A CERTAIN COMPOUND NEVER BEFORE MADE VSE OF, CONSISTING OF PREPARED CHALK AND SEA WATER, WHICH ABUNDANTLY ENCREABETH ALL MANNER OF GRAIN,PULSE, AND GRASS BEYOND WHATEVER HATH BEEN KNOWN,
Year: 1721

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents snail
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN PIPER and MATTHEW TINDALE,
junior, Gentlemen, have by their petition humbly represented unto vs that
they have been at great labour and expence in finding out and inventing
"A CERTAIN COMPOUND NEVER BEFORE MADE VSE OF, CONSISTING OF PREPARED CHALK
AND SEA WATER, WHICH ABUNDANTLY ENCREABETH ALL MANNER OF GRAIN, PULSE,
AND GRASS BEYOND WHATEVER HATH BEEN KNOWN," and what may be of great
service to our subiecte in generall, the said Petitioners having tryed the
experiment can prove that from one barley corn setting it hath produced
eighty to one hundred and thirty large shoots, each having great ears of corne,
the same still growing, and by the said Petičoners ready to be produced, and
having humbly prayd vs to grant them our Royal Letters Patents for the sole
vse and benefit of the said Invention for the terme of fourteen yeares, wee,
being willing to give encouragement to all arts and invenĉons which may be
for the publick vse and benefit, have thought fit to gratifie them in their
request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant, vnto the said John Piper
and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
especial lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that they, the said

page_text: John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, by themselves, or by their deputy and deputies,
servants or agente, or such others as they, the said John Piper and Matthew
Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and
vend, vend their said new Invenčon of a certain compound, consisting of
prepared chalk and sea water, for the encrease of all manner of grain, pulse,
and grass, as above described, within that part of our Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, in such manner as to them, the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale,
junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seem meet, and that they, the said John Piper and Matthew
Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and law-
fully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the
said Invenčon, for and during the term of yeares herein menčoned; to have,
hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said John Piper
and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the
day of the date of these Presents next and immediately ensueing, and fully to
be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and
provided. And to the end that the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale,
junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, shall
and may have and enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the
said Invenčon, according to our gratious intencon herein-before declared, wee
do by theso Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, require and strictly
comand all and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and
all other our subiects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, or degree, name or
condičon soever they be, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed,
that neither they nor any of them, at any time during the continuance of the
said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do
make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon so attained vato by the said John
Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise coun-
terfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any
addition thereunto or substracčon from the same, whereby to protend himselfo
or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the

page_text: lycence, consent, or agreement of the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale,
junior, their executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vuder their
hand 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 their con-
tempt of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to the sai.l
John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law, for their or any of their damages thereby occa-
sioned. And moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires an:1
successors, will and command all and singular our justices of the peace,
mayors, sherriffs, 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 do not nor shall at any time hereafter during the said
term hereby granted, in any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said John
Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, their or any of their deputies, servants, or agents,
in or about the duo and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or
any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents
are and shall be vpon this condition, that if at any time during the said term
hereby granted it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to
law or prejudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the said
Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof
within that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or not invented and
found out by the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, as aforesaid,
then, vpon signification and declaration thereof to be made by vs, our heires
and successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lorde and
others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their
hande, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that
these our Letters Patente, or any thing herein contained, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said John Piper
and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors, administrators, or assignes,
or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invenčon or work whatsoever
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our
subiect whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that part of our
Said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, vnto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges

page_text: have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it
being our will and pleasure that the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale,
junior, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other
person and persons to whome like Letters Patente or priviledges have been
already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their several
Invenčons by them invented and found out, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same respective Letters Patents and of these Presents:
Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patente are vpon this
express condition, that if the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior,
the executors or administrators of them, or any of them, or any person or
persons which shall or may at any time or times hereafter during the con-
tinuance of this grant, have or claim any right, title, or interest in law or
equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and authority of the sole vse and
benefit of the said Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transferr or
assignement, or any pretended transferr or assignement, of the said liberty
and priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or
shall declare any trust thereof to or for any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, or shall open or cause to be opened any book or books for
publick subscripcons to be made by any number of persons exceeding the
number of five, in order to the raising any sume or sumes of money vnder
pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge hereby granted, or shall
by him or themselves, or his or their agent or servante, receive any sume
or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of persons exceeding in the
whole the number of five for such or the like intent or purposes, or shall
presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit of these our
Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any
number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall comitt or do or pro-
cure to be committed or done any act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such
time as such person shall have any right or title, either in law or equity, in or
to the said premisses, which will be contrary to the true intent and meaning
of a certain Act of Parliament made in the sixth year of our reign, intituled
An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be
granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurances of Ships of Ships and
Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and for restrain-
ing several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein menčoned, if
these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or, in case the said power,
priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested in or in trust
for more than the number of five persons or their representatives at any one
time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the single person whom

page_text: they represent, as to such interest as they are or shall be intituled to in right
of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any of the said cases these
our Letters Patents, and all liberties, privileges, and advantages whatsoever
hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void, anything
herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual
in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense
for the best advantage of the said John Piper and Matthew Tyndale, junior,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courte of Record
as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of
vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our said Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, and amongst all and every the subiect of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain
describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materials
thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westminster, the Eighth day of