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A92645 Letters of publication, in favours of Thomas Weir chyrurgeon in Edinburgh Scotland. Privy Council. 1694 (1694) Wing S1513B; ESTC R232201 3,806 1

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LETTERS of PUBLICATION IN FAVOURS OF THOMAS WEIR Chyrurgeon in EDINBURGH WILLIAM and MARY by the Grace of GOD King and Queen of Great-Britain France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith To Our Lovits Macers of Our Privy Council or Messengers at Arms Our Sheriffs in that part cunjunctly and severally constitute and to all and sundry Our Lieges and Subjects whom it effeirs Greeting Forasmuch as Anent the Petition given in to the Lords of Our Privy Council by Thomas Weir Chirurgion in Edinburgh Representing that where the secret of Preparing and Compounding the Medicinal Pil Called Doctor Andersons Pil being Communicat by the said Doctor to Katharine Anderson his Daughter and by her to the said Thomas Weir and to no other person as appeared by her Assignation and Declaration dated the fifteenth Day of December One Thousand six hundred and eighty six the said Thomas Weir thereupon procured in anno One Thousand six hundred and eighty seven a Gift under Our Great Seal giving to him the sole Power Right and Priviledge to Prepare Compose Dispense and Vend the said Pil and to use the Printed Papers Stamp and Seal formerly used by the said Doctor Anderson and his Daughter And Discharging all others from Composing Dispensing and Vending the said Pil or using the said printed Papers Stamp and Seal under the penalty of a Thousand Merks toties quoties as the said Gift with an Act of the Lords of Our Privy Council and Letters of Publication raised thereupon in favours of the Petitioner therewith produced testified Nevertheless Thomas Steil Merchant in Edinburgh having upon mis-representation Impetrat an Act of Privy Council dated the twenty sixth of July One Thousand six hundred and eighty eight contraveening the foresaid Gift Act and Letters above mentioned in favours of the said Thomas Weir and presumed to Counterfit the said Pil printed Paper Stamp and Seal As also to print and disperse several false and calumnious Papers and Placads in London and else where in prejudice not only of the said Thomas Weir who had the true Secret and legal Right in manner above-mentioned But also Our Leiges abused by the said Counterfits whereupon the Petitioner having lately raised and execute Letters of Complaint against the said Thomas Steil for his so Contraveening Forging and slandering he being conscious of his own Guilt did not compear but suffered Certification to pass against him upon which he stands Denunced and Registrat at Our Horn and yet notwithstanding he and others for and with him do still upon pretence of the foresaid Act of Privy Council by him impetrat as said is persist in Counterveening the Petitioners Gift in Counterfitting and Vending the said Pil to the prejudice of Their Majesties Leiges so that necessary it is that besides the foresaid Certification the Petitioner should have an Act of Our saids Lords in his favour Re calling Rescinding and Discharging the Act of Privy Council impetrat by the said Thomas Steil as said is since that he refused to nor could in Law abide by and maintain the same As also to certiorat all Our Leiges of the Premises And therefore Supplicating to the effect aftermentioned as the said Petition in it self more fully proports The saids Lords of Our Privy Council having Considered the foresaid Petition with the Gift under the Great Seal and other Writs produced therewith and mentioned therein They by their Act and Sentence of the day and date hereof Have Recalled and Rescinded and hereby Recals and Rescinds the above Act of Privy Council formerly made in favours of the said Thomas Steil and have Declared and hereby Declares That neither he nor any others are to use the printed Papers Stamp and Seal above-specified in prejudice of the above Thomas Weir Petitioner under the Penalty contained in his foresaid Gift And have Declared and hereby Declares that the said Thomas Weir has the Good and only Right to use the same and to take notice of all Counterfits and to cause conveen them before the Privy Council or any inferiour Judicatory competent all the users and practisers thereof that they may be punished And have ordained and hereby Ordains the said Act with the Petitioners Gift under the Great Seal to be Printed and Published Of the which Gift the Tenor follows Sic suprascribitur JAMES R. OUR SOVERAIGN LORD Considering that the Medicinal Pil invented by the Deceast Doctor Patrick Anderson Physician to his Majesties dearest Father King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory hath by experience been found to be a most useful and safe Medicine which hath recommended that Pil not only to His Majesties Subjects in the Kingdom of Scotland but likeways it hath been used in the Kingdoms of England Ireland and other places in Europe and that it is very much the interest of his Subjects and others that the Skill and Art of Prep●ring and Compounding that Pil be preserved intire and the Counterfit sofisticat and adulterat Pils be not imposed upon any person under the notion of this Pil which is so uni●…sally known and used And his Majesty Considering That the Secret and Skill of preparing this Pil was only Communicated by Doctor Anderson to his two Daughters with power only to the surviver of them to Communicat and Transmit that Secret to some fit and qualified Person and that the Deceast Katharine Anderson the said Doctors surviving Daughter hath Communicat to Thomas Weir Chyrurgion in Edinburgh the whole secret and skill in Preparing and Compounding the foresaid Pil and hath sufficiently instructed and seen him prepare and Compound and make up that Pil as well as ever it was done by Doctor Anderson or his Daughters aforesaid And that the said deceast Katharine ●nderson hath by her Assignation Dated the Fifteenth Day of December One Thousand six hundred and eighty six years Assigned and Disponed to the said Thomas Weir her Stamp for the Directions and seal for the Boxes with all other Vessels Materials and other Instruments for Compounding Preparing and Making up the said Pils and that the said Deceast Katharine Anderson doth thereby Declare that she hath Communicated and Transmitted the Secret of Preparing and Compounding the said Pil to the said Thomas Weir and no other person And considering that there is none else to whom the Secret is Communicated or Art of Preparing and Compounding the said Pil is committed And that notwithstanding thereof there are several persons who have already and are of int●…ion to senzie and counterfit the said Pil and to disperse the same with printed Papers and otherwayes under the name of the said Pil commonly called Doctor Andersons Pils albeit the Secret of Preparing and Compounding thereof was never Communicat to them nor to any other person now on life except the said Thomas Weir which if not prevented might prove very dangerous and prejudicial to His Majesties Leiges and others through it 〈…〉 of any Counterfit Sofisticat and Adulterat Pils and would much Discourage the said Thomas Weir who hath