A COMPOSITION OF GOLD, SILVER, AND METAL, FOR MAKING COAT AND WAISTCOAT BUTTONS INTIRELY NEW, AND NOT BEFORE PRACTISED BY ANY OTHER PERSON WHATSOEVER
Year: 1777

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM:
WILLIAMS,, of the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, Button Maker, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of
Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of March,, in the
seventeenth year of His said Majesty's reign, upon the Petition of me, the
said William Williams, did give and grant unto me, the said William.
Williams, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence,.
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said William Williams,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself and
themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said William Williams, 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, within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A COMPOSITION OF GOLD, SILVER, AND
METAL, FOR MAKING COAT AND WAISTCOAT BUTTONS INTIRELY NEW, AND NOT BEFORE
PRACTISED BY ANY OTHER PERSON WHATSOEVER;" in such manner as to me, the
said William Williams, my executors, admors, or assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet; and that I, the said William Williams,

page_text: my executors, adiñors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time
coming, growing, accruing, and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of years therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said William Williams, my
executors, adñiors, 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 such
case made and provided. In which said recited Letters Patent there is con-
tained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Williams, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature
of my 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 next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters
Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Williams, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Com-
position of Gold, Silver, and Metal, for Making Coat and Waistcoat Buttons
intirely New, and not before Practised by any other Person whatsoever, is of
the nature and performed in the manner following (that is to say):-
The composition of the metal is gold, silver, copper, and brass, manufactured
by mixing the copper and brass when melted together or seperate; and when
cast, plate it with silver and flatt it, and shape it to the size of a button, then
shank it or loop it with the same metal, and gild the compleat button. Then
scrape the gold off in different parts from the surface of the button until the
silver again appears, and then chase it to any pattern.
:
In witness whereof, I, the said William Williams, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of July, in the seventeenth 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-seven.
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stamped) in the presence of
WILLIAM WILLIAMS. (L.S.)
FRED. BOOTH.
GEO. BELLAS.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Fifth day of July, in the
year above said, the aforesaid William Williams came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his Inven-
tion 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 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 aforesaid Fifth day of July, in the year above said.