A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A WATCH SO AS TO UNITE IT WITH A MARINER'S COMPASS, IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ANSWER EVERY PURPOSE WITH EQUAL ACCURACY AND PERFECTION FOR WHICH EITHER OF THEM MIGHT BE SEPARATELY USED
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
RANDALL PECKHAM, of the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey,.in
the County of Surry, Watchmaker, 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 Westmin-
ster, the Seventeenth day of December last past, reciting that I, the said John
Randall Peckham, had, by my Petition, humbly represented unto His said Majesty
that I had invented "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING A WATCH SO
AS TO UNITE IT WITH A MARINER'S COMPASS, IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO ANSWER
EVERY PURPOSE WITH EQUAL ACCURACY AND PERFECTION FOR WHICH EITHER OF THEM
MIGHT BE SEPARATELY USED;" His said Majesty did give and grant unto me, the
said John Randall Peckham, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, during the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent, in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Randall Peckham, 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 inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that. I, the said John Randall Peckham, in compliance
with the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe
and ascertain the nature, of my said Invention and in what manner it is to
be performed, as follows (that is to say):
My method of constructing a watch so as to admit the uniting it with a
mariner's compass; in such manner that the works of the watch shall not affect
the magnetic needle nor be affected by it, is this: Isubstitute for those works
which are usually made of steel, and which are near enough to affect in the
smallest degree the free action of the magnetic needle, works made of gold,
silver, or any other metal or admixture of metals which have no influence on
the magnetic needle, (that is to say) in all cases (whether the mariners' compass
be inserted in or upon the face of the dial-in any part, or in any part of the back
of the watch, either in the box or. case), for the following parts usually made
of steel (viz¹) the barrel, arbor, cannon pinions, ratchets, and clicks, bolt, bolt
spring, detant work, stopworks, cap, spring, and screws, and for every article
or part where steel is not absolutely required, I substitute gold, silver, or
some other metals or admixture of metals, as above mentioned.
In witness whereof,. I, the said John Randall Peckham, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine..
JOHN RANDALL PECKHAM (1.8)
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of January, in.the
thirty-ninth year of the reign of His Majesty, King George the Third, the said
John Randall Peckham came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing, therein
contained and specified, in form above: written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid, was, stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty third, and thirty-seventh
years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third...
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of January in the year above written.