NEW MANUFACTURE OF INVENTION FOR TANNING
Year: 1795

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HAWKES, of the Parish of Longflect, in the County of Dorset, Tanner,
send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Second day of June, in the thirty-fifth year of His said
Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said George Hawkes, His
special licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said George
Hawkes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might,
during the term of years therein expressed, use, exercise, and vend, throughout
that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my "NEW MANUFACTURE OF
INVENTION FOR TANNING;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, whereby it was and is declared that if I, the said George Hawkes,
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

page_text: High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that the said Letters Patent
should be void, as in and by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, and in
pursuance of the said Letters Patent, I, the said George Hawkes, do hereby
declare that the following is a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and of the manner in which the same is to be performed (that is to
say):-
My method of tanning is by using the bark of elm instead of oak bark.
The clm bark should be shaved or cleaned and ground, in the like manner as
oak bark is shaved or cleaned and ground for tanning. To every hundred-
weight of bark when ground, put, for heavy hides and skins, about four pounds
of salt, with the like quantity of water as is generally used to the like quantity
of oak bark, and for calves' skins and light hides, put about two pounds of salt
to every hundredweight of bark, with the usual quantity of water. The process
and mode of tanning is the same as with oak bark; and first the skins are to
be put in water to cleanse, then in the lime the same time as usual, then in the
grainer, but must not be kept too long in the grainer, of which the tanner
must decide on his own judgement as usual, according to the circumstances and
scas n of the year. When well workod in the usual way, put them in the
liquor, and let them be well attended to, that is, let them be frequently taken
up or handled till they are sufficiently filled to be laid from the handlers into
the layers, but let them remain no more than three weeks in the layers, which
is quite sufficient before they are moved; then they must be taken up again
and laid in the same manner and for the same time (or thereabouts), till they
are found to be sufficiently tanned, of which the tanner must judge himself, as
in the present mode with oak bark. This method I have found will tan them
as soon or sooner, and make them as firm or firmer, than the usual way with
oak bark, and the leather will be at least of an equal, if not superior, quality.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-
seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-five.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of Junc, in
the year above written, the aforesaid George Hawkes 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 First day of July in the year aboxo writton
Inrolled the Kirst day of July in the year above writton.