A CERTAIN NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE THEREIN MENTIONED FOR THE CUTTING OF TOBACCO
Year: 1747

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SAGE, of the Parish of Saint Saviour, Southwark, in the County of Surry,
Carpenter, send greeting.
WHEREAS, by His Majestic's Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal
of England, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of May, One
thousand seven hundred and forty-seven, He hath given and granted unto me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, special licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, my executors, adñiors, or assigns, and every of
ns, by himself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputys, servant
or agents, or such others as I, my executors, adñiors, or assigns, shall agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thenafter for the term
of fourteen years, shall and may lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend "A
CERTAIN NEW-INVENTED ENGINE OR MACHINE THEREIN MENTIONED FOR THE
CUTTING OF TOBACCO," within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me, my executors, adñññors, and assigns, or any of them, sho" seem meet,
and that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, might have and enjoy
the sole benefit and profit arising from the said engine or machine for the said
term of fourteen years, to have and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, full power, priviledge and advantages therein and herein-before
mentioned, unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for the said
term of fourteen years from the date thereof, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a pro-
visoe that if I shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the

page_text: said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in
the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months from the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the same, and all matters and priviledges
whatsoever thereby granted, sho" cease and become void, as by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Samuel Sage, do, by this present
Writing under my hand and seal, declare the nature of and in what manner
my said new-invented engine or machine is to be performed, and which is as
follows (viz³) :-
It is so contrived as to perform the operation for cutting tobacco in a double
manner, with two knives cutting at one and the same time into two boxes by
means of a double crank upon one and the same bed, each of which boxes is
drawn out by a chain by the help of double iron wheels and catches.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third
day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and forty-seven.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of
SAML POWELL.
THOS GREEN.
SAM SAGE.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Third day of September, in
the year above written, the aforesaid Samuel Sage came before our Sovereign
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invention aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Indenture aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor
of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fourth day of September, in the year above written.