A VERY PARTICULAR KIND OF WINDOW LATH, TO WHICH THE CURTAINS ARE FASTENED WITH THE GREATEST EASE AND EXPEDITION, AND MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO BED FURNITURE TO THE GREATEST ADVANTAGE, AND 60 SIMPLE AND EASY THAT THEY MAY BE TAKEN DOWN AND PUT UP BY ANY SERVANT OF THE LEAST EXPERIENCE, AND WITHOUT THE LEAST DAMAGE TO THE FURNITURE, AS NO NAIL OR INSTRUMENT WHATEVER ARE USED, AND IS SO CONTRIVED THAT THE LINES AND TASSELLS ARE FIXED TO THE CURTAINS
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SMALL, of the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Upholsterer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the First day of August, in the seventeenth year of His reign,
upon the Petition of me, the said James Small, did give and grant unto me,
the said James Small, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Small,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputys, servants, or agents, or
such others as I, the said James Small, my executors, admors, or assigns,
should 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 His Kingdom of Great Britain
called England and His Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A VERY PARTICULAR KIND OF WINDOW LATH, TO WHICH THE
CURTAINS ARE FASTENED WITH THE GREATEST EASE AND EXPEDITION, AND MAY ALSO
BE APPLIED TO BED FURNITURE TO THE GREATEST ADVANTAGE, AND 60 SIMPLE AND
EASY THAT THEY MAY BE TAKEN DOWN AND PUT UP BY ANY SERVANT OF THE LEAST
EXPERIENCE, AND WITHOUT THE LEAST DAMAGE TO THE FURNITURE, AS NO NAIL OR
INSTRUMENT WHATEVER ARE USED, AND IS SO CONTRIVED THAT THE LINES AND
TASSELLS ARE FIXED TO THE CURTAINS," in such manner as to me, the said James
Small, my executors, admors, or, assigns, or any of them, should in their dis-

page_text: cretions seem meet, and that I, the said James Small, my executors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing, and arising,
by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages, therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me,
the said James Small, my executors, 'admors, 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 recited Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe, obliging me, the said
James Small, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description 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 four callander months next and immediately after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being there-
unto had) may more fully and at large appear
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
James Small, do hereby declare that my said, Invention of a very Particular
Kind of Window Lath, to which the Curtains are Fastened with the greatest.
Ease and Expedition, and may be also applied to Bed Furniture to the greatest
Advantage, and so Simple and Easy that they may be taken down and put
up by any Servant of the least Experience, and without the least Damage to
the Furniture, as no Nail or Instrument whatever are, Used, and is so con-
trived that the Lines and Tassells are Fixed to, the Curtains, is constructed
and performed in the manner following (that is to say)
The window or bed curtain lath may be made streight or shaped at pleasure,
of wood, metal, or any substance whatever,. of sufficient strength to support the
weight of the curtain. The curtain is to be fixed to the lath either by slips
of wood pushed into a bag, sewed to the heads of the curtain, in the same.
manner as the base slip of a bed is done, either by a groove in or hooks, &c., to
fix the slip to the lath, or laced on by oilet holes made in a strap, &c. sewed to the
head of the curtain, drawn over studs, staples, or through holes made in the
lath; or the window or bed curtain may be fixed to. the lath by hooks sewed
to the head of the curtain to hook upon the lath by holes, &c. made in the
lath or staples drove in the architrave of the window or wainscot; &c., (where a
lath may not be convenient), to receive the hooks fixed to the head of the
curtain. The lines which draw up or let down the said curtain may run.over
rollers or pulleys made of wood; metal; or any hard body fixed to lay on or