NEW-INVENTED ART OR MISTERY FOR MAKING ORNAMENTS (SUCH AS ARMS, SUPPORTERS, BORDERS, CYPHERS, AND ALL MANNER OF FLOWERS AND OTHER ORNA- MENTS) TO ADD TO THE FLOWERS FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES
Year: 1774

page_text: HATCHETT'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HATCHETT, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the Liberty of
Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, Coachmaker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letter Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Tenth day of November, in the fifteenth year of His said Majesty's reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said John Hatchett, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Hatchett, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might, during the
term of fourteen years therein mentioned and expressed, make, use, exercise,
and vend, throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my "NEW-INVENTED ART OR MISTERY FOR MAKING ORNAMENTS (SUCH AS ARMS,
SUPPORTERS, BORDERS, CYPHERS, AND ALL MANNER OF FLOWERS AND OTHER ORNA-
MENTS) TO ADD TO THE FLOWERS FOR COACHES AND OTHER CARRIAGES," which is to
be made as are herein-after particularly described, mentioned, and set forth;
in which said recited Letter Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said John Hatchett, by writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of the said Invention to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letter Patent, as in and by the Statute, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Hatchett, do hereby declare that my said new Invention is in manner
following (that is to say):
Chiefly for a quicker dispatch of business, therefore such ornaments, in

page_text: general as afore mentioned are to be pierced with a saw, or otherways cut, in
copper plates, brass, tin, or any other metal or composition, stamp or silver
compound, foil, mother-of-pearl, paper, 'vellum, prepared canvas, leather, thin
wood, paste-board or card paper, as shall be thought most proper for that
purpose; when pierced, then to be painted thereon with divers sorts of colours,
gilded, glazed, bronzed, inlayed, embossed or coloured, as may be most
approved of, to be fixed and laid upon all manner of coach and other carriages
after the ground colour is laid and finished; and that the said copper plates,
brass, tin, or any other metal or composition stamp, silver compound, foil,
mother-of-pearl, paper, vellum, prepared 'canvas or leather, thin wood, paste-
board or card paper, with the painting thereon, after being pierced with a saw
or other ways cut, are to be put on and take off and fix on any coach, or any
other carriage when required, or when the ground of a body of any coach or
other carriage shall or may be wanted to be new painted, gilded, or varnished.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the
Seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-four.