A NEW METHOD OF GILDING UPON AND ORNAMENTING WITH LEAF GOLD AND LEAF SILVER, AND WITH YELLOW LEAF METAL AND WHITE LEAF METAL, COMMONLY CALLED DUTCH LEAP METAL, ALL KIND OF GOODS OF BRITISH MANUFACTORY, AND BRITISH GOODS MANUFACTURED WITH LINEN AND COTTON, AND ALSO BRITISH GOODS MANUFACTURED WITH COTTON AND WOOLLEN, AND ALSO ALL KIND OF WOOLLEN GOODS OF BISH MANUFACTORY, AND B GS MAND WITH AND
Year: 1787

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, HENRY MATHER
and ROGER FARRAND, of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster,
Cotton Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fifth day of December, in the twenty-eighth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto us, the said Henry Mather and Roger Farrand, our
executors, adiiors, and assigns, His special licence, ful power, sole privilege and
authority, that we, the said Henry Mather and Roger Farrand, our executors,
adors, and assigns, and every of them, by ourselves and themselves, or by our
or their deputy or deputies, servants, or agents, or such others as we, the said
Henry Mather and Roger Farrand, our executors, admors, 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, within that part of His Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick
upon-Tweed, our Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF GILDING UPON AND ORNAMENTING
WITH LEAF GOLD AND LEAF SILVER, AND WITH YELLOW LEAF METAL AND WHITE
LEAF METAL, COMMONLY CALLED DUTCH LEAP METAL, ALL KIND OF GOODS OF
BRITISH MANUFACTORY, AND BRITISH GOODS MANUFACTURED WITH LINEN AND
COTTON, AND ALSO BRITISH GOODS MANUFACTURED WITH COTTON AND WOOLLEN,
AND ALSO ALL KIND OF WOOLLEN GOODS OF BRITISH MANUFACTORY, AND BRITISH
GOODS MANUFACTURED WITH LINNEN AND WOOLLEN," in such manner as to us, the

page_text: said Henry Mather and Roger. Farrand, our executors, adñiors, or assigns, or
any of them, should in our or their discretion seem meet, and that we, the
said Henry Mather and Roger Farrand, our executors, adiñors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention during the time therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, Evileges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto us, the said Henry Mather
and Roger Farrand, our executors, adññors, and assigns, for and during and
unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; by which said
Letters Patent it is (amongst other things) provided, that we, the said Henry
Mather and Roger Farrand, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under our hands and seals, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as
in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of, and in compliance with, the said
recited provisoe, we, the said Henry Mather and Roger Farrand, do hereby
specify and declare that the nature of our said Invention is to gild upon and
ornament in figures, designs, or patterns with leaf gold and leaf silver, and
with yellow leaf metal and white leaf metal, commonly called Dutch leaf
metal, or other compound base leaf and powdered metals; all kind of cotton
goods of British manufactory, and British goods manufactured with linnen and
cotton, and also British goods manufactured with cotton and woollen, and also
all kind of woollen goods of British manufactory, and British goods manufac-
tured with linnen and woollen; and we, the said Henry Mather and Roger
Farrand, do hereby further specify, declare, ascertain, and describe the manner
in which we do and perform the same, viz:-
First, we mix as much oker finely ground or 'pounded with oil varnish as
will bring it to the consistency of molasses or tar in their common state, so
that it will easily spread upon a piece of leather strained tight upon a wooden
frame like unto a sieve.-Note: if the above composition dries too quick, add
a little fat linseed oil to it.
Secondly, we mix as much oker finely ground and pounded with linseed oil,
which must be first boiled nearly to the thickness of molasses, as will bring it

page_text: to the like consistency of molasses or tar in their common state.-Note: if this
dries too slow, adil, a little spirit varnish to it.
Thirdly, we mix as much oker. finely ground or pounded with japanners' gold
size as will bring it to the like consistency of molasses or tar in their common
state. Note: when any of the foregoing compositions grow too thick for use,
we reduce it to a proper thickness with spirits of turpentine or spirits of wine;
and note also, that either of the foregoing compositions are indifferently used.
Fourthly, we put the above-mentioned leather seive. to float or swim in a
thick liquid in a tub or vessel; next, we dip a ball, made of leather stuffed with
wool, similar to a letter-printer's ball, into either of the above-mentioned
compositions, and spread the said composition even and equally upon the
leather sieve, which having so done, we then take a block of wood with figures,
designs, or patterns cut therein, or formed thereon by pieces of brass, iron,
or other metals inlaid, which we dip into the composition spread on the leather
sieve, as aforesaid, and then we lay it upon the goods intended to be gilt, in a
similar manner as callico printers do, so that the composition adheres to and
forms the intended figure, design, or pattern upon the goods so intended to be
gilt. We then cover the composition so laid upon the goods in the manner
above described with the said leaf metal, and pass the goods so gilt through a
machine made of strong wood and metal rollers, commonly called a kalendar, by
which means the leaf metal combines with or adheres to the composition so
laid on, and forms the figures, designs, or patents intended to be made, in
manner aforesaid. We then take the goods from the machine or callendar,
and brush off the loose or waste metal, and hang them to dry and harden, and
when well dryed and hardened we pass them again through the machine or
calendar, which makes the gilding compleat.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, the
Thirty-first day of December, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great
Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in
the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirty-first day of December, in
the year last above mentioned, the said Henry Mather and Roger Farrand
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 mentioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was.
duly stampt according to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and
provided.
Inrolled this Thirty-first day of December, in the year last above mentioned.