AN ORNAMENTAL STEEL CASE OR OUTWARD COVERING FOR THE HEELS OF SHOES, BOOTS, AND SLIPPERS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, TO BE MADE OF SILVER, GOLD, PLATED IRON, OR OTHER METALS, WHICH MAY BE WORE EITHER PLAIN OR DECORATED, AND WILL GIVE ADDI- TIONAL STABILITY AND SECURITY AS WELL TO THE SHOES, BOOTS, AND SLIPPERS, AS TO THE FEET OF THE WEARER, WITHOUT THE INCONVENIENCE OF A PONDEROUS INCUM- BRANCE
Year: 1789

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN,
BULKELEY, of the City of Chester, Wine Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date.
the Thirtieth day of July, in the twenty-ninth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said John Bulkeley, His especial licence that I, the said John'
Bulkeley, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully.
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town,
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN ORNAMENTAL STEEL CASE OR
OUTWARD COVERING FOR THE HEELS OF SHOES, BOOTS, AND SLIPPERS OF MEN,
WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, TO BE MADE OF SILVER, GOLD, PLATED IRON, OR OTHER
METALS, WHICH MAY BE WORE EITHER PLAIN OR DECORATED, AND WILL GIVE ADDI-
TIONAL STABILITY AND SECURITY AS WELL TO THE SHOES, BOOTS, AND SLIPPERS, AS
TO THE FEET OF THE WEARER, WITHOUT THE INCONVENIENCE OF A PONDEROUS INCUM-
BRANCE;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said John Bulkeley, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular-
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within.
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large.
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Bulkeley, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in:
manner following (that is to say) :-
The silver, gold, iron, copper, brass, pewter, pontipool, or other metal or

page_text: composition of metals being rolled, or flatted, or hammered, cast, or ground to
the thickness intended, are then to be wrought or worked, by the methods of
working silversmiths, into the shape of the heel, agreeable to the size intended,
whether for shoes, boots, or slippers, either of women, men, or children; or the
metals may be cast in moulds, or may be formed in halves, or smaller parts are
joined by silver solder or other solder, or by a joint in the back part, or folded
over in the back part, or the back part only, or may be made in open,
checquered, chased, pierced, striped, engraved, etched, ribbed, or network, or
may be plated, silvered, gilt, gold or silver soldered, enamelled, painted,
stained, japanned, lacquered, or varnished, either with or without various
devices, or ornamented, inlaid, or set with diamonds, jewels, or what is usually
called French, Italian, or English paste, or false stones, pearls, rubies, foil,
gardens, steel, glass, or any kind of jewellery, or ornamental impressions by
dies or punches, or other decorations. The heel case may be fastened by
piercing it so as to stitch it to the shoe, boot, or slipper, or may be folded or
doubled over the top or at the bottom of the heel, or by both means, or may
be fastened with solder, pins, nails, screws, wire, thread, silk, prongs, or similar
fastenings; or they may be made so as to take off at pleasure, and fixed on
occasionally, which will give a most pleasing choice to the wearer to place
various coloured silks or foil between the heel case and the heel, and thereby
display great beauty to those heel cases that may be wrought in any kind of
open work, and may also be fastened by the help of solder, pins, nails, screws,
wire, thread, silk, prongs, or similar fastenings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Bulkeley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-nine.