A METHOD OF MAKEING A COMPOND MANURE POR ENRICHING AND MENDING ALL SORTS or LAND
Year: 1729

page_text: these Psents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved THOMAS LIVEINGS, Gentleman, hath
by his petičon humbly represented vnto vs that he hath at a very great expence
and repeated experiment invented, found out, and brought to perfeccon "A
METHOD OF MAKEING A COMPOND MANURE POR ENRICHING AND MENDING ALL SORTS
or LAND," at one-third part of the expence lesse than in the common method
of manuring land amounts to, not only from the cheapness but also for
goodness in causing the land to produce one-third in quantity more than
any other manuere, and by preserving the wheat from smutt, and killing
the grubbs which sometimes destroy whole field of corne, and it is also
of that richnesse in its nature as to preserve the land for three yeares without
any other manure, as hath been experienced by several substantial farmers,
who are resolved to dress all their land therewith, and have bespoke large
quantities for that purpose; that the said compound manure will not only be
very beneficial to our subiects, but will also greatly augment our revenue,
some of the ingredients thereof, which were never vsed for the purposes above
mentioned by any other person, pays so great a duty that for every eight
bushells of the said compound which is vsed in dressing an acre of land, the
duty will amount to seven shillings at least; that as the common method of
manureing of land is become so very expensive in most parts of our.kingdom,
which the meaner sort are not able to bear, by reason whereof their land
do's not produce above one-third of the crop as it would if well manured,
whereby many of our poore-subiecte labour vnder great hardships, and several
cattle many times perish by the severities of the winter for want of hay and

page_text: straw; that as the petitioner is the first Inventor of the said compound manure,
and that no other person hath discovered the said method, and the great
advantage it will be to the publick in general, he hath most humbly prayed vs
to grant vnto bim our Royal Letters Patents 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 invenčons which may be of publick service and
benefit, are graciously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer mocon have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Thomas
Liveings, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Thomas Liveings, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agente, or
such others as he, the said Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times hereafter during during the term of yeares berein expressed, shall
and lawfully may make, vse, and exercise his said new Invention or method of
makeing a compound manure for enriching and mending of all sorts of land,
as above described, within that part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such
manner as to him the said Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discrečons seem meet, and that he,
the said Thomas Liveinge, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall
and lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and
advantage from time to time comeing, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by
reason of the said Invenčon, for and during the term of yeares herein men-
čoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said
Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and
vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares 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
Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may have and enjoy the full benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of
the said Invencon according to our gracious intenčon 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 subiecte whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, nanie, or

page_text: condicon 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 aforesaid, that neither they, or any of them, at any time during the
continuance of the said term of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invenčon, or any part
of the same so attained vnto by the Thomas Liveings as aforesaid, nor in
anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause
to be made any addičon thereunto or substraccon from the same, whereby to
pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Thomas
Liveings, his executors, or administrators, or assignes in writing vnder his or
their hand and seales first had and obtained in that behalfe, vpon such pains
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 the said
Thomas Liveinge, 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, bayliffs, 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 anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, or his or their deputies, servante, or agente, in or about the due and
lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything 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 any six or more of our or
their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law or preiudicial or
inconvenient to our subiecte in general, or that the said Invention is not a
new invention as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of
our said 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 Thomas Liveings as aforesaid, then vpon significačon or declaration
thereof, to be made by vs, our heires and successors, vnder our or their signet
or privy seal, or by the Lorde and others of our or their Privy Council, or any
six or more of them vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any-
thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing: Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein

page_text: contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto
the said Thomas Liveings, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath hereto-
fore been found out or invented by any other of our subiecte whatsoever, and
publick vsed or exercised 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 Patente or priviledges have been
already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our
will and pleasure that the said Thomas Liveings, his exccutors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
vse and practice their several invenĉons by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patent and of these Presents: Provided likewise, neverthelesse, and these
our Letters Patente are vpon this expresse condicon, that if the said Thomas
Liveings, his executors 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 claim 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
Invenčon hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignement, or any
pretended transferr or assignement of the said liberty and priviledge, or any
share or shares of the benefit or profit 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 servants, receive any sume or sumes of money what-
soever 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 Patente, or the liberty
and priviledges hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the
number of five, or shall committ or do or procure to be committed or done any
act, matter, or thing whatsoever during such time as such 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 Parlia-
ment made in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Father King
George the First, intituled (An Act for the better securing certain Powers
an l'riviledges intend to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for

page_text: Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon
Bottomry, and for restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices
therein menčoned), if these our Letters Patents 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
representatives 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, de-
termine, and become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presente,
for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Thomas Liveings, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the
inrollment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme,
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 Thomas
Liveings, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our Courts
of Record as elswhere, 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, and Town of
Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the subiecte of
vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the
not full and certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invenčon, or
of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse &c. Witnesse our selfe at Westminster, the Nineteenth day