INVEN
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
ARCHER, of Goswell Street, in the City of London, Diamond Cutter, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third hath
been graciously pleased, by His: Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of
of Great Britain' bearing date the Third day of April, in the thirteenth
year of His said Majesty's reign, to give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Archer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especially
licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Samuel
Archer, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by
myself or themselves, or by my or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as I, the said Samuel Archer, my executors, administrators,
& assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, should and
lawfully might from time to time and at all times hereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of
Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my "NEW-INVENTED MOCK PEARLS," in such manner. as to me,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in their
discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Samuel Archer, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the

page_text: whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
therein granted unto me, the said Samuel Archer, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and 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: And whereas in the said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that I, the said Samuel Archer, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is 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 calendar months
next after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in obedience to the said Letters Patent, and the
proviso therein contained, I, the said Samuel Archer, do hereby declare my
said New-invented Mock Pearls are made and performed in manner following
(that is to say)
Take mother-of-pearl shell, form it into drops or beads of what form the work-
man pleases; polish them; or take solid glass, the colour of mother-of-pearl,
form solid drops or beads by a lamp. When the pearls or glass beads or drops
are formed and polished, then take fish scales and pound them in water, then let
the dissolution stand to settle. Take the cream at the bottom, and a glew
made of white leather or isinglass, and mix the cream of the fish scales and
glew together, then paint the drops or beads till the same are of a proper
colour. Let them dry well, then rub them with a rag, and varnish the same
with a high varnish.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second
day of August, in the thirteenth 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-three.
Signed, sealed, and delivered (being
first duly stampt), in the presence
SAML (LS.) ARCHER.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1778, the aforesaid Samuel Archer 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.
5 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.
Inrolled the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-three.