A CERTAIN MACHINE FOR DRAWING OF COALS, LEAD, TIN, AND OTHER MATERIALS OUT OF MINES
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
STOREY, of the Low Lights, in the Parish of Tynemouth, in the County of
Northumberland, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of February, in the twenty-sixth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me His special licence that I, the said James
Storey, during the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His Majesty's King-
dom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CERTAIN MACHINE FOR DRAWING OF
COALS, LEAD, TIN, AND OTHER MATERIALS OUT OF MINES;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of the 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 Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Storey, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and declare
that the Plan thereof hereunto annexed is composed of the following particu-
lars, that is to say:-
A, A, the double part of the rope, which always keeps an equal weight or
balance. B, B, the two leggs or ends of rope by which the two basketts or
corves hang, which are spliced into the main or double rope. C, the lower

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acting sheeve or sheeves. D, D, the basketts or corves for holding the coals,
E, E, the two upper sheeves, from which the rope is suspended..
F, the principal or support for the two upper sheeves. G, the ginn. H, H,
the leavers for the horses to be put to. I, I, the two tackles for taking in
the spare rope and for lenthening or shortening it as occasion may require.
K, the carriage bringing the coals to the bottom of the pit.. L, the shaft or
mouth of the pit.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Storey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the twenty-
sixth 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, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-six.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamped, in the presence of
W BROWNE.
JOSEPH BAINBRIDGE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of February,
in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said James Storey came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
afores was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in the
sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third
Inrolled the Third day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-six.