A METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ATTACHING TROWSERS AND GAITERS TO BOOTS ANDSHOES
Year: 1822

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, THOMAS
ROGERS, of Store Street, Bedford Square, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, tho Twenty-sixth day of December 1822, in the third
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Rogers, my
exors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority that I, the said Thomas Rogers, my exors, adñors, and assigns,
during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD OR APPARATUS FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ATTACHING TROWSERS AND GAITERS TO BOOTS AND SHOES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Thomas Rogers, shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
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 His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine, and become void, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
bad) will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: cut in the trowsers and other the like articles of dress, and which I have here-
tofore found quite sufficient to secure my said Invention as so applied to
them. Now, there are various modes of attaching my said Invention as
applied to the lower parts of trowsers, or to gaiters, or other the like articles of
dress, as by sewing, or hooks, or otherwise, though I prefer the manners herein-
before described, as being with three studs in one application, and sewing in the
other. The shape, as to ornament and size, of my said Invention also is not
of importance, nor the exact material or materials of which it is composed.
But a spring attached to the lower part or parts of trowsers, or other the like
articles of dress, whereby they are attached to a strap under the foot or other-
wise, and a spring attached to gaiters in manuer aforesaid, being to the best of
my knowledge and belief entirely new and never before used in these
Kingdom, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and
I do verily believe this said Specification does in all respects, fully and
without reserve or disguise, comply with the said proviso in the said in part
recited Letters Patent contained, whereby I propose to maintain an exclusive
right and privilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Rogers, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.
THOMAS (L.S.) ROGERS.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1823, the aforesaid Thomas Rogers 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
Statuta made for that m
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.