NEW INVERTED BALLS FOR THE USE OF CLEANING LEATHER BREECHES, GLOVES, BELTS, &c.
Year: 1782

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**GREENWOOD'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of July, in the twenty-second year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, Joseph Greenwood, of Great Coggeshall, in the
County of Essex, Gentleman, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Joseph Greenwood, my exors, admors, and assigns,
and every of us, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend my "NEW INVERTED BALLS FOR THE USE OF
CLEANING LEATHER BREECHES, GLOVES, BELTS, &c.," which will be found very useful
particularly to the army, within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed
in such manner as to me, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, or any of us, should
in our discretion seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso that if I, the said, Joseph Greenwood, 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 Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months. next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the same: Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the said Letters Patent more at large doth appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Greenwood, in pursuance of
and compliance with the said proviso and the purport and true meaning of
the said Letters Patent, and of His Majesty's said most gracious intentions, do
by this instrument in writing, under my hand and seal duly executed, declare
that my said new invented balls for the use of cleaning leather breeches,
gloves, belts, &c., is as follows (that is to say):-

page_text: To make my buff coloured balls, take one ounce and a half of pipe clay, one
ounce and half of common clay or earth, one ounce of whiting, half an ounce
of Flanders brick, one ounce and a half of English brick, half an ounce of
pumice stone, half an ounce of yellow oaker. To make my ash coloured balls,
take the same ingredients as above, and add thereto a small quantity of lamb-
black, sufficient to give it an ash colour. To make my white balls for cleaning
leather breeches, gloves, belts, &c., take two ounces of pipe clay, one ounce of
Portland or other stone, one ounce of whiting, one ounce of common clay or
earth, half an ounce of pumice stone. And the above ingredients are made into
balls by adding water sufficient to make them into a paste into any form, and
are used when dry by rubbing them on the surface of the leather; or the same
may be dissolved by first beating the same in a morter, and adding a table-
spoonful of sweet oil, and as much hot water as to make it about the thickness
of oil, then rub the leather all over with a fine brush or spunge dipt therein.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Greenwood, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of November, in the twenty-third
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the
Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and eighty-two.
JOSEPH (L.S.) GREENWOOD.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly stampt,
in the presence of
THO M. NEWSON.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fourteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1782, the aforesaid Joseph Greenwood 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 stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.