AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A PECULIAR SPECIES OP CANVAS, WHICH MAY BE USED MORE ADVANTAGEOUSLY FOR MILITARY AND OTHER PURPOSES THAN THE CANVAS NOW IN USE
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I GEORGE
YOUNG, of. Paul's Wharf, Thames Street, in the City of London, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, in and by His certain Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
bearing date at Westminster, the Fifth day of December, in the fifty-sixth year
of His reign, did, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion,
for himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, 'the said George
Young, my exors, adññors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said George Young, my exors, admors, and
assigns, and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said George Young,
my exors, adñors, 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, exercise, and vend my Inven-
tion therein mentioned of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF MAKING A PECULIAR SPECIES
OP CANVAS, WHICH MAY BE USED MORE ADVANTAGEOUSLY FOR MILITARY AND OTHER
PURPOSES THAN THE CANVAS NOW IN USE," within that part of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me the said George Young,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discretion
seem meet; and that I, the said George Young, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,

page_text: 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, privileges, and advan-
tages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said
George Young, my exors, admors, 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 complete and ended, according to
the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso that the same should be void if I, the said George Young,
should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the
High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and inmediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Young, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
as follows (that is to say) :-
The yarns for the warp to be made of flax or hemp in the usual way of
making yarns, to be mill-washed and back-washed, and no more starch to
be used than is sufficient to allow the warp to be worked through the hiddles
or harness and reed; the yarns for the weft to be made partly of worsted yarn,
made in the usual way of making worsted yarns, and partly of flax yarn; the
two to be combined in the following manner, viz, for heavy fabrics, two
threads of worsted yarn and one thread of flax yarn, to be twisted together
to make one thread for the weft, and for lighter fabrics one thread of worsted
yarn, to be twisted with one thread of flax yarn; or both heavy and light
fabrics may be made with a weft thread, formed either of two or three threads
of worsted and flax, or the threads may come off the quill or pern without
being twisted together, although the cloth will be strongest when the threads
are twisted together; the cloth to be wove in the usual modes of weaving
canvas or linens, or the warp yarns may be made in a similar manner to that
described for making the weft yarns, and the weft in this case may be made
either with flax yarns only, or partly of flax and partly of worsted
yarns.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Young, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
GEORGE YOUNG. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of February, in the
year of our Lord 1816, the aforesaid George Young came before our Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged 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 First day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixteen.