A METHOD TO FACILITATE THE ACQUIREMENT OF SEVERAL OF THE USEFUL AND POLITE ARTS BY AN EASY, EFFECTUAL, AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF TEACHING WRITING AND DRAWING, WHICH IS DONE BY CONSTRUCTING OR FABRICATING THE MOLDS, WOVE OR WASHING WIRES, OR OTHER WIRE IN OR ON WHICH PAPER IS MADE, SO THAT EVERY SHEET SHALL COME OUT OF OR FROM THEM PROPERLY ADAPTED FOR THE PURPOSES, WHEN FINISHED BY THE MAKER IN THE USUAL MANNER, BY HAVING THE LINES MADE AND THE COPIES SET FOR WRITING, AND THE OUTLINES AND SKETCH FOR DRAWING, BY WHAT IS CALLED THE WATER MARK, FOR THE LEARNER TO TRACE OVER
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
PHIPPS, of Laytonstone, in the County of Essex, 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 Twenty-first day of August, in the thirtieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said John Phipps, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Phipps, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, 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 "A METHOD TO
FACILITATE THE ACQUIREMENT OF SEVERAL OF THE USEFUL AND POLITE ARTS BY AN
EASY, EFFECTUAL, AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER OF TEACHING WRITING AND DRAWING,
WHICH IS DONE BY CONSTRUCTING OR FABRICATING THE MOLDS, WOVE OR WASHING
WIRES, OR OTHER WIRE IN OR ON WHICH PAPER IS MADE, SO THAT EVERY SHEET
SHALL COME OUT OF OR FROM THEM PROPERLY ADAPTED FOR THE PURPOSES, WHEN
FINISHED BY THE MAKER IN THE USUAL MANNER, BY HAVING THE LINES MADE AND
THE COPIES SET FOR WRITING, AND THE OUTLINES AND SKETCH FOR DRAWING, BY
WHAT IS CALLED THE WATER MARK, FOR THE LEARNER TO TRACE OVER," in such
manner as to me, the said John Phipps, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, or any of them, should, in my or their discretion, scem meet; to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted to me, the said John
Phipps, 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

page_text: to the Statute in such case, made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Phipps, should not particularly
describo 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 inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month 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, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (reference
being thereunto bad) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Phipps, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner following
(that is to say):-
The sheets of paper which will be made will receive from the molds, wove
or washing wires, or other wirework worked with wire and other materials, an
impression or delineation usually called the water mark, by which the lines
are made and the copies set for writing, and the outlines and sketch for
drawing, for the learner to trace over, which will facilitate the acquirement of
several of the useful and polite arts.
In witness whereof, 1, the said John Phipps, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Second day of 'September, in the thirtieth 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