A NEW CONSTRUCTION OF GUNS and all OTHER FIRE-ARMS, MUCH PREFERABLE TO ANY HITHERTO MADE, BEING CAPABLE OF CARRYING THEIR SHOT MUCH FURTHER, OF LOADING AND PRIMING MUCH QUICKER, AND OF PREVENTING THE DISAGREEABLE EFFECTS OF RECOILING
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
THOMAS WRIGHT, of the Parish of Saint John, Clerkenwell, in the
County of Middlesex, Watchmaker, and CHARLES BYRNE, of the Parish
of Saint Andrew by the Wardrobe, in the City of London, Gunmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date the Fourth day of February, in the twelfth year of His reign,,
give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Wright and Charles Byrne,
His special licence that we, the said Thomas Wright. and Charles
Byrne, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick upon Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plan-
tations abroad, our Invention of "A NEW CONSTRUCTION OF GUNS and all
OTHER FIRE-ARMS, MUCH PREFERABLE TO ANY HITHERTO MADE, BEING CAPABLE
OF CARRYING THEIR SHOT MUCH FURTHER, OF LOADING AND PRIMING MUCH
QUICKER, AND OF PREVENTING THE DISAGREEABLE EFFECTS OF RECOILING;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe, obliging the said
Thomas Wright and Charles Byrne, or one of us, under our hands and

page_text: seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, to cause a particular
description of the nature of our said Invention, and how the same is
to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the said re-
cited 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 provisoe, we,
the said Thomas Wright and Charles Byrne, do hereby declare that
our said Invention of a new construction of guns and all other fire-
arms, much preferable to any hitherto made, being capable of carrying
their shot much further, of loading and priming much quicker, and of
preventing the disagreeable effects of recoiling, is described in the plan
thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Wright and Charles
Byrne, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-third
day of May, One thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.
day of May, ne thousand seven mured and seventy-two.
THO. WRIGHT. (L.S.)
CHAS BYRNE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-third day
of May, in the year above written, the aforesaid Thomas Wright and
Charles Byrne came before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Specification of their Invention aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
the Specification afores was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year above written.

page_text: 1.2.
The Hammer wun its back
on A.3. Dillo with Lever slide 1.4. Dillo with Cylinder and Spiral spring to it,
A. 5. Ditto with Cylinder, Lever,
Spring, and an aperture in the back for admitting the powder A. 6. Dillo with Cylinder Lever and different Springs
BBB Pans with their different Levers, Valves, Springs, and friction Wheels B.2. for covering ditto C. The Hind end
or inside of Lock part which is fastened to the Britch end of the Barrel Z.L. by Screws, with the Lever that acts
from the Tumbler to close the Hammer on the pan and prime of drawing up the Lock with a Bolt to secure the fore.
part & Ilindpart of the Barrel when either screwed or locked with a friction Wheel to make it slide
easy
D Ditto with a dif
ferent Lever bolt, and Bolt Spring also a Chain from the Cock to the llammer, to bring down the Hammer by cocking E Screw
Barrel with Joint Catch & Director F Lock Barrel with G, the Spring for the Sliding bolt, II, represents F. complete, with/
its Slides, Springs and Bolts, 1, Lock Barrel with joint to slide, with a moveable Slope to secure the Cramps or Hooks in
fastening and catch to lock the whole K Ditto to load at the Breach L, Screw Barrel to loud at the Breach with its Catch &
looks M Inside of Lock to Dillo with its Slide & Lovers for bringing down the Hammer by cocking N, Lock barrel with
Cramps and Sliding Pin to diment Ditto, 00. Heel plates with Spiral Springs and Tubing pines. PPPPP
Ditto, Q. Seven Burrel face copier at hann barri
pia complen
Springs is