AN ENTIRELY NEW AND PARTICULAR KIND OF AXELTREES, WHEREBY VEHICLES AND CARRIAGES WOULD BE RENDERED MUCH MORE COMMODIUS AND BE BETTER FITTED FOR TRAVELLING IN THE DIPPERENT ROADS THEY PASS THRO', AND WOULD BE DRAWN WITH LESS LABOUR AND STRENGTH, GREATER SAPETY, MORE STEADINESS AND MUCH LESS AGITATION AND NOISE THAN BY ANY INVENTION THEN FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE SO PRAMED AND CONTRIVED AS TO PRESERVE THE WHEELS PROM TAKING FIRE, AND IN A GREAT
Year: 1759

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
PEASE, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Coach Spring Maker, and WILLIAM MONK, of the Parish of Saint
Margaret, Westminster. in the same County, Coach Maker and Wheelwright,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the thirty-third
year of His reign (reciting that we, the said Thomas Pease and William
Monk, had, by our Petition, humbly represented unto His said Majesty that
with great trouble, and much study, labour, and application, we had invented
and brought to an extraordinary degree of perfection "AN ENTIRELY NEW AND
PARTICULAR KIND OF AXELTREES, WHEREBY VEHICLES AND CARRIAGES WOULD BE
RENDERED MUCH MORE COMMODIUS AND BE BETTER FITTED FOR TRAVELLING IN THE
DIPPERENT ROADS THEY PASS THRO', AND WOULD BE DRAWN WITH LESS LABOUR AND
STRENGTH, GREATER SAPETY, MORE STEADINESS, AND MUCH LESS AGITATION AND
NOISE THAN BY ANY INVENTION THEN FOUND OUT THAT THEY WERE SO PRAMED AND
CONTRIVED AS TO PRESERVE THE WHEELS PROM TAKING FIRE, AND IN A GREAT

page_text: THAT
MEASURE FROM THE TOO COMMON MISFORTUNE ATTENDING THEIR BREAKING DOWN,
BEING MUCH MORE EFFECTUALLY SECURED FROM GATHERING COOM, SAND, AND GRAVEL,
AND PLAYING WITH LESS FRICTION THAN ANY AXLETREES THEN INVENTED;
THE INVENTION WAS FOUNDED UPON A PLAN ENTIRELY NEW, AND WOULD, AS WE
HUMBLY CONCEIVED, BE EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLICK," and praying His
Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making and vending our said new
invented axletrees), His said Majesty did, by His said Letters Patent, give and
grant unto us, the said Thomas Pease and William Monk, our executors,
Administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that we and they, and no others, should and might use, exercise,
and vend our said Invention within England, Wales, Berwick-upon-Tweed,
and His Majesty's Colonies or Plantatious abroad, for and during the term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if we, the said Thomas Pease and William
Monk, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under our hands and seals, and cause the same to be inrolled 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 ceasc, 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 we, the said Thomas Pease and William Monk,
in compliance with the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by the Plan or particular thereof in the margin of these Presents, and the
several explanations and referrences following, that is to say :-
A is the wooden bed; B the metal boxes to be fixed or lett into the wooden
bed at each extremity thereof, for the reception of the axletrees; C the axle-
trees, which being lett into the boxes, move round therein with each wheel, to
the nave of which they are screwed and firmly fixed as in the Plan. D, a
screw bolt, which passing thro' the wooden bed at the places marked (1), and
also thro' the apertures in the metal boxes marked (2), runs across the
axletree at the grove or indentation therein marked 3, and confines it within
the box. E a reservoir or cavity in the screw bolts, from whence, by a small
hole in the reservoir or cavity, the boxes and axletrees are constantly supplied
and properly moistened with oil. F the nutts for fastening the screw bolts on
the outside of the wooden bed. Ga cap fastned with screws to the back side

page_text: f the nave of each wheel which covers the flanches of the boxes marked H
or preserving the axletrees from dirt, sand, &c.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Pease and William Monk, have
hereunto severally set our hands and seals, the Third day of March, in
the thirty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Second, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
sixty.
thirty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, the
said Thomas Pease and William Monk came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and
thing therein contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the
late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.