A WOMAN'S SADDLETREE, WITH A SPRING HEAD TO FALL DOWN, THEREBY PREVENTING DANGER UPON & HORSE TRIPPING, FALLING, OR RUNNING AWAY WITH THE RIDER, WHO CAN WITH EASE DISENGAGE HERSELF FROM THE SADDLE, AND HER CLOATHS PREVENTED FROM ENTANGLING IN THE HORN OR HEAD OF THE SADDLE
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JONES, of the Parish of Saint Peter, in the City of Bristol, Sadler, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the thirty-fourth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Edward Jones, His special
licence that I, the said Edward Jones, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A WOMAN'S
SADDLETREE, WITH A SPRING HEAD TO FALL DOWN, THEREBY PREVENTING DANGER
UPON & HORSE TRIPPING, FALLING, OR RUNNING AWAY WITH THE RIDER, WHO CAN
WITH EASE DISENGAGE HERSELF FROM THE SADDLE, AND HER CLOATHS PREVENTED
FROM ENTANGLING IN THE HORN OR HEAD OF THE SADDLE;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Edward Jones, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular de-
scription 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 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Jones, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, that is to say:-
The near side, head, or horn of a woman's saddletreo is made or con-
structed to move, fall, or drop down by means of a spring or springs, catch
or catches, or by any other method or means that can be adapted for that
purpose, though I think a spring best, and may be made of steel, iron, or
other metal or composition of metal, or any other proper material, and
fastened or fixed to the saddle by one, two, or more screws, or any other proper
fastning, so that when the rider wishes to dismount or disengage herself from
the saddle, by pushing or forcing the said horn or head from her it will
instantly fall or drop down, and the rider may with great case slip from tho
saddle, and her cloaths will be prevented from entangling in the horn or heal
which, upon a horse's tripping, falling, or running away, may be the means of
preserving the rider's life, and will also be the means of freeing the rider, in
mounting and dismounting, from any indelicacies which the construction of
the present saddle subject them to. The spring born or head may be
weakened or strengthened, as the strength of the rider may require, by turning
one or more screw or screws, or other proper substitutes, which may be let
into the wood at the upper part of the near point, or some other convenient
part, by which the horn or head is prevented falling, or in the least moving
contrary to the pleasure of the rider; for should the head or horn of a woman's
saddle fall down with a very little motion of the rider, the danger would
counterbalance the utility. The horn or head is made to fall or drop down
at the collar welt or bottom of the head, not only on a parallel with the off-
side head, but as low as to rest on the point of the tree; and when made into
a saddle it rests on the seat and skirt near the tuffnail, and thereby precludes
the least entanglement whatover. As the horn or head of women's saddles has
not ever before, in this Kingdom, been constructed or made to fall or drop
down, 1 therefore claim myself to be intitled to every possible mode, way, and
method by which such horn or head can be made to fall or drop down, as
being the principle of my Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Jones, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
EDWARD (L.8.) JONES.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1794, the aforesaid Edward Jones came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
5 above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand and ninety-four.