A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE COGHING OR BUSHING CAST IRON OR METAL SHIVERS FOR SHIPS' BLOCKS AND OTHER THINGS, WHEREBY SUCH SHIVERS MIGHT BE EASILY REPAIRED WHEN THEY ARE WORN OUT AT THE CENTRE, WITHOUT NEW CASTING THE SAME (WHICH WAS THE PRESENT METHOD), AND WHICH WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY, AND A GREAT SAVING TO THE PUBLICK IN THOSE ARTICLES
Year: 1775

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WALTER
TAYLOR, of the Town of Southampton, Block Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Walter Taylor, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I
had, with great labour, study, and application, and after many expensive experi-
ments, found out and invented "A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE COGHING OR BUSHING
CAST IRON OR METAL SHIVERS FOR SHIPS' BLOCKS AND OTHER THINGS, WHEREBY SUCH
SHIVERS MIGHT BE EASILY REPAIRED WHEN THEY ARE WORN OUT AT THE CENTRE,
WITHOUT NEW CASTING THE SAME (WHICH WAS THE PRESENT METHOD), AND WHICH WOULD
BE OF GREAT UTILITY, AND A GREAT SAVING TO THE PUBLICK IN THOSE ARTICLES ;"
I did therefore most humbly pray His said Majesty to grant unto me, my.
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole making, using, and vending my said
new Invention, within that part of His 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 form of the Statute in that
case made and provided, in order thereby to secure to me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, the full benefit and advantage of the said Inven-
tion; His said Majesty, taking the premisses into His Royal consideration, and.
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be
for the publick good, was most graciously pleased to condescend to my request,
and therefore His said Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at

page_text: Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the sixteenth year of
His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did
gave and grant unto me, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His special license, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Walter Taylor, my
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
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 Walter Taylor, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem meet,
and that I, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, 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 mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said Walter Taylor, my executors, adññiors, 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 that case made and provided; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Walter
Taylor, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, 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 recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Walter. Taylor, in compliance with the
said Invention,
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, in manner and form
following (that is to say) :-

page_text: The improvement in coghing or bushing of cast iron or metal shivers for
ships blocks and other things consist in having a coghe or bush of iron
or metal in the centre of the shiver, so that when the coghe or bush is worn
out at the centre it may be new coghed or bushed without new casting the
same, whereby the shiver is made as good as new, and the expence of the
re-casting saved. The iron or metal coghe or bushe is made or cast with a flap.
at one end, and a flanch to fit the other end. The iron or metal shiver should
have impressions cast or made therein, to which the flap and the flanch of the
coghe or bush are fastned by screws or rivets, which go through the whole, and
secure the same together.
. In witness whereof, I, the said Walter Taylor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the sixteenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-eighth day of March, in
the said sixteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the aforesaid Walter Taylor came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth
year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary of England,
Inrolled the said Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year above
written.