SHOTT, COMMONLY FOR FOWLING, AND BULLETS OF LEAD WHICH ARE MADE BY ENGINES OR MACHINES INVENTED AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION BY ME, THE SAID HENRY RAMINGER, AND ARE MADE MORE EXACTLY ROUND AND SOLID, AND TO MUCH GREATER PERFECTION, THEN HATH BEEN HITHERTO PRACTISED
Year: 1758

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1,
HENRY RAMINGER, of the Parish of Christchurch, in the County of
Surry, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of June, One thousand seven
bundred and fifty-eight, did give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Raminger, that I should and lawfully might, during the term of
fourteen years, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, "SHOTT, COMMONLY
FOR
FOWLING, AND BULLETS OF LEAD WHICH ARE MADE BY ENGINES OR
MACHINES INVENTED AND BROUGHT TO PERFECTION BY ME, THE SAID HENRY
RAMINGER, AND ARE MADE MORE EXACTLY ROUND AND SOLID, AND TO
MUCH GREATER PERFECTION, THEN HATH BEEN HITHERTO PRACTISED;" and
in which said Letters Patent there is inserted a provisoe, obliging nie,
the said Henry Raminger, by a writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within three kalendar months
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in complyance with the said proviso, I, the
said Henry Raminger, do hereby declare that the said Invention is to
be performed in the following manner (that is to say):
In order to purifye the lead from its noxious and poisonous qualities,
take ninety pounds of red lead and thirty pounds of flints, calcined
to whiteness; and make an impalpable powder thereof by levigation;
then mix well together the red lead and calciued flints, put them in a
vessel prepared with Stourbridge clay, Windsor loam, and blew pots, of
each an equal quantity; beat and temper them well together with
the whites of eggs and a sufficient quantity of egg shells till they are
made capable of being moulded into the form of a German crucible;
when dry put in your red lead and calcined powder flints, place them
in a furnace till they are in fluor, then precipitate the lead with a
neutral salt, which will be pure and free from all its noxious and
poisonous qualities. Take this precipitated lead and cast it into brass
moulds, one row on each side, to form the balls or shott to any size you
want to make, then clip them with sheers, or cast your lead through
the mould, fit to be recived by steel rowlers. To press them close com-
pactly round, take the balls or shott to the cutting engine with steel
rollers and cutters, to prepare them fit for rounding, then load your
balls or shot in the wooden mill, placed with nails filed diamond
fashion, with a spindle of iron in the middle, eight square; any size or
quantity of squares will answer the same purpose. For rounding the
balls or shot, polish them in the mill flatted with brass, for finishing.
All the above works are to be performed by water, wind, or horse
mills, to bring these engines to their different motions, slower or
faster, according to their work for making balls or shot to different
sizes or quantity as the waight will require.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Raminger, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight.
Scaled and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
SAM' LARKE.
JAS LOWE.
HENRY RAMINGER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that the Twenty-third day of Sep-
tember, in the year above written, the aforesaid Henry Raminger
came before our said Lord the King, in His Chancery, and acknow-
ledged the Indenture afores", and all and every thing therein con-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the Indenture
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.