"A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR WINDLASS, FOR THE MORE EASY WEIGHING A SHIP'S ANCHOR AT SEA, WHICH IS WORKED WITH AS MUCH EASE BY FOUR MEN AS THE WINDLASS NOW IN USE CAN BE BY SEVEN; AS ALSO A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR WHEEL, FOR THE MORE EASY WORKING OF SHIPS' PUMPS, WHEREBY AS MUCH WATER MAY BE RAISED BY TWO MEN IN THE SAME SPACE OF TIME AS IS NOW DONE BY THE LABOUR OF FOUR MEN WITH THE COMON PUMPS NOW IN) USE; WHICH SAID INVENTIONS I DID HUMBLY APPREHEND WOULD BE OF GREAT SERVICE TO THE NAVIGATING PART OF THIS KINGDOM
Year: 1755

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, STEPHEN
WRIGHT, of North Sheilds, in the County of Northumberland, Master and
Mariner, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Stephen Wright, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, that I, the
said Stephen Wright, had, by great labour and application, and at a consi-
derable expence, invented and brought to perfection "A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE
OR WINDLASS, FOR THE MORE EASY WEIGHING A SHIP'S ANCHOR AT SEA, WHICH IS
WORKED WITH AS MUCH EASE BY FOUR MEN AS THE WINDLASS NOW IN USE CAN
BE BY SEVEN; AS ALSO A NEW-INVENTED MACHINE OR WHEEL, FOR THE MORE EASY
WORKING OF SHIPS' PUMPS, WHEREBY AS MUCH WATER MAY BE RAISED BY TWO
MEN IN THE SAME SPACE OF TIME AS IS NOW DONE BY THE LABOUR OF FOUR
MEN WITH THE COMON PUMPS NOW IN) USE; WHICH SAID INVENTIONS I DID
HUMBLY APPREHEND WOULD BE OF GREAT SERVICE TO THE NAVIGATING PART OF
THIS KINGDOM;" and in regard I was the sole Inventor of the said machines, I
did therefore, by my said Petition, most humbly pray Ilis Majesty to grant unto
me, the said Stephen Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial lycence for the sole making and vending my said Invention, for the
term of fourteen years, in such manner as to me, the said Stephen Wright,
my executors, adñiors, and assigns, should seem meet, and that I, the said
Stephen Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, might have and
receive the whole benefit and advantage arising by my said Invention during
the said term; Ilis said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and inventions which may be for the publick good, did graciously vouchsafe

page_text: to condescend to my request, and by His Letters Patent, under His Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of April,
in the twenty-eighth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said
Stephen Wright, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Stephen Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
by myself and themselves, or by our deputy or deputys, workmen, servants,
or agents, or such others as I or they should at any time agree with, and no
others, should and might lawfully make, use, exercise, and vend my said
Invention within that part of Great Britain called England, His said Majesty's
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said Stephen Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or to
any of us, should seem meet, to have, hold, use, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and authorities, unto me, the said Stephen Wright,
my executors, adññiors, and assigns, from the date of the said Letters Patent
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from thence
next ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Stephen Wright, by a
writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four kalendar months next after the date of the said Letters
Patent, particularly to describe the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, otherwise the said Letters Patent, and
all powers and priviledges thereby granted, should cease, determine, and
become utterly void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, before in effect
recited (referrence being thereunto hal) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Stephen Wright, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention of
the said machines, and the manner in which the same are performed, is parti-
cularly described in two several Drafts or Plans of the same machines, with
their respective explanations hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Stephen Wright, have hereunto, as also
to the Plan hereunto annexed, set my hand and seal, this First day of
July, in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King George the
Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fifty-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said First day of July, the afore-
said Stephen Wright came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above said. And also the said Writing was stampt
according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.

page_text: The ends of the windless.
on
The two Carrick Bitts in which is fixed two iron sockets in which the axis move and on which are fixed four iron pawls
each barrick Bitt which catches at every sixteenth part of the windless circumference in a strong iron wheel cut in 16 notches
and fixed on the windless.
· The Pawl Bitt on which are; fixed four wood pawls of which catches at every eighth part of the circumference of the windlass
and one at every 16 part.
Are two iron wheels fixed on each end of the body of the windless and each is cut in 16 notches for Pawls to fall in
are four iron pauls two of which are fixed on the inside of each Carrick Bitts.
Is four wood pawls fixed on the pawle Bitts.
Is the Cable which has three turns round the Body of the windless and
d gose through the haws hole and so to the Anchor.
Is the Haws hole in which is fixed a howler on which the Cable run and thereby take of the friction
Is the wheel with Spookes at each end round which the Figger Is winds to hold the Cable and serves to heave up the Anchor by?
the Catt and warping the ship Fe
Is the Stancient in the Bericad on which the Axis of the wheel is fixed.
! Is a wheel with eight spookes with iron axis of a 1/2 inch diameter.
Is the Barratt of the wheel whose circumference is divided into 48 parts by boggs on which is paced the spears of the upper
pump boxes
Are two Rowlers about 18 inch diameter fixed so as to keep the spears close to the Barrel of the wheel
Is a cistern which receives the water thrown up by the pumps.
: Is two spouts from the Cistern and goes through the Ships side to empty the water into the Sea.
Is two pump spears with a number of holes at equal distance from each other so as to fit exactly on the logs on the
Barrel of the wheel.
Gr. Is the Upper Spear Boxes made of Brass.
g
Is two valves of brass screwed on the inside of the pumpes and serves instead of lower boxes
Is two Cilinder pumps of equal bore from the top to the bottom N.B.
NB. Where the Spookes are not convenient we fix pendulam on the axis of the wheel.