PAINTING, SPANGLING, GILDING, AND SILVERING GLASS, THEREBY ORNAMENTING CARRIAGES, SEDAN CHAIRS, BUILDINGS, FURNITURE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, OR ANY OTHER MATTERS WHERE ORNAMENTING SHALL BE THOUGHT NECESSARY
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
KENT TARRANT, of King Street, Bloomsbury Square, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Painter, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by the grace
of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great
Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth day of February, in
the eighteenth year of His said Majesty's reign, upon the Petition of me,
the said John Kent Tarrant, did give and grant unto me, the said John
Kent Tarrant, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said John Kent Tarrant,
my executors, adññors, 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 John Kent Tarrant, my executors, adñiors, 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, within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "PAINTING, SPANGLING, GILDING, AND
SILVERING GLASS, THEREBY ORNAMENTING CARRIAGES, SEDAN CHAIRS, BUILDINGS,
FURNITURE, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, OR ANY OTHER MATTERS WHERE ORNAMENTING
SHALL BE THOUGHT NECESSARY," intirely new, and not before practised by any
other person whatsoever, in such manner as to me, the said John Kent Tar-

page_text: rant, my executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said John Kent Tarrant, my executors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
pro-
fit, 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 unto me,
the said John Kent Tarrant, my executors, adiiors, 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 such case made and provided; in which said
recited Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said John
Kent Tarrant, 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 callender months next immediately after the date
of the said recited 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 provisoe, I, the said John
Kent Tarrant, do hereby declare that.my said Invention of Painting, Spangling,
Gilding, and Silvering Glass, thereby Ornamenting Carriages, Sedan Chairs,
Buildings, Furniture, Musical Instruments, or any other Matters where
Ornamenting shall be thought necessary, intirely new, and not before practised
by any person whatsoever, is of the nature and performed in the manner fol-
lowing (that is to say):-
The painting must be performed on: the back of the crystal. or glass, so as,
when finished, to appear on the front; the colours prepared in oil or varnish,
as in other work. The parts of ornament which are gold must be first
shadowed on the glass,, and when quite dry the gold leaf must be laid on.
Silver ornaments must be done in the same manner. For the spangling,
leave the parts to be spangled till the last, then shadow it, and when dry varnish
the parts with glutinous copal varnish, and straw the spangles on when it is
wet, and when the spangles are quite dry varnish them two or three times.
If the spangling is to be white, use silver spangles, if yellow, use gold spangles;
if blue, glaze the parts to be spangled with fine Prusian blue, ground very fine
in oil or varnish, and lay on silver spangles; if green, glaze the parts with.
transparent green; if crimson, use the best fine lake; if purple, use a mixture
of Prusian blue and fine lake. To make the painting appear more raised,
paint the ornament and leave the ground of the crystal or glass quite clear,

page_text: and put another plate of glass coloured behind, about an inch or more, accord-
ing to the size behind the glass painted on.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Kent Tarrant, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of June, in the eighteenth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and seventy-eight.