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houses, theatres, hospitals, prisons, shippings, conserva- 
tories, green-houses, hot houses, and every other kind 
of building, air- and water-tight, as.far as relates to 
the glazing, by means of a lap made of copper or any 
other inetal or semi-metal prepared by machinery for that 
purpose.—Mlarch 22. 
To Robert Bill, of Rathbone-place, in the ‘county of 
Middlesex, esq. for his machine or apparatus to facilitate 
the operation of washing clothes, and other processes ne- 
cessary in family and other establishments. —March 26. 
To Robert Wornum the younger, of Princes-street} 
Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, piano forte- 
maker, for his improved upright piano forte.—March 26. 
To Joseph C. Dyer, of Boston, State of Massachusetts, 
one of the United States, but now residing in the city of 
London, merchant, for his new and improved methods of 
splitting hides, and shaving or splitting leather.—March 26. 
To John Craigie, of the city of Bath, and county of 
Somerset, esq. for his improvements on waggons, carts, 
and other wheel carriages, whereby friction may be saved, 
labour facilitated, and a greater degree of safety obtained. 
—March 26. 
_ To Ann Hazledine, of Bridgenorth, in the county of 
Salop, widow of John Hazledine, of Bridgenorth afore- 
said, engineer, deceased, that she, in consequence of a 
discovery communicated to her by her said husband, is be- 
come possessed of an invention of certain improvements 
in a plough for the cultivation of Jland.—March 26. 
To John Rose, of Folkestone, in the county of Kent, a 
lieutenant in our navy, and Thomas Chapman, of Gough- 
square, in the city of London, gentleman, for their new 
means of conveying vessels of any burthen through the 
water without the assistance of oars or satls.—March 96. 
To Samuel Kerrod, of Reading, in the county of Berks, 
plasterer, for his cement and a size for plastering and stuc- 
coing walls, setting and whitening ceilings, and running and 
whitening cornices, and colours to be laid on the stucco, 
as well in oils as distemper, the whole of which is intended 
for the finishing the inside of houses. —March 26, 
To James Bell, of Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel, sugar 
refiner, for certain improvements in the manner of cutting, 
shaving, or scraping sugar loaves and lumps, and of pul- 
verizing or reducing to small grains or powder, sugar loaves, 
lumps, and bastard sugar.—March 26. 
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