A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT AND COM- MODIOUS CARRIAGE OF SOLDIERS CARTRIDGES, BY A METHOD INTIRELY NEW, WHICH MIGHT BE OF GREAT BENEFIT AND PUBLIC UTILITY TO HIS MAJESTY'S ARMY
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
WILLIAM RAWLE, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the
Fields and County of Middlesex, Accoutrement Maker, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the
eighteenth year of His said Majesty's reign, reciting that the said
William Rawle, had by his petition humbly represented unto His
Majesty that he had invented, found out, and brought to perfection
"A CERTAIN INSTRUMENT OR MACHINE FOR THE MORE CONVENIENT AND COM-
MODIOUS CARRIAGE OF SOLDIERS CARTRIDGES, BY A METHOD INTIRELY NEW,
WHICH MIGHT BE OF GREAT BENEFIT AND PUBLIC UTILITY TO HIS MAJESTY'S
ARMY," His Majesty did thereby give and grant unto the said William
Rawle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said William
Rawle, his executors, adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make use, exercise, and
vend his said Invention, within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of

page_text: Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick upon Tweed, and have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage accruing by the said Invention,
to hold and enjoy the same for the full term of fourteen years from the
date of the said Letters Patent; in which said recited Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that if the said William Rawle should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under his hand and seal; and cause the same to be enrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next 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, letermine, and become void, as in and by
the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
more fully and at large appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said William Rawle, in compliance
with the said proviso, and performance of the condition therein con-
tained, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said Inven-
tion in and by the plan thereof drawn in the margin of these l'resents,
and doth hereby declare that the same consists, and is composed of the
several particulars, and is to be performed as herein-after is particularly
mentioned, that is to say:
A 1, A2, A3, A 4, boxes of different dimensions for cartridges,
being bored at top and bottom, and thereby capable of, containing a
double quantity of cartridges. A 5, two single boxes fastened together
at each end by means of metal plates, as represented at one end by the
letter I, by which the boxes may be turned and reversed, or moved one
under the other. Boxes may be constructed upon the same principle,
so as to contain any necessary or convenient number of cartridges.
B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, leather straps and flaps fastened to the
boxes, which cover and secure one sett of cartridges in their place
untill wanted, and by which the boxes are to be drawn out of the
pouches, and at the same time reversed. C1, C 2, C 3, C 4, front
views of pouches open, with boxes of different dimensions in them.
DD, DD, DD, DD, DD, rising ends of the pouches. E, E, E, E, E,

page_text: etal fastenings to keep the pouches shut. F, F, front views of
ouches when shut. G, back view of a pouch when shut. H, a metal
uard through which the belt goes, and which secures the belt to the
ack of the pouch.
In witness whereof, the said William Rawle hath hereunto
set his hand and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the
Eighteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and
Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-
eight.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of March, in the eighteenth year
of the reign of King George the Third.