A NEW METHOD OF MAKING ORCHELL FROM ROCK OR STONE MOSS OF THE GROWTH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, WHICH ANSWERS ALL THE PURPOSES OF DYING AS ORCHELL MADE FROM FOREIGN ORCHELL WEED OR Moss, AND THEREBY A GREAT ADVANTAGE AROSE TO TRADE AND TO THIS KINGDOM IN GENERAL
Year: 1763

page_text: TO ALL TO
HESE PRESENTS SHALL
UFORGE
DAVY the younger, of the Parish of White Chappell, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said George Davy, did, by my petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that I was
the sole and only Inventor of "A NEW METHOD OF MAKING ORCHELL FROM ROCK
OR STONE MOSS OF THE GROWTH OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, WHICH ANSWERS
ALL THE PURPOSES OF DYING AS ORCHELL MADE FROM FOREIGN ORCHELL WEED OR
Moss, AND THEREBY A GREAT ADVANTAGE AROSE TO TRADE AND TO THIS KINGDOM IN
GENERAL," which Invention I had, with great labour, industry, and application,
and a considerable expence, brought to perfection, so as to be of general
utility to the subjects of this Kingdom; that in regard this Invention or
method of making orchell, as aforesaid, is intirely new, and of mine, the said
George Davy's, own finding out and discovering, and had not been hitherto
put in practise by any other person or persons whatsoever, I did, therefore,
humbly pray His said Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending of all
such orchell as shall be of this new Invention or method in that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; His said Majesty being willing to
give encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the public
good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore His
said Majesty, by His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-first day of January, in the third year of His reign, of His especial

page_text: grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, did give and grant unto me, the said George Davy, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said George Davy, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine and our
deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George
Davy, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time 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, exer-
cise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said George Davy, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, shall, in our discretions,
seem meet, and that I, the said George Davy, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein-
after mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted to
me, the said George Davy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof
next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to
the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that if I, the said George Davy, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, any thing therein-before contained to the con-
trary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereto had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, said George Davy, in compliance with the said
proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows (that is to
say)-
First, distill chamber lye or urine, potashes, and allom in the following
manner-To three butts of chamber lye put ten pounds of potashes, three

page_text: pounds of allom, and two bags of lime. Draw from this as much spirit as it
will yield, as some chamber lye will yield more than others. Secondly, provide
proper backs, such as is used in making common orchell. Put into one of
those backs as much as you think proper of moss, and to every hundredweight
of moss put three hundredweight of the above-mentioned spirits. Mix it
well together, and turn it once or twice a day, according to the heat or coldness
of the weather, as it wants more attendance in hot weather than it doth in
cold weather. Thirdly, at the end of nine days put into the back to every
hundredweight of moss ten pounds of Spanish white; mix it well together;
the next day grind it in a mill; and as you grind it put it into another back,
and stir it well every day, and at the end of nine days more put to every
hundredweight of moss ten pounds of rock salt in winter, and fifteen pounds
in summer, two pounds of rough saltpetre and one pound of salt almoniack, of
of each of these half as much more in summer than in winter. Mix it well
together, and stir it well every day.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Davy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Thirteenth day of May, in the
third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said George
Davy came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
leged 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 Fourteenth day of May, in the third year of the reign of
His Majesty King George the Third, 1763.