A CEMENT AND A SIZE FOR PLASTERING AND STOCCOING WALLS, SETTING AND WHITENING CEILINGS, AND RUNNING AND WHITENING CORNICES, AND COLOURS TO BE LAID ON THE STUCCO, AS WELL IN OIL AS DISTEMPER, THE WHOLE OF WHICH IS INTENDED FOR THE FINISHING OF THE INSIDE OF HOUSES
Year: 1811

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
KERROD, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Plasterer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-sixth day of March instant, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Kerrod, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Samuel
Kerrod, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as I, the said Samuel Kerrod, my executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter 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 in all His Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A CEMENT AND A SIZE FOR
PLASTERING AND STOCCOING WALLS, SETTING AND WHITENING CEILINGS, AND
RUNNING AND WHITENING CORNICES, AND COLOURS TO BE LAID ON THE STUCCO,
AS WELL IN OIL AS DISTEMPER, THE WHOLE OF WHICH IS INTENDED FOR THE
FINISHING OF THE INSIDE OF HOUSES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Samuel Kerrod, by an instrument

page_text: 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 one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being
thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Samuel Kerrod, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, and the following
is a description thereof, that is to say :-
For the size, grate a quantity of potatoes into a fine body, which strain and
purify by repeated washings in cold water till it settles into a hard substance;
the cold water then to be poured off, and lukewarm water to be poured on,
and well stirred up till it becomes of a regular consistence; then add boiling
water, stirring it all the time till it becomes a smooth size. Take also a
quantity of horse chesnuts, and shell them; then grind and boil them in water
till they are quite dissolved. An equal proportion of both the before-mentioned
preparations, mixed together with a small quantity of thin diluted glue, will
make the size.
For the cement, lay ground chalk stone in a bed on the floor, and add to it
the prepared size above described, with the usual quantity of hair; sprinkle a
little water on it, and beat the whole up together till it becomes a stiff cement.
When it is required to be used for setting ceilings or running cornices, mix a
sufficiency of water with it to make it work pleasantly. To make the cement
fit for plastering and stuccoing walls, &c., add nearly double the proportion of
soft pit sand or loom, and mix the bodies well together with water.
For the colours. Take colours prepared in the damp state, and mix them
up with the prepared size, as stiff as possible. When the same is used for oil
colours, dry it, afterwards grind the same in oil, and reduce the tints with white
lead and linseed oil, after the usual method; and for distemper colours, lower
the e tints with cement and thin it with water; the whole of which Invention is
to be applied according to the method now in use for plastering and stuccoing
walls, setting and whitening ceilings, and running and whitening cornices and
painting walls, &c.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-
ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eleven
SAMUEL KERROD. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-ninth day of
March, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Samuel Kerrod came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of March, in the year above written.