A COMPOSITION AND VARNISH ENTIRELY NEW, MADE WITH OILS AND VARIOUS OTHER THINGS, POR STAINING, PRINTING, OR PAINTING, AND LAYING GOLD, SILVER, OR METALL ON WOOLLENS, WORSTEDS, AND GOODS MIXED WITH WOOL, FOR WEARING APPAREL OR FURNITURE, OF SO STRONG A BODY THAT IT WILL BIND GOLD, SILVER, OR METALL SO AS TO STAND WASHING, AND RETAIN THE BEAUTY AND LUSTRE OF THE GOLD AND SILVER, WITHOUT THE LEAST PREJUDICE
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, BENJAMIN
KEENE and CARL FRIEDRICH SCHMIDT, of the Parish of Lambeth, in the
County of Surry, Colour Makers, send greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixteenth
day of June last, did give and grant to us, the said Benjamin Keene and
Carl Friedrich Schmidt, our executors, adñors, and assigns, Ilis Majesty's
especial lycence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that we, the said
Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich Schmidt, our executors, adiñors, and
assigns, and every of them, or such others as we or they should agree with,
from time to time, and no others, should make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of years therein expressed, our Invention
of "A COMPOSITION AND VARNISH ENTIRELY NEW, MADE WITH OILS AND VARIOUS
OTHER THINGS, POR STAINING, PRINTING, OR PAINTING, AND LAYING GOLD,
SILVER, OR METALL ON WOOLLENS, WORSTEDS, AND GOODS MIXED WITH WOOL,
FOR WEARING APPAREL OR FURNITURE, OF SO STRONG A BODY THAT IT WILL
BIND GOLD, SILVER, OR METALL SO AS TO STAND WASHING, AND RETAIN THE
BEAUTY AND LUSTRE OF THE GOLD AND SILVER, WITHOUT THE LEAST PREJUDICE,

page_text: AND ADD STRENGTH TO THE SAME;" and that we should and lawfully might
have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time arising by reason of the said Invention, to hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted unto us,
the said Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich Schmidt, our executors, admors,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that if we, the
said Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich Schmidt, or one of us, shall not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and seals, or the hand and seal of one of us, and cause the same to
be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next
and immediately after the date of such Letters Patent, that then the same
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the said Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich
Schmidt, in pursuance of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained,
do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is to say) :-
Take of poppy oil one gallon, nutt oil two quarts, baum oil one quart,
neats-foot oil half a pint, linseed oil two quarts, riebensaat oil one pint,
spirits of wine two quarts, spirits of turpentine three quarts, gum mastick two
pounds, copal one pound, gum sandrick one pound and half, gum climy three
ounces, gum taccamahe four ounces, gum guaicum four ounces, veziga eight
ounces, bernstein ten ounces, indeupech four ounces, hartzs eight ounces,
wayranch four ounces, wesk eight ounces, rochemuehl four pounds, saffron
one ounce; all which ingredients are to be mixed together and boiled to a
proper consistence, and when settled is fit for use.
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich
Schmidt, have to this present Instrument of Specification sett our
hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of October, in the third year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Thirteenth day of October,
in the year above written, the aforesaid Benjamin Keene and Carl Friedrich
Schmidt came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the aforesaid Instrument of Specification, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instru-
ment 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, & so forth.
Inrolled the day and year last above written.