INVENTION OF MAKING HARD SOAP, COMONLY CALLED CASTILE SOAP
Year: 1751

page_text: TO.ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLOUGHBY
MARCHANT, of the Parish of Saint Ann, in the County. of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His. Letters. Patent under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date.the Fourth day of April, in the, twenty-
fourth year of His reign, did give and grant. His special licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, unto me, the said Willoughby Marchant, my
executors, admors,, and assigns,, and every of them, by myself and themselves..
or by his or their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others. as, the
said Willoughby Marchant, his executors,, adñmors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, lawfully to make,, use, exercise, and
vend, my
"INVENTION OF MAKING HARD SOAP, COMONLY CALLED CASTILE SOAP,"
within that part of Great Britain called England; the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said
Willoughby Marchant, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of
them, should in their discretions seem meet; and' I, the said Willoughby
Marchant, my executors, administrators; and assigns; should & lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention,

page_text: for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages unto me, the said
Willoughby Marchant, my executors, administrators, and assigns, during the
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe that if I, the said Willoughby
Marchant, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within three calendar months
next inediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patents, and all libertys and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and be void, anything therein contained to the
contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as by the said Letters Patent may
more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Willoughby Marchant, in pursuance of
the proviso or condition contained in the said Letters Patent, and in full
performance thereof, do hereby describe the said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, in the words following (that is to say) :-
The said soap is made with olive oyl and the leese taken from ashes imported
from the kingdom of Spain, coñionly called bariller and soza, which said ingre-
dients are boiled for ten or twelve days together, according to the strength of
the said ingredients, in a vessell composed partly of copper and the other part
of wood, with coal fire, and thereby produce the said soap. And the said
ingredients are used in the quantities or proportions herein-after mentioned
(that is to say):-One hundred and forty-four pounds of the said oyl, and the
leese taken from eighty pounds of the said ashes called bariller, and one
hundred pounds of the said ashes called soza, produces two hundred pounds of
the said
soap.
In witness whereof, I, the said Willoughby Marchant, have hereunto put
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of June, One thousand seven
hundred and fifty-one, and in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Second.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
GILBT JODRELL.
G. MASON.
WILLOUGHBY MARCHANT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Nineteenth day of June,
the aforesaid Willoughby Marchant came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the aforesaid Writing, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above said. And also the said Writing was
5 stampt according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Nineteenth day of June, in the twenty-fifth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Second.