A PUNCH OR PROP FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ROOFS OF COAL, LEAD, IRONSTONE, STONE, COPPER, AND OTHER MINES, WHICH PUNCH OR PROP IS FORMED OF A MATERIAL NOT HERETOFORE USED FOR SUCH PURPOSE, AND IF SUBSTITUTED FOR WOOD, STONE, BRICK, OR COAL (OP SOME OR ONE OF WHICH THE PUNCHES OR PROPS FOR SUPPORTING THE ROOFS OF MINES HAVE BEEN FORMERLY MADE), WOULD VERY MUCH DIMINISH THE GREAT EXPENCE OF SUPPORTING THE ROOFS OF SUCH MINES
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHARLTON, of Duckmanton, in the County of Derby, Agent to the Adelphi
Colliery, send grecting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Charlton, have, by my Petition, humbly re-
presented unto His present Majesty King George the Third that I have,
with much trouble, labor, and industry, invented "A PUNCH OR PROP FOR THE
SUPPORT OF THE ROOFS OF COAL, LEAD, IRONSTONE, STONE, COPPER, AND OTHER MINES,
WHICH PUNCH OR PROP IS FORMED OF A MATERIAL NOT HERETOFORE USED FOR SUCH
PURPOSE, AND IF SUBSTITUTED FOR WOOD, STONE, BRICK, OR COAL (OP SOME OR ONE OF
WHICH THE PUNCHES OR PROPS FOR SUPPORTING THE ROOFS OF MINES HAVE BEEN
FORMERLY MADE), WOULD VERY MUCH DIMINISH THE GREAT EXPENCE OF SUPPORTING
THE ROOFS OF SUCH MINES;" that the said Invention is new, and that I, the said
John Charlton, am the first and true author thereof, and that no person or
persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, hath or have used the same
prior to my late Invention and application of the said punches or props
at the Adelphi Colliery above mentioned; and whereas upon representing the
same to His said Majesty, by Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of
April now last past, His said Majesty did give and grant unto me, the said
John Charlton, my exors, admňors, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Charlton, my
exors, admiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or

page_text: by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said John Charlton, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Majesty's
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to me the said John Charlton, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them,
should in my or their discretions, see meet, and that I, the said, John Charlton,
my exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Charlton, my exors, admors,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be complete and ended, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; and to the end that 1, the said, John Charlton, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, and every, of them, might have and enjoy the full benefit, and the
sole use and exercise of the said Invention, according to. His Majesty's gracious
intention therein;before declared,, His, said Majesty, did, by the said Letters
Patent, for, Himself, His heirs, and successors, require and strictly command
all, and every person and, persons, bodies, politic and corporate, and all other
.His Majesty's subjects. whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or
condition soever they were, within that said part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Majesty's Dominion
of Wales, and, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they nor
any of them; at any time during the continuance of the said. term of four-
teen years thereby granted, either, directly or indirectly, do make, use, or put in
practice the said Invention or any part of the same so attained unto by me, the
said Jolin, Charlton, as aforesaid, nor in anywise, counterfeit, imitate, or, resemble
the same, nor should make or cause to be made any addition .thereunto.or sub-
traction from the same, whereby to pretend himself, or themselves the 'inventor
or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent; or agree-
ment of; me, the said John-Charlton,-my exors, admiors, or assigns; in writing
under my or their hands and seals, first had and obtained in that behalf,
upon such pains and penalties as could or, might be justly inflicted on such
offender for their contempt of His said Majesty's Royal command, and further

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to be answerable to me the said John Charlton, my exors, admors, and
assigns, according to law, for my and tlieir damages thereby occasioned ;
in which said Letters Patent is (amongst other things) contained a
proviso that if' I, the said John Charlton, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said "Invention, and in "what manner the
same was to be performed, by an instrument-in writing under hand and
seal, and cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of His said Majesty's Letters Patent,.. that then_His, said. Majesty's Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said
Letters Patent may more fully appear.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Charlton, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Punch or
Prop for the Support of the Roofs of Coal, Lead, Ironstone, Stone, Copper,
and other Mines, is set forth in the descriptions following (that is to say) :-
The said punch or prop is made of cast iron, the length or heighth of which
punch or prop is fitted to and determined by the heighth of the mine in
workmanship, the same punch or prop being placed erect therein. It may
be made of any sufficient thickness, and to any shape, as square, oblong,
circular, oval, or any other regular or irregular figure whatsoever, the In-
vention consisting not so much in the shape or figure of such punches or
props as in the introduction and application of a new material for making
the same, namely, the substitution of cast iron instead of wood, stone, brick,
or coal, of some or one of which the punches or props for supporting the
roofs of mines have formerly been made.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Charlton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of May, in the forty-second year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1802, the aforesaid John Charlton came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of
the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and two.