AN INTIRE NEW IMPROVEMENT UPON THE SEVERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CALLED THE PIANO- PORTE, HARPSICHORD, ORGAN, AND GUITAR, AND UPON VARIOUS OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, BY WHICH THE SAME CAN BE MORE EASILY KEPT IN ORDER AND PLAYED UPON, AND BY WHICH THE SAME WILL BECOME PERFECT AND COMPLEAT IN- STRUMENTS OF THEIR KIND
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE. PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
LANDRETH, of Tabernacle Walk, Old Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Musical Instrument Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Thirty-first day of March last past, did give and grant
unto me, the said John Landreth, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John
Landreth, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, and every of them, during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN INTIRE
NEW IMPROVEMENT UPON THE SEVERAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CALLED THE PIANO-
PORTE, HARPSICHORD, ORGAN, AND GUITAR, AND UPON VARIOUS OTHER MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, BY WHICH THE SAME CAN BE MORE EASILY KEPT IN ORDER AND
PLAYED UPON, AND BY WHICH THE SAME WILL BECOME PERFECT AND COMPLEAT IN-
STRUMENTS OF THEIR KIND," which hath never before been discovered; to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the same unto me, the said John Landreth, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Landreth, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High

page_text: Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Landreth, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the above Plans or Drawings marked respectively Figure 1st
and Figure 2d, and in the several explanations or descriptions thereof above
mentioned, and referring thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Landreth, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1787, the aforesaid John Landreth came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.