MAKING BLACKING WHICH EFFECTUALLY RESISTS MOISTURE, PREVENTS ALL KINDS OF LEATHER FROM GROWING RUSTY OR MOULDY, AND PRESERVE IT FROM THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF SALT WATER
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, MICHAEL
NASH, of Homerton, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, sends grecting.
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 Tenth day of March last, upon the Petition of the said
Michael Nash, did give and grant unto him, the said Michael Nash, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said
Michael Nash, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself
and themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as hc, the said Michael Nash, his exors, admors, or assigns,
should agree with, and no other, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use,
exercise, and vend, within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, an
Invention of "MAKING BLACKING WHICH EFFECTUALLY RESISTS MOISTURE, PREVENTS
ALL KINDS OF LEATHER FROM GROWING RUSTY OR MOULDY, AND PRESERVE IT
FROM THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF SALT WATER," in such manner as to him, the
said Michael Nash, his exors, adiňors, and assigns, or any of them, should in
his or their discretion, seem meet; and that he, the said Michael Nash, his
exors, admors, and assigns, should and might have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing,
accruing, or arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the terin
of years therein mentioned; and it is by the said in part recited Letters
Patent, amongst other provisoes therein declared and provided, that if the
said Michael Nash should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be prepared, by an
instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months

page_text: next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and
by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE that the said Michael Nash, in compliance with the said
provisoe, doth hereby declare that the following is the nature of his said Inven-
tion, and that the same is prepared in manner hereafter expressed, that is
to say:-
Take one pound, or one hundredweight (in proportion to the quantity to be
made) of spermaceti; the same quantity of mutton suet clarified; the same
quantity of fine bees'-wax, and half the quantity of fine Venice turpentine. Boil
these together till every particle of scum is defeated; then put in half a pint
or seven gallons, in proportion to the quantity to be made, of fine black Japan,
and about one eighth part of the same quantity of spirits of turpentine,
wherein a small quantity of rosin has been dissolved, that is, the quantity of
rosin in proportion to the quantity of turpentine must be as one to five; a
quarter of a pound or a quarter of a hundredweight of ivory black, finely
levigated. Let all these ingredients boil together till they are perfectly clear
from any kind of froth or scum, and till they have acquired a sufficient body,
when cold, to make into balls and sticks or cakes. The ingredients must be kept
stirring incessantly after the black is put in till it is finished. This composi-
tion made into thin cakes, and exposed to the air for two years, will be
reducible to powder, which powder, dissolved in oil or varnish, will make a
paste or liquid blacking that will answer the same purposes as the balls or
cakes. This composition should be boiled about fifteen or sixteen hours, and
musk, benjamin, camphire, and many other perfumes may be intermixed
therein with advantage.
In witness whereof, the said Michael Nash hath hereunto set his
hand and seal the Ninth day of July, in the twenty-fourth 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 eighty-four.
Signed and sealed (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
GILB™ JONES.
MICHAEL (L.S.) NASH.
JA' WILLIAMS,
Clerk to Mr. Jones.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Ninth day of July, in the
year of our Lord 1784, the aforesaid Michael Nash came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and. everything therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose,
Inrolled the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-four.