Vicars and Smith's Patent Act 1879
WHEREAS by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the twenty-second day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, Her Majesty did give and grant unto Thomas Vicars the elder and Thomas Vicars the younger (since deceased), of Liverpool in the county of Lancaster, and James Smith, of the same place, (herein-after referred to as the Patentees), their executors, administrators, ...