IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING DEVICES UPON LACE NET
Year: 1832

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
FREEMAN, of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucester, Lace Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the second year
of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said George Freeman, His especial licence, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said George Freeman, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Freeman, my exors, admors, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY POR
ORNAMENTING AND PRODUCING DEVICES UPON LACE NET;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said George Freeman, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Freeman, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists in obtaining certain movements to an ordinary
traverse warp machine by certain additions thereto, whereby I am enabled, by
separating certain of the warp threads in a traverse warp machine (in making
what is called bobbin net quillings), to cause the machine to work in such
manner that such warp threads are alternately caused to act as spotting
threads, and then to work as the common warp threads for making the plain
part of the lace, by which means the lace thus produced has a better finish,
and the operation of cutting the parts of the spotting threads from spot
to spot, as is the present practice, is rendered unnecessary; in addition to
which, the number of threads according to my improvements for making a
given width of lace is lessened by the number of threads heretofore used for
spotting threads. Supposing the width of the intended lace was to consist
of one hundred warp threads, and it was desired to have a spot to every fifth
thread; there would then be twenty additional threads on separate spools or
bobbins, making in the whole one hundred and twenty threads. According
to the old plan, these spotting threads are passed through guides in the
spotting bars, as is well understood by lace-makers, but these spotting threads
are only brought into action at the times when it is desired to make the spots;
at other times they are not being worked into the lace, but the plain lace is
formed by the warp threads; consequently the threads from spot to spot
require to be cut off, otherwise there would be a thread showing from spot to
spot; which would hang loose; but by my improvements for making a similar
width of lace the additional spotting threads are dispensed with, and a like
number of threads are taken from the warp, which, as before observed, act
both as spotting threads and warp threads. The traverse warp machine
being well understood, and as it only requires a very slight alteration, by
the addition of certain wheels for giving certain additional motions to the
ordinary spotting bars, it will not be necessary to describe the manner itself;
but I will confine myself to the description of such additions, and the motions
produced, referring generally to the manner of working the machinery so as to
produce the object of my Invention.
In order that my Invention may be fully described and ascertained, I will
proceed to describe the means I pursue in order to obtain the objects of my

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Invention. I will suppose. myself placed in front of an ordinary traverse warp
machine, which is fitted up with spotting bars, as if it were intended to make
spotted lace according to the old means above mentioned. To this machine, I
apply certain wheels, which are represented in the drawings as follows:-On to
the dividing bar is affixed an axle or spindle of the spotting wheels, and these
move together with the dividing bar, as will be fully described hereafter. The
axle of the spotting wheel is about three inches long, and is affixed near the
right-hand end of the dividing bar, as is the case with the axle which was
formerly used for the wheel heretofore employed for driving the spotting.
bars. On this axle is placed five wheels, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and
No. 5, in the Drawings, and the wheels are kept apart about three
quarters of an inch, by washers placed on the axle and between the wheels,
and when the wheels are placed on the axle there are
passed through the holes a, a, and the whole are securely held together.
The wheel No. 1, which I call the bottom driving or ratchet wheel, having.
ten teeth, is first placed on the axle on the dividing bar, then a washer
above described, then the wheel No. 2, which is a spotting wheel, and acts
upon the front spotting bar. This spotting wheel has seven rises and seven
falls. Each rise and each fall (with the exception of one fall at finishing of the
spot) is equal to one twenty-fourth part of an inch in height and depth, which
is equal to one space in the dividers, and the one fall at the finishing the spot
is equal to one twelfth part of an inch, which is equal to two spaces in the
dividers. (This is in a twelve point machine.) The wheel No. 3 is also a
spotting wheel, and acts against the back spotting bar, and which wheel has
eight rises and eight falls. Each rise and each fall (with the exception of one
fall at finishing of the spot) is equal to one twenty-fourth part of an inch,
which is equal.to one space in dividers, and the one fall at the finishing of the
spot is equal to one-twelfth part of an inch, which is equal to two spaces in the
dividers. The wheel No. 4 is a driving or ratchet wheel with two teeth, one
tooth on each side opposite each other. The wheel No. 5 or top wheel is
also a driving or ratchet wheel with twelve teeth in it. What is meant by
driving wheels are those wheels which are actuated by drivers from the
machinery, as hereafter described, and their being driven round cause the
spotting wheels to turn, and thus give the requisite movements to the spotting
bars, as will be fully described hereafter. The driver which drive the top
driving wheel is about twelve in. long, and is connected to one end of a lever,
which is suspended from a fulcrum from the top cross bar at the end of the
machine, and to the other end of the lever is connected an iron rod, which descends
down towards the floor, and is connected at bottom to a piece of iron which acts

page_text: as a treadle, it moving on a joint at one end, and is occasionally depressed by the
tooth of a wheel hereafter mentioned, by which the iron rod is brought down,
and with it that end of the lever to which it is connected, and thus the lever
elevates the driver of the top driving wheel one tooth each time the rod is
acted on, if there be a tooth in the way of the driver, otherwise it makes a
motionless move. The wheel which actuates the iron rod before described is
affixed on the shaft which is usually under the machine, and gives motion to
certain other parts of the machinery, as is well understood. The wheel
contains three ratchet teeth for driving out the points, as is usual, and
six teeth or pins on one side, which move the driver at the proper periods
by the six pins successively actuating on the driver of the top driving
wheel. The middle driver is about twelve inches long, and is similarly
affixed to that last described, and as close to the top driver as possible;
but in place of the iron rod which actuates the driver being actuated by the
wheel on the shaft of the machine, the piece of iron which acts as a treadle
is actuated by its being connected to the front and back joint cross bars, and
is actuated by their movement, which raise up the part which acts as a treadle
about one inch each move, and thus drives the spotting wheels one tooth at
each movement, when there is a tooth on this driving wheel to be acted on
by the driver, otherwise the driver makes a movement without driving
the spotting wheels. The driver to the bottom wheel is about six inches
long, and is affixed on an axle connected to the joining machine, and when
the cross is effected, the joining machine is moved forward, and drives the.
spotting wheel one tooth. There being twenty-four teeth in the three driving
wheels, they will thus be caused to make one turn by twenty-four effective
movements of the drivers, and will thus cause the spotting wheels to make
one revolution. The dividing points are about five inches long, and are formed
very small at the outer ends for about an inch, as a divider. The other ends are
screwed on to a bar about three quarters of an inch square, which bar is fixed
in a machine similarly constructed to the fork bars is fixed similarly to the
joining machine, and over and as close to the back cross bar as possible, the
dividing points move forward between the warp threads, and project forwards
in front thereof about half an inch, close to the dividers, and one point between
each breadth, to prevent the outside spotting threads when they come to the
selvage from crossing over into the adjoining breadth. These dividing points
are only required to come and remain forward when the spots are being made,
but must go behind the warp threads when the cross is made, and they are
taken back by the back of the cross bar of the joining machine, bearing against
a lever connected with the machine which carries the dividing points, and a catch

page_text: takes hold and retains them back, and then, when the pin machines are worked
up, they strike a lever, and the catch being connected by a rod, and just as the.
pins enter the cross they lift up the catch, and let the dividing points come
forward and pass between the threads at the selvages. Those threads which
are intended to act as spotting threads, in place of being wound on the warp
beam, are placed on separate bobbins or beams. I use four separate bobbins;
two large and two smaller ones. On to the two lesser ones those threads that
are in the middle of a breadth for forming the spots, whilst the two outer
spotting threads, which are next the selvages of each breadth of lace, are put on
the smaller bobbins. By which arrangement I am enabled, by means of the
dividing points, to prevent such outer spotting threads (when they have spotted,
and work out to the selvages) passing into the next breadth, but such threads
work into the spot at the time the other spotting threads are making spots.
The bobbins on which the spotting threads are wound work on an axle about
three feet above the spotting bars, at a convenient distance from each other..
On each of these bobbins there is formed a warve or pulley for a friction cord,
which has a weight suspended, for keeping the thread at a proper tightness;
but as it is desirable to relieve such thread at the time of making the spots,
in order to produce spots with loose threads, otherwise such spots would be
drawn tight and much too close, but by lifting the weights the threads will be
worked into spots whilst loose, and thus allows the spots to spread out and form
themselves properly. In order to produce this lifting of the weights, which act
on those of the warp threads which are passed through the guides in the ordinary
spotting bars, and which act as spotting threads as well as warp threads, about
one foot above the right-hand end of the machine, on bearings, I place an axle,
having affixed thereon two wheels, the one a driving or ratchet wheel, the other
an excentric, as shown in Nos. 6 and 7. The driving or ratchet wheel No. 7
has ten teeth, and the excentric No. 6 (having one rise and one fall) is connected
with No. 7 on the same axle, and comes in contact with one end of a lever,
which lifts the weight. The lever is suspended under the weights which it has
to raise, one end of the lever being broad or spoon like, to receive the weight,
and the other end is acted on and depressed by the revolution of the wheel
No. 7, and thereby raises the weight. These parts are intended for the weight
which acts on the bobbins which contain those of the threads which are the
two outer ones of each breadth. The driver which drives the wheel No. 6 is
connected to the joining machine, and drives the tooth every time a cross or
finishing the hole is effected, the bobbins which contain the other of the
spotting threads being similarly acted on by other similar parts.

page_text: Nos. 8 and 9 represent another driving or ratchet wheel; having ten teeth,
and also another excentric having two rises and two falls, which act on a lever
for raising the weight which presses on the bobbins which contain the other of
the spotting threads. The axle of these is placed in bearings on the left-hand
end of the machine about one foot above the top of the machine. The driving
or ratchet wheel, having ten teeth, which is actuated by a driver, which is at-
tached to the joining machine, and drives the driving ratchet wheel No. 8 one
tooth each motion thereof, or at the time the cross or finishing of the hole is
effected. The lever which raises the weight of these bobbins or beam is
affixed under such weight, and the lever is depressed, and raises the weight
at each motion, as described.
Having now described the various parts of the alterations which are to be made
in an ordinary traverse warp machine, in order to obtain the necessary motion
to the spotting bars, I will now describe the manner of working the machine
in order to obtain the description of the net above mentioned, that is, lace or
net having spots therein. Take every fifth thread out of the warp, and in place
of putting them on the warp beam they are to be put on the separate bobbins
or beams, as before described. These threads I pass through the guides in the
spotting bar, similarly to the old plan for spotting threads as 'heretofore has been
practised, an equal number being placed through the guides in each spotting
bar, and make the threads fast to the lace beam or roller. The workman will
let the wheels No. 6 and 7, 8 and 9, be turned, for the hills or risings,
No. 7 and 9, at each end of the machine, to bear on the levers, to tighten the
spotting threads, and will begin to spot with the carriages and the back comb
bar. Bring the dividing points forward in between the selvage threads. Move
the back comb bar up to make the first twist, and when the carriages have
entered the threads the top driver moves the driving wheel No. 5, and thus
moves the spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3 one tooth, which drives the back
spotting bar one space to the left by the spotting wheel No. 3, and causes the
thread therein to stand behind the front spotting threads which are in the
front spotting bar, and thus enable the carriages to work round them the
second twist, to begin to form the spot. Then move the front comb bar up
to make the second twist, and when the carriages have entered the threads the
top driver moves the spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3 one tooth, which drives
both spotting bars one space to the right, to put the thread in a right position
for the third twist, that is, with one row of the spotting threads, or the contents
of one of the spotting bars, standing directly opposite or in front of the other.
spotting threads of the other spotting bar, and when the two sets of spotting

page_text: threads are thus opposite each other they are passed by the same carriages. Then
move the back comb bar up to make the third twist. In making this third twist
the spotting threads stand opposite the same spaces in the dividers as they did
when the second part was finished. The top driver moves the spotting wheels
one tooth, but there being no rise or fall thereon the spotting bars are not acted
on, and remained unmoved by the spotting wheels. The workman is next to
make the cross or top of the holes or meshes by moving the joining or crossing
machine forward, which will take the dividing points back behind the warp
threads, and turn the spotting bars on their axes, to keep the spotting threads
out of the forks as they come forward to make the cross, and the bottom
driver, by the motion of the joining machine, moves the spotting wheels one
tooth, which drives the first spotting bar one space to the left. The back pin
imachine is then put up, which lifts the catch, and lets the dividing points
come forward and pass between the selvage threads. One half of the spot
is now made, and the back pins have taking them down. Then move the
back (empty) comb bar up, and the second driver moves the spotting wheels
one tooth, which moves the back spotting bar one space to the left, which causes
the back spotting threads to stand directly at the back of the front spotting
threads, for the carriages to work round them. The first twist in this half hole
move the front comb bar up, and when the carriages have entered the thread
the top driver moves the spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3 one tooth of the driving
wheel, which drives both spotting bars to the right. To put the spotting
threads in the right position for the second twist, the spotting threads in one'
spotting bar, standing in front and opposite to the threads in the other spotting
bar, move the back comb bar up, and when the carriages have entered the
threads the top driver moves the driving wheel; but there being no rise or
fall the spotting bars are not acted on, and remain unmoved by the spotting
wheels. Move the front comb bar up, and when the carriages have entered
the threads the top driver moves the driving wheel one tooth; but there being
no rise or fall the spotting bars are not acted on, and remain unmoved by the'
spotting wheels. The spot being now finished, make the cross or top of the
hole by moving the joining machine forward, which takes the dividing points
back behind the warp threads, as before described, and the bottom driver
moves the bottom driving wheel one tooth, which drives the front spotting bar
two spaces to the left, by means of the spotting wheels No. 2 and No. 3, the
back spotting bar one space to the right, and turns the spotting bars on their
axis, to keep the spotting threads out of the way of the forks as they come
forward, and moves the wheels No. 6 and 8 one tooth, and remove the hill

page_text: that bears up the levers, and thus allow the weights to have their full power
on the spotting threads while they are being worked into the net. Put up
the front pin machine, to take down the cross and the row of spots, which will
lift up the catch, and let the dividing points come forward, and pass between
the selvages, as before described. One row of spots being finished, the
spotting threads traverse in opposite directions while being worked into the
net, the front bar to the left, and the back bar to the right. In making
the plain net, each spotting thread stands opposite each vacant space
in the dividers, from which every fifth thread has been taken for spotting
threads, and then those threads are acting as warp threads, and they traverse
opposite those vacant spaces until the commencement of the next spot. Make
three twists, as usual; then the cross or top of the hole. By the joining machine
moving forward the dividing points are taken back behind the warp threads.
The catch holds them. The bottom driver moves the driving wheels one tooth,
which drives (by means of the spotting wheels No. 2 and 3) the front spotting
bar one space to the left, and the back spotting bar one space to the right.
Put up the pin machine, which lifts up the catch, and lets the dividing points
come forward and pass between the selvage threads. Make three twists for
the second half hole; then move the joining machine forward, to make
the cross, which takes the dividing point back bebind the warp threads.
The catch holds them. The bottom driver moves the driving wheel
one tooth, which drives the front spotting bar one space to the left, by
the spotting wheels No. 2 and 3, and the back spotting bar one space to the
right. Put up the pin machine, which lifts up the catch, and lets the dividing
points come forward and pass between the selvage threads. Make three twists
for the third half hole, then move the joining machine forward to make the
cross, which takes the dividing points back behind the warp threads, and the
catch holds them. The bottom driver moves the driving wheel one tooth,
which, by means of the spotting wheels No. 2 and 3, drives the front spotting
bar one space to the left, and the back spotting bar one space to the right.
Here the spotting wheels have worked one half the way round. The two
spotting bars have now traversed until they have caused a back and front
thread to come opposite to each other, and put them in a proper state to
commence making another row of spots. Note.-At the commencement of
making the first row of spots, the first thread in each bar at the right-hand
side work together to form the spot. In beginning the second row of spots,
the first thread the front bar, and the second thread in the back bar, work
together to form the spot. Now begin with the carriages in the front comb

page_text: bar, the dividing points to be forward in between the selvage threads, and the
wheels No. 7 and 9 will be so placed that the hills bear up the levers to lift up
the weights and lighten the spotting threads. Move the front comb bar up,
and when the carriages have entered the threads the top driver moves its
driving wheel one tooth, which drives the back spotting bar one space to the
right, by the spotting wheel No. 3, which causes the threads to stand directly
behind the front spotting threads, to enable the carriages to work round them
in making the second twist, to begin to form the spot. Move the back comb
bar up to make the second twist; and when the carriages have entered the
threads, the top driver moves its driving wheel one tooth, which, by means of
the spotting wheels 2 and 3, drive both spotting bars one space to the left, to
put the threads in a right position for the third twist, one row of spotting
threads standing in front of the other row. Move the front comb bar up to
make the third twist. In making this twist the spotting threads stand opposite
the same spaces in the dividers as they did when the second twist was finished.
The top driver moves its driving wheel one tooth; but there being no rise or
fall, the spotting bars are not acted on, and remain unmoved by the spotting
wheels. Make the cross or top of the hole by moving the joining machine
forwards, which takes the dividing points back behind the warp threads, and
turns the spotting bars on their axes, to keep the spotting threads out of forks
as they come forward to make the cross, and the bottom driver moves the
bottom driving wheel one tooth, which, by the spotting wheel No. 2, drives the
front spotting bar one space to the right. Put up the front pin machine, which
lifts up the catch, and lets the dividing points come forward and pass between
the selvage threads. One half of the spot is now made, and the front pins
have taken it down. Move the front empty comb bar up, and the second
driver moves its driving wheel one tooth, which, by the spotting wheel No. 3,
moves the back spotting bar one space to the right. The back spotting threads
now stand directly behind the front ones; for the carriages to work round them
the first twist in this half hole, move the back comb bar up; and when the
carriages have entered the threads the top driver moves its driving wheel one
tooth, which, by the spotting wheels No. 2 and 3, drives both the spotting bars
to the left. To put the spotting threads in a right position for the second
twist, one row of spotting threads standing in front of the other, move the
front comb bar up; and when the carriages have entered the threads
the top driver moves its driving wheel one tooth, but there being no
rise or fall the spotting bars are not acted on, and remain unmoved
by the spotting wheels. Move the back comb bar up; and when the
carriages have entered the thread the top driver moves its driving wheel one

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tooth; but, as before observed, the spotting bars remain unmoved by the spotting
wheels. The spot being finished, make the cross or top of the hole by moving
the joining machine forward, which takes the dividing points back behind the
warp threads, and the bottom driver moves the bottom driving wheel one tooth,
which, by the spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3, drives the front spotting bar two
spaces to the right, and the back spotting bar one space to the left, and turns
the spotting bars on their axes, to keep the spotting threads out of the of
the forks as they come forward, and the wheels Nos. 6 and 8 are moved one
tooth, for the hills to bear up the levers, and allow the weights to have their
full power on the spotting threads whilst they are being worked into the net.
Put up the back pin machine, to take down the cross and the row of spots.
This lifts up the catch, and lets the dividing points come forward and pass
between the selvage threads. The second row of spots being finished, the
spotting threads traverse in opposite directions whilst being worked into the
net between the rows of spots, the front bar to the left and the back bar to the
right. Make three twists; then the cross or top of the hole. By the joining
machine moving forward, the dividing points are taken back behind the warp
threads, and the catch holds them. The bottom driver moves its driving
wheel one tooth, which, by the spotting wheel No. 2 and 3, drives the
front spotting bar one space to the left, and the back spotting bar one
space to the right. Put up the pin machine, which lifts up the catch,
and lets the dividing points come forward, and pass between the selvage
threads. A second half hole is performed after the finishing the spot, by making
three twists; then the cross or top of the hole is formed, by moving the joining
machine forward, which takes back the dividing points behind the warp
threads, and the catch holds. The bottom driver moves the bottom driver wheel
one tooth, which drives the front spotting bar one space to the left, and the
back spotting bar one space to the right, by the spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3.
Put up the pin machine, which lifts up the catch, and lets the dividing points
come forward and pass between the selvage threads. A third half hole is
performed by making three twists; then the cross or top of the hole, by
moving the joining machine forward, which takes back the dividing points
behind the warp threads, and the catch holds them. The bottom driver
moves the driving wheel one tooth, which drives the front spotting bar one
space to the left, and the back spotting bar one space to the right, by the
spotting wheels Nos. 2 and 3. The wheels Nos. 7 and 9 now bear on the
levers, and lift up the weights, to lighten the spotting threads. Put up the front
pin machine, which lifts up the catch and lets the dividing points come
forward and pass between the selvage threads. This completes two rows of

page_text: spots, and the net between the rows. The spotting wheels have been worked
round once. The wheels and tackle now stand in the same position as at the
commencement of the first spot, and is now in a right position to commence
the third spot, with the carriages in the back comb bar.
Having now described the manner of working the machinery according to
my Invention, it will be evident, that although I have here described the spots
as being made at every fifth thread, that the same may be done at a lesser or
larger number of threads, if required. But in order to obtain this, the
spotting wheels and the driving wheels would have to be formed accordingly.
And in order to give some rule to proceed upon, when it is wished to
alter the number of spots, the parts of the wheels No. 2 and 3 called
spotting wheels, which move the spotting bars when the spots are being made,
must not be altered, as the same motions are required to the spotting bars
for making the spots in all numbers; but those parts of the wheels No. 2
and 3 which cause the spotting bars to traverse for keeping the spotting
threads opposite the spaces in the warp (from which they have been taken);
these parts of the wheels No. 2 and 3 have to be changed according to the
number of warp threads between. the spotting threads. Thus, for instance, were
it desired to make lace, taking every tenth thread (in place of every fifth) for a
spotting thread, it would then be necessary to have as many more rises and
falls, that is, twice as many when every tenth thread is used (as there would be
for every fifth thread) for causing the spotting bars to traverse for keeping the
spotting threads to stand in front of the spaces from which they have been taken
from the warp, for making the plain net. From this it will be readily under-
stood how any number of spots may be made in a breadth; and it will only be
desirable further to add, that it is necessary, in settling on the number of
threads which are to act as spotting threads as well as warp threads, to observe
the following rule:-Still supposing that the quilling is to consist of one hundred
threads, this number will divide by five or ten, or in case it be sixty threads it
will divide by five or twelve, or any number which will divide in like manner
will do; but numbers which will not divide in this manner, for instance, sixty-
one, twenty-three, or one hundred and three, which will not divide by any
number, they consequently are not proper numbers to spot with. Note.-The
spotting bars are, as usual, kept to act against the spotting wheels by springs.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that I lay no claim
to any of the parts of a traverse warp machine fitted with the usual spotting
bars, that machine being well known. But what I do claim is, producing the
motions above described to the ordinary spotting bars in a traverse warp

page_text: machine, whereby I am enabled, by taking certain of the warp threads, to
cause them to act alternately as spotting threads and warp threads, to produce
quillings of bobbin net having spots therein, which also work and form part of
the plain net, as above described.
machine, whereby I am enabled, by taking certain of the warp threads, to
cause them to act alternately as spotting threads and warp threads, to produce
quillings of bobbin net having spots therein, which also work and form part of
the plain net, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Freeman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of our
GEORGE (L.B.) FREEMAN.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1832, the aforesaid George Freeman came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication, aforesaid, and all and everything 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.