A NEW AND MORE EASY METHOD FOR THE BETTER MAKEING AND REFINING OF WHITE SALT FOR ALL VSES FROM SEA WATER, BRINE SPRINGS, AND ROCK SALT, EITHER IN IRON, LEAD, OR COPPER PANNS, OVER A REVERBERATING AIR FURNACE OR FURNACES, WHEREBY A MUCH LESSE QUANTITY OF COAL OR OTHER FUELL IS EX- PEEDED THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD NOW VSED FOR THE MAKEING OF SUCH SALT
Year: 1706

page_text: ANNE, by the grace of God Queene of England, Scotland, France, &
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., to all to whom these Psents shall come,
greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved DANIEL PECK, of the city of
Chester, Gentleman, hath, by his petition, humbly represented vnto vs that
he hath, by his great study and expence, invented and perfected "A NEW
AND MORE EASY METHOD FOR THE BETTER MAKEING AND REFINING OF WHITE
SALT FOR ALL VSES FROM SEA WATER, BRINE SPRINGS, AND ROCK SALT, EITHER
IN IRON, LEAD, OR COPPER PANNS, OVER A REVERBERATING AIR FURNACE OR
FURNACES, WHEREBY A MUCH LESSE QUANTITY OF COAL OR OTHER FUELL IS EX-
PEEDED THAN BY ANY OTHER METHOD NOW VSED FOR THE MAKEING OF SUCH SALT,"
and, therefore, humbly praying vs to grant him our Letters Patents for the
sole vse and benefitt of his said new Invention for the terme of fourteene
yeares, according to the statute in that case made and provided.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, being willing to give encouragement
to all arts and invenčons which may be of publick vse and benefitt, of our
especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meer motion, have given and granted,
and by these psents, for vs, our heires and successors, doe give and grant, vnto
the said Daniel Peck, his executors, administrators, and assignes, especiall
lycence, full power, sole priviledge & authority, that he, the said Daniel Peck,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of thein, by themselves
or their deputy and deputys, servants or agents, or such others as he, the said

page_text: Daniel Peck, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times dureing the terme of
ycares herein expressed, shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, & enioy, within
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, the said art or Invention in such manner as to him, the said Daniel
Peck, his executors, administrators, & assignes, or any of them, shall in their
discretions seem meet, and that he, the said Daniel Peck, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, shall and may have and enioy the sole profitt,
benefitt, cōmodity, and advantage from time to time comeing, growing,
accrewing, and ariseing by reason of the said Invention, for and during the
full terme of yeares herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise, & enioy the
said lycense, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted, or
menconed to be granted, vnto the said Daniel Peck, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, for and during and vnto the full end and terme of
fourteene yeares from the date of these presents next and immediately ensuing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case mado
& provided. And to the end the said Daniel Peck, his exccutors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enioy the full benefitt
and the sole vending, vse, and exercise of the said Invention according to our
gracious intention herein-before declared, wee doe by these psents, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and
persons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subiccts whatsoever,
of what estate, quality, or degree, name or condičon socrer they be, within
our kingdome of England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-
Tweed, that neither they or any of them at any time during the con-
tinuance of the said terme of fourteene yeares hereby granted, either directly or
indirectly doe make, vse, or put in practice the said Invention or any part of
the same so attained vnto by the said Daniel Peck as aforesaid, nor shall in
anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or cause to
be made any addition thereto or substraction from the same, whereby to pre-
tend themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof,
without the lycense, consent, or agreement of the said Daniel Peck, his
executors, administrators or assignes, in writeing vnder his, their, or some
of their hands and seales, first had and obtained in that behalfc, vpon such
paines & penaltyes 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 Daniel Peck, his executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law,
for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And moreover wee doe by these
presents, for vs, our heires and successors, will and comand all and singular

page_text: our justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs,
and all other officers & ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors
for the time being, that they or any of them doe not nor shall at any
time hereafter, during the said terme hereby granted, in anywise molest,
trouble, or hinder the said Daniel Peck, his executors, administrators, or
assignes, or any of them, their or any of their deputys, servants, or agents, in or
about the due or lawfull makeing vse or exercise of the aforesaid art or
Invention, or anything relating thereto. Provided alwayes, and these our
Letters Patents are and shall be vpou this condičon, that if at any time
dureing the terme hereby granted, it shall be made appeare to vs, our heires
or successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Councell, that this our
grant is contrary to law, or preiudiciall or inconvenient to our subiects in
generall, or that the said Invenčon is not a new invention as to the publick
vse and exercise thereof, within our said kingdome of England, dominion of
Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any of them, or not invented
and found out by the said Daniel Peck, as aforesaid, then, vpon signification
and declaračon thereof, to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our
or their signett or privy seale, or by the lords and others of our or their Privy
Councell, 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, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary in any wise
notwithstanding. Provided also, that these our Letters Patents, or anything
herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give priviledge
to the said Daniel Peck, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of
them, to vse or imitate any invenčon or work whatsoever which hath beene
heretofore found out or invented by any of our subiects whatsoever, and publickly
vsed or exercised within our said kingdome of England, dominion of Wales,
and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, or any of them, vnto whom like Letters
Patents or priviledge have beene already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and
benefitt thereof, it being our will and pleasure that the said Daniel Peck, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and every other person and
persons to whom like Letters Patents or priviledge have beene already granted
as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practice their severall invenčons 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 doe by these
presents, for vs, our heirs and successors, grant vnto the said Daniel Peck,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, that these our Letters Patents, or
the inrollment thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firme, valid,
sufficient, and effectuall in the law, according to the true intent and meaning

page_text: thereof, and shall be taken, construed, and adiudged in the most favourable
and beneficiall sence for the best advantage of the said Daniel Peck, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in all courts of record as
elsewhere, and by all and singular the officers and ministers and other the
subiects whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, within our kingdome of
England, dominion of Wales, and towne of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid,
notwithstanding the not full and certaine describing the nature or quality
of the said art or Invencon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and
belonging.
In witnessc, &c. Witnesse ourselfe at Westin, the Fifteenth day of
March.
By Writt of Privy Seale.