AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PAPER FOR HANGING AND ORNAMENTING OF ROOMS, AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE OF GREAT USE AND BENEFIT TO THE PUBLICK
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Second, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Twenty-second day of August now last past (reciting that EDWARD DIGHTON
had, by his Petition, humbly represented to His Majesty that he, the said
Edward Dighton, had, with great labour, study, and expence, found out and
invented "AN ENTIRE NEW METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PAPER FOR HANGING AND
ORNAMENTING OF ROOMS, AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND THAT THE SAME WILL BE OF GREAT
USE AND BENEFIT TO THE PUBLICK," that the said Invention is entirely new, and had
not been thentofore used, and therefore praying His said Majesty would be
graciously pleased to grant unto him His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use and benefit thereof for the term of fourteen years), did thereupon, of His
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto the said Edward Dighton, his executors,
adñiors, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that he, the said Edward Dighton, his executors, adñiors, and
assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by his and third
deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Edward
Dighton, his executors, adññiors, or assignes, 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 his said Invention within that part of His said Maty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Maty's Dominion of Wales, and Town of

page_text: Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Edward Dighton,
his exccutors, admors, and assigns, or any of them, in their discretions should
seem meet, and that he, the said Edward Dighton, his extors, adñiors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewng, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said license, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto
the said Edward Dighton, his executors, adiñors, and assigns, for and during
and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next
and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; and in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso, that if the said Edward Dighton should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand
and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery
within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date 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, anything therein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding, as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had)
may more fully and at largo appear.
NOW THESE PRESENTS WITNESS, that he, the said Edward Dighton,
in pursuance of the said Letters Patent, and in performance of the above
recited proviso, doth hereby describe and ascertain the the nature of his said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and prepared,
as follows, viz:-
Plates to be etched or graved on copper, brass, pewter, iron, tin, steel, gold,
silver, or any compound metals, after any plate or plates are made of the
afores metals or compound metals. The said Edward Dighton craveth or
etcheth his design or pattern on the same with a graver or needle, after which
the design or pattern is impressed on paper under a rolling press for hangings
used as furniture for rooms, closetts, &c., and when so done the aforesaid paper
is painted or coloured by hand, with pencils called camell hair pencils. The
colours and stains used in painting and colouring the said impression are
as follows:-For a blue, Prussian blue ground in vinegar; for a red, carmine
mingled in vinegar; for a yellow, saffron steeped in boiling water; for a
green, sap green steeped in vinegar; for another green, verdigrease ground in
vinegar; for a brown, tobacco stalks steeped in boiling water; for a purple,

page_text: armine mingled with Prussian blue. Colours used in printing off the afore-
aid plates are, Frankfort black, brown umber, rose pink, rock indigo. Gold
ize in gilding the aforesd work is made of linseed oyl, amber, red lead, umber,
nd turpentine oyl boyled and mingled all together. Another gold size is
gum arabick, sugar candy, and vermilion, boiled together.
In witness whereof, he, the said Edward Dighton, hath hereunto sett his
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of September, in the twenty-
seventh year of the reign of our said Sovereigne Lord George the
Second, 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 fifty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the aforesaid Twenty-eighth day
of September, in the year above written, the aforesaid Edward Dighton
came before the said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
above Instrument, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Instrument 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 same Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year above
written.