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<HEAD>LETTERS of PUBLICATION In favours of THOMAS WEIR Chirurgeon in <HI>Edinburgh.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED><HI>_JAMES</HI> by the Grace of GOD, King of <HI>Great Britain, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith,</SIGNED> <SALUTE>To Our Lovits. Macers of Our Privy Council, or Me&s;&s;engers at Arms, Our Sheriffs in that part, conjunctly and &s;everally, &s;pecially con&s;titute, and to all and &s;undry Our Liedges and Subjects, whom it effiers, Greeting:</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>Fora&s;much, as We having, by Our Royal Gift, Given and Granted to <HI>Thomas Weir</HI> Chirurgeon in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the &s;ole and only Priviledge after|mentioned, and contained in the &s;aid Gift and Signature, and pa&s;t under the Great Seal of this Our Ancient King|dom; Of which Gift and Signature, the Tenor follows, <HI>Sic &s;upra&s;cribitur.</HI> JAMES <HI>R.</HI> Our Soveraign Lord, con&s;idering, that the Medicinal Pill, invented by the decea&s;t Doctor <HI>Patrick Ander&s;on,</HI> Phy&s;ician to His <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> deare&s;t Father, King <HI>Charles</HI> the Fir&s;t, of ever ble&s;&s;ed Memory, hath by Experience been found to be a mo&s;t u&s;eful and &s;afe Medicine, which hath recommended that Pill not only to His Maje&s;ties Subjects in the Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> but likewi&s;e, it hath been u&s;ed in the Kingdoms of <HI>England, Ireland,</HI> and other places in <HI>Europe;</HI> and that it is very much the intere&s;t of His Maje&s;ties Subjects and others, that the Skill and Art of Preparing and Compounding that Pill be pre&s;erved intire, and that Counterfeit, Sofi&s;ticat, and Adulterat Pills be not impo&s;ed upon Per&s;ons, under the notion of this Pill, which is &s;o univer&s;ally known and u&s;ed; And His Maje&s;ty con&s;idering, that the Secret and Skill in preparing this Pill, was only communicated by Doctor <HI>Ander&s;on</HI> to his two Daughters, with power only to the Surviver of them to communicat and tran&s;mit that &s;ecret to &s;ome fit and qualified Per&s;on; and that the decea&s;ed <HI>Katharine Ander&s;on,</HI> the &s;aid Doctors &s;urviving Daughter hath communicat to <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> Chirurgeon in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> the whole Secret and Skill, in Preparing and Compounding the afore&s;aid Pill, and hath &s;ufficiently in&s;tructed and &s;een him Prepare, and Com|pound, and make up that Pill, as well as ever it was by Doctor <HI>Ander&s;on,</HI> or his Daughters afore&s;aid; And that the &s;aid decea&s;ed <HI>Katharine Ander&s;on,</HI> hath by her A&s;&s;ignation, dated the Fifeteen day of <HI>December,</HI> la&s;t by-pa&s;t A&s;&s;igned and Di&s;poned to the &s;aid <HI>Thomas VVeir</HI> her Stamp, for the Directions, and Seal for the Boxes, with all other Ve&s;&s;els, Materials, and In&s;truments, for Compounding, Preparing, and Making up the &s;aid Pills; and that the &s;aid decea&s;t <HI>Katharine Ander&s;on</HI> doth thereby declare, that &s;he hath communicated and tran&s;mitted that &s;ecret of Preparing and Compounding the &s;aid Pill to the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> and no other per&s;on: And con&s;idering that there is none el&s;e to whom that &s;ecret is communicated, or the Art of Preparing and Compoun|ding the &s;aid Pill is committed: and that notwith&s;tanding thereof, there are &s;everal per&s;ons, who have already, and are of intention to fein&yogh;ie and coun|terfeit the &s;aid Pill, and to di&s;per&s;e the &s;ame with Printed Papers, and otherways, under the name of the &s;aid Pill, commonly called Doctor <HI>Ander&s;ons</HI> Pills; Albeit the &s;ecret of Preparing and Compounding thereof was never communicated to them, or to any other per&s;on now on life, except the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> which (if not prevented) might prove very dangerous and prejudicial to His Maje&s;ties Liedges and others, through making u&s;e of any counterfeit Sofi&s;ticat and Adulterat Pills, and would much di&s;courage the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> who hath only the &s;ecret of Preparing and Compounding thereof to him communicated by the &s;aid <HI>Katharine Ander&s;on,</HI> who A&s;&s;igned and Di&s;poned to him the &s;aid Stamp and Seal, with all other Ve&s;&s;els and In&s;truments for Compounding and Di&s;pen&s;ing of the &s;aid Pill in manner fore&s;aid: Therefore His Maje&s;ty Ordains a Letter of Gift to be pa&s;t and exped under His Ma|je&s;ties Great Seal of His Ancient Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> Giving, Granting and Di&s;poning, as His Maje&s;ty for Him&s;elf and His Royal Succe&s;&s;ors, Gives, Grants, and Di&s;pons to, and in favours of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> the &s;ole Power, Right and Priviledge to Prepare, Compo&s;e, Di&s;pen&s;e and Vend the afore&s;aid Pill, called Doctor <HI>Ander&s;ons</HI> Pill, with power to him to u&s;e the &s;aid Stamp and Seal formerly u&s;ed by the &s;aid <HI>Katharine Ander&s;on,</HI> for Atte&s;ting and Marking the Printed Papers and Boxes belonging to the &s;aids Pills, for all the days and years of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir</HI> his Life-time; And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby Di&s;charge all other Per&s;on or Per&s;ons what&s;omever, during the &s;aid &s;pace, directly or indirectly, to Prepare, Com|pound, Make up, Di&s;pen&s;e, or Vend any Pill or Pills under the name of the &s;aid Pill, invented by the &s;aid decea&s;t Doctor <HI>Ander&s;on,</HI> or Papers r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lating thereto, without the &s;pecial Licence of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> under the penalty of One Thou&s;and Merks <HI>Scots</HI> for each Contravention. And His Maje&s;ty doth hereby Recommend to His Privy Council, and other Judicatories of the &s;aid Kingdom of <HI>Scotland,</HI> to &s;ee His plea&s;ure concerning the Premi&s;&s;es rendered effectual, and the Contraveeners fyned or puni&s;hed, to the terror of others; Providing always that the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir</HI> &s;hall be bound and obliged, not only to continue the faithful and true preparing, compo&s;ing, making up, and di&s;pen&s;ing of the &s;aid Pills, as was formerly done by the &s;aid decea&s;t Doctor <HI>Ander&s;on</HI> and his Daughters, but likewi&s;e to communicate the &s;ecret thereof, and in&s;truct any qualified per&s;on he &s;hall think fit, to prepare, compo&s;e, and make up the &s;aid Pill, (that the Invention be not lo&s;t,) who &s;hall have no benefite, priviledge, or liberty to compo&s;e or vend the afore&s;aid Pill, during the full time and &s;pace above-written: And His Maje&s;ty Ordains the &s;aid Gift to be further extended, with all Clau&s;es needful, and to pa&s;s the Great Seal <HI>per &s;altum,</HI> without pa&s;&s;ing any other Seals or Regi&s;ters, in order whereunto, the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall be to the Director of His Maje&s;ties Chancellory for writing out the &s;ame, and to the Lord High-Chancellor for cau&s;ing the Great Seal to be appended thereto, a &s;ufficient Warrand. G<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">v<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n at the Court at <HI>Whitehall,</HI> the nineteenth day of <HI>May,</HI> one thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and eighty &s;even, and of His Maje&s;ties Reign the third Year. By His Maje&s;ties Command. <HI>&s;ic &s;ub&s;cribitur,</HI> MELFORT. And whereas there having been an Addre&s;s made to Our Privy Council by the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> humbly intreating, that Our Letters of Publication of Our fore&s;aid Gift and Signature, now pa&s;t under Our Great Seal, might be direct in manner, and to the effect under-written. The Lords of Our privy Council, in con&s;ideration of the &s;aid Addre&s;s, by their Act of the date of the&s;e pre&s;ents, have ordained the&s;e Our Letters to be direct accordingly, as the &s;aid Act in it &s;elf more fully purports. Our Will is herefore, and We Charge you &s;trictly, and Command, that incontinent the&s;e Our Letters &s;een, ye pa&s;s to the Mercat-cro&s;s of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and whole remanent Mercat-cro&s;&s;es of the Head burghs of the Shires of this Kingdom, and other places needful, and there in Our Name and Authority, by open Proclamation, make publication of Our Gift and Signature above-written pa&s;t under Our Great Seal as &s;aid is, in favours of the &s;aid <HI>Thomas Weir,</HI> that all Our Leidges may have notice thereof, and give obedience thereto, under the Pains and Certifications therein-mentioned, and being further an&s;werable, as Our privy Council &s;hall think fit, in ca&s;e they contraveen: According to Ju&s;tice, as ye will an&s;wer to Us thereupon. The which to do, We commit to you con|junctly and &s;everally Our full Power by the&s;e Our Letters, delivering them by you duely execute and indor&s;ed again to the Bearer.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under Our Signet at <HI>Edinburgh</HI> <DATE>the &s;econd day of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1687, And of Our Reign the third Year.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Per actum Dominorum Secreti Concilij. <HI>WILL. PATERSON,</HI> Cls. Sti. Concilij.</SIGNED><LB> GOD SAVE THE KING.</CLOSER>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Printed by the Heir of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His mo&s;t Sacred <HI>Majesty,</HI> Anno <HI>Dom.</HI> 1687.</P>
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<P>THe&s;e are to give Adverti&s;ement to any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;omever, That the Pill called Doctor <HI>Ander&s;ons</HI> Pill, with the printed Papers for in&s;tructing the u&s;e the eof, with his Tallideus Picture at the head thereof, and the Boxes being all &s;ealed with his own Seal, which bears his own Nam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">ce and Arms, with <HI>K. A.</HI> for his Daughter <HI>Katharine Ander&s;ons</HI> Name that la&s;t compo&s;ed and &s;old the &s;ame; are compo&s;ed, and now to be <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> only by <HI>Thomas VVeir</HI> Chirurgeon, at his Dwelling-Hou&s;e in <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> on the South &s;ide of the High-Street of the &s;ame, in the Stone Land, and Third Door of the Fore-Turnpike thereof, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pper Well or Conduit, commonly called the Ca&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">le-Well, a little belo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Weigh-Hou&s;e of <HI>Ed<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nburgh.</HI></P>
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