COMPOUND METAL FOR LINING COPPER, BRASS, AND IRON VESSELLS SO AS TO MAKE THEM AS SWEET AS IF OF SOLID SILVER, AND MORE DURABLE THAN ANY OTHER INVENTION FOR THAT PURPOSE DISCOVERED
Year: 1779

page_text: TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
THOMAS BENNETT, of the Parish of Saint John, Wapping, in the County of
Middlesex, Brazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
His Letters Patent under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second day of March, in the nineteenth year of His
reign, did grant unto me, the said Thomas Bennett, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence,, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Thomas Bennett, my executors,
admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or
by mine and their deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said Thomas Bennett, my executors, adñors, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend my new-invented "COMPOUND METAL FOR LINING COPPER,
BRASS, AND IRON VESSELLS SO AS TO MAKE THEM AS SWEET AS IF OF SOLID SILVER,
AND MORE DURABLE THAN ANY OTHER INVENTION FOR THAT PURPOSE DISCOVERED;"
within that part of His 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 said Thomas Bennett, my executors, adñiors, and assigns, or any
of them, should in there discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas
Bennett, my executors, admors, and assigns, shall and lawfully might have
and enjoy the whole profit, bencfit, commodity, and advantage from time to
time coming, growing, accruing,. and arising by reason of the said Invention,
for and during the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise,

page_text: and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Bennett, my
executors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately ensuing, and
fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso that
if I, the said Thomas Bennett, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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
calendar months next and immediately after the date thereof, that then the
said recited Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
therein before contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding, as in and
by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Bennett, do hereby declare
my said Invention, and declare that the same is of the description and to be
performed in manner following (that is to say):-
Melt two pounds of grain tin, then take eight ounces of silver as thin as
can be made, and dip it into sal-armoniac water, and dry the same, then put
the silver into the melted tin, and in a few minutes the same will incorporate
into one body, which being done will be fit for lining the copper, brass, and
iron vessells, so as to make them as sweet as if of solid silver. To put the
metal on the vessels as follows: First, clean the copper and other vessels
well, and wash them over with sal-armoniac water; dry the vessels, and lay
the metal on the same, but with a stronger heat than the common method of
tinning.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Bennett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the nineteenth
year of the reign our 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 in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-nine.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt), in the presence of
WILL POPE.
JOHN COOKE.
THOS (L.s.) BENNETT.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Bennett came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in
5 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 their late Majestys King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.