NEW- ACQUIRED AND IMPORTED COMPOSITION FOR COVERING LEATHER AND ALL OTHER SORT OF HATS
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DENIS
CARCO, of Coventry Steet, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in the
County of Middlesex, Hatter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the First day of November, in the twenty-third year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Denis Carco, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Denis Carco, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Denis Carco, my executors, admors, or
assigns, should 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, within that part of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
my "NEW-
ACQUIRED AND IMPORTED COMPOSITION FOR COVERING LEATHER AND ALL OTHER SORT
OF HATS," in such manner as to me, the said Denis Carco, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem
meet; and that I, the said Denis Carco, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising
by reason of my said new-acquired and imported composition, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the

page_text: said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Denis Carco, 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 there is con-
tained a proviso obliging me, the said Denis Carco, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my said new-acquired and imported composition, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto
had) may more fully and at large appear:
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Denis Carco, do hereby declare that may said New-acquired and imported
Composition for covering Leather and all other Sort of Hats, is inade in the
manner following (that is to say):-
First. The Composition of Oil.-Six gallons of linceed oil, one pound of
litharge, one pound of white lead, one pound of red lead, one pound of amber,
which are to be boil'd together till the scum rises yellow, and then put in
half a pound of white copperas, and stir it well, and then it is finished.
Second. The Composition of the Varnish.-One pound of copal to be put
in an earthen pot and melted; then take four pound of the above compo-
tion, and put on the fire till it is hot; and then, when the copel is melted, and
the oil very hot, mix the oil with the copal gradually, and stir it as you put it
in; then, when the scum rises, take it off the fire, and when it is a little cool
put four pound of the essence of turpentine to it, then put it into a bottle and
let it stand till it is clear, and then both the compositions are finished.
The Way to Prepare the Leather to Receive the Composition.-The leather
is calve's hide for the brims, cut according to the fashion, and shaved on both
sides. Wet it, and beat it well to make it pliable, and then black it with green
copperas and water, then nail it all round upon a wooden mould, then put it
twelve hours in a stove to dry by degrees; then take some of the first composi-
tion and put it in a pot with a little ivory black, then with a soft brush lay as
much of it on the leather when it is on the mould as the leather will take
without falling, off'; then put it in the stove again for twenty-four hours in
a gradual warmth; then take it out and let it stand till it is cool on the
mould; after that, draw the nails out, and polish it on both sides smooth

page_text: with a pumistone and a little water; then, when it is polished, rub it with
a spunge and water, and then dry it with a soft cloth, free from all manner
of dirt or dust; then let it stand in the same room where the stove is,
for to receive a moderate warmth, for about three hours; then lay on another
body of the said first composition; then return it to the stove again for
twenty-four hours in a gradual warmth; then take it out of the oven aud
polish it as before; then put it in the stove for three hours, and then take
it out and put the first varnish on it with a fine brush; then put it for.
twenty-four hours in the stove; then take it out and polish it with a coarse
cloth and powder of pumistone; then clean it with a spunge and water, and
then dry it with a soft cloth, free from all manner of dirt or dust; then, with
a superfine brush, take the varnish, very clear and free from dirt, and varnish
it with as little of it as you possibly can for the last body, then leave it
twenty-four hours in the stove, and it is finished.
The heads, after they are blocked, are done in the same manner as the brims,
only the head must be left blocked till it is finished.
The Preparation for the Beaver Hat to Receive the Composition.-To be
made without stifning, but worked very close, and no nap on the upper side;
then lay some of the first composition all over it with a brush; then leave it
twelve hours in a place of a moderate warmth, outside of the stove; then
put it for thirty hours in the stove, in a place not too warm; then take it out
and polish it with a pumistone, and lay three or four different bodies of the
first composition on it in this manner; and when it is even and free from
any hair, varnish it in the same manner as the leather ones, and then it is
finished.
To make these and the leather hats of various colours, mix with the varnish
the colour you chuse.
In witness whereof, I, the said Denis Carco, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of January, in the twenty-third year of
the reign of 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 eighty-three.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of
January, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Denis Carco came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifi-
cation aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in 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 Majesties King William and Queen Mary of England, and so
forth.