WOMEN'S PATTENS, THE CLOG PART OF WHICH IS COMPOSED OF COPPER, IRON, OR ANY OTHER METAL INSTEAD OF WOOD, WHICH WILL BE NOT MORE DURABLE ON ACCOUNT OF THE TYES AND RINGS BEING REVITTED THERETO, AND LIKEWISE AS THEY WILL NOT SPLIT LIKE WOOD, BUT ALSO MUCH MORE COMMODIOUS TO THE WEARER ON ACCOUNT OF BEING MUCH LIGHTER THAN THOSE GENERALLY MADE OF WOOD, FROM WHICH THE NAILS OR TACKS OFTEN START AND THE TIES COME OFF
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, WILLIAM
MILNER, of Leeds, in the County of York, Whitesmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fifteenth day of May, in the fortieth year of His reign, hath
given and granted unto him, the said William Milner, his exors, adiñors,
and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that
he, the said William Milner, his exors, adññors, or assigns, and every of then,
himself, and themselves, or by his deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said William Milner, his exors, adors, 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, within that part of the
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and all His Majesty's Plantations and Colonies abroad,
his Invention of "WOMEN'S PATTENS, THE CLOG PART OF WHICH IS COMPOSED OF
COPPER, IRON, OR ANY OTHER METAL INSTEAD OF WOOD, WHICH WILL BE NOT MORE
DURABLE ON ACCOUNT OF THE TYES AND RINGS BEING REVITTED THERETO, AND
LIKEWISE AS THEY WILL NOT SPLIT LIKE WOOD, BUT ALSO MUCH MORE COMMODIOUS TO
THE WEARER ON ACCOUNT OF BEING MUCH LIGHTER THAN THOSE GENERALLY MADE
OF WOOD, FROM WHICH THE NAILS OR TACKS OFTEN START AND THE TIES COME
OFF;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if the said

page_text: William Milner shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately 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, determine, and become void, 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 in compliance with and agreeable to the true
intent and meaning of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
I, the said William Milner, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is and are
described and ascertained in manner following, that is to say:-
A, the sole or tread; B, the ties; C, the ring; D, the clinch round the
sole A; E, the spur under the sole A.; F, the rivetts which fasten the ring C
to the sole A; G, the rivetts which fasten the ties B to the clinch D; H, the
rivetts which fasten the spur E to the sole A.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Milner, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of June, One thousand eight
hundred.
SPRIGHT, Extra.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1800, the aforesaid William Milner came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of
the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our. Lord One
thousand eight hundred.