A METHOD OF MAKING GENTLEMEN'S COATS AND LADIES' HABITS ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, SO THAT THE SAID COATS OR HABITS HAVE NO SEAMS DOWN THE BACK OR SIDES THEREOF, AND BUT ONE SEAM IN EACH OF THE SLEEVES
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GEORGE
PHILLIPS, of Chandos Street, in the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, in
the County of Middlesex, Salesman, send greeting.
WHEREAS the said George Phillips did, by his Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that he,
the Petitioner, has, by great application and study, invented "A METHOD OF
MAKING GENTLEMEN'S COATS AND LADIES' HABITS ON A NEW CONSTRUCTION, SO
THAT THE SAID COATS OR HABITS HAVE NO SEAMS DOWN THE BACK OR SIDES
THEREOF, AND BUT ONE SEAM IN EACH OF THE SLEEVES," which he apprehended
would be of great utility, not being subject to the inconvenience of ripping,
and yet set in as easy and elegant a manner as if they had the usual quantity
of seams; and, therefore, the said Petitioner prayed that His said Majesty
would be pleased to grant unto him, the said Petitioner, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
Great Britain for the sole making and vending the said Invention within that
part of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years; and His said Majesty,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions that might be
for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to the Petitioner's
request, and did therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of July, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, of
His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto the said George Phillips, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and

page_text: authority, that he, the said George Phillips, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said George Phillips,
bis executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
his said Invention within that part of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as
to him, the said George Phillips, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or
any of them, should, in his or their discretions, think meet, and that he, the
said George Phillips, his executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason
of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said
George Phillips, his executors,.administrators, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said George Phillips should
not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one callendar 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,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, he, the said
George Phillips, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature. of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows; that
is to say :-
Take of broad cloth a sufficient quantity, and cut it out by a measure the
same as in the usual way, except the side and back seams. Then cut one of
the back and both the side skirts off; the sleeves to be cut in one piece;
after which take about one pound of allum or any other vegetable.or vegeto-

page_text: mineral acid, and about one ounce of cochineal, which dissolve in a sufficient
quantity of water, over the steam of which hold that part of the cloth which
goes to the hollow or middle of the back, which will bring it to the shape
required.
In witness whereof, the said George Phillips hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of August, in the twenty-fifth 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-