A PIKE OR HALBERT WITH CUTEAUS
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
WILLIAM TURNER, of Change Alley, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Third, did by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of March, in the fifty-first year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Turner, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said William
Turner, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, ex-
ercise, and vend, my Invention of "A PIKE OR HALBERT WITH CUTEAUS"
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, in
such manner as to me, the said William Turner, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should in our discretion seem meet;
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the
said William Turner, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, 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 said Majesty's High

page_text: Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, should utterly cease and determine and become void as in
and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Turner, do hereby
declare that the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertained
in the Drawing in the margin of these presents and the following
description thereof, that is to say :-
My said new invented pike or halbert with cuteaus is made or
constructed proportionably or mathematically, that is to say:-The
pike or halbert (which is of the usual form and of the common
breadth and thickness) is thirteen inches and a half in. length.
The cuteau on one side is nine inches and that on the other six
inches in length, and in that proportion upon any reduced or ex-
tended sale. The blades of the cutcaus are about an inch or from
that to half an inch broad, and as thin as the necessary degree of
strength will admit, being ground on each side for about a quarter
of an inch extremely sharp and made pointed at the end. They
may be placed so as to cut in the same direction as the pike or
halbert, or in the reverse direction, which is the method I prefer, or
one of the cuteaus to cut one way, and one the other as may be most
approved of. The staff may be twelve feet, six feet, or three feet,
or any other length that may be thought most convenient for the
different purposes to which they are applicable. The diameter or
width of the cuteaus from the pike or halbert is in the proportion of
half the length of the pike or halbert, being six inches and three
quarters when the pike or halbert is thirteen inches and a half; and
so in proportion to any greater or smaller, length. The cuteaus. arc
screwed to the pike or halbert staff, and have a pin of iron or other
metal through the screw to keep them from turning or getting loose.
The proportions I have above given for the longest cuteau to be
two thirds the length of the pike or halbert, and the shortest. cuteau

page_text: each cuteau and the pike or halbert to be half the length of the pike
or halbert I consider the best; but I do not mean to confine myself
to those exact proportions or to the number of two cuteaus, as I
shall esteem any attempt to make a pike or halbert with a cuteau or
cuteaus, however varied in shape, number, or proportion, as an
infringement upon my Patent right.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Turner, have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Second day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eleven..
WM. TURNER. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of May,
in the fifty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Third, the said William Turner came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery and acknowledged the instrument aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified in form above
written; and also the instrument aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth year of His said
Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Second day of May, One thousand eight hundred and
eleven.