A NEW METHOD OF MAKING LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALLOM, FROM LIQUOR MADE FROM COPPERAS MATERIALS AND UNCAL- CINED ORE, EQUAL IN GOODNESS TO THE BEST ENGLISH ALLUM, WHICH HAD BEEN DEMONSTRATED BY THE REPEATED TRIALS OR EXPERIMENTS OF SEVERAL EMINENT MANUFACTURERS THAT WE APPREHENDED BY THE MEANS OF OUR SAID INVENTION THE DYERS AND OTHER MANUFACTURERS OF THIS KINGDOM MIGHT BE SUPPLIED WITH THE SAID COMMODITY IN VERY LARGE QUANTITIES, WHICH WOULD TEND NOT ONLY TO REDUCE THE PRICE THEREOP BUT ALSO ENCOURAGE THE EXPORTATION, AND BE OF PUBLICK UTILITY
Year: 1765

page_text: HOLME, EDWARD CROPPER, JAMES NICHOLSON, and ROBERT NICHOLSON, all of
Liverpoole, in the County of Lancaster, Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS we, the said Peter Holme, Edward Cropper, James Nicholson,
and Robert Nicholson, did, by our Petition, humbly represent unto His present
most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that we had by long study,
pains, and expence, found out and invented A NEW METHOD OF MAKING LARGE
QUANTITIES OF ALLOM, FROM LIQUOR MADE FROM COPPERAS MATERIALS AND UNCAL-
CINED ORE, EQUAL IN GOODNESS TO THE BEST ENGLISH ALLUM, WHICH HAD BEEN
DEMONSTRATED BY THE REPEATED TRIALS OR EXPERIMENTS OF SEVERAL EMINENT
MANUFACTURERS THAT WE APPREHENDED BY THE MEANS OF OUR SAID INVENTION
THE DYERS AND OTHER MANUFACTURERS OF THIS KINGDOM MIGHT BE SUPPLIED WITH
THE SAID COMMODITY IN VERY LARGE QUANTITIES, WHICH WOULD TEND NOT ONLY TO
REDUCE THE PRICE THEREOP BUT ALSO ENCOURAGE THE EXPORTATION, AND BE OF
PUBLICK UTILITY" we did, therefore, most humbly pray that His said Majesty
would be graciously pleased to grant unto us, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending
the said allum made by and after our particular and new Invention in
that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen
years, according to the Statute in that case made and provided; His said
Majesty being willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions
which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to con-
descend to our request; and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent,
bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of June, in the fifth year of

page_text: His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for
Himself, is heirs and successors, did give and grant unto us, the said Peter
Holme, Edward Cropper, James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that we, the said Peter Holme, Edward Cropper,
James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by ourselves or by our deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as we, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
time and at all times thereafter, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend our said Invention. 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 us, the said Peter
Holine, Edward Cropper, James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions
seem meet, and that we, our executors, adñiors, and assigns, should and law-
fully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of our
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power, priviledges, and advantages
therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto us, the said Peter
Holme, Edward Cropper, James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the day of the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing and fully to be compleat and ended
according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that if we, the said Peter Holme, Edward
Cropper, James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, should not 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 said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within three calendar months next and immediately after the
dato of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing therein contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
Peter Holine, Edward Cropper, James Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, do
hereby describe the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, as follows, that is to say:-

page_text: Take equal quantities of stale urine and copperas liquor made from uncal-
cined copperas ore or pyrites, to which add one fifth part water and one tenth
part kelp ley, mix all well together, let stand to depurate. and decant the clear
liquor, evaporate it to a pellicle and set by to chrystalize; by this process was
obtained nearly three fourths of a pound of fine allum shoots from a gallon of
the above mixtures when evaporated.
In witness whereof, we, the said Peter Holme, Edward Cropper, James
Nicholson, and Robert Nicholson, have hereunto set our hands and
scals, the Sixth day of September, in the fifth 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, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-five.