A TRUSS, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRIN- CIPLE, FOR THE CURE OF RUPTURES OF ALL KINDS
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
LEWIS, of the Parish of Saint Martin's, Ludgate, in the City of London,
Jeweller and Hardwareman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Lewis, His especial licence that I, the
said Thomas Lewis, during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A TRUSS, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRIN-
CIPLE, FOR THE CURE OF RUPTURES OF ALL KINDS;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Lewis, under my
hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's
High Court of Chancery within one calendar month 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance of the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Lewis, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Truss, on an

page_text: entire New Principle, for the Cure of Ruptures of all Kinds, is described in the
above Plan and description thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Lewis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-five.

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To all to whom these Pusents shall come I Thomas Lewis of the Douish of St Martins Ludgate in the City of finden Servitter and Hardwrecuman Send Greeting Whawas His Most Excellent Majesty King George the Third Wide
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Patent under the Great Seal of Great Brituin bearing date at Westminster the sixkanth day of July in the twenty fifth year of his Rugn Give and Grant in
- unto me the said Thomus Lewis This especial License that I the said Thomas Lewis during the term of years
opressed should and lawfully might use exercise and vend within England Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed my Invention of a Turss on un entire new principle for the cure of Ruptures of all kinds In which suid letters patent there is contained a provise obliging
ne the said Thomus Lewis under my hand and seat to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention and how the sume is to be performed to be incolled in This Majesty's High Court of Chancay within one Culendar month after the date of the suid
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