DYING WROUGHT AND UNWROUGHT WOOLENS, LINNENS,SILKS, AND COTTONS, WHICH STAND THE TENTER'S HOT PRESS, SUN, WIND, AND RAIN, WITH A LIQUOR OR DECOCTION EXTRACTED AND PREPARED BY THEM FROM A RED WOOD WHICH GROWETH IN HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST INDIES
Year: 1770

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
HOLLINGS, of Saint James's Place, within the Parish of Saint James, in the
Liberty of Westminster, and County of Middlesex, Apothecary, and ENOS
SMITH, of the same Parish, Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of April, in the
tenth year of His reign, did give and grant unto the said William
Hollings and Enos Smith, their executors, adñiors, and assigns, His especial
lycence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that they, the said William
Hollings and Enos Smith, their executors, admors, and assigns, and every of
them, by himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputys, servants
or agents, or such others as they, the said William Hollings and Enos Smith,
their executors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and. at all times thereafter during the term there-
after mentioned, should and might make, use, exercise, and vend their
Invention of "DYING WROUGHT AND UNWROUGHT WOOLENS, LINNENS, SILKS, AND
COTTONS, WHICH STAND THE TENTER'S HOT PRESS, SUN, WIND, AND RAIN, WITH A
LIQUOR OR DECOCTION EXTRACTED AND PREPARED BY THEM FROM A RED WOOD
WHICH GROWETH IN HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST INDIES,"
within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner

page_text: as they should think fit, to hold and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages therein-before granted unto the said William Hollings and
Enos Smith, their executors, admors, and assigns, for the term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patent; provided, nevertheless, that
if the said William Hollings and Enos Smith, or one of them, should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be prepared, by an instrument in writing under
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of them, and cause the
same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then
the same Letters Patent, and all the libertys thereby granted, should be void.
NOW WE, the said William Hollings and Enos Smith, do hereby declare
that we do prepare the liquor or decoction mentioned in the said Letters
Patent in manner following (that is to say) :-
By chipping, rasping, or grinding a proper quantity of the red wood, steeping
or not steeping the same in water for a day or more, and by boiling the wood for
an hour or upwards, according to the strength of the decoction wanted, always
clearing off the scum as the same shall arise, and using the same in any degree
of heat, according to the fastness of the colour wanted, with this decoction may
be dyed any colour or shade, from a red to a brown, or dark chocolate, by pre-
paring the wool, cloth, silk, or cotton, with the several materials herein-after
mentioned, using the same in such quantities and proportions as the colour or
shade wanted may require; that is to say, for red with a yellow cast, alum;
with red or white, argol, cream of tartar, and prepared aqua fortis; red with
a blue cast, alum with red argol, filings of iron, galls, oak, sumach; the darker
colours, alum with red argol, copperas, filings, galls, oak slip, indigo, orchill,
soot, or any other dye stuffs which agree with the said preparations and
decoction.
In witness whereof, the said William Hollings and Enos Smith have to
these Presents set their hands and seals, the Twenty-fourth day of
August, in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Third, and
in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-fourth day of.
August, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Hollings and
Enos Smith came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained, 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.