A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING OR MANU- PACTURING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE, GROWING IN PARTS ABROAD BEYOND THE SEAS, AND IMPORTED TO AND USED IN THESE KINGDOMS AS A DYE, OR RED COLOURING MATTER FOR THE USE OF DYERS, CALLED SAFFLOWER (CARTHAMUS), BO AS MORE EFFECTUALLY TO PRESERVE IT'S COLOURING PRINCIPLE FROM DECAY OR DETERIORATION IN ITS PASSAGE FROM THE PLACES OF IT'S GROWTH TO ENGLAND AND OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RUPERT
KIRK, of Osborne Place, Whitechapel, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twentieth day of March, in the fifth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Rupert
Kirk, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, His
especial licence that I, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Rupert Kirk, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantation abroad, my Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING OR MANU-
PACTURING A CERTAIN VEGETABLE SUBSTANCE, GROWING IN PARTS ABROAD BEYOND
THE SEAS, AND IMPORTED TO AND USED IN THESE KINGDOMS AS A DYE, OR RED
COLOURING MATTER FOR THE USE OF DYERS, CALLED SAFFLOWER (CARTHAMUS), BO
AS MORE EFFECTUALLY TO PRESERVE IT'S COLOURING PRINCIPLE FROM DECAY OR
DETERIORATION IN ITS PASSAGE FROM THE PLACES OF IT'S GROWTH TO ENGLAND AND
OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE," and that I, the said Rupert Kirk, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,

page_text: growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned; in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso requiring or obliging me, the said Rupert Kirk, by an
instrument 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 two calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Rupert Kirk, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is described and ascertained in
the following explanation thereof, that is to say :-
I prepare my manufacture of the said vegetable or plant called safflower,
(being the carthamus of Linnæus,) by myself or agent, at or near the place
of its growth abroad, by then and there extracting from the fecular of the
plant the red colouring principle or matter in it's highest state of maturity
and perfection, by the common and well-known method used by dyers, (to
which method I do not lay claim to any exclusive privilege,) and I then and
there transfer such red colouring principle or matter in, to, and upon raw
or unspun cotton, wool, hemp, flax, or other vegetable fibrous matter; and
I then dry and pack the same so dyed and coloured, and bring or import
such unwrought cotton, wool, hemp, flax, or other vegetable fibrous matter
so impregnated or dyed, into this country, by which means such colouring
matter is preserved free from deterioration. And I farther make known and
declare my said Invention and manufacture to be farther performed in manuer
following, that is to say:―
After the arrival in this country of the said raw or unspun cotton, wool,
hemp, flax, or other vegetable fibrous matter, so impregnated or dyed with
the said red colouring principle of the safflower in manner aforesaid, I dis-
charge the said red colouring principle or matter therefrom, and do transfer,
use, and employ the same red colouring matter so discharged for the dying
of silk and other goods by the well-known processes of discharging and trans-
ferring such red colour of various shades and intensities. And I do therefore
claim the sole right of so manufacturing the said vegetable substance, and
impregnating or dying with it the vehicle to be used, whether it be raw and
unspun cotton, wool, hemp, flax, or other fibrous substance, in that part of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in His Majesty's

page_text: Colonies and Plantations abroad, and of importing it and using it in the same
places according to the said recited Patent.
In witness whereof, I, the said Rupert Kirk, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Sixth day of May, in the
year above mentioned, the aforesaid Rupert Kirk 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 Spe-
cification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute in that
case made and provided.