THE MANUFACTURING OR PREPARING OF A NEW VEGETABLE PREPARATION APPLICABLE TO DYEING BLUE AND OTHER COLOURS
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
NUSSEY, of Leeds, in the County of York, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Thirty-first
day of May, in the first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said George Nussey, Her especial
licence that I, the said George Nussey, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Nussey, my exors, adiñors, 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, Her Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE MANUFACTURING OR
PREPARING OF A NEW VEGETABLE PREPARATION APPLICABLE TO DYEING BLUE AND
OTHER COLOURS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said George Nussey, 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

page_text: same to be enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Nussey, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
consists in manufacturing a vegetable preparation of like properties to woad
from certain plants and parts of plants which have not hitherto been made
available for such purpose, namely, the leaves or tops of carrots and the stalks
or steams and leaves of the madder plant, and I declare that the following
is a particular description of the manner in which the said Invention is
performed :-
In manufacturing the said new vegetable preparation from the leaves or
tops of carrots, I first grind or crush them in a mill, then form the granulated
mass into balls, and when the balls are sufficiently dried I break them into
small pieces, which I subject to the fermenting process called couching, all in
the same way and manner as woad is ordinarily prepared in this country for the
dyer. In some cases, when the leaves or tops of the carrots are after the first
grinding in such a state of dryness as to be ready for fermentation, I subject them
at once to the couching process, and when I make use of the stalks or stems
and leaves of the madder plant I lay them after they have been ground or
crushed to ferment at once, not finding it necessary either to make them up
into balls or to dry and re-grind these balls previous to couching.
And I declare that the vegetable preparation so obtained from the tops or
leaves of carrots and the stalks or stems and leaves of the madder plant is
applicable to the dyeing of blue, and of all other colours by which woad is
applicable, as black, green, or grey.
And I declare that what I claim as new and of my Invention is, the manu-
facturing of a vegetable preparation from the tops or leaves of carrots and the
stalks or stems and leaves of the madder plant, applicable to dyeing blue, and
all other colours to which woad is applicable. And such, my Invention, being
to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Nussey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of July, in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
GEORGE NUSSEY. (1.5.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1838, the aforesaid George Nussey came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight.