A NEW-CONSTRUCTED CHAN- DELIER, GIRANDOLE, AND LUSTRE
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BARRETT, of the Haymarket, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields,
Wax Chandler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twelfth day of March, in the twenty-fourth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, John Barrett, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said John Barrett, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John. Barrett, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW-CONSTRUCTED CHAN-
DELIER, GIRANDOLE, AND LUSTRE;" as to ine, the said John Barrett, my exors,
adñiors, or assigns, or any of them, shod in their discretion seem meet; and
that I, the said John Barrett, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,

page_text: growing, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted unto me, the said
John Barrett, 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 complent and ended according to the
statute in such case made and provided; in which Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said John Barrett, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Barrett, do hereby declare, that my said Invention of patent lustres,
girandoles, chandeliers, branches, &c., for a safe convenient method of illu-
minating rooms or passages, staircases, halls, &c., is described as follows:-
These lustres, girandoles, chandeliers, branches, &c. are made of glass,
metal, or wood, and may be made of any form. To the extremities of the
arms or branches of these lustres, girandoles, chandeliers, &c. (which arms or
branches are made of glass, metal, or wood), are constructed rings or sockets
of the same materials, to admit a glass tube, with a cup of various forms.
Within the cup is introduced a small tube of glass or metal to keep the
candle perpendicular. The tube and cup is filled with water or other liquid.
The candle being emerged is, from the specific gravity of the liquid, kept
floating, and prevented from damaging furniture, apparel, &c. either by fire
or the wax dropping. Nossels are also used with large cups to receive water
or other liquid, and prevent the wax from dropping, and are constructed to
fit the arms or branches of lustres, girandoles, chandeliers, &c. The tubes are
likewise constructed for the use of lanthorns, lamps, and candlesticks.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and eighty-four
Signed and sealed in the presence of
JA' SETON.
JNO (L.S.) BARRETT. 8
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of July, in the year
of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid John Barrett 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.