INVENTION AND METHOD OF PREPARING AND PRINTING PAPER IN DIFFERENT PATERNS, AND TO SILVER IT OVER WITH FINE SILVER LEAVES, SO AS TO RESEMBLE DAMASK LACE AND VARIOUS SILK STUFFS, TO BE USED FOR HANGINGS AND OTHER FURNITURE FOR Rooms
Year: 1793

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
FREDERICK ECKHARDT, of Sloane Street, in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea,
in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, in and by His certain Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the
Thirtieth day of April, in the thirty-third year of His reign, did, of His
especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, my
exors, admors, and assigns, especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, my exors, admors, 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 Francis Frederick
Eckhardt, my exors, admors, 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
"INVENTION AND METHOD OF PREPARING AND PRINTING PAPER IN DIFFERENT
PATERNS, AND TO SILVER IT OVER WITH FINE SILVER LEAVES, SO AS TO RESEMBLE
DAMASK LACE AND VARIOUS SILK STUFFS, TO BE USED FOR HANGINGS AND OTHER
FURNITURE FOR Rooms," within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in such manner as to me, the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, my exors,
admors, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet; and that I, the said
Francis Frederick Eckhardt, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, should and law-
my

page_text: fully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity and advantage,
from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years therein mentioned, to hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges and advantages, therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Francis
Frederick Eckhardt, my exors, admors, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended
according to the Statute in such case made and provided. In which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso that the same should be void, unless I,
the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the
same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within one calendar month
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, in pur-
suance of the said proviso in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, as follows, that is to say:-
When the paper is coloured in the ordinary course, size it properly with a
size of ising glass, parchment, or common size, so as to bear an oil or a varnish
gold size. This being dry, lay, with a printing block or a brush, on those parts
where the ornaments are intended to appear, gold size or any of the other
compositions that will answer the same purpose; when the gold size or compo-
sition is nearly dry, lay on real fine silver leaves, and then size the paper well
two or three times, and when dry varnish it over with any of the various sorts
of varnish which will resist damp.
"In" witness whereof, I, the said Francis Frederick Eckhardt, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of May; in the
thirty-third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third,
by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stamped, in the presence of
WM WELLS.
F. F. ECKHARDT. (LS.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twentieth day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1793, the aforesaid Francis Frederick Eckhardt came
before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Spe-
cification 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 Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-three.