A WAY AND METHOD, BY LIQUORS OR OTHERWISE, WHEREBY ALL SORTS AND KINDS OF FLESH, FOWLE, AND FISH, AND MANY OTHER THINGS, EITHER IN PIECES OR IN WHOLE BODYES, MAY, AT A CHEAP RATE, POR MANY YEARES, BE KEPT AND PRE- BERVED IN ALL CLYMATER, WITHOUT CHANGEING THE NATURE, QUALLITY, TAST, SMELL, OR COLOUR THEREOP, AS GOOD, PALLATABLE, AND WHOLESOME TO BE EATEN OR MADE USE OF, FOR ANY INTENT OR PURPOSE WHATSOEVER, AS WHEN FIRST KILLED OR PUT INTO SUCH LIQUOR
Year: 1691

page_text: WHEREAS our trusty and well beloved THOMAS PORTER and JOHN WHITE,
Gent, have, by their humble peticon, informed us that they have invented
"A WAY AND METHOD, BY LIQUORS OR OTHERWISE, WHEREBY ALL SORTS AND KINDS
OF FLESH, FOWLE, AND FISH, AND MANY OTHER THINGS, EITHER IN PIECES OR IN
WHOLE BODYES, MAY, AT A CHEAP RATE, POR MANY YEARES, BE KEPT AND PRE-
BERVED IN ALL CLYMATER, WITHOUT CHANGEING THE NATURE, QUALLITY, TAST, SMELL,
OR COLOUR THEREOP, AS GOOD, PALLATABLE, AND WHOLESOME TO BE EATEN OR MADE
USE OF, FOR ANY INTENT OR PURPOSE WHATSOEVER, AS WHEN FIRST KILLED OR PUT
INTO SUCH LIQUOR," and humbly praying us to grant vnto them our Letters
Patents for the sole use and benefitt of such their Invention.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being graciously pleased to condis-
cend to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventors of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for
us, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Porter and John White, their execs, admin", and assignet, speciall lycence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said Thomas Porter
and John White, their exec", admin", and assignes, and every of them, by
themselues or their and either of their deputy and deputyes, servants or agents,
or such others as the said Thomas Porter and John White, or either of them,

page_text: yeares
their or either of their exec", admin", or assignes, shall at any tyme agree with,
and noe others, from tyme to tyme and at all tymes during the terme of
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, sell, use, and dispose such liquors
and other materialls for the keeping and preserving of all sorts of flesb, fowle,
and fish, and many other things, as aforesaid, within any part or parts, place
or places, whatsoevever, of, in, or belonging to our kingdome of England,
dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and all and every or
any of our kingdomes and dominions whatsoever, in such manner, and according
to such reasonable and lawfull rates and lymittacons, as to them, the said
Thomas Porter and John White, their exec", admin", and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that they, the said Thomas
Porter and John White, their exec", admin", and assignes, shall and may
have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity, and advantage from
tyme to tyme comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Inven-
tion for and during the full terme of yeares herein menconed, to have,
hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advan-
tages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Thomas
Porter and John White, their exec's, admin", and assignes, for and dureing
and vnto the full end and terme of fourteene yeares from the date of these
presents next and imediately ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the statute in this case made and provided; and to the end
that the said Thomas Porter and John White, their exec", admin", and
assignes, and every of them, may enjoy the full benefitt, and the sole vse,
makeing, selling, and disposing of the said Invention, according to our
gracious intentions herein-before declared, wee doe by these presents, for us,
our heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person
and persons, bodyes politiq, and corporate, and all other our subiects what
soever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name, or condicon soever they bec,
within all and every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any
of them, at any .tyme during the continuance of the said terme of fourteene
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly to make, vse, sell, dis
pose, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, soe
attained vnto by the said,Thomas Porter and John White, as aforesaid, nor
shall in anywise counterfeit or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addition thereto or substraction from the same, whereby
to pretend themselves the inventors or devisors thereof, without the ly
cence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas Porter and John White
their exec", admin", or assignes, in writing vnder their or some of
their hands and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe, vpon such

page_text: paynes and penaltyes as can or may be justly inflicted on such offenders for
their contempt of this our royall comand, and further to be answerable
to the said Thomas Porter and John White, their exec", admin", and
assignes, according to law, for their or any of their damages thereby occa-
sioned: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be
vpon this condičon, that if at any tyme dureing the terme hereby granted it
shall be made appear to us, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy Councell, that this our grant is contrary to law, or prejudiciall or
inconvenient to our subjects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new
invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within this our kingdome,
and not invented and found out by the said Thomas Porter and John White as
aforesaid, then, vpon significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by us, our
heires and successors, vnder our or their signett or privy seale, or: by
the lords and others of our or their Privy Councell, or any six or more of.
them, vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, & be utterly voyd to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before
conteyned to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: 'Provided also, that
these our Letters Patents, or anything therein conteyned, shall not extend-or
be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Thomas Porter and
John White, or either of them, their or either of their executors, admin", "or
assignes, or any of them, to vsc or imitate any invention or work whatsoever
which hath been heretofore found out or invented by any other of our, subjects
whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within our said realmes and
dominions, or any of them, vnto whome like Letters Patents or priviledge have
been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being
our will and pleasure that they, the said Thomas Porter and John White, their
exec", admin", and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to
whome like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall inventions by them invented
and found out, according to the true intent and meaneing of the same respec-
tive Letters Patents and of these presents. And, lastly, wee doe, by these
presents, for us, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Porter
and John White, their exec", admin", and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all things good, firme,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning thereof, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged in the most
favourable and beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Thomas
Porter and John White, their exec", admin", and assignes, as well in all courts
of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers what-

page_text: soever of us, our heires and successors, in all and singular our realmes and
dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our
heires and succcessors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not
full and certaine describing the nature or quallity of the said Invention, or of
the materialls thereto conduceing and belonging.
May it please Yo' most Excellent Ma,
This conteynes your Majio's grant unto Thomas Porter and John White,
Gent, of the sole benefitt, vse, and advantage of their Invention of a way and
method, by liquors or otherwise, whereby all sorts and kinds of flesh, fowle,
and fish, and many other things, either in pieces or in whole bodyes, may, at a
cheap rate, for many yeares, be kept and preserved in all climates without
changeing the nature, quallity, tast, smell, or colour thereof, as good, palatable,
and wholsome to be eaten or made vse of, for any intent or purpose whatso-
ever, as when first killed or put into such liquor, to hold the same for the
terme of fourteene yeares, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided, with such prohibitions and clauses as are vsuall in grants of like
nature.
Signified to be Her Maj pleasure by Warrant under Her Royall
Signe Manuall.
J. SOMERS,
26 Oct. 1691.