INVENTION OR COMPOSITION FROM BRITISH HERBS AND PLANTS FOR THE CURE OF THE EVIL, SCROPHULA, SCURVY, LEPROSY, GOUT, AND RHEUMATISM, AND WHICH I HAVE DENOMI- NATED AND CALLED BRANDON'S BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL PILLS, AND LIQUID AND BOTANIC OINTMENT
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BRANDON the elder, of Lucas Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Rotherhithe,
in the County of Surry, Botanist, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of
March last, did give and grant unto me, the said Richard Brandon, His
special licence, that I, the said Richard Brandon, my exors, adñors, and
assigns, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and law-
fully might solely and exclusively make, use, exercise, and vend, within that
part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the
Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my "INVENTION
OR COMPOSITION FROM BRITISH HERBS AND PLANTS FOR THE CURE OF THE EVIL,
SCROPHULA, SCURVY, LEPROSY, GOUT, AND RHEUMATISM, AND WHICH I HAVE DENOMI-
NATED AND CALLED BRANDON'S BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL PILLS, AND LIQUID AND
BOTANIC OINTMENT;'" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
obliging me, the said Richard Brandon, 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 enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as by the same, reference being thereunto had,
will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Brandon, in compliance with
and in performance of the aforesaid proviso in the said in part recited Letters
Patent contained, do by this present Instrument in writing declare that my
said Invention or composition is made from the following herbs and plants, that
is to say:
Alcanot, alhoof, allheel, black elder, common elder, angelica, garden arrack,
arrack wild and stinking; archangel, red, white, and yellow; asparagus, arti-
chokes, ashtree, avens clever, baum, Barbary, barley, baytree, beets red, Brittany
water, Brittany wood, birch tree, beech tree, briony, burdock, fennel, colesfoot,
blessed thistle, cammomile, carrotts, carraway, celendine, chickweed, clary,
clowns wound wort, comfrey, cowslip, hartsease, daisys, dandelion, devilsbit,
deeks, thyme, duckweed, great round-leaved deek, dropwort, eyebright, feather-
pin, fluellin, foxglove, humitory, five-fingered grass, groundsell, garlick, ground
ivy, hemlock, henben, hysop, horehound, houseleek, horse raddish, horse
parsley, juniper, lavender, white lilly, red lilly, liquorice, mallows, morjorum,
marygold, mint, mustard, oats, onions, cow parsnip, pennyroyal, plantain,
-pilewort, rosemary, rue, sage, woodsage, tavary, shepherd's purse, sow thistle,
southernwood, sea holly, tobacco English, garden tansy, lady's thistle, tormentil,
vervain; vervine, wallnutt, wormwood woody, nightshade.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Brandon, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Third day of April, in the year of our Lord One
.
Inrolled the Fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and five.