"NEW-INVENTED MACHINES FOR PREVENTING DANGERS WHICH OFTEN ATTEND PERSONS FALLING FROM THEIR HORSES, BY ENTANGLING THEIR FEET IN THE STIRRUP
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
BATTISCOMBE, of the Parish of Yatton, in the County of Somerset, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Christopher Battiscombe, did, by my humble
Petition, represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Third, that I had, by much study and application, invented and brought to
perfection "NEW-INVENTED MACHINES FOR PREVENTING DANGERS WHICH OFTEN
ATTEND PERSONS FALLING FROM THEIR HORSES, BY ENTANGLING THEIR FEET IN
THE STIRRUP;" that, in regard I was the first and true Inventor thereof, I most
humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me IIis Royal Letters Patent
for the sole use and benefit of the said Invention within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within IIis Colonies and Plantations abroad,
for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in such case made
and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and inventions which might be for the publiek good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of November, in the
eighth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer
motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me,
the said Christopher Battiscombe, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Christopher Battiscombe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself,
or by my deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as 1, the
said Christopher Battiscombe, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times

page_text: thenafter, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within that part of
His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Colonies
and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Christopher
Battiscombe, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Christopher Battiscombe,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Christopher
Battiscombe, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Christopher Battis-
combe, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then
the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, more fully and at large
appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Battiscombe, do hereby
describe and ascertain the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, to be in the Plan or Draught thereof
hereunto annexed. The explanation or description of which said Invention is
exhibited by the Figure herein drawn :-

page_text: raised but on one side. The said flap or bar is set low enough on the stirrup
to prevent the foot from entring too far, or in such manner as to not let the
toc when raised catch at the top of the stirrup. The rider's foot must enter
the stirrup on the side on which the flap or bar opens, and the flap or bar
must be fastened so slightly to the stirrup at B and C that a very small force
shall open it. The force, however, must be much greater than what will
sustain the flap and stirrup and stirrup strap taken together, and at the samo
time greatly less than what will sustain the weight of the least human body.
The fastening to be made either by springs holding the ends of the flap or bar
at the points B and C, or by the tightness of the work in a return of the
bar at B and C.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Battiscombe, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, and in the 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, &c.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of January,
in the eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
aforesaid Christopher Battiscombe came before our said Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form abovesaid. And the said Writing
was stampt according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.