AN ART OF METHOD OF MELIORATING ALL SORTS OF OILS
Year: 1720

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN MARTEN, of our City of
London, Surgeon, hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that ho
hath at great pains and expences found out and attained vnto "AN ART OF
METHOD OF MELIORATING ALL SORTS OF OILS," whereby they will become (the
domestick especially) not only much more beneficiall in the trades they are
known to be employed in, but will be vsefull in divers other trades and
businesses, where without such meliorating they can be of no manner of
service; and as no one knows the secret of doing the same besides the
petičoner, and he being the first Inventor thereof, and in regard the same
will be of great advantage to our subiects in general, he has therefore prayed
vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse and advantage of
the said Invenčon for the term of fourteen yeares; wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and invenčons which may be of publick service and
benefit, are gratiously pleased to gratify him in his 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 Marten, h
executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said John Marten, his executors, admi-
nistrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or by
his or their deputy and deputys, servants, or agents, or such others as he, the

page_text: said John Marten, his 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 yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may exercise, work, vse,
and enioy within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, his said new
Invenčon for meliorating all sorts of oyls as aforesaid, in such manner as
to him, the said John Marten, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said
John Marten, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and may have
and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time
to time comeing, growing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the full term of yeares herein menčoned; to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menčoned to be granted vuto the said John Marten, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term of
fourteen yeares from the date of these Presents next and immediately ensuing
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 Marten, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, 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 these Presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, require and strictly command 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,
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 Invencon,
or any part of the same, so attained vnto by the said John Marten as aforesaid,
nor shall in any wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall
make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substracčon from tho
same, whereby to pretend himselfo or themselves the inventor or inventors,
devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the
said John Marten, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder
his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that behalf, vpon such
paines and penalties as can or may be iustly inflicted on such offenders for their
contempt of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to the said
John Marten, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for
his or their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do, by these

page_text: Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and command all and singular
our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, 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 Marten, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any
of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or agente, in or about the due and
lawfull making, vse, or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or any thing
relating: 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 heirs or successors, or any six or more
of our or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or pre-
iudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in general, or that the said Invencon 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 aforesaid, or not invented and
found out by the said John Marten, as aforesaid, then upon significañon and
declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or
their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and
purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding:
Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing herein contained,
shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said
John Marten, his 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 subiects 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 Patents or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said John Marten, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every
other person or persons to whom like Letters Patents 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. And
lastly, wee do, by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant voto
the said John Marten, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these
our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in

page_text: 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 beneficiall sense for the best advantage
of the said John Marten, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, as well
in all Courts 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 aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invenĉon, or of the materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our selfe at Westminster, the Seventh day