A CERTAIN WATER OR LIQUOR FOR THE TANNING OR PRESERVING OF SINGLE THREAD OR DOUBLE THREAD SAIL CLOTH MADE OF YARN, WHICH, BY BEING LAID OR BOILED THEREIN, IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN STRENGTHENING THE YARN AND PRESERVING THE SAIL CLOTH PROM MILDEWING AND ROTTING, AND WHICH SAID YARN OR SAIL CLOTH, SO LAID OR BOILED AS AFORESAID, I; THE SAID MARTIN BRUMBY, CALLED BY THE NAME OF TANNED CANVAS
Year: 1768

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARTIN
BRUMBY, of Gainsborough, in the County of Lincoln, Sail Cloth Maker.
send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Martin Brumby, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, by great labour, expence, and application, invented and brought
to an extraordinary degree of perfection, "A CERTAIN WATER OR LIQUOR FOR
THE TANNING OR PRESERVING OF SINGLE THREAD OR DOUBLE THREAD SAIL CLOTH
MADE OF YARN, WHICH, BY BEING LAID OR BOILED THEREIN, IS VERY BENEFICIAL IN
STRENGTHENING THE YARN AND PRESERVING THE SAIL CLOTH PROM MILDEWING AND
ROTTING, AND WHICH SAID YARN OR SAIL CLOTH, SO LAID OR BOILED AS AFORESAID,
I; THE SAID MARTIN BRUMBY, CALLED BY THE NAME OF TANNED CANVAS ;" that the
Invention was intirely new and singular, and no ways interfered with any
of the like sort; and as I humbly apprehended the same would be of great
benefit and advantage to His said Majesty's subjects, and in regard I was
the first and sole Inventor thereof, and that the same had not been practiced
by any other person or persons, to the best of my knowledge and belief, I
therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that he would be graciously
pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole
making, vending, and disposing of the said tanned canvas within that part of
His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and
Plantations abroad, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in
that case made and provided; His said Majesty, being willing to give en-

page_text: couragement to all arts and inventions which might be for the publick good,
was graciously pleased to condescend to my said request, and therefore, by
His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-eighth
day of November, in the ninth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, did give
and grant unto me, the said Martin Brumby, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Martin Brumby, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
and every of them, by myself and themselves, or by mine or their deputy or
deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Martin Brumby,
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, called Tanned Canvas, within that part of His said
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations
abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Martin Brumby, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said Martin Brumby, 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, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted
unto me, the said Martin Brumby, 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 such case made and
provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the
said Martin Brumby, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to
be inrolled in His said High Court of Chancery within four kalendar 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Martin Brumby, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the aforesaid
Invention, and declare that the same is composed and prepared of the several
particulars, and performed in manner following (that is to say) :-
liquor
That the single or double sail cloth yarn be laid or boiled in a
made of bark dust or chips of the oak tree, and afterwards dipped in clear
lime water for striking and retaining the colour.
In witness whereof, I, the said Martin Brumby, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of December, in the ninth 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 sixty-eight.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fifteenth day of Decem-
ber, in the year above said. the aforesaid Martin Brumby came before the said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Instrument afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the 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.
Inrolled the Twentieth day of December, in the year above written.