of "COVERING AND PAINTING THE TIMBERS, PLANKS, AND BOARDS OF SHIPS, YATCHS, BARGER, LIGHTERS, BOATE, OR VESSELLS OF ANY SORT OR KIND WHATSOEVER, AND LIKEWISE THE TIMBER BOARDS AND PLAISTERING IN BUILDING, OR ANYTHING THAT WAY BE COVERED OR PAINTED ACCORDING TO MY NEW INVERTED METHOD
Year: 1737

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, ALEXANDER
EMERTON, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, in the County of Middlesex,
Colourman, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royall Letters Patents under the
Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Thirteenth day of June, in the
Eleventh year of His reign, hath given and granted unto me, the said
Alexander Emerton, my executors, administrators, and assigns, the sole privi-
ledge of useing, exerciseing, and vending a new Invention of "COVERING
AND PAINTING THE TIMBERS, PLANKS, AND BOARDS OF SHIPS, YATCHS, BARGER,
LIGHTERS, BOATE, OR VESSELLS OF ANY SORT OR KIND WHATSOEVER, AND LIKEWISE
THE TIMBER BOARDS AND PLAISTERING IN BUILDING, OR ANYTHING THAT WAY
BE COVERED OR PAINTED ACCORDING TO MY NEW INVERTED METHOD;" to
have, hold, use, and exercise the said licence unto me, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patents, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patents is contained a provisoe that if I, the
said Alexander Emerton, shall not particularly describe the nature and form
of my said Invention by instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within
three kalender months after the date of the said Patent, the same was to
be void, as by the said Letters Patents, relation being thereunto had, may
appear.
NOW KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I, the said Alexander
Emerton, doe, by this present Writing under my hand and seal, declare the

page_text: nature and forme of the said Invention to be as follows, to witt: by first
preparing the timber planks and boards with boyling oyls, which are prepared
and mixed to a glutinous consistency for that purpose; then by a covering
at severall times of compounded poisons, powdered glass, stone, dust, and
sand, cemented with the strongest compound of severall sorts of painting
colours and oyls; and lastly, by painting over the whole with a strong body
of compounded colours and oyls. And for buildings, the poisons are for the
most part left out, and the sand and other things varied according to the
different parts of building wherein this method is used, some being to have an
exact resemblance of stone, and on other parts to serve instead of lead and
tyleing.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day
of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and thirty-seven.
Signed & sealed (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of,
JOHN CROFTS.
W* HARRISON.
ALEX EMERTON.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Third day of September, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Alexander Emerton came before our Sove-
reign Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Invention
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained and specifyed in forme above
written, and also the Invention aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of
the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, and so forth.