A SAFE, PLEASANT, AND POWERFUL STYPTICK FOR THE CURE OF THE BLOODY FLUX, DIARRHEA, VOMITING, AND ALL INTERNALL AND EXTERNALL BLEEDINGS, Ox INMODERATE EVACUATIONS OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, IN BOTH SEXES, AND SO INNOCENT THAT IT MAY BE TAKEN WITHOUT THE LEAST DANGER, AS WELL BY INFANTS AND PERSONS OF THE GREATEST AGE AS ANY OTHERS, WHICH THE PETIČOBER HATH HAD LONG EXPERIENCE OF IN PRIVATE PRACTICE
Year: 1731

page_text: GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved EDWARD LOVEL, hath by his peticon
humbly represented unto vs that he has, by a long and continued application
in the study of physick and chymistry, discovered and brought to perfection
"A SAFE, PLEASANT, AND POWERFUL STYPTICK FOR THE CURE OF THE BLOODY FLUX,
DIARRHEA, VOMITING, AND ALL INTERNALL AND EXTERNALL BLEEDINGS, Ox
INMODERATE EVACUATIONS OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, IN BOTH SEXES, AND SO
INNOCENT THAT IT MAY BE TAKEN WITHOUT THE LEAST DANGER, AS WELL BY INFANTS
AND PERSONS OF THE GREATEST AGE AS ANY OTHERS, WHICH THE PETIČOBER HATH
HAD LONG EXPERIENCE OF IN PRIVATE PRACTICE;" that in consideration of the
great advantages which will be reaped by this vsefull discovery, and the lives
of many thousands of our subiects preserved in all parts of our dominions, both
by sea and land, especially in our colonies and plantačons where the flux
rages in a violent manner amongst our subiects, as likewise the Blacks, and
proves very fatal to them in their passage from Guinea to the West Indies, to
the great detriment of trade, and also in the fleet and army, where fluxes are
often known to carry off great numbers of people; and having humbly prayed vs
to grant unto him and his assignes our Royal Letters Patent for the sole vse
and property of making and vending the said styptick, as well in our colonies
and plantacons as other our dominions, for the term of fourteen years,
according to the statute in such case made and provided, wee, being willing to

page_text: give encouragement to all arts and inventions that may be for the publick
benefit, are graciously pleased to gratify him in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, do give and grant, unto the said Edward Lovel, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, our especial lycence, full power, sole
priviledge and authority, that he, the said Edward Lovel, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself and themselves, or
by his and their deputy and deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,
the said Edward Lovel, 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 years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make, vse, exercise, and
vend his said new invented styptick for the cure of the bloody flux, diarrhea,
vomiting, and all internal and external bleedings or immoderate evacuations
of any kind whatsoever, in both sexes, as above described, within that part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in our colonies and plantations, in such
manner as to him, the said Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, or any of them, shall in their discretions seem meet, and that he, the
said Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, and assignes, shall and
lawfully may have and enioy the whole profit, comodity, benefit, and advantage
from time to time coming, growing, accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the
said Invention, for and during the term of years herein mentioned, to
have, hold, exercise, and enioy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advan-
tages herein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the said Edward
Lovel, his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of these presents next
and imediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the
statute in such case made and provided. And to the end that the said Edward
Lovel, his executors, administrators, assignes, and every of them, may have
and onioy the full benefit and the solo 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 condition
soever they be, within the said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid,
and in our colonies and plantacons aforesaid, that neither they or any of them,
at any time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby

page_text: granted, either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or putt in practice the said
Invention, or any part of the same, so attained unto by the said Edward
Lovel, as aforesaid, nor 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 himself or themselves the inventor or
inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agree-
ment of the said Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, or assignes, in
writing under his or their hands and seals, first had and obteined in that
behalf, vpon such pains 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 Edward Lovel, 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
comand all and singular the iustices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs,
constables, headboroughs, and all other 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 term hereby granted, in any-
wise molest, trouble, or hinder the said Edward Lovel, his executors, adminis-
trators, or assignes, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants, or
agents, in or about the due and lawfull vse or exercise of the afores Inventon,
or anything relating thereto. Provided always, and these our Letters Patents
are and shall be upon this condičon, that if at any time during the said term
hereby granted, it shall be made appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any
six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant is contrary to law
or preiudicial 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 in
that said part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion
of Wales, or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or in our colonies or
plantations aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Edward
Lovel as aforesaid, then upon significačon or declaration thereof to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, or by the lords and others of our or their
Privy Councill, 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 conteined to the contrary thereof in anywise
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything
herein conteined, shall not extend, or be construed to extend, to give
priviledge unto the said Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work what-
soever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of

page_text: our subiects whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in that said part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
or town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, aforesaid, or in our colonies and plantacons
aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or priviledges have been already
granted for the sole vsc, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being our will and
pleasure that the said Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patents or priviledges 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. Provided likewise, nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patents are upon this express condition, that if the said Edward
Lovel, his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or
may at any time or times hereafter, during the continuance of this grant, have
or claim any right, title, or interest, in law or equity, of, in, or to the power,
priviledge, and authority of the sole use and benefit of the said Invention
hereby granted, shall make any transferr or assignment, or any pretended
transferr or assignment, of the said liberty and priviledge, or any share or
shares of the benefit or profit thereof, or shall declare any trust thereof to or
for any number of persons exceeding the number of five, or shall open or
cause to be opened any book or books for publick subscripcons to be made by
any number of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising
any sume or sumes of money under pretence of carrying on the said liberty or
priviledge hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their
agents or servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any
number of persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the
like intents and purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall
divide the benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges
hereby by vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding the number of five,
or shall comit or do, or procure to be comitted or done, any act, matter, or
thing whatsoever, during such time as such person or persons shall have any
right or title, either in law or equity, in or to the said premisses which would
be contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament
made in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royall Father King George the
First, entituled [an Act for the better securing certain powers and priviledges
intended to be granted by His Maiesty by two charters for assurance of ships
and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money upon bottomry, and for
restraining severall extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein men-
tioned], if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, or in case the

page_text: said power, priviledge, or authority shall at any time hereafter become vested
in or in trust for more than the number of five persons or their represen-
tatives at any one time (reckoning executors or administrators as and for the
single person whom they represent as to such interest as they are or shall be
intituled to in right of such their testator or intestate), that then and in any
of the said cases these our Letters Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and
advantages whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and
become void, anything herein-before conteined to the contrary thereof in any-
wise notwithstanding. And, lastly, we do by these presents, for vs, our heires
and successors, grant unto the said Edward Lovel, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or
exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, suffi-
cient, and effectual in the law, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said
Edward Lovel, his executors, administrators, and assignes, as well in all our
courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers
whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part of our said kingdom
of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, and in our colonies and plantačons aforesaid,
and amongst all and every the subiects of vs, our heires and successors, what-
soever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and certain describing
the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the materials thereto con-
ducing and belonging.