A CARTOUCH Box OR RECEPTACLE FOR CARTRIDGES OF GUNPOWDER, OR GUNPOWDER AND BALL, FOR CHARGING MUSQUETRY OR AR- TILLERY, OR ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF FIRE-ARMS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS HAMILTON KEDDIE, of Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Sadler, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, Nine-
teenth day of January, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Thomas Hamilton Keddie, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, His especial licence, that I, the said Thomas Hamilton
Keddie, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "A CARTOUCH Box OR RECEPTACLE FOR CARTRIDGES OF
GUNPOWDER, OR GUNPOWDER AND BALL, FOR CHARGING MUSQUETRY OR AR-
TILLERY, OR ANY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF FIRE-ARMS;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Thomas
Hamilton Keddie, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,

page_text: 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 Thomas Hamilton Keddie, do hereby declare that my said Inven-
tion is described in manner following, that is to say:
Instead of cutting, fashioning, or disposing the holes or cells in my
cartouch box or receptacle in such a direction that the cartridges shall,
when the box is in the usual position for carriage, stand upright, I cut,
fashion, or dispose the said holes or cells in a slant or sloping direction,
so that each cartridge in its hole or cell shall have an inclined situation
when the box is in the usual position for carriage; and I make the said
inclination about forty-five degrees, more or less, from the upright, with
the holes or cells opening outwards from the body of the person who
carries the box, or from the surface, against which the same may be
hung or suspended. And, further, I do fix or apply a pocket of leather
or other fit material, against that side. of the box where the holes are
opened, in order that such cartridges: as by carelessness or accident may
be let fall in taking them from their holes or cells may be caught and
préserved. And, lastly, I do cover, fit up, and finish ny said cartouch
boxes: or receptacles in the usual manner with such materials: as may
be preferred; and I do not pretend to claim any privilege or exclusive
right to such fitting up and finishing.
"
In witness whereof, I, the said Thoma's Hamilton-Keddie, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of February
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
.
:
T. H. KEDDIE
(LS.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of
February, in the year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid Thomas Hamil
ton Keddie came before, our said Lord the King, in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing

page_text: 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 Eighteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.