METHOD OF MAKING COACHES, CHARRIOTS, POSTCHAISES, SEDAN CHAIRS, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES, AND COVERING THE SAME ON THE OUTSIDE WITH COPPER, IRON OR BRASS, BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELLED WITH GOLD, OR WITHOUT, INSTEAD OF LEATHER, WHICH WITH IN THESE AND M OTHER RESPECTS FAR EXCEED ALL OTHER CARRAIGES HERETOFORE MADE AND CED WITH LEATHER
Year: 1758

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
POOLE, and WILLIAM RINGSTED, of Long Acre, in the County of Middlesex,
Coachmakers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first day of December, in the thirty-second year of
His reign, did give and grant unto the said James Poole and William Ring-
sted, their executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said James Poole and
William Ringsted, from time to time and at all times thenafter during the
term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
our new-invented "METHOD OF MAKING COACHES, CHARRIOTS, POSTCHAISES,
SEDAN CHAIRS, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE CARRIAGES, AND COVERING THE SAME ON THE
OUTSIDE WITH COPPER, IRON OR BRASS, BEAUTIFULLY ENAMELLED WITH GOLD, OR
WITHOUT, INSTEAD OF LEATHER, WHICH IS NOT ONLY A GREAT IMPROVEMENT AND
ADDITION TO THE BEAUTY AND ORNAMENT OF SUCH NEW CARRIAGES, BUT PREVENTS
THE RAIN PENETRATING THRO' THEM, AS IT OFTEN DOTH THOSE COVERED WITH
LEATHER; AND THAT SUCH NEW CARRIAGES SO MADE AND COVERED WITH COPPER,
IRON, OR BRASS, ARE MADE MORE DURABLE, LIGHTER, AND MUCH EASIER CLEANED,
AND RETAIN THEIR LUSTRE LONGER, AND IN THESE AND MANY OTHER RESPECTS FAR
EXCEED ALL OTHER CARRAIGES HERETOFORE MADE AND COVERED WITH LEATHER;" in
which said Letters Patent therein is contained a provisoe that if we, the said
James Poole and William Ringsted, should not particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His Majestio's High Court of Chancery
within four calender months next immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the same, and all the liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso in the said
recited Letters Patent, we, the said James Poole and Willam Ringsted, do
hereby particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and do hereby declare that the same are made and performed in manner and
form following, that is to say:-
To prepare and make the outside pannels and tops of coaches, charriots, post-
chaises, sedan chairs, and other such like carriages, and properly fix a board
underneath to support the copper, iron, or brass plates, and afterwards such
plates are fixed on the outside of such carriages, and fastened down with
mouldings of wood or brass that cover the edges of the plates; and the plates
for covering such carriages on the outside with copper, iron, or brass, beauti-
fully japaned or enamelled with gold, or without, instead of leather, are made
and performed by rolling the copper, iron or brass, in a mill very thin, and
afterwards planisht very smooth with hammers, and cutt to fit the carriages
they are made for, and afterwards tooth'd all over to hold the japan, which
being done over several times, and baked in hot stoves made for that purpose,
untill they are hard enough to bear a high pollish, and such plates are to be
ornamented with gold borders, coats of arms, or any other embellishment, are
then painted or japaned to any pattern, which is also varnished, and afterwards
baked again in stoves untill very hard, which preserves them long.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jame Poole and William Ringsted,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fifth day of March,
in the thirty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Second, the said James Poole came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter
and thing therein contained, in form above said. And the said Writing
was stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign
of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.