A NEW ART AND METHOD OF DYING, STAINING, AND STAMPING OP STOCKINGS AND OTHER APPAREL IN ALL SORTS OF COLOURS
Year: 1758

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
BROWN, of the Parish of Saint James, Clerkenwell, in the County of Middlesex,
Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Second, did give
and grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, IIis Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of De-
cember, in the thirty-second year of His reign, impowering me, during the
term of years therein exprest, to make, use, exercise, and vend, my new
Invention of "A NEW ART AND METHOD OF DYING, STAINING, AND STAMPING OP
STOCKINGS AND OTHER APPAREL IN ALL SORTS OF COLOURS," within England and
Wales and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Henry Brown, by some instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within three
calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by
the same Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Brown, do hereby declare that the above-mentioned New Art and
Method of Dying, Staining, and Stamping of Stockings and other Apparel
is to be made, prepared, and performed in the following manner, viz*:-
First, make prints of metal, cutt or cast to the figure intended to be dyed,
stained and stamped in any colour or colours; make the prints hollow, or

page_text: with cavities to hold the colours, with or without one or more funnels,
according to the number of colours to be dyed. Let there be a print placed
on each side of the stocking, the figure of the clock, and lay them in a press
made of iron or brass, with top and bottom plates, and screws and nuts, to
confine the same, first a print, then a stocking or stockings, and then a print,
till the frame be full; then fix the top of the press on the screws, then fix
on the nutts and sett them down fast together, then prepare the colours
intended for the same prints. Take such colours as fancy directs, and then
put the same into the funnells or cavities to run or dye their respective
figures or flowers. Wet them in a copper of water, then take them to the
blue vats; let them be in the same to match the stocking to the pattern and
the figures; dye in the prints at the same time, or at seperate times, and other
apparel in like manner, or any colours in the same manner or way. Then
take them out, wash them and trim them, and they are both beautifull and
fit for foreign or home consumption.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of March, in the thirty-second year
of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of us,
SAM BLACKSHAW.
MILES CROSBY.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the said Fifteenth day of March, in the
thirty-second year of His said Majesty King George the Second, the said
Henry Brown came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped 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 Sixteenth day of March, in the said thirty-second year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1759.