NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF MAKING AND CASTING OF IRON AND OTHER METAL PLATES, FOR THE BETTER AND MORE SECURE COVERING OF HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ROBERT
RANSOME, of the City of Norwich, Iron Founder, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, gave
and granted unto the said Robert Ransome, His cxors, adiñors, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said
Robert Ransome, bis exors, adñiors, and assigns, by himself or themselves,
or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such other person
or persons as he, the said Robert Ransome, should at any time agree with,
and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein and herein-after expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend his "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF MAKING AND CASTING OF
IRON AND OTHER METAL PLATES, FOR THE BETTER AND MORE SECURE COVERING OF
HOUSES AND OTHER BUILDINGS," within that part of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to him, the said Robert Ransome, his exors, admors, and assigns,
or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that the said
Robert Ransome, his exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, accruing, and arising by reason of the said new Invention, for
and during the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned, to have and
to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages

page_text: herein-before mentioned to be thereby granted unto the said Robert Ransome,
his exors, adiñors, 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 imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in that case made and provided; His Majesty, in such Letters Patent,
commanding all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate,
and all other His Majesty's subjects whatsoever, and of what estate, quality,
degree, name, or condition soever, they being within that part of His Majesty's
said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, that neither they, nor any of them, at any
time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years thereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention,
or any part of the same so attained unto the said Robert Ransome, his exors,
adiñors, and assigns, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor make or cause to be made any addition thereto,
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves
the inventor or inventor, devisor or devisors thercof, without the licence,
consent, or agreement of the said Robert Ransome, his exors, adiñors, or
assigns, in writing under his or their hands and seals first had and obtained
in that behalf, upon such pain or penalties as çan or may be justly inflicted
on such offenders for their contempt of His Majesty's said Royal command,
and further to be answerable to the said Robert Ransome, his exors, admors,
and assigns, according to law, for his or their damages occasioned thereby; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Robert
Ransome, his exors, adñiors, or assigns, or any other person or persons which
shall or may, at any time hereafter during the continuance of the said grant,
have or claim any right, title, or interest, at law or in equity, of, in, or to the
power, privilege, or authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Invention,
shall make any transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer or assign-
ment, of the said liberty or priviledge, or any other share or shares of the
benefit or profit thereof, to or for any number of persons exceeding the number
of five; and also, that if the said Robert Ransome shall not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, or New Method of
Making and Casting of Iron and other Metal Plates, for the Better and moro
Secure Covering of Houses and other Buildings, within that part of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, 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
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said Royal Letters Patent, that then the
said Royal Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should cease, letermine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Ransome, in pursuance of and
in compliance with the said proviso, do by this Instrument declare that my
said new Invention is described and ascertained as follows:-
I cause the patterns of said plates to be moulded in flasks of sand; I then
melt the metal (called cast iron) in a common furnace, and pour the same into
the said moulds, and thereby form the said plates for covering of houses and
other buildings. The same may in like manner be formed in other metals,
such as copper, or any other metallic substances, or from compositions of
metal, which may be found best for the purposes aforesaid. The said iron
and metal plates fix on the houses and buildings by means of cast-iron screws,
wrought-iron screws, or other metal screws, pins, hooks, rivets, cement, or
solder. The said iron or other metal plates may be made of various shapes,
sizes, and dimensions, as may best suit the houses and other buildings for
which they are intended.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Ransome, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of February, in the year
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
ROBERT (L.s.) RANSOME.
Signed and sealed, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
ANTII. BARWICK.
stampt, in the presence of
ANTII. BARWICK.
WM. FOSTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid Robert Ransome came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.