AN ART OR METHOD OF PREPARING, IMPROVEING, AND MELIORATING CYDER, PERRY, AND THE JUICE OR LIQUORS OF WILDINGS, CRABBS, CHERRYS, GOOSEBERRYS, CURRANTS, AND MULBERRYS, SOE AS TO PUT THE STRENGTH OR GOODNESSE OF TWO OR THREE HOGSHEADS OF ANY OF THE SAID LIQUORS INTO ONE, AND RENDER THE SAME MUCH MORE WHOLSOME AND DELIGHTFULL BY PUTTING INTO THEM OF THE SPIRITS OP SOME OF THE SAID LIQUORS, OR ANY OTHER CONVENIENT SPIRITS, EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT SWEETS OR SUGARS
Year: 1684

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, King of England, Scot-
land, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these
Presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS by the humble peticon of our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD.
HAINES, of Sullington, in our County of Sussex, Gent, and partners, wee are
given to vnderstand that with considerable charge and paines the said Richard
Haines and partners have found out "AN ART OR METHOD OF PREPARING,
IMPROVEING, AND MELIORATING CYDER, PERRY, AND THE JUICE OR LIQUORS OF
WILDINGS, CRABBS, CHERRYS, GOOSEBERRYS, CURRANTS, AND MULBERRYS, SOE AS TO
PUT THE STRENGTH OR GOODNESSE OF TWO OR THREE HOGSHEADS OF ANY OF THE SAID
LIQUORS INTO ONE, AND RENDER THE SAME MUCH MORE WHOLSOME AND DELIGHTFULL
BY PUTTING INTO THEM OF THE SPIRITS OP SOME OF THE SAID LIQUORS, OR ANY OTHER
CONVENIENT SPIRITS, EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT SWEETS OR SUGARS," being a new
Invenčon, never practised in our dominions by any but the said Richard
Haines & partners, and of great advantage to all our loving subiects: And
whereas the said Richard Haines and partners have humbly besought vs to
grant vnto them our Letters Patents for the sole vse of such their art and
Invenčon for the terme of fowrteene years, according to the Statute in that
case made and provided.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, haveing a more especiall and favour-
able regard vnto the art and Invenčon aforesaid, and being willing to cherish
& encourage all laudable endeavours and designes of such of our subiects as
shall find out profitable arts, misterys, and inventons, by granting and appro

page_text: prieting vnto them for some terme of yeares the fruit and benefitt of their
industry, whereby not onely a marke of our favour may be set vpon such their
ingenuity, but alsoe that their labour and expences in the atteinment thereof
may, in some measure, bee recompensed and rewarded vnto them, of our
especiall grace, certeine knowledge, and meere močon have given and granted,
and by these Psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant vnto
the said Richard Haines and partners, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, especiall licence, power, privilege, and authority, that hee, they, and
every of them, by themselves, or by his, their, and every of their deputys,
servants, agents, & workemen, and such others onely as they, the said Richard
Haines & partners, their executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree
with, and noe others, shall and may, from time to time and at all and every
tyme and tymes hereafter dureing the terme of fowrtcene yeares next ensueing
the date of these Presents, vse, practice, exercise, and enioy the said art or
mistery of preparing, improveing, and meliorating cyder, perry, and the juice
or liquors of wildings, crabbs, cherrys, goosberrys, currants, and mulberrys, soe
by him and them found out as aforesaid, within our kingdomes of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, and our dominions and territorys therevnto belonging;
and alsoe shall and may have, receive, take, and enioy the sole benefitt, profitt,
comodity, and advantage of and by such new Invenčon arising, or to be had,
made, acquired, or gotten to his and their owne proper vses and behoofe; to
have, hold, and enioy the said licence, privilege, power, and authority, and
other the premisses by these Presents granted or menconed to be granted, and
every of them, to the said Richard Haines and partners, their executors,
administrators, & assignes, for and durcing the terme of fowrteene yeares from
henceforth next ensueing, and fully to be compleat and ended. And to the
end the said Richard Haines and partners, their executors, administrators,
and assignes, may the better enioy his and their Invencon, and the full and
whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise thereof, we doe by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, streightly charge, require, and command all
and every person and persons, bodys politick and corporate, of what quality,
degree, name, or condicon soever they be, that neither they, nor any of them,
dureing the said terme of fowrteene yeares hereby granted, neither directly nor
indirectly doe vse, exercise, or put in practice the said art or Inventon soe by
the said Richard Haines and partners found out, as aforesaid, nor doe nor
shall make any addičon therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby to
pretend themselves the Inventers or devisors thereof, without the licence,
consent, and agreement of the said Richard Haines and partners, their execu-
tors, administrators, and assignes, in writing vader his or their hands and

page_text: seales, first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penaltys
as can or may be inflicted on such offenders for the contempt of this our
command; and further, to be answerable to the said Richard Haines and
partners, their executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law and
justice for bis and their damages thereby susteined. And further, wee doe by.
these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, give and grant vnto the said
Richard Haines and partners, their executors, administrators, and assignes,
full power and authority that hee and they, and every of them, his, their, and
every of their deputys, agents, and servants, and every of them, haveing first
obtained a warrant in that behalfe from the Cheife Justice of the Court of
King's Bench of vs, our heires and successors, for the time being, with the
assistance of a constable, or any other lawfull officer, aswell within libertys as
without, vpon request att convenient times in the day dureing the time afore-
said, and in lawful manner, may enter and make search in any houses or
other places where there shall be iust cause of, suspicon, for discovering and
finding out all such persons as shall, within the said terme of fowrteene yeares,'
imitate, or cause to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practise the said
Invencon soe by the said Richard Haines and partners found out as aforesaid,
that soe such offenders may be proceeded against according to their demeritts.
And further, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
authorize, require, and command all and singular justices of the peace, mayors,
sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers
of vs, our heires and successors for the time being, dureing the said terme
hereby granted, in their respective places to bee favouring, helping, aiding,"
aud assisting vnto the said Richard Haines and partners, their executors;"
administrators, and assignes, and to his and their deputys, agents, and servants,
in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and pleasure*
herein declared, and in the exercise and execučon of the powers, privileges,
and authoritys herein and hereby given and granted as aforesaid; and more-
over that they, nor any of them, doe not at any time hinder, molest, or
interrupt the said Richard Haines and partners, his or their executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or his or their deputys, agents, or servants, or any of
them, in or about the exercise of, the said Invenčon, or in any matter or thing
concerning the same: Provided always, that if att any time dureing the
said terme of fowrteene yeares it shalbe made appeare vnto vs, our heires
and successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this
our grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient or not of publicke
vse or benefitt, or that the said Invencon is not a. new Invenčón of the
said Richard Haines and partners, then vpon significacon and declaracon
'

page_text: to be made by vs, our heires or successsors, vnder our or their signett or
privy seale, or by the Lords and others of our Privy Councell, or any six of
them for the time being, in writing vnder their hands, of such preiudice or
inconveniency, these our Letters Patents and every thing therein conteined
shall from thenceforth cease, determine, and be vtterly void, any thing herein
before conteined to the contrary notwithstanding. And lastly, wee doe by
these Presents, for vs, our heires & successors, grant vnto the said Richard
Haines and partners, their executors, administrators, and assignes, that these
our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shalbe in and by all things good,
valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and
meaning of these Presents, and shalbe taken, construed, and adiudged most
favourably and beneficially for the benefitt and advantage of the said Richard
Haines and partners, their executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all
our Courts of Record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and certeine
menconing the manner and quality of the said method, materialls, way, or
manner of makeing, vseing, or exerciseing thercof, or of the certeine vse
or benefitt thereof, and notwithstanding any other defects, incertaintys, or
imperfeccons in these Presents contained, or any law, act, statute, ordinance,
proclamačon, provision, or restriccon, or other matter or thing whatsoever, to
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
In witnesse, &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westii, the Sixth day of