A WATERPROOF COMPOSITION, IN IMITATION OF PORTLAND STONE, FOR STUCCOING AND WASHING NEW AND OLD STONE AND BRICK BUILDINGS, AND FOR CEMENTING THE JOINTS, AND TUCKING AND POINTING ALL STONE AND BRICKWORKS THAT REQUIRE PROOF AGAINST WATER AND DAMPS
Year: 1803

page_text: FULCHERS ST.
CATION
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
FULCHER the elder, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, Surveyor and
Builder, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the. Third, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the
forty-third year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Fulcher, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Fulcher, during
the term of years therein. expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A WATERPROOF COMPOSITION, IN IMITATION OF
PORTLAND STONE, FOR STUCCOING AND WASHING NEW AND OLD STONE AND BRICK
BUILDINGS, AND FOR CEMENTING THE JOINTS, AND TUCKING AND POINTING ALL STONE
AND BRICKWORKS THAT REQUIRE PROOF AGAINST WATER AND DAMPS;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
proviso obliging me, the said Thomas
Fulcher, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar

page_text: month next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited 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 the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Fulcher, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a waterproof
composition in imitation of Portland stone, consists in preparing and com-
pounding the same in the following manner, namely:-
To three pecks of the best pit sand, washed till perfectly cleansed from soil
or dirt, dried and calcined, add twelve pounds of white lead well dried, one
peck and a half of dried whiting, and one pound of litharge of gold well pul-
verized. These are to be well mixed and beaten together with eight pints of
linseed oil and two pints of the spirits of turpentine, in a stone or wooden
trough or mortar, till the whole becomes about the consistency of common
putty; it is then fit for stuccoing. When required for, washing only, then
add to the above mixture twenty pints of linseed oil, and ten pints of the
spirits of turpentine, and one pound of litharge of gold well pulverized, and the
whole well mixed. Although these proportions are given as those which will be
found best for general purposes, yet they may be varied according to the dis-
cretion and judgment of the workman. The stuccoing is to be performed in
the same manner as plaistering, and requires two coats, observing, however,
not to lay on the second coat till the first is quite dry. Old walls must be pre-
pared by cutting out the bad parts of the stone or brick and replaced with
new. The washing is done in the manner of painting, and requires two coats;
the second coat not to be laid on till the first is perfectly dry. This stucco and
wash have the property of keeping out all damps and wet effectually.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth
day of May, in the forty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign
Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of June, in the year
above written, the aforesaid Thomas Fulcher, by the said Robert Fulcher, by
virtue of a Power of Attorney under the hand and seal of the said Thomas
Fulcher, dated the Twenty-fifth day of May last, came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, 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.
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