A FIRE MACHINE, BY THE USE OF WHICH PERSONS MAY WITH GREAT EASE AND SAFETY MOMENTARILY ESCAPE FROM THE HORRORS AND DANGERS OF THE MOST PRECIPITATE FIRES; THAT THE SAME IS SO CONTRIVED AS IN THE SPACE OF A SECOND OF TIME TO GAIN THE AID AND ASSISTANCE OF THOSE WITHOUT DOORS TO ANY PART OF THE HOUSE, AND AS QUICK AS THOUGHT TO CONVEY WITH THE UTMOST SECURITY EITHER PERSONS THEMSELVES OR VALUABLE EFFECTS FROM THE DANGERS OF SUCH FIRES
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
MARIE, of Crown Street, in the City of Westm', Watchmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Third, by the Grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c.,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixth day of February, in the sixth year of His reign,
reciting that, whereas the said David Marie had by his petition humbly repre-
sented unto His said Majesty that he had invented "A FIRE MACHINE, BY THE
USE OF WHICH PERSONS MAY WITH GREAT EASE AND SAFETY MOMENTARILY ESCAPE
FROM THE HORRORS AND DANGERS OF THE MOST PRECIPITATE FIRES; THAT THE SAME
IS SO CONTRIVED AS IN THE SPACE OF A SECOND OF TIME TO GAIN THE AID AND
ASSISTANCE OF THOSE WITHOUT DOORS TO ANY PART OF THE HOUSE, AND AS QUICK AS
THOUGHT TO CONVEY WITH THE UTMOST SECURITY EITHER PERSONS THEMSELVES OR
VALUABLE EFFECTS FROM THE DANGERS OF SUCH FIRES;" which Invention was
entirely new and would prove of great utility to the publick; His Majesty
did therefore of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, give
and grant unto me, the said David Marie, my executors, adññors, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, to make, use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention, within that part of the Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said David Marie, my executors, admors,
or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, to hold to me,
the said David Marie, my executors, adiñiors, & assigns, for the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which said Letters

page_text: Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said David Marie, by writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of
my said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
David Marie, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Fire Machine
by the Use of which Persons may with great Ease and Safety Momentarily
Escape from the Horrors and Dangers of the most Precipitate Fires; which is
so contrived as in the Space of a Second of Time to gain the Aid and Assist-
ance of those Without Doors to any Part of the House, and as Quick as
Thought to Convey with the utmost Security either Persons themselves or
Valuable Effects from the Dangers of such Fires, is constructed and described
as follows (that is to say):-
A square box or frame containing a large pulley and chain to fix to the front
of a house, and the said chain to bo momentarily let down by means of a
moveable bolt and hinges, which operate by pulls from the bedside in case of
fire, to which is immediately hung a vehicle made of wicker or other woods,
secured with irons, and to be drawn up to the one or two pair of stairs'
windows, as necessity shall require, by the outdoor people, and from thence
convey either persons or property by the said vehicle and machinery safely to
the ground.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Marie, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-six.
DAVID MARIE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the day & year last above mentioned'
the aforesaid David Marie came before our said Lord the King in His