AN APPARATUS FOR WRITING
Year: 1810

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
MANLEY, of Uffculme, in the County of Devon, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of Oc-
tober, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Manley, His especial licence that I, the said Edward Manley, during.
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, éxercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
Invention of "AN APPARATUS FOR WRITING;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Edward Manley, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to return a particular descrip-
tion 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
two calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, relation being thereunto had; may more fully and at large
appear.
my
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Manley, do hereby déclare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly describe
and ascertained as follows (that is to say):-
That in the Drawing hereunto annexed is represented the said Invention or
apparatus for writing, which consists of two parts (viz',) the hand guide and

page_text: thumb stop. The hand guide (Figure 1") is intended to be buckled or other-
wise fastened on the arm behind the wrist (as in Figure 4) to support the
hand, keep it steady, and in a right position. It may be made of lead, iron,
bone, wood, or other materials, covered or lined with leather, velvet, or cloth
of any kind, &c., or with these or the like materials without being covered; or
the same may be inlaid with any kind of metal for the sake of ornament or
otherwise. As to shape, it may be made as an inclined plate, square, oval,
or other form, the design of it being merely to prevent an improper mode of
holding the hand in writing. The thumb stop, Figure 2nd, is intended to be
screwed or otherwise fastened on the pen to prevent it from being held too
short, and so fixed that the nib may bear properly on the paper, as in Figure 4th.
In writing, if the top of the thumb be kept in a proper manner against the
pen, bearing on the stop, the pen itself will be prevented from falling back in
the hand, and must necessarily be kept in a right position. This part of the
apparatus may also be made of gold, silver, brass, or the like, or of any sort of
materials whatever that will answer the aforesaid purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Manley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our
T
raordinary in Chancery.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Thirtieth day of November,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Manley came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.