neer; for a machine for the purpose of finishing, glazing, and glossing of leather. March 7.
To Marc Isambard Brunel, of Chelsea; for certain improvements on circular saws for sawing wood in an easy and expeditious manner. March 14.
To Henry Maudslay, of Margaret-street, Cavendishsquare, mechanist; for a machine for printing calicoes and other articles. March 14.
To Bryan Donkin, of Fort Place, Bermondsey, gent. ; for a pen upon a new construction. March 14.
To George Nathaniel Pollard, of Queen-street, Southwark, lapidary; for certain improvements in machinery for grinding, smoothing, and polishing plate and other glass for looking-glasses, mirrors, and various other articles. March 14.
To Edward Weeks, of Llaveny Hall, in the parish of HenJau and county of Denbigh, in North Wales, gardener; for a forcing-frame on a new and improved construction, for raising and forcing of cucumbers, melons, strawberries, and other fruits and plants. March 17.
To Anthony Thomas, of Duke-street, St. James's; for a method of manufacturing hats, bonnets, and other articles of the like description. March 26.
To Benjamin Cook, of Birmingham, manufacturer; for a new method of making barrels for fowling-pieces, muskets, pistols, and other similar fire-arms, and ram rods for the same. March 26.
To John Dickson, of Edward-street, Southwark, engineer; for an improved method of constructing cocks for stopping fluids, and which cocks by one motion or operation will permit such fluids to pass in different directions. March 29.
To Charles Dibdin, of Cranford, in the county of Middlesex, gent.; for his method of facilitating the learning of music. April 9.
To Daniel Dering Matthew, of Upper Marylebone-street, in the county of Middlesex, esq.; for certain improvements. in the construction of watches and chronometers. April 27.
To William Chapman, of the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, civil engineer; for his methods of con