A SADDLE TREE AND SADDLE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION, CALCULATED TO GIVE GREATER EASE BOTH TO THE HORSE AND RIDER THAN ANY HITHERTO DISCO- VERED
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JASPER
AUGUSTUS KELLY, of the Parish of Saint Mary le Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Whipmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the thirty-first year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Jasper Augustus Kelly, His especial
licence that I, the said Jasper Augustus Kelly, during the term of years
therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A
SADDLE TREE AND SADDLE UPON AN ENTIRE NEW CONSTRUCTION, CALCULATED TO
GIVE GREATER EASE BOTH TO THE HORSE AND RIDER THAN ANY HITHERTO DISCO-
VERED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Jasper Augustus Kelly, under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Jasper Augustus Kelly, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in manner following (that is to say):-
Take a proper quantity of whalebone fin, cutting it to a suitable-length for
any saddle tree, take two broad pieces, as above, and form the bars of the said

page_text: tree; take one piece of whalebone, two inches broad, of a proper length, and
bend it by heat, to form the pummel or head of the tree, the points of which
may or may not be covered with brass, iron, or other metal, for security
also another piece of whalebone, of a proper length, to form the cantle; to
strengthen the above head and cantle, line them with a suflicient quantity
of brass, iron, or other metal, rivetting them altogether with copper, iron
or other rivetts; or they may be secured by other means, sufficiently strong,
as the manufacturer shall find most convenient. Put to the head and
cantle, between the metal and whalebone; as above, a piece of strong hide
-undrest, commonly called live hide, of horse or any other strong kind, or
any other material which the manufacturer may think fit to strengthen
them with. The tree being thus formed, may or may not be covered all
over with the above hide, or other material, further to strengthen the same,
as the manufacturer may think fit. To strain the above tree, take a proper
quantity of gutt, webb, or other material, as the manufacturer may think
convenient, for obtaining a light, elastic, and easy seat, and cross strain
with the materials, as above. To the front webb or other material fasten. a
spring stirrup loop, made of iron, steel, or other metal, in a square or other
form; the upper part to be fastened as above, with a small collar brazed on, to
prevent it drawing through the loop of the web. &;, the laver part to receive
the stirrup leathers having on the end next the cantle a spring joint; similar
to that of a clasp knife, which will in case of accident open and release, the
stirrup leather. Take the tree thus compleatly strained, cover it in the usunl
manner of other saddles, sewing it on instead of nailing, at the discretion of the
manufacturer. Form your pannel in the usual manner, stuffed with. curled
horso hair or other material, tying it into the saddle instead of mailing, as the
manufacturer may,
think fit. By this means you may make a compleat and
elastic saddle without wood, iron, tacks, or nails, and will be much easier both
for man and horse, and will prevent the disagreeable effects of the wood or
iron breaking, or the tacks or nails drawing,, which frequently happens, to the
great injury both of man and horse.
"
In witness wheroof, T. the said Jasper Augustus Kelly, have hereunto sėt
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in.the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
JA. KELLY. (In 8-)