A NEW MODE OR METHOD OF MAKING FLOUR WITHOUT GRAIN
Year: 1804

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ABRAHAM
UNDERDOWN, late of the Parish of Eling, in the County of Southampton,
but now of Braynes Row, Spa Fields, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of His United Kingdom, bearing
date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of December, in the forty-fifth
year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Abraham Underdown, my
executors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence that I, the said Abraham
Underdown, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"A NEW MODE OR METHOD OF MAKING FLOUR WITHOUT GRAIN;" in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Abraham Underdown, 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 one calendar month after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Abraham Underdown, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows;
that is to say :-
I take potatoes, turneps, parsnips, white beet, and Jerusalem artichokes,
and I grind or grate them fine; I then put the substance into water, and I
let it remain therein several hours; I then strain off the water, and I add
fresh water in quantity sufficient to cover the substance, which process I
continue to repeat until the water pours off quite clear; then I strain and
press the water from the vegetable substance, which I then dry on a kiln or
other proper convenience; when the substance is quite dry I grind it in a
corn or other proper mill until it becomes fine flour. Either of the above
vegetables alone, or any two or more of them mixed together, and prepared
as before specified, will answer for the purpose. The foregoing description is
for the making course or common flour. When I make fine or best flour, I
pare or peel the rind off the vegetables before I grind or grate them; I then
pursue the same process as with the course or common flour.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abraham Underdown, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five.
ABR UNDERDOWN (L.s.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Nineteenth day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1805, the aforesaid Abraham Underdown came before
our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specifica-
tion 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 for that purpose.
Inrolled the Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and five.
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