to,, and vend their "NEW INVENTION, ART, OR METHOD OF MAKING FINE POTT ASHES, COMONLY CALLED PEARL ASKES, AS GOOD AS ANY IMPORTED FROM ABROAD
Year: 1751

page_text: BAKER & BARKER'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
KNOW YE, that His presant Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal, bearing date at Westminster, the
Eighteenth day of April, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, hath, for Him-
self, His heirs and successors, given and granted unto JOHN BAKER, of Bake-
well, in the County of Derby, Whitner and Hosier, and JOHN BARKER, of
Edensor, in the said County of Derby, Soap Boiler and Chandler, their
executors, administrators, and assigns, especiall lycence, full power, solo
priviledge & authority to make, use, exercise, and vend their "NEW INVENTION,
ART, OR METHOD OF MAKING FINE POTT ASHES, COMONLY CALLED PEARL ASKES,
AS GOOD AS ANY IMPORTED FROM ABROAD," within His Majesty's Dominions,
Settlements, Plantations, & Territories in the West Indies and America, for
and during the term of years therein expressed, according to the Statute in
such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent there is contained
a provisoe obligeing the said John Baker and John Barker, or one of them, by
writing under their or one of their hands and seals, to cause a particular
description of the nature of their said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may
more at large appear.
THEREFORE FURTHER KNOW YEE, that I, said John Baker, one of
the Patentees named in the said recited Letters Patent, in complyance with
the said proviso, and pursuant to the intentions of the said Letters Patent, do
hereby particularly describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in manner following, that is
to say:

page_text: Take the ashes produced from wood burned in the house or abroad, the
ashes of tobacco, or the stalks or refuge of tobacco, or ashes of any other
vegetables, from which draw a strong lie by powering water upon them, and
washing out the salts, which lie is to be boiled to a consistence in iron or other
pans, which consistance are salts much in the form of brown sugar, which
being so produced, put them into a furnace made of bricks that will abide a
strong fire, which furnace may be made to contain in the inside thereof about
ten feet in length, six feet in breadth, and three feet in height from the floor
to the highest part of the roof of the arch. At one end of such furnace the
fire is made with wood or any other fuell that will afford a flame, and between
such fireplace and the furnace must be made a partition, about one foot higher
than the bottom of the furnace, to prevent the fewel mixing with the salts,
over which partition the flame is to pass, and so goe quite through the furnace
over the salts, and be received at the other end by a chimney, which said salts
are to continue for a longer or shorter time with a stronger or slower fire,
according to the use they are intended for, or the colour required. If for the
dyer's use, or others who would have them dissolve very quick, the fire is to be
slow, and the salts are to be frequently stirred without being made so hot as to
melt till they come to the colour desired (the longer the salts stay in the fire
the whiter they are, and then they are to be raked out with iron rakes. If
they are intended for the soap boiler, and to have the form of and answer the
end of Russia ashes, the fire is to be made so strong as to melt the salts, and
as they melt they are to run out of the furnace at an hole made for that
purpose at the bottom of the furnace; and if intended for the whitsters or
others who would choose solid ashes of a pearl colour, than the hole at the
bottom of the furnace is to be stopt, and the salts continue melted till they
obtain the colour wanted, which being effected, the hole is then opened for
the salts to run out; all which is a full and true description of our said
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Baker, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Second day of August, in the year of our Lord Ono
thousand seven hundred and fifty-one, and in the twenty-fifth year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Second, over Great
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt with a five shilling stampt),
in the presence of us,
SAMUEL NASH.
JN° MANDER.
JOHN BAKER. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Second day of August
the aforesaid John Baker came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the form of the Statute made in the sixth year of the
reign of the late King William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the Seventh day of August, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Second.