A METHOD OF CASTING AND MOULDING TYPES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPOSING AND PRINTING BY OR WITH ENTIRE WORDS, WITH SEVERAL WORDS COMBINED, WITH SENTENCES AND SYLLABLES AND WITH FIGURES COMBINED, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL METHOD OF COMPOSING AND PRINTING WITH SINGLE LETTERS, AND OF RENDERING THE USE OF THE SAID TYPES, AND PRINTING WITH THE SAME, EASY AND
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOHNSON, of Great Castle Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-Bone, in
the County of Middlesex, 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 Sixteenth day of October, in the twentieth year of
His reign, upon the Petition of me, the said Henry Johnson, did give and
grant unto me, the said. Henry Johnson, 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 Henry
Johnson, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should 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, and also in all
His said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A
METHOD OF CASTING AND MOULDING TYPES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPOSING AND
PRINTING BY OR WITH ENTIRE WORDS, WITH SEVERAL WORDS COMBINED, WITH
SENTENCES AND SYLLABLES AND WITH FIGURES COMBINED, INSTEAD OF THE USUAL
METHOD OF COMPOSING AND PRINTING WITH SINGLE LETTERS, AND OF RENDERING
THE USE OF THE SAID TYPES, AND PRINTING WITH THE SAME, EASY AND

page_text: FAMILIAR TO THE MOST ORDINARY CAPACITY, WHEREBY EVERY SPECIES OF PRINTING
MAY BE EXECUTED IN ONE FOURTH PART OF THE TIME IN WHICH THEY HAVE
BEEN USUALLY EXECUTED, AND CONSEQUENTLY AT MUCH LESS EXPENCE," in such
manner as to me, the said Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that
I, the said Henry Johnson, my executors, admors, and assigns, 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, 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 Henry Johnson, my executors, admors, 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 recited Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said
Henry Johnson, by an instrument 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 Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as 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
Henry Johnson, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Method of
Casting and Moulding Types for the Purpose of Composing and Printing by
or with entire Words, with several Words combined, with Sentences and
Syllables and with Figures combined, instead of the usual Method of Com-
posing and Printing with single Letters, and of rendring the Use of the said
Types and Printing with the same Easy and Familiar to the most ordinary
Capacity, whereby every Species of Printing may be executed in One Fourth
Part of the Time in which they have been usually executed, and consequently
at much less Expence, is performed in manner following (that is to say):-
For moulding, casting, or cementing together entire words and syllables, &c.
and for composing and printing with such intire words, with several words
combined, with sentences, and with single and joint syllables, instead of the
common method of composing and printing with single letters, which is per-
formed by making a selection from all the words and syllables, in any lan-
guage, of those in use, and arranging the types of such words and syllables
alphabetically; and in composing, the compositor to take up such intire words,
either singly or several words together, or in portions of the same in single,

page_text: double, and treble syllables, or in the different combinations of letters con-
tained in such words; and also of printing &c. in the same manner, with
figures combined, for any number, and for s. d. and f., instead of the
common method of using single figures. And such syllables and words are
formed or moulded either by single letters cemented together in words with
the same metal, or else by forming matrices of such syllables and words and
casting them therein.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Johnson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
HENRY JOHNSON. (L.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fifteenth day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Henry Johnson 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 form 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 same day and year last above mentioned.