A METHOD, INTIRELY NEW, OF MAKING A MAN'S SADDLE UPON SUCH A CONSTRUCTION SO AS THEREWITH COMPLEATLY TO FIT HORSES, MARES, GELDINGS, AND MULES OF ALL SIZES, EQUALLY ALIKE, AND ALSO A WOMAN'S SADDLE, UPON SUCH A CONSTRUCTION SO AS THEREWITH COMPLEATLY TO FIT SES,, AND
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
PEOVER, of North Row, in the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in
the County of Middlesex, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS by His Majesty King George the Third's Letters Patent,
bearing date the Ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, reciting therein that the said Joseph
Peover had, by his Petition; humbly represented to His said Majesty that he
had, by great labour, application, and expence, invented, found out, and brought
to perfection, "A METHOD, INTIRELY NEW, OF MAKING A MAN'S SADDLE UPON SUCH
A CONSTRUCTION SO AS THEREWITH COMPLEATLY TO FIT HORSES, MARES, GELDINGS,
AND MULES OF ALL SIZES, EQUALLY ALIKE, AND ALSO A WOMAN'S SADDLE, UPON SUCH
A CONSTRUCTION SO AS THEREWITH COMPLEATLY TO FIT HORSES, MARES, GELDINGS,
AND MULES OF ALL SIZES, EQUALLY ALIKE," which the said Joseph Peover, the
Petitioner, apprehended would be of great use and benefit to His Majestie's
subjects, and in regard that the said Joseph Peover, the Petitioner, was the
first and true Inventor thereof, he therefore most humbly prayed that His
said Majesty would be graciously pleased to grant unto him, his exors,
admors, and assigns, His said Majestie's Royal Letters Patent, under His said
Majestie's Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use and benefit of his said
Invention, within that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in His said Majestie's Colonies and Plantations abroad, for the term
of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided;
and His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which may be for the publick good, were graciously pleased to

page_text: condescend to the said Joseph Peover, the Petitioner's request, therefore, that
they His said Majesty, of Their special grace, certain knowledge, and mere
motion, did give and grant unto the said Joseph Peover, his exors, adñiors,
and assigns, Their special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that
he, the said Joseph Peover, his exors, adiñors, and assigns, and every of them,
by himself and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as he, the said Joseph Peover, his exors, adiñors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no other, 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 the said Invention
within that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, Their Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-of-Tweed, and also
in Their Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to him, the said
Joseph Peover, his exors, adññiors, or assigns, or any of them, should in
his or their direction seem meet; and that he, the said Joseph Peover,
his exors, adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodities, and advantage from time to
time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Inven
tion, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Joseph
Peover, his exors, adññors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case
made and provided; and to the end that he, the said Joseph Peover, his
exors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, might have and enjoy the
whole benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said Invention, according
to His said Majestio's gracious intention therein-before declared, His said
Majesty did thereby, for them, their heirs and successors, require and strictly
command all and every person or persons, bodies politic and corporate, and all
other His Majestie's subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name,
or condition soever, they being within that said part of His said Majestie's
Kingdom called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, and also in His Majestie's Colonies and Plantations abroad as aforesaid,
that neither they nor any or either of them at any time during the continuance
of the said term of fourteen years thereby granted, either directly or indirectly,
to make, use, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the
same so attained unto by the said Joseph Peover as aforesaid, nor in anywise
counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make nor cause to be
made any addition thereunto or subtraction from the same, whereby to

page_text: pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the licence, consent, or agreement of the said Joseph Peover,
his exors, adñiors, or assigns, in writing under his or their hands and seals
first had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains and penalties as could or
might be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of that His
Majestie's Royal command, and further to be answerable to the said Joseph
Peover, his exors, adñññors, and assigns, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And morcover, His said Majesty did thereby
for them, their heirs and successors, will and command all and singular the
justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, constables, headboroughs, and
all other officers and ministers whatsoever of His said Majesty, their heirs and
successors for the time being, that they or any of them did not, nor should
at any time thercafter during the said term thereby granted, anywise molest,
trouble, or binder the said Joseph Peover, his exors, adiñors, or assigns,
or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due
and lawful use or excrcise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating
thereto; provided always, and the said Letters Patent were and should be
upon that condition, that if at any time during the said term thereby granted,.
it should be made appear to His said Majesty, Their heirs, successors, or any
five or more of them, or Their Privy Council, that His said Majestie's grant
was contrary to law, or prejudicial or inconvenient to Their subjects in general,
or that the said Invention was not a new Invention as to the public use and
exercise thereof in that part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, Their Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and also in His said Majestie's Colonies and Plantations abroad aforesaid, or
not invented or found out by the said Joseph Peover as aforesaid, then
upon signification or declaration thereof, to be made by Them, His said
Majesty, Their heirs and successors, under their or any of their signet
or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of Their Privy Council; or
any six or more of them, under their hands, then His said Majestie's
Letters Patent should forthwith cease, determine, and be utterly void, to
all intents and purposes, anything therein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also that His said Majestie's
Letters Patent, or anything therein contained, should not extend or be
construed to extend to give priviledge unto the said Joseph Peover, his
exors, adiñors, or assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or
work whatsoever, or which had theretofore been found out or invented by any
other of His said Majestie's subjects whatsoever, or publickly used or exercised in
that said part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, or Town. of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or His-said Majestie's

page_text: Plantations abroad aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges
had been already granted for the sole use, exercise, and benefit thereof,
being His said Majestie's will and pleasure that the said Joseph Peover,
his cxors, adiñors, and assigns, and all and every other person and persons
whatsoever, to whom like Letters Patent or priviledges had been already
granted, as aforesaid, should distinctly use and practise their several Inven-
tions by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patent: Provided likewise, never-
theless, that His said Majestie's Letters Patent were upon that express
condition, that if the said Joseph Peover, his exors, or adñors, or any
o.her person or persons which should or might at any time or times thereafter
during the continuance of the said grant, havo or claim any right, title, or
interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the
sole use and benefit of the said Invention thereby granted, should make any
transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer or assignment, of the said
liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof,
or should declare any trust thereof, to or for any number of persons exceeding
the number of five, or should open or cause to be opened any book or books
for public subscription to be made by any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, in order to the raising any sum or sums of money under
pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge thereby granted, or
should, by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants, receive any sum
or sums of money whatsoever of any number of persons exceeding in the whole
the number of five, for such or the like intents or purposes, or shall presume
to act as a corporate body, or should divide the benefit of His said Majestie's
Letters Patent, or the liberty or priviledge by them granted, unto any number
of shares exceeding the number of five, or should comit, or do, or procure to
be admitted or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, during such time as
such person or persons should have any right or title either in law or equity in
or to the said premises which would be contrary to the true intent and meaning
of a certain Act of Parliament, made in the sixth year of the reign of His said
Majesty's late Royal Great Grandfather King George the First, intitled
An Act for better securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to
be granted by His Majesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and
Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money upon Bottomry, and for
restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable Practices therein men-
tioned; or in case the said power, priviledge, or authority should at any time
thereafter become vested in or in trust for more than the number of five
persons or their representatives at any one time, reckoning the exors or
admors as and for the single person whom they represent as to such interest

page_text: as they were or should be intitled to in right of such their testator or
intestate, that then, and in any of the said cases, His said Majestie's Letters
Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, any therein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. It is therein also
provided, that if the said Josep Peover 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 inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and imediately after the date of
His said Majestie's Letters Patent, that then His said Majestie's Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And His said Majesty, by His
said Letters Patent, did for Themselves, Their heirs and successors, grant unto
the said Joseph Peover, his exors, aliiors, and assigns, that His said
Majestic's Letters Patent, or the inrollment or exemplification, shoul be and by
all things good, firm, valid, suflicient, and effectual in the law, according to the
truc intent and meaning thereof, and should be taken, construed, and adjudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said
Joseph Peover, his exors, adiñors, and assigns, as well in all His Majestie's
Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and
ministers whatsoever of His said Majesty, Their heirs and successors, in that
part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great called England, Their Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in Their Colonies
and Plantations abroad aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subjects
His said Majesty, Their heirs and successors whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of
the said Invention, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging, as
by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso I, the said
Joseph Peover, do hereby declare my said new Invention respecting the Man's
Saddle is composed and made in manner following, that is to say:-
The tree thereof is made of wood, and divided or cut into two equal parts
at the centre of the head and cantle, and connected together with leather on
the upper and under side of the tree, and also the tree is further connected
together on the under side thereof with leather from the head to the cantle such
a distance from the top of the tree so as to prevent the head or cantle thereof

page_text: from touching the horse, mare, gelding, or mule's back, and the pannell of the
saddle is stuffed all round equally alike.
And I, the said Joseph Peover, do hereby declare my said new Invention
respecting the Woma's Sadle is composed and made in manner following,
that is to say-
The tree thereof is made of wood, and the two heads thereof are seperated
from the barrs and connected to the barrs again, with leather on both sides;
the tree is cut in two at the centre of the cantle, and connected together again
with leather on both sides. The tree is also further connected together on the
under side with leather from the head to the cantle such a distance from
the top of the tree so as to prevent the head or cantle of the said tree from
touching the horse, mare, gelding, or mules' back, the pannel of the saddle is
stuffed all round equally alike.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Peover, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of April, in the twenty-second 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 eighty-two.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty two.