A NEW COMPOSITION AND PUCULIAR METHOD OF CURING OF SALMON WITH SPICES
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
COCKBURN, of the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Fishmonger and Curer
of Salmon for the London Market, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-ninth day of July, in the third year of His reign, did give and grant
unto me, the said Alexander Cockburne, His especial license that I, during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise,
and vend my Invention of "A NEW COMPOSITION AND PUCULIAR METHOD OF
CURING OF SALMON WITH SPICES," within that part of Great Britain called Eng-
land, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Alexander
Cockburn, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, 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 after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
nore at large appear.
NOW NOW YE, that in compliance with the said recited proviso, I, the
said Alexander Cockburn, do hereby declare, that the that the nature of my
said Invention of a New Composition and Peculiar Method for Curing Salmon
with Spices doth consist of the several ingredients and is to be performed in
the manner herein-after mentioned, that is to say:

page_text: Take for pickle to boil a salmon of twenty pounds weight, a quarter of an
ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of mace, a quarter of an ounce of
common pepper, to put into three gallons of water mixed with one gallon
of vinegar and four pints of salt. The salmon to be put into the pickle
when boiling, and well skimm'd; the salmon to boil forty-five minuets. For
pickle to put upon salmon when cold, the composition is as follows, viz*: &
gallon of vinegar, one quart of spring water, and a gill of salt, with half an
ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mace, and half an ounce of common pepper,
to boil thirty minuets, and be put into a vessell to stand until quite cold before
it is put upon the salmon.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Cockburne, have hereunto
sett my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the third
year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Seventeenth day of August, in
the year of our Lord 1763, the aforesaid Alexander Cockburn came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. Also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord One 3
thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.