A CHEMICAL PREPARATION CALLED 'STRINGER'S ESSENCE OF MYRRH,' FOR CURING THE SCURVY IN THE GUMS, FASTENING THE TEETH, CAUSING THE GUMS (WHEN PARTED FROM THE TEETH) TO GROW UP, AND TO GIVE THEM A FIRMNESS AND BEAUTIFUL RED COLOUR, ALSO FOR STOPPING THE PROGRESS OF TEETH WHICH ARE DECAYING, AND FOR PREVENTING THEIR BEING OFFENSIVE
Year: 1791

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
STRINGER, of the Strand, in the Parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, in the
County of Middlesex, Chymist and Druggist, sends greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eighteenth day of March, in the thirty-first year of His reign, upon the
petition of the said Richard Stringer, setting forth that he had discovered
"A CHEMICAL PREPARATION CALLED 'STRINGER'S ESSENCE OF MYRRH,' FOR CURING
THE SCURVY IN THE GUMS, FASTENING THE TEETH, CAUSING THE GUMS (WHEN PARTED
FROM THE TEETH) TO GROW UP, AND TO GIVE THEM A FIRMNESS AND BEAUTIFUL RED
COLOUR, ALSO FOR STOPPING THE PROGRESS OF TEETH WHICH ARE DECAYING, AND FOR
PREVENTING THEIR BEING OFFENSIVE," and which is an entire new Invention,
hath, for Himself, His heirs, and successors, given and granted unto tho
said Richard Stringer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that he, the said Richard
Stringer, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
himself and themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as he, the said Richard Stringer, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, shall at any time agree with and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein and
herein-after mentioned, shall and lawfully may make, use, exercise, and
vend the said Invention, within that part of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such man-
ner as to him, the said Richard Stringer, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, or any of them, shall in his or their discretion scem meet;

page_text: and that he, the said Richard Stringer, his exccutors, administrators, and
assigns, shall and lawfully may have and onjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and
arising by reason of tho said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein and herein-after mentioned, to hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges, and advantages unto the said Richard Stringer,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from
the date of the said Letters Patent, according to the Statute in such case made
and provided; in which said Letters Patent (amongst other things) is con-
tained a proviso, that if the said Richard Stringer shall not particularly
describe and ascertain 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
scal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after tho dato of the same
Letters Patent, that then tho said Letters Patent, and all liberties and
advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any
wise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Richard Stringor, in pursuance of the
Invention of the said Letters Patent, and in compliance with the proviso
therein contained, doth hereby declare that the nature of his said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, is as follows, that is
to say :-
The method of making "Stringer's Essence of Myrrh" is, tako gum myrrh
grains ten, spirits of wine half a pint, rose water one pint & fourteen ounces,
orange flower water two ounces, spirits of salts two scruples, burnt allum two
scruples, cochineal ono drachm, all which digest and filter.
In witness whereof, the said Richard Stringer hath hereunto set his
hand and scal, the Twelfth day of April, in the thirty-first year of
the reign of our Sovereign Lord Georgo the Third, by the grace of
God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of tho
Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and ninate.one

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirteenth day of April, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Richard Stringer 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
Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute
in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Thirteenth day of April. in the year above mentioned