A NEW METHOD OF BLEACHING, WHITENING, AND BEAUTIFYING OF HATTS COMONLY CALLED LEGHORN HATTS, AND OTHER HATTS, AND THE PLATTS WHEREOF THE SAME ARE MADE, AND ALSO SUNDRY OTHER GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDIZES MADE EITHER OF STRAW, CHIPS, CANE, OR OTHER MATERIALS RESPECTIVELY, AND OF RESTORING SUCH OF THOSE SORT OF GOODS TO THEIR ORIGINAL OR RATHER SUPERIOR COLOUR AND GOODNESS AS HAVE BY ANY ACCIDENT BEEN STAINED, SOILED, MILDEWED OR OTHERWISE SPOILED OR DAMAGED
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, KEYSER
MOLE, of the Parish of Saint Mathew, Bethnal Green, in the County of
Middlesex, Turner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Tenth day of April, in the six-and-twentieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Keyser Mole, His especial licence
that I, the said Keyser Mole, during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF
BLEACHING, WHITENING, AND BEAUTIFYING OF HATTS COMONLY CALLED LEGHORN
HATTS, AND OTHER HATTS, AND THE PLATTS WHEREOF THE SAME ARE MADE, AND ALSO
SUNDRY OTHER GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDIZES MADE EITHER OF STRAW, CHIPS,
CANE, OR OTHER MATERIALS RESPECTIVELY, AND OF RESTORING SUCH OF THOSE SORT
OF GOODS TO THEIR ORIGINAL OR RATHER SUPERIOR COLOUR AND GOODNESS AS HAVE
BY ANY ACCIDENT BEEN STAINED, SOILED, MILDEWED, OR OTHERWISE SPOILED OR
DAMAGED;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging
me, the said Keyser Mole, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of the said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four kalendar months 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Keyser Mole, lo hereby declare that my said new method of bleaching,
whitening, and beautifying of the batts above mentioned, and the platts
whereof the same are made, and also the abovesaid sundry other goods,
wares, and merchandizes, made either of straw, chip, cane, or other materials
respectively, is to be performed in the manner following (that is to say):-
:-
Put the said hatts and goods above mentioned into a vessel that will hold
them, with two ounces of salt of tartar, four ounces of lixivious, lixivial, or
lixiviate salts of vegetables, as pot ashes, pearl ashes, barilla, kelp, or any other
ashes or alkaline salts of vegetables well rectified, and two ounces of flower of
sulphur, to every gallon of water; let them remain therein half an hour, then
clean them off with water and dry them; then put them again into fresh
mixture as above, to every gallon of which add one pint of the juice of lemmons,
limes, crabbs, or other fruits or acids of vegetables, or in such other greater or
lesser quantity or proportion as the nature and quality of the goods, or the
deficiency of colour or degree of damage of the goods, shall require, for in such
case the deficiency of colour and the damage of the goods and experience only
must direct and ascertain the quantity and proportions needful. Let them
remain in this second mixture an hour more or less as occasion shall require,
then take them out and put them into a sweating room for twelve hours;
when dry, put them into milk or butter milk for twenty-four hours, or longer if
the condition of the goods shall make it necessary. If the goods are spotted,
stained, mildewed, or otherwise damaged, you must thus do them as above
twice, thrice, or four times over. Then clean them off with water and
dry them. Then, with a brush, do them over with a liquor made after the
following manner (to wit):-Take one ounce of tartar of vitriol, one ounce of
barilla, one ounce of kelp (or the like quantity of any other vegetable salts or
ashes, or more or less thereof according to their strength), one pound of rind
or bark of mulbery tree, one dram of smalts, indigo, or Prussian blew (first
dissolved in a spoonfull of spirit of wine), to two gallons of water, which must
be twice boiled; then dry them and fumigate them with brimstone. At last,
to beautify them further, boyl half a pound of isinglass in four quarts of water,
and a pint of the best clean rectified spirits; wet them with this mixture, then
fumigate them with brimstone, and put them between hot iron plates.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
fourth day of July, One thousand seven hundred and fifty-three.
KEYSER MOLE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twenty-fourth day of
July aforesaid, the before-named Keyser Mole came before our Lord the
King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above said. And the said
Writing was stampt according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the year aforesaid.