CERTAIN GREEK WATER, WHICH HATH BEEN FOUND TO BE AN EFFECTUAL, EASY, AND SAFE CURE AND PRESERVATIVE FOR ANY VENEREAL DISTEMPERS, AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS HAD THEN EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE GREATLY ADVANTAGEOUS TO GREAT NUMBERS MORE OF HIS SAID SUBJECTS IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES
Year: 1744

page_text: CERETTI'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, NICHOLAS
CERRETI, of the Parish of Saint Martin-within-Ludgate, in the City of Lon-
don, Dealer in Medicines, send greeting. .
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of
God King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Ninth day of May, in the eighteenth year of His reign,
reciting that whereas the said Nicholas Cerreti had, by his petition, humbly
represented unto His said Majesty that he had, with much study and privation,
and at a great expence, found out, invented, and made a "CERTAIN GREEK
WATER, WHICH HATH BEEN FOUND TO BE AN EFFECTUAL, EASY, AND SAFE CURE
AND PRESERVATIVE FOR ANY VENEREAL DISTEMPERS, AS A GREAT MANY OF HIS
MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS HAD THEN EXPERIENCED, AND WHICH WOULD BE GREATLY
ADVANTAGEOUS TO GREAT NUMBERS MORE OF HIS SAID SUBJECTS IN THOSE
CIRCUMSTANCES;" His Majesty did therefore, of His especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, give and grant unto me, the said Nicholas
Cerreti, my extors, adñors, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, to make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention
within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to hold to me, the
said Nicholas Cerreti, my extors, adñors, and assigns, for the term of fourteen
years from the date of the said Letters Patent, in which said Letters Patent
is contained a provisoe that if I, the said Nicholas Cerreti, should not parti-
cularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invenčon, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of
Chancery within four kalendar months after the date of the said Letters
Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and the liberties and advantages
thereby granted, should cease and become void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Nicholas Cerreti, in pursuance of the
said proviste in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, as follows, that is to say:-
My said Greek water is composed of aqua chalybea, aqua vite, vinum, sal
gemmenni, sal alkali, and pulvis coriarino, which are all to be mixed together,
and the same is to be used by injection, and by so using performs the cure of
and is a preservative against any venereal distempers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Nicholas Ceretti, have hereunto sett my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the eighteenth year of
the reign of His said Majesty, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and forty-four.
Sealed and delivered, being first duly
stampt, in the presence of
NICHOLAS CERETTI. (L.B.)
SAM BLACKSHAW.
J. BANNISTER.
AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the said Fourth day of August, in
the
year last above mentioned, the aforesaid Nicholas Ceretti came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Instrument 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 aforesaid Fourth day of August, in the year above written.