A METHOD OF MAKING A COLOUR FOR DYERS AND CALLICO PRINTERS
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
FLIGHT, of the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Joseph Flight, did, by my Petition, humbly.
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,.
that after many tryals, attended with expence, I had invented and brought.
to perfection "A METHOD OF MAKING A COLOUR FOR DYERS AND CALLICO
PRINTERS," I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that he would
be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and.
assigns, His Royal Letters Patent, for the sole use and benefit of my said.
Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made
and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all
arts and inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of June, in the
twentieth year of His reign, and sealed with His Great Seal of Great Britain,
of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Flight, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Joseph Flight, my
executors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by mine or their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as
I, the said Joseph Flight, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times

page_text: thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention, within that part of
His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the
the said Joseph Flight, my executors, adñors, and assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Joseph Flight, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, should and might lawfully have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and
during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Joseph Flight, my
executors, administrators, 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 such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso, that if at any time during the said term thereby
granted, it should be made appear to His said Majesty, His heirs or
successors, or any six or more of His or their Privy Council, that the said
grant was contrary to law, or prejudicial or inconvenient to His subjects
in general, or that the said Invention was not a new Invention as to the
public use and exercise thereof, in that part of the said Kingdom of Great-
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented or found out by me, the said Joseph
Flight, as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration thereof, to be
made by His said Majesty, His heirs or successors, under His or their Signet
or Privy Seal, or by the Lords and others of His or their Privy Council, or
any six or more of them, under their hands, the said Letters Patent should
be utterly void to all intents and purposes; and also a proviso, that if I, the
said Joseph Flight, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is 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 of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding,
as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) more
fully and at large will appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Flight, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars, and prepared
in manner following (that is to say):-
Let iron or steel be steeped in water drawn from tar or tar oyl, and let the
liquor be mixed with flour, starch, or gum of any kind, and made sufficiently
thick for working on wooden prints or copper plates, such as are used by callico
printers, which will make it useful in making black, purple, or other colours
in the printing business.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Flight, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty, and in the twenty-first
year of the reign of our said 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 BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of October,
in the twenty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Joseph Flight 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 Statutes made in the sixth
year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England,
and in the seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the
Inrolled the said Twenty-sixth day of October, in the said twenty-first
year of His said Majesty King George the Third.