AN IMPROVED HORSE BOOT, FOR THE PRESER- VATION OF SOUND AND THE RESTORATION OF CONTRACTED Hoors
Year: 1812

page_text: ALL
PURDEN, of the City of Lichfield, Saddler, send greeting.
RANCI
WHEREAS I, the said Francis Purden, have, after much labour, study, and
expence, found out and invented AN IMPROVED HORSE BOOT, FOR THE PRESER-
VATION OF SOUND AND THE RESTORATION OF CONTRACTED Hoors;" that I was the
first and true Inventor thereof; and that the same has never been made or
used by any other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief.
And whereas, on representing the same to His present Majesty King George
the Third, His said Majesty, by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster
the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the fifty-second year of His reign,
hath given and granted unto me, the said Francis Purden, my exors, adñiors,
and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Francis Purden, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants, or
agents, or such others as I, the said Francis Purden, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that
part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Francis Purden, my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of
them, should in my or their discretions seem meet; and it is by the said
Letters Patent provided, that if I, the said Francis Purden, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in

page_text: what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent, that then those Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Purden, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained in the Plans or Drawings hereunto annexed, and the following
description, that is to say :--
A piece of strong leather (No. 1), vandyked at top, to allow the boot to be
drawn tight to the horse's foot by the strap (a), No. 5, which passes through
the loops 6 in the projecting part of the boot (c), is cut out in the form repre-
sented in No. 1. Upon that is sewed, by two strong leathern strings d, in
No. 5, the sponge No. 2. This leather and sponge are sewed, with a strong
hempen thread, waxed in the manner represented in No. 5 e, to a piece of
strong leather (No. 3), called the sole of the boot, which is also lined with a
sponge (f), about the size of and to cover the frog of the horse's foot, fastened
to the said sole by a strong leather string. To one end of the strap (a) is
fitted a buckle (9); and the sponges being filled with water, and the horse's
foot inserted in the boot, the latter, by the strap and buckle, is fastened to
the foot. No. 4 represents the sole of the boot without the frog sponge.
The advantage of my Invention consists in preserving the hoofs of horses
moist, as in the natural state, and thus preventing the diseases of contracted
heels, corns, sand cracks, running thrushes, and brittleness of the hoof,
which are principally occasioned by keeping horses in stables standing on dry
litter.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Purden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Sigued, sealed, and delivered by the
within-named Francis Purden, in the
presence of
FRA (L.S.) PURDEN.
THOMAS RUTTED.
W* GILL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1812, the aforesaid Francis Purden came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.