AN ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS DRAINING OF MINES, TURNING UP COALS, ORE, AND MINERALS FROM GREAT DEPTHS, AND TO OPERATE IN ALL OTHER MECHANICAL MOVEMEMENTS BENEFICIAL TO SOCIETY
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN BARBER,
of Stainsby Hall, in the County of Derby, Esquire, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day
of March last past, gave and granted to me, the said John Barber, my executors,
adñiors, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, for me, the said John Barber, my executors, adñiors, and assigns,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said John Barber, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, from time to time, make,
use, exercise, and vend, my Invention of "AN ENGINE OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE
EASY AND EXPEDITIOUS DRAINING OF MINES, TURNING UP COALS, ORE, AND MINERALS
FROM GREAT DEPTHS, AND TO OPERATE IN ALL OTHER MECHANICAL MOVEMEMENTS
BENEFICIAL TO SOCIETY," within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided, in such manner as he, the said
John Barber, my executors, adiñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should seem
meet, and that I and they should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit and benefit, commodity and advantage, from time to time arising by
reason of the said Invention, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto me, the said John
Barber, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters

page_text: Patent, next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided, in which said Letters
Patent is contained a provisoe that if I, the said John Barber, should not par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four (kalender months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters, that then the said 'Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, 'should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Barber, in pursuance of the said
provisoe in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare that the said
Invention of the said engine or machine is particularly described in the
Plans thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Barber, have hereunto, and to the
Plans annexed, set my hand and seal, the First day of July, in the six-
teenth year of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third
over Great Britain, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-six.
Inrolled the Fifth day of July, in the year abovesaid.