MAKING CRAYONS FOR DRAWING AND OTHER PURPOSES OF VARIOUS COLOURS, SUPERIOR TO ANY HERETOFORE.MADE
Year: 1781

page_text: BECKWITH'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO, WHOM THESE PRESENTS::SHALL COME, I,, THOMAS
BECKWITH, of the City of York, Painter, send greeting.
WHEREAS: His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the twenty-first; year of
His reign, did give and grant unto me, then said.Thomas Beckwith; my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that' I, the said "Thomas Beckwith," my executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by my
and our 'deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Beckwith; my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time
agree with; and no others, from time to time and at all times thenafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "MAKING CRAYONS FOR DRAWING AND OTHER PURPOSES OF VARIOUS
COLOURS, SUPERIOR TO ANY HERETOFORE.MADE;"in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Thomas Beckwith, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of the said Invention, and in iwhat manner the same is to be performed,
to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately ensuing the date of the said Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, relation; being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, and the true
intent and meaning of the said Letters Patent, I, the said Thomas Beckwith,
do, by this Instrument in writing under my hand and seal, intended to be
enrolled in His Majesty's said High Court of Chancery, declare that my. said
Invention of Making Crayons for Drawing and other Purposes of various
Colours, superior to any hitherto made, is performed in manner following, that
is to say:-
Take of the best and most durable colours prepared from the purest mineral,
animal, and vegetable productions; unite such of them as require it with a pro-
portionable quantity of the most pure impalpable mineral calx, or the choicest
terrestrial fossil substance, agreeable to the nature of the colours made use of,
some requiring more and some less, adding thereto due proportions of well
dephlegmated essential oils, and of animal oleaceous substances, so as to render
the mass or compound of a smooth and uniform texture, and yet more so by
the means of mollification, inspissation, and exsiccation by fire, according to the
nature of, and as each particular colour requires, and when they are, by the
means above mentioned, brought to a proper degree of temperature (which
trials alone can determine), the compound mass is to be put into grooves of
wood, and formed into crayons or pencils.
And I do also hereby declare that this is a true and particular description of
the nature of my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Beckwith, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of September, in the twenty-
first 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 so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord 1781, the aforesaid Thomas Beckwith came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication 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 in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord