A METHOD OF MAKING ALL KINDS OF BREECHES ON A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY NEW
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JAMES
M° DONALD, of the City of Bristol, Breeches Maker, sends greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by His Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Twenty-ninth
day of August, in the twenty-ninth year of His reign, gave and granted unto
me, the said James Mc Donald, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priveledge and authority, that I, the said
James Mc Donald, my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and
themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
other person or persons as I, the said James Mc Donald, should at any time
agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend my new Invention of "A METHOD OF MAKING
ALL KINDS OF BREECHES ON A CONSTRUCTION ENTIRELY NEW;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said James Mc Donald,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, 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 His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,

page_text: should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James M° Donald, in pursuance of and in
compliance with the said proviso in the said recited Letters Patent contained,
do by this present Instrument declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascer-
tained in the Plan hereunto annexed, and which is explained and referred to
in the letters, figures, and words following (that is to say):-
Figure 1st are a pair of waistbands with the clasps B and buckle C ready
for sewing to the breeches, and are laced through each other at the holes a
and b, where are fastened to each waistband a string of leather or tape which
goes across the inside or outside of the seat of the breeches, and as the straps
are drawn tight or let out,, so is the seat. One part or half of this waistband
is coloured of a greenish hue (in the Drawing), the better to distinguish it as
it passes through the other half of buff colour at a, the buff' part being drawn
through the green at b, and thus they form a kind of double running strap or
waistband (which may be made of any kind of leather, or webb made of
cotton, worsted, silk, flax, or hemp), which is to be sewed to the breeches
in the usual way, as in Fig. 2nd and 3rd.
Figure 2nd is a pair of breeches with the waistbands, clasps, and buckle
fixt on, the flap in the front A being unbuttoned and turned down; B, the
clasps; C, the buckle at the end of the waistband.
Figure 3rd. A pair of breeches with the clasps B, and waistbands D,
buckled as it is to be worn. The strap or end of the waistband D must pass
under the cranked tongue of the clasp at E, which will always keep the
breeches high upon the hips, and may be worn tight or slack at the discretion
of the wearer by means of the running strap and buckle. e is the hook sewed
on the inside of the fall to be hooked up into the clasp at d, d, d, which keeps
the front smooth and in its proper place. The clasps are fastened on the ends
of the waistbands by passing a tape or leather string through small loops or
shanks which project from the under side the same as the shank of a button.
See Figure 4th. And the clasps are made of either brass, steel, copper, or any
kind of metal whatever, agreeable to the fancy or choice of the wearer.
Figure 5th is the hook for the front of the breeches at e.
Figure 6th is a swivel made of any kind of metal, to be sewed on the outside
of the waistband under the strap, as at b, b, and a, a, whereby the strap is born
off the hip, and runs on the swivel with great ease.
Figure 7th is a thin piece of cork or pasteboard which is placed or fixed
between the outside of the waistband and the inside lineing just at the

page_text: same place where the swivel (Figo the 6th) is fixed, that it may set. the
more easy and smooth, and prevent the ends of the swivel from hurting the
hips.
Figre 8th is the buckle, which must fasten at the right-hand side of the clasp
when the breeches are on. At F (in the Figres 2d and 3rd) is fastened a leather
string or tape, and sewed to the inside of each thigh up to G, where it comes
through, and is fastened to the swivel, whereby the buttons at the knee and the
whole thigh set smooth.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Mc Donald, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.