A CERTAIN SCREW NOSSILL FOR CANDLESTICKS, MADE OF SILVER OR ANY OTHER METAL, AND ALSO OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
EDMUND GREAVES, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Silversmith, 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
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of December, in the twentieth year of His
reign, reciting, amongst other things, that the said Edmund Greaves had, by
his Petition, represented to His said Majesty that, by great study, labour, and
expence, he, the said Edmund Greaves had invented and brought to perfection
"A CERTAIN SCREW NOSSILL FOR CANDLESTICKS, MADE OF SILVER OR ANY OTHER
METAL, AND ALSO OF AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION;" His said Majesty did
give and grant unto the said Edmund Greaves, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that he, the said Edmund Greaves, his exors, adñiors, 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 Edmund Greaves,
his exors, admors, 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 Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in

page_text: such manner as unto him, the said Edmund Greaves, his exors, adñiors, and
assigns, or any of them, shall in his or their discretions seem meet, and that
he, tho said Edmund Greaves, his exors, adiñiors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arisen 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
Edmund Greaves, his exors, aditiors, 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 Edmund Greaves
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument 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 provisoc therein contained, the
said Edmund Greaves hath described and ascertained, and by these Presents
doth fully and particularly describe and ascertain, the nature of his said Inven-
tion or New Screw Nossill, and in what manner the same operates, that is
to say:-
The said New Invented Nossil is made of copper, brass, iron, or mix'd
metal, and is fixed in the following manner:-The tap or female part of the
screw is fastened into the bottom of the sockett of the nossil of a candlestick,
thro' which the screw rises by turning the nossill, and is kept in its proper
place so as to perform its office by means of a square upon the end of the
screw, which falls into a square box or tube of the same size, to prevent the
screw turning round, and is contained in the pillar of the candlestick; there-
fore the screw is worked by turning the nossil which raises and lowers the
screw at pleasure, and upon the end of the screw is fixed a round piece of
metal with point in the center for the candle to rest upon. The use and

page_text: atent of the above-described new-invented nossil is to raise and lower the
andle when burning in a candletick, at pleasure, until the whole is con-
umed, being made upon so useful a construction as to be a considerable saving
a candle as well as cleanliness and utility, as it may be taken out at pleasure,
which is a full and true description of the said Invention.
In witness whereof, the said Edmund Greaves hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the twentieth
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 hundred and eighty.
EDMD GREAVES. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered by the within-
named Edmund Greaves, being first
duly stampt, in the presence of
JOHN YOUNGE, Jun'.
JONATH. ELLIS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of Febru-
ary, in the year of our Lord 1780, the aforesaid Edmund Greaves, came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and speci-
fied, 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 Eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.