NEW KIND OF BOOTS CALLED SPRING BOOTS
Year: 1776

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ROBERT DANIEL, of King's Lynn, in the County of Norfolk, Shocmaker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George Third, by His
Letters Patent under. His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of December, in the seventeenth year of His reign,
lid grant unto me, the said Robert Daniel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Robert Daniel, my executors, admors, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine and their deputy or
deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Robert Daniel, my
executors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my "NEW
KIND OF BOOTS CALLED SPRING BOOTS," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Robert Daniel, my executors,
adñiors, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet; and
that I, the said Robert Daniel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and

page_text: advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advan-
tages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said
Robert Daniel, my executors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof, next and imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided; and in which said recited Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said Robert, Daniel, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention and in what manner
the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calender months next and immediately after the date
thereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise not-
withstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Daniel; do hereby declare my
said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner follow-
ing (that is to say):-
They never want buckles, straps, or garters to confine them up. They have
a spring in them, fixed on the inside of the back seam, made of whalebone,
which prevents them from wrinkling and breaking in the back seam, where
boots generally decay first. They also have two short springs, also made of
whalebone, which are.fixed fast in the heel, that prevents the boots treading
back over the heel. These springs make the boots ware longer, and appear
decent behind to the last. They will hold firm on the leg, be easy in coming
on and off, and in case of any accident, of either the horse or rider falling,. the
leg may be slipped out of the boot with the greatest ease.
FT
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Daniel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of day of December, in the
seventeenth 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 seventy-six.
ROBT (Ls.) DANIEL.

page_text: Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped with a five shilling stamp)
in presence of us,