A NEW METHOD OF DYING AND STAINING GOAT SKINS, KID, CALF SKINS, SHEEP SKINS, LAME SKINS, AND HIDES OF ALL SORTS, IN THE FOLLOWING COLOURS (TO WIT): -IN LOBSTER RED, ROSE RED, SCARLET, CRIMSON, AND MOROCCO; IN LIGHT GREEN, GAY GREEN, LAUREL GREEN, MOLEQUIN GREEN, DEEP GREEN, CALADON GREEN, PARROT GREEN, DUCKWING GREEN, SAXON GREEN, SEA GREEN, PEA GREEN, CABBAGE GREEN, AND GRASS GREEN; IN MILK BLUE, PEARL BLUE, PALE BLUE, FLAT BLUE, MIDLING BLUE, SKY BLUE, KING'S BLUE, QUEEN'S BLUE, TURKISHBLUE, AND PURPLE BLUE; IN STRAW YELLOW, PALE YELLOW, LEMON YELLOW, AND ORANGE YELLOW; AND IN CHOCOLATE COLOUR AND COFFEE COLOUR; SO AS TO BE OF GENERAL UTILITY AND BENEFIT TO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS OF THIS HIS KINGDOM
Year: 1771

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAM
SAMUEL, of Walworth, in the County of Surry, Spanish Leather Dresser and
Stainer of Leather, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Sam Samuel, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had, by
long study, application, and great expence, found out and brought to perfection
"A NEW METHOD OF DYING AND STAINING GOAT SKINS, KID, CALF SKINS, SHEEP
SKINS, LAME SKINS, AND HIDES OF ALL SORTS, IN THE FOLLOWING COLOURS (TO WIT):
-IN LOBSTER RED, ROSE RED, SCARLET, CRIMSON, AND MOROCCO; IN LIGHT GREEN,
GAY GREEN, LAUREL GREEN, MOLEQUIN GREEN, DEEP GREEN, CALADON GREEN,
PARROT GREEN, DUCKWING GREEN, SAXON GREEN, SEA GREEN, PEA GREEN,
CABBAGE GREEN, AND GRASS GREEN; IN MILK BLUE, PEARL BLUE, PALE BLUE,
FLAT BLUE, MIDLING BLUE, SKY BLUE, KING'S BLUE, QUEEN'S BLUE, TURKISH BLUE,
AND PURPLE BLUE; IN STRAW YELLOW, PALE YELLOW, LEMON YELLOW, AND ORANGE
YELLOW; AND IN CHOCOLATE COLOUR AND COFFEE COLOUR; SO AS TO BE OF GENERAL
UTILITY AND BENEFIT TO HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS OF THIS HIS KINGDOM;" I
did therefore most humbly pray His Majesty to grant unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, Letters Patent, under His Majesty's Great Seal of
Great Britain, for the sole use and benefit of the said Invention, within that
part of His Majesty's Dominions of Great Britain called England, Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His Majesty's
Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, under such restrictions as
to His Majesty should seem meet, His said Majesty being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good,
was graciously.pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore by His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of

page_text: November, in the twelfth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give
and grant unto me, the said Sam Samuel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, his especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said Sam Samuel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
us, by ourselves or by our deputy or deputies, servants or agents, as I, the said
Sam Samuel, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within
His Plantations abroad, in such manner, as to me, the said Sam Samuel, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should in our discrotion seem meet,
and that I, the said Sam Samuel, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing,
and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of
years therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Sam Samuel, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and
immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a provisoe, that if I, the said Sam Samuel, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calendar 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-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, more fully and at large appears.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Sam Samuel, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the aforesaid Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, in manner following (that is to say):
For the dying and staining of skins in lobster red, rose red, scarlet, and
morocco: take for one dozen of skins six ounces of cochineal, boil the same in

page_text: two gallons of rain water, and if this is not sufficient, take about twelve or
fourteen grains of carmine, and if that 'does not answer, take about four ounces.
of sea lacke, forty-five grains of drop lake, and about a quarter of a pound of
aquafortis. For crimson use the same ingredients, excepting the carmine, which
is left out intirely. For the dying and staining of skins in light green, gay green,
laurel green, molequin green, deep green, caladon green, parrott green, duck-
wing green, Saxon green, sea green, pea green, cabbage green, and grass:
green: take to one dozen of skins one ounce of Spandish indigo, aquafortis,
spirits of salt and vitriol according to the nature of the skins you dye; but if
this is not sufficient, six pounds of Barbary root and two pounds of turmoniac
must be added. For the dying and staining of skins in milk blue, pearl blue,
pale blue, flat blue, midling bluc, sky blue, King's blue, Queen's blue, Turkish
blue, and purple blue: take for one dozen of skins one ounce of Spanish indigo,
aquafortis, spirits of salt and vitriol according to the nature of the skins. To
make the skins of different shades, take quarter of an ounce of spirit of urine,
which will alter the shade. For the dying and staining of leather in straw
yellow: take to one dozen of skins two pounds of ground fustic boiled in three
gallons of water; for pale yellow, six pounds of Barbary root; for lemon yellow,
six pounds of Barbary root and two pounds of French berries pounded; and
for orange yellow, two pounds of French berries and three pounds of turmoniac.
For the dying and staining of skins in chocolate colour: take to one dozen of
skins four pounds of ground logwood and two ounces of grama tartar. And for
coffee colour: take four pounds of ground logwood and two ounces of roch
allum, and if that is not sufficient, put half an ounce of spirits of urine and
half an ounce of aquafortis, with thirty or forty grains of pewter in the aqua-
fortis, or a quarter of an ounce of each. But note, that care must be taken to
dip the skins according to the colour they are intended to take, as to the
reds, greens, and blues.
In witness whereof, I, the said Sam Samuel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of February, in the Twelfth 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 seventy-two
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Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of,
JN° HOSIER,
EDWP SMITH Foss.
SAM (L.s.) SAMUEL.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-first day of February, in the
year last above written, the said Sam Samuel came the said Lord the King
in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and
every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Writing 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 Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year last above
written.