A COMPOSITION TO WHICH WE GIVE THE NAME OF ARTIFICIAL WOOD, APPLI- CABLE TO THE VARIOUS PURPOSES OF CARVING, CASTING, AND MODELLING
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
WHITLOCK, of the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, Embroiderer, and
WILLIAM HODGSON, of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, Carver, both of
the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Third day of April, in the twelfth year of His reign, did give and grant unto
us, William Whitlock and William Hodgson, our exors, admors, and assigns,
His said Majesty's especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority,
that we, the said William Whitlock and William Hodgson, our exors,
adñors, and assigns, from time to time and at all times during the term of
fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of Great Britain called England, His said Majesty's
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within His said
Majesty's Plantations and Colonies abroad, for the aforesaid term, our Inven-
tion of "A COMPOSITION TO WHICH WE GIVE THE NAME OF ARTIFICIAL WOOD, APPLI-
CABLE TO THE VARIOUS PURPOSES OF CARVING, CASTING, AND MODELLING," in such
manner as to us, the said William Whitlock and William Hodgson, our exors,

page_text: admors, and assigns, should seem meet; and that we, the said William
Whitlock and William Hodgson, our exors, admors, and assigns, should have
and enjoy the whole benefit, profit, commodity, and advantage arising and
accruing from the said Invention during the time aforesaid: And whereas
there is a proviso in the said Letters Patent, contained, that in case the said
William Whitlock and William Hodgson should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of their said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under their hands and
seals, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent should be void.
NOW KNOW YE, that the composition proposed for making of the artificial.
wood before mentioned consists of the following ingredients or materials (that
is to say):-
Cartridge paper two quires, glue four pounds, wheat flour half a peck, beach-
tree sawdust a sufficient quantity, and hemp two ounces.
The Description of Making it (viz):-Having soaked the paper so long in
water that its texture is entirely destroyed, strain it, but no dryer than to leave
water sufficient to dissolve the glue therewith, doing it over a gentle fire, and
keeping it continually stirred. Then to the flour add three quarts of water,
which boil over a gentle fire till it becomes a paste. Add this to the above,
together with as much of the sawdust as will render it of a sufficient con-
Lastly, add the hemp, and let the whole be
uniformly. kneaded together. . Then, after the impression is taken, set the same
in a warm place to dry, and prepare for gilding, &c.
sistence or tenacity to mould.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Whitlock and William
Hodgson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth day
of July, 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.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fifth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1772, the aforesaid William Whitlock and William
Hodgson came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and ac-
knowledged the Deed aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Deed 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-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.