A PREPARATION CALLED WATER PROOF, WHEREBY TO PREVENT RAIN WATER FROM PENETRATING WOLLEN CLOTHS AND HATTS
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ELMSLEY, of Wakefield, in the County of York, Woollen Draper, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I. the said Samuel Elmsley, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, after a very long and laborious study and application, found out
"A PREPARATION CALLED WATER PROOF, WHEREBY TO PREVENT RAIN WATER FROM
PENETRATING WOLLEN CLOTHS AND HATTS;" that this discovery of me, the said
Samuel Elmsley, was entirely new, and different from anything of the like
nature ever before invented or known, having a particular quality for pre-
serving woollen cloths and hatts from being penetrated by rain water, and no
pernicious ingredient in it that would prove hurtfull to the cloths or hats so
prepared, or any way offensive to those who should make use thereof; and
having therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
uscing, making, and vending of the said preparation for the term of fourteen
years, His said Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at West-
minster, the First day of April, in the third year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Elmsley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial

page_text: licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel
Elmsley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself
and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as 1, the said Samuel Elmsley, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of them, should agree with, and no others, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention or Preparation
within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should seem meet; and that I, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit and advantage thereof for the 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 form of the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I,
the said Samuel Elmsley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four kalendar 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Elmsley, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is
to say):-
To a gallon of river water put a pound of roch allom, two ounces of isin-
glass, two ounces of argal, two ounces of cream of tartar, dissolved seperately
in water; let these ingredients be mixed together, and therein (moderately
warm) steep the cloth or hats for forty hours more or less.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Elmsley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Thirtieth day of July, in the
third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
Samuel Elmsley came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William
and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the First day of August, in the third year of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third, 1763.