NEW-INVENTED SWIVEL AND SOCKET FOR THE PERCHES OF FOUR-WHEEL'D CARRIAGES, WHICH PREVENTS THEIR BEING OVERTURNED, AND MAKES THEM RUN EASY
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
MEARES, of Frome, in the County of Somerset, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date on
or about the Tenth day of October, One thousand seven hundred and eighty-
six, in the twenty-sixth year of His said Majestie's reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said Robert Meares, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power and sole priviledge and authority, that I, the
said Robert Meares, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that
part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of. Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED SWIVEL AND SOCKET FOR THE PERCHES
OF FOUR-WHEEL'D CARRIAGES, WHICH PREVENTS THEIR BEING OVERTURNED, AND
MAKES THEM RUN EASY;" in which said recited Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso that if I, the said Robert Meares, 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 inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of Chan-
cery within one calendar month 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 be
void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, referrence being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert Meares, do hereby declare that my said new-invented swivel and
socket is made and used in manner following, that is to say:-
The swivel and socket is made of iron and other mettal, and is affixed to
the perch, which is divided into two lengths for that purpose between the
perch bolt and the hindermost axle, by means whereof the foremost part of
the perch turns with the rising of a foremost wheel, and the hindermost part
of the perch turns in like manner with the rising of a hinder wheel, and
thereby prevents a hindermost wheel rising suddenly whilst the foremost wheel
passes over an obstruction, and leaves the foremost wheel to run safely on the
road whilst the hindermost wheel passes over the same obstruction.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Meares, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of October, in the twenty-seventh
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, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-six.
stampt, in the presence of
JAMES EDGELL.
HARRY EDGELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of October, in
the year of our Lord 1786, the aforesaid Robert Meares came before our said
Lord the King, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statutes
made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.