MAKING AND MANUFACTURING SADDLES AND HOUSINGS, OR SADDLE CLOTHS, SO AS THE SAME SHALL GREATLY EXCEED IN BEAUTY, CONVENIENCE, AND DURABILITY ANY SADDLES AND HOUSINGS, OR SADDLE CLOTHS, MADE AND MANUFACTUR'D ON ANY OTHER CONSTRUCTION OR PRINCIPLE
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
BAILEY, of Moorfields, London, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King Georgo the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Seventh day of December, in the eleventh year of His reign, did give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Bailey, my exccutors, admiors, and assigns,
His said Majesty's special license, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that I, the said Thomas Bailey, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain
called England, His said Majesty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His said Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, my Invention of "MAKING AND MANUFACTURING SADDLES
AND HOUSINGS, OR SADDLE CLOTHS, SO AS THE SAME SHALL GREATLY EXCEED IN
BEAUTY, CONVENIENCE, AND DURABILITY ANY SADDLES AND HOUSINGS, OR SADDLE
CLOTHS, MADE AND MANUFACTUR'D ON ANY OTHER CONSTRUCTION OR PRINCIPLE,"
in such manner as to me, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should seem meet;
and that I, the said Thomas Bailey, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advaniage accrewing and arising from the said Invention during the time
aforesaid; and there is a provisoe contained in the said Letters Patent
obliging me, the said Thomas Bailey, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be formed, and to cause the
same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that the following is the method of making and manu-
facturing such saddles and housings, or saddle cloths, as aforesaid (that is
to say):
First, make and manufacture the saddle in the like manner and with the
like materials as men's saddles usually are, with the addition of two buckles
fixed on the fore part of the tree under the flaps, the one on the right-hand
side, and the other on the left, with two slitts cut in the fore piece of the
under flap even with the hollow or staple nails. Make a head or frame of iron,
steel, or any hard metal, or any tough wood, in the form or shape of the head
of a side saddle; cover such head or frame with leather or cloth, and stuff
that covering and fix thereto two straps to pass thro' the hollow or staple nails
in the fore part of the saddle, and thro' such slits cut in the fore piece of the
under flap, to such two buckles so fixed on such tree to be made to receive
the same as aforesaid. Fix the hind part of such head or frame to a surcingle.
Make the housing or saddle cloth of linnen, cotton, or woolen cloth, fustian,
canvass, stuff, or leather; cover them, when made of cloth, fustian, stuff, or
canvass, with a finer cloth of linnen, cotton, or stuff; paste, glew, or otherwise
fasten these two together, and paint, japan, lacquer, varnish, or gild the outside
cloth (except that part which goes underneath the saddle and the leather flaps)
in imitation of lace, embroidery, fringe, skins of wild beasts, or with arms,
crests, cyphers, or any other devices, or in imitation of any other thing what-
soever, according to the fancy of the owner or purchasor. Line those housings
or saddle cloths in such manner and with such stuff as other housings or saddle
cloths usually are; and.in order to prevent the sweat of the horses from
penetrating them, so as to damage the outside painting, japanning, varnishing,
lacquering, or gilding, let the middle cloth be painted, or otherwise place an
oilskin between the said middle cloth, and lining when made of leather, and
paint the inside of it, or place an oilskin between. it and the usual lining.
"
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bailey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal; the Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord. One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and in the cleventh 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.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourth day of April, in the year
of our Lord 1771, the aforesaid Thomas Bailey 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 Specificačon aforesaid was stampt 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.