieth year of His reign, did give and grant unto
me, the said Jacob Levy, His especial licence, that I, the said Jacob Levy,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "THE ART OF MAKING FROM WHEAT, THE GROWTH OF
THIS KINGDOM, SEMOLINA, FROM WHICH VERMICELLI AND MACCARONI ARE MANU-
FACTURED, EQUAL IN QUALITY AND GOODNESS TO THAT IMPORTED FROM ITALY;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said
Jacob Levy, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four callender months after the date of the said recited
Letters Potent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW E, that in compliance with the said provisoe I, the said
Jacob Levy, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the Art of Making
from Wheat, the Growth of this Kingdom, Semolina, from which Vermicelli

page_text: and Maccaroni are manufactured, equal in Quality and Goodness to that
imported from Italy, is described in the manner following (that is to say):-
The wheat is ground in a flower mill, and the flower seperated from the
midlins; the said midlins are dressed in a boulting mill in four different sorts,
and then sifted through parchment sieves till all the bran and pollard is
seperated from it.
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NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING BUCKLE CHAPES
Year: 1780

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Winwood, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Ironmaster, of his "NEW METHOD OF MAKING AND MANUFACTURING
BUCKLE CHAPES;" to hold to him, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term
of Fourteen Years, pursuant to the Statute; with a Clause to inroll the same
within Four Calendar Months from the date hereof. W. H. M. at West-
minster, the 18th day of December, in the year above.
Dated 13th December 1780.
METHOD OF PRINTING IN WATER COLOURS WOOLLEN CLOTHS, WOOLLEN STUFFS, AND WOOLLEN MIXTURES
Year: 1780

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Roger Worthington, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Dyer and Printer, and James Ramsbotham, of the same place,
Clothier, of their new invented "METHOD OF PRINTING IN WATER COLOURS
WOOLLEN CLOTHS, WOOLLEN STUFFS, AND WOOLLEN MIXTURES;" to hold to them,
their executors, administrators, and assigns, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within the Colonies and Plantations
abroad, for the term of Fourteen Years pursuant to the Statute; with a
Clause to inroll the same within Four Calendar Months from the date hereof.
W. H. M. at Westminster, the 23rd Day of February, in the year above.
Not sealed.
A MACHINE FOR SUPPORTING AN UMBRELLA, WHICH MAY BE FIXT TO ANY SADDLE OR WHEEL'D CARRIAGE, BEING FAR MORE COMPLEAT THAN ANYTHING HITHERTO INVENTED
Year: 1780

page_text: BULL'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARK
BULL, of Mark Lane, in the Parish of Allhallows Steyning, in the City of
London, Sadler, send greeting.
.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Fifteenth day of September, in the twentieth year of His reign, give
and grant unto me, 'the said Mark Bull, His especial licence, that I, the
said Mark Bull, during the term of years herein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend,, within England and Wales and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE FOR SUPPORTING
AN UMBRELLA, WHICH MAY BE FIXT TO ANY SADDLE OR WHEEL'D CARRIAGE,
BEING FAR MORE COMPLEAT THAN ANYTHING HITHERTO INVENTED; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Mark
Bull, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said recited 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 proviso, I, the said
Mark Bull, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Machine for Sup-
porting an Umbrella, far more compleat than anything hitherto made, is
described in the following manner (that is to say):-
There is a ball and socket of steel or iron, or any other metal or composi-
tion. The ball moves in any direction, and is fixed by one, two, three, or
AN ENTIRE NEW ENGINE TO WORK BY THE POWER OF FIRE AND STEAM, TO BE USED IN THE IRON AND COPPER MANUFACTORIES, AND FOR MANY OTHER VALUABLE PURPOSES
Year: 1781

page_text: MATTHEWS' SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
MATTHEWS, of Broseley, in the County of Salop, Iron Master, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His Let-
ters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Ninth day of January, in the twenty-first year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said George Matthews, His especial licence that I, the said
George Matthews, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ENTIRE NEW ENGINE TO WORK BY THE
POWER OF FIRE AND STEAM, TO BE USED IN THE IRON AND COPPER MANUFACTORIES,
AND FOR MANY OTHER VALUABLE PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said George Matthews, under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months after the date of the said recited 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
George Matthews, do hereby declare that my said new invented engine is
described in the plan thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Matthews, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of May, One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-one
GEO. MATTHEWS. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Eighth day of May, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid George Matthews 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,
together with the Plan thereunto annexed. 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.
PISTOLS WITH A BAYONET
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
I, JOHN WATERS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gun and
Pistol Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Ninth day of March, in the twenty-first year
of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John
Waters, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge, and authority, that I, the said John Waters,
should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein expressed,
make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new invented "PISTOLS WITH A BAYONET;" in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said John Waters, by an instrument in writing, under my hand
and scal, to cause a particular description of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said
Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more at large
Tilear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said John Waters, do hereby declare that my said Invention of "PISTOLS
WITH A BAYONET" is described in the manner following (that is to say):
The pistols to have one or more barrels of any calibre or length, and
to have one bayonet to cach pistol, which bayonet may be of any length
and shape, in the form of any angle, round, half round, oval, knife, tuck,
or any other pointed instrument, or weapon, and may be placed on a
side of or upon the barrel or any other part of the pistol, the same to
act by sliding upward on the barrel, or from or on a side of the barrel
by slide or bolt, spring or springs, screw joint, click, rotch, or other
method, from on or off the barrel, stock, lock, guard, trigger, bolt, or
any part of any of them, or any other part or parts belonging to or
which may be added to or put upon, and which will cause a bayonet to
be fitted to or upon a pistol ready for action or defence.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Waters, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
Sealed and delivered (being first
duly stampt) in the presence of
DAN DUTTON,
RICH EVERTH
JN° WATERS. (L.S.) -
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twentieth day of
June, in the year abovesaid, the aforesaid John Waters came before
our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Spe-
cification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and
specified, in form above written. And also the said Specification 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 Twenty-second day of June, in the year above men-
tioned.
A NEW METHOD OF MAKING COFFINS IN CAST IRON AND OTHER METAL, AND PRESERVING THE SAME
Year: 1781

page_text: WRIGHT'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WRIGHT, of the Poultry, London, Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Eighth day of November, in the twenty-second year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Wright, His especial licence, full power and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Wright, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING COFFINS IN CAST IRON
AND OTHER METAL, AND PRESERVING THE SAME;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Wright, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of
the said recited 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 proviso, I, the said
Thomas Wright, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Now Method

page_text: of Making Coffins in Cast Iron and other Metals, and Preserving the same,
is described in the Plan and references thereto hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of March, One thousand seven hundred

page_text: sents a method of fitting them in & fastening them down, with Pins or Screws J&K represent different methods of forming and fastening
down the Lids. These Coffins are made in Cast and Wrought Iron & other metals, & in divers separate Pieces, and some dovetails rivitted
and screw'd together & some of them are made in the common Form & others with round Ends & Shoulders as L. As well as
others in a solid Piece except the cover which is to be soldered pinned or screwed down as before mentioned and curiously japanned bring
first prepared by a Varnish made of Tar extracted from Coal to prevent their rusting or decaying for a considerable number of Years.
A MACHINE TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING A NEW SORT OF NET OR OPEN WORK IN SILK, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTED, OR OTHER MATERIALS, OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FROST, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Framework
Knitter, 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 First day of June, in the twenty-first year of His reign,
did give and grant unto the said Thomas Frost His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Thomas Frost, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the
term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part
of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A MACHINE
TO BE FIXED TO A STOCKING FRAME FOR MAKING A NEW SORT OF NET OR OPEN
WORK IN SILK, COTTON, THREAD, WORSTED, OR OTHER MATERIALS, OF AN ENTIRE
NEW CONSTRUCTION," to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto me, the said Thomas
Frost, my 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 that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Frost, should not particularly
describe 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

page_text: the same to be inrolled 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
same Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Frost, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Machine to be fixed
to a Stocking Frame for Making a New Sort of Net or Open Work in Silk,
Cotton, Thread, Worsted, or other Materials of an entire New Construction,
and the nature and manner of performing the same, is truly and particularly
described in the Drawing, plans, and sections of the different parts of my said
new-invented machine, and the references or explanation of the same there-
unto annexed, which I have carefully examined with the original machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Frost, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of September, in the twenty-
first year of the reign of King George the Third, and in the
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
year of