PAINTING AND COLOURING ALL KINDS OF LEATHER IN ALL COLOURS IN A MANNER PERFECTLY NEW, BY LAYING ON SUCH A BODY OF COLOUR THAT THE LEATHER SO PAINTED WILL BE QUITE ELASTIC AND SOFT, WITH A PLEASANT SMELL, AND PRESERVE ITS TINTS; AFTER BEING WET OR DIRTY IT MAY BE WASHED WITH A SPUNGE AND COLD WATER WITHOUT FADING IN PARTS OR BECOMING OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, YET WITHOUT BEING SUBJECT TO CRACK
Year: 1799

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDMUND
PRIOR, of Brook Street, Holborn, in the united Parishes of Saint Andrew
Holborn and Saint George the Martyr, in the County of Middlesex, Leather
Seller, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of November, in the fortieth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Edmund Prior, His especial licence
that I, the said Edmund Prior, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention for
"PAINTING AND COLOURING ALL KINDS OF LEATHER IN ALL COLOURS IN A MANNER
PERFECTLY NEW, BY LAYING ON SUCH A BODY OF COLOUR THAT THE LEATHER SO
PAINTED WILL BE QUITE ELASTIC AND SOFT, WITH A PLEASANT SMELL, AND PRESERVE
ITS TINTS; AFTER BEING WET OR DIRTY IT MAY BE WASHED WITH A SPUNGE AND
COLD WATER WITHOUT FADING IN PARTS OR BECOMING OF DIFFERENT COLOURS, YET
WITHOUT BEING SUBJECT TO CRACK;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a proviso obliging me, the said Edmund Prior, 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 one calendar month after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edmund Prior, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, that is to say:-
may
Take the colours that are commonly used by painters with any kind of
dryers, mix it with any kind of varnish or any kind of oils that are glutinous,
lay it on the leather, and it will look beautiful to the eye; but this method
be subject to crack. But the best method to make the leather clastic and
soft, and prevent its cracking, is to prepare the oil by burning or boiling.
Take linseed oil, burn it until all the greasy particles are burnt out, then mix
the colours with the burnt oil with a little sugar of lead or any other kind of
dryers, then brush it on the leather with a tool or brush, then hang the leather
up to dry, and when dry the leather may be varnished with any kind of varnish,
but oil varnish I conceive the best, as the other is subject to crack. The above
colours may be laid on any kind of leather after being dyed or stained, and will
make the colours so dyed or stained more durable and beautiful yet elastic and
soft. Mix any kind of perfume with the colours, and it will give the leather
a pleasant smell.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Prior, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.
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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of November,
in the fortieth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Edmund Prior came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and thirty-seventh
years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Sixteenth day of November, in the year last above written.