THE MODE AND MANNER, AS LIKEWISE THE PROPER PLACES, FOR GATHERING, COLLECTING, AND MIXING TOGETHER DIVERS HERBS, NOW CALLED THE BRITISH HERB TOBACCO, AND WHICH, WHEN DRIED AND SMOAKED, HAVE BEEN FOUND OF GREAT USE IN STRENGTHENING THE STOMACH. NERVES, AND EYES
Year: 1766

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, the Reverend
JOHN JONES, of Limpsfield, in the County of Surry, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the sixth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said John Jones, His especial licence that I, the said
John Jones, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "THE MODE AND MANNER, AS LIKEWISE THE PROPER
PLACES, FOR GATHERING, COLLECTING, AND MIXING TOGETHER DIVERS HERBS, NOW
CALLED THE BRITISH HERB TOBACCO, AND WHICH, WHEN DRIED AND SMOAKED,
HAVE BEEN FOUND OF GREAT USE IN STRENGTHENING THE STOMACH. NERVES, AND
EYES;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
me, the said John Jones, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
four calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
John Jones, do hereby declare that my said Invention of the mode and manner
as likewise the proper places for gathering, collecting, and mixing together
divers herbs, now called the British herb tobacco, and which when drved and

page_text: smoaked have been found of great use in strengthening the stomach, nerves,
and eyes, is to be performed in the manner following (that is to say):-
Wood betony, best gathered while the flower is on, in July and August,
dryed on hurdles made of hazle twigs, and in dark appartments, with port
holes or ventilators to let in the air and not the light, for that discolours them;
then cut in an engine, as tobacco is cut: coltsfoot (the true European), with a
hoary down on one side and mealy on the other, niped in May and June, and
laid on the hurdles leaf by leaf, then stripped and picked and cut: wild
lemon thyme, the best grows on barren hills, as on the mountains in Wales,
gathered in full bloom, dryed and cut: eyebright, common in layfields, but the
best sort grows on the South Downs in Sussex, nipped with the flower on, and
in July and August, dryed and cut: marsh trefoils, grow in low meadows:
best gathered after the hay is carried off, in July and August, dryed and cut;
wild rosemary buds, the best from the hills in Northumberland and the
banks of the Tweed; the earlier cut the better, and that will be in April or
May; none can be procured when the season is cold, and recourse must be had
to the phisic herb gardeners about London, delivered dry and ready to cut:
lavender flowers, ready dryed, from the gardeners about London.
To make the British herb tobacco.-Betony, five ounces; coltsfoot, three
ounces; wild lemon thyme, two ounces; wild rosemary buds, two ounces;
lavender flowers, two ounces; eyebright, one ounce; marsh trefoils, one ounce;
sixteen ounces for one pound, and by that proportion for any quantity.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jones, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Third day of April, One thousand seven hundred and
Inrolled the Fifth day of April, in the year aforesd.