A METHOD OF PREPARING CLOTHS INTENDED TO BE DYED SCARLET, SO AS MORE EFFECTUALLY TO GROUND THE SAID COLORS AND PRESERVE THEIR BEAUTY, AND ALSO OF TAKING OUT ALL SUCH LINTS, SPILS, AND OTHER THINGS WHICH WILL NOT RECEIVE THE DYE, SO AS NOT TO LEAVE ANY HOLE OR BLEMISH WHATSOEVER THEREIN AFTER THEY ARE DYED AND FINISHED
Year: 1748

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ONESIPHORUS
PAUL, of Woodchester, in the County of Gloucester, Clothier, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Second, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Nineteenth day of March, in the twenty-first year of His reign, did give
& grant unto me, the said Onesiphorus Paul, His especial licence, that
I, the said Onesiphorus Paul, during the term of years therein, expressed,
should & lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A METHOD
OF PREPARING CLOTHS INTENDED TO BE DYED SCARLET, SO AS MORE EFFECTUALLY TO
GROUND THE SAID COLORS AND PRESERVE THEIR BEAUTY, AND ALSO OF TAKING OUT
ALL SUCH LINTS, SPILS, AND OTHER THINGS WHICH WILL NOT RECEIVE THE DYE, SO
AS NOT TO LEAVE ANY HOLE OR BLEMISH WHATSOEVER THEREIN AFTER THEY ARE DYED
AND FINISHED;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Onesiphorus Paul, by writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within four calendar months after the date of the
said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Quesiphorus-Paul, do hereby declare that the said Invention is to be performed
in the manner following (that is to say):-

page_text: To two pieces of cloth before it's milled I put into the furnace seven pounds
of argull, one pound and an half of turmerick, two pounds of cocheneal, and
two quarts of aquafortis, properly prepared as follows:-To half an ounce of
sal armoninck put four pints of water and eight pounds of spirits of aquafortis,
and one pound of block tin. The block tin must be put in at four times: first
put in one half the spirits to all the water and one third of the tin, the
remainder of the tin and spirits put in at four times. The principal art is in
preparing or dying in part before milled, which was never known to be prac-
ticable before, and the coñion methods of preparing will do (but as aquafortis
is an enemy to the proof of the cloth, therefore I use a much less quantity
in the preparing and more in the finishing); then I pick out the lints and
spills, then mill the cloths and dress them, so that the milling & dressing
closes up the holes. Then I finish off the dye with two pounds and an half
of argull, four pounds and a quarter of cocheneal, half a pound of turmerick,
and six quarts of aquafortis, and boyl them three quarters of an hour. I also
dye in the wooll. The preparation and method is the same for the quantity
of wool that will make two pieces, only allowing one quarter of a pound
more of cocheneal to finish them; but the most expeditions way is to dye
as above.
In witness whereof, I, the said Onesiphorus Paul, have hereunto sett my
hand & seal, this Eleventh day of July, in the twenty-second yeare
of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the Grace of
God King of Great Britain, France & Ireland, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and forty-eight.