Patent of Roberte Lindsey and John Hobart : consuming smoke.

  • Lindsey, Roberte.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Patent of Roberte Lindsey and John Hobart : consuming smoke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1636 .N“ 93. . * Consuming Smoke. ' LINDSEY AND HOBART’S PATENT. CHARLES, by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Fayeth, &c., to all to whome theise p*sentf shall come, greeting. ( WHEREAS our welbeloved subiectf Roberts Lindsey, Esquier, and Iohn 5.Hobart, Gentleman, by theire bumble peticon to vs exhibited, have informed , vs that they, observinge howe greate annoyeance the foulenes of smoake by coale and other fewell in brewehouses and dyehouses and the like doeth daylie bringe to our subiectf in and aboute our citties of London and Westminster ; and other populous places, whereby the ayre is corrupted and diseases occa- 10 sioned thereby, and discerning alsoe what greate charges brewers, dyers, chandlers, cookes, soapeboylers, hattmakers, and all those which vse .boylers, caldrons, coppers, or furnaces are putt vntojby the often reneweing of such / theire vessellf, and alsoe theire expensive charge in fire vnnecessarily expended * in the same, they, the saide Roberte Lindsey and Iohn Hobarte, by theire 15 Industrie and charge have invented and found out “ANewe Way to Avoide THE SAIDE Annoyeance op Smoake, and aisoe to Preserve the saide Caldrons, Coppers, Boylers, Furnaces, and the like, that they shall laste much longer THEN NOWE THEY DOE ATT HaLFE THE CHARGES OR THEREABOUTf EITHER OP FiRE OR t VESSELLf ;** and whereas the saide peticoners, in recompence of this theire In- 20 vencon and theire expences in attayninge therevnto, have humbly besoughte vs to bee graciously pleased to graunt vnto them our Lres Pattentf of Priviledge for the sole vsinge of theire saide Invencon within our realmes of England,