DOCUMENT SIGNED BY CHARLES II ('CharlesR' at head), being a warrant for the Great Seal addressed to the Attorney General, granting Richard Haynes of Wantley in the parish of Sullington (near Steyning), Sussex, gent, the sole use for fourteen years of his 'Invention of so publick use and benefit for the improuvement of lands', namely his discovery of '...a way to sever, divide and make cleane the seed called Non such Trefoyle or Hop Clover from its huske and also from the mixture of course grasse or weed that naturally cleaves unto it, and is very destructive of it, a thing never yet attaind unto by any person whatsoever; by which means the Seed becomes so pure and cleane that it brings forth abundantly more grasse then ever the other did, and also free from those seeds with which it was mixed...'; Haynes's 'extraordinary care and study' are commended and he is granted the sole use of his means of cleansing the seed and of vending it, subject to a payment of £1 per annum to the Exchequer and the proviso that 'no other persons be prohibited from cleansing that seed by any other way which they shall discover without the help' of Richard Haynes; the document is counter-signed by Henry Coventry, 2 pages, folio, integral leaf with four endorsements, one recording that it was passed under the Great Seal ('passed here 30: Sept: 1672'), Whitehall, 19 August 1672
DOCUMENT SIGNED BY CHARLES II ('CharlesR' at head), being a warrant for the Great Seal addressed to the Attorney General, granting Richard Haynes of Wantley in the parish of Sullington (near Steyning), Sussex, gent, the sole use for fourteen years of his 'Invention of so publick use and benefit for the improuvement of lands', namely his discovery of '...a way to sever, divide and make cleane the seed called Non such Trefoyle or Hop Clover from its huske and also from the mixture of course grasse or weed that naturally cleaves unto it, and is very destructive of it, a thing never yet attaind unto by any person whatsoever; by which means the Seed becomes so pure and cleane that it brings forth abundantly more grasse then ever the other did, and also free from those seeds with which it was mixed...'; Haynes's 'extraordinary care and study' are commended and he is granted the sole use of his means of cleansing the seed and of vending it, subject to a payment of £1 per annum to the Exchequer and the proviso that 'no other persons be prohibited from cleansing that seed by any other way which they shall discover without the help' of Richard Haynes; the document is counter-signed by Henry Coventry, 2 pages, folio, integral leaf with four endorsements, one recording that it was passed under the Great Seal ('passed here 30: Sept: 1672'), Whitehall, 19 August 1672
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