A CEPHALICK SNUFF, BEING A REMEDY FOR MOST DISORDERS OF THE HEAD, WHICH IT PURGES, STRENGTHENS THE NERVES, AND REVIVES THE SPIRITS, &C.
Year: 1773

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
COLLINS, of the City of New Sarum, in the County of Wilts, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the
Eighteenth day of January, in the thirteenth year of His reign, did give
and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Collins, His especial licence that I, the
said Benjamin Collins, during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A CEPHALICK SNUFF,
BEING A REMEDY FOR MOST DISORDERS OF THE HEAD, WHICH IT PURGES, STRENGTHENS
THE NERVES, AND REVIVES THE SPIRITS, &C. ;" in which said Letters Patent is
contained a proviso obliging me, the said Benjamin Collins, by a writing
under my hand, and to cause a particular description of the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner it is to be performed, to be inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same
(relation being thereunto had) may more at large appear.
KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, Benjamin Collins,
do hereby declare that the said Invention is to be performed in the manner
following (that is to say) :-
Take the best Virginia leaf tobacco and well dry the same; then make it
into snuff of the highest flavor; to which add one-twelfth part of the finest
roseat rappee snuff and a small quantity of the true macabaw from the West

page_text: Indies; the herbs betony, eybright, margoram, thyme syriac, flowers of marum
syriac, equal quantities, dried and made into a fine powder; to which add one-
twentieth part of the leaves of assari, dryed and powder'd in like manner;
also East India cloves, thoroughly dried and powder'd, one-fiftieth part; essen-
tial oils of cinnamon, nutmegs, lavender, and balsam of Peru, a small
quantity of each; which mix well together with the above snuff, and then put
the whole into an earthen pan, pressing it very close together, and after it has
stood four days to digest, add thereto eau de luce, in quantity one ounce to
a pound of the above snuff, together with orange flower, lavender, and rose
water, just sufficient to make the whole a little moist; then put it into bottles
for use, of which a pinch may be taken at any time for the disorders above
mentioned.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Collins, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of May, One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-three.
BENJAMIN COLLINS. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, in the
presence of
THO PARSONS.
THO. CHUBB.
Thomas Chubb, of the City of New Sarum, in the County of Wilts, Gen-
tleman, maketh oath and saith, that he was present and did see Benjamin
Collins, of the said City of New Sarum, sign, seal, and, as his act and deed,
deliver a certain Paper Writing or Specification hereunto annexed, bearing
date the fourth day of May instant; and saith that the name, Benjamin
Collins, set against the seal of the said Paper Writing as the party executing
the same, is of the proper handwriting of the said Benjamin Collins, and that
the several names, Tho' Parsons, Tho. Chubb, set as witnesses of the due
execution of the said Paper Writing by the said Benjamin Collins, are of the
respective proper hands writing of Thomas Parsons, of the City of New Sarum
aforesaid, Clerk to the said Benjamin Collins, who was also present at the
time of the execution thereof, and of this Deponent, Tho. Chubb.
Sworn at the City of New Sarum afore-

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that upon the oath of Thomas Chubb,
the Instrument aforesaid was inrolled, word for word, as it is before written.
And the Paper Writing aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Fifteenth day of May, in the year last above written.