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, and I am perſuaded, nearly, in the ſame words.

His Lordſhip ſaid, the Law demanded, that every individual to whom the King, in his wiſdom, granted a monopoly, ſhould, in writing, and otherwiſe if neceſſary, make a full diſcloſure of his invention, moſt candidly and unreſervedly; and in that inſtrument called his ſpecification inſure to the public the true knowledge and uſe thereof, in the plaineſt and moſt deſcriptive manner he was able, at the time he enrolled his ſaid ſpecification; keeping nothing back, or adding any thing ambiguous or unneceſſary. And farther his Lordſhip obſerved, that, provided the patentee had ſpecified any matter or thing in his detail, that would anſwer the intended purpoſe; and afterwards, to create ambiguity, inſerted others that would not anſwer, he did thereby miſlead the public; and that ſuch a ſpecification with all others defective as above, ſhould never meet with his ſanction, His Lordſhip alſo ſignified his opinion, that on matters which had previouſly been a property of the public, improvement only ſhould be the object of a petition to the King; and if in this part of it any more was included, he was deceived into a compliance of granting what was already