MAKING IRON AND STEEL BACKS FOR FIXING UPON AND USING WITH THE BLADES OF SCYTHES, AND OF STRAW AND HAY KNIVES, WHETHER THE BLADES THEREOF BE BOLLED, FORGED, CAST, HAMMERED, OR OTHERWISE MANUFACTURED
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third hath, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at West-
minster, the Twenty-sixth day of Adugust last past, given and granted unto
SAMUEL HILL, of Whitely Wood, in the Parish of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Sawmaker, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
licence, power, and authority for the sole making, using, exercising, and
vending, for the term of fourteen years, a certain Invention of the said Samuel
Hill, of "MAKING IRON AND STEEL BACKS FOR FIXING UPON AND USING WITH THE
BLADES OF SCYTHES, AND OF STRAW AND HAY KNIVES, WHETHER THE BLADES
THEREOF BE BOLLED, FORGED, CAST, HAMMERED, OR OTHERWISE MANUFACTURED;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said-Samuel
Hill shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same 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, 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 by reference to the
said Letters Patent may more fully and at large appear.
NOW WITNESS THESE PRESENTS, that the said Samuel Hill, by this
present Instrument in writing under his hand and seal, doth describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, as follows; that is to say:-
Take a piece of iron or steel, roll, forge, cast, or hammer it to a thickness
and pare it to a breadth proper for the purpose you intend it; then double it
over a vice, stamp, or fly press; then fasten the tang or crue unto the back
either by welding or brazing; then hammer it upon a piece of steel so that it
will be flat and level; then close the edges nearly together, taking care to leave
the back part more open than the edge, in order that it may form a spring
for the purpose of holding itself fast to the blade; which done, put the blade
into a vice, and force on the back through the closed edges by a hammer, or
force the blade into the back by a wooden hammer, striking it on the edge of
the blade.
In witness whereof, the said Samuel Hill hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third hath, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, dated at West-
minster, the Twenty-sixth day of Adugust last past, given and granted unto
SAMUEL HILL, of Whitely Wood, in the Parish of Sheffield, in the County of
York, Sawmaker, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal
licence, power, and authority for the sole making, using, exercising, and
vending, for the term of fourteen years, a certain Invention of the said Samuel
Hill, of "MAKING IRON AND STEEL BACKS FOR FIXING UPON AND USING WITH THE
BLADES OF SCYTHES, AND OF STRAW AND HAY KNIVES, WHETHER THE BLADES
THEREOF BE ROLLED, FORGED, CAST, HAMMERED, OR OTHERWISE MANUFACTURED;"
in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if the said Samuel
Hill shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same 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, 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 by reference to the
said Letters Patent may more fully and at large appear.
NOW WITNESS THESE PRESENTS, that the said Samuel Hill, by this
present Instrument in writing under his hand and scal, doth describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, as follows; that is to say:-
Take a piece of iron or steel, roll, forge, cast, or hammer it to a thickness
and pare it to a breadth proper for the purpose you intend it; then double it
over a vice, stamp, or fly press; then fasten the tang or crue unto the back
either by welding or brazing; then hammer it upon a piece of steel so that it
will be flat and level; then close the edges nearly together, taking care to leave
the back part more open than the edge, in order that it may form a spring
for the purpose of holding itself fast to the blade; which done, put the blade
into a vice, and force on the back through the closed edges by a hammer, or
force the blade into the back by a wooden hammer, striking it on the edge of
the blade.
In witness whereof, the said Samuel Hill hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seven:
Inrolled the Twenty-first day of September, in tho year above written.