NEW-INVENTED CARRIAGE, FOR HANGING COACHES, CHARIOTS, CHAISES, AND ALL KINDS OF BODYS UPON. WHICH IS CONSTRUCTED ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, AND IS MUCH EASIER TO THE RIDER, AND LIGHTER FOR THE HORSES, AND IN MANY OTHER RESPECTS FAR SUPERIOR TO THOSE NOW USED
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, OWEN
O'KEEFFE, of Long Acre, in the Parish of Saint Martin's in the Fields, in
the County of Middlesex, Coach Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Sixteenth day of April, in the fourth year of His reign, and in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-four, did give and grant
unto me, the said Owen O'Keeffe, His special licence, full power, sole privi-
ledge and authority, that I, the said Owen O'Keeffe, my exors, adiñors, and
assigns, should and might, during the term of years therein expressed, make,
use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, his "NEW-INVENTED CARRIAGE, FOR HANGING COACHES, CHARIOTS,
CHAISES, AND ALL KINDS OF BODYS UPON. WHICH IS CONSTRUCTED ON A NEW
PRINCIPLE, AND IS MUCH EASIER TO THE RIDER, AND LIGHTER FOR THE HORSES, AND
IN MANY OTHER RESPECTS FAR SUPERIOR TO THOSE NOW USED;" in which said
recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Owen
O'Keeffe, by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a description of my
said new-invented carriage to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months from the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Owen O'Keeffe, do hereby declare that my said new-invented carriage is made
and performed in manner following (that is to say):-

page_text: A Four-wheel Carriage.-The perch and top carriage to move on a center
of wood, or iron or any other kind of mettle that may be thought fitt, to fasten
to the upper carriage or perch at each end, the hind center to be laid in, on,
or under the center of the hind axletree or axletree bed and hind transom,
with a cavity or hole, boxed with iron or any other kind of mettle, or without,
for the center to move therein, springs boulted on the hind transom and
framework of the axletree bed, and lays over the transom that is made fast
to the perch to ease the jolts of the hind wheels.
The Fore Part of a Four-wheel Carriage.-A new framework of wood and
iron made in diferent shapes as may be thought fitt, to lay on the under car-
riage for the center piece from the perch to lay on, and fastened as may be
thought fitt to give the center liberty to work and lett the four wheels have
their full liberty to lock under against the perch, and the wheels to rise and
fall without a side jolt to the body hanging thereon; the center piece to be
made fast to the framework that acts or moves on the under carriage as
above, and be made of wood, iron or any other mettle thought fitt, and to
move on, in, or under a framework made fast to the perch or perches or
shafts at the fore end of the upper carriage.
The Hind End of a Four-wheel Carriage.-The center piece made of wood,
iron or any other kind of mettle that may be thought fitt to be made fast to
the axletree or axletree bed and transom, to move in, on, or under the frame-
work made fast to the perch or perches or shafts.
A Two-wheel Carriage. The center piece made as before, and made fast
to the framework belonging to the shafts, and moves in, on, or under the
axletree or axletree bed and transom, or made fast thereto, and move in the
framework belonging to the shafts, which framework is made as before
described, and springs boulted and lays over the said framework, as before
mentioned.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Fifteenth
day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-four.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Fifteenth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1764, the aforesaid Owen O'Keeffe came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One