A METHOD OF EXTRACTING FROM BLACKBERRIES A SPIRIT EQUALLY WHOLSOME AND AS WELL-FLAVOURED AS FRENCH BRANDY, THE VSE OF WHICH WILL SAVE TO OUR SUBJECTS VERY CONSIDERABLE SUMES OF MONEY THAT ARE ANNUALLY SENT TO FRANCE AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR BRANDY
Year: 1732

page_text: GEORGE THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
presents shall come, greeting.
WHEREAS ISAAC ROWE, did, by his peticon, humbly represent to vs that
he had invented "A METHOD OF EXTRACTING FROM BLACKBERRIES A SPIRIT
EQUALLY WHOLSOME AND AS WELL-FLAVOURED AS FRENCH BRANDY, THE VSE OF
WHICH WILL SAVE TO OUR SUBJECTS VERY CONSIDERABLE SUMES OF MONEY THAT
ARE ANNUALLY SENT TO FRANCE AND OTHER COUNTRIES FOR BRANDY," and that
he had been at considerable labour and expence in various and repeated tryalls
in bringing the said Invenčon to perfection, which he conceived would be of
great benefit to the publick; he hath, therefore, humbly prayed that wee would
be graciously pleased to grant him our Royal Letters Patents for the sole vse
of the said Invenčon for the term of fourteen years; wee being willing to give
encouragement to all arts and invenčons which may be of publick vse and
benefit, have thought fit that he should be gratified in his request.
KNOW YEE THEREFORE, that wee, of our especial grace, certain
knowledge, and meer močon, have given and granted, and by these presents,
for vs, our heirs and successors, do give and grant ynto the said Isaac Rowe,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, our especial lycence, full power,
sole priviledge and authority, that he, the said Isaac Rowe, his executors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, by himself or themselves, or
by his or their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as he,

page_text: the said Isaac Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, shall at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times hereafter
dureing the term of years herein expressed, shall and lawfully may make,
vse, and exerciso his said Invenĉon of extracting from blackberries a spirit
equally wholsome and as well-flavoured as French brandy, as above described,
within that part of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our domi-
nion of Wales, and town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed, in such manner as to him,
the said Isaac Rowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes, or any of
them, shall in their discrečons seem meet; and that he, the said Isaac Rowe,
his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and lawfully may have and
enjoy the whole profit, benefit, comodity, and advantage from time to time
coming, growing, accrewing, and arising by reason of the said Inventon,
for and during the term of years herein menčoned, to have, hold, exercise,
and enjoy the said lycence, powers, priviledges, and advantages herein-before
granted or menconed to be granted vnto the said Isaac Rowe, his executors,
administrators, and assigns, for and during and vnto the full end and term
of fourteen years from the date of these presents next and imediately ensueing,
and fully to be compleat and ended, according to the statute in such case
made and provided. And to the end that the said Isaac Rowe, his exccutors,
administrators, and assignes, and every of them, may have and enjoy the full
benefit, and the sole vse and exercise of the said Invenčon, according to our
gratious intencon herein-before declared, wee do by these presents, for vs, our
heires and successors, require and strictly comand all and every person and per-
sons, bodies politick and corporate, and all other our subjects whatsoever, of what
estate, quality, degree, name, or condičon soever they be, within that said part of
our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, and town
of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, that neither they or any of them, at any
time during the continuance of the said term of fourteen years hereby granted,
either directly or indirectly, do make, vse, or put in practice the said Invencon
or any part of the same so attained vnto by the said Isaac Rowe as aforesaid,
nor in anywise counterfeit, imitate, or resemble the same, nor shall make or
cause to be made any addition therevnto or substracčon from the same, whereby
to pretend himself or themselves the inventor or inventors, devisor or devisors
thereof, without the lycence, consent, or agreement of the said Isaac Rowe,
his executors, administrators, or assignes, in writing vnder his or their hands
and seals first had and obtained in that behalf, vpon 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 Isaac Rowe, his
executors, administrators, and assignes, according to law, for his and their

page_text: damages thereby occasioned. And moreover, wee do by these presents, for vs,
our heires and successors, will and command all and singular the justices of
the peace, mayors, sherriffs, bayliffs, constables, headboroughs, and all other
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, 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 anywise molest, trouble, or hinder the said
Isaac Rowe, his executors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, or his
or their deputies, servants, or agents, in or about the due and lawful vse or
exercise of the aforesaid Invenčon or anything relating thereto. Provided
always, and these our Letters Patents are and shall be vpon this condičon,
that if at any time during the said term hereby granted, it shall be made
appear to vs, our heires or successors, or any six or more of our or their
Privy Council, that this our graut is contrary to law, or preiudicial or incon-
venient to our subjects in general, or that the said Invenčon is not a new
invenčon as to the publick vse and exercise thereof in that said part of our
kingdome of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, or not invented and found out by the said Isaac
Rowe as aforesaid, then, vpon significačon or declaračon thereof, to be made
by vs, our heires or successors, vnder our or their signet or privy seale, or by
the lords and others of our or their Privy Council, or any six or more of them,
vnder their hands, these our Letters Patents shall forthwith cease, determine,
and be vtterly void to all intents and purposes, anything herein-before
contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; provided also,
that these our Letters Patents, or anything herein contained, shall not extend
or be construed to extend to give priviledge vnto the said Isaac Rowe, his exe-
cutors, administrators, or assignes, or any of them, to vse or imitate any invencon
or work whatsoever which hath heretofore been found out or invented by any
other of our subjects whatsoever, and publickly vsed or exercised in that said part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales, or
town of Berwick-upon-Tweed aforesaid, vnto whom like Letters Patents or privi-
ledges have been already granted for the sole vse, exercise, and benefit thereof,
it being our will and pleasure that the said Isaac Rowe, his executors, adminis-
trators, and assignes, and all and every other person and persons to whom liké
Letters Patents or priviledges have been already granted as aforesaid, shall
distinctly vse and practice their several invenčons by them invented and found
out, according to the true intent and meaning of the same respective Letters
Patents and of these presents. Provided likewise nevertheless, and these our
Letters Patents are vpon this express condičon, that if the said Isane Rowe,
his executors or administrators, or any person or persons which shall or may,

page_text: 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, pri-
viledge, and authority of the sole vse and benefit of the said Invenčon hereby
granted, shall make any transfer or assignment, or any pretended transfer 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 subscripcons to be made by any number
of persons exceeding the number of five, in order to the raising any sume or
sumes of money vnder pretence of carrying on the said liberty or priviledge
hereby granted, or shall by him or themselves, or his or their agents or
servants, receive any sume or sumes of money whatsoever of any number of
persons exceeding in the whole the number of five, for such or the like intents
or purposes, or shall presume to act as a corporate body, or shall divide the
benefit of these our Letters Patents, or the liberty and priviledges hereby by
vs granted, into any number of shares exceeding 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 would be
contrary to the true intent and meaning of a certain Act of Parliament mado
in the sixth year of the reign of our late Royal Father King George the First,
intituled (An Act for the better securcing certain powers and priviledges
intending to be granted by His Maiestie by two charters for assurance of
ships and merchandizes at sea, and for lending money vpon bottomry, and for
restraining several extravagant and vnwarrantable practices therein men-
Coned), if these our Letters Patents had not been granted, 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 Patents, and all liberties, priviledges, and advantages
whatsoever hereby granted, shall vtterly cease, determine, and become void,
any thing herein-before contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith-
standing. And lastly, wee do by these presents, for vs, our heires and successors,
grant vnto the said Isaac Rowe, his executors, administrators, and assignes,
that these our Letters Patents, or the inrollment or exemplificačon 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, con-

page_text: strued, and adiudged in the most favourable and beneficial sence for the best
advantage of the said Isaac Rowe, his exccutors, administrators, and assignes,
as well in all our courts of record as elsewhere, and by all and singular the
officers and ministers whatsoever of vs, our heires and successors, in that part
of our said kingdom of Great Britain called England, our dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-vpon-Tweed aforesaid, and amongst all and every the
subiects of vs, our heires and successors, whatsoever and wheresoever, not-
withstanding the not full and certain describeing the nature or quality of the
said Invenčon, or of the materialls thereto conducing and belonging.
In witnesse &c. Witnesso our selfe at Westminster, the One and twentyeth