1830 Agreement between Edwin Budding and John Ferrabee - concerning Budding's 1830 Patent

Articles of Agreement   

Indented had made and fully agreed upon this Eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand right hundred and thirty Between Edwin Budding of the Thrupp in the parish of Stroud in the county of Gloucester, machinist, of the first part and John Ferabee of the same places engineer of the other pard, as follows

Whereas the said Edwin Budding with invented and applied new combination of Machining for the purpose of cropping or shearing the vegetable surface of Janus Grass-plots and Pleasure-Grounds constituting Machine which may be used with advantage instead of as scythe for that purpose,

and being desirous of obtaining a Patent for his said invention, the said Edwin Budding hath applied and solicited  the said John Ferrabee to advance the Money necessary for obtaining the said, Setters Patent for England, 

and also to undertake the sole. management and to have entire control in procuring the said Letters Patent and also in making, vending, letting, licensing  and otherwise using the said now Machine, And the said, John Ferrabee  having it consented and yielded to the said solicitation.

The parties hereto have there upon agreed to bind themselves to obsess the roles and regulations and to perform the several stipulations and agreements herein after mentioned concerning the It is therefore hereby mutually and reciprocally agreed by and between the said parties hereto, 

and they the said parties hereto  have and each of them hath agreed to observe abide by and perform by these presents do and work of them doth by and perform, all, and singular the stipulations and agreements following First - 

That the said Edwin Budding shall communicate everything he knows respecting his said Invention to the said John Ferarbee to enables him, the said John Ferrabee to make the said Machine and to get the invention specified in the best manner, possible. 

Second, That the said John Ferrabee shall advance all the money shall or may be necessary for obtaining the said Letters Patent and for making and vending the said new machinery.