A NEW, PECULIAR, AND IMPROVED ART OR METHOD OF PRINTING ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, OR MORE COLOURS, ALL AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME, UPON LINNENS, COTTONS, CALLICOES, MUSLINS, WOOLEN CLOTHS,SILKS, STUFFS, OR ANY OTHER SPECIES OF GOODS OR ARTICLES CAPABLE OF BEING PRINTED, BY A MUCH CHEAPER METHOD THAN ANY HITHERTO FOUND OUT
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BELL the elder, of Walton in the Dale, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
Copper Plate Printer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under His Seale appointed for that purpose, bearing date
of Westminster, the Ninth day of July last, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Bell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great
Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW, PECULIAR, AND IMPROVED ART OR
METHOD OF PRINTING ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, OR MORE COLOURS, ALL AT ONE
AND THE SAME TIME, UPON LINNENS, COTTONS, CALLICOES, MUSLINS, WOOLEN CLOTHS,
SILKS, STUFFS, OR ANY OTHER SPECIES OF GOODS OR ARTICLES CAPABLE OF BEING
PRINTED, BY A MUCH CHEAPER METHOD THAN ANY HITHERTO FOUND OUT," for the
term of fourteen years from the date thereof; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Bell, particularly to
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 to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months immediately after the date of the
same Letters Patent, as by such Letters Patent, reference being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Bell, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say:-
It consists in the using for the purpose of so printing as aforesaid the
machine or piece of machinery particularly described in the Plan hereunto
annexed or hereunder drawn, and which machine or piece of machinery
consists of the several parts, and is to be constructed, put together, and used
in the manner described in the said Plan and the explanation subjoined
thereto, and which machine and rollers contained therein may be made of
wood, copper, iron, pewter, or any other kind of metal or materials whatsoever
of which rollers are or can be made; different patterns may also be added
to the rollers, which can be put on and off at pleasure.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bell, have hereunto my set
hand and seal, the Second day of August, in the twenty-fourth year
of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.

page_text: date the Second day of August instant, referring to certain Letters Patent
dated the Ninth day of July last, granted to the said Thomas Bell for the exer-
cise of a certain Invention therein mentioned, and declaring, describing, and
ascertaining by such Instrument, and a Plan annexed thereto, the nature of the
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed. And
these Deponents further say that the letters and name Tho³ Bell, set and sub-
scribed to the said Instrument in writing, as the person executing the same,
and the letters and names Tho' Mather, Lau' Ashworth, set and subscribed
thereto as witnesses attesting the execution thereof, are of the respective proper
handwriting of the said Thomas Bell and these Deponents.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourth day of August, in the
twenty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Thomas Bell came before the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made
in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary
of England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of
His Majesty King George the Third, and so forth.
Inrolled the Eighth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.