AN IMPROVED LIGHT ELASTIC WATERPROOF HAT, COMMONLY CALLED A BEAVER HAT
Year: 1813

page_text: TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc, GEORGE
FERGUSON and JOSEPH ASHTON, of Carlisle, in the County of Cumberland,
Hatters, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourteenth day
of July, in the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto us, the said
George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton, our exors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority that we, the said
George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton, our exors, admors, and assigns, should
and lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned, make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, our Invention of "AN IMPROVED LIGHT ELASTIC WATERPROOF HAT,
COMMONLY CALLED A BEAVER HAT;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if we, the said George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton, or one
of us, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one
of us, and cause the same to be inrolled in our High Court of Chancery
within two calendar 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

page_text: become void, 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
George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton, do hereby declare that the nature of
our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, are par-
ticularly described and ascertained as follows, that is to say :-
We desolve 8 oz. of gum amber in 10 oz. of essence of turpentine, and
6 oz. prepared linseed oil, and 4 oz. essential oil of lavender; also 4 oz. of
elastic resin dissolved in 12 oz. of boiled linseed oil, and 4 oz. of essence of
turpentine, 4. oz. of gum mastic, 4 oz. of sandaric, 4 oz. of gum anima,
4 oz. of gum elani, all desolved in 30 oz. of rectified spirits of wine; the
whole of this solution well mixed together, and worked into the body and
brim of the hat, which will make it perfectly waterproof and elastic.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Ferguson and Joseph Ashton,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighth day of September,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
GEO. FERGUSON. (L.S.)
JOSEPH ASHTON. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of September, in
the year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid George Ferguson and Joseph
Ashton came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was
stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
.Inrolled the Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord One a
thousand eight hundred and thirteen