A CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF METAL, WHICH HATH NOT HITHERTO BEEN NOR IS AT THIS TIME PREPARED BY ANY OTHERS, AND WHICH, BY ITS FIRMNESS AND COMPACTNESS, 18 PITTER FOR CANNON AND OTHER FIRE-ARMS THAN ANY HITHERTO MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND WHICH THEY ALSO REFINE TO THAT DEGREE THAT IT IS BETTER SUITED FOR MOST UTENSILS THAN ANY OTHER METAL (GOLD AND SILVER ONLY EXCEPTED)
Year: 1749

page_text: GEORGE THE BECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to
presents shall come greeting.
theso
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved MATHEW MOORE, of the Parish of
Saint James, in our County of Middlesex, and CHARLES SIGISMUND STARK, of
the same Parish, Gentlemen, have by their petition humbly represented unto
us, that they have with great application and expence invented and found out
"A CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF METAL, WHICH HATH NOT HITHERTO BEEN NOR IS
AT THIS TIME PREPARED BY ANY OTHERS, AND WHICH, BY ITS FIRMNESS AND
COMPACTNESS, 18 PITTER FOR CANNON AND OTHER FIRE-ARMS THAN ANY HITHERTO
MADE USE OF FOR THAT PURPOSE, AND WHICH THEY ALSO REFINE TO THAT DEGREE
THAT IT IS BETTER SUITED FOR MOST UTENSILS THAN ANY OTHER METAL (GOLD
AND SILVER ONLY EXCEPTED) ;" and the petitioners humbly apprehending this
Invention will be of great use to the publick, they have therefore humbly
prayed we would be pleased, for the encouragement of such inventions, to
grant our Royal Letters Patent for making and casting the said compound
metal to the petitioners and their assigns for the term of fourteen years; we,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which
may be for the public good, are graciously pleased to condescend to their
request.
KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that we, of our especial grace, certain knowledge,
and meer motion, have given and granted and by these Presents, for us, our
heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said Mathew Moore and
Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, adñiors, and assigns, our especia

page_text: licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Mathew
Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy
or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as thoy, the said Mathew Moore
and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, adiñors, or assigns, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter, during
the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, use, exercise,
and vend their said Invention within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to them, the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund
Stark, their executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, shall in their
discretions seem meet; and that they, the said Mathew Mooro and Charles Sigis-
mund Stark, their executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention
for and during the term of years herein mentioned; to have hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Matthew Moore and
Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of
these Presents 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 they,
the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, admors,
and assigns, and every of them, may have and enjoy the full benefit and tho
sole use and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gracious intention
berein-before declared, we do by these Presents, for us, our heirs 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,
degree, name, or condition soever they be within that said part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they nor any of them, at any time
during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, do make, use, or put in practice the said Invention
or any part of the same so attained unto by the said Mathew Moore and
Charles Sigismund Stark as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent,
or agreement of the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark, their

page_text: executors, administrators, or assigns, in writing under his or their hands and
seals first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains and penalties
as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this
our royal command; and further to be answerable to the said Mathew
Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, and
assigns, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned;
and, moreover, we do by these Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, will
and command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriff's,
bailiffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatso-
ever of us, our heirs and successors, for the time being, that they or any of
them do not nor shall at any time hereafter, during the term hereby granted,
in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Mathew Moore and Charles
Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them,
or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawful
use or exercise of the aforesaid invention or anything relating thereto. Pro-
vided always, and these our Letters Patent are and shall be upon this condition,
that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be made
appear to us, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of our or their
privy council, that this our grant is contrary to law or prejudicial or incon-
venient to our subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a new
invention as to the publick use and exercise in that said part of our King-
dom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed àforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said
Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark as aforesaid, then upon
signification or declaration thereof to be made by us, our heirs or successors,
under our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of. our or
their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, under their hands, these
our Letters Patent shall forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void
to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also, that these our Letters
Patent, or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend
to give privilege unto the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark,
their executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate
any Invention or work whatsoever which bath heretofore been found out or in-
vented by any other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised
in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, unto whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted for the sole use, exercise, and
benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Mathew Moore

page_text: and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, and assigns, and
all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patent or privi-
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinetly use and practice
their several Inventions by them invented and found out according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patent, and of these Pre-
sents; provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patent are upon
this express condition, that if the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund
Stark, their executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall
or may at any time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant,
have or claim any right, title, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the
power, priviledge, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Inven-
tion hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment of the said liberty
and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall
declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any book or books for
publick subscriptions, to be made by any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, in order to the raising any sum or sums of money under pre-
tence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall by
him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants, receive any sum or sums
of money whatsoever of any number of persons exceeding in the whole the
number of five, for such or the like intents or purposes, or shall presumo to
act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these our Letters Patent,
or the liberty and priviledges hereby by us granted into any number of shares
exceeding the number of five, or shall committ or do or procure to be com-
mitted or done act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such
person or persons shall have any right or title either in law or equity in or to
the said premises which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning
of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of the reign of our late
Royal Father King George the First, intituled (An Act for the better
securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Majesty
by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for
lending Money upon Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and
unwarrantable Practices therein mentioned), or in case the said power, privilege,
or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust for more
than the number of five persons or their representatives at any one time
(reckoning executors or administrators, as and for the single person whom
they represent, as to such interest as they are or shall be entitled to in
right of their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said cases
these our Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever hereby

page_text: granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also,
that if the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and cause
the same to be inrolled in our High Court of Chancery, within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of these our Letters Patent, that
then these our Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
And lastly, we do by these Presents, for us, our heirs and successors, grant
unto the said Mathew Moore and Charles Sigismund Stark, their executors,
administrators, and assigns, that these our Letters Patent or the inrollment
or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid,
sufficient, and effectual in the law according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and
beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Mathew Moore and Charles
Sigismund Stark, their executors, administrators, and assigns, as well in all
our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors, in that part of our said
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects of us
our heirs, and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not
full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention or
of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness, &c., the First day of July, in the Twenty-third