NEW INVENTED METHOD OF GILDING, COLOURING, AND MARBLING OF PAPER
Year: 1762

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, IIENRY
HOUSEMAN, of the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Tenth day
of March last, gave and granted to the said Henry Houseman, his executors.
adiñors, and assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full power, sole priviledge,
and authority for the said Henry Houseman, his executors, adññiors, and
assigns, or his or their sufficient deputys, servants, or agents, to use, exercise, and
vend his "NEW INVENTED METHOD OF GILDING, COLOURING, AND MARBLING OF PAPER."
within that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in the Plantations and Colonies abroad,
in such manner as to him, the said Henry Houseman, his executors, adñiors,
and assigns, or any of them, should in their discretion seem meet, and that
he and they should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit.
commodity, and advantage from time to time arising by reason of the said
Invention; to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and
advantages therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Hemy
Houseman, his extors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto 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; in which said Letters Patent
is contained a provisoe, that if the said Henry Houseman should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
seal, 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 liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had, may more fully
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Houseman, in pursuance of the
said provisoe in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, as follows, viz*:-
For marbling of paper: Take of gum tragagant three or four pounds, and of
allum about half a pound, and put them into hott water, let them stand twelve
hours, then mix them with cold water till of a thickish consistency; then take
of coogell lach, three or four pounds, made fine and ground with water and any
kind of spirits; of indigo, about a quarter of a pound; of chalk, about five
pounds, mixed together; of orange opiate, about one pound; of stone oker,
about one pound; of aurum-pigmentum, about one pound, all made fine and
ground with water; the preparation of tragagant and allum to be put into a
square trough the size of the paper; make the collours all thin with water and
a little spirits, and put them upon the preparation of tragagant and allum in
the trough, with wollen mopps, to which put about five spoonfulls of gall, or
any other quantity, untill the colours spread themselves upon the tragagant and
allum. The pattern is formed, according to fancy, upon the preparation of
tragagant and allum, with a wooden pin and a wired comb drawn over the
colours; then lay on the paper, and it will receive the colours; when dry, to be
glazed with a flint stone made smooth for the purpose. For colouring paper,
viz, brown with back spotts: Take of terra umbra and starch, a pound each,
mixed fine, and lay it on the paper, according to fancy, with a brush, and dry it;
then take half a pound or a pound of lamb black, ground fine with water;
make it thin with water and spirits, with which spott the paper with a brush,
dry it, and then glaze it. Yellow ground: Take of yellow berries and starch,
a pound each, mixed, and put on the paper with a brush, spotted and finished
as above. Blue ground: Indigo, chalk, and starch, mixed, and spotted with a
decoction from Brazil wood and red lead; any other collour may be made in
the same manner. For gilding paper: Take gold or silver leaf, the colour to
be taken from Brasil wood, rasped and boiled, indigo, lacemus, statz meing,
French beer, French grinspan, all made fine and thined with water and spirits;

page_text: the pattern to be engraved on copper, upon which the collours are to be laid;
and thereon lay the paper, and press it with a skrew press.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Houseman, have to this present
Instrument set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of July, in the second
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, and in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-two.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Ninth day of July, in the
year above written, the aforeaid Henry Houseman came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all
and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also
the Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King & Queen William and
Mary of England, & so forth.
Inrolled this Ninth day of July, in the year abovesaid.