A DURABLE PREPARATION FOR STAINING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS, BY MEANS WHEREOF HORSES OF THE MOST DIFFERENT COLOURS MAY BE. MADE TO, MATCH. EXACTLY; THE CATTLE TO WHICH IT IS APPLYED WILL BE THEREBY SECURED FROM THE TROUBLESOME. ATTACKS OF FLIES AND OTHER INSECTS, AND MAY BE PRIVATELY MARKED IN SUCH A MANNER AS NO THIEF CAN EFFACE WITHOUT DISFIGURING THE HORSE OR OTHER ANIMAL MARKED WITH IT.
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS' SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JOHNSTON, of Derry, in the County of Tipperary and Kingdom of Ireland,
Farmer, send greeting
F
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, under, the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date.. at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of January, in the fourteenth year, of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, licence to make, use, exercise; and vend, within England, Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A DURABLE PREPARATION FOR
STAINING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS, BY MEANS WHEREOF HORSES OF THE MOST
DIFFERENT COLOURS MAY BE. MADE TO, MATCH. EXACTLY; THE CATTLE TO WHICH IT IS
APPLYED WILL BE THEREBY SECURED FROM THE TROUBLESOME. ATTACKS OF FLIES AND
OTHER INSECTS, AND MAY BE PRIVATELY MARKED IN SUCH A MANNER AS NO THIEF
CAN EFFACE WITHOUT DISFIGURING THE HORSE OR OTHER ANIMAL MARKED WITH IT.;"
in which Letters Patent is contained a provisoe obliging me, 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 calendar
months next after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
570
L. 7
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Thomas Johnston, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a durable
preparation for staining and marking horses and other animals, consists of

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double and single aquæfortis, gold sollution, ditto silver, ditto copper;
above ingredients are not compound, but to be applyed in the following
manner :-
A brush, made of camil's hair or cane, to be first dipp'd in the aquæfortis
and stained on the beast or animal, and the gold or silver or copper sollution
afterwards stained on to form a shade to the liking of the stainer, either black,
brown, purple, or chesnut, or other colour he thinks proper.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Johnston, have subscribed and
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-four.
THO JOHNSON. (L.s.)
Signed and sealed by the within-named
Thomas Johnston (being first duly
stamp'd), in the presence of
WALTER SWEETMAN.
. JOHN BENNIS,
Clke. to Mr. Sweetman.
Walter Sweetman, of the City of Dublin, Gentleman, maketh oath that he
is one of the Witnesses to the within Specification, and that he did see the
therein-named Thomas Johnston duly sign and seal the same in the said City
of Dublin, in the presence of this Deponent and of John Bennis, the two
Witnesses thereto; and this Deponent saith, that the name Tho" Johnson,
appearing to be subscribed to the within Deed as the party executing the
same, is of the proper handwriting of the said Thomas Johnston; and that the
names Walter Sweetman and John Bennis, appearing to be indorsed thereon
as witnesses to the execution thereof, are of the proper handwriting of this
Deponent and of the said John Bennis.
WALLER SWEETMAN
Sworn at the Publick Office, this Fourth
day of March, 1774, before
S. PECHELL.
Inrolled the Tenth day of May, in the fourteenth year of the reign of His
present Majesty King George the Third.