A METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AN OYL OR GREASE FROM THE FLESH OF SWINE, WHICH WILL BE AS USEFULL AS ANY FOREIGN OYL IN THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE, AND SOLD AT A MUCH CHEAPER RATE, AND ALSO AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE INCREASING THE BREED OF SWINE, AND THEREBY AFFORD A LARGE QUANTITY OF MANURE
Year: 1734

page_text: SECOND, Dy ne grace of God, oc., to all to whom these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS SAMUEL SIMPSON, of Leeds, in our county of York, Butcher,
has, by his petition, humbly represented vnto vs that he having by much
application and industry invented and found out "A METHOD FOR EXTRACTING
AN OYL OR GREASE FROM THE FLESH OF SWINE, WHICH WILL BE AS USEFULL AS ANY
FOREIGN OYL IN THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE, AND SOLD AT A MUCH CHEAPER RATE,
AND ALSO AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE INCREASING THE BREED OF SWINE, AND
THEREBY AFFORD A LARGE QUANTITY OF MANURE," which will be a considerable
improvement to the lands of this our kingdom, hee hath therefore most
humbly prayed us to grant him our Royal Letters Patent for the sole benefit
and advantage of his said new Invention for the term of fourteen years,
according to the statute in such case made and provided, wee, being willing
to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which may be for the publick
use and benefit, are graciously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us,
our heirs and successors, do give and grant unto the said Samuel Simpson,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, our especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Samuel Simpson, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or
by his and their deputy or deputyes, servants or agents, or such others as
he, the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall

page_text: at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
hereafter during the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
make, use, exercise, and vend his said new Invention, as above described,
within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our domi-
nion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to
him, the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or
any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet; and that he, the said
Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully
may have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage, from
time to time comeing, growing, accrueing, and arising by reason of the said
Invention, for and during the term of years herein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-
before granted, or mentioned to be granted, unto the said Samuel Simpson,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and vnto the full end
and term of fourteen years from the date of these presents next and ime-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statuto
in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said Samuel
Simpson, his executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, may
have and enjoy the full benefit and the sole use and exercise of the said
Invention, according to our gracious intention herein-before declared, wee do
by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, require and strictly cōmand
all and every person and persons, bodyes politick and corporate, and all other
our subjects whatsoever, of what estate, quality, degree, name, or condition
soever they be, within that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid,
that neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said
term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make,
use, or put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained
unto by the said Samuel Simpson as aforesaid; nor in anywise counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make, or cause to be made, any addi-
tion thereunto or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himself or
themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors, thereof, without the
lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Samuel Simpson, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, in writing under his or their hands and seals first
had and obtained in that behalf, upon such pains and penaltyes as can or may
be justly inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royal
comand, and further to be answerable to the said Samuel Simpson, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, according to law, for his and their
damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these presents, for

page_text: us, our heirs and successors, will and cōmand all and singular the justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of us, 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 anywise molest, trouble, or hinder
the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of
them, or his or their deputyes, servants, or agents, in or about the due and
lawful vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invention, or anything relating thereto.
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be upon this
condition, that if at any time during the said term hereby granted it shall be
made appear to vs, our heirs or successors, or any six or more of our or
their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law, or prejudicial or
inconvenient to our subjects in general, or that the said Invention is not a
new invention as to the publick use and exercise thereof in that said part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and not invented and found out by
the said Samuel Simpson as aforesaid, then, upon signification or declaration
thereof, to be made by us, our heirs or successors, under our or their signet
or privy seal, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy Council, or any
six or more of them, under their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forth-
with cease, determine, and be utterly 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
contained, shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give priviledge unto
the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, or any of
them, to use or imitate any invention or work whatsoever which hath here-
tofore been found out or invented by any other of our subjects whatsoever,
and publickly used or exercised in that said part of our kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-
Tweed aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been
already granted for the sole use; exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our 'will
and pleasure that the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly
use and practice their several inventions 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, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patent are upon this express condition, that if the said Samuel Simpson,
his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may

page_text: 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 use and benefit of the said Invention
hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended trans-
ferr or assignment, 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 the raising any sume or
sumes of money under pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants, receive any sume or sumes 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 as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patent, or the liberty and priviledges by us
granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five, or shall
comitt or do, or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter, or thing
whatsoever 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 would be contrary
to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament made in the
sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Father King George the First,
intitled (An Act for the better securing certain powers and priviledges intended
to be granted by His Majesty, by two charters for assurance of ships and
merchandizes at sea, and for lending money upon bottomry, and for restrain-
ing several extravagant and unwarrantable practices therein mentioned), if
these our Letters Patent 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 Patent, and all libertyes and advantages
whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing. And lastly, wee do by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes-
sors, grant unto the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, that theso our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplification
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effec-
tual in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall

page_text: be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sence
for the best advantage of the said Samuel Simpson, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, as well in all our courts of record as elsewhere, and by
all and singular the officers and ministers whatsoever of us, our heirs and
successors, in that part of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England,
our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and
amongst all every the subjects of us, our heirs and successors, whatsoever
and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the
nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materialls thereto conducing
and belonging.