Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NATHANIEL
BAYLES, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gentleman, 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 Seventh day of May, in the twenty-third year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, that I, the said Nathaniel Bayles, my executors,
administrators, 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 Nathaniel Bayles; my executors, administrators, 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 and herein-after expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Jnvention, within
that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Nathaniel Bayles,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or
their discretions seem meet, and that J, the said Nathaniel Bayles, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of my said Jnvention, for and during
the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Nathaniel Bayles, 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

page_text: the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso in the words following, that is to say: Provided also,
that if J, the said Nathaniel Bayles, should not particularly describe and
ascertain 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 the same to be jnrolled in His Majesty's 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 advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Nathaniel Bayles, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Jnvention is
as follows, that is to say :-
"A TRIANGULAR JNSTRUMENT OR HARPOON MADE OF JRON AND STEEL, WHICH,
WHEN STRUCK, PUSHED, OR THROWN, AND FALLING ON ITS POINT, ON WHALES.OR
OTHER LARGE FISH, WILL PENETRATE, CRIPPLE, KILL, AND HOLD SUCH WHALES OR
OTHER LARGE FISH, OR, IF FALLING ON ITS SIDE, ITS WITHERS WILL GRAPPLE AND
TAKE SUCH FISH."
Jn witness whereof, J, the said Nathaniel Bayles, have, hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
CHR WREN, a Master Extra.
NATH (L.s.) BAYLES.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fourth day of June, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Nathaniel Bayles came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing thercin 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 their late Majestys
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth..
Inrolled the Twelfth day of the same June, in the year above mentioned.'