A METHOD OF EXTRACTING AND PRE- SERVING THE SULPHUR CONTAINED IN MUNDIC, WITH WHICH SEVERAL COUNTIES IN THIS OUR KINGDOM DO VERY MUCH ABOUND, AND WHICH AT PRESENT IS OF NO ADVANTAGE TO THE OWNERS, BUT, OF THE CONTRARY, AN INCUMBRANCE ON THE LAND WHERE IT LYES; THAT THIS SULPHER, BY PROPER PREPARACON AND REFINEING, WILL ANSWER THE END OF THAT IMPORTED FROM ABROAD
Year: 1730

page_text: presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS SAMUEL HUTCHINS, of our city of Bristoll, Refiner, has, by
his petition, humbly represented vnto vs that he hath, by great study and
expence, and by frequent experiments and tryalls by him made on minerals
and metals, found out and perfected "A METHOD OF EXTRACTING AND PRE-
SERVING THE SULPHUR CONTAINED IN MUNDIC, WITH WHICH SEVERAL COUNTIES IN
THIS OUR KINGDOM DO VERY MUCH ABOUND, AND WHICH AT PRESENT IS OF NO
ADVANTAGE TO THE OWNERS, BUT, OF THE CONTRARY, AN INCUMBRANCE ON THE
LAND WHERE IT LYES; THAT THIS SULPHER, BY PROPER PREPARACON AND REFINEING,
WILL ANSWER THE END OF THAT IMPORTED FROM ABROAD;" therefore, and in
regard the said Invenčon is entirely new, and hath never been found out
or practised in Great Britain, and as the same will be of great benefit to
the publick, he hath therefore humbly prayed vs to grant him our royal
Letters Patents, on the vsual terms, for the sole vse of the said Invention, for
such number of yeares as to vs should seem proper; wee, being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick
benefit, are graciosly pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents, for
vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant, vnto the said Samuel

page_text: Hutchins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Samuel Hutchins, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or
such others as he, the said Samuel Hutchins, his executors, administrators, or
assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times during the terme of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may
exercise, work, vse, and enioy his said new Invenčon of extracting and
preserving the sulphur contained in mundic, which by proper preparacon and
refineing will answer the end of that imported from abroad, 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 Samuel Hutchins, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them
shall in their discretions scem meet, and that he, the said Samuel Hutchins,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and lawfully may have and
enioy the whole profit, comodity, benefit, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accrueing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for
and during the term of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and
enioy the said lycense, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menčoned to be granted vnto the said Samuel Hutchins, 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 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 Samuel Hutchins, 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 Invention, 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 subiects 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 aforesaid, that
neither they or any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said terme
of fourteen yeares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invention, or any part of the same, so attained vnto by
the said Samuel Hutchins, as aforesaid, nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or
resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition thereunto
or substraction from the same, whereby to pretend himselfe or themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycense, consent,

page_text: or agreement of the said Samuel Hutchins, his executors, 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 Samuel Hutchins, 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 iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, 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 terme hereby granted, in
anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Samuel Hutchins, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants,
or agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the aforesaid:
Invention, or anything relating thereto. Provided always, and these our
Letters Patents 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.
generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invenčon as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain
called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed.
aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Samuel Hutchins as
aforesaid, then, vpon signification or declaraton thereof, to be made by vs,
our heires or successors, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them, vnder their hands, these our Letters.
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to. all intents
and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in
anywise notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents,
or anything herein contained, shall not extend, or be construed to extend,
to give priviledge vnto the said Samuel Hutchins, his executors, admi-
nistrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invencon
or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by
any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in
that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our domi-
nion of Wales, or town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for the sole vse
exercise, and benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said
Samuel Hutchins, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and

page_text: every other person or persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledges
have been already granted as aforesaid, 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 Letters Patents and of these
presents. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our Letters Patents are
vpon this express condition, that if the said Samuel Hutchins, 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,
tytle, or interest in law or equity of, in, or to the power, priviledge, and
authority of the sole vsc and benefit of the said Invention hereby granted,
shall make any transferr or assignement, or any pretended transferr or assigne-
ment 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 sūme 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 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 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 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 reigne of our late royal father King George the
First, intituled (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 several extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein men-
čoned), 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 represen-
tatives 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 to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in
any of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges,

page_text: and advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant vnto the said Samuel Hutchins, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or
exemplificačon thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid, suffi-
cient, 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 Samuel Hutchins, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our courts of record as
elsewhere, 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 subiects of vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, 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 witnese bo Witness Our calfe at Thermina the Samanth den