"A NEW CHYMICAL PREPARAČON AND STIPTICK MEDICINE VOID OF CORROSIVE QUALITIES, BEING BOTH CORDIAL AND BALSAMICK, WHICH VNIVERSALLY STOPS ALL EXTERNALL AND INTERNALL BLEEDING, AND OF IT SELFE HEALS ALL FRESH WOUND, AND VASTLY EXCEED ALL OTHER STYTICES THAT EVER WERE PREPARED IN ENGLAND
Year: 1722

page_text: GEORGE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these Presents shall
come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved ROBERT EATON, Doctor in Physick,
hath by his petition humbly represented vnto vs that by means of his
travels beyond the seas and of his studys and labours for severall years in
accomplishing himself in physick, he hath, among other improvements in his
profession, found out and brought to perfeccon "A NEW CHYMICAL PREPARAČON
AND STIPTICK MEDICINE VOID OF CORROSIVE QUALITIES, BEING BOTH CORDIAL AND
BALSAMICK, WHICH VNIVERSALLY STOPS ALL EXTERNALL AND INTERNALL BLEEDING,
AND OF IT SELFE HEALS ALL FRESH WOUND, AND VASTLY EXCEED ALL OTHER
STYTICES THAT EVER WERE PREPARED IN ENGLAND;" wherefore and in regard ho
is the first inventor of this medicine in our dominions, and of the vniversal
service it will be to our armies, hospitalls, and the publick good, he hath
humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole and
benefit of his said Invention for the term of fourteen yeares, according to the
Statute in such case made and provided, wee being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and inventions that may tend to the publick vtility, are
graciously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these Presents,
for vs, our heirs and successors, do give and grant vnto the said Robert
Eaton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, especial
lycence, full power, sole priviledge and authority that he, the said Robert

page_text: Eaton, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
himselfe or themselves, or by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or
agents, or such others as he, the said Robert Eaton, his executors, ad-
ministrators, or assignes shall at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times during the term of years herein expressed,
shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, vend, and enioy, within that part
of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, bis said new invented chymical prepara-
tion and styptick medicine, as above described, in such manner as to him,
the said Robert Eaton, his executors, administrators and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said Robert
Eaton, his executors, administrators and assignes, shall and lawfully may have
and enioy the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage from time to
time coming, growing, accruing and arising by reason of the said Invenčon for
and during the full term of years herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise and
enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges and advantages hercin-before granted
or menconed to be granted vnto the said Robert Eaton, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these Presente next and
imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended according to the Statute
in such case made and provided; and to the end that the said Robert Eaton,
his executors, administrators and assignes, and every of them, may have and
enioy the full benefit and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon,
according to our gracious intenčon herein-before declared, wee do by these
Presents, for vs, our heirs and successors, require and strictly command all
and every person and persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our
subiect whatsoever, of what estate, quality or degree, name or 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 afore-
said, that neither they nor 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 Invention so attained vnto by the said
Robert Eaton as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the
same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto or substraccon
from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the inventor or in-
ventors, devisor or devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or
agreement of the said Robert Eaton, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writing vnder his or their hande and seales first had and obtained in that
behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be justly infliced on such.

page_text: offenders for their contempt of this our royal command, and further to be
answerable to the said Robert Eaton, 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 heirs and successors,
will and command all and singular our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and all other our officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heirs 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Robert Eaton,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their
deputies, servants, or agente, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise
of the aforesaid Invention, or any thing relating thereto: Provided always,
and these our Letters are and shall be vpon this condition, 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
subiects 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 Kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Robert Eaton as
aforesaid, then vpon significačon or declaration thereof, to be be made by vs, our
heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, 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 Patente shall forthwith cease, determine, and be
viterly void to all intent and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to
the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these, our,
Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not extend or be construed
to extend to give priviledge to the said Robert Eaton, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invention what-
soever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our
subiecte whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that said part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like: Letters Patent or
priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit
thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Robert Eaton, his execu
tors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to.
whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as afore-
said, shall distinctly vse and practise their severall Inventions by them invented
and found out according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective

page_text: Patents and of these Presents: Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patents are vpon this express condition, that if the said Robert Eaton,
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, privi-
ledge, and authority, of the solo vse and benefit of the said Invention 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 subscriptions, to be made by any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to raise any sume or
sumes of money 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 suiñes of money whatsoever 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 a corporate body, or shall divide the benefit
of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by vs
granted into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
comitt or do, or procure to be committed or done any act, matter, or thing what
soever during such time as such person or persons shall have any right or title
either in law or equity in or to the said premisses which will be contrary
to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the
sixth year of our reign entituled, (An Act for the better securing certain Powers
and Priviledges intended to be granted by His Maiestie by Two Charters for
Assurance of Ships and Merchandizes at Sea, and for lending Money vpon
Bottomry, and for restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable Practices
therein menconed). If these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in
caso 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 repre-
sentatives, 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
intituled vnto in right of such their testator, or intestate) that then and in of
the said cases these our Letters Patent and all liberties, priviledges, and advan
tages whatsoever hereby granted shall vtterly cease, determine, and become
void, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding. And lastly, wee do by these Presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vuto the said Robert Eaton, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplifica

page_text: con 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 beneficial sense for the
best advantage of the said Robert Eaton, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, as well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere, by all and singular
the officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heirs and successors, within
that said part of our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and
every the subiect of vs, our heirs and successors whatsoever and wheresoever,
notwithstanding the not full, and certain describing the nature or quality of the
said Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conduceing or belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our self at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of
April.
By Writt of Privy Seal.