A NEW AND PECULIAR ART OR METHOD OF PRINTING WITH ONE COLOUR OR WITH VARIOUS COLOURS AT THE SAME TIME, ON LINNENS, LAWNS, AND CAMBRICKS, COTTONS, CALLICOES, AND MUSLINS, WOOLLEN CLOTH, SILKS, SILK AND STUFFS, GAUZES, AND ANY OTHER SPECIES OR KIND OF LINNEN CLOTH OR MANU- FACTURED GOODS WHATEVER
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BELL, of Mosney, in the County of Lancaster, Copper-plate Printer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of July, in the twenty-third year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Bell, His especial license,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Thomas Bell, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW AND PECULIAR ART OR METHOD OF PRINTING WITH ONE
COLOUR OR WITH VARIOUS COLOURS AT THE SAME TIME, ON LINNENS, LAWNS, AND
CAMBRICKS, COTTONS, CALLICOES, AND MUSLINS, WOOLLEN CLOTH, SILKS, SILK AND
STUFFS, GAUZES, AND ANY OTHER SPECIES OR KIND OF LINNEN CLOTH OR MANU-
FACTURED GOODS WHATEVER;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Bell, by an instrument in writing
under my
hand and seal, to particularly describe and ascertain the nature
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next ensuing and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
of my

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the mid
Thomas Bell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained as follows; that is to say:-
It consists in the using, for the purpose of so printing as aforesaid, the
machine or piece of machinery particularly described in the Plan hereunto
annexed or hereunder drawn, and which machine or piece of machinery
consists of the several parts, and is to be constructed, put together, and used
in the manner described in the said Plan and the explanation subjoined
thereto, and which machine or piece of machinery, and the rollers therein
contained, may be made of wood, copper, iron, pewter, or any other kind of
metal or materials whatsoever that rollers are or can be made of. Different
patterns may also be added to the rollers, which can be put on and off at
pleasure.
grace
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of November, in the twenty-fourth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
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 eighty-three.
THO BELL. [་།

page_text: was particularly described and ascertained as therein mentioned; that is to
Say It consisted of the using, for the purpose of so printing as aforesaid,
the machine or piece of machinery particularly described in the Plan there-
unto annexed as thereunder drawn, and which machine or piece of machinery
consisted of the several parts, and was to be constructed, put together, and
used in the manner described in the said Plan and the explanation sub-
scribed thereto, and which machine or piece of machinery, and the matters
therein contained, might be made of wood, copper, iron, pewter, or any other
kind of metal or materials whatsoever that rollers could be made of; different
patterns might also be added to the rollers, which could be put on and off at
leasure; say that they did see the said Thomas Bell sign, seal, and as his act
ind deed deliver, the said Parchment Deed or Instrument, and that to attest
uch his execution thereof these Deponents did severally subscribe their names
s witnesses, and that, as well the name Thos Bell thereto set as the party
xecuting the same as the names Will Waterhouse, John Emett, sett as
ritnesses to attest his execution thereof, are the proper handswriting of the
aid Thomas Bell and these Deponents respectively.