A METHOD OF PRINTING AND PAINTING PAPER, SILK, CLOATH, AND CANVAS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND BROCADE COLOURS, WHICH FOR ITS BEAUTY IN COLOUR FAR EXCELLED ANYTHING OF THAT KIND EVER YET MADE, AND WOULD NEITHER WASH OUT, FADE, NOR TARNISH, AND WOULD BE OF GREAT USE IN THE MAKING OF PAPER, SILK, CLOTH, CANVAS, AND ALL OTHER HANGINGS AND FURNITURE, AND COULD BE AFFORDED TO BE SOLD NEAR AS CHEAP AS THE MIDLING SORT OF PAPER HANGINGS
Year: 1755

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOACHIM
ANDREAS BAHRE, of the Parish of Saint James, within the Liberty of West-
minster, in the County of Middlesex, Limner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-second day of July, in the twenty-ninth year of His reign, reciting that
whercas I, the said Joachim Andreas Bähre, had, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sented unto the Lords Justices Guardian of the Kingdom, that I had, by great
care, labour, study, and expence, found out and brought to perfection, by a certain
liquid composition by me made and invented, "A METHOD OF PRINTING AND
PAINTING PAPER, SILK, CLOATH, AND CANVAS, IN GOLD, SILVER, AND BROCADE
COLOURS, WHICH FOR ITS BEAUTY IN COLOUR FAR EXCELLED ANYTHING OF THAT KIND
EVER YET MADE, AND WOULD NEITHER WASH OUT, FADE, NOR TARNISH, AND WOULD
BE OF GREAT USE IN THE MAKING OF PAPER, SILK, CLOTH, CANVAS, AND ALL OTHER
HANGINGS AND FURNITURE, AND COULD BE AFFORDED TO BE SOLD NEAR AS CHEAP AS
THE MIDLING SORT OF PAPER HANGINGS," which Invention 1 apprehended
would tend greatly to the advantage of the nation in general; His Majesty did
therefore, of His special grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, give and
grant unto me, the said Joachim Andreas Bähre, my executors, adiñors, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, to make,
use, exercise, and vend my said Invention throughout England, Wales, and
Berwick-upon-Tweed, to hold to me, my executors, adiñiors, and assigns, for
the term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said Joachim Andrea>

page_text: Bähre, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, & in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next 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, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Joachim Andreas Bähre, in pursuance
of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which
the same is to be performed, that is to say:-
First take two pound of glue and put it into three quarts of water, and let
it boil until the glue is dissolved, and with this let the paper be twice primed
over in all the cases after mentioned. With respect to the silver hangings,
take a quarter of a pound of sugar, white, and put it into two quarts of linsed
oyl, and boil them together until the oyl grows blackish or changes colour, and
with this liquid let the paper be sized over, and when almost dry then
lay on the silver. With respect to the gold hangings, take three quarts of
linsed oyl and put into it of lythargirium argenteum, lythargirium aureum,
red lead, and ombra, a large spoonfull each; let them boil together for about an
hour, and with this liquid let the paper be sized over, & when almost dry
then lay on the gold. With respect to the brocade colours, take three quarts
of linsed oyl, put into it a middle sized onion, boil it until the scum turns
blewish, and with this liquid mix the colours. With respect to linnen cloth
and canvas, the same method is to be persued, except that the linnen cloth or
canvas are not to be primed, nor must the oyl be boyled, but instead thereof
the oyl is to be mixed with lythargirium argenteum, in the proportion of a
large spoonfull to each quart of oyl.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joachim Andreas Bähre, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of November, in the twenty-
ninth year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Second,
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-
Live
JOACHIM ANDREAS BAHRE. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being first
duly stamped, in the presence of,
THOMAS GOOSTREY.
JAMES KENNEDY.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twentieth day of November,
the aforesaid Joachim Andreas Bähre, came before our Lord the King in
His Chancery, and acknowleged the Writing aforesaid, and all and every
matter and thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And
the said Writing was stamped according to the form of the Statute made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and
so forth.