A METHOD OF MAKING A NEW KIND OF SOAP, WHICH I CALL JESSAMIN SOAP," AND WHICH IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO ANY HITHERTO USED FOR WASHING, SHAVING, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANDREW
JOHNSTONE, of Ball Alley, in the Parish of Alhallows, Lombard Street, in the
City of London, Perfumer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighth day of January, in the thirty-fourth year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said Andrew Johnstone, His especial licence,
that I, the said Andrew Johnstone, during the term of years therein mentioned,
should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my discovery or Invention of "A METHOD
OF MAKING A NEW KIND OF SOAP, WHICH I CALL JESSAMIN SOAP," AND WHICH IS
INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO ANY HITHERTO USED FOR WASHING, SHAVING, AND OTHER
PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said Andrew Johnstone, by an instrument in writing under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said discovery
or Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calender month after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto bad) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Andrew Johnstone, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following, that is to say:-
Prepare your lees in the usual way; then take ten pounds beef suet, ten

page_text: pounds mutton suct, ten pounds hog's lard, and ten pounds olive oil boil it
altogether till it becomes the proper consistence of soap; when sufficiently
boiled, deaden your fire to cool the contents of the copper, so that the lees may
separate and fall to the bottom, and having a cock at the bottom of the boiler
draw off the whole of the lees, and stir into this mixture the following
articles-Eight ounces pearl ash, five ounces salt wormwood, twelve pounds
rose water, six ounces lixivium cansticum, three and a half ounces Narbonne
honey, finely prepared and refined, ten pounds oil almonds, three and a half
ounces sal ammoniac, six pounds orange flower water, and ono pound elder
flower water; give the whole a good boil together, keep constantly stirring, so
as all may be equally hot, by which means the whole of salt lees will evaporate,
which may be known by tasting it; then add any scent, according to fancy,
and thus prepared, it is fit for use. Much depends on the regularity of your
heat, for which reason I prefer what is commonly called a water heat.
Where the party is unacquainted with the method of making soap in
general, it may be done with the common white soap, and melted again,
which forms the basis of this sope.
In witness whereof, I, the said Andrew Johnstone, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
Ouo thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.
ANDW JOHNSTONE. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Seventh day of February,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Andrew Johnstone came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And also
tho Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Eighth day of February, in the year above written.