COMPOSING STAINED GLASS WITH UNSTAINED GLASS, AND GRINDING, WITH VARIETY OF ORNAMENTS, THE VARIOUS WORKS FORMED OF THE SAME
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PECKITT, of the City of York, Glass Painter and Stainer, 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 West-
minster, the Twenty-second day of November, in the twenty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Peckitt, His especial
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William
Peckitt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said William Peckitt, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should 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, within that part of His Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my new Invention of "COMPOSING STAINED GLASS WITH
UNSTAINED GLASS, AND GRINDING, WITH VARIETY OF ORNAMENTS, THE VARIOUS
WORKS FORMED OF THE SAME," in such manner as to me, the said William

page_text: Peckitt, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in
their discretions seem meet; in which said recited Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso that I, the said William Peckitt, should, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, 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 next and immediately 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
William Peckitt, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, is described in the manner
following (that is to say) :-
-
Let the glass maker gather a required quantity of uncouler'd glass, either
crown, flint, or any other sort, from the melting pot while it is flexibly hot,
upon the end of an iron pipe or like instrument, which glass must be then
marbled level and smooth; then immediately he must gather upon that, over
the whole or any particular place or places, a quantity, as judged proper, of
coloured or stained glass of the same temper from another pot, which in like
manner he must marble, blow, and spread level and smooth, heating in again
the same as often as occasion shall require; or let him gather a required
quantity of the coloured glass from the melting pot first, upon the end of the
iron pipe, and marble it round and smooth, then immediately upon that he
must gather a required quantity of the uncoloured glass, and 'marble it level,
heat it, blow it, open it, and then form the same into tables, sheets; vessels, or
ornaments, according to his intention and ingenuity, and immediately put
them respectively into the annealing furnace to be properly cooled. Then the
glass cutter, by his apparatus of wheels and other instruments (as commonly
used), 'with water, or oil, and emery, must grind off so much of the coloured
glass from the uncoulered glass, which must appear in ornamental devices in
parts, polishing the same with oil, tripoli, and putty, as his ingenuity shall
dictate. Then the work is finished.
:
In witness whereof, I, the said William Peckitt, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
Signed and sealed in the presence of us,
WILLIAM PECKITT. (L.S.)
THO WRIGHT.
W JOHNSON, Jun.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Eighth day of March, in the
year last above mentioned, the aforesaid William Peckitt came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.