A NEW CHAPE FOR BUCKLES, OF A DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION, AND WHICH IS FAR MORE EASY AND CONVENIENT, THAN THOSE NOW IN USE
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GRAY, of Bond Street, Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Gray, did by my Petition humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had,
after much study and expence, invented "A NEW CHAPE FOR BUCKLES, OF A
DIFFERENT CONSTRUCTION, AND WHICH IS FAR MORE EASY AND CONVENIENT, THAN
THOSE NOW IN USE," wherefore I therefore prayed His said Majesty that he
would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, the said William Gray, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use, benefit, and advantage of my said Invention within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according
to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and there-
fore, by His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day of November, in the twenty-
fourth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere

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motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the
said William Gray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said William Gray,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said William Gray, my executors, administrators, 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
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that
part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said William Gray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any or
any of us, should in our discretion seem meet; and that I, the said William
Gray, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, or accruing and arising by reason of the said Inven-
tion, for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said William Gray,
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 is
contained a proviso, that if I, the said William Gray, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the saimne 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 Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the sail Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
any wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent,
relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Gray, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars herein-after
expressed, and to be performed in manner following, that is to say :-

page_text: other metal, being fixed to the tongue
e said plate a chape to admit of the
strap, and when buckled in the usual
way turn the strap over the notched
part of the plate, and it will never stir,
as by a Drawing of the same, with re-
ferences inserted in the margin hereof,
will more fully appear: A being the
plate; B, the chape; and C, the
notched part of the plate over which
the strap is to be turned, as before
mentioned.
In witness whercof, I, the said Wil-
liam Gray, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twelfth day of
February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and
eighty-four, and in the twenty-
fourth 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 BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of February, in
the year above written, the aforesaid William Gray came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in the form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eighth day of March, in the year above written.