A NEW METHOD OF. CLEANSING AND IMPROVING BRITISH SPIRITS TO MUCH GREATER PERFECTION THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN PRACTICED, AND HOW MAKES & REFINED SPIRIT AS GOOD, WHOLESOME, AND IN. EVERY RESPECT EQUAL TO THE BEST HOLLAND OR COLOGN. GENEVA. IMPORTED FROM HOLLAND OR. GERMANY; OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S REVENUE, AND A CONSIDERABLE. DECREASE OF THE IMPORTATION & CONSUMPTION OF FOREIGN SPIRITS IMPORTED. BY THE NAME. OF GENEVA, AND..BE OF CONSIDERABLE ADVAN- TAGE-TO-THE-LANDED GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS, AND OF GENERAL BENEFIT, UTILITY AND SATISFACTION TO THE PUBLICK
Year: 1751

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, OSMOND
COOKE, of the City of London, Distiller, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Osmond Cooke, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Second that.
I had, by long study, application, and labour, and after repeated experiments
at a considerable expence, found.out, & invented, and brought to perfection
"A NEW METHOD OF. CLEANSING AND IMPROVING BRITISH SPIRITS TO MUCH GREATER
PERFECTION THAN HATH HITHERTO BEEN PRACTICED, AND HOW MAKES & REFINED
SPIRIT AS GOOD, WHOLESOME, AND IN. EVERY RESPECT EQUAL TO THE BEST HOLLAND
OR COLOGN. GENEVA. IMPORTED FROM HOLLAND OR. GERMANY; THAT THE SUPERION
EXCELLENCY OF THE SPIRITS PREPARED BY THIS NEW METHOD WOULD OCCASION A
MUCH LARGER CONSUMPTION OF CORN, AND INCREASE OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S REVENUE,
AND A CONSIDERABLE. DECREASE OF THE IMPORTATION & CONSUMPTION OF FOREIGN
SPIRITS IMPORTED. BY THE NAME. OF GENEVA, AND..BE OF CONSIDERABLE ADVAN-
TAGE-TO-THE-LANDED GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS, AND OF GENERAL BENEFIT, UTILITY,
AND SATISFACTION TO THE PUBLICK;" that, in regard I was the first and sole
Inventor of the said new method, and that the same had not been put in prac-
tice by any other person, to the best of my knowledge and, beleif, I there-
fore humbly prayed His Majesty would be pleased to grant unto me, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His Letters Patent under the Great

page_text: Seal of Great Britain, for the sole using, exercising, and vending my said
Invention within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the
term of fourteen years, according to the Statute in that case made and
provided; in pursuance of which Petition His said Majesty, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the
of February last past before the date hereof, did give and grant
unto me, the said Osmond Cooke, my executors, adñiors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Osmond Cooke, my executors, administrators, & assigns, by myself or them-
selves, or by our deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as
1, the said Osmond Cooke, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Osmond Cooke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should seem meet; and that I, the said
Osmond Cooke, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully
might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, coñiodity, and advantage from
time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, 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 lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein
granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Osmond Cooke, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and
term of fourteen years from the date thereof then next ensuing, and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided;
in which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Osmond Cooke, did not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
enrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four kalendar months next &
immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, that then the
same Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should
utterly cease, and become void.
NOW KNOW YEE, that I, the said Osmond Cooke, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby declare that the method of making the said Geneva
& in what manner the same is to be performed, is described as follows
(to wit): :-
Take three hundred gallons of spirits, twelve pounds of raison stalks, twelve

page_text: pounds of sandiver, three hands of laurel, four pounds of bitter almonds, one
hundred & fifty pounds of juniper berries, four pounds of saltpetre and red
argol, calcined; dulcify with fifty-six pounds of sugar; tincture, infusion of
prunes and burnt sugar.
In witness whereof, I, the said Osmond Cooke, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in the twenty-fourth year
of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second, & in the
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty-one.
1 year of
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
HEN. ROOKE.
JOHN MOORE.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Twenty-fifth of May,
the aforesaid Osmond Cooke came before our Lord the King in His Chancery,
& acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein contained &
specified, in form above said. And the said Writing was stampt according to
the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and