A NEW METHOD OF MAKING STIRRUPS, IN WHICH THE FEET CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ENTANGLED, AND WHICH, IN POINT OF ELEGANCE AND UTILITY, ARE. GREATLY SUPERIOR TO THOSE. WHICH ARE IN GENERAL USE
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ISAAC
HADLEY REDDELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Gentleman,
send greeting..
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WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the' Second day of August, in the fortieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Isaac Hadley. Reddell,. niy.
executors,. administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by. myself and
themselves, or by my, and their deputies and, deputy; servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Isaac Hadley Reddell, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should agree with, and no other; from time to time and at all
times hereafter during the term of fourteen years. therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, and vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING STIRRUPS, IN WHICH
THE FEET CANNOT POSSIBLY BE ENTANGLED, AND WHICH, IN POINT OF ELEGANCE AND
UTILITY, ARE. GREATLY SUPERIOR TO THOSE. WHICH ARE IN GENERAL USE," in such
manner as to me, the said Isaac Hadley. Reddell; my executors; administrators,
and assigns,, or any of them, should in their discretions seem meet, and that I;
the said Isaac Hadley Reddell, my executors, administrators, and assigns;
should and lawfully might, have and enjoy the whole benefit, profit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising, by reason
the said Invention, during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold,

page_text: exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Isaac
Hadley Reddell, my 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 there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Isaac
Hadley Reddell, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal, 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 next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Isaac Hadley Reddell, in compliance
with the said proviso, do hereby declare that the following is a description
of the method and principles of my Invention (that is to say):-
My stirrups are made nearly in the form of the fore part of a man's
shoc, and are made either of iron, steel, or metal, or of any proper com-
position that can be manufactured by any of the various means that now
generally are or may be made use of, into the form and of the strength
required; and as a person's foot cannot possibly pass through the stirrup,
it is evident that it cannot by any means be entangled therein. Nearly at
the top of the upper part of some of the stirrups there is a loop to receive
the stirrup leather, which loop is either made as a fixed appendage, or to
turn on a swivel; and others may be made for the stirrup leather to go all
round, or underneath, or a part of the way round, the stirrup or metallic part.
Some of them I make of a combination of metal, or metallic substances, and
manufacture them into a great variety of forms and patterns, either pierced
or not pierced, or formed in part with wire wove or soldered together; others
may be elegantly wrought, embossed, or engraved with cyphers, coats of arms,
or any other device, or in any other manner by which iron, steel, metal, or
any combination of metals, or metallic substances, or any suitable composition
now usually are or may be wrought, formed, or ornamented; and the bottom part,
or what I usually call the tread of some of them, I make long enough to extend
from the toe to the heel; and on the heel part I sometimes affix a spur, which,
by means of a spring or springs, and a joint, or any other device to answer a
similar purpose; may either be turned up against the heel, and be ready for
use in an instaut, or be turned down under the tread, and be effectually
out of the way; and sometimes I make the spurs, or the spurs and the heel

page_text: part also, to take off or put on at pleasure by means of a screw, slide, spring,
And as
or bolt, or any other fastening that will answer a similar purpose.
the spurs may be attached to the stirrups by various means, I claim myself
to be entitled to every possible mode, way, and method, by which a spur or
spurs can or may be affixed or attached to a stirrup or stirrups, as being a
principle of my said method or Invention. It is well known that a sort of
a half shoe has long been made of leather as a stirrup for the accomodation
of the ladies; therefore, be it remembered, that I do not consider those articles
as included in my Patent, as my method is to make stirrups (which are
more particularly calculated for gentlemen) cither of iron or steel, or of a
combination of stout metallic substances or compositions, in the manner
as explained in this Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Isaac Hadley Reddell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of August, One thousand and
eight hundred.
ISAAC HADLEI (L.S.)
הנחגעעעע.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
JN° MEECHAM.
THO STEDMAN.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Isaac Hadley Reddell
came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.