NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF CUTTING AND MAKING BREECHES IN LEATHER, VELVET, SILK, WORSTED, AND OTHER MATERIALS,. MORE CONVENIENT AND EASY TO THE WEARER THAN ANY YET MADE
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS LINGHAM, of the Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County
of Middlesex, Breeches Maker and Glover, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the twenty-third
year of His reign, did grant unto me, the said Thomas Lingham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His said Majestie's especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Lingham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and thein-
selves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as I, the said Thomas Lingham, 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 use, exercise, and vend my "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF
CUTTING AND MAKING BREECHES IN LEATHER, VELVET, SILK, WORSTED, AND
OTHER MATERIALS,. MORE CONVENIENT AND EASY TO THE WEARER THAN ANY YET
MADE," and which I conceived would of great public utility, within that part
of His Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said

page_text: Thomas Lingham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said Thomas Lingham,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, shall 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 me, the said. Thomas Lingham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Lingham, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
hereof, that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages 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 in part recited Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Lingham, do hereby declare
my said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner
following (that is to say)
:-
The breeches are cut in one length, without any waistband or stifening, and
without any seam, except in the section, and are fastened round the waist by
buttons in front, and worsted or silk elastic band inclosed in the top part with
a buckle behind, by which the breeches may be made tight or loose as the
wearer thinks proper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Lingham, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the twenty-third 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-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Lingham came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of Their late
Majesties King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.