A METHOD OF MAKING PEDESTALS OR SUPPORTERS FOR CAN- DLESTICKS, GIRANDOLES, CHANDELIERS, CANDELABRUMS, LAMPS, CANDLE SHADES, EPARGNS, CLOCKS, WATCHES, TERMS, TRIPODS, VASES, URNS, BUSTS, AND FIGURES, OF VARIOUS MATERIALS, AND VARIOUSLY ORNAMENTED, WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1781

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PARKER, of Fleet Street, in the City of London, Glassman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Parker, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that, after
much application and many trials; attended with expence, I had invented and
brought to perfection "A METHOD OF MAKING PEDESTALS OR SUPPORTERS FOR CAN-
DLESTICKS, GIRANDOLES, CHANDELIERS, CANDELABRUMS, LAMPS, CANDLE SHADES,
EPARGNS, CLOCKS, WATCHES, TERMS, TRIPODS, VASES, URNS, BUSTS, AND FIGURES,
OF VARIOUS MATERIALS, AND VARIOUSLY ORNAMENTED, WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT
PUBLIC UTILITY," wherefore in regard I was the first and true Inventer
thereof, and that the same had not been made use of by any other person or
persons, to the best of my knowledge or belief, I therefore most humbly prayed
His said Majesty that He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, the
said William Parker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my 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, for the term of
fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His
said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to
my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal
of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of
March, in the twenty-first year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give
and grant unto me, the said William Parker, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority that

page_text: I, the said William Parker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William Parker,
my 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 my 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 me, the said William Parker, my executors, admors,
and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet; and that I,
the said William Parker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, or 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 me,
the said William Parker, my 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
complete and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso; that if at any time during
the said term thereby granted, it should be made appear to His said Majesty,
His heirs or successors, or any six or more of His or their Privy Council,
that the said grant was contrary to law, or prejudicial or inconvenient to
His subjects in general, or that the said Invention was not a new Invention,
as to the public use and exercise thereof in that part of His said Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented or found out by me, the said
William Parker, as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration thereof,
to be made by His said Majesty, His heirs or successors, under His or their
Signet or Privy Seal, or by the Lords and others of His or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them, under their hands, the said Letters Patent
should be utterly void to all intents and purposes; and also a proviso that if
I, the said William Parker, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my 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

page_text: therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Parker, in compliance with the
said last-mentioned proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and declare that the same is composed of the several par-
ticulars following (that is to say) :-
The pedestals or supporters for candlesticks, girandoles, chandeliers, cande-
labrums, lamps, candle shades, epargns, clocks, watches, terms, tripods, vases,
urns, busts, and figures, are of various forms and sizes, and described by the
following particulars (to wit) :-A base, a die, a cornice or capital, with an
ornament on the top thereof of various forms; some of the pedestals stand on
feet of various forms, and some without feet, and the whole are composed of
metals, wood, crystal, or coloured glass, ornamented with metals, enamels,
paintings, varnishings, or engravings, and a screw goes through the whole
capital to fasten it together.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Parker, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the twenty-first
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.
WILLIAM PARKER. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
BIGOE HENZELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-third day of July, in
the twenty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said William Parker came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the
said Instrument was stamped 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 in the seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King
George the Third, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twenty-third day of July, in the year above written.