A CERTAIN POWERFULL SPECIFICK, WHICH, PROM THE SUPERIOR QUALITIES TO ANYTHING YET DISCOVERED, I HAD NOMINATED THE IMPERIAL LOTION, THE VIRTUE WHEREOF, BY REPEATED EXPERIMENTS, HAD PROVED EFPECTUAL IN THE IMMEDIATE CURE OF ANY INFECTION OR INJURY RECEIVED PROM PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH THE VENEREAL DISEASE OR DISORDER, WHICH THIS CHYMICAL LOTION OR PREPARATION IS CALCULATED TO EXTRACT
Year: 1761

page_text: JACKSON, of the City of London, Chymist, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Jackson, did, by my Petition, humbly repre-
sent unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that by
long study, and a great variety of processes or chymical operations, I had
invented "A CERTAIN POWERFULL SPECIFICK, WHICH, PROM THE SUPERIOR QUALITIES
TO ANYTHING YET DISCOVERED, I HAD NOMINATED THE IMPERIAL LOTION, THE VIRTUE
WHEREOF, BY REPEATED EXPERIMENTS, HAD PROVED EFPECTUAL IN THE IMMEDIATE
CURE OF ANY INFECTION OR INJURY RECEIVED PROM PERSONS AFFLICTED WITH THE
VENEREAL DISEASE OR DISORDER, WHICH THIS CHYMICAL LOTION OR PREPARATION
IS CALCULATED TO EXTRACT;" therefore, and in regard that I, the said Thomas
Jackson, had been at a great expence in bringing the said medicine to perfection,
and that the same would be of the greatest benefit to His Majesty's subjects in
general, His said Majesty did, by Ilis Royal Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of September,
in the first year of His reign, for Him, Elis heirs and successors, give and grant
to me, the said Thomas Jackson, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
Thomas Jackson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, by myself and
themselves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents,
or such others as I, the said Thomas Jackson, my executors, administrators,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's

page_text: Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Thomas
Jackson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should in
their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Thomas Jackson, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and
enjoy the whole benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming,
growing, arising, aud accruing, by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein and herein-after expressed, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges, and advantages therein granted
or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Jackson, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date thereof 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 there is contained a proviso, that if I,
the said Thomas Jackson, should not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be pre-
pared, 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 aforesaid recited 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
Thomas Jackson, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said In-
vention, and the manner in which the same is to be prepared, to be as
follows (that is to say):
Take of mercurius dulcis sublimatus four ounces, and of sal vitrioli two
ounces, and put the same into two gallons of a decoction of lignum sanctum,
which, when reduced by boiling to half the quantity, is fit for use.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Jackson, have hereunto put my
hand and seal, the Thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven huadred and sixty-one.
Signed and sealed (being first duly stampt)
in the presence of us,
JN° MAIDMAN.
MILES CROSBY.
(L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that the said Thirty-first day of December,
in the second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Thomas Jackson came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery
and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter and thing therein
contained, in form above written. And the said Writing was stampt 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 Thirty-first day of December, in the second year of
the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, 1761.