A DOUBLE SHAFT AND POLE CARRIAGE TO CROSS THE BUTTS AND GO WITH TWo WHEELS AND TWO HORSES ON ABREAST TOGETHER, WITH PROPER HARNESS FOR THE SAME, FITT TO CARRY EITHER A CHAISE, COACH, CHARRIOTT, CARAVAN, A CHAISE MARINE, OR ANY OTHER CONVENIENCY OF THAT OR THE LIKE NATURE
Year: 1740

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
CRISPE, of the Parish of Saint Michael, in the City of Bristoll, Esquire, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royall Letters Patent, under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Ninth day of August,
in the fourteenth year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the
said William Crispe, my executors, administrators, and assignes, the sole
lycence and priviledge of using, exercising, and vending a new Invention of
"A DOUBLE SHAFT AND POLE CARRIAGE TO CROSS THE BUTTS AND GO WITH TWo
WHEELS AND TWO HORSES ON ABREAST TOGETHER, WITH PROPER HARNESS FOR THE
SAME, FITT TO CARRY EITHER A CHAISE, COACH, CHARRIOTT, CARAVAN, A CHAISE
MARINE, OR ANY OTHER CONVENIENCY OF THAT OR THE LIKE NATURE;" to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence and priviledge unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assignes, for the 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 provisoe, that if I, the
said William Crispe, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seale, the same to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within three calendar months next after the date of the
said Letters Patent, that then the same Letters Patent shall be void, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said
William Crispe, do by this present Writing, under my hand and seal, declare

page_text: the nature of and in what manner my said new Invention is to be performed,
to be as follows (to wit):
The carriage moves with two wheels fixed either on a wooden or double
stapled iron axletree, double shafts of wood are fixed on the carriage so as to
move horizontally, within each of which shafts one of the horses is placed, and
each of the said shafts is confined by a barr to keep them at a proper distance
from each other, and between the horses a pole is fixed on the carriage about
four inches above the shafts. The harness for each horse is of the same make
as is commonly made use of for a single horse drawing a chaise, with the
addition only of a pole piece, a back band, and belly band, for each horse,
heretofore not in use for a two-horse chaise, and which secures the chaise from
overturning.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Crispe, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and forty.
W. CRISPE.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stamp'd) in the presence,
J. D. BARBUTT.
ROB FEARN.
AN BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Sixth day of November, in the
year above written, the aforesaid William Crispe came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Discription aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specifyed, in form above written, and
also the Description aforesaid, was stamp'd according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William
and Mary of England, and so forth.