HUSBANDING, ORDERING AND PAREING OF RICE AND SABLOWER
Year: 1670

page_text: CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God King of England, Scotland,
France, and Ireland, Defender of the Fayth, &c., to all to whome these psente
shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS EUSTACE BURNEDY, Gen., hath by his humble petičon informed
vs that through his paynes, industry, and expences, in Alsatia and other partes
abroad, hee hath gained the art, mistery, and skill of "HUSBANDING, ORDERING
AND PAREING OF RICE AND SABLOWER," two comodities that will prove of
exceeding advantage to our subiecte throughout all our dominions when
become native, they being at psent only served from forreigne partes att deare
rates, and therefore humbley besought vs that wee would bee graciously
pleased to grant him our Lřes of Priviledge for the sole vseing and practiseing
of the sayd mistery of planting, husbanding, ordering, Pparing the said
comodities of rice and saflower for the tearme of fourteene yeares, according
to the statute made in the one and twentyeth yeare of the reigne of our royall
grandfather King James.
KNOW YEE, that wee being willing to cherish and encourage all laudable
endeavors and designes of such our subiecte as shall finde out or introduce
into these our kingdomes vsefull and profitable arte and invenčons, by
granting & appropriateing vnto them for some terme of yeares the fruit and
benefitt of their industry, whereby their labours and expences in the attainem'
thereof may bee recompenced & rewarded vnto them, and being alsoe
willing to encourage & countenance as much as wee may this Inyencon &

page_text: others of the like nature, which may be vseful and advantagious to all our
loving subiecte, for soe much as concerneth the vse and practice of the same
within our kingdomes of England & Ireland, and the dominions and territories
therevnto belonging, of our especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere
močon have given and granted, and by these presents for vs, our heyres and
successors, doe give and grant vnto the the said Eustace Burneby and his
assignes, full and sole licence, power, viledge, and authority that hec, the
said Eustace Burneby, his executors, adiño", and assignes, by him and them-
selves, and by his and their deputies, servante, factors, and workemen, and
such others as hee, the said Eustace Burneby, shall at any tyme agree with,
wth in our said kingdomes of England and Ireland, and the dominions and
territories therevnto belonging, shall and may at all and every tyme and
tymes hereafter durcing the terme of fourteene yeeres next ensucing the date
of these sente, vse, teach, practise, and putt in vse the said art and mistery
of husbanding, ordering, and pareing of rice and saflower, according to the
tenour and purporte of the said art, mistery, and skill by him, the sayd
Eustace Burneby, gained as aforesaid; and that hee, the said Eustace
Burneby, his executors, adñiors, and assignes, shall and may have, receive
and take all sumes of money, benefitte, advantages, and profitte whatsoever
thereby arriscing, or to bee thereof had, made, acquired, or gotten from tyme
to tyme dureing the terme hereby granted; to have, hold, and enioy the sayd
licence, priviledge, power, and authority, sume and sumes of money,
advantages, pfitte, and other the premisses by these sente granted or
menčoned to bee granted to the said Eustace Burneby, his execors, admors,
and assignes, for and dureing the terme of fourteene yeares from hence-
forth next ensueing, fully to be compleate and ended, yeilding and paying,
and the said Eustace Burneby, for himselfe, his executors, adiñiors, and
assignes doeth covenant & grant to and with vs our heyres and successors,
to yeild and pay to vs, our heyres and successors, for the same, at the receipt
of our Exchequer, the yearely rent or sume of thirteene shillinge and four
pence by the yeare dureing the sayd terme of fourteene yeares at the two
vsuall feast of the yeare, viz, at the feast of St. Michaell Th'archangell, and
Th'annunciacon of the Blessed Lady Mary the Virgin, by even and equall
porčons, and to the end the said Eustace Burneby, his executors, adiiors, and
assignes, may have and take the benefitt wee now intend him by this psent
graunt, of our more especiall grace, certaine knowledge and meere mocon, wee
doe, for vs, our heyres and successors, streightly charge and comand all and
every person and persons, of whatsoever estate, degree or condicon hee, they
or any of them bee, that hee, they, or any of them, dureing the said terme of

page_text: fourteene yeares, doe not psume to vse or practice, directly or indirectly, the
same art, mistery, and skill of husbanding, ordering, and Ppareing of rice and
saflower soe gained by the said Eustace Burneby as aforesaid, without the
licence, consent, and agreemement of the said Eustace Burneby, his executors,
adñiors, and assignes, first had and obteyned in writeing vnder his and their
hand and scale in that behalfe, vpon such forfeitures and penalties and the
losse of such engines and instrumente as by lawe may bee inflicted vpon any
person or persons that shall psume to attempt, contrive, or putt in practise the
sayd art, mistery, and skill, thereby or by means thereof to invade or infringe
the priviledge of the sayd Eustace Burneby and his assignes hereby granted
as aforesaid, or to stopp or hinder the same in itte due peceding contrary to
this our royall intenčon and declaracon; and further, that any the delinquente
herein shall be pceeded against and punished according to our lawes for their
contempt or neglect of our royall will and comandement herein declared. And
wee doc, by these psente, for us, our heires and successors, will and comand
that all mayors, sherriffe, justices of the peace, bayliffe, constables, head-
boroughs, and other the officers and ministers of vs, our heyres and successors,
for the tyme being, to whome itt shall appertayne, and every of them, dureing
the terme aforesaid, bee fovouring, ayding, and assisting to the said Eustace
Burneby, bis executors, adññors, and assignes, in all lawful things in and about
the accomplishment of this our sent grant and pleasure herein declared ;
and for the due suppression of all such as any wayes endeavor to infringe or
oppose the same, and that they or any of them doe not att any tyme hinder,
molest, or interrupt the said Eustace Burneby, his executor, adñiors, or
assignes, or his or their deputics or any of them, in the due and lawfull
execucon of the misses, as they tender our displeasure, and will answere the
contrary at their perils; and these our Letters Patente, or the enrollment of
them, shall bee their sufficient warrant in that behalfe: Provided alwayes, and
our will and pleasure is, that if att any tyme dureing the said tearme itt shall
appeare vnto vs, our heires or successors, or vnto the lorde or others of our
Privy Councell, that this our present graunt shall bee inconvenient or piudiciall
to our cōmon wealth, or that the same is not any new art, mistery, or invencon
as not practised in our said kingdomes 'till introduced by him, the said
Eustace Burneby, then vpon significacon and declaračon to bee made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their privy or great seale, or by the
lord and others of our Privy Councell, or six of them for the tyme being,
whereof the chancellor or keeper of our great scale & the keeper of our privy
seale for the time being to be twoe in writeing, vnder their hand of such piudice

page_text: or inconvenience, these our Lřes Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, &
be vtterly void, any thing before mencoed to the contrary notwithstanding.
And wee do hereby grant, for vs, our heires & successors, that these our
Lřes Patente, or the inrollm* thereof, shalbe firme, good, & effečuall in the
law, according to the true meaning of the same, although expresse mencon, &c.
In wittnesse, &c. Witnes the King at West, the Third day of
February.
By Writ of Privy Seale.