"A MACHINE AND SPRING FOR RENDERING COACHES, CHARIOTS, CHAISES, OR ANY OTHER VEHICLE TO HANG MORE STEADY, SAPE, AND EASY THAN ANY HITHERTO INVENTED, BY MEANS OF WHICH MACHINE EVERY SPRING HAD ITS EQUAL BEARING
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PEASE, of the Parish of Saint George, Hanover Square, in the County of
Middlesex, Smith and Spring Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fifth day of August, in the sixth year of His reign,
(reciting that I, the said Thomas Pease, had by my petition humbly repre-
sented unto His said Majesty that I had, by great labour, study, and expence,
invented "A MACHINE AND SPRING FOR RENDERING COACHES, CHARIOTS, CHAISES,
OR ANY OTHER VEHICLE TO HANG MORE STEADY, SAPE, AND EASY THAN ANY
HITHERTO INVENTED, BY MEANS OF WHICH MACHINE EVERY SPRING HAD ITS EQUAL
BEARING;" that the said Invention was of my own contrivance, and that no
other person or persons hath or had ever made the same, and as I apprehend
the same would be of publick use to His Majesty's subjects, and praying His
Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making and vending my said new
invented machine and spring); His said Majesty did, by His said Letters
Patent, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Pease, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I and they, and no others, should and might use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within England, Wales, and Berwick-
upon-Tweed 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 I, the said Thomas Pease, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 cease, 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 I, the said Thomas Pease, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my 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
references following, that is to say :—
8 A', springs; 4 B, machines; 4 C, shaccles for the body to hang by;
4 D', wooden beds to fix the springs upon; 4 E, stay irons to communicate
the machines to the springs; 5 F, lower part of machines, which fixes on the
sq at the end of the axis G, G; H, plates at each end of the axis which
supports the axis and machines; 2 I, standards as fastenings to the springs;
K, axis for to fix to the springs.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Pease, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Fourth day of December, in the seventh year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-six.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of
JOSEPH LEONI.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the day and year last above-men-
tioned the aforesaid Thomas Pease came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesd, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, 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 aforesaid Fourth day of December, in the year aforesaid.