A NEW METHOD OF CLEANSING AND IMPROVING BRITISH SPIRITS TO MUCH GREATER PERFECTION THAN HAS HITHERTO BEEN, AND HOW HAXES BRANDY AS GOOD, WHOLESOME, AND IN EVERY RESPECT EQUAL TO THE BEST BRANDY IMPORTED FROM FRANCE REUE, DEC OF THE IMPORTATION AND CONSUMPTION OF FRENCH AND OTHER FORREIGN BRANDYS, BE A PARTICULAR ADVANTAGE TO THE LANDED GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS, AND A GENERAL BENEFIT, UTILITY AND SATISFACTION TO THE PUBLICE
Year: 1747

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MUNDEE, of the Parish of Saint George the Martyr, in the Burrough of
Southwark, in the County of Surry, Distiller, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the grace
of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, & so forth, by His Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the
Twenty-ninth day of Aprill, in the twentieth year of His reign, reciting,
that whereas the said William Mundee had, by his Petition, humbly repre-
sented to His said Majesty that he had, after long study, much pains, great
expence, and repeated experiments, found out "A NEW METHOD OF CLEANSING
AND IMPROVING BRITISH SPIRITS TO MUCH GREATER PERFECTION THAN HAS HITHERTO
BEEN, AND HOW HAXES BRANDY AS GOOD, WHOLESOME, AND IN EVERY RESPECT EQUAL
TO THE BEST BRANDY IMPORTED FROM FRANCE; THAT THE SUPERIOR EXCELLENCE OF
THIS BRANDY, PREPARED BY THIS NEW METHOD, WILL OCCASION A MUCH LARGER
CONSUMPTION OF CORN, INCREASE OF THE REVENUE, AND A CONSIDERABLE DECREASE
OF THE IMPORTATION AND CONSUMPTION OF FRENCH AND OTHER FORREIGN BRANDYS,
BE A PARTICULAR ADVANTAGE TO THE LANDED GENTLEMEN AND FARMERS, AND A
GENERAL BENEFIT, UTILITY, AND SATISFACTION TO THE PUBLICE;" His said Majesty
did therefore, of His especial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Mundee, my executors, admors, and assigns, His especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, by myself and themselves, or by mine and their

page_text: deputy or deputys, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said William
Mundee, my executors, adiñiors, 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 therein expressed, to make, use, exercise, and vend my said Invention
within that part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, the Domi-
nion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Colonies and
Plantations in America, in such manner as to me, the said William Mundee,
my executors, adiñors, & assigns, in their discretion shall seem meet, to have,
hold, exercise, and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages
to me, the said William Mundee, my extors, adiñiors, and assigns, for the term
of fourteen years from the date of tho said recited Letters Patent; in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said William Mundee,
should not particularly describe 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 seale, and cause the same to be inrolled in His Maty'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 libertys and advantages thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine,
and become void, as by the said Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Mundee, in pursuance of the
said proviso in the said Letters Patent contained, do hereby describe and
ascertaine the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same
is to be performed, as follows (that is to say):-
To two hundred and fifty-two gallons of British spirits add Flemish asshes
and sweet almonds for the first extraction; saltpetre and liquorish powder
for the second extraction; drawn three times gently over by a regular distilla-
tion, and make it into brandy of a proper proof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Mundec, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of August, in the twenty-first
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, by the
grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, & so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand
Sealed and delivered (being first duly
stampt) in the presence of
JN° PITTS.
C. FREWEN
(L.S.) MUNDEE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of August,
in the year last mentioned, the aforesaid William Mundee came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the above Instrument,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Instrument aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen
William and Mary of England, & so forth.