THE ART AND METHOD OF DYING AND STAINING LEATHER, AND HAD BROUGHT IT TO THE SAME IF NOT GREATER PERFECTION THAN WHAT IS PRACTICED EITHER IN PORTUGAL OR BARBARY, AND THAT THE SAME HAD NEVER BEEN PERFORMED BY ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, TO THE BEST OF MY BELEIF, WITHIN HIS SAID MAJESTIE'S DOMINIONS, AND WOULD BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO THE NATION BY OCCA- SIONING A LARGE CONSUMPTION AND EXPORTATION OF THAT COMODITY, WHEREBY GREAT NUMBERS OF HIS SAID MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS WOULD BE DAILY EMPLOYED
Year: 1753

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RADCLIFFE
GREEN, of Wakefield, in the County of York, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second,
by His Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of March, in the twenty-sixth year of His
reign, reciting that I, the said Radcliffe Green, had, by my Petition, humbly
represented unto His said Majesty that I had, at great risque, pains, and
expence, acquired "THE ART AND METHOD OF DYING AND STAINING LEATHER,
AND HAD BROUGHT IT TO THE SAME IF NOT GREATER PERFECTION THAN WHAT IS
PRACTICED EITHER IN PORTUGAL OR BARBARY, AND THAT THE SAME HAD NEVER BEEN
PERFORMED BY ANY PERSON OR PERSONS, TO THE BEST OF MY BELEIF, WITHIN HIS SAID
MAJESTIE'S DOMINIONS, AND WOULD BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO THE NATION BY OCCA-
SIONING A LARGE CONSUMPTION AND EXPORTATION OF THAT COMODITY, WHEREBY GREAT
NUMBERS OF HIS SAID MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS WOULD BE DAILY EMPLOYED;" thereby
praying His said Majesty to grant unto me His Royal Letters Patent for the sole
use and benefit of the said Invention for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to
the Statute in that case made and provided: His said Majesty, therefore, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the
publick good, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, did,
by His said Letters Patent, give and grant unto me, the said Radcliffe Green,
my exors, administrators, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that I, the said Radcliffe Green, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, by myself and themselves, or by such other person
or persons as I or they should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thenafter, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Radcliffe Green, my exors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, should seem meet, and that I, the said Radcliffe Green,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and might have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy my said Invention, and the whole profit, benefit, comodity,
and advantage from time to time growing, accruing, and arising by reason of
the same, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date of the said recited Letters Patent, subject to a proviso therein
contained, that if I, the said Radcliffe Green, should not particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majestie's High Court of Chancery
within three calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, that then the same, and all liberties and advantages thereby
granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
said said Letters Patent (referrence being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YEE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Radcliffe Green, do hereby declare that my said Invention doth consist of the
particulars and is to be performed in the manner following (that is to say) :-
First, it is necessary to make a large basin to put the skins to steep in; after
they have been four or five days in the water they must be taken out, and
put into pits to hold twenty or thirty dozen of goat skins, with sufficient lime.
In those pitts they must remain till the hair comes off with facility, observing to
stir the skins every two or three days. After this preparation of lime they
must be clean'd and well wash'd, put into bran, for each twelve dozen about
four to five bushels, After they have been in the bran four or five days they
must be put into figgs, and remain in them four to five days, then taken out
and dyed in the manner and form here specified :-
First, for the reds or scarlet must be mix'd the following ingredients :-
For each skin one quarter of an ounce of cochenele and one ounce of Brazil
wood, and one eight part of an ounce of Sevil grains, made into powder;
these very well mix'd together in about two quarts of water, and then put on
the fire to boil, and when one fourth part is diminish'd then take out of the
kettle a little at a time, and runn the skin through, but observe that it is not
too hot to prejudice the skin. The nature of the skin may require two or
three, or more; some having the pores more open than others, take it with more
facility, so less serve. After they are dyed they are put into galls to cure
them; after they are sufficiently cured they must be extended on cords to
drye, and after they are dryed they must be thinn'd on the flesh side with a

page_text: cutting knife to the proportion that is required; after this the grain must br
open'd by rubbing it with a smooth board.
To make the yellows.-For twelve to sixteen skins take two pounds of
Brazil wood, and one pound of what is called ocka in Portugal, a yellow
earth;
these two ingredients well mix'd together, put into four quarts of water,
and put over a gentle fire till the ingredients are well incorporated; after, they
must stand two or three days to settle, and then laid on the skin with a brush
made for this purpose, which must be repeated till you make it the colour you
require. It is to be observ'd, that the skin must be cured before you put on
the dye.
To make the orange.-For twelve to sixteen skins, according to their
bigness, is put in about four quarts of water one pound of gum arabick, and
half a pound of safflors. These ingredients must be be in fusion two or three
days in a pint of water, and then afterwards put into and boiled over a gentle
fire till such time as the substance of the safflors is extracted; and after the
skin is prepared, the same to be observed as the above.
In witness whereof, I, the said Radcliffe Green, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the twenty-sixth year of the
reign of His said Majesty King George the Second, and in the year
of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-three.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fifth day of May, in the
said twenty-sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the said Radcliffe Green came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein contained
and specified, in form abovesaid. And also the said Writing was stampt
according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of
the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.