A CEMENT, MASTIC, OR COMPOSITION, WHICH I INTEND TO DENOMINATE GERMAN CEMENT
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
FULLWOOD, junior, of Stratford, in the County of Essex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Sixth day of May, in the ninth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Matthew
Fullwood, His especial licence, that I, the said Matthew Fullwood, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Matthew
Fullwood, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,.
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention.
of "A CEMENT, MASTIC, OR COMPOSITION, WHICH I INTEND TO DENOMINATE GERMAN
CEMENT;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me,
the said Matthew Fullwood, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
scal, particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same
to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Matthew Fullwood, junior, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in a cement which I call German cement, formed of a new com-
bination of burnt stones; and in further compliance with the said proviso, I,
the said Matthew Fullwood, junior, do hereby describe the manner in which
my said Invention is to be performed, by the following description thereof
(that is to say):
I take one ton of that kind of Gloucestershire freestone, commonly called
Painswick stone, half a ton of that kind of Gloucestershire freestone com-
monly called Painswick rag stone, half a ton of that kind of Gloucestershire
freestone commonly called Bisley stone, and one ton of the stone commonly
called black rock stone, from Clifton near Bristol, and having broken them into
small pieces, I mix them together, and burn them and grind them in the usual
mode adopted for making the ordinary Roman cement. When the materials
are brought to powder in this manner, the powder may be mixed with water in
the same proportions, and used in the same manner as the ordinary Roman
cement. It should be stated that my cement is of lighter colour than what is
commonly called Roman cement, and may be brought to a still lighter color
by a little extra burning, without destroying its adhesive property.
Now, whereas other proportions of the stones herein-before described may be
found to answer the purpose of my cement, though I have described those
which I have found in the course of my experience to make the best article;
.but whereas I claim as my Invention, the combination of the four several sorts
of stones herein-before described and prepared as aforesaid, for the purpose of
making a cement, mastic, or composition which I call German cement; and
*such my Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely new,
and never before used within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His said Dominion of Wales,
or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, I do hereby declare this to be my Speci-
fication of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification
doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or disguise, with the
proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Pateut contained;
wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Fullwood, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
M. FULLWOOD, JUN. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fifth day of July, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Matthew Fullwood, junior, came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Fifth day of July, in the year above written.