A METHOD OR METHODS OF MAKING CORDS AND ROPES AND CORDAGE, BOTH TARRED AND UNTARRED, FROM THE SPINNING OF THE YARN, INCLUSIVE, TO THE FINISHING OF THE ROPE OR CORDAGE
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE, WILLIAM
CHAPMAN and EDWARD WALTON CHAPMAN, of the Town and County of the
Town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gentlemen, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His most
gracious Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the thirty-ninth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto us, the said William Chapman and Edward
Walton Chapman, His special licence that we, the said William Chapman
and Edward Walton Chapman, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said William Chapman and Edward Walton Chapman,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all His
Majesties Colonies and Plantations abroad, our Invention of "A METHOD OR
METHODS OF MAKING CORDS AND ROPES AND CORDAGE, BOTH TARRED AND UNTARRED,
FROM THE SPINNING OF THE YARN, INCLUSIVE, TO THE FINISHING OF THE ROPE OR
CORDAGE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
us, the said William Chapman aud Edward Walton Chapinan, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of our 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 month next and immediately. after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereto had, will more fully and at large appear.
077

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
William Chapman and Edward Walton Chapman, do hereby declare that our
new Invention and improvements in the various parts of the process of
making cords and ropes and cordage, both tarred and untarred, is described
in the several Plans and Drawings hereto annexed, and in the following de-
scriptions, viz:-
The first part of the process is in spinning the yarns. The machine for this
purpose consists of two spindles and the other apparatus, which will be imme-
diately described. The lower spindle A, Figure 1, has a flyer and a bobbin,
with the customary apparatus to move the bobbin towards each end of the
spindle, so as to cause it to fill regularly; the flyer and spindle receive their
motion from a band round the sheave, in the usual manner of spinning cotton,
flax, and other fibrous substances. The rollers c, c, are also common to such
machines. The mode of retarding the bobbind, so as to wind up the thread, is
in the common way done, by the pressure of a band in the groove at m, but by
us is occasionally effected by means of a plate or plates (e) of tin, or any other
substance, fixed by an arm or arms to the bottom of the bobbin, and opposing
a flat or oblique surface to the air, so regulated in dimensions and position as
to afford the necessary resistance, and consequently it saves unnecessary
friction and the wearing of bands. The most material part of our im-
provement consists in the mode of feeding the rollers c, c, which we do
by means of the spindle B, which may be vertical or horizontal, or in
any desired position. Its business is only to put in so much twist as to enable
the spinner to give out regularly so much hemp or flax or other fibrous matter
as is necessary to form the thread; it therefore need only receive about half the
number of revolutions per second as the other spindle, which it may do from a
band round the sheavef. In some part of this spindle the yarn must be so
held as to revolve with it, which may be easily done by the manner shewn in
the Plan, viz, by the two small sheaves g and h, (of which an end view is
given in Figure 2,) one having its axis in a fixed place, and the other moving
in a groove, so as to compress the yarn between them. The process of com-
mencement will be now to put a piece of yarn from the bobbin d through the
different places of communication to the hemp or other matter to be spun,
whether round the spinner's waist or elsewhere. The whole being now set in
motion, the rollers c, c, will draw forward the hemp or yarn in the manner
determined, and the spindle and bobbin A and d will twist and wind up the
yarn as fast as spun, the spindle B enabling the spinner to give out the hemp
or other fibrous matter, but performing no other end, because whatever twist

page_text: is putin between the spinner and the sheave gwill be taken out again between
h and the rollers c, c, and in a short time there will be nothing but untwisted
fibres of hemp, &c. between them, which, from the nearness of these points,
and the hemp or other substance being twisted at both extremities, will, not-
withstanding this part being untwisted, have sufficient strength to draw forward
the yarn, unless the substance to be spun be of a short staple. One advantage
of this process is that women and children may spin hemp, &c., because of the
circumstances afore stated, of no more twist being given by the spindle B than
sufficient to combine the fibres of the hemp, or so far as may be expedient,
and therefore not so strong as to occasion any difficulty in keeping back the
twist.
We have also invented another method of obtaining the purposes we have
described, as is shewn in Figure II., the lower spindle and apparatus of which
is the same as afore described, or any other the operator may chuse. The upper
spindle B is nothing more than the upper part of the spindle, described by the
said William Chapman in the Specification of the Letters Patent granted unto
him by His present Majesty, dated at Westminster, the Eighth day of Novem-
ber, in the thirty-ninth year of His reign, shewing the methods of enabling a
spindle to draw forward the yarn within itself. The utility of the separation of
the two parts of his formerly described spindle results from the capability of
the two parts moving with any determinate velocity to each other, so that the
lower spindle may complete the full twist, and the upper put in any propor-
tionate part of it. One advantage, as we have already described, is, that women
and children may spin coarse hemp. Another of very material consequenceis,
that it enables particularly coarse yarns to maintain a much greater degree of
strength in a rope than can otherwise be done. Yarn spun from hemp or
other fibrous matter, unless strongly compressed by the fingers of the spinner
or other means, will have its outward fibres of much greater length than the
inner, so that when strained the inner fibres must break first, and the whole give
way with less strain than should otherwise break the yarn. If this event take
place in the yarn itself as spun, it necessarily must do so in a much greater
degree in the strand of a rope, because every turn given to the strand in its
formation takes one turn out of the yarn; which in small ropes often amounts
to more than half the turns originally in the yarn; thus the outside fibres are
slacked, not only froin compressure, but also fromuntwisting. This circumstance
may obviously be guarded against by the methods we have described, as the
upper spindles which draw out the fibres of the hemp will (from the small
number of turns that may be put in auy determinate length of yarn) draw out
no more of each fibre than a due difference of length between those of the

page_text: inside and the outside of the yarn, and the secondary twist given by the lower
spindle need only to be such as to compress the yarn properly by the constric-
tion of the outward fibres, and to allow for its opening out by the twisting of
the strand. Upon the aforesaid Invention of the said William Chapman, of
drawing forward the yarn within the spindle, we have only to remark, that the
powers of its wheels, the girts of its roller or rollers drawing the yarn onwards,
or the velocity of the spindle, may be so proportioned, that the sheave g and
its bevel pinion h may stand still, or, in other words, a dead wheel may be
used. The position of the two spindles relatively to each other may be accord-
ing to the fancy or opinion of the operator, or the whole done in any way so as
to carry into effect our Invention of giving the twist of the yarn in two dis-
tinct operations, which may either go forward together, as we have described,
or be done at two separate times, spinning the yarn with a loose twist at the
first, and putting more turn into it afterwards.
Explanation of upper spindle, Figure II., a fixed sheave, round which a
band gives any determinate number of revolutions to the spindle; m, n,aretwo
rollers, compressed against each other by a spring, so as to afford sufficient resist-
ance to draw forward the yarn. These rollers may each have a toothed whee
on one end of their axes, so that one may drive forward the other. At one end
of the axis of the roller n is a bevel wheel o, which receives motion from the
bevel pinion h, that is connected with the sheave g; and moves with it round
the axis of the spindle, as afore described. We also, when one spindle only is
used, prevent the twist coming forward to the spinner more than requisite, by
passing the yarn at the head of the spindle between two rollers, that revolve
freely round their axes, and are compressed together by springs or weights.
The next part of our improvements and inventions consists in preparing the
yarn for tlieir immediate application to the manufacture of ropes, but more
particularly in all methods whatsoever where separation of yarns is requisite
at one end of the strand during its progress of making. The yarns are warped
or put together for tarring in the common method, tying them together in
companies of twenty or any other number, accordingly as they are hauled off
the white yarn reels, and either tying them in subdivisions (of the number
wound from each reel) or omitting it; then, after proceeding onwards, and
tarring them in the common. way, we again stretch out the haul on the
rope ground, and takeout the twist that was put in previously to tarring. Our
Invention now consists in winding up the whole haul, or any length of it, in
either of the following manners, viz', either winding on one reel or winch
the company of yarns which were hauled out from the whole of the white
yarn reels at one time, or winding on separate reels or winches, each taking

page_text: one or more of the subdivisions hauled off each of the white yarn reels, or
any portion of them. In the first method, of a single reel or winch, the
winding up goes easily forward; but in the latter, if the reels be not individually
wound up, they will require means of slipping, either round their own axes or
upon the surface applied to move them, as otherwise any irregularity of
diameter would draw one subdivision faster forward than another, which
would be inconvenient, as the simplest way is for a person to return from the
opposite end of the haul towards the winches with the whole company in a
snatch block, in the same manner as first warped or drawn off the white yarn
reels. The haul of yarn or any portion of it, being thus wound upon one
large winch or on separate winches as described, is in this state ready for the
remainder of our process, viz', re-winding by subdivisions or individual yarns,
according to circumstances, on so many other reels as may be requisite. It
will be eligible that the winch or winches from which the yarns have now to
be wound off should, besides their motion round their own axes, have (similar
to Figure III.) the power of turning round trausversely, so as to take out any
turns that either the subdivisions of yarns in one instance or the yarns
themselves in the other may have taken round their common axes. By these
means, if care be taken to tie the yarns properly in their first warping or
hauling out, they may be easily divided without alteration in the usual
methods of tarring. Whenever the yarn is spun upon bobbins, a part of our
improvement in the process of tarring is, that we secure to (or near to) the rim
of each bobbin the inner end of the yarn which has to be wound round its axis.
Our further method is then to place at least two bobbins upon one spindle or
axis, and to fasten the inner end of the yarn of the first bobbin that has to be
wound off to the outer end of the next or succeeding bobbin; thus, when the
first bobbin is exhausted, the thread flies off to and unwinds from the second, by
means of which a perpetual succession may be acquired without attention to
the iminediate unwinding of each bobbin (or of taking away those that have
not sufficient length), because, whenever an exhausted bobbin is seen on any
spindle or axis, nothing more is requisite than to take it off, and to join to
the inner end of the next another bobbin of yarn; thus a continued succession
may be kept up to any extent required.
We also apply the same improvement to the making of strands of ropes, as
the inconvenience is very great in bobbins or reels being exhausted by the
making of a rope, and it further saves the labour of winding up all the ends
of reels or bobbins that are not of length sufficient to make the succeeding
rope. In the method of tarring, invented by the said William Chapman, and
described in the Specification of the Letters Patent granted to him by His

page_text: Majesty, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, which consists
in winding yarns separately one or more upon each reel, after passing through
the tar and the yarns unwinding from other reels previously to entering the
kettle, it has been found that hard twisted yarns do not perfectly imbibe the
tar unless passing very slowly through the kettle. To remedy the first incon-
venience and to give more expedition to the process, we have invented the
following method of opening out or slacking the twist of the yarn during its
passage through the kettle. We produce this effect by passing all the yarns
that are to be tarred at one time through a machine similar to the spindle B
in Figure I, and further shewn in Figure 2. This machine may be placed
anywhere between the white yarn reels and the nipper plates, which express
the superfluous tar; a good position will be just at the entrance of the kettle.
The body of yarns being passed, as in Figure 2, over the rollers g, h, (or in
any other way so as to admit them to draw freely onwards, and only be held
from turning round their common axis,) will, if the machine B be turned in
such a direction as to take the twist out of the yarns on the side towards the
nipper plates, put precisely so much extraordinary twist into the yarns between
the machine and the white yarn reels. The yarn thus twisted will, in passing
the rollers g, h, be restored to their original state, and the untwisting should
totally cease previously to the entrance of the yarns into the nipper plates,
where, by the intervention of one or more bars dividing the yarns, they should
again be brought to a parallel position with each other. The machine B must,
by a belt round the sheave f, or by any other means, receive a number of
revolutions proportionate to the celerity with which the yarns pass through the
tar kettle; for instance, if four turns in a foot length be requisite to be taken
out of the yarn, then the machine B must perform four revolutions during the
time the yarn moves one foot forward. We also occasionally produce the
same effect by a person untwisting the yarn by hand as it goes into the kettle.
Our further Inventions are generally improvements on the methods already
secured to the said William Chapman by His Majesty's gracious Letters
Patent, dated at Westminster, the Eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.
-In the aforesaid method, the determined advance of the sledge-that-moves
backwards to haul out the strands as they are twisted is given by means of
changeable pinions (and other methods there described), which connect the
motion of the hooks that turn the strands with the wheels or sheaves that draw
backward the sledge, and vary that motion at pleasure by the changing of
those pinions; these two separate actions being thus communicated, may

page_text: receive the moving force either from men working the cranks on the sledge,
or from the rope hauling backward the sledge, as is in the said Specification
fully described.
Ourimprovements on this method consist in moving not only the hooks on
the sledge to which the strands are fixed, but also the sledge itself, without the
application of cranks, and by the immediate action of a steam engine, horses,
water, or any other moving power. Our most approved method is by the
application of an endless rope or chain, supported on sheaves or rollers reaching
from end to end of the rope ground, or to such distance as requisite, and
extended by a pulley or pulleys at one or both ends. The most convenient
mode is for this endless rope to go down on one side of the ropery and return
by the other, or by the middle, crossing the rope ground at the ends, as it thus
admits of a general application in all parts. Its motion from the moving
power is best given through the intervention of holding sheaves or rollers
(described in the Specification of the said recited Patent, and there claimed for
all the purposes of rope making). The motion is also given to the sledge by
similar means, as is described in the following explanation of Figures IV.
and V., shewing the plan and elevation of a sledge for backward motion, and
its respective parts; m is an axis, communicating from the hook wheels that
twist the strands or rope to the wheels, which draw the sledge backward by
holding sheaves a,b,c,Figure X., acting on a ground rope, or by any other means.
At one end of this axis, as shewn in Fig. X., is a change pinion x, acting
upon the other change pinion y, so as to give any diversity of motion to the
holding sheaves a, b, and c, or any other machinery that may draw backward
the sledge, as is fully described in the aforesaid Specification of the said William
Chapman. Upon the axis m is a wheel n, which, being acted upon by the
pinion p, receives motion from the endless rope, described acting upon its
holding sheaves q,q, r, and thus the process may go forward from the action
of any distant or stationary power, which may also be done by the winding up
of one end of a cord upon a barrel, whilst the other part is wound over another
barrel upon the sledge at 7, or only with a turn round it, held or compressed
by any method to prevent its slipping, or by an endless rope with a turn round
a sheave or barrel at 1, with any contrivance whatever to prevent the rope
slipping. Those same principles of communicating motion from a stationary
power we apply to the manufacture of ropes in the common or any other
process, as all that is requisite is either to fasten a drag or loaden sledge
behind the one now described, or to apply to a common sledge the axis m (of
Figures IV. and V.), fixed in an intervening wheel, giving motion to the neces-
sary number of hook wheels, viz', three or four, according to the number of

page_text: strands, and to have upon this axis the wheel (n), to be driven by the pinion p
and apparatus annexed, as afore described, which twisting the strands will
consequently shorten them, and the sledge will move up as when turned by
hand in the common method, until the strands be fully hardened or set up.
They then must be taken off their separate hooks, and all made fast to a hook
at the extremity of the axis m, which, moving the contrary way to what the
strand hooks did, will necessarily give the proper twist to the rope. We must
bere notice, that what we call hooks are not always strictly so, but amongst
ropers generally called by that name, although sometimes nothing more than
the end of an axis with a hole through it, and a forelock to hold the strand or
.rope. We also by the same means, or immediately from the moving power
itself, turn the hooks upon the tackle board at the head of the ropery to which
the separate strands are fixed. During the making of those strands whilst both
ends are twisting, any disparity of revolutions between the two ends is of no
moment; but wheu one end is applied to the closing of the rope itself or
twisting the strands together, and the other to the putting into the strands
the number of turns that would be taken out, by the twisting of the
rope, then an equality of revolutions is necessary, and care must be taken
to give by any of the usual mechanical means (whether by difference of
sheaves or barrels or of teeth in pinions) such a disparity of motion as may
be requisite from one of the machines acted on being moving and the other
stationary. Also, for the purpose of tempering the strands, or of giving one a
little more or less twist than the other, arising from their casual disparity of
girt, we occasionally either give the power of standing or going slower to any
or all of the tackle board hooks, by causing any part of the machinery to slip
round its axis on an increase of stress, that may be voluntarily applied; or, we
also give the power of totally stopping or increasing the motion of any of the
particular hooks holding the strands, by letting that hook be driven by a pall
or stop catch acting upon a ratchet wheel, and having upon the same axis a
crank, by means of which and the force of men that individual hook may be
propelled a little faster than the others, or the pall may be lifted off and that
hook become more stationary. One method of carrying this part of the process
into effect is explained in the following description of Figure VI., the machinery
of which may either be applied to a fixed tackle board or a moving sledge.
a, if the moving power be at a distance, is one of the griping sheaves, as shewn
at r, Figures 1V. and V; b is a toothed wheel (driving or connected with the
toothed wheel of the adjoining griping sheave). Both these wheels are capable
of revolving round the axis on which they are fixed. c, c, are fixed wheels or
sheaves revolving with the axis at all times. Round these fixed wheels o

page_text: sheaves are screwed on two collars, so as to give any desired degree of resist-
ance to whatever may tend to force them round. A projection from these
collars rests against a pin or stop on each of the wheels a, b, so that these
wheels cannot move round their axis without carrying the collars, along with
then, which are to be screwed so tight as to perform all the ordinary operations
of the machine; dis a fixed brake wheel, on the same axis as the wheels a, b,
so that when the brake wheel is stopped with a convenient pressure it shall
(aided with the force which the axis has to turn) either totally or partially stop
it, at the will of the operator. At the end of the described axis is another axis
or continuation of it (with or without a joint), that has at the other extremity
a changeable pinion e, which acts into the changeable pinion, at the other
end of whose axis is a bevel pinion g, acting into a bevel wheel (h) on the
arbor of the intervening spur wheel that drives the wheels of the strand hooks,
i, le, m. The wheels of these strand hooks are capable of moving either way
without carrying round their axes or hooks, which are only propelled to move
by means of a stop catch on ratched wheels, as shewn on m, and may each
move faster by force of men on a crank, either fixed on their axes or otherwise.
By these means, as afore described, the whole of the wheels may be retarded
together, or each wheel separately either retarded or propelled. If the motion
of the hook wheels i, l, m, be made rather to err on the side of too much
velocity, then there will be no need of ratched wheels or of men to turn any
given strand faster, as the strands may be separately tempered, and the whole
regulated by each strand hook having the power of being retarded by a brake.
If the moving power, in place of being at a distance, be adjoining or nearly
adjoining to the tackle board, then the griping sheaves and their toothed wheels
may be dispensed with, and the brake wheel d may be placed on the axis of the
intervening wheel which turns the hook wheels i, k,m, or on any suitable axis,
as it may also be in every instance. In our usual way of making ropes, we run
back the strands to a given extent, and afterwards harden them up or shorten
them, so far as may be equivalent, to the stretching of the rope, so that all the
yarns may bear equally on the rope breaking. We also complete them at one
operation, by placing before the tackle board a hollow tube A, Figure XI, in
front of each yarn guide (and press block), through which tube each strand
passes, and is prevented from turning round its axis by the sheaves a, b, c, or
by any other means which may answer that end, and suffer the strand to
advance; then, the.hook wheels on the sledge and its backward motion being
so proportioned that the full twist shall be put into the strands, the motion of
the machine A on each strand must be so much slower as to put in the degree
of twist that the strands may be supposed to have at the instant of the rope
B

page_text: breaking. In the laying or closing heavy ropes, several men are obliged to
twist the rope with implements called woolders, and some of these men follow
in succession close after the top, because the friction of the rope on the stake
heads or bars supporting it, prevents the turn from running freely from the
hook at the extremity of the rope. To reduce or takeaway this inconvenience,
we have invented the use of rollers turning the same way with the axis of the
rope, so that the rope, resting at intervals between two of them, may be
supported, and yet turn freely round. The best form of these rollers is to be
cylindric in the middle, and rounded off towards each end, so as to admit the rope
to slide over them lengthways. Figures VII. and VIII. shew a plan and eleva-
tion of a stake head fitted with rollers; a, a, are the stake heads; b, b, the posts
in which they are placed. Whilst the strands are making, the stake heads may
be inserted the contrary side upwards to what is shewn in Figure VIII., and then
they will be similar to common stake heads, with pins to separate the strands;
or otherwise there may be three sets of rollers d, d. By the means we have
now recited, all ropes whatever may be laid in common rope grounds with
very little aid from men, in place of requiring, as they now do, on particular
occasions, from fifty to one hundred. We have also invented another method
of hauling out the strands with any determinate motion without the aid of a
ground rope, rack, or any means wherein the two actions of twisting the strands
and moving back the sledge are immediately connected together. In this new
method, in place of using the change pinions at the sledge, we place them in
a permanent situation, using them to regulate the motion of a chain or rope
attached to the sledge in such a way as that it shall draw forward the sledge
in the rate of motion that shall be determined to the number of twists. The
sole difference between this and the other method as to the proportionate
number of teeth in each change pinion, consists in making the necessary
allowance for the sledge moving either with or against the rope or chain that
gives motion to the strand hooks. The rope or chain hauling backward the
sledge may either wind round a barrel, as in Figure 1X.,or it may be an endless
rope or chain passing round griping sheaves, as afore described. The mode of
applying change pinions to regulate the motion of a barrel or griping sheaves is
equally evident; one method of which is explained in the said Figure IX, where
a is an axis or shaft, moving with any given ratio to the endless rope turning
the hooks b, the barrel winding up the rope or chain that has to move with
any determinate velocity, accordant with the desigued motion of the sledge;
c, a pinion or wheel acting upon the barrel; and y, changeable pinions, geering
into each other, and capable one or both to be taken off the ends of their
respective axes to substitute such others as will give the required motion. One

page_text: of these axes should be capable of moving so far as to suit the different sizes of
the change pinions. We have now given such an explanation as will enable
our aforesaid Inventions to be carried into effect, and it is needless to describe
any further variety, as the great leading points of our Invention consist in the
application of change pinions to the purposes we have mentioned; the appli-
cation of a stationary power to the turning of the hooks on a moving frame or
sledge for the purpose of twisting ropes or strands; and also the application
of an endless rope, band, chain, or belt to the giving of these motions on a
moving frame or sledge. We also, according to the method invented by the
said William Chapman, in his afore-recited Specification, join the strands
together at any stationary point (at the fixed tackle board or other fixed place,
whether permanent or temporary), instead of doing so on a moving sledge, and
the laying of the rope and the motion of the top will then proceed the contrary
way, viz, towards the moving sledge, in place of from it. In twisting and
drawing forward of cord as made, we claim the application of the spindle and
machinery invented by the said William Chapman for the spinning of yarn,
and described in the Specification of his aforesaid Letters Patent, and the
Drawings annexed to the same, whether the operation be performed by one
spindle, as there described, or by two, as in the present Specification.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Chapman and Edward Walton
Chapman, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
sixth day of July, in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of our Sove-
reign 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 ninety-nine.
WILL
(L.S.)
EDWP WALTON (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named William Chapman (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of us,
NAT. ATCHESON, Ely Place, London.
S. HIGHMOOR, his Clerk.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Edward Walton Chapman (being
first duly stamped) in the presence of us,
WALTER HERON, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Attorney-at-Law.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-sixth day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Walton Chapman,
and that on the Thirty-first day of July, in the year above mentioned, the
aforesaid William Chapman, came before our Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained in form above written. And also the Specification
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that case
made and provided.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of August, in the year above written.