A MOST PLEASANT AND USEFULL CORDIAL CALLED THE VIOLET CORDIAL, WHICH DISCOVERY HAD BEEN ATTENDED WITH A GREAT Loss OP TIME AND IMMENCE EXPENCE TO ME, THE PETITIONER THAT THE SAID CORDIAL IS FAR DIFFERENT IN ITS NATURE FROM ANYTHING YET FOUND OUT OR KNOWN, IT BEING COMPOSED OF NONE OF THOSE HOT PERNICIOUS QUALITIES OF WHICH OTHER CORDIALS ARE MADE UP, BUT IS A FINE AND GENTLE REVIVER OF THE ANIMAL SPIRITS, AND THE FINEST MEDICINE TO EXPEL WIND AT THE STOMACH OF ANY YET DISCOVERED
Year: 1760

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
CALVERT, of Norton Falgate, in the County of Middlesex, Druggist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Second, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-first day of February, in the
third third year of His reign, reciting, that I, the said Edward Calvert, had,
by my Petition, humbly represented unto His said Majesty that I had,
after a long and tedious study, found out "A MOST PLEASANT AND USEFULL
CORDIAL CALLED THE VIOLET CORDIAL, WHICH DISCOVERY HAD BEEN ATTENDED
WITH A GREAT Loss OP TIME AND IMMENCE EXPENCE TO ME, THE PETITIONER
THAT THE SAID CORDIAL IS FAR DIFFERENT IN ITS NATURE FROM ANYTHING YET
FOUND OUT OR KNOWN, IT BEING COMPOSED OF NONE OF THOSE HOT PERNICIOUS
QUALITIES OF WHICH OTHER CORDIALS ARE MADE UP, BUT IS A FINE AND GENTLE
REVIVER OF THE ANIMAL SPIRITS, AND THE FINEST MEDICINE TO EXPEL WIND
AT THE STOMACH OF ANY YET DISCOVERED;" that the same was of my own
Invention and contrivance, and would be of great utility to the subjects of
this Kingdom, and praying His Majesty's Letters Patent for the sole making,
vending, and using my said new Invention; Ilis said Majesty did, by His said

page_text: Letters Patent, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Calvert, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, solo
priviledge and authority, that I and they, and no others, should and might
make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention within England, the
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His
Majesty's Plantations and Colonies abroad, for and during and unto the full
end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent; in
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe that if I, the said
Edward Calvert, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is prepared, and cause the
same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
three calendar months next and immediately after the date thereof, then
the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby
granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the
said Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had) doth and may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, I, the said
Edward Calvert, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows
(that is to say):
THE VIOLET CORDIAL.
Fine spirit one hundred gallons, calamus aromat five pounds, mace eight
Sealed and delivered (being first legally
stamped) in the presence of us,
EDW CALVERT. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Nineteenth day of May, in
the thirty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Second,
the aforesaid Edward Calvert came before our said Lord the King in His
Chancery, and acknowledged the Writing aforesaid, and every matter
and thing therein contained, in form abovesaid. And the said Writing was
stamped according to the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of King
William and Queen Mary, and so forth.
Inrolled the said Nineteenth day of May, in the thirty-third year of the
reign of His Majesty King George the Second, 1760.