MAKING, CHASING, OR IMBOSSING IN LEAD ALL SORTS OF GIRANDOLES, FRAMES FOR PIER GLASSES, TABLETS, FREIZES, AND BRACKETS FOR CHIMNEY PEICES AND ROOMS, AND OF HARDENING THE SAME SO THAT SUCH ORNAMENTS ARE RENDERED AS DURABLE AS IF MADE IN COPPER OR OTHER METAL S to have to
Year: 1774

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
STORER, of the City of Norwich, in the County of Norfolk, Plumber, sends
greeting.
WHEREAS the King's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent, under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April
last, gave and granted unto the said William Storer, his executors, adñors,
and assigns, His Majesty's special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, for the said William Storer, his executors, adiñiors, or assigns, and
every of them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies,
servants, or agents, or such others as he, the said William Storer, his executors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times hereafter, to make, use, exercise, and vend his new
invented art of "MAKING, CHASING, OR IMBOSSING IN LEAD ALL SORTS OF
GIRANDOLES, FRAMES FOR PIER GLASSES, TABLETS, FREIZES, AND BRACKETS FOR
CHIMNEY PEICES AND ROOMS, AND OF HARDENING THE SAME SO THAT SUCH
ORNAMENTS ARE RENDERED AS DURABLE AS IF MADE IN COPPER OR OTHER METAL S
to have and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, power, privilege, and
advantage to the said William Storer, his executors, admors, and assigns, for
the 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 that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is
contained a provisoe, that if I, the said William Storer, should not particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is 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
four cal nder months next immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages
whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease and beconie void.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Storer, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby declare the nature
of my said Invention of making the said ornaments in lead, and of hardening
the same; and the manner in which I perform the same is as follows (that is
to say):
The lead is of the softest and purest quality, brought to a fluid in an iron
pot, in which state I apply a sufficient quantity of rozin and tallow in equal
proportions to keep a blaze on the metal about fifteen minutes, keeping it
stirring all the time, which makes the fluid more subtle and thinner to direct
its way into the smallest fibrous parts of the mould. I then take the mould,
which is made of clay and red lead, well braided together with weak glew size,
and made about the same consistance as glaziers' putty, that when applied and
pressed to the model or ornament, it will take a fine impression, which, when
dryed, will admit of the hot lead being poured in, and the ornament in lead
so produced will be equally sharp as the model; and by holding the mould
almost right up, the body of the metal will take itself away and leave the shape
of the ornament, only but a little thicker than the hot pressers' paper, in which
soft state, with wood and steel chasing tools, and punches of various shapes at
the ends, I chase and imboss those parts of the flowers, leaves, foleeges, &c., &c.,
as appear too flatt, to the full relief of the boldest and richest carving in wood;
and when I have thus formed and placed the ornament to the true and full
spirit of the design, I then trim the back part all over with hard solder,
which solder, applyed by the help of copper soldering tools, such as are used
by braziers, will inforce itself so far into the soft lead as to render it out of all
danger of bending without violence, and will not break at all, nor receive any
principal blemish from violent blows through accident or carelessness, which
no other ornament, of whatever composition, not excepting iron or brass, will
bear. Neither are the stems of the flowers, leaves, &c., &c., of these lead
ornaments required to be any larger than nature, that the lightest designs in
this way can be executed with more certain strength an durability then wood
or paper, which are obliged to be worked from heavy designs, or they would
not hang together. But neither damp rooms, nor any heat from the sun or the
fire, will ever cause these lead ornaments to give way or the least affect them.

page_text: And to make these ornaments fit to receive guilding in all its perfection,
burnished, and in oil guilding, or fit for painting of all kinds, I wash the
ornaments with a size made of gum lacce, parchment, and red lead, which
sticks firm to the lead; and by being washed over about eight or ten times, it
leaves a hard case upon the surface of the ornament, which is not subject to
flake off nor bruise; in which state it will burnish or be fit for painting without.
taking off the sharpness or beauty of the work, which is always done by
guilders, &c. by applying a thick body of whiting on their work which choak
it up, and without which they cannot burnish.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Tenth
day of August, in the fourteenth 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 seventy-four.