A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT ON ALL CARRIAGES, COACHES, CHAISES, CARTS, &C., BUT ESPECIALLY CARRIAGES WITH TWO WHEELS, CONSISTING OF A NEW-INVENTED LOCK OR DRAG, THAT ACTS IN A SUPERIOR MANNER TO ANYTHING HITHERTO USED OR KNOWN,
Year: 1788

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, JOHN
ISHERWOOD, of Farr House, in the Township of Grindleton, in the West
Riding of the County of York, Yeoman, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Isherwood, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His Majesty that, after very great labour and expence, I had found
out and invented "A CERTAIN IMPROVEMENT ON ALL CARRIAGES, COACHES, CHAISES,
CARTS, &C., BUT ESPECIALLY CARRIAGES WITH TWO WHEELS, CONSISTING OF A
NEW-INVENTED LOCK OR DRAG, THAT ACTS IN A SUPERIOR MANNER TO ANYTHING
HITHERTO USED OR KNOWN," and that the same had never been invented by any
other person; I therefore most humbly prayed His Majesty that he would
be graciously pleased to grant to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His Majesty's Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
for the sole benefit and advantage of my said Invention, within England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that case made and provided; and
whereas by the said Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date the Twelfth day of September, in the twenty-eighth year of the
reign of His said Majesty, after reciting the said Petition, and also reciting
that His Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inven-
tions which might be for the public good, was graciously pleased to condescend
to my request, His Majesty, of His especial grace, certain knowlege, and
mere motion, did, for Himself, His beirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Isherwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His

page_text: special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John
Isherwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as I, the said John Isherwood, my executors, administrators,
and 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 His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said John Isherwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or any of them, should in my or their discretions seem meet, and that I, the
said John Isherwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
might lawfully have and enjoy the whole benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John
Isherwood, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing and fully to be complete and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Isherwood,
should 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 one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of those His Majesty's Letters Patent, that then
His said Majesty's Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Isherwood, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describle and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention in manner following, that is to say:
The several Drawings hereupon delineated, marked Fig. 1, Fig. 2, are so
many sections, in which are displayed the nature and use of the machinery in
my Invention, the particulars of which they consist being as follows, viz:--
A, A, two wheels, which are made use of in all carriages. B, the axis. C, a
stay fixed to the axis at one end, the other to the machine or drag. D, the
wheel of the machine. E, E, E, E, the cheeks. F, F, are two spurs rivetted

page_text: to each cheek. G, G, are two bars across, which unites the cheeks together.
H, H, H, H, are the two chains which go round the fellow of the wheel,
see Fig 2. I, I, are the two slip links, which fastens the chains round the
fillow of the wheel. K is the finger of the slip link. L, L, L, L, are loops,
by which the chains are fastened to the cheeks. N, the axis of the drag
wheel. O, O, are the two rivets that go through the face of the wheel to
secure it.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seal, this
Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-eight, 1788.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that upon the oath of Robert Hilton, the
Instrument aforesaid was inrolled, word for word, as the same is above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
several Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
and twenty-third years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Second day of October, in the year above written.