A NEW CHYMICALL PREPARACON AND MEDICINE," WHICH HE HATH STILED DOCTOR BATEMAN'S PECTORAL DROPS, BEING PECTORAL ANODYNE AND ANTIHYSTERICK, WORKING CHIRFLY BY MODERATE SWEAT AND VRINE, EXCEEDING ALL OTHER MEDICINES YET FOUND OUT FOR THE RHEUMATISM, HIGHLY VERFULL VEDER THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE STONE, GRAVELL, AGUES, AND HYSTERICKS
Year: 1726

page_text: come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved BENIAMIN OXELL, Chymist, hath by
his peticon humbly represented vnto vs that, by long study, application, and
great expence, he has found out and brought to perfection "A NEW CHYMICALL
PREPARACON AND MEDICINE," WHICH HE HATH STILED DOCTOR BATEMAN'S PECTORAL
DROPS, BEING PECTORAL ANODYNE AND ANTIHYSTERICK, WORKING CHIRFLY BY
MODERATE SWEAT AND VRINE, EXCEEDING ALL OTHER MEDICINES YET FOUND OUT
FOR THE RHEUMATISM, HIGHLY VERFULL VEDER THE AFFLICTIONS OF THE STONE,
GRAVELL, AGUES, AND HYSTERICKS," as many hundrede of our subiecte have
already experienced; and as the petičoner is the first and-sole inventor thereof,
and that the medicine is new, and hath not been hitherto vsed in Great Britain
except by him and those to whom he hath communicated the same. And
having therefore humbly prayd vs, in regard to his great industry and expence
in inventing and perfecting the said medicine, and the advantage which by
meanes thereof will accrew to the publick, to grant him our Royall Letters
Patent for the sole vse and benefit of the said Invention for the term of
fourteen years, wee being willing to give encouragement to all arts and in-
venčons which may be for the publick vse and benefitt, are gratiously pleased
to gratifie him in his request.
. KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especiall grace, certain
knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for. vs,, our heires and successors, do give and-grant vnto the said Beniamin

page_text: Okell, his executors, administrators, and assignes, full power, sole priviledge
and authority, that he, the said Beniamin Okell, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or by his or their
deputy and deputies, servante or agente, or such others as he, the said Beniamin
Okell, 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 years
herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and vend his
said new chymicall preparačon and medicine, which he hath stiled Doctor
Bateman's pectorall drops, as above described, within that part of our Kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Ber-
wick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said Beniamin Okell, his exe-
cutors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrecons
seem meet, and that he, the said Beniamin Okell, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profitt,
benefitt, commodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invenčon for and dureing
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 Beniamin Okell, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of these Presents next and imediately
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 Beniamin Okell,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and
enioy the full benefitt and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon,
according to our gratious intention 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, degree, name or condičon soever
they be, within that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed afore-
said, that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance
of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indi
rectly do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invencon, or any part of the
same, so attained vnto by the said Beniamin Okell as aforesaid, nor in any
wise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be
made any addičon thereunto or substraccon from the same, whereby to pre-
tend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Beniamin

page_text: Okell, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or 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
contempt of this our royal command, and further to be answerable to be
answerable to the said Beniamin Okell, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And
moreover, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and
command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes,
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 Beniamin Okell, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or
agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Inven-
tion, or any thing relating thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters
Patente are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time during the said
term hereby granted it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors,
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill, that this our
grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiecte in
generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invenčon as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Beniamin Okell as afore-
said, then vpon significačon or declaration thereof, to be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seal, or by the Lorde
and others of our or their Privy Councill, or any or more of them, vnder
their hand, these our Letters Patente shall forthwith cease, determin, and
be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained
to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these
our Letters Patente or anything herein contained shall not extend or be con-
strued to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Beniamin Okell, his exe-
cutors, 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 subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exer-
cised in that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom
like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Beniamin Okell, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every

page_text: other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have
been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their
severall Inventions by them invented and found and found out, according
to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters Patente and of
these Presente. Provided likewise, neverthelesse, and these our Letters Patents
are vpon this expresso condition, that if the said Beniamin Okell, his execu-
tors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may at any
time or times hereafter during the continuance of this grant, have or claime
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 Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assign-
ment of the said liberty or priviledge, or any share or shares of the benefitt or
profitt 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 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 summe or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefitt 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 procure to be committed or done any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever, during such time person shall have any right or title either in law
or equity in or to the said premisses which would 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 Privi-
ledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for Assurance
of Ships and Merchandizes at Sca, and for lending Money vpon Bottomry, and
for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices therein
menčoned,) if these our Letters Patente 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 repre-
sentatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for
the single person whom they represent, as to such interest as they are or shall
be intitled to in right of such their testator or intestate,) that then and in any
of the said cases, these our Letters Patente, and all liberties, priviledges, and
advantages whatsoever hereby granted. shall vtterly cease, determine, and

page_text: become void, any thing 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 Beniamin Okell, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patente, or the inrollment
or exemplificačon 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 beneficiall sense for the best advantage of the said Beniamin Okell, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all Courte of Record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors, in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed
aforesaid, and among all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors
whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain de-
scribing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto
conducing and belonging.