A CHAIR OR CARRIAGE POR ONE PERSON TO TRAVEL IN, WITH ONE WHEEL AND HARNESS FOR THE HORSE TO DRAW THE SAME, QUITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER CHAIRS AND CARRIAGES & HARNESS HITHERTO INVENTED AND MADE, THAT THE WHEEL OF THE SAID CARRIAGE GOES IN THE SAME TRACT WITH THE HORSE
Year: 1750

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
JOHN THOMPSON, of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex, Watchmaker.
send greeting.
WHEREAS, by my humble Petition to His Majesty, representing that I had
invented, brought to perfection, and made "A CHAIR OR CARRIAGE POR ONE
PERSON TO TRAVEL IN, WITH ONE WHEEL AND HARNESS FOR THE HORSE TO DRAW
THE SAME, QUITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER CHAIRS AND CARRIAGES & HARNESS
HITHERTO INVENTED AND MADE, THAT THE WHEEL OF THE SAID CARRIAGE GOES IN
THE SAME TRACT WITH THE HORSE;" & altho' several other persons had theretofore
attempted to make such a carriage with one wheel only, the same was never
before brought to any perfection, or not near to such perfection as this, which
was intirely of my own Invention, and not liable to the many inconveniences
that have been found in all others that had been theretofore attempted to be
nade; that it may be drawn by one horse in any narrow, stoney, or rockey
road or way, and over ruts, with as much safety and ease to the rider and
horse, and with as great expedition, as any other carriage whatsoever, and
without being any more lyable to be overturned than any others, as had
been often experienced by me, who had travelled many score miles therein
in the publick roads of this Kingdom, at the rate of eight or ten miles an
hour; that therefore I humbly conceived such chairs, or carryages and harness,
as should be made according to this my said new Invention, would be of great
use and service, particularly in narrow roads, or places where carriages with
two or more wheels cannot go or pass, and that the same would be con-

page_text: sequently of great advantage & benefit to diverse of His Majestie's subjects,
wherefore I humbly prayed His Majesty to grant to me, my executors,
adiñors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit,
of making & vending my said new-invented chairs or carriages, for the term
of fourteen years, which His Majesty was graciously pleased to condiscend
to; and accordingly, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day
of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & fifty, did,
for Himself, His heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me, the said John
Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full
power, priviledge, and authority, that I, the said John Thompson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should from time to time and at all times there-
after, during the said term of fourteen years therein expressed, make, use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of the Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as I, the said John Thompson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, shall scem meet; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said John Thompson, 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 the High Court of Chancery
within four kalender months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said John Thompson, in compliance with
the said provisoe, have therefore by these Presents particularly described and
ascertained, and do hereby particularly describe and ascertain, my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Draught and
discription thereof, hereunder depicted, delineated, described, and set forth, in
order to be inrolled as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal, the Thirtyeth
day of July, in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of our Soveraign
Lord George the Second, by the grace of God King of Great
Britain, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first
duly stampt, in the presence of
THO. LEECH.
JOHN THOMPSON. (L.s.)
ROBT BYGRAVE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Thirtyeth day of July,
the aforesaid John Thompson came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the form of the Statute made and provided in the sixth
year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Thirtieth day of July, in the twenty-fourth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.

page_text: 3 The frame which goes over the Horses back & is to keep ye sharps stiff and allso to keep ye work in ye propper
place of the saddle
4 The place where the Harness is made fast to draw by
5 The end of "ye Sharps
6 The frame over ye wheel which is to keep the wheel from twisting & whereon another seat may be placed for
another person to ride in
7 The slider which is fixt
of ye horse
to the frame over ye horses back & is to run backward & forward for
ye easement
8 A steel runner which helps to steddy ye sharps and has a small pad under it against ye horses shoulder
9 The saddle on ye top of which is a ridge with 2 steele pins to keep ye slider which is ficc'd to the frame in its
proper place
10 The Harness with ye sd saddle there unto belonging