METHOD OR INVENTION OF MAKING STARCH WITH THE USE OF MACHINES, INTIRELY FROM OTHER INGREDIENTS THAN WHEAT, WHEAT FLOUR, POLLARD, BRAN, OR POTATOES
Year: 1768

page_text: RINCE, O the
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Second
day of January last, gave and granted to the said William Prince, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, His Majesty's especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, for him, the said William Prince, his exors,
adiñors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
his and their deputy or deputies, servants and agents, or such others as he,
the said William Prince, his exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, to make, use, exercise, and
vend his "NEW METHOD OR INVENTION OF MAKING STARCH WITH THE USE OF
MACHINES, INTIRELY FROM OTHER INGREDIENTS THAN WHEAT, WHEAT FLOUR,
POLLARD, BRAN, OR POTATOES," within that part of Great Britain called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in His
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, for the term of fourteen years,
according to the Statutes in that case made and provided, in such manner as
to the said William Prince, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet, and that he and they should and law-
fully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advan-
tage from time to time arísing by reason of the said Invention, during the
said term, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges,
and advantages therein granted unto the said William Prince, his exors,
adiiors, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of four-
teen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately

page_text: 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 if the said William Prince should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause
the same to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantage whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Prince, in pursuance of the
said provisoe in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in which same is
to be performed, as follows, that is to say:-
Put rice into a strong menstruum, made from calcined oyster shells or
lime, at the rate or proportion of one pound weight of lyme and five pounds
of boiling water; stir it frequently, and when the rice appears a yellow collour,
draw off the menstruum, and put to the rice another menstruum made from
one pound weight of calcined oyster shells and eight pounds weight of
boiling water; repeat this menstruum two or three days, drawing it off as
before, then add the like menstruum made from one pound weight of calcined
oyster shells and twelve pounds weight of boiling water, which is to be
repeated, and drawn off till the rice appears white and soft; then grind the
rice in a mill, and put it into a frame or vessel with a weaker menstruum,
made from one pound weight of calcined oyster shells and fourteen pounds
weight of boiling water, where it is to remain a few days; then draw of the
menstruum and wash the ground rice in water till there remains no taste of
the menstruum; strain the ground rice through sieves; let the fine part be
put into frames or vessells, and in two or three days time starch will be settled
solid at the bottom.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Prince, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the eighth year of the
reign of King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1768, the aforesaid William Prince came before our said
Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth.