CERTAIN INVENTION OF SHOES; CLOGS, AND PATTENS, CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF: THE CLEVELAND SHOES; CLOGS, AND PATTENS
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
THOMAS BEAN, of Stokesley, in Cleveland, in the County of York, Cordwainer,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixth day of March, in the eighteenth year of His reign, did
grant unto me, the said Thomas Bean, my exors, adñññors, and assigns, His
said Majesty's especial licence; full power; sole privilege and authority, that
I, the said Thomas Bean, my exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies;: servants
or agents, or such others as I, the said Thomas Bean, my exors, adñors; 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 law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend a "CERTAIN INVENTION OF SHOES; CLOGS,
AND PATTENS, CALLED OR KNOWN BY THE NAME OF: THE CLEVELAND SHOES; CLOGS, AND
PATTENS," within that part of Great Britain called England; His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, as to me, the said Thomas Bean,
my exors, admors, and assigns, or any of them; should in, their discretions
seem meet; and that I, the said Thomas Bean; my: exors; admors; and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commo-
dity, and 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; privi-
leges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted..unto
me, the said Thomas Bean, my exors, admors, and assigns, for and during and

page_text: unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent
is contained a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Bean, should not partlarly
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 Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar 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 in anywise notwith-
stands, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Bean, do hereby declare that
the said Invention is of the description and to be performed in manner.
following, that is to say:-
The said shoes, clogs, and pattens, are made with a spring lock or catch
fixed by screws upon the bump or thick part of the clogs or pattens, and a
screw staple fixed on the sole of the shoes under the instep, and a screw pin
projecting through the side of the clogs or pattens, and screwed to the lock or
catch, so that the same may be opened without any trouble or inconvenience,
and when fixed prevents the clogs or pattens from sliding off the shoes or
going forwards, and in other respects are made in the usual manner which
shoes, clogs, and pattens have been and are made, but which, before this
Invention, were troublesome and inconvenient to the wearer when worn
together. And by this new Invention, shoes made with the longest quarters
or shortest forefoot may be worn with clogs or pattens, and with the largest
buckles, with ease and pleasure, which before could not be done.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bean, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the eighteenth 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-eight
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stampt), in the presence
of
JA. SNOWDON.
THOMAS BEAN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1778, the aforesaid Thomas Bean 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 Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thou-
sand seven hundred & seventy-eight.