A METHOD OF BRINGING MALT LIQUOR TO A MUCH GREATER PERFECTION THAN IT HAS HITHERTO BEEN, AND HAD INVENTED FLOORS OF BRASS, COPPER, AND LEAD FOR THE CULING AND PREPARING MALT FOR THAT PURPOSE, WHICH MAKES IT FINE, MELLOW, AND EQUALLY TEMPERED, PRESERVES IT ENTIRELY CLEAN FROM FILTH AND DUST, MAKES IT VERY SWEET AND FREE PROM PUTREFACTION, AND BY A LONG RETENTION OF MOISTURE IN THE GRAIN OCCASIONS IT TO RECOME MALT MUCH QUICKER BY ITS THROWING OUT THE FIBRES OR SHOOTS MORE FREELY, AND CURES AND PREPARES IT IN ALL RESPECTS BETTER THAN THE MALTING FLOORS NOW IN USE OF EARTH,
Year: 1743

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN SOUTHGATE,
of Allerton, otherwise Alwalton, in the County of Huntingdon, Gentleman,
sendeth greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace of
God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and
so forth, by His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminster, the Seventeenth day of November, in the
seventeenth year of His reign, reciting that the said John Southgate, by long
study, great application, industry, and expence, had found out "A METHOD OF
BRINGING MALT LIQUOR TO A MUCH GREATER PERFECTION THAN IT HAS HITHERTO
BEEN, AND HAD INVENTED FLOORS OF BRASS, COPPER, AND LEAD FOR THE CULING
AND PREPARING MALT FOR THAT PURPOSE, WHICH MAKES IT FINE, MELLOW, AND
EQUALLY TEMPERED, PRESERVES IT ENTIRELY CLEAN FROM FILTH AND DUST, MAKES
IT VERY SWEET AND FREE PROM PUTREFACTION, AND BY A LONG RETENTION OF
MOISTURE IN THE GRAIN OCCASIONS IT TO RECOME MALT MUCH QUICKER BY ITS
THROWING OUT THE FIBRES OR SHOOTS MORE FREELY, AND CURES AND PREPARES
IT IN ALL RESPECTS BETTER THAN THE MALTING FLOORS NOW IN USE OF EARTH,

page_text: BRICK, OR STONES; AND THE LIQUOR EXTRACTED FROM SUCH MALT IS CONSEQUENTLY
FINER, WELL FAVOURED, WHOLESOMER, AND BETTER, THE MALT HADE UPON THOSE
LAST-MENTIONED FLOORS BEING SUBJECT TO FILTH, CORRUPTION, AND PUTREFACTION
FROM THE JOYNTS, CRANNIES, AND CRACKS THEREIN, AND THE LIQUOR MADE
THEREOF APT TO BE FOUL, ILL FLAVOURED, AND NOT GOOD OR WHOLESOME, BUT
DESTRUCTIVE OF THE HEALTH OF HIS SP MAJESTIE'S SUBJECTS;" that the superior
excellency malt liquor made from malt prepared by this new Invention
will occasion a much larger consumption of malt, and of course produce
a considerable increase of that branch of the revenue arising by the present
duties thereon, and on malt liquor, and a considerable decrease of the
importation & consumption of French and other foreign wines and brandys,
and be a particular advantage to the landed gentlemen & farmers, and
a generall benefit, utility, and satisfaction to the publick, did, of His especial
grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs &
successors, give and grant unto the said John Southgate, his extors, adñiors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, of
making, using, exercising, & vending his said Invention within that part
of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy such
licence, powers, priviledges, & advantages to the said John Southgate, his
extors, adñors, and assigns, for the term of fourteen years from the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, according to the Statute in that case
made & provided; in which said Letters Patent was contained a proviso
that if the said John Southgate should not particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature and form of his said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under his hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery
without four calendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent,
that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages what-
soever thereby granted, should cease, determine, & become void, as by the
said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that the said John Southgate, in pursuance & per-
formance of the said clause or provisoc in the said Letters Patent mentioned,
doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature and form of his said Invention
in manner following, that is to say:-
The said new-invented floors whereon the malt is to be worked are to be
nade of brass, copper, or lead, instead of brick, earth, or stone, or any other

page_text: matter wherewith the floors now used for malting or working malt are cont-
monly made.
In witness whereof, the said John Southgate hath hereunto sett his hand
and seal, the Fourteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace of God
of Great Britain, France, & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, & so
forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & forty
three.