A CERTAIN MEDICINAL AND CHEMICAL COMPO- SITION, FROM DIVERS SALUTARY INGREDIENTS, CALLED OR INTENDED TO BE CALLED THE VOLATILE ESSENCE OF LAVENDER
Year: 1772

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, RICHARD
WARREN, of Marylebone Street, in the Parish of Saint James, in the 'Liberty
of Westminster and County of Middlesex, Perfumer, sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing
date at Westminster,' the Seventeenth day of December, in the thirteenth year
of His reign, reciting therein that the said Richard Warren had represented
to His said Majesty that, by great pains, industry, and expence, he had
invented, made, and prepared "A CERTAIN MEDICINAL AND CHEMICAL COMPO-
SITION, FROM DIVERS SALUTARY INGREDIENTS, CALLED OR INTENDED TO BE CALLED
THE VOLATILE ESSENCE OF LAVENDER; and that the said Richard Warren had
petitioned His said Majesty that He would grant to him, his executors, admors,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole making and vending of
the said new invented composition 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 the said Richard Warren's
request; therefore His said Majesty did give and grant unto the said
Richard Warren, his executors, adñññors, and assigns, His special licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Richard Warren, his

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executors, adñors, and assigns, by his or their deputy or deputies, servants
or agents, or such others as the said Richard Warren, his executors, admors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, should and might make, use,
exercise, and vend his said Invention within that part of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in
such manner as to him, the said Richard Warren, his executors, admors, and
assigns, should seem meet; and that the said Richard Warren, his executors,
admors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole
profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time accruing and arising
by reason of the said Invention, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said Letters Patent then next ensuing, subject to a proviso therein contained,
that if the said Richard Warren should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
prepared, by an instrument in writing under his hand and seal, and cause the
same to to be inrolled in His 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 notwithstanding, as in
and by the said Letters Patent, and inrollment thereof, relation being there-
unto had, does more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said Richard Warren, in compliance with and
performance of the said proviso or condition, doth hereby declare that the
following is the true description, receipt, composition, and manner of making
of the said volatile essence of lavender (that is to say): :-
Take of fixed alkaline salt nine pounds, nine pounds of crude salt, three
pounds of sal ammoniac, mix them and put them into a large glass retort, then
add eight pounds of the best alcohol, lute on a receiver, and draw it off gently
in balneo mariæ; to this spirit when drawn off add two pounds of the finest
essential oil of lavender, return it again into the retort and draw it properly off
as before.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eleventh

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the same Eleventh day of February,
in the year above said, the aforesaid Richard Warren came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification of his
Invention afores, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and
Queen William and Mary of England, & so forth.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of February, in the year above written.