CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING, MIXING, COMPOUNDING, IMPROVING, OR ALTERING THE ARTICLE OF SOAP
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
POPE, of Ball Alley, Lombard Street, in the City of London, Mathematician,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Third day of December, One thousand eight hundred
and twenty-five, in the sixth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Pope, His especial
licence that I, the said William Pope, my exors, admors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said William Pope, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING, MIXING,
COMPOUNDING, IMPROVING, OR ALTERING THE ARTICLE OF SOAP;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Pope, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe
and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as
in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Pope, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
an ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention for making, mixing, compounding, improving, or altering of
soap is as follows:-I do not compound, mix, or rectify in the first making,
but I take soap ready made of the various kinds respectively and reduce it
into fine shreds or small pieces by scraping, or I use other suitable means for
that purpose, and put it into a vessel; then I take marl of the purest quality
which can be procured, and to this marl I add potash or any alkaline salt; to
these two I add water, then I put the two latter with the water to the
former into one vessel, all cold, and keep the whole in a state of mixing
together until the soap and other ingredients have become well mixed and
rather smooth or uniform. Then put the mass into a boiler, and heat it
until by a boiling heat the whole have become properly mixed, and this is
attained by frequently stirring the same while over the fire. Then I pour it
into the vat or vats or other vessel to cool, and let it stand in this state
according to rule in that case prescribed. Then, cut it into convenient pieces,
and place it for drying to fit it for use. And when I intend it for fine purposes I
take a more pure and better soap, and scent or perfume it according to fancy;
or I do at other times rectify it only, and leave it unperfumed, but always
useing the marl, which corrects the costic quality, and rectifies it for the use
of the skin, and also for all other purposes to which it is applicable. The
following proportions I have found to answer, but they may be varied:-To
one cwt. of soap I put seven pounds of marl, more or less, two ounces of
potash or alkaline salt, more or less, and then put water sufficient to reduce
the whole into a flowing state, about the consistency of thick cream, after
which I submit it to the process of boiling, as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pope, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
W POPE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1826, the aforesaid William Pope, came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Third day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-six.