NEW SORT OF STIRUP LEATHERS AND STIRUPS AND HOUSENS, WHICH ARE SO CONTRIVED THAT THEY WILL RATHER COOL THE HORSES THAN HEAT THEM; THAT THE SAID STIRUP LEATHERS BEING MADE COMPLEATLY STIFF WILL SECURE THE RIDER FROM FALLING WHEN THE HORSE STARTS ASIDE, OR THE OB WHEN LEAPING OVER HEDGES &C., IN HUNTING OR THE LIKE, AND IN RUNNING RACES, OR VPON OCCASIONS FOR WANT OF WHICH INVENCON NUMBERLESS FATAL MISFORTUNES HAVE HAPPENED
Year: 1727

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD NEWSHAM, of our City of
London, Engine Maker, hath by his peticon humbly represented vnto vs, that
after much labour, time, and expence he hath invented a "NEW SORT OF STIRUP
LEATHERS AND STIRUPS AND HOUSENS, WHICH ARE SO CONTRIVED THAT THEY WILL
RATHER COOL THE HORSES THAN HEAT THEM; THAT THE SAID STIRUP LEATHERS BEING
MADE COMPLEATLY STIFF WILL SECURE THE RIDER FROM FALLING WHEN THE HORSE
STARTS ASIDE, OR THE OB WHEN LEAPING OVER HEDGES, &C., IN HUNTING OR THE
LIKE, AND IN RUNNING RACES, OR VPON OCCASIONS FOR WANT OF WHICH INVENCON
NUMBERLESS FATAL MISFORTUNES HAVE HAPPENED," but with this contrivance
(which is every way neater to ride with than any other sort), it is impossible
to dismount a man (though engaged in battle) when his feet are in these
stirup, yet no other sort can be more easy for the feet quitting the stirup
than these are, which the petičoner conceives will be of extraordinary vse to
our subiects; and having humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters
Patent for secureing to him his property in the said Invencon for the term of
fourteen yeares, according to the Statute in such case made and provided, wee
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and invenčons which may be
of publick service and benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratify him in his
request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee of our especiall grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon have given and granted, and by these Presents, for vs

page_text: our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Richard Newsham,
his executors and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that he the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administra-
tors, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe or themselves, or by his or
their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said
Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times hereafter during
the term of yeares hercin expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise,
and vend his said new invented sort of stirup leathers, sirups, and housens
for securing the rider from falling, as above described, within that part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, in such manner as to him the said
Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them,
shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Richard Newsham,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully have and enioy
the whole profit, commodity, benefit, and advantage from time to time comeing,
growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon, for and during
the term of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said
lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or men-
Coned to be granted vnto the said Richard Newsham, his exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of fourteen
years from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensuing, and fully
to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; and to the end that the said Richard Newsham, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full
benefit and the sole vso and exercise of the said Invenčon according to our
gratious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within that
said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any
of them at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen
years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or put in
practice the said Invencon or any part of the same so attained vnto by the
said Richard Newsham as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addičon thereunto
or substracčon from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves
the inventor or invontors, dovisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence,

page_text: consent, or agreement of the said Richard Newsham, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hand and seals first had and
obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
justly inflicted on such offenders, for their contempt of this our royal command;
and further, to be answerable to the said Richard Newsham, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hande and seals first
had, and obtained in that behalf, vpon such pains and penalties as can or may
be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal com-
mand; and further to be answerable to the said Richard Newsham, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned; and moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs,
our heirs and successors, will and command all and singular the justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time
being, that they or any of them do not nor shall at any time hereafter during
the said term hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them,
or his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or anything relating thereto :
Provided always, and these our Letters Patente are and shall be vpon
this condičon, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted,
it shall be made appear to vs, our heires, or successors, or any six or more
of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or pre-
iudicial or inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said Invenčon.
is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and excrcise thereof in that
said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and
found out by the said Richard Newsham as aforesaid, then vpon signifi
cacon or declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council or any six or
more of them vnder hande these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void to all intent and purposes, anything herein;
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Letters Patents or anything herein contained shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Richard
Newsham, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or
imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever, which hath heretofore been found
out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed
or exercised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England

page_text: our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto
whom like Letters Patente or priviledges have been already granted, for the
sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof; it being our will and pleasure that
the said Richard Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person or persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
several Invenčons by them invented and found out according to the true
intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patent and of these
Presents: Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are
vpon this express condičon, that if the said Richard Newsham, his executors
or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may, at any time or
times hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claim any right,
title, or interest in law or equity, of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and
authority, of the solo vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended transferr or assign-
ment of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or
profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons
exceeding the number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any book or
books for publick subscriptions, to be made by any number of persons exceed-
ing the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money
vnde pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or
shall by him or themselves, or his or their agent or servants, receive any
sume or sumes of money whatsoever, of any number of persons excoeding in
the whole the number of five, for such or the like intent or purposes, or
shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these
our Letters Patente, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into
any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall commit or do, or
procure to be committed or done, any act, matter, or thing whatsoever, during
such time as such person or persons shall have any right or title, either in law
or equity, in or to the said promisses, which would be contrary to the true
intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of
our reign, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Privi-
ledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance
of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein inen-
Coned), if these our Letters Patente had not been granted, or in case the
said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested
in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or their represen-
tativos, at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the

page_text: single person whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be
intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any
of the said cases these our Letters Patent Patente, and all liberties, privi-
ledges, and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presente, for
vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Richard Newsham, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollment or exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
valid, sufficient, and effectual in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficial sense, for the best advantage of the said Richard
Newsham, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts
of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-
soever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our said Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiects of vs,
our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon,
or of the materials therto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the the Eighth day