A NEW WAY OF ROASTING COFFEE BERRIES WITHOUT CHARCOAL OR WOOD FIRE IN A FURNACE WITH A CASE OR BARRELL AND BOX AND FLEW, WHICH PRESERVES THE VOLATILE SPIRITT PECULIAR TO GOOD COFFEE FROM EVAPORATING, AND LIKEWISE SECURES THE BERRIES IN BOASTING FROM SUFFOCATEING SMOAKE AND STEAME, WHICH IS VSUALLY OCCASIONED BY THE VEE OF CHARCOALE AND SHOAKE OF WOOD FIRES WITH WHICH OTHER PERSONS ROAST THEIR COFFEE BERRIES
Year: 1704

page_text: ANNE, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whome these presents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved RICHARD BULL, of our City of
London, Druggist, hath by his humble petition represented vnto vs that
he hath, with great paines and expence, invented and brought to perfection
"A NEW WAY OF ROASTING COFFEE BERRIES WITHOUT CHARCOAL OR WOOD FIRE
IN A FURNACE WITH A CASE OR BARRELL AND BOX AND FLEW, WHICH PRESERVES
THE VOLATILE SPIRITT PECULIAR TO GOOD COFFEE FROM EVAPORATING, AND LIKEWISE
SECURES THE BERRIES IN BOASTING FROM SUFFOCATEING SMOAKE AND STEAME, WHICH
IS VSUALLY OCCASIONED BY THE VEE OF CHARCOALE AND SHOAKE OF WOOD FIRES
WITH WHICH OTHER PERSONS ROAST THEIR COFFEE BERRIES;" and that the said
art will be very beneficiall to the publick, and therefore hath humbly besought
vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the sole vse of the said Invention for
the terme of fourteen yeares.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement.
to all arts or inventions which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted,
and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant,
vnto the said Richard Bull, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Richard

page_text: Bull, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by
themselves or their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as
he, the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, or assignes, 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 vse, exercise, and
enioy, within our kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, the said art or Invention in such manner as to him, the
said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them
shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Richard Bull, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole
profit, benfit, comodity, and advantage, from time to time coming, growing,
accruing, and ariseing by reason of the sail Invention, for and dureing the full
terme of yeares herein menconed, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said
licence, powers, privileges, and advantages herein-before granted or mentioned
to be granted vnto the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme of fourteen yeares
from the date of these presents next and imediately ensucing and fully to be
compleat and ended according to the statute in this case made and provided;
and to the end that the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefitt and the sole
vending, vse, and exercise of the said Invention, according to our gracious
intention herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, or degree, name or condicon soever they be, within our said
kingdom and the territories and dominions thereunto belonging, that neither
they nor any of them, at any time during the continuance of the said terme of
fourteen ycares hereby granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or
put in practice the said Invention or any part of the same soe attained vnto by
the said Richard Bull, as aforesaid, nor shall in any wise counterfeit, imitate,
or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to be made any addition
thereunto or substracĉon from the same, whereby to pretend themselves the
inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreem³ of the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, or assignes,
in writeing vnder his, their, or some of their hande and seales, first had and
obtained in that behalfe, vpon such paines and penalties as can or may be iustly
inflicted on such offenders for their contempt of this our royall comand. And
further to be answerable to the said Richard Bull, Lis executors, adminis-
trators, and assigues, according to law, for his and their damages thereby

page_text: occasioned. And moreover wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, will and comand all and singular our justices of the peace,
mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other offieers 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, dureing the said
terme hereby granted, in anywise molest, trouble or hinder the said Richard
Bull, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, their or any of
their deputies, servants or agents, in or about the due and lawfull makeing vse
or exercise of the aforesaid art or Invention, or any thing relateing thereto.
Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this
condičon, that if at any time during the terme 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 contrary to law or preiudiciall or inconvenient to
our subiects in generall, or that the said Invention is not a new invention as to
the publick vse and exercise thereof within our kingdom of England, and not
invented and found out by the said Richard Bull, as aforesaid, then, vpon
significačon and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors,
vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by the lorde and others of our or
their privy councill, or any six or more of them, vnder their bande, these our
Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly void to all intents
and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary in anywise not-
withstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein
contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give privilege vnto the
said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to
vse or imitate any invention or worke whatsoever which hath heretofore-been
found out or invented by any other of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said kingdome and dominions, or any of them,
vnto whome like Letters Patents or privilege have been already granted for.
the solo vse, exercise, and benefit thereof. It being our will and pleasure that
the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and
every other person and persons to whome like Letters Patents or priviledge
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 theso
presents. And lastly wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and
successors, grant vnto the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators,
and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall bo
in and by all thing good, firme, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law,
according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be taken,

page_text: construed, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficiall sense for the
best advantage of the said Richard Bull, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, aswell in all courte of record as elswhere, and by all and singular
the officers, and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in all
and singular our realmes and dominions whatsoever, and amongst all and
every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and whereso-
ever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describeing the nature or
quality of the said art or Invention, or of the materialls thereto conduceing and
belonging.