"A NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE, WHICH I HAD STILED MAREDANT'S DROPS, BEING AN ANTISCORBUTIC, AND OPERATING INSENSIBLY ON THE PATIENT, EXCEEDING ALL OTHER MEDICINES YET FOUND OUT FOR THE CURE OF THE SCURVY, LEPROSY, EVIL, OR STRUMA, FISTULAS, PILES, ULCERS, AND ALL OTHER DISORDERS ARISING FROM A FOOLNESS IN THE BLOOD, AS MANY HUNDREDS OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS HAD THEN ALREADY EXPERIENCED
Year: 1764

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
NORTON, of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Norton, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had,
by long study, application, and at great expence, found out and brought to
perfection "A NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE, WHICH I HAD STILED MAREDANT'S DROPS,
BEING AN ANTISCORBUTIC, AND OPERATING INSENSIBLY ON THE PATIENT, EXCEEDING ALL
OTHER MEDICINES YET FOUND OUT FOR THE CURE OF THE SCURVY, LEPROSY, EVIL, OR
STRUMA, FISTULAS, PILES, ULCERS, AND ALL OTHER DISORDERS ARISING FROM A
FOOLNESS IN THE BLOOD, AS MANY HUNDREDS OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS
HAD THEN ALREADY EXPERIENCED;" that in regard I was the first and sole
Inventor thereof, and that the medicine was new, and had not hitherto been
prepared in His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain by any person or
persons whatsoever save by myself only, I therefore humbly prayed His
said Majesty to grant me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole
use and benefit of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and during 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

page_text: be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request,
and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster,
the Thirtieth day of November, in the fifth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Him, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said John Norton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said John Norton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, myself and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Norton,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Norton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said John Norton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Norton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years
Ifrom the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if I, the said John Norton, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said 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 thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Norton, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-

page_text: tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be as follows
(that is to say)-—
The said Invention consists and is made of the following articles or ingre-
dients, viz-Merc. sublimat., rad., gentian., zinziber, cort., aurant., cochineal.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Norton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of February, in the fifth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty five
the fifth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
aforesaid John Norton came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every thing therein contained
in form above said. And the said Writing was stamped according to the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King William and
Queen Mary and so forth.
Inrolled the said Ninth day of February, in the fifth year of the reign
of His Majesty King George the Third, 1765.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
NORTON, of the Parish of St. James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex,
Surgeon, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said John Norton, did, by my Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had,
by long study, application, and at great expence, found out and brought to
perfection "A NEW-INVENTED MEDICINE, WHICH I HAD STILED MAREDANT'S DROPS,
BEING AN ANTISCORBUTIC, AND OPERATING INSENSIBLY ON THE PATIENT, EXCEEDING ALL
OTHER MEDICINES YET FOUND OUT FOR THE CURE OF THE SCURVY, LEPROSY, EVIL, OR
STRUMA, FISTULAS, PILES, ULCERS, AND ALL OTHER DISORDERS ARISING FROM A
FOOLNESS IN THE BLOOD, AS MANY HUNDREDS OF HIS SAID MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS
HAD THEN ALREADY EXPERIENCED;" that in regard I was the first and sole
Inventor thereof, and that the medicine was new, and had not hitherto been
prepared in His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain by any person or
persons whatsoever save by myself only, I therefore humbly prayed His
said Majesty to grant me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
Royal Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of Great Britain, for the sole
use and benefit of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's
Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for and during 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

page_text: be for the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request,
and therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster,
the Thirtieth day of November, in the fifth year of His reign, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Him, His heirs and successors,
did give and grant unto me, the said John Norton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and
authority, that I, the said John Norton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, and every of us, by myself and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy
or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said John Norton,
my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend
my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said John Norton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said John Norton, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, com-
modity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and
arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein and herein-after mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the
said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said John Norton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and immediately
ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute in such
case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that if the said John Norton, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be inrolled in His said 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 thereof in
anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent (relation being
thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Norton, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of said Inven-
my.

page_text: ion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be as follows
that is to say):-
The said Invention consists and is made of the following articles or ingre-
lients, viz-Merc. sublimat., rad., gentian., zinziber, cort., aurant., cochineal.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Norton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Ninth day of February, in the fifth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith,
and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
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