COLLARS FOR HORSES TO DRAW BY, ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWARDS, of Chelsea, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of May, in the
forty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Edwards,
His especial licence that I, the said John Edwards, 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 "COLLARS FOR HORSES TO DRAW BY, ON AN IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
John Edwards, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to 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 Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Edwards, do hereby declare that my said Invention of Collars for Horses
to Draw by, on an Improved Construction, is described as follows:-
The outside shapes are cut out of neats or other leather, to which the
draught or purchase is affixed by pieces of neats or other leather, which

page_text: pieces of leather are doubled round a direct or indirect triangle or ring made
of iron or other proper metal; then the said pieces of leather (with the tri-
angles or rings affixed to them) are sewed or stitched to the proper part of
the collar, by which means the draught or purchase is not fixed to the hames,
which is the case in all other collars; and the hames are rivetted on or other-
wise fastened to the collars. The hames are made with a sweep and a bend,
so as to form round-the horse's neck in order to prevent the shoulder bone
being pressed on in the smallest degree. The collars are made open at top,
and are buckled or fastened on so as to avoid the inconveniency of being put
on over the horse's head. They may be stuffed with wool, flocks, hair, or any
other soft materials.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, have hereunto set my.
hand and seal, this Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and one.
JN° EDWARDS. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of June, in the
forty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
John Edwards came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein con
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument afore-
said 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, twenty-third, and thirty-seventh
years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Second day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand