NEW-INVENTED SECRET ART OR MISTERY IN EXTRACTING AND MAKING A CERTAIN COMPOSITION, WHICH I CALL BY THE NAME OF BARON VAN HAAKE'S COMPOSITION,' THAT IS PRODUCTIVE OF THE EFFECT OF MANURING AND IMPROVING ARABLE LAND, MEADOW, AND PASTURE GROUND
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTIAN
WILHEM BARON VAN HAAKE, of the City of Rochester, in the County of
Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirtieth day of July, in the thirteenth year of His reign,
did give and grant unto me, the said Christian Willem Baron Van Haake,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His said Majesty's especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Christian Wilhem
Baron Van Haake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by mine and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Christian Wilhem Baron. Van
Haake, my executors, administrators, 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 "NEW-INVENTED SECRET ART OR MISTERY IN EXTRACTING
AND MAKING A CERTAIN COMPOSITION, WHICH I CALL BY THE NAME OF BARON
VAN HAAKE'S COMPOSITION,' THAT IS PRODUCTIVE OF THE EFFECT OF MANURING
AND IMPROVING ARABLE LAND, MEADOW, AND PASTURE GROUND," within His
Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said Christian Wilhem
Baron Van Haake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them,
should in their discretions seem meet, and that I, the said Christian Wilhem
Baron Van Haake, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might have and enjoy the whole benefit, profit, 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 men-

page_text: tioned, to have, hold, exercise and enjoy the said licence, powers, priviledges,
and advantages therein-before granted, or mentioned to be granted unto me,
the said Christian Wilhem Baron Van Haake, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years
from the date thereof, next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat
and ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in
which said recited Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Christian Wilhem Baron Van Haake, should not particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be perpared, 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 Chan-
cery within four kalendar months next after the date thereof, then the
said recited 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 recited Letters Patent (relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE, that I, the said Christian. Wilhem Baron
Van Haake, do hereby declare my said Invention, and declare that the, same
is to be performed in manner following (that is to say):-
The said composition consists chiefly of common salt, which is melted in an
oven (made for that purpose) by a large coal fire, until it is dissolved as thin
and fluid as water; then the same is first fixed with saltpetre (which receives
from the air a magnetic power, and communicates the same to the fluid), salt
of unslacked lime, and salt of Rhenish tartar; when the said composition (so
invented, found out, and prepared) becomes of a magnetic quality, whereby it
attracts its fertility, and is (as aforesaid) productive of the effect of manuring
and improving arable land, meadow, and pasture ground.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christian Wilhem Baron Van Haake,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of
November, in the fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France,
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our
Lord One thousand saven hundred and seventy-throo

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-seventh day of No-
vember, in the year of our Lord 1773, the aforesaid Christian Wilhem
Baron Van Haake came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery,
and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Specification
aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth
year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England,
and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand seven hundred and seventy-three.