"A WAY BEVER PRACTISED OR VSED BY ANY, OF DRAWING LOW WINES AND SPIRITS FROM TURNEPPS, CARROTTS, AND PARSNEPPS, SUFFICIENT IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY BOTH POR THE CONSUMPCON WITHIN AND TRADE OF THIS OUR KINGDOME, WHICH ARE MUCH CHEAPER AND BETTER THEN ANY DISTILLED FROM CORSE
Year: 1699

page_text: BAYLY, BENNETT, CRABB, EVANS, AND BAYLY'S PATENT.
WILLIAM THE THIRD, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved subiects, ABRAHAM BAYLY, Esquire,
ISAAC BENNETT, ISAAC CRABB, ARTHUR EVANS, and JOHN BAYLEY, Gentlemen,
have by their peticon humbly represented vnto vs that they have with great
industry, study, and expence discovered and experienced "A WAY BEVER
PRACTISED OR VSED BY ANY, OF DRAWING LOW WINES AND SPIRITS FROM
TURNEPPS, CARROTTS, AND PARSNEPPS, SUFFICIENT IN QUANTITY AND QUALITY BOTH
POR THE CONSUMPCON WITHIN AND TRADE OF THIS OUR KINGDOME, WHICH ARE MUCH
CHEAPER AND BETTER THEN ANY DISTILLED FROM CORSE," and that the said In-
venčon will be of great benefitt to our subiects in generall, and save the great
consumpčon of corn, now grown very dear; and the said Abraham Bayly,
Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, have humbly
besought vs to grant them our Letters Patents for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefitt of the said Invenčon for the terme of fowrteene yeares, according to
the Statute in that behalfe.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, being gratiously pleased to conde-
scend to that their request, and willing to encourage the inventers of such arts
as may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certain knowledge
and meere močon have given and granted, and by these Presents for vs. our
heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto the said Abraham Bayley,
Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, speciall lycence, full power, sole priviledge and

page_text: authority, that they, the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb
Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, and every of them, their and every of their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by themselves o
their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as they the said
Abraham Bayly, Isaac Beunett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly
their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall at any time agree with, and
noe others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme of yeares
herein-after expressed, shall, and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and enjoy
the said Invenčon of drawing low wines and spiritts from turnepps, car
rotts, and parsnepps, as aforesaid, within any part or parts, place or places
whatsoever, 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 limitačons as to them the said Abraham
Bayley, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrečon
seeme meet; and that they, the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac
Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt, comodity,
and advantage from time to time comeing, growing, and ariseing, by reason
of the said Invenčon, for and dureing the full terme of years herein men-
Coned; to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein and hereby granted or menconed to be granted vnto
the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and
John Bayly, their executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing
and vnto the full end and terme of fowrteene yeares from the date of these
Presents next and immediately and fully to be compleat and ended according
to the Statute in this case made and provided. And to the end that the
said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John
Bayly, and every of them, their and every of their executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, may enioy the full benefitt and the sole
makeing, vse, and exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our gratious
intenčons herein-before declared, wce doe by these Presents for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodys politique and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality or degree, name or condicon soever they bee, within all and
every our kingdomes and dominions, that neither they nor any of them, at any
time dureing the continuance of the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby
granted, either directly or indirectly doe vse or put in practice the said

page_text: Invenĉon or any part of the same soe attained vnto by the said Abraham
Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, as
aforesaid, nor shall in anywise counterfeite or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the
same, whereby to pretend themselves the inventers or devisers thereof without
the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett,
Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their executors, administrators,
or assignes, in writeing vnder their or some of their hands and seales first had
and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be
iustly inflicted on such offenders for theire contempt of this our royall
command, and further to be answerable to the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac
Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to law for their or any of their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover wee doe by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, for the time
being, that they or any of them doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing
the said terme hereby granted in anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said.
Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isanc Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly,
or any or either of them, or any or either of their executors, administrators,
or assignes, or their or any or either of their deputys, servants, or agents, in or
about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or any-
thing relateing therevnto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are
and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time dureing the said terme
of fowrtcene yeares hereby granted it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our
grant is contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse
and exercise thereof within this our kingdome, and not invented and found
out by the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans,
and John Bayly as aforesaid, then vpon significačon and declaračon thereof
to be made by vs, our heires or 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 hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith
cease, determine and be vtterly voyd to all intents and purposes, anything
before herein contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided
also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained shall not
extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Abraham Bayly,

page_text: Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, or any of them,
their or any of their executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invenčon or worke whatsoever which hath beene hertofore
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said realmes and dominions or any of them, vnto
whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have beene already granted, for the sole
vsc, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singular other person
and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have beene already
granted as aforesaid shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons,
by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and meaning of
the same respective Letters Patents and of these Presents. And lastly, wee
doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said
Abraham Bayly, Isaac Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents,
or the inrollment thereof. shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning
thereof, and shall be taken, construed and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said Abraham Bayly, Isaac
Bennett, Isaac Crabb, Arthur Evans, and John Bayly, their executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, aswell in all Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by
all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and
successors, in all and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and
amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describing the nature or quality of the said
Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conduccing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westin the Tenth day of Aprill.