A NEW AND IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF STRAW PLAT MADE OF SPLIT STRAW, PRESENTING ONLY THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF THE STRAW TO THE EYE, AND ALSO OF OTHER PLAT OF SPLIT STRAW, LAID, PUT, OR STUCK, UPON SILK, PAPER, OR WOOD
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EDWARD
SIMPSON, of Lillypot Lane, in the City of London, Straw Hat Manufacturer,
and CALEB ISBESTER, of Banners Square, in the Parish of Saint Luke, Old
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Cabinet Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent bearing
date on on or about the Eighth day of May now last past, in the fortieth year of
His reign, was graciously pleased to grant us, the said Edward Simpson and
Caleb Isbester, our exors, admiors, and assigns, the sole making and vending
"A NEW AND IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF STRAW PLAT MADE OF SPLIT STRAW,
PRESENTING ONLY THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF THE STRAW TO THE EYE, AND ALSO OF
OTHER PLAT OF SPLIT STRAW, LAID, PUT, OR STUCK, UPON SILK, PAPER, OR WOOD,"
within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso for us,
the said Edward Simpson and Caleb Isbester, to describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majestie's High
Court of Chancery within one calender month next and immediately after the
date of the said 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 and performance of the said
proviso, we, the said Edward Simpson and Caleb Isbester, do hereby describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed (that is to say):-

page_text: lat of split straw presenting only the outside surface of the straw
to the eye-Take straw of any size, and split and fold the same
to the size wanted, in manner and form as is described in the
Drawings in the margin hereof opposite to the letters A and B,
when the outside surface of the straw only will present itself to
the eye; and the same will answer every purpose of and appear
like a curious fine straw flattened, and make the same into plat.
And to make plat of split straw, laid, put, or stuck on silk,
paper, or wood:-Take straw, and split and open the same, and
lay, put, or stick the same with paste, gum, or any other thing
fit for the purpose, on silk, paper, or wood, and cut the same
into any size slips which may be wanted, and make the same
into plat.
And the said Edward Simpson and Caleb Isbester, do hereby
declare and affirm that the particulars above set forth do con-
e, and perfect description of the nature of the said Invention.
ess whereof, we, the said Edward Simpson and Caleb Isbester,
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Sixth day of June, in the
f our Lord One thousand and eight hundred.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on ne Sixti
year
of our Lord 1800, the aforesaid Edward Simpson and Caleb Isbester came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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 for that purpose.