A PECULIAR METHOD OF COLOURING STARCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING HAIR POWDER OF A FAR SUPERIOR AND MUCH LESS PERNICIOUS QUALITY THAN ANY THING HERETOFORE FOUND OUT, USED, OR INVENTED FOR THAT PUR- POSE
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
DIXON, of Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, Starch Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, upon
the humble petition of me, the said Philip Dixon, was graciously pleased to
grant unto me, the said Philip Dixon, His Royal Letters Patent under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of
May, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign, thereby giving and granting unto
me, the said Philip Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that 1, the said
Philip Dixon, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them,
by myself arid themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, or ser-
vants or agents, or such others as I, the said Philip Dixon, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time 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 my Inven-
tion of "A PECULIAR METHOD OF COLOURING STARCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF
MAKING HAIR POWDER OF A FAR SUPERIOR AND MUCH LESS PERNICIOUS QUALITY
THAN ANY THING HERETOFORE FOUND OUT, USED, OR INVENTED FOR THAT PUR-
POSE," within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner
as to me, the said Philip Dixon, my executors, administrators,. and assigns,
or any of them, shall in my or their discretions seem meet; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if 1, the said Philip Dixon,.

page_text: should not particularly describe and ascertain tlie nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is 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 one calendar month next and immediately
after the date thereof, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation
being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Philip Dixon, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and declare that the same is made in manner following, that is to say :-
A colour is made and formed by boiling six pounds of turmeric powder, one
pound of Spanish anotto, and two ounces of pot or pearl ashes together, in
three pails of water, for the space of six hours, and after letting the samo
stand till cold is put into a lack of starch, the same containing à large
quantity of water, suflicient to permit its being strained through a fine cyprus
scive, and then broke out and dried, in the usual method of making of starch,
and is thereby made coloured 'starch, and fit aid proper to be made into hair
powder, in the same way that common starch usually is; and when the shale
of the colour is intended or wished to be deeper, it is done by adding an
additional quantity of Spanish anotto.
Witness my hand nid seal the Twenty-eighth day of New
...
PHILIP DIXON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of
May, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Philip Dixon came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged thio
Specification aforesaid, and all and every. thing therein cóntained, in formi
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according 3
to the tenor of the Statute in. that case made and provided.
Ïnrolled the same Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year above.
written.