Specification of Peter Davey : preparation of coal for fuel.

  • Davey, Peter.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of Peter Davey : preparation of coal for fuel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Preparation of Coal for Fuel. DAVEY’S SPECIFICATION. i TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Peter Davey, of Old Swan Wharf, Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Coal Merchant, send greeting. WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, 5 by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, bearing date at West¬ minster the Eighteenth day of October, in the second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Peter Davey, my exors, adhiors, and assigns. His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said 10 Peter Davey, my exors, admors, and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of “An Improved Preparation of Coal for Fuel ; ” in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Peter Davey, shall not particularly 15 describe and asccertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties 20 and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.