AN IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND FENCING WALLS
Year: 1849

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
TAYLOR, of No. 22, Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster, Architect,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eighth day of February, in the twelfth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Taylor, Her especial license that I, the said John Taylor, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Taylor, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney,
Sark, and Man, and also in all Her Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND FENCING WALLS;"
and whereas after the granting of the said Letters Patent the fiat of Her
Majesty's Solicitor General was obtained for disclaiming the words "and
Fencing" in the Title of the said Invention, so that the Invention is now
called in the said Letters Patent "An Improved Mode of Constructing Walls;"
and whereas in the said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said John Taylor, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be perforined, and to cause the same to be

page_text: weight of the superstructure upon it, without necessarily weighting the under
surface or lower bed of the facing block, and thus its flushing off is prevented
And lastly, I am enabled to prevent the evils arising from the unequal settle-
ment of the horizontal mortar joints, which are more numerous in the brick or
other work than in the facing.
And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief
entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty's
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her Domi-
nion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in the Islands of
Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, nor in any of Her Majesty's
Colonies or Plantations abroad, I do hereby declarethis to be my Speci-
fication of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification
doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the
proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained;
wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
JOHN
(L.8.) TAYLOR.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid John Taylor came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her 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 stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to JOHN TAYLOR, of No. 22,
Parliament Street, Westminster, Architect, for his Invention of "AN
IMPROVED MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND FENCING WALLS," and bearing
date at Westminster, the Eighth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine.
DISCLAIMER entered by the said John Taylor, pursuant to the Provisions
of an Act, passed in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of His late
Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled "An Act to amend the
Law touching Letters Patent for Inventions."
I, the said John Taylor, do hereby declare that since the granting of the
said Letters Patent I have discovered that an error has been made in the
Title of the said Invention in the said Letters Patent, by the addition of the
words "and Fencing" in the said Title, and for this reason I, the said John
Taylor, do hereby disclaim the words "and Fencing" in the said Title of the
said Invention in the said Letters Patent.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Taylor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.
To the Clerk of the Patents of England.
JOHN TAYLOR. (L.S.)
This is to certify, that the above-named John Taylor, of No. 22, Parliament
Street, Westminster, Architect, has applied to me for leave to enter with you
the above-written Disclaimer of part of the Title of a certain Invention for
which Letters Patent were duly granted to him under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, dated at Westminster, the Eighth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine; and having considered of the said application,
and no objection having been made to the same, I hereby grant leave to the
said John Taylor to file his said Disclaimer, pursuant to the Statute passed
in the fifth & sixth years of the reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth, entituled "An Act to amend the Law touching Letters Patent
for Inventions."

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1849, the aforesaid John Taylor came before our said Lady
the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Disclaimer aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Disclaimer aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.