Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ANDREW
FOULIS, Printer to the University of Glasgow, and ALEXANDER TILLOCK, of the
City of Glasgow, Printer, 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-eighth day of April, in the twenty-fourth year of
His reign, upon the Petition of us, the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander
Tilloch, did give and grant unto the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander
Tilloch, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's especial
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said Andrew
Foulis and Alexander Tilloch, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by ourselves or themselves, or by our or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as we, the said Andrew Foulis and
Alexander Tillock, our 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 Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,

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our Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING PLATES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRINTING
BY OR WITH PLATES INSTEAD OF THE MOVEABLE TYPES COMMONLY USED, AND FOR
VENDING AND DISPOSING OF THE SAID PRINTING PLATES, AND THE BOOKS OR OTHER
PUBLICATIONS THERE WITH PRINTED, WHEREBY A MUCH GREATER DEGREE OF ACCURACY,
CORRECTNESS, AND ELEGANCE WILL BE INTRODUCED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE WORKS
BOTH OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS THAN HAD HITHERTO BEEN ATTAINED,"
in such manner as to us, the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tillock, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discre-
tion seem meet, and that we, the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tilloch,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
to time coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto us, the
said Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tilloch, our 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 cusuing, and fully to
be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and pro-
vided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging us,
the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tilloch, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, to cause a particular description of the nature of
our 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 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 proviso, we, the said
Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tilloch, do hereby declare, that our said Inven-
tion of a method of making plates for the purpose of printing by or with
such plates, instead of the moveable types commonly used, which is performed
by making a plate or plates for their page or pages of any book or other
publication, and in printing off such book or other publication at the press;
the plates of the pages to be arranged in their proper order, and the number
of copics wanted thrown off, instead of throwing the impressions wanted from
moveable types locked together in the common method; and such plates are
made either by formning moulds or matrices for the page or pages of the
books or other publications to be printed by or with plates, and filling such
moulds or matrices with metal or with clay, or with a mixture of clay and

page_text: arth, or by stamping or striking with these moulds or matrices the metal,
lay, earth, or mixture of clay and earth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Andrew l'oulis and Alexander Tilloch,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of June, in
the in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-
four.
AND BR
KEMEMBRED, that on the Twentieth day of July, in the
year above-mentioned, the said Andrew Foulis and Alexander Tillock came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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 reigu of their late
Majesties King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of July, in the year above written.