A NEW WAY OR METHOD OF MAKING ELASTIC GIRDLES, BANDAGES, OR ROLERS THE MOST USEFUL AND CONVENIENT TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE RUPTURES, FRACTURES, SPRAINS, AND SWELLINGS OF EVERY KIND, AND WHICH IS ON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, the Reverend
Doctor ANSELM BAYLY, of Middle Scotland Yard, in the County of Middlesex,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said Anselm Bayly did, by his Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that he, the
said Petitioner, had, by great study, labor, and expence, invented and brought to
perfection "A NEW WAY OR METHOD OF MAKING ELASTIC GIRDLES, BANDAGES, OR
ROLERS THE MOST USEFUL AND CONVENIENT TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE RUPTURES,
FRACTURES, SPRAINS, AND SWELLINGS OF EVERY KIND, AND WHICH IS ON AN ENTIRE
NEW CONSTRUCTION;" that the said Invention cannot fail of being of public
utility; and therefore the said Petitioner prayed that His said Majesty would be
pleased to grant unto him, the said Petitioner, his exors, adñors, and assigns,
His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole
making and vending the said Invention within that part of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for
the term of fourteen years; and His said Majesty, being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be for the public
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to the Petitioner's request, and
did therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twentieth day of July, in the twenty-seventh year of His reign, of His
special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto the said Anselm Bayley, his exors,
adñiors, and assigns, His special licence, fully power, sole priviledge and
authority, that the said Anselm Bayley, his exors, admors, and assigns,

page_text: and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Anselm Bayley, his
exors, admňors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
years therein
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend his
said Invention within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such
manner as to him, the "said Anselm. Bayley, his exors, adññiors, and assigns,
or any of them, should-in his or- their discretion think meet;-and that he,
the said Anselm Bayley, his exors, adññiors, 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, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Anselm
Bayley, his exors, admors, and assigns, for and during and until the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a provisoe that if the said Anselm Bayley 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 enrolled in His said Majestie's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said 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, as in and by the said Letters Patent, referrence
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, he, the said
Anselm Bayley, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows; that
is to say :-
The elastic girdle, belt, roller, or stay part may consist of silk, cotton,
thread, or worsted, knitted with skewers or needles, or be woven lengthways,
overcross, or crossways in a strocking frame, and with a machine lacework
fashion. The central and elastick machines may be made of various mettals,
simple or compound, with wood, silk, and wool, of various sizes and shapes,
for different purposes, and support of the body or parts of the body. The

page_text: springs may be shaped or formed either by manual operation with plyers, or
by a machine of wood, tin, iron, steel, or brass, in a form eglindrical, comic, or
spiral, on a mandle, resting upon two points, or on a springle resembling a
watch fusee.
In witness whereof, I, the said Anselm Bayley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the twenty-seventh
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-seven.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1787, the aforesaid Doctor Anselm Bayly 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.