A PLOUGH FOR THE PARING OF LAND
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,. WILLIAM
SANXTER, of Horseheath, in the County of Cambridge, Farmer, 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 at
Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of May last, in the thirty-eighth year
of
His, reign, give and grant, unto me, the said William Sanxter, His especial
licence, that I, the said William Sanxter, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William Sanxter, my executors, 'adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my, Invention. of "A PLOUGH FOR THE
PARING OF LAND," which I conceive will be of great public utility, and parti
cularly calculated to the saving of manual labour; in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Sanxter,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, and to 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 recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being, thereunto had; will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Sanxter, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that
is to say):

page_text: The Plan of the said plough is set forth in a Drawing at the top of these
presents intended to be inrolled herewith. The said plough is worked by two
horses, and a man to hold; and the woodwork of the said plough in the said
Plan is distinguished by a blue tint or shade, and the iron in like manner by
a blackish brown tint or shade. The principal utility and advantage of the
said plough arising from the form of the share or paring iron and the coulter,
and the manner in which the same are made to work, that is to say:-The
share or paring iron, which is of a triangular form, with a sharp edge cutting
horizontally with the side.E, as represented in Plate 2, and the coulter cutting
perpendicularly with an upright edge; the share being elevated or depressed
by the foot according to the depth of soil or surface intended to be taken off,
and which will more fully appear by the following references to the said Plan.
References to Plates 1st and 3rd.-A, A, the two handles by which the man
holds the plough; B, B, the. 'two standards fixed to the beam, and the share
hooked on to them by two hooks at the bottom of them; C, the mould board
by which it turns the sod; D, the 'share; E, the conltér affixed to and forming
a part of the share; F, F, the beam; G, the foot that regulates the depth of
ground to be pared by putting it higher or lower; H, the 'chain fixed to the
beam at G, and to the blocks above the axletree opposite the chain at L, by
which the. plough is drawn; I, the chain for keeping the standards K, K, per-
pendicular; J, the block which slides up or down to lay the beam at F,
higher or lower; K, K, the two standards fixed to the block above the 'axle-
tree
; L, the chain for the horses to draw by; M, M, the wheels of cast iron.
Reference to Plate the 2d-A, the share of a triangular form, the side E
having a sharp edge made of tempered steel, and cutting or paring 'the 'ground
horizontally; B, B, the two ringles which hook on the standards below B; B,
in Plate the third; C, a hole in the share to make it fast with a screw bolt
to the mould board in Plate the first or third; D, the coulter of the share
cutting the ground perpendicularly, and set at right angles with 'the side of the
share E. And this I declare to be the Specification of my said Invention, in
pursuance of the provisó contained in the said Patent.
:.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Sanxter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighth day of June,. in the thirty-eighth 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 ninety-eight..
WILLIAM (L.S.) SANXTER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighth day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Sanxter came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Eighth day of June in the year above written