NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR JOINT HOOPS
Year: 1737

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JANE VANEF,
of the Parish of Saint Anne, in the Liberty of Westminster, in the County of
Middlesex, Widow, and Hoop Petticoat Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS our Soveraign Lord King George the Second, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fifteenth day
of December, in the eleventh year of His raigne, did give and grant unto
me, the said Jane Vanef, my executors, administrators, and assignes, His
Majestie's especiall licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, to make,
use, exercise, and vend my "NEW INVENTED MACHINE OR JOINT HOOPS," within
that part of His Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to have, hold, use,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein
granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto me, the said Jane Vanef, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, 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; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso or condition that if I, the said Jane Vanef,
shoud not particularly describe and ascertain the nature and form 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

page_text: Majestie's High Court of Chancery within two kalendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that the same, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever therein granted, should cease, determine,
and become void, as by the said recited Letters Patent (relation being there-
unto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Jane Vanef, pursuant to the said
proviso or condition, have described and ascertained, and by these Presents do
describe and ascertain, the nature and form of my said Invention, in manner
following (to wit) :-
The new-invented hoop petticoat is made to consist of four foldings in
length or depth, and in each of the said four foldings are four severall divisions
made with four severall pieces of whalebone, at each end or extremity of
which said divisions are placed joints, which may be made either of steel
or any other metal, which, being severally jointed or properly fixed in an oval
shape, make the compass or circumference of the petticoat, and by the com-
position of the said four severall foldings, the lowermost, containing four yards
in compass or circumference, by having a string fixed on each end thereof,
draws the other foldings up to the top bend of the hoop, which, when drawn
up by the turning of the joints on each hip, contracts the lowermost foldings so
much that the compass or circumference exceeds not above two yards. And
so any hooped petticoat either of a larger or lesser size may be made in pro-
portion to the dimensions above, whereby ladies or other wearers thereof may
go into a coach or chair without any manner of trouble or inconvenience, or
may sit at church or in any other assembly by such contraction of the hoop
in far less compass than any hoops hitherto made or worn will admit of.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jane Vanef, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Seventh day of February, in the eleventh year of the
raigne of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the abovesaid Seventh day of
February, the before-named Jane Vanef came before our Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the abovesaid Writing, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And also
the said Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made and
provided in the sixth year of the raign of King William and Queen Mary,
and so forth.