LENGTHENING HUMAN AND OTHER HAIR FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING TAILS, BRAIDS, AND CURLS TO COVER AND ADORN THE HUMAN HEAD, AND OF NEW-MOUNTING THE SAME
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
DAY, of Tavistock Street, in the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, in the
County of Middlesex, Hair Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by
Ilis Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Twenty-seventh day of February, in the twenty-sixth year of His reign, did
give and grant unto me, the said Francis Day, His especial licence that
1, the said Francis Day, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and within all Elis said Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "LENGTHENING HUMAN AND OTHER
HAIR FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING TAILS, BRAIDS, AND CURLS TO COVER AND ADORN
THE HUMAN HEAD, AND OF NEW-MOUNTING THE SAME;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Francis Day, under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my
said Invention, and how the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Francis Day, do hereby declare that my said Invention of lengthening such

page_text: human and other hair, and of new-mounting the same, are described in the
manner following (that is to say):-
First, as to lengthening such hair, by joining and weaving together in
manner following (that is to say):-Putting the usual quantity of weft or
hair into the silk or weaving frame, and weaving it in the common and usual
way, and then taking another usual quantity or weft, and putting it into the
silk or frame downward or the reverse way, and weaving the same in the
common and usual way, and turning such last weft the reverse or further side
of the said silk or frame, and so on alternately, and also by weaving the usual
quantity or weft in the common or usual way, and turning one part thereof
over the said silk or frame, leaving the other part thereof to hang down the
near or usual side of the said silk or frame; and when a sufficient quantity is
wove in either manner, then roll the same together and sew with a common
needle and thread, or silk or hair, the part so wove, and weave such hair so
joined or wove together in the common or usual manner, and also by sewing
together in like manner two pieces of common or usual weft, and extending
the same, and then rolling and sewing them together in like manner.
Secondly, as to the new-mounting the same. By sewing such hair when
so joined, or wove together and lengthened, and so again wove in the common
or usual way upon a narrow piece of silk, ribbon, tape, or buckram, instead of
the common or usual way of sewing hair upon long pieces of silk, ribbon,
tape, or buckram, and when the same is sown on such silk, ribbon, tape, or
buckram, then sew on a few rows of long hair, wove in the common way, to
hang down the outside, in order to cover or screen the knots so occasioned by
rolling and sewing together as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Day, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of March,
in the year of our Lord 1786, the aforesaid Francis Day 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. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-six.