NEW INVENTED MANUFACTURE OF CRUCIBLES FOR THE MELTING METALS AND SALTS, &C., CALLED BY THE NAME OF WHITE CRUCIBLES OR MELTING POTTS, MADE OF BRITISH MATERIALS, AND NEVER BEFORE MADE IN ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE, AND WHICH I HAVE LATELY SETT UP AT FULHAM AFORESAID
Year: 1762

page_text: WHITE, of Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, Potter, send greeting.
WHEREAS IIis most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by the grace of
God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the second
year of His said Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William
White, my executors, adñiors, and assigns. His especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William White, my executors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years
therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "NEW INVENTED MANUFACTURE OF CRUCIBLES
FOR THE MELTING METALS AND SALTS, &C., CALLED BY THE NAME OF WHITE
CRUCIBLES OR MELTING POTTS, MADE OF BRITISH MATERIALS, AND NEVER BEFORE
MADE IN ENGLAND OR ELSEWHERE, AND WHICH I HAVE LATELY SETT UP AT FULHAM
AFORESAID;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said William White, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to 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 Ilis Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had), may more at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William White, do hereby declare that my said new invented manufacture of
crucibles for the melting metals and salts, &c., called by the name of white
crucibles or melting potts, made of British materials, and never before made
in England or elsewhere, and which I have lately sett up at Fulham, as afore-
said, is made of the materials, and performed as follows (that is to say): -
Take Sturbridge clay and Dorsetshire clay, calcined; mix them with Wool-
wich sand and water; to be trodden with the feet, and then burned.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Sixth day
of May, in the said second year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord
King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and sixty-two.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly stampt),
in the presence of
WILLIAM WILLIS.
JACOB BANNISTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Nineteenth day of May, in the
year abovesaid, the aforesaid William White came before our said Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Instrument 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.
Inrolled the same Nineteenth day of May, in the year above written.