A NEW MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND ERECTING BRIDGES AND RAILROADS WITHOUT ARCHES OR STERLINGS, WHEREBY THE DANGER OF THEIR BEING WASHED AWAY BY FLOODS IS AVOIDED
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SARAHI
GUPPY, wife of SAMUEL GUPPY, of the City of Bristol, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fourth day of March, in the fifty-first year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Sarah Guppy, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Sarah Guppy, my exors, adññors, and assigns, 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 Inven-
tion of "A NEW MODE OF CONSTRUCTING AND ERECTING BRIDGES AND RAILROADS
WITHOUT ARCHES OR STERLINGS, WHEREBY THE DANGER OF THEIR BEING WASHED
AWAY BY FLOODS IS AVOIDED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Sarah Guppy, shall 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months 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, shall utterly cease, determine, and
become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Sarah Guppy, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to performed, are particularly described
and ascertained as follows (that is to say):-

page_text: On each side of the river or place over which a bridge or road is to be
constructed, pursuant to my said Invention, I do fix or drive a row of piles, with
suitable framing to connect them together, and behind these I do fix, or drive,
and connect, other. piles or rows of piles and suitable framing, or otherwise, upon
the banks of the said river or place, I do dispose or build certain masses of
connected masonry or other ponderous structures, with piles or without, in
order and to the end that the said piles or masonry, or other structures, shall
be capable of sustaining and permanently resisting the action of a considerable
force applied or exerted in directions tending to bring the same together; and
I pass across the said river or place, from the upper or other convenient part of
the said piles or masonry or structure, several strong metallick chains, parallel
to and at suitable distances, from each other, which said chains may be drawn
tight by secure mechanical means; or otherwise the said chains may be
suffered to hang in similar lines, slightly curved from the one side or bank to
the other, and in either case I do dispose upon the said chains longitudinally
and crosswise such fit pieces of timber, or iron, or other suitable material, as
shall and may constitute a platform, which, by the connection or disposition of
the materials thereof, shall afford a proper support for a road or pavement
of the usual structure, or for railroads, which last, namely, the railroads, upon
such occasions as may require the use and application of my said Invention, I
do connect, unite, and frame together with each other and with the claims
herein-before mentioned and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sarah Guppy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
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SARAH GUPPY. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of July, in the year
of our Lord 1811, the aforesaid Sarah Guppy 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 Indenture aforesaid was stampt according to the 'tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
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