A PARAPLUE, OR WATERPROOF HAT, WHICH WILL EFFECTUALLY KEEP OUT RAIN AND DAMP
Year: 1780

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
OLIVIER, of the Parish of St. Anne, in the City and Liberty of Westminster,
Pattern Drawer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-second day of April, in the twentieth year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Olivier, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power and authority,
that I, the said Joseph Olivier, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy and deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Joseph Olivier, my executors,
adors, or assigns, should 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 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, my Invention of "A PARAPLUE, OR WATERPROOF HAT, WHICH WILL
EFFECTUALLY KEEP OUT RAIN AND DAMP;" in such manner as to me, the said
Joseph Olivier, my executors, adiñors, or assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Joseph Olivier, my executors, adiñors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, and arising
by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein
mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted,
unto me, the said Joseph Olivier, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date

page_text: of the said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in that case made and provided;
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said Joseph Olivier, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four callander months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the
same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Joseph Olivier, do hereby declare_that_my_said Invention of a Paraplue, or
Waterproof Hat, is described in the manner following, that is to say:-
1st, take one pint of linseed oil, two ounces of ivory black (ground), and
two ounces of rock indigo (ground), which, with four ounces of beeswax,
melt down together, and stir it all the while, then set it in the air to cool,
which done it must be ground upon a stone till it is almost a fluid, with
which you may begin your hat, and lay it on with a flat brush, first, against
the grain and then with the grain. 2nd, you must be carefull to make the
grain with another brush that is not too hard; and, lastly, take some black
copall varnish and rub it in when the first coat is dry, with very little in the
brush, which repeat in two or three days, and then set it in the air to
sweeten.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Olivier, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of August, in the twentieth year
of the reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, and in
the woox of our Lord One thousand coron hundred and nightre