Patent of Roberte Lindsey and John Hobarte : heating ovens and coppers with coals.

  • Lindsey, Roberte.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Patent of Roberte Lindsey and John Hobarte : heating ovens and coppers with coals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A.D. 1636 .N94. Heating Ovens and Coppers with Coals.. LINDSEY AND HOBARTE’S PATENT. CHAELES, by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, Defender of the Fayeth, &c., to all to whome theise psentf shall come, greetinge. WHEREAS our welbeloved subiectf Roberte Lindsey, Esquier, and Iohn 5 Hobarte, Gentleman, by theire humble peticon to vs exhibited, have informed vs that the contynuall and greate expence of bavin, vnderwood, standellf, and the like, beeing consumed and wasted by bakers and cookes, hath occasioned and daylie bring \\to this and other our kingdomes and domynions much waste and decaye of wood and tymber, besides daunger, which many tymes 10 happens to themselves and others by fires seizing on theire stackf and pyles > of fewell. They, the saide Robert Lindsey and Iohn Hobarte, by theire industrie and charge, have invented “A Newe Way whereby soe Greate Expence op Wood may bee saved, and the Daunger aforesaide prevented, by VsE OF Seacoales, Peate, Turfe, or any other Fewell, with much lesse Expence 15 THEREOF THEN HATH BEENE VSED, NOE FiRE NOR SmOAKE COMING INTO THE OVENS, AND YET THEIRE BaKEING, RoASTING, AND BOYLING SHALBEE SwEETE, AND ATT PARRE LESSE Charges then they nowe are att.” And whereas the said peticouers, in recompence of this theire Invencon and theire expences in attayninge there- vnto, have humbly besoughte vs to bee graciously pleased to graunte vnto 20 them our Lfes Pattentf of Priviledge for the sole vse of the saide Invencons within our kingdomes of England, Ireland, domynions of Wales, and towne of Barwicke, for the terme of fourteene yeares, accordinge to the lawes and statutes of this realme.