THE MEANS OF MAKING KELP, BY BURNING THE SEA WEED AT ALL SEASONS OF THE YEAR WETT, IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT IS CUTT FROM THE ROCKS OR DRIVEN UPON THE SHORE, WITHOUT ANY FARTHER PREPARATION, A METHOD NEVER BEFORE IN PRACTISE; WHICH INVENTION WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK IN THE REDUCTION OF THE PRICE OF THAT COMMODITY
Year: 1767

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
DELAVAL, of Seaton Delaval, in the County of Northumberland, Esquire, send
greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Thomas Delaval, did, by my Petition, humbly
represent, unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third,
that I had, by my great study and application, invented "THE MEANS OF MAKING
KELP, BY BURNING THE SEA WEED AT ALL SEASONS OF THE YEAR WETT, IMMEDIATELY
AFTER IT IS CUTT FROM THE ROCKS OR DRIVEN UPON THE SHORE, WITHOUT ANY
FARTHER PREPARATION, A METHOD NEVER BEFORE IN PRACTISE; WHICH INVENTION
WOULD BE OF GREAT UTILITY TO THE PUBLICK IN THE REDUCTION OF THE PRICE OF
THAT COMMODITY," and therefore most humbly prayed His said Majesty that
He would be graciously pleased to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent for the sole use and benefit of the
said Invention within that part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
in His Plantations in America, for the term of fourteen years, pursuant to
the Statute in that case made and provided; and His said Majesty, being
willing to give encouragement to all arts and inventions which might be for
the publick good, was graciously pleased to condescend to my request, did
therefore, by His Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the

page_text: Thirteenth day of March now last past, of His special grace, certain knowledge,
and meer motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Delaval, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His
special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said Thomas
Delaval, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of us, by myself
and ourselves, or by mine and our deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or
such others as I, the said Thomas Delaval, my executors, adiñiors, 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 my said Invention within that
part of His Kingdom of Great Britain called England, His Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Plantations
abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Thomas Delaval, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or any of us, should in our discretions seem meet,
and that I, the said Thomas Delaval, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit,
commodity and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accrewing,
and arising, by reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years
therein mentioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
priviledges, and advantages in and by the said Letters Patent granted or
mentioned to be granted unto me, the said Thomas Delaval, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters Patent next and imme-
diately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the Statute
in such case made and provided; in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso that if I, the said Thomas Delaval, should not particularly de-
scribe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all
liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease,
determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the contrary
thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Delaval, in compliance with
the said proviso, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows (that
is to say) :-
By taking the kelp or sea weed from the rocks where it grows, or from the

page_text: shore whereon it is cast, and burning it, without any preparation, in rever-
baratory or draw kilns, with coal, wood, or other kind of fewel.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto put my hand and seal, this Ninth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and sixty-seven