THE MAKEING AND PREPAREING OF BARLEY OF THE GROWTH OF THESE OUR KINGDOMES ACCORDING TO THE ART AND MANNER OF THAT SORT OF BARLEY COMONLY CALLED BY THE NAME OF FRENCH BARLEY AND PEARLE BARLEY
Year: 1661

page_text: these Presente shall come greeting.
WHEREAS wee have been informed by the humble peticon of our trusty
and welbeloved EUSTACE BURNEBY, Gent, and by the certificates of the
Colledge of Phisitians, and severall druggests, grocers, and apothecaries of
London, that "THE MAKEING AND PREPAREING OF BARLEY OF THE GROWTH OF
THESE OUR KINGDOMES ACCORDING TO THE ART AND MANNER OF THAT SORT OF BARLEY
COMONLY CALLED BY THE NAME OF FRENCH BARLEY AND PEARLE BARLEY," is a new
manufacture in England, and an Invencon found out and attained vnto by the
sole industry and expences of the said Eustacé Burneby; and whereas the
said Eustace Burneby, hath humbly besought vs for his better encouragement
to exercise and put in practice the said Invenčon, that wee would bee
graciously pleased to grant him or Lřes Patents of priviledge for the sole vse
and benefitt thereof for the tyme and tearme of fourteene yeares, according to
the Statute in that case made and provided.
NOW KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee of our princely inclinacon
being willing to encourage and promote workes of this nature, and to give all
due and fitting encouragement to the inventor of such arte as may bee of

page_text: publique vse and benefitt, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere
mocon, and vpon the humble peticon of the said Eustace Burneby, have given
and granted, and by these pnte, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and
grant vnto the said Eustace Burneby, his executors, administrato", and
assignes, special lycence, full power, priviledge, and authority, that hee, they,
and every of them, by him or themselves, his, their, or any of their deputie or
deputies, servantf, workemen, and assignes, at all tymes and from tyme to
tyme hereafter dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these sente
expressed, shall and lawfully may have, vse, exercise, imploy, and enjoy the
said new Invencon in and throughout our Realmes of England, Scotland, and
Ireland, and our Dominion of Wales, and in and throughout all and singuler
other our dominions and countries, and every or any of them, in such manner
as to him, them, or any of them, in his, their, or any of their direcčons shall
seeme necte; and shall and may have and enjoy the sole benefitt and advan-
tage comeing or arriseing by reason thereof dureing the terme of yeares
hereby granted; and to the end the said Eustace Burneby, his executo™,
administrator, and assignes, and every of them may the better enjoy the full
and whole benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of his said Invenĉon, weo
doc by these Pnte, for vs, our heires and successors, require and streightly
comand all and every person and persons, bodies politique and corporate of
whatsoever qualitie, degree, name, or condicon they bec, that neither they nor
any of them dureing the terme of yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly doc or shall vse or put in practice the said Invenĉon soe by the said
Eustace Burneby invented or attained vnto, as aforesaid, nor doe or shall
counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make any addicon
therevnto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to tend themselves the
invento" or deviso" thereof, without the lycence, consent, and agreement of
the said Eustace Burneby, his executo", administrato", or assignes, in writing
vnder his or their hands and seales first had and obteyned in that behalfe,
vpon such paines and penalties as can or may bee inflicted on such offenders
for their contempt of this our command in that behalfe, and further to bee
answeareable to the said Eustace Burneby, his executo", administrators, and
assignes, according to lawe and justice, for his and their damages thereby
susteyned, to have and to hold all and every the licences, powers, priviledges,
and authorities hereby granted or menconed to bee granted, as aforesaid, vnto
the said Eustace Burneby, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and
dureing the terme of fourtcone yeares from the makeing of these pnte next
ensueing, and fully to bec compleate and ended according to the Statute in

page_text: such case made and provided. And further, wee doe by these pnte, for vs,
our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said Eustace Burneby, his
executor, administrator, and assignes, full power and authoritie that they,
every or any of them, their, every or any of their deputies, servante, and
agent, or any of them (haveing first obteyned a warrant in this behalfe from
the Lord Cheife Justice of the Court of King's Bench for the tyme being)
may, with the assistance of a constable or any other lawful officer at con-
venient tymes of the day dureing the terme aforesaid, and in lawful manner,
enter into and make search in any houses, shipps, or other places where there
shalbee just cause of suspicion for discovering and finding out of all such
persons as shall within the terme of fourteene yeares aforesaid, imitate, or
cause to bee imitated, or shall vse or put in practice the said Invencon
soc by the said Eustace Burneby invented and attained vnto, as aforesaid,
that soe such offenders may be proceeded against and punished according
to their demeritts, and their invenčons and workes tending to the ends
aforesaid then and there found bee seized vpon, broken in peices, and defaced,
and the materialls thereof left in the hands and custodie of some constable or
officer, to bee disposed in such manner and forme as wee, our heires and
successors, shall from tyme to tyme direct and appoint. And further wee doo
by these pute, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, and require
all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes, constables,
headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever, of vs, our heires
and successors for the tyme being, that they and every of them respectively bee
from tyme to tyme, dureing the said terme hereby granted, in their respective
places favouring, ayding, helping, and assisting vnto the said Eustace Burneby,
his executors, administrator, and assignes, and to his, their, and every of their
deputic and deputies, servante, and agente, in and by all things in and about
the accomplishment of our will and pleasure herein declared, and in the
exercise and execucon of the powers and priviledges herein and hereby granted
or menconed to bee granted as aforesaid. And morcover wee will and command
by these sente, for vs, our heires and successo", that our said officers and
ministers, or any of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the said Eustaco
Burneby, his executo, administrator, or assignes, or bis, their, or any of
their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or any of them, in or about the
vse or exercise of the said Invenčou, or in any matter or thing concerneing the
same Provided alwayes that if at any tyme dureing the said terme of
foureteene yeares it shall bee made appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors,.
that this our grant is contrary to lawe, or prejudiciall or inconvenient, and not

page_text: of publique vse or benefitt, or that the makeing and Ppareing barley of the
growth of these our kingdomes according to the art and manner of the said
sort of barley, commonly called French barley and pearle, is not a new invencon
of the said Eustace Burneby, as to the publique vse or exercise thereof, then,
vpon significačon and declaračon thereof, to bee made by vs, our heires or
successo, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and bec
void, to all intente and purposes, and the said Invencon not to bee further
vsed, exercised, or imployed by virtue or colour thereof, any thing herein-before
conteyned to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe that these our
Lies Patente, or any thing therein conteyned, shall not extend or bee
construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Eustace Burneby, his
executors, administrato", or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any
invenčon or worke found out and invented by any other person or persons,
and publiquely exercised within these our said realmes, or any the dominions
or territories therevnto belonging, vnto whom wee have already granted our
like Lřes Patents of priviledge for the sole vse, exercise, and benefitt thereof:.
it being out will and pleasure that the said Eustace Burneby, bis exccuto",
administrato, and assignes, and all and singuler other person and persons to
whom wee have already granted our like Lřes Patents of priviledge, as afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons by them intended
and found out, according to the true intent and meaneing of the said severall.
and respective Lřes Patent and of these pnte: And, lastly, wee doe by theso.
Pnte, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Eustace Burneby,
his exccuto, adm", and assignes, that these our Letters Patent, or the
inrollment thereof, shalbee in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and
effectual in the law according to the true intent and meaneing thereof, and
shalbee taken, construed, and adjudged most favourable and beneficiall for the
best benefitt and advantage of the said Eustace Burnėby, his executo", adm",
and assignes, aswell in all our Courte of Record as elsewhere, notwith-
standing the not full and certaine describing the manner and quality of the
said Invencon or of the materialls, way, and manner of makeing and Ppareing
the said French barley and pearle barley, or of the true and certaine vse and
benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defecte, incertainties, or im-
perfeccons in these pnte conteyned, or any act, statute, ordinance, provision,
proclamačon or restraint to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
In witnes, &c. Witnes, &c.

page_text: May it please yo' most excellent Majestic.
Your Maj is hereby graciously pleased to grant vnto Eustace Burneby,
Gentt, the sole vse and benefitt of his Invenčon of makeing and Ppareing of
barley of the growth of these yo kingdomes according to the art and manner
of that sort of barley commonly called by the name of French barley and pearle
barley, for the terme of foureteene yeares, according to the Statute in that
case provided, with such powers, provisoes, and clauses as are vsuall in grante
of like nature.
Signified to bee yo" Maju pleasure vnder yo' royall signe manuall.
G. PALMER.
18th 8bris 1662