WAY OF MAKEING THE SALT OF THE PURGKING WATERS PERFECTLY FINE IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND VERY CHEAPE, SO AS TO BE COMONLY PRESCRIBED AND TAKEN AS A GENERALL MEDICINE IN THIS OUR KING- DOME
Year: 1698

page_text: Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved NEHEMIAH GREW, Doctor in Phisick,
hath by his peticon humbly represented vnto vs that he hath with much study
and great charge invented "THE WAY OF MAKEING THE SALT OF THE PURGKING
WATERS PERFECTLY FINE IN LARGE QUANTITIES AND VERY CHEAPE, SO AS TO BE
COMONLY PRESCRIBED AND TAKEN AS A GENERALL MEDICINE IN THIS OUR KING-
DOME," and he haveing therefore prayed vs to grant him our Letters Patents
for the sole benefitt of the said Invenčon for the terme of fourteen years, and
wee are graciously pleased to gratifie him in his request.
KNOW YEE, THEREFORE, that wee being willing to cherish and
encourage all lawdable endeavours and designes of such our subiects as have
by their industry found out vsefull and profitable arts, misteries, and invenčons,
and that the said Nehemiah Grew may accordingly reape some fruite and
benefitt of his labour and charge in and concerning the premisses, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon, have given and granted,
and by these Presents doe give and grant vnto the said Nehemiah Grew, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, especial lycence, power, priviledge, and
authority, that he and they, by him and themselves, and by his and their
deputies, servants, agents, and workmen, and such others onely as he, the said
Nehemiah Grew, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall agree with,.
shall and may from time to time and at all times hereafter dureing the space

page_text: of fourteen yeares next ensueing the date of these Presents, at his and their
owne proper costs and charges, erect, vse, teach, exercise, and put in practice
the said new Invention soe by him contrived and found out as aforesaid in
any place or places within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales,
and Towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and alsoe shall and may receive, take, and
enioy all the benefitt, profitts, commodities, and advantages of and by the said
new Invention to be had, made, acquired, or gotten to his and theire owne
proper benefitt, vsc, and vses, to have, hold, vse, exercise, and enioy the said
lycences, powers, priviledges, and authorities, and all other the premisses by
these Presents granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Nehemiah
Grew, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing and vnto
the full end and terme of fourteen yeares from the day of the date of these
Presents next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended according to the
Statute in that case made and provided. And to the end the said Nehemiah
Grew, his executors, administrators, and assignes, may the better enioy the
full and whole benefitt, and the sole vse and exercise of his said new Invention,
wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors, straightly charge,
require, and command all and every person and persons, bodies politique and
corporate, of what quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within
our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they nor any of them, dureing the said terme of fourteen
yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, to vsc, exercise, or put in
practice the said new Invenčon soe by the said Nehemiah Grew invented and
found out as aforesaid nor doe nor shall counterfeite, imitate, or resemble the
said new Invention, or any matterialls thereunto belonging, nor doe nor shal
make any addičon therevnto or substracčon therefrom, whereby to pretend
themselves the inventers or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or
agreement of the said Nehemiah Grew, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, in writeing under his or their hande and seales first had and obtained
in that behalfe, vnder such paines and penalties as can or may be inflicted on
the offender or offenders therein for the contempt of this our royall comand;
and further to be answerable to the said Nehemiah Grew, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, according to the vtmost rigor of the law, for his
and their damages thereby sustained. And further, wee doe by these our
Letters Patents, for vs, our heires and successors, will, authorize, require, and
comand all and singular justices of the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, con-
stables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers whatsoever of vs,
our heires and successors, now and for the time being whome it may con-
cerne. that they and every of them respectively be from time to time durcing

page_text: the terme hereby granted in their respective offices, and according to their
and every of their best skills and endeavours, aiding, helping, and assisting
vnto the said Nehemiah Grew, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
deputies, agents, and servants in and by all things in and about the accom-
plishment of our royall will and pleasure herein-before declared, and in the
execution of the severall powers and priviledges hereby granted as aforesaid.
And moreover, wee doe by these Presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
will and coiñand that our said respective officers and ministers before men'
Coned, or any of them, doe not nor shall at any time hereafter dureing the
terme hereby granted in any wise, molest, trouble, or hinder the said Nehe-
miah Grew, his executors, administrators, or assignes, deputies, agents, or
servants, in or about the vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or any
part. thereof, or any thing relateing thereunto: Provided alwaies, and these
our Letters are and shall be vpon this condičon, that if at any time dureing
the said terme of fourteen yeares hereby granted it shall be made appeare to
vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councill,
that this our grant is contrary to law, or prèiudiciall or inconvenient to our
subiects in generall, or that the Invention before menconed is not a new
invention as to the publick vse and exercise of the same, and not.invented
and found out by the said Nehemiah Grew as aforesaid, then, upon signi-
ficacon and declaračon of such preiudice or inconveniency, to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the
Lord or others of our or their Privy Councill, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hande, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, any thing herein-before con-
tained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all
intents and purposes, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary not-
withstanding: Provided alsoe, that these our Letters Patents, or any thing
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privi-
ledge vnto the said Nehemiah Grew, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
to imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath been heretofore
invented and found out by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
exercised within our Kingdome of England, Dominion of Wales, and Towne
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to whome wee have already granted our like Letters
Patents of priviledge for the sole exercise and benefitt thereof, it being our
will and pleasure that the said Nehemiah Grew, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, and all and singular other person and persons to whome wee
have already granted our like Letters Patent, shall distinctly vse and practice

page_text: their severall Invenĉons by them respectively found out, according to the true
meaning of such our Letters Patents, and of these Presents. And lastly, wee
doe hereby, for vs, our heires and successors, grant vnto the said Nehemiah
Grew, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters
Patents, or the enrollment thereof, shall be and continue in and by all things
good, valid, firme, and effectuall in the law, according to the true meaning of
the same, notwithstanding the not full and certaine describeing or menconing
of the said Invenčon, or of the materialls, wares, or meanes of makeing,
vseing, vseing, or exerciseing of the same, or of the certaine vse or benefitt
thereof, or any other defect, incertainty, or imperfection in these Presents, or
any other matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding.
of July.
By Writt of Privy Seale.