SPRING WHEELS FOR CARRIAGES
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
BUTLER, of the City of Litchfield, in the County of Stafford, Coachmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath
been graciously pleased, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the thirteenth year
of His said Majesty's reign, to give. and graut unto me, the said James
Butler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Butler, my exors,
adiiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my
or their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as I, the said
James Butler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, should and lawfully might from time to time and at
all times hereafter during the term of years therein expressed, make, use
exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"SPRING WHEELS FOR CARRIAGES," in such manner as to me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of them, in their discretions should seem
meet, and that I, the said James Butler, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, to have hold, exercise, and enjoy the

page_text: said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto me, the
said James Butler, my executors, administrators, 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 that case made and provided; and whereas
in the said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said James
Butler, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will.more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said James Butler, do hereby declare my
said new-invented spring wheels are made and performed in manner following
(that is to say):
The nave or middle of the wheel is made of wood and bushed as a common
wheel; the rim or outside circle are wood fellies, straitly fixed in a circular
iron hoop, which iron hoop has two counter struck holes to answer the foot of
every spring. The springs which serve instead of spokes are made of steel, in
the form and shape as described in the Plan drawn in the margin hereof, which,
being made with square feet with two holes in each, are strongly screwed into
The feet of the other ends are made lengthways, and with two
holes which receive the ends of the bolts that come through the iron hoop and
confines the hoop, the fellies, and springs all at one time, and, by the foot of
every other spring being fixed across the joints of the fellies, prevents the joints
from stirring out of place.
the nave.
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In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seven-
teenth day of February, in the thirteenth 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-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Seventeenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1778, the aforesaid James Butler 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
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.