A MATERIAL CALLED THE NEW-INVENTED. BRITISH BARILLIA, FOR THE MAKING AND MANUFACTURING OF CROWN WINDOW GLASS, BROAD WINDOW GLASS, AND GLASS BOTTLES, AND ALSO FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF SOAP AND ALLUM, TO MUCH GREATER ADVANTAGE THAN ANY OTHER MATERIAL HITHERTO USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF THOSE COMMODITIES
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
KING, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Fourth day of March, in the twentieth year of His reign,
upon the joint petition of me, the said James King and Robert Turner, of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne aforesaid, Gentlemen, did give and grant unto me, the
said James King, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial
licence, free power, sole priviledge and authority that I, the said James King,
my extors, admors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves,
or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said James King, my executors, admors, or assigns; should agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter 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, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A MATERIAL CALLED THE NEW-INVENTED. BRITISH BARILLIA, FOR THE MAKING
AND MANUFACTURING OF CROWN WINDOW GLASS, BROAD WINDOW GLASS, AND GLASS
BOTTLES, AND ALSO FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF SOAP AND ALLUM, TO MUCH GREATER
ADVANTAGE THAN ANY OTHER MATERIAL HITHERTO USED IN THE MANUFACTURING OF
THOSE COMMODITIES," in such manner as to me, the same James King, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of us, should in our discretion seem

page_text: meet, and that I, the said James King, my executors, adiñors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising, by reason of the
said Invention for and during the term of years therein 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 James
King, 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 recited Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said James King, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four
calendar months next and immediately 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James King, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Material called
the New-invented British Barillia, for the Making and Manufacturing Crown
Window Glass, Broad Window Glass, and Glass Bottles, and also for the
Manufacturing of Soap and Allum, to much greater Advantage than any
other Material hitherto used in the Manufacturing of those Commodities, is
made, composed, and produced in the manner following (that is to say):-
A quantity of ashes obtained from burning the loppings or branches of
ashwood, oak, beach, elm, alder, and any other kind of green wood and
bramble, being the produce of this kingdom, in the proportion of one fourth
part; and also a quantity of the ashes obtained from burning the green vege-
tables known by the names of fearn, brecon, bean and pea straw, and whin
ashes, also common, field, and highway thistle, the stalks of rape seed and
mustard seed, and the bent or rushes that grow by the sea shore, in the
proportion of one other fourth part. The ashes burnt from these vegetables and
the green wood, being sifted through a fine sieve, are laid down upon a boarded
floor, and thereto added a quantity of soapers' waste ashes, in the proportion
of two fourth parts. These being all blended together by turning them back-
wards and forwards, and thoroughly intermixed with a shovell, there is added
of fine quicklime in the proportion of about one hundred weight to the
quantity of twelve hundred weight of the above blended or intermixed
ashes with which the lime is also blended and thoroughly intermixed in

page_text: the same manner as aforesaid.
This done, they are taken up from the boarded
floor and put into an iron pan (a Draft of which is delineated in the Paper
hereto annexed). Then a sufficient quantity of sea water is poured on to
dissolve the [Document mutilated] lime, &c., and the whole mass is stirred
together [Document mutilated] iron rake to incorporate. Which done, a coal
[Document mutilated] lighted up under the pan, and kept burning
[Document mutilated] and two nights without intermission, still keeping
the pan supplied with sea water in order to impregnate these materials
with a greater degree of the saline quality, until it acquire strength sufficient
for calcination in a reverberating furnace known in this country by the
name of calcar (a Draft of which is also delineated in the annext Paper);
and in this calcar, by means of an intense heat, the saline mass boiled in
the pan is dissolved and kept in a state of fusion for the space of an hour, in
which time the volatile part flies off and leaves remaining a fixed alkaline
salt, which cooled in iron pans produces our British borillia, and has the
appearance of Spanish barillia.
In witness whereof, I, the said James King, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the twentieth 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, &c.
and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year above mentioned.