A SADDLE UPON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, CALLED THE SCOOP SADDLE
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LINDOPP, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brass Founder and
Factor, 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 at
Westminster, the Fourth day of May, in the twentieth year of His reign, did
give and grant to me, the said Thomas Lindopp, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Lindopp, my
exors, admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of
years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, throughout that part of
His Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A SADDLE UPON
A NEW CONSTRUCTION, CALLED THE SCOOP SADDLE;" in which said recited Letters
Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Lindopp, by
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular of the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, and the Statute in that behalf made, relation being thereunto
respectively had, may inore fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, and in
pursuance of the said Statute, I, the said Thomas Lindopp, do hereby
declare that my said Invention is composed, made, and performed in manner
herein-after mentioned, that is to say :-
As to the saddle called the scoop, the object and use of which I had prin-
cipally in view, was so to construct the same, with a cavity therein, as to
contain and carry some necessary wearing apparel, and by that means to
obviate the disagreeable situation in which a traveller rides who makes use of
the common saddle baggs now used, for which purpose, and with that view, I
have contrived and use an additional or false tree, which, together with the
like kind of tree as is used in common saddles, form the top and bottom of the
saddle or scoop, and with a leather around them, affixed to an iron or steel
barr on each side of the saddle or scoop, forms a cavity in the nature of a box,
which will contain two shirts, two pair of stockings, a pair of shoes, a waist-
coat, and a pair of breeches, and also an oilskin case in the middle or on the
side, easily to be come at in case of rain. The upper tree is so constructed as to
fit the lower tree, and to shoot in behind with proper irons and catches, and
with a proper iron catch drops into a sockett at the pummel, and fastens either
by a spring or lock; and from a particular attention, and for greater ease to
the rider, I also make them up in another way, that is to say, with one tree
only with hind and fore-parts, which are supported and held together by an
iron or steel bar on each side, and another in the middle, over which is
stretched a strong webb, and which I have applied or substituted, instead of
the additional or false tree, and which being filled with soft stuffing, form an
easy seat; and if occasion requires, I apply extraordinary stuffing in such parts
'of the seat where needfull, and where the thighs have the greatest pressure. In
order to render the seat more solid and easy, the leather drops down' over the
cantel, and is kept confined by a catch from the pad.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Lindopp, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the twentieth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1780, the aforesaid Thomas Lindopp came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, 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 Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the
seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty.