A NEW METHOD OF TURNING OVALS IN PEWTER, ENGLISH CHINA, AND ALL OTHER EARTHEN WARES, SO AS TO BECOME OF GENERAL UTILITY AND BENEFIT TO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS OF THIS HIS KINGDOM
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WILLIAMSON, of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said James Williamson, together with Joseph Spackman,
then of Fenchurch Street, but now of Cornhill, London, Pewterer, did, by our
Petition, humbly represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King
George the Third, that we had, by long study, application, and great expence,
found out and brought to perfection "A NEW METHOD OF TURNING OVALS IN
PEWTER, ENGLISH CHINA, AND ALL OTHER EARTHEN WARES, SO AS TO BECOME OF
GENERAL UTILITY AND BENEFIT TO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS OF THIS HIS
KINGDOM;" that in regard we were the first and true Inventors thereof, we
most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto us His Royal Letters
Patent for the sole use and benefit of the said Invention within that part of
His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Plantations abroad, for
the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in such 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 our request; and, therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of December, in the fifth year of

page_text: His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge and meer motion, for Ilim-
self, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Joseph
Spackman and James Williamson, our excentors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves or by our deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as we, the said Joseph Spackman and James Williamson,
our executors, administrators, or 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, our
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,
and also within His Plantations abroad, in such manner as to us the said
Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our oxecutors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet; and that we, the
said Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, 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 and herein-after mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priveledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto us, the said Joseph Spackman and James
Williamson, our 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 contained a proviso that if I, the said James Williamson,
and the said Joseph Spackman, or either of us, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an Instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
or the hand and seal of either of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next
and immediately after the date of the sail Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, any thing therein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and a
large appears.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Williamson, do hereby describe
and ascertain the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, to be as in the Plans or Drafts thereof hereunto
annexed is set forth; the explanation of which Plans or Drafts is as follows
(that is to say):
Figure 1 is the whole machine or lathe. A, A, the cheeks or bed of the
lathe. B, B, the puppets. C, the mandrel, which works in the collar D,
Figure 4. On the end of the mandrel is screwed a round plate, as in Figure 2.
F, a plate, in which is a screw to hold the chucks, which plate slides backwards
and forwards on the round plate between two bars G, G, which bars are
fastued on the plate with screws. Figure 3, the back side of the round
plate. H, H, two bars which work round the ring 1, Figure 5; these bars
have shanks to them, as Figure 6, which go through the slits K, K, K, K, in
the round plate, and fasten in the sliding plate F, Figure 2, with nuts on the
front side. L, L, two stays or braces to prevent the bars H, H, springing or
straining wider. Figure 5, a plate, on which is the ring I, which plate may be
moved. backward or forward on the cross bar of the collar D, Figure 4, and is
fastned with screws and nuts on the back side of the collar. The center of the
ring Figure 5, being drawn from the center of the mandrel, forms the ellipsis
or oval in the work, which ellipsis or oval we, the said James Williamson and
Joseph Spackman, can turn by an hollow mandrel.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Williamson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January, in the fifth 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 sixty-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourteenth day of January,
in the fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
the aforesaid James Williamson came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary, and so forth.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WILLIAMSON, of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Founder, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said James Williamson, together with Joseph Spackman,
then of Fenchurch Street, but now of Cornhill, London, Pewterer, did, by our
Petition, humbly represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King
George the Third, that we had, by long study, application, and great expence,
found out and brought to perfection "A NEW METHOD OF TURNING OVALS IN
PEWTER, ENGLISH CHINA, AND ALL OTHER EARTHEN WARES, SO AS TO BECOME OF
GENERAL UTILITY AND BENEFIT TO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS OF THIS HIS
KINGDOM;" that in regard we were the first and truc Inventors thereof, we
most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto us His Royal Letters
Patent for the sole use and benefit of the said Invention within that part of
His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Plantations abroad, for
the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in such 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 our request; and, therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of December, in the fifth year of

page_text: His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge and meer motion, for Him-
self, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Joseph
Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves or by our deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as we, the said Joseph Spackman and James Williamson,
our executors, administrators, or 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, our
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,
and also within His Plantations abroad, in such manner as to us the said
Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet; and that we, the
said Joseph Spackman and James Williamson, our executors, 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 terin of years
therein and herein-after mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priveledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto us, the said Joseph Spackman and James
Williamson, our 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 contained a proviso that if I, the said James Williamson,
and the said Joseph Spackman, or either of us, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an Instrument in writing under our hands and seals,
or the hand and seal of either of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar 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, any thing therein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and at
large appears.

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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Williamson, do hereby
nd ascertain the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and the manner in which
he same is to be performed, to be as in the Plans or Drafts thereof hereunto
annexed is set forth; the explanation of which Plans or Drafts is as follows
(that is to say):
Figure 1 is the whole machine or lathe. A, A, the cheeks or bed of the
lathe. B, B, the puppets. C, the mandrel, which works in the collar D,
Figure 4. On the end of the mandrel is screwed a round plate, as in Figure 2.
F, a plate, in which is a screw to hold the chucks, which plate slides backwards
and forwards on the round plate between two bars G, G, which bars are
Figure 3, the back side of the round
fastued on the plate with screws.
plate. H, H, two bars which work round the ring I, Figure 5; these bars
have shanks to them, as Figure 6, which go through the slits K, K, K, K, in
the round plate, and fasten in the sliding plate F. Figure 2, with nuts on the
front side. L, L, two stays or braces to prevent the bars H, H, springing or
straining wider. Figure 5, a plate, on which is the ring I, which plate may
moved backward or forward on the cross bar of the collar D, Figure 4, and is
fastned with screws and nuts on the back side of the collar. The center of the
ring Figure 5, being drawn from the center of the mandrel, forms the ellipsis
or oval in the work, which ellipsis or oval we, the said James Williamson and
Joseph Spackman, can turn by an hollow mandrel.
be
In witness whereof, I, the said James Williamson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January, in the fifth 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 sixty-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourteenth day of January,
in the fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
the aforesaid James Williamson came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary, and so forth.