AN ENGINE VERY USEFULL FOR SUPPLYING OF TOWNS, SEATS, HOUSES, AND GARDENS WITH WATER, AND ALSO FOR RAISING OF WATER OUT OF MINES OR PITTS, AND AT THE SAME TIME OR AT DIFFERENT TIMES, AND SEPERATELY FOR DRAWING UP OF OAR, COAL, OR OTHER MINERALLS AS THERE KAY BE OCCASION, WHICH SAID ENGINE MAY BE WORKED BY MEN, HORSES, WATER, AND WIND AT THE SAME TIME, OR BY ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE BAID POWERS SEPERATELY OR TOGETHER AS MAY BE NECESSARY
Year: 1734

page_text: PARSONS SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANTHONY
PARSONS, of Sheffield, in the County of York, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so
forth, hath, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seale of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of September, in the eighth
year of His reign, granted unto me, the said Anthony Parsons, my executors,
administrators, and assignes, the sole use and benefit of my new Invention of
"AN ENGINE VERY USEFULL FOR SUPPLYING OF TOWNS, SEATS, HOUSES, AND GARDENS
WITH WATER, AND ALSO FOR RAISING OF WATER OUT OF MINES OR PITTS, AND AT THE
SAME TIME OR AT DIFFERENT TIMES, AND SEPERATELY FOR DRAWING UP OF OAR, COAL,
OR OTHER MINERALLS AS THERE KAY BE OCCASION, WHICH SAID ENGINE MAY BE
WORKED BY MEN, HORSES, WATER, AND WIND AT THE SAME TIME, OR BY ANY ONE
OR MORE OF THE BAID POWERS SEPERATELY OR TOGETHER AS MAY BE NECESSARY,"
to hold and exercise the same within that part of Great Britain called
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and during
the term of fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided, as by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Anthony Parsons, have more fully
and perticularly described and ascertained, and by these presents do moro
fully and particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention
of An Engine for Supplying of Towns, Seats, Houses, and Gardens with
Water, and also for Raising of Water out of Mines or Pitts, and at the
same Time or att different Times, and Seperately for Drawing up of Oar,

page_text: Coal, or other Mineralls as there may be Occasion, to consist and is performed
in manner following (to wit):-
The first and cheif movement is a large water wheel made entirely bucketts
and all without wood, the bucketts of which will hold a great weight of water,
and not empty themselves till just at the bottom, and is so contrived that the
friction by the resistance of the air is but little, notwithstanding the motion
is very quick. The second power is that of men, which is done by crank
handles fixed on the same axis as the water wheell runs on. The third is by
horse or horses fixed to the end of a long beam, which lyes across a large
wheell with teeth of brass or iron screwed to the outer edge, which communi-
cates motion by brass or iron wheells to the water wheell. The fourth is wind,
which moves six or eight sails of wood (with cloath) with a hoop of iron
round the whole, which makes a large circle from the centure, and communi-
cates motion by brass or iron wheells to the water wheell, which water wheell,
by brass or iron movements, communicates motion to three large beams of
wood, like unto those of the fire engine, which are moved from the center
upwards; from each end of these beams goes rods of deal to the bottom of the
pitt or mine, and forces the water up through two pipes of lead to the height
of one hundred and fifty or two hundred yards. The fifth is for drawing
up oar, coal, or other mineralls, with horse or horses by a rim of wood fixed
on the before-mentioned horse wheell, so that by a rope that laps round it (the
engine being to be worked either forwards or backwards) the oar, coal, or other
mineralls may be drawn up either when the engine works or otherwise. The
sixth is for drawing up the oar, coal, or other mineralls by them in the same
engine by a large fly and pinion which works in brass or iron teeth of a large
wheell, which has a rim of wood like the above-mentioned horse wheell, and
draws up the oar, coal, or other mineralls either when they are raising water
or otherwise. The seventh is for clearing of mines and pitts of damps, by
three large new invented bellows that are worked by the same engine, and
carries a great quantity of air in a continual blast through a pipe of lead
to the further end of the mine or pit, let the depth be what it will.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Twenty-
seventh day of September, in the eighth year of the reigns of His said
Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
ANTHONY PARSONS.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
MATT FENTON, Jun.
ROB CHAPPELL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the day and year above written the
aforesaid Anthony Parsons came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the description of the Invention aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in forme above written.
And also the description of the Invention 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 Eighth day of October, in the year above written.