A NEW METHOD NOT HITHERTO PRACTICED WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN FOR MAKING OF A RED MARBLE STONE WARE WITH MINERALL EARTH FOUND WITHIN THIS KINGDOM, WHICH BEING FIRMLY VNITED BY FIRE WILL MAKE IT CAPABLE OF RECEIVING A GLOSS SO BEAUTIFULL AS TO IMITATE IF NOT TO COMPARE WITH RUBIE; THAT THE STONE WARE MAY BE FORMED INTO VESSELLS FOR ANY NECESSARY VSE, OR INTO ORNAMENTS FOR HOUSES OR GARDENS, SUCH AS JARES, FLOWER POTTS, &C. IT BEING THE MOST PERFECT OF ITS KIND BOTH IN COLOUR, NATURE, AND FORM THAT HATH EVER YET APPEARED IN THIS PART OF EUROPE
Year: 1729

page_text: DECON
Presents shall come, greeting.
grace Crou, C., LO
Quese
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved SAMUEL BELL, Gentleman, hath by
his petition humbly represented vnto vs, that he hath, with long study, great
exence, and by repeated experiments, invented, found out, and brought to
perfection "A NEW METHOD NOT HITHERTO PRACTICED WITHIN GREAT BRITAIN FOR
MAKING OF A RED MARBLE STONE WARE WITH MINERALL EARTH FOUND WITHIN
THIS KINGDOM, WHICH BEING FIRMLY VNITED BY FIRE WILL MAKE IT CAPABLE OF
RECEIVING A GLOSS SO BEAUTIFULL AS TO IMITATE IF NOT TO COMPARE WITH RUBIE;
THAT THE STONE WARE MAY BE FORMED INTO VESSELLS FOR ANY NECESSARY VSE, OR
INTO ORNAMENTS FOR HOUSES OR GARDENS, SUCH AS JARES, FLOWER POTTS, &C. IT
BEING THE MOST PERFECT OF ITS KIND BOTH IN COLOUR, NATURE, AND FORM THAT
HATH EVER YET APPEARED IN THIS PART OF EUROPE;" and having humbly prayed
vs, as an encouragement for the trouble and expence he hath been at in
bringing the said new Invention to perfection, that wee would be gratiously
pleased to grant to him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and
benefit of his said Invention for the term of fourteen yeares, pursuant to the
Statute in such case made and provided, wee being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and Inventions that may be for the publick benefit, are
grationsly pleased to condescend to his request.
NOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted and by these Presents for vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Samuel Bell, his

page_text: executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Samuel Bell, his executors, admini-
strators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and themselves, or by
his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the
said Samuel Bell, his executors, administrators or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter during
the term of yeares herein expressod, shall and lawfully may make, vse, and
exercise his said new Invention or method for makeing of a red stone, marble
ware, with mineral earth found within this kingdom, as above described,
within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him,
the said Samuel Bell, his executors, administrators and assignes, or any of them,
shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Samuel Bell, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy
the whole profit, commodity, benefit, and advantage, from time to time
comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention
for and during the term of yeares herein menčoned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-beforo
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Samuel Bell, his execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of these Presents next and
immediately ensueing and fully to be compleat and ended according to the
Statute in such case made and provided: And to the end that the said Samuel
Bell, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have
and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon
according to our gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly command all
and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our
subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever
they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, aforesaid, that
neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do
make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same so
attained vnto by the said Samuel Bell, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counter.
feit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addicon thereunto, or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe
or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without
the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Samuel Bell, his executors,

page_text: administrators, or assignes, in writing, vnder his or their hande and seales first
had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may
be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall com-
mand; and further to be answerable to the said Samuel Bell, bis executors,
administrators, and assignes according to law, for his and their damages thereby
occasioned; and moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will and comand all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sher-
riffes, bayliffes, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, that they or
any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter during the said term hereby
granted, in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Samuel Bell, his exe-
cutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or bis or their deputies, ser-
vants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid
Invenčon, or any thing relating thereto : Provided always, and these our Letters
Patents are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said
term hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires or successors,
or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary
to law, or prejudiciall, or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the
said Invenčon is not a new invention as to the publick vse and exercise
thereof in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, aforesaid, or not
invented and found out by the said Samuel Bell as aforesaid, then vpon
signification or declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or suc-
cessors, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or
any six or more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents
shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or
anything therein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend
to give priviledge vnto the said Samuel Bell, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever,
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our
subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part of our
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted, for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Samuel Bell, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person or persons to
whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as afore-

page_text: said, shall distinctly vse and practice their several invenčons by them invented
and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same
respective Letters Patents and of these Presents: Provided likewise novertho-
lesse, and these our Letters Patents are vpon this express condičon, that if the
said Samuel Bell, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons
which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of
this grant, have or claime any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in,
or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vso and benefit of the said
Invention hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any
pretended transferr or assignement of the said liberty and priviledge, or any
share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust
thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall
open or cause to be opened any booke or books for publick subscripcons to be
made by any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to
raising any suiñe or sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said
liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or
their agents or servants, receive any sume or sume or sunies of money whatsoever
of any number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for
such or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate
body, or shall divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents or the liberty
and priviledges hereby by vs granted into any number of shares exceeding the
number of five, or shall comitt or do, or procure to be committed or done, any
act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such person or persons
shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said pre-
misses, which would be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain
Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of our late royal father
King George the First, intituled, (An Act for the better securing certain
Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two
Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending
Money vpon Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwar-
rantable Practices therein mentioned,) if these our Letters Patents had not
been granted, or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority, shall at any
time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five
persons or their representatives at any one time (reckoning executors or ad-
ministrators as and for the single person whom they represent as to such
interest as they are or shall be intitled to in right of such their testator or
intestate), that then and in any of the said cases these our Letters Patente,
and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall
vtterly cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained

page_text: to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Samuel
Bell, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents
or the inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good,
firme, valid, sufficient and effectual in the law, according to the true intent
and meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the said Samuel Bell,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts of Record
as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and
successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and cer-
tain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Nineth day of
May.
By Writt of Privy Seal.