A CERTAIN INVENTION FOR THE CUTTING OR SAWING MARBLE, OR ANY OTHER STONE, FOR SWEEPING OR FACEING AND ALSO POLLISHING THE SAME, BY A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR ENGINE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO HIS MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS, BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH MARBLE AND STONE FOR STABLES, CHIMNEY- PRICES, PAVEING, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES WHEREIN STONE OR MARBLE IS 5 USED
Year: 1751

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
KNOW YE that His present Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date at Westminster the
Eleventh day of October, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, hath, for
5 Himself, His heirs and successors, given and granted unto HENRY WATSON,
of Bakewell, in the County of Derby, Stone Cutter and Carver, and to his
exors, admors; and assignes, especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge,
and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great
Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
0 Tweed, "A CERTAIN INVENTION FOR THE CUTTING OR SAWING MARBLE, OR
ANY OTHER STONE, FOR SWEEPING OR FACEING AND ALSO POLLISHING THE SAME,
BY A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR ENGINE OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO HIS MAJESTIE'S
SUBJECTS, BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH MARBLE AND STONE FOR STABLES, CHIMNEY-
PRICES, PAVEING, AND FOR ALL OTHER PURPOSES WHEREIN STONE OR MARBLE IS
5 USED;" together with the whole profit, benefit, and advantage from time to time
· accrueing and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and dureing the term
of fourteen years, according to the form of the Statute in that case made and
provided; in which Letters Patent, amongst other things, it is provided that
if the said Henry Watson shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
O nature and form of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery in three calender
months next and imediately after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby

page_text: granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything before
in the said Letters Patent contained to the contrary in anywise notwith-
standing.
THEREFORE FURTHER KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Watson,
in pursuance of the intention of the said Letters Patent, and of the provisoe
therein contained, do hereby fully and particularly describe the nature, form,
and mañer of my said Invention in manner following (that is to say):―
The said Invention, with regard to its nature, is an engine or machine
worked by water, that saweth or cutteth marble or any other kind of stone,
and that sweepeth or faceth and also that polisheth such marble or other
stones; and the engine or machine, with regard to its form, is fully described
and appeareth in and by the Plan and section, with an explanation of the
same, to these Presents annexed; and the said several businesses of sawing;
sweeping, and pollishing, described in the said Plan and section, are also
capable of being performed by any other inanimate or animate powers; all
which is a full and true description of my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the above-named Henry Watson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Third day of December, in the twenty-fifth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-
HENKI WASUNT
Sealed and delivered in the presence of,
JOHN GARDON,
JOHN GRIFFITH.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Third day of December, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Henry Watson came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Indenture aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written.
And also the Indenture 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 Eleventh day of December, in the year above written.