, CALLED ALLOM SLAM, WHICH HITHERTO OF NO USE OR SERVICE- KE DID, FLUXING AND MAKING BOTT AND OTHER GREENASS, COMMOD THE PUBLICK WITH SO CHEAP A COMMODITY AS THEY OTHERWISE COULD IN CASE SUCH INVENTION SUB INSTEA OF KE IN FING OF BOTTLES ANDEENASS, AND IN MAKING OF SOAP, IN THE SAID MANUFACTORY
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, EVAN
DEER, of South Shields, in the [County of Durham, Gentleman, sendeth
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty King George the Third, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith, &c., by His Royall Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of September,
in the fourth year of His reign, reciting that the said Evan Deer had, by his
petition, humbly represented to His Majesty that he had, by great expence
and long study, discovered "THAT THE REFUSE OR WASTE USED IN THE MAKING
OF ALLOM, CALLED ALLOM SLAM, WHICH HITHERTO HAD BEEN ESTEELIED OF NO USE OR
SERVICE, WOULD ANSWER THE SAME PURPOSE AS THE SEA-WEED CALLED KELP DID,
AND WHICH WAS USED AS AN INGREDIENT IN FLUXING AND MAKING OF GLASS BOTTLES
AND OTHER GREEN GLASS, AND MAKING OF SOAP, AND WHICH WAS A VERY SCARCE
COMMODITY, AND NOT SUBJECT TO PAY ANY DUTY OR CUSTOM, AND THAT BY REASON OF
THE SCARCITY THEREOF THE SAME WAS BECOME GREATLY ADVANCED IN THE PRICES
THEREOF, WHEREBY THE MANUFACTURER OF THOSE COMMODITYS IN THE KINGDOM OF
GREAT BRITAIN WERE THE LESS ABLE TO FURNISH THE PUBLICK WITH SO CHEAP A
COMMODITY AS THEY OTHERWISE COULD IN CASE SUCH INVENTION WAS SUBSTITUTED
AND USED INSTEAD OF KELP IN FLUXING OF GLASS BOTTLES AND GREEN GLASS, AND
IN MAKING OF SOAP, AND THAT THE SAME WOULD BE ALSO A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN
THE SAID MANUFACTORY ;" and therefore humbly prayed His Majesty to grant

page_text: unto him, his executors, administrators, and assigns, under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, a Patent for the sole use and benefitt of the said Invention,
within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years, His said Majesty, of
His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said Evan Deer, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that he, the said Evan Deer, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, by himself and themselves, or by his or by his or their deputy or
deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said Evan Deer, his
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
fourteen years in the said Letters Patent expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, and within that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion
of Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said
Evan Deer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should
in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Evan Deer, his 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 mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Evan Deer, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and until the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date 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. And whereas amongst diverse other clauses and
provisoes there is contained a clause or condition in the said Letters Patent,
that the same are to be void if the said Evan Deer should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument under his hand and seal in
writing, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery
within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all libertys and advan-
tages thereby granted, should utterly ceasc, determine, and become utterly
void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in pursuance and performance of the said clause
or condition in the said Letters Patent, I, the said Evan Deer, do hereby

page_text: declare that I use the said allom slam in making of glass bottles and green
glass, as follows:-
I take a quantity of the said slam, and pound it small in a stone trough,
then mix it with soapers' waste, wood ashes, and sea sand, which I put into a
calcar to calcine till it is properly burnt; then I put it into ash arches in the
glass-house for about twenty-four hours, from whence it is put into the melting
pots, where, by force of fire, it becomes fluid, and fit for making glass. And
I also declare that I use it in making soap, by dissolving the said allom slam
in the same manner that fern ash or kelp is dissolved and made coñionly use
of by soap makers in making soap. And that I use the said slam as a
substitute for fern ash or kelp, without varying the common method of
making it.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-
second day of November, in the Fifth year of the reign of His said
Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-four.