NEW INVENTED METHOD OF BLEACHING AND WHITENING LINNEN AND YARN, BY A COMPOSITION ENTIRELY NEW, WHEREBY THEY WILL BE BLEACHED AND WHITENED BETTER, CHEAPER, AND IN LESS THAN HALF THE TIME AT PRESENT IMPLOYED IN BLEACHING AND WHITENING THEM
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PATRICK
WELDON, of the City of Dublin, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of March, in the thirteenth year of His reign,
did grant unto me, the said Patrick Weldon, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said Patrick Weldon, my extors, admors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine and their
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Patrick
Weldon, my extors, adññiors, 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, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my "NEW INVENTED METHOD OF BLEACHING AND WHITENING LINNEN AND YARN, BY
A COMPOSITION ENTIRELY NEW, WHEREBY THEY WILL BE BLEACHED AND WHITENED
BETTER, CHEAPER, AND IN LESS THAN HALF THE TIME AT PRESENT IMPLOYED IN
BLEACHING AND WHITENING THEM," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all His Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Patrick Weldon, my extors,
admors, and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and
that I, the said Patrick Weldon, my extors, adñiors, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of

page_text: the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advan-
tages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said
Patrick Weldon, my extors, adñors, and assigns, for and during and unto the
full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said Patrick Weldon, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, by an instrument 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 calendar months next and immediately after the date thereof,
that then the said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become
void, any thing therein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Patrick Weldon, do hereby declare
my said Invention, and declare that the same is to be performed in manner
following (that is to say):-.
Take of the best kelp one hundred weight; barella ashes eighty-four
pounds; America pottashes half a hundred weight, to be ground together in a
proper mill; fern ashes, or in England tobacco ashes, half a hundred weight;.
of the testacius shells, calcined, fourteen pounds; quick lime, one hundred:
weight, to be made into paste with cow dung, then to be rolled into balls, to
be dryed in the sun, or by a gentle heat, when alınost dry to .moisten it with
oil of tartar per campanum, and when perfectly dry to break into pieces as
big as nuts: to be steeped and made into lees with soft pond water, according
to the art of bleaching. This composition to be marked No. 1, and to be used-
first, will be scaled with my seal that has no letters, and is sufficient for one
hundred double pieces of brown linen, containing fifty yards each, to .be:
finished in twenty-five days without watering. When on the grass in the second:
composition it is to made as the former, but half the testacius shells and quick
lime is to be left out: it will be marked with my seal P. W. No. 2; being
sufficient for the like number of pieces to be treated in the like manner..
The finishing composition is as follows:-Take barilla one hundred weight;:
America ashes eighty-four pounds; mucillage of gum senneca, a sufficient:
quantity to make it into a paste, to be rolled into balls, and shall be stampt:
with my seal P. W. B. F. No. 3. In a proper quantity of lees made with this.

page_text: composition, the like quantity of linen or yarn is to be boiled half an hour
and to lye in steep twelve hours; and after the goods have lain on the grass in
the whole twenty-one days, then to be boiled in this lees with half a pound of
blue tallow, scraped for each piece, to be boiled half an hour, and spread out
for two days; then to be boiled again in the like lees, and half a pound of
blue suett to be scraped in the boiler for each piece, and to be spread out;
and lastly, to lye in a proper sour for twelve hours, then to be properly
washed and made up in the flat manner. The blue tallow and blue suett to be
made in the following manner:-Take any quantity of kelp and equal
quantity of quick lime, let them lie together in infusion with pond water, often
stirring them, for seven days, till they become a strong lee; take any quantity
of tallow or suett proportioned to the boiler; to every hundred weight of the
tallow or suett put seven pounds of salt and boil them together for two days
for three hours each day, constantly stirring them; the third day boil them
again, and to every hundred weight put two pounds of fine pale smalt and
two pounds of oil of vitriol, to be continually stirred till it is cooled; to be cast
into molds of half a pound each. The bucking house to be made in a particular
manner, to be vaulted and made waterproof with pirate or firestone. The trench
that conveys the water to the bucking house to be made in the like manner.
In witness whereof, I, the said Patrick Weldon, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, the Nineteenth day of June, in the thirteenth 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, and
so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and
coranty thro