A PLOUGE
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
MANLEY, of Uffculm, in the County of Devon, Clerk, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of May,
in the forty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Edward
Manley, His especial licence, that I, the said Edward Manley, 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 PLOUGE;" in which said Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Edward Manley, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to return a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunto had, may most fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Manley, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, and particularly
described and ascertained as follows, that is to say:-
That in the Drawing hereunto annexed represents the said Invention called
or known by the name of the Expedition Plough, which has this advantage
over every other implement, that the same horse power has more than double

page_text: the effect in draft, and that the work it makes is greatly superior to that of
every other plough. It is worked in a beam in the common way, and has
three different sets of feet, which may be exchanged one for the other, as
required. These are more or less in number according to the size of the beam,
and the different work for which they are intended. To make the implement
more generally useful and more convenient for sale, they are so constructed
that they may be all used together in the same beam, or separately in different
beams, making an implement of three parts, having three sets of feet, which
are used in the following manner :-The first, when set shallow in the ground,
will either scarify or spine; when set deep they will draw themselves into the
ground, working it up and pulverizing it at a great depth; the second are
used for the the purpose of working the ground finer; the third are used for
turning the ground over in single or double ridges. The beam and the feet
may be described as follows:-The beam or wooden frame in which the feet
are fixed represents that of the common plough, with the addition of two arms
or side beams to take the side feet, and is worked by handles, and set by a
wheel. The feet are in three sets, as before recited; a foot of the first set
represents a coulter, with a share point having wings fixed behind. A foot of
the second set exactly resembles that of the first, but is of a smaller size;
a foot of the third set differs from the others, only in that it has a single or
double broad plate fixed behind the coulter. To the above implement a roller
and harrow brush are occasionally annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Manley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and nine
tra. in Chancery.
[M.B.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighteenth day of July,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Edward Manley came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowleged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of July, in the year above written.