NEW- CONSTRUCTED BUCKLES WITH NEW-INVENTED FASTENINGS
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 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 Second day of December, in the twenty-third year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, FRANCIS PROUDFOOT, of Broad Court, Long.
Acre, in the County of Middlesex, Shoemaker, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Francis Proudfoot, my
exors, admiors, and assigns, and every of us, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, my "NEW-
CONSTRUCTED BUCKLES WITH NEW-INVENTED FASTENINGS" within that part of the
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, my exors, adñors,
and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem meet; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Francis Proudfoot,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, 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 same Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters Patent more
at large doth appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Proudfoot, in pursuance of and
compliance with the said proviso, and the purport and true intent and meaning
of the said Letters Patent, and of His Majesty's said most gracious intentions,
do, by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, duly executed,
declare that my said New-constructed Buckles with New-invented Fastenings
is described in the Plans or Drawings hereunto annext.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Proudfoot, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of March, in the twenty-third
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, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1783, the aforesaid Francis Proudfoot came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.

page_text: a) Is the Hope at the Ends which make the Buckle set at an equal distance to better
of the Shoe ..
un equal
the Buckle and also the
3.) Are Burrs which are cast or;
-fixt in
-kim having hvo prongs or points fixt therion
to answver the ends of Chapes and Tongues whereby the kim is made of
thickness & sits closer to the Shot Sowes the weight of
expences & incumbrance of Chapes and Ingues.
) Is
an Ornament Cust or fixt on the op of the Buckle matter which the strap ma
preis. –
Fry (2) Is another pattern huving the in next the instep.
Nurrower than the front (0.6.6) whic: prevents the Buckle from Cutting or Chuffing
the Stocking & sets easier.
Is a single Barr fixt in the Rim wtwo pronge or points.
Are two prongs
or points without a ton, they being Cust or fixt in the him
I sets Easier by means of the ends exteresting to the bottom of the show. -
Fig (3) Is the same sort of Buckle as Figure (1) Except the Burrs & thongs
which are in the middle of the Buck
them & wch
always appears per from
Is the end of the Strap which pusses
& require
dis
a fulse strap which covers
no (6.1.) over the prongs (C);
Fiy ( 41 ) Is another pattern Buckle forming a hulf Circle † is widerin Front at
(6.6.6) having two Burs with prongs
Frg(5.) Is a Stock Buckle compleat.
ov
Is
a
con at (a: a)
Barr Cast or fixxt in the rim instead of
Forged thereon.
u Chape huving shredds Rivelled
Are four prongs or points Cast or fixt in the Kims to supply the place of Tongues . ___
N.B. By putting prongs on Barr (a. a
Fig 6) Is a Knee Buckle upon the same
" instead of Studds mukes it a Sump Buckle
rincipal us N.° 1. 2.50
Burr and Anchor in luiv of a thape & Tonque
Fig (7) Is also a Knee Buckle huving
Are the prongs or points frict in the m.
(Is the single Burr fuct in the mullie
Is the Anchor or fastening formed or so..ded in the Buckle thre the middle of
the sd Ban..
of the him. -
The above new constructed Buckles or hir - may be made with or without Tonycus or Chapes.
Join
St
may
N.B. The Mutual jurts of the above nere - Invention or new constructed Buckles consist
having the him nurrowest next - The Instep - 2nd,
" the incls of some slanted off
ow to form can equal distance from the Suchte to the Sole & Fide of the shoe
3d an Ornament at the Top & linker of the Buckle the pattans of all which
be varied at pleasure and the said new Invented fastenings consist of Bars Afronaw
be placed in any fuert of it or fixt to any New or Old Rim or Buckle
and the points or pronge may be forged out or feat on the suid Barr or in the Rum
f buruid or turn'd such way as may be to ight most convenient.
which
may