INVENTION FOR THE SOLE RAISING, PLANTING, AND WORKING A VEGETABLE EXTRAORDINARY, PRODUCTIVE OF OYL OF A SWEET TASTE, FINE COLOUR, WHOLESOME, AND OF GREAT USE, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY IN MANUFACTURING OF WOOL
Year: 1744

page_text: BELLI AND GUALTERAI'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, NICHOLAS
BELLI and ANTHONY GUALTERAI, of London, Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Second, by His Royall
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of September, in..
this present eighteenth year of His said Majestie's reigne, was graciously pleased.
to grant to us, our executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them,
by himself and themselves, and by His and their deputy or deputys, servants or
agents, or such others as we, the said Nicholas Belli and Anthony Gualterai,
our executors, administrators, or assignes, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter, for the full end and.
term of fourteen years from the date of the said Patent, should and lawfully
might make, exercise, and vend, our "INVENTION FOR THE SOLE RAISING, PLANTING,
AND WORKING A VEGETABLE EXTRAORDINARY, PRODUCTIVE OF OYL OF A SWEET
TASTE, FINE COLOUR, WHOLESOME, AND OF GREAT USE, BUT MORE ESPECIALLY IN
MANUFACTURING OF WOOL," and for making and vending the said oyl within that
part of His said Majestie's Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in His said
Majesty's Colonys in America; in which said Patent it is provided, that if we,
the said Nicholas Belli and Anthony Gualterai, should not particularly de-
scribe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under our hands
and seals, and cause the same to be enrolled.in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within four calendar months next and imediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patents, and all libertys and

page_text: advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Nicholas Belli and Anthony Gualterai,
in submission and obedience to the said Patent, do hereby declare, that the true
method of raising, planting, and working the said vegetable is in manner
following (that is to say) :-
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The seed from whence this vegetable is produced is called sesamo, and the
best lands for the production of it are such in which are sown beans, chick-
pease, and pease, and are situate southerly. It must be observed not to sow
this seed in lands in which they have been sown the preceeding year, by reason
they will then become weak and enervated, and therefore must be sown in
fallow land. All rich fallow land is good; rich soil, mixt with gravell, will
serve the purpose. The land must be plowed twice, or thrice if it should
require a third plowing, at the last whereof it must be laid and mixed with
well-seasoned good stable dung, and in a pretty good quantity. After this
preparation the seed may be sown mixed with fine dry mould, like sand, that
it may spread wide. Every acre of land requires about four pound weight of
seed, which, after having been sowed, is to be slightly covered over with the
rake. As soon as the plant is raised from the ground to the heighth of six or
seven inches, then the land must be dug and gently broken, as is commonly
done for flax, beans, pease, &c.; afterwards it requires weeding from the wild
herbs. And to distinguish this plant from others, it must be observed, that
this sprouts out the leaves two by two, one opposite to the other two at the
top of the stock, and so proceeding gradually by equall intervalls; and often,
when the plant is raised to a convenient heighth, it blossoms, and produces
other branches in the middle of the leaves, and those are also fruitfull. The
properest time to sow this seed is near the end of the first quarter of the moon,
or at the beginning of the full moon, either in the month of March, April, or
May; and in the hot climates it may be sown in the latter end of May, but
not in rainy weather or imediately after, neither in any days when there is an
appearance of rain, or on any wherein rain may be reasonably expected. But
this is to be understood in case of great showers or small and lasting ones; but
as to small rains, which may not penetrate and soak the earth too much, this
would not be of any prejudice. The method of gathering the crop is as
follows: The plant is to be rooted up as soon as the bud begins to open, and
that the seed is quite even and ripe from top to bottom. As the seed come
easily out of the bud, care must be taken; a large coarse cloth must be
spread to receive the plant, which must be exposed to the sun, until the whole

page_text: uds are entirely opened; then shake the plant until the seed are all out,
hich must be kept in a cool dry place. The method to reduce the seed
to oyl is the very same way as linseed oyl is commonly made.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Thirteenth day of November, in the eighteenth year of the reigne of
our Sovereign Lord George the Second, 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
forty and four.