A NEW KIND OF CEMENTED HAIR SHAG, BOTH ELEGANT AND DURABLE, WHICH WOULD ANSWER VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1778

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HARBY, of Essex Street, in the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Hair
Dealer, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said William Harby, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I
had, after several years' study, and a great expence, invented and brought to
perfection "A NEW KIND OF CEMENTED HAIR SHAG, BOTH ELEGANT AND DURABLE,
WHICH WOULD ANSWER VARIOUS USEFUL PURPOSES;" and in regard to the great ad-
vantage arising in this Kingdom from iny said Invention, and to the many years'
study and great expences I had been at to render the same perfect and com--
pleat, I therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that He would be
graciously to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of my said Invention
within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called Eng-
land, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the
term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and pro-
vided; His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which might be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to
condescend to my request, and therefore by His Royal Letters Patent, under
His Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth
day of July, in the eighteenth year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said William Harby, my executors, administrators
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge, and authority
that I, the said William Harby, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and
every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or depu
ties, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William Harby, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's King-
dom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said William Harby, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions
seem meet, and that I, the said William Harby, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing,
and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned; to have, bold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said William Harby, 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 com-
pleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided ; in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said William
Harby, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an in-
strument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
next and 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, determine, and become void, anything therein-
before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and
by the said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and
at large appear.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Harby, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and declare that the same is composed of the several particulars,
and to be performed in manner following; that is to say:-
Take so much of isinglass, gum of any sort, drying oil, turpentine, glue,
or any other adhesive matter as will be proportionable to the quantity of

page_text: ement intended to be made; let them be well incorporated by boiling them
ogether, and then, by applying the composition as occasion may require to
ny skin or other substance, it will unite hair thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Harby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the
nineteenth year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George the
Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland
King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.
ROBERT DAVIS.
BIGOE HENZELL.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Fourth day of November, in
the nineteenth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
aforesaid William Harby came before the said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every
thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
Instrument 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
And also the