A STIRRUP, BY THE USE OF WHICH THE UNITED ADVANTAGES OF EASE AND SAFETY WOULD BE DERIVED, AS THE RIDER WHO USED IT WOULD HAVE A FIRM REST FROM THE CENTER OF THE FOOT TO THE EXTREMITY OF THE TOE, WHICH, WITH THE ADDITION OF GUARDS OR RIBBS, RENDERED THE SOLE OF THE FOOT NOT ONLY MORE EASY THAN ANY STIRRUP AT PRESENT MADE, BY PREVENTING ANY PART OF THE INSTEP BEING TOUCHED,BUT THAT IT WOULD ALSO AVOID THE POSSIBILITY OF ACCIDENT, IN CASE THE HORSE SHOULD TUMBLE OR THE RIDER BE THROWN, AS FROM THE FORM AND SHAPE OP THE STIRRUP THE FOOT COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE ENTANGLED IN IT
Year: 1802

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
MALTBY, of the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Maltby, did by my petition humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
that I had, after much trouble, labour, and expence, found out, and invented
"A STIRRUP, BY THE USE OF WHICH THE UNITED ADVANTAGES OF EASE AND
SAFETY WOULD BE DERIVED, AS THE RIDER WHO USED IT WOULD HAVE A FIRM
REST FROM THE CENTER OF THE FOOT TO THE EXTREMITY OF THE TOE, WHICH,
WITH THE ADDITION OF GUARDS OR RIBBS, RENDERED THE SOLE OF THE FOOT NOT
ONLY MORE EASY THAN ANY STIRRUP AT PRESENT MADE, BY PREVENTING ANY
PART OF
THE INSTEP BEING TOUCHED, BUT THAT IT WOULD ALSO AVOID THE
POSSIBILITY OF ACCIDENT, IN CASE THE HORSE SHOULD TUMBLE OR THE RIDER
BE THROWN, AS FROM THE FORM AND SHAPE OP THE STIRRUP THE FOOT COULD NOT
POSSIBLY BE ENTANGLED IN IT;" that I was the first and true Inventor thereof,
and that the same had never been made or used by any other person or
persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I therefore most humbly
prayed His said Majesty that He would he graciously pleased to grant unto
me, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole use, benefit, and advantage of my
said Invention within that part of His Majesty's United Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute
in that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the public good,
was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His
Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourteenth day of June, in the forty-second year of His
reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, did give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Maltby, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, the said
Thomas Maltby, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Maltby, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, 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 my said Invention within that part of His
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Thomas Maltby, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of
us, should in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas Maltby,
my exors, admors, 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, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned
to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Maltby, my exors, adñññors, and assigns,
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date
of the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if I, the
said Thomas Maltby, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what-manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, may and will, on reference thereunto being had, more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Maltby, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the said stirrup so invented and made by me is made in the
manner as by me herein-after specified, expressed, and declared, and as will
more particularly appear by the plan thereof hereunto annexed (that is to
say):-
Q
Figure 1, the stirrup complete; to be made of iron, or any other material
suitable for the purpose. A, A, plate (represented separately by Figure 2) for
the support of the bottom or sole of the foot (it may be either carved or plain,
to suit the fancy of the rider); B, the bow, similar to the bow of the stirrup at
present used, which is rivetted or fastened into the plate at C, C. This bow is
represented seperately by Figure 3. d, d, d, the ribbs or side guards. There
are three on each side, but may be more or less, according to the length of the
stirrup. These are rivetted or fastened into the plate at e, e, e, e, e, e, and into
the bow (B) at f. f. f. G, the front guard, which is rivetted or fastened into
the plate as h, h, h, and into the bow (B) at f, shewn in Figure 2 by
and in Figure 3 by *. One of the side guards is represented seperately
by Figure 4, and the front guard by Figure 5. The use of the side guards is
to keep the foot steady on the plate A, A, and in case of accident by
a horse
stumbling, they, with the front guard, prevent the foot of the rider being
entangled in the stirrup. The front guard should be so constructed that the
foot of the rider may go only so far into the stirrup as to prevent the bow B
from passing on the upper part of the instep or the ancle, which will prevent
an unpleasant friction. This front guard, in case of accident, jointly with the
side guards, makes it impossible for the foot to hang in the stirrup.
G
In witness whereof, I, the Thomas Maltby, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of July, in the forty-second year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
two.
"
ealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped), in the presence of
SAM PARSONS.
ALEXR FOXCROFT.
THOS (L.S.) MALTBY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1802, the aforesaid Thomas Maltby 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 Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and two.