A COMPOUND SUBSTANCE OR CAKE FOR THE FEEDING OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1809

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHIAS
WILKS, of Brabant Court, in the City of London, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Matthias Wilks, did by my petition humbly represent
to His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that I had
after much study and expence found out and invented "A COMPOUND SUBSTANCE
OR CAKE FOR THE FEEDING OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," which would be
of great public utility; that in regard I was the first and true Inventor
thereof, and that the same had not been practised or used by any other person
or persons to the best of my knowledge and belief, I humbly prayed His said
Majesty that he would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the sole use, benefit, and
advantage of my said Invention within that part of His said Majesty's United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of
Wales, Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to the Statute in that
case made and provided, His said Majesty, being willing to give encouragement
to all Arts and Inventions that might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to my request, and therefore, by His Royal Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twentieth day of April, in the forty-
ninth year of His reign, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer
motion, did give and grant unto me, the said Matthias Wilks, my exors

page_text: admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Matthias Wilks, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, and
every of us, by myself or themselves, or by mine or our deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Matthias Wilks, my exors,
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention
within that said part of His Majesty's said United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, and also in His Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner
as to me, the said Matthias Wilks, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or any of
us, should in our discretion seem meet, and that I, the said Matthias Wilks,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the
whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accruing, and arising by reason of the said Invention, for and during
the term of years therein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges, and advantage therein-before granted unto me, the
said Matthias Wilks, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Presents next
and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
Statute in that case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is con-
tained a proviso, that if I, the said Matthias Wilks, should not particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within two calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties
and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, anything therein-before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Matthias Wilks, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and declare that the said compound substance or cake is composed of
flax seed cake, oats, and beans, with or without certain additions, herein-
after mentioned.
The flax seed cake I crash or break and grind to pieces, and I grind the
oats and beans, and mix the wholo together in the proportions of eight poun'ls
of flax seed cake, sixteen pounds of oats, and four pounds of beans, or in

page_text: proportions of the said component parts or ingredients, not materially or con-
siderably differing from those expressed by the said numbers. I put the said
component parts or ingredients so mixed into woollen bags, and then compress
the whole together in iron presses or molds with wedges and hairs by the
power of machinery, and thus make compleat cakes of a solid substance. It.
is necessary that the iron press or mold in which the said ingredients are put
for compression should be warm previous to the compression, or the cake will
not adhere together and become a solid substance.
And, lastly, I do declare that ground peas, barley, Indian corn, rye, sugar,
or various other nutritious vegetable substances may be added to the said
compound substance or cake in making thereof, provided a due proportion
or quantity of flax seed cake, consisting of about one-third the weight of the
mass, be used in making the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthias Wilks, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Twelfth day of June, in the forty-ninth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender
of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and nine.