NEW COMPOSITION & PECULIAR METHOD FOR STAINING OF LEATHER
Year: 1761

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HAYTER, of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Leather Seller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Royall Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Fifth day of Febru', in the first year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said William Hayter, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
my and their deputys, servants and agents, or such others as I, the said
William Hayter, my executors, adñors, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term of fourteen years therein mentioned, His especial licence, sole priviledge
and authority, that I, the said William Hayter, my extors, adñors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, my new invented
"NEW COMPOSITION & PECULIAR METHOD FOR STAINING OF LEATHER" within
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as I,
the said William Hayter, my executors, admors, and assigns, or any of them,
shall in their discretions seem meet; in which said Letters Patent there is

page_text: contained a proviso obliging me, the said William Hayter, to cause a parti-
cular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is performed, under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in the High
Court of Chancery within four kalendar months from the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Hayter, do hereby declare that my said new invented Method of
Staining of Leather is done and performed in manner following, that is to
say:―
The buck, doc, or sheep skins being properly dry and brushed clean for
imbibing the colour, are,-
First, wetted over with a brush with a liquor prepared with oak sawdust
and pomgranate shell, with a mixture of some acid wine drawn from the lees
lukewarm.
Secondly, prepare a strong logwood liquor in proportion of ten pounds,
chip'd, to twenty gallons. This second liquor is mixed with a little of the former
and wetted over once.
Thirdly, prepare this liquor by boiling a pound of galls, and a little quantity
of pearl ashes, for a third time washing or wetting the skin.
Fourthly, make a steel tincture or rusty iron and steel steep'd in white wine
vinegar, and mixed with the last-mentioned logwood liquor with galls, and wet
the skin once over.
Fifthly, change or enliven and quicken this liquor by a little fustick and
copperas, and add a small quantity of verdigrease steeped in white wine
venegar to soften the dye, and remove the harshness occasioned by the cop-
peras; then wash and dry the skins, and brush them clean, using a little
neatsfoot oil with a woolen cloth to give a proper gloss.
In witness whereof, 1, the said William Hayter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Sixteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-second day of May, in
the first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the said
William Hayter came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt according
to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William
and Queen Mer and co fouth
Inrolled the said Twenty-second day of May, in the first year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 1761.