A NEW AND MOST VSEFULL CHIMICALL PREPARACON AND MEDICINE PUBLICKLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF HIS SAL OLEOSUM VOLATILE, WHICH BY. ABUNDANT EXPERIENCE HATH BEEN FOUND VERY HELPFULL AND BENEFICIALL, AS WELL IN VEES MEDICINALL AB OTHERS, AND WILL VERY MUCH TEND TO THE PUBLIC VEE AND BENEFIT OF ALL OUR SUBIECTS
Year: 1711

page_text: greeting.
WHEREAS our. trusty and welbeloved TIMOTHY BYFIELD, Doctor in
Physick, hath, by his peticon, humbly represented vnto us that he hath, by his
long study and great expence, found out and brought to perfection "A NEW
AND MOST VSEFULL CHIMICALL PREPARACON AND MEDICINE PUBLICKLY KNOWN BY THE
NAME OF HIS SAL OLEOSUM VOLATILE, WHICH BY. ABUNDANT EXPERIENCE HATH BEEN
FOUND VERY HELPFULL AND BENEFICIALL, AS WELL IN VEES MEDICINALL AB OTHERS,
AND WILL VERY MUCH TEND TO THE PUBLIC VEE AND BENEFIT OF ALL OUR SUBIECTS,"
and haveing therefore humbly prayed vs to grant him our Royall Letters
Patents for the sole vse and benefit of his said Invention, for the term of
fourteen yeares:
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement to all arts and
inventions which may be of publick vse and benefit, of our especial grace,
certain knowledge, and mere močon, have given and granted, and by these
presents for vs, our heires and successors, do give and grant vnto the said
Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that he, the said Timothy Byfield, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himselfe and
themselves, or by his or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times during the term of yeares herein expressed, shall and lawfully
may exercise, work, vse, and enioy, within that part of our kingdom of Great
Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-

page_text: Tweed, and within our kingdom of Ireland, his said new-invented chimicall
preparacon and medicine publickly known by the name of his Sal Oleosum
Volatile as aforesaid, in such manner as to him, the said Thomas Byfield, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of them, shall in their discre-
tions seem meet. And that he, the said Timothy Byfield, his- executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enjoy the whole profit,
benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing,
and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and during the full terin of
yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said licence,
powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or menconed to be
granted vnto the said Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, for and durcing and vnto the full end and term of fourteen yeares
from the date of these presents next and immediately ensueing and fully to be
compleat and ended, according to the statute in this case made and provided;
and to the end that the said Timothy Byfield, 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 gratious intencon
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 condičon soever they be, within that part
of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and town of Berwick-vpon Tweed, and within our said kingdom of Ireland,
that neither they or any them, at any time dureing the continuance of the said
term 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 Timothy Byfield as aforesaid, nor shall 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 licence, consent, or agreement of the said Timothy Byfield, his executors,
administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder his or their hands 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
command, and further to be answerable to the said Timothy Byfield, 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 our justices of
the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliff's, constables, headboroughs, and all other

page_text: 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 any wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or
his or their deputies, servants, or agents in or about the due and lawfull
making vse or exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon, or anything relating
thereto: Provided always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon
this condition, that if at any time dureing the said terme hereby granted it
shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our
or their Privy Councill, that this our grant is contrary to law, or preindiciall
or inconvenient to our subiects in generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a
new invenĉon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof within that part of
our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and within our said kingdom of Ireland,
or not invented and found out by the said Timothy Byfield as aforesaid, then,
vpon significacon and declaration 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 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
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 Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators,
or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any Invenčon or worke
whatsoever which bath heretofore been found out or invented by any of
our subiects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised within that. part of
our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or within our said kingdom of Ireland,
vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted for
the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and pleasure that
the said Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, and assignes, and all
and every other person and persons to whom like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice
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.
And lastly wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, grant
vnto the said Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, and assignes, that
these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all
things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the

page_text: 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
Timothy Byfield, his executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all
courts of record as elswhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within that part of our said
kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, and within our said kingdom of Ireland, and amongst
all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors whatsoever and
wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing the nature or
quality of the said Invenčon, or of the materials thereto conducing and
belonging.
In witnesse &c. witnesse ourselfe at Westminster the Twenty-second
day of October.
By Writt of Privy Seale.