A GIRTH PANNEL WHICH MOST EFFECTUALLY PREVENTS THE SADDLE FROM GETTING FORWARD UPON ANY DESCRIPTION OP HORGES, HOWEVER MUCH NATURE MAY, IN THE SHAPE OF THE ANIMAL, WORK AGAINST IT
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GORDON
HOWDEN, of Oxford Street, corner of Orchard Street, Portman Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Saddler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King. George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twentieth day of July last, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said Gordon Howden, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Gordon Howden, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and them-
selves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Gordon Howden, my executors, administrators, 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, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A GIRTH PANNEL WHICH MOST
EFFECTUALLY PREVENTS THE SADDLE FROM GETTING FORWARD UPON ANY DESCRIPTION
OP HORGES, HOWEVER MUCH NATURE MAY, IN THE SHAPE OF THE ANIMAL, WORK
AGAINST IT;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Gordon Howden, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to 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 recited Letters Patent,

page_text: large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Gordon Howden, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by the Plan or
Drawing in the margin of these presents, and the following description thereof,
that is to say:-
Fig. 1 exhibits my said pannel viewed sideways, in the situation or position
in which the same is placed beneath the the saddle when in actual use;
and Fig. 2 represents the same pannel spread out or disposed with its interior
surface downwards, and the same letters of the alphabet denote the same parts
or things in both designs. A, D, B, D, shews the outline or border of the
pannel which is to be nailed into the saddle-tree in the usual manner. A is
the part to be fixed in the gullet and immediately over the points of the tree
or thereabouts, on each side I place and secure two pieces (K, K, K, K) of
leather or other fit material, (each of the said pieces being part of the leather
facing of the pannel or a separate and distinct piece as may be most convenient
or preferable), in order to afford a conducting passage or place of security and
defence for the girth, or otherwise to admit and receive a piece E of girthing,
having the girth straps F, F, affixed thereto, and being either fastened to the
pannel or left in a loose state capable of being drawn out as may be preferred;
or otherwise I pass the said girth or piece E through two slits in the pannel,
near the upper edges of the pieces K, K, K, K, in order that the said girth
piece may be more effectually applied to the back of the horse. And I do
further declare, that the benefit and advantage to be derived from my said
pannel, in the effectual prevention of the sadille from getting forward upon any
description of horse, may and can be had and obtained in the use and appli-
cation of any saddle or saddles fitted up and provided with girthwebs and
straps in the manner heretofore practised, so that the common girth or girths
attached to and acting immediately upon the saddle tree may be also used, if
thought fit, along with the girth or piece E, herein-before described as being
conducted, led, or placed through, or in the passage formed and afforded by
the pieces K, K, K, K.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gordon Howden, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven.
GORDON HOWDEN. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Seventeenth day of August, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Gordon Howden came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged 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 same Seventeenth day of August, in the year above written.