A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR THE GRINDING OF COLOURS, TO BE VSED IN ALL KINDS OF PAINTINGS, ALSO FOR GRINDING OF LOOKING GLASS, CHOCOLATE, AND POLISHING OF MARBLE, &C., POUNDING AND SIFTING OF COLOURS, OAB, AND ALL HARD SUBSTANCES, OR OTHER THINGS VSUALLY GROUND WITH A MULLER ON A FLATT STONE, BY MOCON IN THE MECHANICKS, EXACTLY IMITATING THOSE OF THE HAND; THAT THE SAID MACHINE HAS MET WITH A GENERALL APPROBACON FOR ITS VSEFULLNESS AND ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLICK, IN SUPPLYING AT CHEAP AND MODERATE RATES ALL CITIES, TOWNS, AND OTHER PLACES WITH COLOURS &c.
Year: 1718

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved MARSHALL SMITH, Gentleman, hath
by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that he hath by his own study and
pains, expence of much time and great charges, found out and invented
"A NEW MACHINE OR ENGINE FOR THE GRINDING OF COLOURS, TO BE VSED IN ALL
KINDS OF PAINTINGS, ALSO FOR GRINDING OF LOOKING GLASS, CHOCOLATE, AND
POLISHING OF MARBLE, &C., POUNDING AND SIFTING OF COLOURS, OAB, AND ALL HARD
SUBSTANCES, OR OTHER THINGS VSUALLY GROUND WITH A MULLER ON A FLATT STONE,
BY MOCON IN THE MECHANICKS, EXACTLY IMITATING THOSE OF THE HAND; THAT
THE SAID MACHINE HAS MET WITH A GENERALL APPROBACON FOR ITS VSEFULLNESS
AND ADVANTAGE TO THE PUBLICK, IN SUPPLYING AT CHEAP AND MODERATE RATES
ALL CITIES, TOWNS, AND OTHER PLACES WITH COLOURS, &c.," and having humbly
prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the said Invenčon,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts
and inventions which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especiall
grace, certain knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
Marshall Smith, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Marshall Smith,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such

page_text: others as he, the said Marshall Smith, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
'Tweed, his said new Invenčon, as is above described, in such manner as to him,
the said Marshal Smith, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any
of them, shall in their discretions seem meet: And that he, the said Marshal
Smith, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and
enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invenčon for and
dureing the full term of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages heroin-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Marshall Smith, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end
and term of fourteen yeares from the date of these prente next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided: And to the end that the said Marshall Smith, 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 gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wec 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 subjects
whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or condicon soever
they be, within that part of our said Kingdome of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, that neither they or any of thein, at any time during the continuance of
the said term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do
make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part of the same
so attained vnto by the said Marshal Smith as aforesaid, nor shall in anywise
counterfeit, imitute, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made
any addičon thereto or substraccon 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 Marshal Smith, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand and seals 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 command; and further, to be answerable to the said Marshall Smith, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their

page_text: damages thereby occasioned: And, moreover, wee do by these Presents; for
vs, our heires, and successors, will and command all and singular our justices
of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, 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 Marshal Smith, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawfull
making, vse, or exercise of the aforesaid invenčon or any thing relating
thereto Provided always, and these our Letters Patente are and shall be
vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it
shall be made appear to vs, our heires, or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or
inconvenient to our subjecte in generall, or that the said Invention is not
a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within that part of
our said 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 Marshall Smith as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaračon
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires, or successors, vnder our or their signet
or privy seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Councill, 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 in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also,
that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Marshall Smith, his
executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented
by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised
within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom
like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Marshall Smith, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every
other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall
Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these Presents: And,
lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires, and successors, grant vnto
the said Marshal Smith, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these

page_text: our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificaton thereof, shall be
in and by all things good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaneing hereof, and shall be taken, con-
strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the best
advantage of the said Marshal Smith, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within
that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every
the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of
the said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe, at Westminster, the Twenty-third