A NEW AND PECULIAR ART OR METHOD OF MAKING IRON LIQUOR, OR THE PREPARATION COMMONLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THAT NAME
Year: 1782

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BOOTHMAN, of Mosney, in the County of Lancaster, Dyer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Sixteenth day of November, in the twenty-third year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said William Boothman, His especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Boothman,
during the term of years therein express'd, shoud and lawfully might make up,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW AND PECULIAR ART OR METHOD OF MAKING IRON
LIQUOR, OR THE PREPARATION COMMONLY CALLED OR KNOWN BY THAT NAME;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
William Boothman, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by
the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Boothman, do hereby declare that tlie nature of my said Invention
of a New and Peculiar Art or Method of making Iron Liquor, or the

page_text: Preparation commonly called or known by that Name, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and ascertain'd in
the manner following, that is to say:―
I take a quantity of iron filings, hoops, or other thin iron, or any other
kind or preparation thereof that is generally made use of for making iron
liquor. After it is put into a cask or other vessel, I put upon it as much rain,
spring, or other fresh water (in each gallon of which I previously mix one
pound of wheat flower) as will cover the iron; if this liquor be drawn off and
again put on the iron once in three or four weeks, or well agitated, it will
sooner come to perfection. This iron liquor may be made from wheat, wheat
flower, or bran, barley or barley flower, malted or unmalted oats, or oatmeal,
rye or ryemeal or flower, or any vegitable grain or substance that will produce
an acid when mix'd with water. It is not necessary to let the flour and water
stand together, so as to make an acid, before they are put upon the iron, tho'
that way will answer, but it will do equally well if put on the iron as soon as
mix'd, and if the water is warm it will be the better; if a larger proportion of
flour is used, it will make the liquor stronger.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Boothman, have hercunto set
my hand and seal, the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.
WILLIAM BOOTHMAN. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
Signed, sealed, and delivered in the
presence of
WILLIAM BOOTHMAN. (L.S.)
HENRY PARR.
JOHN EMETT.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of February,
in the year of our Lord 1783, the aforesaid William Boothman 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 Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late
King and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the
seventeenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
In Chancery.

page_text: witnesses to the execution of a Deed or Instrument upon parchment hereunto
annexed, by William Boothman, of Mosney, in the said County, Dyer, which
said Deed or Instrument, under the hand and seal of the said William
Boothman, bears date the Twenty-second day of February, in the year of our.
Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, and purports to be a
declaration of the nature of his Invention of A New and Peculiar Art or
Method of making Iron Liquor, or the Preparation commonly called or known
by that Name, and the manner in which it is to be performed, say that they
clid see the said William Boothman sign, seal, and as his act and deed deliver,
the same at or about the time the same bears date, and that, to attest such his
execution thereof, these Deponents did severally subscribe their names thereto
as witnesses; and that the name William Boothman, set or subscribed to the
said Deed or Instrument as the party executing the same, and the names
Henry Parr and John Emett, set and subscribed as witnesses to attest such
his execution thereof, are the respective proper handswriting of the said
William Boothman, Henry Parr, and John Emett respectively.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that upon the oath of Henry Parr and
John Emett, the Specification aforesaid was inrolled, word for word, as it is
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statutes made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King
and Queen W and Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth
year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One
. thousand seven hundred and eighty-three.