A COMPOSITION OR CEMENT FOR ALL THE BRANCHES CONCERNING BUILDINGS TO WHICH THE SAME IS APPLICABLE, WITH A GREASE FOR FRICTIONS, PRESERVING STEEL, IRON, AND VARIOUS OTHER USES,
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LIARDET, of Great Suffolk Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin's in the
Fields, in the City of Westminster, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Liardet, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that, by much
study and expence, I had invented "A COMPOSITION OR CEMENT FOR ALL THE
BRANCHES CONCERNING BUILDINGS TO WHICH THE SAME IS APPLICABLE, WITH A GREASE
FOR FRICTIONS, PRESERVING STEEL, IRON, AND VARIOUS OTHER USES," and that, in
regard I was the first Inventor thereof, I therefore most humbly prayed His
said Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my
executors, admors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and
benefit of the 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 in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad,
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 con-
descend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date
at Westminster, the Third day of April, in the thirteenth year of His reign, of
His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Liardet, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said John Liardet, my executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by minc or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Liardet, 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,
and also in all His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me,
the said John Liardet, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us,
should, in our discretions, seem meet, and that I, the said John Liardet, my
exors, 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 mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned
to be granted unto me, the said John Liardet, 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 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 John Liardet, 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, any thing
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as
in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Liardet, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention
and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars following (tha
is to say):-
Composition of the new cement :-Drying oil, any kind of absorben
matters, white or any coloured lead, solid whatsoever (gravel, sand, &c.), a
circumstances will require it.
.
Composition of the new grease for preserving steel, iron, &c. from th

page_text: t, and for frictions:-Take oil, any kind of absorbent matters, mixt
ether, coloured as you please. The steel and iron must be covered with
said grease in the same manner as if painted.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Liardet, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-three, and in the thirteenth 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.