NEW-INVENTED METHOD OR MODE OF PLATING STEEL OR IRON WITH GOLD OR SILVER
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ELLIS, of George Street, Foster Lane, in the City of London, Goldsmith,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
the grace
of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of January, in the
nineteenth year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Ellis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Richard
Ellis, my executors, administrators, and assigus, should and lawfully might,
during the term of years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend,
within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom called England, Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OR
MODE OF PLATING STEEL OR IRON WITH GOLD OR SILVER;" in which said recited
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Richard Ellis,
by an instrument in writing 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 four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Richard Ellis, do hereby declare that my said New-invented Method or Mode

page_text: of Plating Steel or Iron with Gold or Silver is made of the materials and
performed as follows, that is to say :-
That part of the steel or iron next where the gold or silver is to be laid on
to be rub'd with borax; the gold or silver to be fitted close. The different
solders used for the above purpose are as follows:-One ounce standard
gold, four pennyweights fine silver, and three pennyweights fine copper; one
ounce fine silver, and two pennyweights spelter; one ounce sterling silver,
and twelve grains copper, copper brass, or spelter; the solder laid on as suits
the different works. The particular art in soldering depend on the care in
firing it.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Ellis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, in the nineteenth 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 in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
seventy-nine.
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the
presence of
RICHD HARBORNE,
Amen Corner.
CHAS HARMAN, do.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of May,
in the year of our Lord 1779, the aforesaid Richard Ellis came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year of the
seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine.