BRITANNICK ELASTICK GUM, VERY SERVICEABLE AND USEFUL IN THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF PORTRAIT AND HOUSE PAINTING, BY MAKING THE COLOURS DURABLE AND FREE FROM PEELING, ALSO OF GREAT UTILITY IN GUILDING, PAINTING, PENCILLING, AND STAINING OF SILKS, CALLICOES, &C., AND IN DRESSING OF SILKS, LINEN,, AND COTTON IN THE LOOM INSTEAD OF GUM OR PASTE, SO AS TO STRENGTHEN THE THREADS OF THE FINEST COTTONS; AND IS ALSO EXCELLENT FOR BEAUTIFYING AND FIXING THE COLOURS UPON PAPER, EQUAL TO THAT DONE IN GREATEST USE FOR THE RENDERING THE CLAY OR USED IN MODELLING SUPPLE, AND PREVENTING THE SAME FROM DRYING TOO FAST, AND FOR CAUSING A TRANSPARENCY OF COLOURS PIT FOR CHINA AND EARTHENWARE,
Year: 1781

page_text: ANGELL'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ALBERT
ANGELL, of Saint Matthew, Bethnal Green, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster
the Twenty-fourt day of January, in the twenty-first year of His reign, hath,
for Himself, His heirs, and successors, given and granted unto the said Albert
Angell, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all. His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, a certain Invention called "BRITANNICK ELASTICK GUM,
VERY SERVICEABLE AND USEFUL IN THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF PORTRAIT AND
HOUSE PAINTING, BY MAKING THE COLOURS DURABLE AND FREE FROM PEELING,
ALSO OF GREAT UTILITY IN GUILDING, PAINTING, PENCILLING, AND STAINING
OF SILKS, CALLICOES, &C., AND IN DRESSING OF SILKS, LINEN,, AND COTTON IN
THE LOOM INSTEAD OF GUM OR PASTE, SO AS TO STRENGTHEN THE THREADS
OF THE FINEST COTTONS; AND IS ALSO EXCELLENT FOR BEAUTIFYING AND FIXING
THE COLOURS UPON PAPER, EQUAL TO THAT DONE IN
GREATEST USE FOR THE RENDERING THE CLAY OR
USED IN
MODELLING SUPPLE, AND PREVENTING THE SAME FROM DRYING TOO FAST, AND
FOR CAUSING A TRANSPARENCY OF COLOURS PIT FOR CHINA AND EARTHENWARE,
80 AS TO STAND BAKING OR BURNING," together with the whole profit, benefit,
INDIA; AND IS OF THE
COMPOSITION

page_text: commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing,
and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of
fourteen years, according to the form of the Statute in that case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent, amongst other things, it is pro-
vided that if the said Albert Angell shall 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 in four
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the same 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-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding.
'
NOW KNOW YE, that he, the said Albert Angell, in pursuance of the
intention of the said Letters, and in compliance with the proviso therein con-
tained, doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention, called Britannic
Elastic Gum, and in what manner the same is to be performed, is described and
ascertained in the manner following, that is to say:-
Linseed oil or nut oyl one gallon, bees wax, yellow or bletch't, one' pound,
glue or size six pounds, verdegrease a quarter of a pound, letteridge a quarter
of a pound, spring or rain water two quarts; to be put into an iron kettle and
melted down till it comes to the composition:
In witness whereof, the said Albert Angell 'hath hereunto set his hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of May, in the year of our, Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.