TAKING OFF WOOL FROM SHEEP SKINS, PREFERABLE TO THAT NOW PRACTISED BY ROTTING AND LIME
Year: 1759

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
LEBRECHT CHRYSEL, of the Parish of Saint Luke, in the County of Middlesex,
Chymist, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by Ilis
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster the Twenty-fourth day of January, in the thirty-second year of His
said Majesty's reign, did give and grant to me, the said Christopher Lebrecht
Chrysel, His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I,
the said Christopher Lebrecht Chrysel, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or de-
putys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Christopher Lebrecht
Chrysel, my exors, admors, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein
expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend his Invention of "TAKING OFF WOOL
FROM SHEEP SKINS, PREFERABLE TO THAT NOW PRACTISED BY ROTTING AND LIME,"
throughout that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the

page_text: said Christopher Lebrecht Chrysel, by writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the Statute, relation
being thereunto had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Christopher Lebrecht Chryscl, do hereby declare that my said new Invention
is composed and made in manner following (that is to say) :-
The wool to be taken off the sheep skins (without the pernicious method
now practised by rotting and lime) is to be performed and effected by a per-
fect and fixed alkaline salt, and whose nature and quality will cause an ebulli-
tion and effervesence with acids, and by incorporating with oyl or tallow pro-
duce a kind of consistence like unto soap, and must be a precipitation of all
sollutions made with acids, and turn the blue juice of violets into a green
colour, otherwise it cannot be a perfect and fixed alkaline salt. This kind of
salt is named pearl ashes or pott ashes, sal tartari, sal vegetabile, Spanish soda,
sandever, English kelp, and many others. These alkaline salts, used instead
of lime, produce such an effect on sheep skins that the wool may be taken off
in a short time without hurting or damageing it, and that in so nice a perfec-
tion, that it will retain its vertue and good quality equal to the best sheering
wool adapted for manufacturing; whereas by the pernicious and common
methods now practised, a great part, and sometimes all, of such wool would and
must have been converted to many mean purposes in trade, to the great detri-
ment and loss to the proprietors and dealers in so valuable a commodity.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Lebrecht Chrysel, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the thirty-
second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second,
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 fifty-nine.

page_text: AND BE IT REMBRED, that the Nineteenth day of May, in the year
above written, the aforesaid Christopher Lebrecht Chrysel came before our
said Lord the King in Ilis Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
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 Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.