THE USE AND APPLICATION OF METAL OF A PECULIAR QUALITY AND GREAT STRENGTH IN THE PLACE, ROOM, AND STEAD OP COMMON IRON IN ALL CASES AND IN THE MANUFACTURING OF ALL THINGS WHERE COMMON IRON HATH HITHERTO BEEN PARTLY OR WHOLLY USED AND EMPLOYED, AND WHERE TOGETHER LIGHTNESS OF WEIGHT AND MUCH STRENGH ARE MATERIALLY BENEFICIAL
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
EDGELL, of Frome Selwood, in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, 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
on or about the Sixteenth day of this instant January, in the thirty-ninth
year of His said. Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said James
Edgell, my executors, adiñors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Edgell, my exors,
adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term therein
expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE USE AND APPLICATION OF METAL
OF A PECULIAR QUALITY AND GREAT STRENGTH IN THE PLACE, ROOM, AND STEAD
OP COMMON IRON IN ALL CASES AND IN THE MANUFACTURING OF ALL THINGS
WHERE COMMON IRON HATH HITHERTO BEEN PARTLY OR WHOLLY USED AND
EMPLOYED, AND WHERE TOGETHER LIGHTNESS OF WEIGHT AND MUCH STRENGH
ARE MATERIALLY BENEFICIAL;" in which said in part recited Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso that if I, the said James Edgell, shall not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's

page_text: High Court of Chancery within one calendar month 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, shall utterly cease,
determine, and be void, as in and by the said 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
James Edgell, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the Use and
Application of Metal of peculiar Quality and great Strength in the Place,
Room, and Stead of Common Iron, in all Cases as aforesaid, and the nature
thereof, is described, ascertained, and to be performed in manner following
(that is to say):
The said metal is composed of bars, plates, rods, straps, or pieces of steel,
faggotted, bundled, welted, forged, massed, worked, and incorporated together
by means of the forge or furnace, and hammer or mill, and then drawn or
hammered down into bars, plates, or rods, and, as occasion may be, repeatedly
worked up, welted, incorporated, massed, forged, and drawn er hammered, by
which method of compounding, incorporating, working, welting, massing,
forging, and drawing the said metal is rendered exceedingly tough and strong,
divested of any harsh or brittle quality, insomuch that it will not break or
bend but by great power and force, will not be liable to cracks or flaws
in working, hammering, and forging for use, and is to be forged, worked,
applied, and used of smaller size and less weight than common iron, but in
like manner as and in the place and stead of common iron, in all cases where
together lightness of weight and much strength are materially beneficial.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Edgell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the thirty-ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1799, the aforesaid James Edgell came before
our 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 Thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.