THE METHOD OF PLANTING AND MANUFACTURING THE ROOT OR PLANT COMMONLY CALLED SALOP OR MACHOATAN, AND ALSO THE PLANTING OR MANUFACTURING THE PLANT OR FRUIT COMMONLY CALLED THE PRICKLY PEAR OR COCHINEAL PLANT
Year: 1739

page_text: GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, and so forth, to all to whom
these Presents shall come greeting.
WHEREAS our trusty and welbeloved JOHN HARRINGTON, of Saint Ann's,
in our County of Middlesex, has by his Petition humbly represented unto
us, that he has, by much study, application, and expense, found out "THE
METHOD OF PLANTING AND MANUFACTURING THE ROOT OR PLANT COMMONLY CALLED
SALOP OR MACHOATAN, AND ALSO THE PLANTING OR MANUFACTURING THE PLANT
OR FRUIT COMMONLY CALLED THE PRICKLY PEAR OR COCHINEAL PLANT;" and that
the Petitioner has actually planted, brought to perfection, and manufactured
the said root or plant commonly called salop or machoacan, and also the said
plant or fruit called the prickly pear or cocheneal plant, in our Island of Ja-
maica in America, neither of which were before planted in any of our Colonies
in America, but the same were only produced in foreign countries not under our
dominion, and that the propagating and manufacturing the same in our said
Colonies will be greatly advantagious both to our subjects there and in our
Kingdom of Great Britain; he hath therefore humbly prayed us to grant
him our Royal Letters Patent for the sole planting and manufacturing the
said root or plant called salop or machoacan, and also the said plant or fruit
called the prickly pear or cocheneal plant, in all or any of our Colonies in
America, for the term of fourteen years; wee being willing to give encourage-
ment to all arts and inventions which may be for the publick good, are
graciously pleased to gratify him in his request.

page_text: KNOW YE, THEREFORE, that wce, of our especial grace, certain know-
ledge, and meer motion, have given and granted, and by these Presents, for
us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant, unto the said John Harrington,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, our especial lycence, full power,
solo privilege, and authority, that he, the said John Harrington, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and
themselves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such
others as he, the said John Iarrington, his executors, administrators, or
assigns, shall at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times hereafter during the term of years herein expressed, shall and
lawfully may mako, use, excrcise, and vend his said Invention, within all or
any of our Colonies in America, in such manner as to him, the said John Har-
rington, his executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, shall in
their discretions seem meet. And that he, the said John Harrington, his
executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and enjoy
the whole profit, benefit, commodity, and advantage, from time to time coming,
growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of tho said Invention, for and
during the term of years herein mentioned; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy
the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before granted or
mentioned to be granted unto the said John Harrington, his executors, ad-
ministrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term of
fourteen years from the date of these Presents next and immediately 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 John Harrington, his executors, admi-
nistrators and assigns, and every of them, may have and enjoy the full benefitt,
and the sole use and exercise of the said Invention according to our gracious
intention herein-before declared, wee do by these Presents, for us, our heirs,
and successors, require and strictly command all and every person and persons,
bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, degree, name or condition soever they be, within that part of
our Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and within all or any of our Colonies in
America aforesaid, that neither they nor any of them at any time during the
continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted, either directly
or indirectly do make, use, or put in practice within any of our Colonies in
America the said Invention, or any part of the same so attained unto by the
said John Harrington, as aforesaid, nor in any wise 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

page_text: inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors thereof, without the lycence, consent,
or agreement of the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators, or
assigns, in writing under his or their hands and seals first had and obtained in
that behalf, upon such pains and penalties as can or may be justly inflicted on
such offenders for their contempt of this our Royal command, and further to
be answerable to the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, according to law, for his and their damages thereby occasioned. And
moreover, wee do by these Presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, will
and command all and singular the justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs,
bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other officers and ministers what-
soever of us, our heirs 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 John Harrington, his executors,
administrators, or assigns, or any of them, or his or their deputies, servants,
or agents, in or about the due and lawfull use or exercise of the aforesaid
Invention or any thing relating thereto Provided always, and these our
Letters Patent are and shall be upon this condition, that if at any time during
the said term hereby granted it shall be made appear to us, our heirs or
successors, or any six or more of our or their Privy Council, that this our grant
is contrary to law or prejudicial or inconvenient to our subjects in general, or
that the said Invention is not a new Invention as to the publick use and
oxercise thereof in any of our Colonies in America aforesaid, or not invented.
and found ont by the said John Harrington as aforesaid, then upon signification
or declaration thereof to be made by us, our heirs or successors, under our or
their signet or privy seal, or by the Lords and others of our or their Privy
Council, or any six or more of them under their hands, these our Letters
Patent shall forthwith cease, determine; and be utterly void to all intents
and purposes, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof
in anywise notwithstanding: Provided also, that these our Letters Patent, or
any thing herein contained, shall not extend or be construed to extend to give
priviledge unto the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators, or
assigns, or any of them, to use or imitate any invention or work whatsoever
which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any other of our subjects
whatsoever, and publickly used or exercised in any of our Colonies in America,
aforesaid, unto whom like Letters Patent or priviledges have been already
granted for the sole use, exercise, and benefit thereof, it being ouf will and
pleasure that the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators, and
assigns, and all and every other person and persons to whom like Letters
Patent or priviledges have been already granted, as aforesaid, shall distinctly
:

page_text: use and practice their several inventions by them invented and found out,
according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patent, and of these Presents: Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patent.are upon this express condition, that if the said John Har-
rington, 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 subscriptions to be made by any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sum or
sums of money under pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledgo
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or servants,
receive any sume or summs of money whatsoever of any number of persons
exceeding in the whole the number of five for such or the like intents or pur-
poses, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divido the benefit
of these our Letters Patent, or the liberties and priviledges hereby by us :
granted into any number of shares excceding the number of five, or shall
committ, or do, or procure to be committed 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 will 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 Royal Father King George the First, intituled
(An Act for the better securing certain Powers and Priviledges intended to be
granted by His Majesty by Two Charters for Assurance of Ships and Mer-
chandizes at Sea, and for lending Money upon Bottomry, and for restraining
several extravagant and unwarrantable Practices therein mentioned,) or in
case the said power, privilege, or authority shall at any time hereafter become
vested in or in trust for more than the number of five persons, or their
representatives 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 Patent, and all liberties and advan-
tages whatsoever hereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become
void, anything herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding. And, lastly, wee do by these Presents, for us, our heirs and

page_text: successors, grant unto the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, that these our Letters Patent, or the inrollment or exemplification
thereof, shall be in and by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual
in the law, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for
the best advantage of the said John Harrington, his executors, administrators,
and assigns, as well in all our Courts of Record as elsewhere; and by all and
singular the officers and ministers whatsoever, of us, our heirs and successors,
in that part of our said Kingdom of Great Britain called England, our
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and any of our Colonies
in America aforesaid; and amongst all and every the subjects of us, our heirs
and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, notwithstanding the not full and
certain describing the nature or quality of the said Invention, or of the
materials thereto conducing and belonging.
In witness, &c. Witness our self at Westminster, the Eighth day of