A NEW TRAVELLING MACHINE (WHICH I STYLE THE IMPERIAL MERCURY), POR THE GREATER CONVENIENCE AND ACCOMMODATION OF TRAVELLERS, AND WHICH IS MORE COMMODIOUS AND BETTER ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSE OF TRAVELLING THAN ANY CAR- RIAGE, HITHERTO INVENTED OR AT PRESENT IN USE
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CRISPUS
CLAGGETT, of Bayswater Lodge, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, 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 Sixteenth day of March, in the twentieth year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Crispus Claggett, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, his especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said Crispus Claggett, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and
their deputy and deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as I, the said
Crispus Claggett, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should 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, and
vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A NEW TRAVELLING MACHINE (WHICH I STYLE THE IMPERIAL MERCURY), POR THE
GREATER CONVENIENCE AND ACCOMMODATION OF TRAVELLERS, AND WHICH IS MORE
COMMODIOUS AND BETTER ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSE OF TRAVELLING THAN ANY CAR-
RIAGE, HITHERTO INVENTED OR AT PRESENT IN USE," in such manner as to me,

page_text: the said Crispus Claggett, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any
of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Crispus
Claggett, my extors, admors, & assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, during the
term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or men-
tioned to be granted unto me, the said Crispus Claggett, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said Crispus Claggett, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said 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 proviso, I, the said
Crispus Claggett, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a new tra-
velling machine, called the Imperial Mercury, is described in manner fol-
lowing (that is to say):-
There are three carriages or machines comprehended in the Invention,
viz. the carriage No. 1 is divided into four equal parts, No. 1, 2, 3, 4, car-
rying two passengers each, and is so plañed and constructed as to give each
number distinctly in the interior parts every appearance and superiour accom-
modation and elegance of a post chaise or chariot, and externally the form and
appearance of one compleat carriage at large, perfectly uniform in all its parts,
and may be entered either at the fore or back fronts or sides.. There are
separate doors, with locks and keys to each compartment. In the interiour
parts are partitions, with glasses, and doors of communication from one number
to the other, as occasion may require. In the bottom of the carriage.is framed
an iron security box, inseperable with the carriage, for the perfect security of
jewels, writings, and other valuables, the entrance to which is from the inside
of each number respectively; and another Invention, after the manner of a
well, with holes in ditto, for carrying game, &c. Each number is distinctly
and severally lighted from the roof by lamps, on an entire new construction and
invention, in manner and form following, that is to say: the first lamp is affixed

page_text: to the roof of the machine with springs, equally illuminating the road and
carriage at same time, and the light may be withheld instantly from one or
both at pleasure, and are of equal advantage respecting those carriages fol-
lowing, as, meeting, the words Imperial Mercury (or any device) are done
transparently in the circular part of each lamp, and have a most striking and
pleasing appearance on the road.
The carriage No. 2 falls under the same description as No. 1, without the
least variation, excepting only that No. 1 and No. 3 in this machine carries
one passenger only, which numbers in every respect imitate a vis a vis.
The carriage No. 3, exactly the same as No. 1 and 2 in construction,
manner, and design, excepting there are only two parts in this machine,
No. 1 and 2, carrying two persons each.
In witness whereof, I, the said Crispus Claggett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fourteenth day of June, in the twentieth year
of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
CRISPUS (L.S.) CLAGGETT.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fourteenth day of June,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Crispus Claggett 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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their late
Majestys King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inselled the