COMPLETELY AND EFFECTUALLY ERADICATING SMUT FROM WHEAT; AND THAT WHEAT, WHEN CLEANSED BY OUR INVENTION, WILL PRODUCE FLOUR OF AS GOOD QUALITY AND VALUE AS FLOUR MADE FROM WHEAT OF THE BEST GROWTH
Year: 1803

page_text: KUBERI
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
ROBERTS, of Abbotston Farm, in the County of Southampton, Yeoman, and
GEORGE CATHERY, of New Abresford, in the same County, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
in and by His Letters Patent, under His Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Sixth day of
July, in the forty-third year of His reign, for Himself, His heirs and suc-
cessors, did give and grant unto us, the said James Roberts and George
Cathery, our executors, administrators, and assigns, His special license, full
power, sole priviledge and authority, that we, the said James Roberts and
George Cathery, our executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by ourselves and themselves, or by our and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as we, the said James Roberts and George
Cathery, our 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, within that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
our Invention of "COMPLETELY AND EFFECTUALLY ERADICATING SMUT FROM
WHEAT; AND THAT WHEAT, WHEN CLEANSED BY OUR INVENTION, WILL PRODUCE FLOUR
OF AS GOOD QUALITY AND VALUE AS FLOUR MADE FROM WHEAT OF THE BEST
GROWTH;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging
us, the said James Roberts and George Cathery, by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, particularly to describe and ascertain the

page_text: nature of our Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
and to cause the same to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery within one canender month next and immediately after the date of
the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, we, the said
James Roberts and George Cathery, do hereby describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, as follows (that is to say) :-
The said Invention for eradicating smut from wheat consists of mixing the
same with lime made from white or grey chalk, and is used in the following
manner (namely):-The lime when slack to be sifted thro' a fine sieve, and then
mixed well with the wheat in proportion to the degree of smut: from one to
two bushells to a load of five quarters. It must then be passed through a
machine, in general once will be sufficient, to make the wheat fit for the chiller;
but if intended for sale, it will frequently be necessary to pass the wheat thro'
the machine twice, and, in some cases, three times. The machine is made of
wire, with brushes within, upon the same principle as the machine in common
use for dressing flour, except that the wire is stronger and coarser.
In witness whereof, we, 'the said James Roberts and George Cathery,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Twenty-seventh day of July,
in the forty-third year of the reign of our said Sovereign Lord George
the Third, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and three.
FOTODAT FRATERY LOW WAT
in Chancery Extra.
JAMES ROBERTS. (LS.)
GEORGE CATHERY. (L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-seventh day of
July, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid James Roberts and George
Cathery came before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged
the Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in
form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.