A NEW WAY OP MAKEING SALT, BY PREPARING BRINE OF SEA WATER AS WELL IN WINTER AS SUMMER, WITHOUT THE HELP OR ASSISTANCE OF THE SUNN OR BAY SALT, WHICH BRINE IS MADE IN GRATE QUANTITIES IN LITTLE TIME, BY VIRTUE OF AN ARTI- PICIALL FURNACE OR INSTRUMENT WHEREBY HEATE IS CONVEYED INTO A VERY LARGE CISTERNE OF SEA WATER, THE THINNER PARTS WHEREOF ARE CAUSED TO EVAPORATE BY THE SAID HEATE, OF WHICH BRINE A STRONG SALT 18 MADE; AND THAT THE SAID SALT SHALL NOT ONLY BEE CHEAPER THAN THE SALT WHICH IS NOW MADE,BUT LIKEWISE OF A BIGGER KERNE OR GRAINE, AND GREAT QUANTITIES MADE ASWELL ININTER AS
Year: 1664

page_text: WHEREAS wee have been informed, by the humble peticon of our wel-
beloved subiect NICHOLAS PITTS, Esquire, that he hath found out "A NEW WAY
OP MAKEING SALT, BY PREPARING BRINE OF SEA WATER AS WELL IN WINTER AS
SUMMER, WITHOUT THE HELP OR ASSISTANCE OF THE SUNN OR BAY SALT, WHICH
BRINE IS MADE IN GRATE QUANTITIES IN LITTLE TIME, BY VIRTUE OF AN ARTI-
PICIALL FURNACE OR INSTRUMENT WHEREBY HEATE IS CONVEYED INTO A VERY LARGE
CISTERNE OF SEA WATER, THE THINNER PARTS WHEREOF ARE CAUSED TO EVAPORATE
BY THE SAID HEATE, OF WHICH BRINE A STRONG SALT 18 MADE; AND THAT THE
SAID SALT SHALL NOT ONLY BEE CHEAPER THAN THE SALT WHICH IS NOW MADE, BUT
LIKEWISE OF A BIGGER KERNE OR GRAINE, AND GREAT QUANTITIES MADE ASWELL IN
WINTER AS SUMMER;" which Invention being of publique benefitt, hee hath
humbly desired our royall grant of a licence and priviledge for the sole vse,
exercise, and benefitt of his said Invention for the terme of fourteene yeares,
according to the statute made and pvided in that case.
KNOW YEE, that wee, being willing to cherish and encourage all laudable
endeavours and designes of such our subiects as shall find out vsefull and
pfitable arts and invenčons, by granting and appropriateing vnto them for
some terme of yeares the fruite and benefitt of their industry, whereby their
labour and expences in the attainement thereof may bee recompenced and
rewarded vnto them, and being also willing to encourage and countenance as
much as wee may this Invenčon, and others of the like nature which may
bee vsefull and advantagious to all our loveing subiects, forasmuch as con-

page_text: cerneth the vse and practice of the same within our kingdomes and dominions,
of our especial grace, certaine knowledge, and mecre močon, have given and
granted, and by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors, doc give and
grante vnto the said Nicholas Pitts, his agents, servants, and assignes, full
and sole lycence, power, priviledge and authority, that hee, the said Nicholas
Pitts, bis executors, administrators, and assignes, by themselues, and by their
deputies, servants, factors, and, workemen, and such others as hee, the said
Nicholas Pitts, shall at any tyme agree with, within our said kingdomes of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and our dominions and territories therevnto
belonging, shall and may at all and every time and times hereafter during the
terme of fourteene yeares next insueing the date of these presents, vse, practice,
teach, or putt in vse the said new way of makeing salt without the helpe of the
sunn or addition of bay salt, never before found out or vsed by any but the
said Nicholas Pitts, according to the tenor and purporte of the said new way of
Invention by him, the said Nicholas Pitts, found out and devised as aforesaid,
and that hee, the said Nicholas Pitts, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, shall and may have, receive, and take all sumes of money, benefitts,
advantages, and proffitts whatsoever thereby arising, or to bee thereof had,
made, acquired, orgotten from time to time during the terme hereby granted,
to have, hould, and enioy the said licence, priviledge, power, and authority,
sume and sumes of money, advantages, pffits, and other the premisses by
these presents granted, or menconed to bee granted, to the said Nicholas Pitts,
his executors, administrators, and assignes, for and dureing the terme of fourteene
yeares from henceforth next ensueing, and fully to bee compleate and ended;
and to the end the said Nicholas Pitts, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes,
may have and take the benefitt wee now intended them by this our present
graunt, of our more especiall grace, certaine knowledge, and meere močon,
wee doe, for vs, our heires and successors, straightly charge and command all
and every person and persons, of what estate, degree, or condicon soever hee,
they, or any of them bee, that hee, they, or any of them, dureing the said terme
of fourteene yeares, doe not presume to practice, directly or indirectly, the said
new way of makeing salt, soe found out and invented by the said Nicholas
Pitts as aforesaid, without the licence, consent, and agreement of the said
Nicholas Pitts, his executors, administrators, and assignes, first had and
obtayned in writeing vnder theire hands and seales in that behalfe, vpon such
forfeiture, paine, and losse as by the law may bee had or recovered by vs, our
heires and successors, of all such engines and instruments as any person or
persons shall presume to attempt, contrive, or put in practice, thereby or by
meanes thereof to invade or infringe the priviledge of the said Invention

page_text: hereby granted as aforesaid, to stop or hinder the same in its due pceedings
contrary to this our royall intention and declaračon; and, further, that any
the delinquents herein shall be proceeded against and punished according to
our lawes for theire contempt or neglect of our roiall will and commandment
herein declared; and wee doc by these presents, for vs, our heires and suc-
cessors, will and command all mayors, sheriffes, justices of the peace, bayliffes,
constables, headboroughs, and other the officers and ministers of vs, our
heires and successors, for the time being, to whome it shall apperteyne, and
every of them, during the terme aforesaid, that they be favouring, ayding,
and assisting to the said Nicholas Pitts, his executors, administrators, and
assignes, in all lawful things in and bout the accomplishment of this our
present grante and pleasure herein declared; and for the due suppression of
all such as shall any waies endeavour to infringe or oppose the same, and
that they or any of them doe not at any time hinder, molest, or interrupt the
said Nicholas Pitts, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or his or theire
deputies, or any of them, in the due and lawfull execucon of the premisses, as
they tender our displeasure, and will answeare the contrary at theire perills;
and these our Letters Patents, or the inrollement of them, shall be theire suffi-
cient warant in that behalfe: Provided alwaies, and our will and pleasure
is, that if at any time dureing the said terme it shall appeare vnto vs, our heires
or successors, or vnto the lords and others of our privy councell, that this our
grante shall bee preiudicial or inconvenient to our cōmonwealth, then vpon
significacon and declaračon to be made by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our
or theire signet or privy scale, or by the lords and others of our privy councell,
or six of them for the time being, in writeing vnder theire hands, of such
preiudice or inconvenience, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease,
determine, and be vtterly void, anything before menčoned to the contrary
notwithstanding; and wee doe hereby grante for vs, our heires and successors,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollement thereof, shall bee firme,
good, and effectuall in the lawe, according to the true meaneing of the same,
although expresse menčou, &c.
In witnesse, ac.
of Aprill.
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