THE ORIENTAL VEGETABLE CORDIAL, AND FOR MAKING, AND MANUFACTURING THE SAME FROM THE MOST DELICIOUS HERBS, FLOWERS, AND ROOTS
Year: 1783

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BRYAN
CORNWELL, of the Parish of Saint Dunstan, in the City of London, Gent., send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Bryan Cornwell, by my Petition, humbly represented
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third that I had,
after great study, application, and at a considerable expence, invented and
found out a medicine entirely new in these Kingdoms, and not before practised
therein by any person, commonly called or known by the name of "THE
ORIENTAL VEGETABLE CORDIAL, AND FOR MAKING, AND MANUFACTURING THE SAME
FROM THE MOST DELICIOUS HERBS, FLOWERS, AND ROOTS," and which Invention I
have brought to so. great perfection as to be of the utmost utility and benefit
to His Majesty's subjects; that in regard I was the first and true Inventor
thereof, and that the same hath never before been used or practised by any
other person or persons whatsoever, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
wherefore I therefore prayed His said Majesty that He would be graciously
pleased to grant unto me, the said Bryan Cornwell, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use, benefit, and.
advantage of 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, for the term of fourteen years, according to the Statute
in that case made and provided; 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 the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at

page_text: Westminster, the First day of December, in the twenty-fourth year of His
reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and nicre motion, for Himself,
His heirs and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said Bryan Corn-
well, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Bryan Cornwell, 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 Bryan Cornwell, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
me, the said Bryan Cornwell, my. executors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of us,
should in our discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Bryan Cornwell, 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, 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, privileges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Bryan Cornwell, 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 complete 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 Bryan Cornwell, should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
prepared, by an instrument 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 notwith-
standing, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, relation being
thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
KNOW YE, that I, the said Bryan Cornwell, in compliance with the
said provisoc, do hereby describe ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the same is prepared of the several particulars herein-
after expressed, and to be performed in manner following, that is to say:-

page_text: I take carduus, rue, balm, wormwood, mint, rosemary, dragons, angelica,
salendine, sage, pimpenella, maidenhair, pollypody, scabious, dittany, agri-
mony, burnet, sorrel, scurvy grass, rossolis, of each one pound; of pennyroyal
and lavendar cotton, of each half a pound; of flowers of marygolds, cloves,
archangels, cowslips, rosemary, lillies of the valley, camomile, clary, sage,
poppys, gilliflowers, and centry tops, of each a full handful; of tormentile, one
pound; alecampaine, two ounces; snakeroot, one ounce; anniseeds, carraway
seeds, fennell scods, and coriander seeds, of each half an ounce; ginger, nut-
megs, cloves, and mace, of cach half an ounce; calamus aromaticus, three
ounces, beat small; to which I add half a peck of green walnuts cut small.
I infuse all these ingredients in four gallons of ale for several days; after, I
add six gallons of French brandy; then distillation and filterration. To colour
it I use a proper quantity of cochineal in powder.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bryan Cornwell, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of March, 1784, in the
twenty-fourth 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.
BRYAN CORNWELL. (L.S.)
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
BERNARD KIRKHAM.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the Twenty-seventh day of March, in
the Twenty-fourth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said Bryan Cornwell came before our 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. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the several Statutes made in
the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of
England, and in the seventeenth and twenty-third years of the reign of His
Majesty King George the Third, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.