MY NEW- INVENTED. COMPOSITION TO BE USED IN WASHING; IN ORDER TO RENDER MUSLINS AND LINENS, BEAUTIFULLY WHITE, AND ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BARKER
CHIFNEY, of London, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present 'most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
did, by His Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourteenth day of September, in the forty-fourth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said Barker Chifney, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Barker Chifney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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, and
also the Colonies and Plantations abroad, "MY NEW- INVENTED. COMPOSITION
TO BE USED IN WASHING; IN ORDER TO RENDER MUSLINS AND LINENS, BEAUTIFULLY
WHITE, AND ALSO FOR OTHER PURPOSES," in such manner as to me, the said
Barker Chifney, my executors; administrators and assigns, should, in my dis-
cretion, seem meet; in which said Letters Patent is contained-a proviso, that
if I, the said Barker Chifney, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, 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 six

page_text: calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the said recited Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may
more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Barker Chifney, do hereby declare that my said new invented composition is
made in the following manner, that is to say:-I take of water or water
saturated with lime, twelve parts, or thereabouts, into which, with the assist-
ance of heat when necessary, I infuse two, three, four, five, or six parts of what
is usually called sub-carbonate of potash, or sub-carbonate of soda, or of both
of them, according to the purposes for which the said composition is intended;
or otherwise, I make my said alkaline solution by any of the usual chemical
methods, so that the proportion of water, or of lime-water, to the alkali or alkalies
contained therein shall be such, as upon trial, may be found to produce effects
equally suited to the particular uses to which the composition is afterwards to
be applied. And to the alkaline liquid, when hot in the copper, or otherwise, I
add four, five, six, seven, or more parts of common soap, sliced or macerated, or
in such other form as may be best calculated to incorporate it with the whole
mass, and afford a compound having the consistence of cream, or butter, or
even of tallow, or ordinary soap. When the whole composition is sufficiently
mixed and incorporated, if in a hot state, I stir it in the copper till cool, or
else I transfer it into a back or other vessel, and do the same. It is to be
observed, that the composition will be strong or weak in proportion to the
purity of the sub-carbonate of potash, or sub-carbonate of soda, made use of, or
of both, when made use of together, and that it is, therefore, necessary to pay
attention to this circumstance in particular. And, also, that I prefer taking
away the sediment of the lime-water and alkali, or alkalies, when mixed, altho
I am not certain that any bad effects arise from suffering it to remain.
In witness whereof, I, the said Barker Chifney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirteenth day of March, in the forty-fifth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of
God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
Landed
BARKER CHIFNEY. (L.S.).

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of March, in
the forty-fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Barker Chifney came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument
.aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the
forty-fourth year of His said Majesty's reign.