A CERTAIN WARMING PAN MADE OF STEEL, IRON, OR OTHER METALS, AND ALSO OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,.
THOMAS HOWARD, of Saint Paul's Churchyard, London, Ironmonger, sendeth.
greeting.
WHEREAS His Sovereign Majesty King George the Third, by His Royal
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-.
minster, the Twenty-fourth day of November, in the nineteenth year of His.
reign, reciting, amongst other things, that the said Thomas Howard had, by
his Petition, represented to His said Majesty, that by great study, labour, and
expence, he, the said Thomas Howard, had invented and brought to perfec-
tion "A CERTAIN WARMING PAN MADE OF STEEL, IRON, OR OTHER METALS, AND
ALSO OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" His said Majesty did give and grant
unto the said Thomas Howard, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that he, the said Thomas Howard, his executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Thomas Howard,
his executors, administrators, and 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend his said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Thomas Howard, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their
directions seem meet, and that he, the said Thomas Howard, his executors,

page_text: 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 the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Thomas Howard, his
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
the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is, amongst other things, contained a provisoe, that if the said Thomas
Howard should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His said 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 advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in
and by the said Letters' Patent, relation being thereunto had, may and doth
more fully and at large appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that in pursuance of the said
Letters Patent, and in conformity to the provisoe therein contained, the said
Thomas Howard hath described and ascertained, and by these Presents doth
fully and particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of his said Invention
or new-invented warming pan, and in what manner the same is heated, that
is to say:
:
The pan is made of one piece, either. steel, iron, or other metals, and is
either stampt or raised up by repeated hammerings, or by such other means
as may be thought most convenient, as is also the top or cover thereof, which
is fixed or fastened thereto as in a common warming pan, and according to
the outward appearance is of the same shape or make of common warming
pans. . Within the pan above mentioned is a false bottom unto which is fixed
a collar, and which false bottom is either pierced with holes or plain, and is
rivetted or otherwise fixed to the bottom of the pan, the collar standing about
two inches, or such other distance as may be thought most convenient, from
the sides thereof, and is designed for the purpose of preventing too sudden a
heat, and also for detaining and thereby prolonging the same; and the manner
of heating is with sundry links of chain or other close or seperated pieces of

page_text: ron, of round, ovall, square, or other form, which being linked together from
bunch, is heated red hot, and placed within the collar in the middle, of
which is a full and true description of the said Invention.
In witness whereof, the said Thomas Howard, hath hereunto sett his
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in the nineteenth
year of the reign of our said 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 hundred and seventy-nine.
named
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duly stampt, in the presence of
GEORGE SCRAGG.
JOHN WELLS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1779, the aforesaid Thomas Howard 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 tenor of the 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 year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.