31 To strengthen the stomach 33. 150 For Sun-burn 35 For a Swelling 39. 51. 52. 53. 72. 115 For Spitting of blood 46. 71 Against Surfeiting 60. 111. 175 For Sinews that are shrunk 93 Dr. Stevens Water 65. 144 To cause one to sleep 71. 103. 119. 122 For pain in the Stomach 75 A Cordial for the Sea 78 For the Stone 81. 88. 94. 112. 134. 135 For an old Sore 89. 90. 101. 109. 128. 145 To make oil of Sage 87 For a Scald 97. 123. 152 To make oil of Swallows 116 A water for the Sight 121 For the stiffness of Sinews 138 For the Spleen 151 Vertues of spirit of Saffron 103 Vertues of spirit of Strawberries 195 T For stopping in the Throat 11 To distil Treacle Water 12 For a Tetter 97. 181 To keep Teeth clean 86 To cure the Gargee in the Throat 90 To quench thirst 120 For the Tooth-ach 88. 170 To fasten the Teeth ibid. To make one take their meat 179 The Vertues of Aqua Theriacalis 193 V How to stay Vomiting 33 How to stop the bleeding of a Vein 47 For a Vein ill smitten 48 For Vlcers 55 Flos Unguentorum 57 Against biting of venemous beasts 70 Against falling of the Vvula 183 W A Cordial for wind in the stomach 147. 156 Restoratives for the same 16. 17. 18 For a green Wound 27. 54. 69. 70. 83. 109. 128. 132 For one that is Weak 42 To stanch bleeding of a Wound 46. 96. 168 For a Woman travelling with Child 48. 79 For a Wen 54 For cankered Wounds 62 Dr. Willoughbies Water 66 To draw an Arrow-head or any Iron out of a Wound 69 For a Woman that hath her Flowers too much 91 To cause a Woman to have her sickness 94 To kill Worms 94. 154 For the Wind-Cholick 102 For one that cannot make Water 114. 182 To take away Warts 121 Y Yellow Jaundice 37 A Choice Manual OR RARE and SELECT SECRETS IN PHYSICK By the Right Honourable the Countess of KENT A very good Medicine for a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs TAke a pound of the best Honey as you can get and dissolve it in a Pipkin then take it off the fire and put in two penny worth of flower of brimstone and a pennyworth of powder of Elecampane and 2 pennyworth of the flower of Liquorice and 2 pennyworth of red Rose-water and so stir them together till they be all compounded together and put it into a gally-pot and when you use it take a Liquorish-stick beaten at one end and take up with it as much almost as half a Walnut at night when you go to bed and in the morning fasting or at any time in the night when you are troubled with the Cough and so let it melt down in your mouth by degrees Sir John Digbies Medicine for the Stone in the Kidneys Take a pound of the finest Honey and take 7 quarts of Conduit-water set them on the fire and when it is ready to seeth scum it and still as the froth rises scum it and put in 20 whole Cloves and let them seeth softly for the space of half an hour and so bottle it up for your use and drink it morning and evening and at your meat and use no other drink until you are well A Medicine for the falling sickness Take a penyweight of the powder of Gold six pennyweight of Pearl 6 pennyweight of Amber 6 pennyweight of Coral 8 grains of Bezoar half an ounce of Piony seed also you must put some powder of a dead mans Skull that hath been an Anatomy for a woman and the powder of a woman for a man compound all these together and take as much of the powder of all these as will lie upon a two-pence for 9 mornings together in Endive water and drink a good draught of Endive water after it For Cordials and Restoratives use these things following In any faintness take 3 drops of Oil of Cinnamon mixed with a spoonful of sirrup of Gilliflowers and as much Cinnamon-water drink this for a Cordial Against Melancholy Take 1 spoonful of Gilliflowers the weight of 7 Barly corns of Bever-stone bruise it as fine as flower and so put into 2 spoonfuls of syrrup of Gilliflowers and take it four hours after Supper or else four hours after dinner this will cheer the heart If you be sick after meat use this Take of the best green Ginger that is preserved in syrrup shred it into small pieces put it into a gally-pot and put Cinnamon water to it then after dinner or supper eat the quantity of two Nutmegs upon a knifes point Aqua Mirabilis Take three pints of White-wine one pint of Aqua vitae one pint of juice of Celendine one dram of Cardamer a drachm of Mellilot-flowers Cubebs a dram Galingal Nutmeg Mace Ginger and Cloves of each a dram mingle all these together over-night the next morning set them a stilling in a glass Limbeck The Vertues This water dissolveth swelling of the Lungs and being perished doth help and comfort them it suffereth not the blood to putrifie he shall not need to be let blood that useth this water it suffereth not the heart-burning nor Melancholy or â—egm to have dominion it expelâ—eth Urine and profiteth the stomach it preserveth a good colour the visage memory and youth it destroyeth the Palsie Take some 3 spoonfuls of it once or twice a week or oftner morning and evening first and last Another way to make Aqua Mirabilis Take Galingal Cloves Quibs Ginger Mellilip Cardimomie Mace Nutmegs of each a dram and of the juice of Celendine half a pint adding the juice of Mints and Balm of each half a pint more and mingle all the said spices being beaten into a powder with the juice with a pint of good Aqua vitae and 3 pints of good White-wine put all these together in a pot and let it stand all night being close stopt and in the morning distil it with as soft fire as can be the still being close pasted and a cold still A Medicine for the Stone in the Kidneys Take a good handful of Pellitory of the Wall a handful of Meâ—d Parsley Saxifrage a handful of wild Thyme a handful of garden-Parsley three spoonfuls of Fennel seed six Horse-Radish-Roots sliced then shred all these together put them in a gallon of new Milk and let them stand steep in a close pot 1 whole night and then still them milk and all together this must be done in May or June for then herbs are in their best state when it is taken you must put two or three spoonfuls of this water as much White-wine as Rhenish and if you please a little sugar and so take it two days before the change and two days after and two days before the full and two days after continuing taking the same all the year and the patient undoubtedly shall find great ease and void many stones and much gravel with little pain To make Horse-raddish
a most excellent Medicine A Medicine for a Wen. Take black Soap and unquencht Lime of each a like quantity beat them very small together and spread in on a woollen cloth and lay it on the Wen and it will consume it away For breaking out of Childrens heads Take of White-wine and sweet Butter alike and boyl them together till it come to a Salve and so anoint the head therewith For to mundifie and gently to cleanse Vlcers and breed new flesh Take Rosin eight ounces Colophonia four ounces Era Oliva Ana one pound Adipis ovini Gum Ammoniaci Opoponaci Ana one ounce fine Aeruginis aeris boyl your Wax Colophoni and Rosin with the Oyl together then strain the Gums being first dissolved in Vinegar and boyl it with a gentle fire then take it off and put in your Verdigreece and fine powder and use it according to Art. A Fomentation Take the liquor wherein Neats-feet have been boyled with Butter and new Milk and use it in manner of a Fomentation For the Falling-sickness or Convulsions Take the dung of a Peacock make it into powder and give sâ— much of it to the Patient as wilâ— lie upon a shilling in Succory-water fasting For a Tetter proceeding of a salt-humour in the Breast and Paps Annoint the sore place with Tanners Owse For the bloody Flux Take the bone of a Gammon oâ— Bacon and set it up on end in the middle or a Charcoal fire and let it burn till it look like Chalk and that it will burn no longer then powder it and give the powder thereof unto the sick A Plaister for all manner of bruises Take one pound of mede wax and a quartern of Pitch half a quartern of Galbanum and one pound of Sheeps tallow shred them and seeth them softly and put to them a little White-wine or good Vinegar and take of Frankincense and Mastick of each half an ounce in powder and put it to and boyl them together and still them till it be well relented and spread this salve upon a mighty Canvas that will overspread the sore and lay it thereon hot till it be whole To make Flos Unguentorum Take Rosin Perrosin and half a pound of Virgin wax Frankincense a quarter of a pound of Mastick half an ounce of Sheeps tallow a quarter of a pound of Camphire two drams melt that that is to melt and powder that that is to powder and boil it over the fire and strain it through a cloth into a bottle of White-wine and boyl it altogether and then let it cool a little and then put thereto a quartern of Turpentine and stir all well together till it be cold and keep it well this Ointment is good for sores old and new it suffereth no corruption in the Wound nor no evil flesh to be gendered in it and it is good for head-ach and for all manner of Imposthumes in the head and for wind in the brain and for Imposthumes in the body and for boyling ears and cheeks and for sauce flegm in the face and for Sinews that be knit or stiff or sprung with travel it doth draw out a thorn or iron in what place soever it be and it is good for biting or stinging of venemous beasts it rotteth and healeth all manner of Botches without and it is good for a Fester and Canker and Noli me Tangere and it draweth out all manner of a king of the Liver and of the Spleen and of the Mervis and it is good for a king and swelling of many members and for all members and it ceaseth the flux of Menstrua and of Emeroids and it is a special thing to make a fumed cloth to heal all manner of sores and it searcheth farthest inward of any Ointment An Ointment for all sorts of Aches Take Bettony Cammomile Celendine Rosemary and Rue of each of them a handful wash the herbs and press out the water and then chop or stamp them very small and then take fresh Butter unwashed and unsalted a quart and seeth it until half be wasted and clarified them scum it clean and put in of oyl of Olives 1 ounce a piece of Virgins Wax for to harden the Oyntment in the summer time and if you make it in the winter put into your Ointment a little quantity of foot-fennel instead of the Virgins Wax An excellent Syrrup to purge Take of Sena Alexandria one pound Polipodium of the Oak 4 ounces Sarsaparilla two ounces Damask Prunes 4 ounces Ginger seven drams Annise seeds one ounce Cummin-seed half an ounce Carraway seeds half an ounce Cinnamon 10 drams Aristolochia rotunda Peonia of each 5 drams Rubarb one ounce Garlick six drams Tamarisk two handfuls boyl all these in a gallon of fair water unto a pottle and when the liquor is boyled half away strain it forth and then put in your Rubarb and Agarick in a thin clean handkerchief and tie it up close and put into the said liquor and then put in two pound of fine Sugar and boyl it to the height of a syrrup and take of it the quantity of six spoonfuls or more or less as you find it worketh in you To make drink for all kind of Surfeits Take a quart of Aqua or small Aqua vitae and put in that a good handful of Cowslip flowers Sage-flowers a good handful and of Rosemary flowers a handful sweet Marjorum a little Pellitory of the wall a little Bettony and Balm of each a pretty handful Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs a quarter of an ounce Fennel seed Annise seed Coriander seed Carraway seed Grumwel seed Juniper berries of each a dram bruise your spices and seeds and put them into your aqua or aqua vitae with your herbs together and put to that 3 quarters of a pound of very fine Sugar stir them together and put them in a glass and let it stand nine days in the Sun and let it be stirred every day it is to be made in May steeped in a wide mouthed glass and strain'd out into a narrow mouth'd glass A Medicine for the Reins of the back Take Housleek and stamp and strain it then dip a fine linnen cloth into it and lay it to the reins of the back and that will heal it A Medicine for the Ach in the back Take Egrimony and Mugwort both leaves and roots and stamp it with old Bores grease and temper it with Honey and Eysell and lay it to the back For a Stitch. Take Roses and Cammomile of each a handful and oyl of Roses and oyl of Cammomile of both together a saucer full and a quantity of Barly flower boyl all these together in Milk and then take a linnen bag and put it therein and lay the plaister as hot as may be suffered where the stitch is To make a salve for wounds that be cankered and do burn Take the juice of Smallage of Morrel of Waberb of each alike then take the white of Eggs and mingle them together
close and with a quick fire roast him and the Oyl that droppeth out is a most singular Oyl for all Palsies or numness Approved To comfort the brain and procure sleep Take brown bread crums the quantity of one Walnut one Nutmeg beaten to powder one dram of Cinnamon put these into a Napkin with two spoonfuls of Vinegar 4 spoonfuls of Rosewater and one of Womans Milk. For the weakness in the Back Take the pith of an Ox back put it into a pottle of water then seeth it to a quart then take a handful of Comfrey one handful of knotted grass one handful of Shepherds purse put these into a quart of water boyl them unto a pint with 6 Dates boyled therein For a Canker in any part of the Body Take Fil-bird Nut-leaves Lavender cotten Southernwood Wormwood Sage Woodbind leaves sweet Brier leaves of each a like quantity of Allum and Honey a good quantity seeth all these till they be half sodden wash the Sore with it For an old bruise Take one spoonful of the juice of Tansie and as much Nip two pennyworth of Sperma Ceti put it into a little Ale and drink it Oyl of Foxes or Badgers for Ach in the joints the Sciatica diseases of the Sinews and pains of the Reins and Back Take a live Fox or Badger of a middle age of a full body well fed and fat kill him bowel and skin him some take not out his bowels but only his Excrements in his guts because his guts have much grease about them break his bones small that you may have all the marrow this done set him a boyling in salt Brine and sea water and salt water of each a pint and a half of oyl three pints of salt 3 ounces in the end of the decoction put thereto the leaves of Sage Rosemary Dill Organy Marjorum and Juniper berries and when he is so sodden that his bones and flesh do depart in sunder strain all through a strainer and keep it in a vessel to make Linaments for the Ach in the joynts the Sciatica diseases of the sinews and pains of the reins and back To make the Leaden Plaister Take 2 pound and 4 ouuces of oyl Olive of the best of good red Lead one pound white lead one pound well beaten to dust twelve ounces of Spanish sope and incorporate all these well together in an earthen pot well glazed before you put them to boyl and when they are well incorporated that the sope cometh upward put it upon a small fire of coals continuing upon the fire the space of an hour and a half still stirring it with an Iron Ball upon the end of a stick then make the fire somewhat bigger until the redness be turned into a gray colour but you must not leave stirring till the matter be turned into the colour of oyl or somewhat darker then drop of it upon a wooden trencher and if it cleave not to the finger it is enough then make it up into rowls it will keep twenty years the older the better The virtue of the Plaister The same being laid upon the stomach provoketh appetite it taketh away any grief in the stomach being laid on the belly is a present remedy for the Cholick and laid unto the reins of the back it is good for the bloody Flux running of the Reins the heat of the Kidneys and weakness of the back the same healeth all swellings bruises and taketh away ach it breaks Fellons pushes and other Imposthumes and healeth them the same draweth out any running humours without breaking the skin and being applied to the fundament it healeth any disease there growing being laid on the head is good for the Uvula it healeth the head-ach and is good for the eyes For a pricking of a Thorn. Take fine Wheat-flower bolted temper it with Wine and seeth it thick lay it hot to the sore A Medicine for the Plague Take a pint of Malmsey and burn it well then take about six spoonfuls thereof and put to the quantity of a Nutmeg of good Treacle and so much spice grains beaten as you can take up with the tops of your 2 fingers mix it together and let the party sick drink it blood-warm if he be infected it will procure him to cast which if he do give him as much more and so still again and again observing still some quantity till the party leave casting and so after he will be well if he cast not at all once taken it is enough and probably it is not the sickness after the party hath left casting it is good to take a competent draught of burnt Malmsie alone with Treacle and Grains it will comfort much Another Medicine for the Plague Take of Setwel grated one root of Jane Treacle two spoonfuls of Wine Vinegar 3 spoonfuls of fair water 3 spoonfuls make all these more than luke-warm and drink them off at once well steeped together sweat after this six or seven hours and it will bring forth the Plague sore To break the Plague sore Lay a roasted Onion also seeth a white Lilly root in milk till it be as thick as a Poultess and lay it to the same if these fail launce the sore and so draw it and heal it with salves for Botches or Biles To make a Salve to dress any wound Take Rosin and Wax of each half a pound of Deer suet and Frankincense of each one quarter of a pound of Mastick in powder one ounce boyl all these in a pint of White-wine half an hour with a soft fire and stir it in the boyling that it run not over then take it from the fire and put thereto half an ounce of Camphire in powder when it is almost cold put thereto one quarter of a pound of Turpentine after all these be mingled together then put it into White-wine and wash it as you wash Butter and then as it cools make it up in rowls A most excellent Water for sore Eyes Take a quart of Spring water set it upon the fire in an earthen Pipkin then put into it 3 spoonfuls of white salt and one spoonful of white Coperas then boyl them a quarter of an hour scum it as it doth boyl then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and keep it for your use When you take it you must lie down upon the bed and drop two drops of it into your eye so rest one quarter of an hour not wiping your eyes and use it as often as need shall require If the eye have any pearl or film growing upon it then take a handful of red double Dasie leaves and stamp them and strain them through a linnen cloth and drop thereof one drop into your eye using it three times A Plaister for one that is bruised Take half a pint of Sallet Oyl or Neats-foot Oyl half a pint of English Honey 2 or 3 pennyworth of Turpentine a good quantity of Hogs grease 2 or 3 pennyworth of Bole Armoniack half a pint of
strong Wine-vinegar half a dozen of Egg-shells and all beaten very small one handful of white Salt put all these together into an earthen pot stir and mingle them together exceeding well then as much Bean-flower or wheat-flower as will thicken it plaister-wise then with your hand strike it on the grieved place once a day and by Gods help it will ease any sore that cometh by means of striking wrinching bruising or other kind of swelling that proceedeth of evil humours Balm water for a Surfeit Take two gallons of strong Ale and 1 quart of Sack take 4 pound of young Balm leaves and shred them then take 1 pound of Annise-seeds and as much Liquorish beaten to powder put them all into the Ale and Sack to steep 12 hours put it into a Limbeck and so still it it is good for a surfeit of choler for to comfort the heart and for an Ague A Restorative Water in sickness the Patient being weak Take 3 pints of very good new milk and put thereto one pint of very good red Wine the yolks of 21 Eggs and beat them together that done put in as much fine Manchet as shall suck up the Milk and Wine then put the same into a fair Stillory and still it with a soaking fire and take a spoonful of this water in your Pottage or drink and this in 1 or 2 Months will prevent the Consumption To make a Caudle to prevent the Lask Take half a pound of unblanched Almonds stamp them and strain it in a quart of Ale and set it on the fire then take the yolks of four Eggs and make it for a Caudle and so season it with a good quantity of Cinnamon and Sugar and eat it every morning at breakfast For one that cannot make water and to break the Stone Pare a Reddish root and slice it thin put it into a pint of White-wine and let it infuse 6 or 7 hours then strain it and set it on the fire and put thereto 1 Parsley root and one spoonful of Parsley seed and half a handful of Pellitory of the wall and seeth it until half be wasted and give it luke-warm to drink A Diet against Melancholy Take Sene 8 ounces Rubarb six drams Polipody of the Oak Sâ—rsaparilla and Madder roots of each four ounces Annife-seeds Fennel seeds Epithymum of each 1 ounce Mace Cloves and Nutmegs of each 2 ounces Egrimony Scabious and red Dock roots of each 1 handful make them all small and put it into a long narrow bag or boulter hang it in a vessel of Ale that containeth 6 gallons when it is a week old drink it morning and evening for the space of one fortnight keep you all that time warm and a good diet A Syrrup to open the Liver Take Lungwort Maidenhair Egrimony Scabious of each one handful Chamepitis Hysop of each a dozen drops Endive and Succory of each 3 or 4 leaves of young Fennel and Parsley of each one root one stick of Liquorish one spoonful of Barberries clean washed one spoonful of Annise seeds 20 Raisins of the Sun stoned boyl all these in a pottle of Water to a quart then strain it and put thereto of the best Sugar one quarter of a pound Conserve of violets one ounce and so boyl it as long as any scum arise then strain it again and use this very warm For one that cannot make water Take the seeds of Parsley of red Fennel of Saxifrage of Carraways of the kernel of Hip berries of each a like quantity put in some powder of Jet mingle these being beaten to powder well together and drink it in stale Ale lukewarm To make Aqua Composita Take of Annise-seeds and Liquorish bruised of each half a pound Thyme and Fennel of each half a handful Calamint 2 handfuls Coriander and Carraway seeds bruised of each two ounces Rosemary and Sage of each half a handful infuse these a whole night in 3 gallons of red Wine or strong Ale then still it in a Limbeck with a soft fire An Ointment for a Swelling Take of Marsh Mallows of wormwood of Smallage of each one handful boyl it with one pound of the grease of a barrow Hog until it be very green then strain it and keep it very close Lady Pawlet A Plaister for the Back Take half a pint of Oyl of Roses four ounces of white Lead ground into fine powder put your oyl into a clean Posnet and set it on the fire and when it is warm put in your white Lead ever stiring it then put into it of your Wax one quart stir it until it be black then take it from the fire and in the cooling put thereto two pennyworth of Camphire of white sanders and yellow sanders of each the weight of four pence fine Bole Terra sigillata of each 2 penniweight in fine powder all still stirring it till it be almost cold and so make it up in rouls use it as need requires for all weakness wasting or heat in the Kidneys Cranash To make Oyl of Swallows Take one handful of Mother-Thyme of Lavender-cotten and Strawberry leaves of each alike four Swallows feathers and all together well bruised 3 ounces of Sallet oyl beat the herbs and the Swallows feathers all together until they be so small that you can see no feathers then put in the oyl stir them well together and seeth them in a posnet and strain them through a Canvas cloth and so keep it for your use For a Thorn Fellon or Prick Take the juice of Fetherfew of Smallage of each one saucer full put to it as much of Wheat flower as will make it somewhat thick and put to it of good black sope the quantity of a Walnut mingle them together and lay them to the sore A Drink for one that hath a Rupture Take the Comfit otherwise called Bonesel a pretty handful of Woodbitten as much Bread Plantain and leaves of Cammock somewhat more than a handful of Vervain as much as of the Cammock of Dasie roots a small quantity of Elder tops or young buds the least quantity stamp all these together and put unto them being stamped one pint of pure White-wine then strain it and drink of it morning and evening one hour or more before breakfast or supper a good draught blood-warm If it be a sucking Child let the Nurse drink posset Ale of the aforesaid drink and let the Child suck immediately if he be an old body let him take it lying in his bed 9 days if it may be conveniently or otherwise to use no straining For a Lask or Flux Take one quart of red Wine as much running water one ounce of Cinnamon seeth these half away and give the Patient six spoonfuls to drink morning and evening if you think it be too harsh put in a piece of Sugar A Lotion Water for the Canker Take one gallon of pure Water four handfuls of Woodbine of Marigolds and Tetful of each two handfuls of Celendine Rue Sage
and Egrimony of each one handful boyl all these to a quart then strain it and put thereto two great spoonfuls of the best English Honey and one ounce of Roch Allum boyl them all again as long as any scum ariseth then take it off and put it in a close bottle and use it blood warm when need requires For the Mother Take 3 or 4 handfuls of Fern that groweth upon a house seeth it in Rhenish Wine till it be well sodden then put it in a linnen cloth and lay it to her Navel as hot as she may suffer it four or five times A Water for all old Sores Take Honey-suckles Water Betony Rosemary Sage Violet leaves Elder leaves cut them all small together and seeth them in a quart of running water put thereto two spoonfuls of Honey and a little Allum For one that hath a great heat in his Temples or that cannot sleep Take the juice of Housleek and of Lettice of each 1 spoonful of womans Milk six spoonfuls put them together and set them upon a Chafing dish of Coals and put thereto a piece of Rose cake and lay it to your Temples To quench or slake your Thirst. Take one quart of running water out of the brook seeth it and scum it put thereto 5 or 6 spoonfuls of Vinegar a good quantity of Sugar and Cinnamon 3 or 4 Cloves bruised drink it lâ—kewarm For one that hath a great heat in his hands and stomach Take 4 Eggs roast them hard peel them lay them in Vinegar 3 or 4 hours then let the sick man hold in either hand one of them and after some space change them and take the other and it will allay the heat Against all Aches especially of a Womans breast Take Milk and Rose leaves and set them on the fire and put thereto Oatmeal and oyl of Roses boyl them till they be thick and lay it hot under the sore and renew it so that it be always hot For the Phthisick and dry Cough Take the Lungs of a Fox beat them to powder take of Liquorish and Sugar candy a good quantity a small quantity of Cummin mix these all well together and put them in a bladder and eat of it as often as you think good in a day To take away Warts Take Snails that have shells prick them and with the juice that cometh from them rub the Wart every day for the space of 7 or 8 days and it will destroy them A perfect Water for the sight Take Sage Fennel Vervain Bettony Eyebright Pimpernel Cinquefoil and Herbgrace lay all these in White-wine one night still it in a stillatory of glass this water did restore the sight of one that was blind three years before To restore the Hearing Take Rue Rosemary Sage Vervain Marjoram of each one handful of Cammomil two handfuls stamp them and mould them in Rie dough make thereof one loaf bake it as other bread and when it is baked break it in the midst and as hot as may be suffered bind it to your ears and keep them warm and close one day or more after it be taken away forbear ye to take cold For a Fellon in the Joints Take Rue Featherfew Bores grease Leaven Salt Honey six leaves of Sage shred them altogether small then beat them together and lay it to the sore place To comfort the Brains and to procure sleep Take a red Rose-cake three spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar the white of one Egg three spoonfuls of Womans Milk set all these on a Chafing dish of Coals heat them and lay the Rose cake upon the dish and let them heat together then take one Nutmeg and strew it on the Cake then put it betwixt two clothes and lay it to your forehead as warm as you may suffer it A Medicine for a forehead with a Scald Take one peck of Shoomakers shreds set them over the fire in a Brass pan put water to them and seeth them so long as any oyl will arise and evermore be scumming off the oyl then take plantain Ribwort Housleek leaves ground Ivy knotted grass wild Borrage Tutsan Herb Bennet Smallage Setwel leaves of every one alike quantity and beat them in a Mortar and strain them then take half a pennyworth of Rosin half a pennyworth of Allum a little Virgins Wax beat them and put them into a pan and set it over the fire put thereto the Herbs and the oyl let them seeth till all be melted then strain them into a pan and stir them till they be cold and put it into a box for your use when you dress your head heat a little in a saucer annoint it every day twice pull out the hairs that stand upright and with a linnen cloth wipe away the corruption A Salve for a Green wound or old Sore Take the leaves of green Tabacco two pounds of Valerian two pound beat them very small then strain them and take the juice thereof put one pound of yellow Wax one pound of Rosin one pound of Deer suet boyl them together till they be very green and when it is cold put to it a quarter of a pound of Turpentine and keep it for your use For the Running of the Reins Approved Take the Roes of red Herrings dry them upon the coals till they will beat to powder then give it to the patient to drink in the morning fasting as much as will lie upon a shilling in 5 spoonfuls of Ale or Wine be he never so weak For the burning and pricking in the Soles of the Feet Take have a pound of Barrows grease two handfuls of Mugwort chopped very small boyl it with the Barrows grease upon a soft fire by the space of 4 hours then strain it from the Mugwort and put it up in an earthen thing for your use and annoint your feet as you go to bed A Medicine for any heat burning or Scalding Approved Take half a pint of the best Cream you can get and set it in a fair Posnet upon the fire then take two good handfuls of Dasie roots leaves and all clean washed and very finely shred put them into the same Posnet and boil it upon the fire until it be a clear Ointment then strain it through a cloth and keep it for your use To make Aqua Composita to drink for a Surfeit or a cold stomach and to avoid Flegm and glut from the stomach Take one handful of Rosemary one good root of Elecampane one handful of Hop half a handful of Thyme half a handful of Sage 6 good crops of red Mints and as much of Pennyroyal half a handful of Horehound six crops of Marjarom two ounces of Liquorish well bruised and so much of Annise seeds then take 3 gallons of strong Ale and put all the aforesaid things Ale and Herbs into a brass pot then set them upon the fire and set your Limbeck upon it and stop it close with paste that there come no air out and so keep it with a soft fire
as other Aqua vitae For an Ach in the Joynts Take clarified Butter a quarter of a pound of Cummin 1 pound black sope a quarter of a pound 1 handful of Rue sheep suet 2 ounces Bay-salt 1 spoonful bray these together then fry them with the gall of an Ox spread it on a plaister and lay it on as hot as you can and let it lie seven days A Plaister to lay to the Head for a Rheum which runneth at the Eyes Take the power of Rose leaves Rose-water and Bettony-water of each a like quantity and a little Vinegar put your powders into the Water and Vinegar still them and temper them and make them in a Plaister and put to it a little powder of Terra sigillata A Water to be used with the Plaister above said for the same purpose Take one quart of new Milk two pound of green Fennel a quarter of a pound of Eyebrightâ— put the herbs and milk into a Stilâ—latory cast half an ounce of Camâ—phire thereon and with this waâ—ter wash your eyes and temples For the Emeroides approved Take a piece of tawny clothâ— burn it in a Frying-pan to powder then beat it in a Mortar a fine as may be searce it then laâ— it on a brown paper and witâ— spittle make it plaisterwise and lay it to the place and truss it up with clothes To break any Sore Take hot bread to the quantity of a farthing loaf grate it puâ— thereto sallet oyl 3 or 4 spoonfuls and a pint of Milk and seeth then together to a good thicknessâ— spread it on a cloath and lay it to the sore instead of sallet oyl yoâ— may use Deer suet A Bath for an Ach in the Back and Limbs Take Mugwort Vervain Fetherâ—few Dill Rosemary Burnet Tunhoof Horehound and white Mints Senkel and sage of each 1 handful seeth all these in 4 gallons of running water and let it seeth till 1 gallon be wasted then bath your legs 5 nights together A Medicine for any Joynt that is numb with any Ach approved Take Virgin Wax 1 ounce Verdigreece half a quarter of an ounce Brimstone Sope oyl of Eggs of Allum of Honey of each a like quantity temper them all together and lay it upon the place grieved somewhat warm A Medicine for a Fellon of any Finger Take as much bay-salt as an Egg wind it in gray paper lay it in the embers a quarter of an hour then beat it in a Mortar very fine then take the yolk of a new laid Egg beat it with this powder until it be very stiff spread it upon a cloth lay it upon the joynt grieved 24 hours and so dress it 3 times For a Boil or Push Take the yolk of a new laid Eggâ— a little English Honey put it into the shell to the yolk put in as much Wheat meal as will make it to spread then take 1 branch of Rue and one of Fetherfew shred them very fine and put it to the same medicine stir them very well together spread it upon a piece of leather and lay it to the place grieved An Electuary to cause good digestion and to comfort the stomach Take Setwel and Gallingal of each three slices Nutmegs Ginger and Cinnamon of each two slices three Bay-berries sliced fine and husked three slices of Liquorish half a spoonful of Annise-seeds clean dusted one long pepper cut small white pepper six grains as much black pepper beat them all into a gross powder then put thereto two grains of musk one grain of Ambergreece then take Mint-water and Sugar boyl them together and when they are come to the right perfection of thickness put in those powders above mentioned in the cooling with a little Conserve of Rosemary flowers of this take the quantity of a Nutmeg half an hour before you eat or drink at meals A Powder for the Rheum or sore Eyes Boyl one pint of Hop-water made when the Hop is in the flour till it be scalding hot then put into it half a pound of Liquorish in very fine powder the water being taken from the fire for the Liquorish must not boyl in the water stir them together till the water be clean consumed then add to them of Annise seeds and Fennel seeds of each half a pound made into very fine powder through a searce Angelica roots Elicampane root and leaves add flowers of Eyebright made into very fine powder of each one ounce and a half mingle these together and so keep it close and when you eat of this powder weigh out of the whole quantity two ounces whereunto add as much good Aqua vitae as will moisten it or Angelica water or Rosa solis to keep it from being musty set it near the fire eat of these powders at any time as much as you may take up with a groat and it is special good for the Rheum for cold or for sore eyes Mr. Bendlow A Salve for any Wound Take Rosin Perosin Wax of each eight ounces of sheeps suet and Frankincense of each four ounces one ounce of Mastick made in powder boyl all these in a pint of White-wine half an hour then take it from the fire and put thereto half an ounce of Camphire in powder when it is almost cold put thereto 4 ounces of Turpentine and make it up in rowls but before it be rowled you must wash it up in running water A. T. How to deliver a Child in danger Take a Date stone beat it into powder let the woman drink it with Wine then take Polipody and emplaister it to her feet and the Child will come whether it be quick or dead then take Centory green or dry give it the Woman to drink in Wine give also the Milk of another Woman A most singular Syrrup for the Lungs and to prevent a Consumption Take Egrimony Scabious Borrage Bugloss of each twenty leaves Fole-foot Lungwort Maiden-hair of each half a handful Succory and Endive of each six leaves of Carduus Benedictus Horehound Nip of each four crops unset Hop half a handful Fennel roots Parsley roots Smallage root of each 3 roots sliced and the piths taken out Elecampane 4 roots sliced Iris roots half an ounce sliced Quince seeds one ounce Liquorish three good sticks scraped and sliced small twenty Figs sliced Raisins of the Sun 1 good handful sliced and the stones taken out Boyl all these in a gallon of running water till half be consumed then take it from the fire and let it settle then strain it and boyl it again with as much white Sugar as will make it thick as Syrrup that it may last all the year A Powder for the Stone Take Haws and Hips of each a good handful Ashen keys half a handful 3 or 4 Acrons the shells of three new laid Eggs Grumwell seeds Parsley seeds of each half an ounce Perstone a good handful Camock roots half a handful make all these in fine powder then put thereto two ounces of Sugar-candy beaten something small take
and strain them and put thereto as much Claret Wine as the juice thereof and let the party drink it warm and if it keep within him 24 hours after he will recover if he be bound in the body let him take 3 spoonfuls of Syrrup of Damask Roses and two spoonfuls of Sallet oyl and drink it fasting and an hour after let the party take some warm broth For the Spleen Take of Lavender Fennel Parsley Cammomil Thyme Wormwood Angelica of each one handful of Sage and Rue one handful of Annise seeds and Fennel seeds of each one handful of Cummin seeds two handfuls of Cloves four spoonfuls and of Mace two spoonfuls gather these herbs in the heat of the day and dry them in the Sun two days laying them very thin on a sheet and bruise the seed grosly and steep them in as much Sallet oyl as will cover all these things and somewhat more and set them in the Sun ten days which being done strain your oyl from your Herbs and your spices and then infuse once again as before with Herbs and Spices in like manner add to this oyl that infused or strained and bitter Almonds and oyl of Capers half a pint then take a quarter of a spoonful of the said oyl and put in your hands your hands being warm rub them together and annoint and rub the Patient grieved with both your hands the one on the right side the other on the left from the loyns down to the bottom of the belly drawing your hands as hard as you can and make them to meet at the bottom of the belly and continue in continual rubbing about a quarter of an hour For a Burning or Scald Take a quantity of sheeps suet the white of Hen dung and fresh grease boyl all these together strain it and annoint the party with a feather For the Emeroids and Piles Take juice of Elder May-butter and Deer-suet melt them letting the juice and the butter simper and then put the suet to them make them into Pills and if you make a Suppository you must put in more Deers suet For the Canker in the Mouth or Nose Take the ashes of green leaves of Holly with half so much of the burnt powder of Allum blow with a quil into the place grieved and it will help man child or beast A Remedy for the Mother When the Fit beginneth to take them take the powder of white Amber and burn it in a Chafindish of coals and let them hold their mouthes over it and suck in the smoke and annoint their nostrils with the oyl of Amber and if they be not with child take 2 or 3 drops of the oyl of Amber in White-wine warm or cold but the oyl of Amber must be taken inward but once a day and outward as often as the fit taketh them A Medicine for the Worms Take one pennyworth of Alloes with the like quantity of Ox-gall and Mithridate mix them together and lay them on the Childs Navel upon a Plaister A Preservation against the Plague Take one dry Walnut take off the shell and peel cut it small and with a branch of Rue shred fine and a little wine-vinegar and salt put all into a sliced Fig take it up fasting and then you may drink a little wormwood after it and go where you list A Pill for those that are infected Taker of Aloes-succatrina half an ounce of Myrrh and English Saffron of each a quarter of an ounce beat them into small powder with Malmsey or a little Sack or Dioscoridon make two or three small pills thereof and take them fasting A Poultess to break a Plague-sore Take a white Lilly-root and seeth it in a pennyworth of Linseed and a pretty quantity of Barrows grease beat the Linseed first very soft afterwards beat all together in a Mortar make thereof a Plaister An Electuary for the Plague Take the weight of ten grains of Saffron 2 ounces of the kernels of Walnuts 2 or 3 Figs 1 dram of Mithridate and a few Sage leaves stampt together with a sufficient quantity of Pimpernel Water make up all these together in a mass or lump and keep it in a glass or pot for your use take the quantity of 12 grains fasting in the morning and it will not only preserve from the pestilence but expel it from the infected Against a Tertian Ague Take Dandillion clean washed stamp it and put it in Beer and let it stand all night in the Beer in the morning strain it and put half a spoonful of Treacle into it make it lukewarm and let the patient drink of it fasting upon his well day and walk upon it as long as he is able this hath been approved good for an Ague that cometh every second day Against the Wind. Take Cummin seed and steep them in a Sack 24 hours dry them by the fire and hull them then take Fennel seed Carraway seed and Annise seed beat all these together and take every morning half a spoonful in Broth or Beer fasting Another Take Enula Campana grate it and drink half a spoonful fasting For the sting of an Adder Take a head of Garlick and bruise it with some Rue add some Honey thereto and if you will some Treacle and apply it to the place For the biting of a Dog. Take Ragwort chop it and boyl it with unwasht butter to an Ointment A Medicine for a woman that hath a dead Child or for the after-birth after deliverance Take Date-stones dry them and beat them to powder then take Cummin seed Grain and English Saffron make them in powder and put them all together in like quantity saving less of the Saffron than of the rest then searce them very finely and when need is to drink it take a spoonful at once with a little Malmsie and drink it Milk-warm it is good to bring forth a dead Child or for the after birth or if the woman have any rising in her stomach or flushing in her face during her child-birth the Date-stones with round holes in the side are the best if you put a quantity of white Amber beaten amongst the powder it will be better To make the best Paracelsus Salve Take of Litharge of Gold and Silver of each 3 ounces and put to it one pound and half of good Sallet oyl and as much of Linseed oyl put it in a large earthen vessel well leaded of the fashion of a milk bowl or a great Bason set it over a gentle fire and keep it stirring till it begin to boyl then put to it of red lead and of Lapis Calaminaris of each half a pound keep it with continual stirring and let it boyl 2 hours or so long till it be something thick which you may know by dropping a little of it upon a cold board or stone then take a Skillet and put into it a pound of yellow Wax as much black Rosin half a pound of Gum-sandrach of yellow Amber Olibanum Myrâ—h of Aloes Hepatica of both
the kinds of Aristolochias round and long of every of these in fine powder searced one ounce of Mammir one ounce and a half of oyl of Bayes half a pound of oyl of Juniper six ounces dissolve all these together in the aforesaid Skillet and then put them to the former Plaister set it over a gentle fire and keep it with stirring till it boyl a little Then take your five Gums Popanax Galbanum Sapagenum Ammoniacum and Bdellium of each of these three ounces which must be dissolved in White-wine Vinegar and strained and the Vinegar exasperated from them before you go about the Plaister let there be 3 ounces of each of them when they are thus prepared then when the Plaister hath gently boyled about half the bigness of a Nutmeg at a time continuing that order until all the Gums be in and dissolved then set it over the fire again and let it boyl a very little but before it boyl be sure that the Gums be all dissolved for else it will run into lumps and knots after it hath boyled a little take it from the fire again and continue the stirring of it very carefully and put it to these things following being in a readiness take of both the Corals red and white of Mother of Pearl of Dragons Blood of Terra Lemnia of white Vitriol of each of them 1 ounce of Lapis haematitis and of the Loadstone of each of them one ounce and a half of the flowers of Antimony two drams of Crocus Martis two drams of Camphire one ounce of common Turpentine half a pound mix all these together but first let those things that are to be pounded be carefully done and fully searced then put them all together among the former things and again set it over the fire with a moderate heat and gentle to boyl till it be in the form of a plaister which you may know by dropping it on a cold piece of wood or stone or iron you must also remember to keep it with continual stirâ—ing from the beginning to the ending when you make it up let your hands and the place you rowl it on be annointed with the oyl of Saint Johns Wort and of each Worms and Juniper Cammomil and Roses together wrap it in Parchment or Leather and keep it for your use Memorandum That the Camphire be dissolved in the oyl of Juniper mix them together with the Gum-sandrach and put them in towards the latter end An Ointment for any strain in the Joynts or for any Sore Take 3 pound of fresh Butter unwashed and set it into an Oven after the bread be drawn out and let it stand 2 or 3 hours then take the clearest of the Butter and put into a Posnet then take the tops of red Nettles and chop them very small and put so many Nettles to the Butter as will be moistned with the Butter and so set it on the fire and boyl it softly 5 or 6 hours and when it is so boyled put thereto half a pint of the best oyl of Olive and then make it boyl a very little and take it off and strain it into an earthen pot and keep it for your use Mr. Ashley's Ointment Take six pound of May Butter unsalted one quart of Sallet oyl four pound of Barrows grease one pound of the best Rosin one pound of Turpentine half a pound of Frankincense to this rate take these Herbs following of each a handful videlicet Smallage Balm Lorage red Sage Lavender Lavender-cotten Herb-grace Parsley Comfrey called Boneset Sorrel Laurel leaves Beech leaves Lungwort Marjorum Rosemary Mallows Cammomil Saint Johns wort Plantain Alheal Chickweed English Tobacco or else Henbane Grunsel Woundwort Bettony Egrimony Carduus Benedictus wild Wine or White-wine called Brian Adders Tongue Mellilot drink all these Herbs clean wash them strain them clean from the water all these must be gathered after the Sun rise then stamp all these Herbs in a stone or wooden Mortar so small as possible may be then take your Rosin and beat it to powder with your Frankincense and melt them first alone then put in your Butter your Hogs grease and oyl and when all is melted put in your Herbs and let them all boyl together half a quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and leave stirring of it in no wise a quarter of an hour after and in that time that it is from the fire put in your Turpentine and 2 ounces of Verdigrease very finely beaten to powder and when you put in your Turpentine and Verdigrease stir it well or else it will run over and so stir it until it leave boyling then put it in an earthen pot stopping the pot very close with a cloth and a board on the top and set it in a dunghil of horse muck 21 days then take it up and put it into a kettle and let it boyl a little taking heed that it boyl not over then strain all through a coarse cloth into an earthen or Gally pot and when all is strained put to it half a pound of oyl of Spike and cover the pot close until you use it and when you use it make it warm in winter and use it cold in summer An approved Medicine for an Ach in the Joynts whatsoever Take half a pound of Rosin half a pound of Frankincense Olibanum and Mastick of each one ounce Wax Deers suet Turpentine of each 2 ounces Camphire 2 drams beat the Olibanum Mastick Rosin and Frankincense and Camphire into powder then put it in a brass Pan with a pottle of White-wine and put in the Wax and Deer suet into it and when it doth boyl put in your Turpentine and let it boyl a quarter of an hour then take it from the fire and let it stand and cool until the next day then work it with your hand to work out the Wine annointing your hands first with oyl then make it up in rowls then as need will serve take thereof and spread it with a warm knife upon the fleshy side of a Sheeps skin and apply it warm to the grieved place and take it not off until it fall off of it self pricking the plaister full of holes A Searcloth to be used against Carbuncles red Sores Biles Swellings or any hot causes Take a wine pint of pure Sallet oyl and put into an earthen pot that is very large and set it upon a very soft fire of Charcoal and when it beginneth to boyl stir it with a Hasel stick of one years shooting then put into it 2 ounces of Venice Sope that is pure white half a pound of red Lead one quarter of a pound of white Lead letting it boyl very softly stirring it continually with this Hazel stick for the space of 2 or 3 hours you shall know when it is boyled by this drop one drop thereof on a board and it will be stiff when it is enough then take it from the fire and put into it half an ounce of oyl
grains of this powder exhibited in a specifical vehicle to the proportion of 1 spoonful about 7 of the clock at night with the like Dose exhibited the next morning was within 3 days space perfectly recovered and went abroad 2. A Child aged about fourteen years being suddenly surprized with dangerous Fits and trembling of the heart with 12 grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Aqua Theriacalis was that very day recovered 3. A Stationers Child aged about five years being suddenly taken so ill that the Parents feared the life of their Child with ten grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Cordial spirit being laid down and well covered we suspected it would prove to be the small Pox became within 2 or 3 hours somewhat chearful and with this medicine continued once a day the Pox broke forth and the Child mended 4. A Boy aged about sixteen being taken with sudden qualms about his stomach and heart with ten grains of this Powder exhibited in a spoonful of Doctor Mountfords water upon his fit and the like quantity exhibited again when he went to bed was the next day recovered 5. A Child about three years old being troubled with grievous torments and gripings in the belly with wind with 9 grains of this Powder exhibited with ten drops of special Oyl against the Cholick in a spoonful of stomach Water was eased in few hours 6. A Child about 7 years old being troubled with Convulsion-Fits with ten grains of this powder mixed with spirit of Castor in a few spoonfuls of black Cherry water annointing the two neck veins near the ears with a few drops of oyl of Amber and Cloves was suddenly recovered of his Fit. 7. A Gentlewoman near forty years old being oppressed with crude and flatuous humours so that her friends thought her departing was with twelve grains of this powder and two drops of a Cordial Oyl exhibited in a spoonful of Cordial water being had to bed within three days recovered and followed her Domestick business 8. A Youth about twenty years old much oppressed with wind and crudities of the stomach with 12 grains of this powder exhibited in 2 drops of specifical Cholick oyl as in the fifth experiment with a Cordial water was speedily recovered 9. A young Maid about Eighteen years old troubled with fits of the Mother and Convulsive fits with twelve grains of this powder given her in a few spoonfuls of Piony water gathered and distilled in due season with a drop of oyl of Cinnamon and two of Amber mingled together being held upright before a warm fire within four hours recovered out of her fit and went up to her chamber though her teeth were set in her head and small appearance of life but that only her feet were warm was discovered in her 10. A Gentlewoman aged about fifty being very much troubled with flatuous and crude humours oppressing the stomach with sixteen grains of Gascon powder and with 3 drops of oyl of Oranges duly prepared exhibited in an ounce of Aqua Theriacalis being well shaken and mingled together being exhibited at two several times that is at night when she went to bed disposing for rest and betimes the next morning found much ease and comfort and gained some quiet rest that night and shortly recovered 11. A young Woman aged about four and twenty not without some suspicion of the Plague having a rumor long while arising on her groin with 3 several Doses of Gascons Powder exhibited at 3 evenings when she disposed for rest by 12 grains for every dose in a spoonful of Treacle water drinking every morning a spoonful of spirit of Saffron for those 3 days together was perfectly recovered and followed her domestick business These and many other Experiments have I with good success tried and with Gods blessing recovered divers several Patients This Powder is good against small Pox Measles spotted or purple Fever exhibited in specifical waters fit for their several diseases It is good in swoonings and passions of the heart arising from malignant vapours or old causes as also in the Plague or Pestilent Fevers always observing to keep the persons upright warm and well covered after their taking it The Dose of this powder in Children is from eight to twelve grains in persons more aged from twelve to fourteen grains but exhibit the Dose twice or thrice if need require In the Plague you may use a greater quantity with such medicines as are prescribed in the Child-bearers Cabinet and it will not be amiss to mingle it with some Aqua Theriacalis The Composition of the Oyl called Oleum Magistrale said to be invented by one named Aparithus a Spaniard being special good to cleanse and consolidate wounds especially in the Head. Take a quart of the best White-wine you can get of pure Oyl of Olives three pound then put thereto these flowers and herbs following of the flowers and leaves of Hypericon half a pound of Carduus Benedictus of Valerian of the leaf Sage of each a quarter of a pound if it be possible take the leaves and flowers of every one of these then let them all steep 24 hours in the aforesaid Wine and Oyl the next day boyl them in a pot well nealed or in a copper vessel over a soft fire until such time as the Wine be all consumed stirring it always with a spattle after you have thus done take it from the fire and strain it and put to the straining a pound and a half of good Venice Turpentine then boyl it again upon a soft fire the space of a quarter of an hour then put thereunto of Olibanum five ounces of Myrrh 3 ounces of Sanguis Draconis one ounce and so let it boyl till the Incense and Myrrh be melted then take it off and let it stand until it be cold then put it into a glass bottle and set it 8 or 10 days in the Sun and keep it for your use This Oyl the older it is the better it is it must be applied to the Patient wounded as hot as may be endured first washing the wound with White-wine boyled with a handful of Incense to comfort and wiping it clean with a linnen cloth before you dress it which must be if it come by any bruisings or bitings twice a day that is about eight of the clock in the morning in winter and at summer about nine in the morning and about four in the afternoon but if they be green wounds you shall not need to change it again until the next day neither need the Patient to observe any precise diet ADDITIONS A rare Searcloth with the Virtues TAke of oyl Olive one pound and a half red Lead one pound and a half of white Lead one pound Castle-soap 4 ounces put your oyl Olive in a Pipkin and put thereto your Oyl of Bays and your Castle soap seeth these over a gentle fire of embers till it be well mingled and melted together then strew a little
red Lead and White being mingled together in powder still stirring it with a spatler of Wood and so strew in more of your Lead by little and little till all be in stirring it still by the bottom to keep it from burning for an hour and half together then make the fire somewhat bigger till their redness be turned into a gray colour but you must not leave stirring it till the matter be turned into a perfect black colour as pitch then drop a little upon a wooden Trencher and if it cleave not to the Trencher nor your Finger it is enough then take the long linnen clothes and dip them therein and make your Sear-cloth thereof they will keep twenty years let your powder of your Lead be searsed very fine and shred the soap small The Virtues of this Searcloth are Being laid to the stomach it doth provoke Appetite and taketh away any pain in the stomach being laid to the belly it is a present remedy for the Cholick being laid to the back it is a present Remedy for the Flux and running of the Reins heat of the Kidneys and weakness of the Back it helpeth all Swellings and bruises taketh away aches it breaketh Fellons and other Imposthumes and healeth them it draweth out any running Humour and helpeth them without breaking of the skin and being applied to the Fundament helpeth any disease there it helpeth all old sores and will be made in six hours For a Surfeit Take 3 pints of Muskadine one handful of Rue one handful of red Sage boyl these together 3 or 4 walmes take a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs half an ounce of Ginger 2 or 3 corns of long Pepper beat them all together and boyl them until the 3 pints come to a quart strain it and put in it a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate half an ounce of London-Treacle a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water all these being well mixed together put them up in a Glass It is good for one that hath surfeited to take 3 or 4 spoonfuls keeping them very warm in bed the same quantity taken is good against the Small-pox or Measles It is good against the wind or pain in the stomach taking one spoonful in the morning or any Infection An excellent Receipt against a Cough of a Consumption Take a quarter of a pound of the best Honey a quarter of a pint of Conduit-water boyl them as long as any white scum ariseth and take it off then take a quarter of a pound of the best blew Currans put them on the fire in a pint of fair water boyl them until they be tender then pour the water from them and bruise them through a hair Sive and put that Juice and Honey together add to it one ounce of the powder of Liquorish one ounce of the powder of Annise seeds mix all these together and put them in a Gally-pot and when it is cold tye it up the party troubled may take of it upon the point of a knife morning or evening as often as the Cough taketh them Lucantelion's Balsom admirable for Wounds and many other things Take of Venice Turpentine a pound oyl Olive three pints yellow Wax half a pound of natural Balsome one ounce Oyl of St. Johns wort one ounce of red Saunders powdered an ounce six spoonfuls of Sack cut the Wax and melt it on the fire and then let it catch the fire take it off put in the Turpentine to it having first washed the Venice Turpentine thrice with Damask Rose-water and having mingled your Sallet oyl with the Sack put also the oyl to them and put them all on the fire and stir it till it begin to boyl for if it boyl much it will run over speedily then suffer it to cool for a night or more until the water and wine be sunk all to the bottom then make some holes in the stuff that the water may run out of it which being done put it over the fire again putting to it the Balsom and the oyl of St. Johns wort and when it is melted then put the Sanders to it stir it well that it may incorporate and when it first begins to boyl take it off the fire and stir it the space of 2 hours till it be grown thick then put it up and keep it for your use as most precious for thirty or forty years or more The Virtues 1. It is good to heal any wound inward or outward being squirted warm into the inward wound being applied to an outward wound with fine lint or Linnen anointing also those parts thereabouts it not only taketh away the pain but also keepeth it from any inflammation and also draweth forth all broken bones or any other thing that might putrifie or fester it so that the brains or inwards as the Liver Guts or heart be not troubled it will heal it in 4 or 5 days dressing so that nothing be applied thereunto 2. It also healeth any Burning and Scalding and healeth also any bruise or cut being first annointed with the said Oyl and a piece of linnen cloth or lint dipt in the same being warmed and laid unto the place it will heal it without any scar remaining 3. It helpeth the head-ach by anointing the Temples and Nostrils therewith 5. It is good against the Wind-Cholick or stitch in the Side applied thereto warm with hot clothes morning and evening together a quarter of an ounce 5. It helpeth the biting of a mad Dog or any other Beast 6. It is good against the Plague anointing only the Nostrils and the Lips therewith in the morning before you go forth 7. It also healeth a Fistula or Ulcer be it never so deep in any part of the body being applied as aforesaid is directed for a Cut. 8. It is good against Worms or Canker being used as in a Cut but it will require longer time to help them 9. It is good for one infected with the Plague or Measles so as it be presently taken in warm Broth the quantity of a quarter of an ounce 4 mornings together and sweat upon it 10. It likewise helpeth Digestion anointing the Navel and Stomach therewith when the party goeth to bed it will stanch any Blood of a green Wound put in a plaister of lint on it and tye it very hard 11. The quantity of a Nutmeg in Sack blood-warm and sweat therein it bringeth forth all manner of clotted Blood and takes away all Aches 12. It also healeth the rose Gout and Scurvy 13. It helpeth all pains in Womens breasts all chops or Wolf that cometh with a bruise 14. It helpeth the Small-pox being anointed therewith without any Scar. 15. It helpeth all Sprains and Swellings and indeed I cannot tell what comes amiss unto it A most certain and proved Medicine against all manner of Pestilence and Plague be it never so vehement Take an Onion and cut it overthwart then make a little hole in either piece the which you shall fill
with fine Treacle and set the pieces together as they were before after this wrap them in a sine wet linnen cloth putting it to roast and covered in the embers or ashes and when it is roasted enough press out all the juice of it and give the Patient a spoonful and immediately he shall feel himself better and shall without fail be healed How to make the Ointment of Tobacco Jobertus Take of green Tobacco-leaves two pound of fresh Hogs grease diligently washt one pound bruise the herbs and infuse it a whole night in red Wine and then let it boyl with the Hogs grease with a gentle fire until the wine be all consumed then strain it and add to the ointment the juice of Tobacco one pound good and clear Rosin four ounces then boyl it again till the juice be consumed adding towards the end of round Birth-wort-roots in powder two ounces new Wax four ounces or so much as is sufficient to make it into an Ointment The Virtues of it are these It cures all Tumours Aposthumes Wounds Ulcers Gun-shot Botches Itch stinging with Nettles Bees Wasps Hornets or Venemous Beasts Wounds made with poysoned Arrows all burnings and scaldings although it be with Oyl or lightning and that without any scar it doth help all nasty rotten stinking putrified Ulcers although they be in the legs where the humours be ready to resort most in Fistula's although the bone be afflicted it will scale it without any instrument and bring up the flesh from the bottom your Face being anointed with it it taketh away suddenly all redness pimples Sun-burns A Wound dressed with this Ointment it will never putrifie it will cure a Wound when no tent can search it it cures the Head-ach the Temples being anointed therewith the stomach being anointed with it no infirmity will harbour there no not Imposthumes or Consumption of the Lungs the belly being anointed therewith it helpeth the Cholick and Iliack passions the Worms and what not too tedious here to relate it helpeth the Emeroids or Piles it is the best Ointment in the World for all sorts of Gouts whatsoever and there can nothing come nigh unto it A very good Conserve for the help of a Consumption and Cough Take half a pound of blew Raisins the blackest sort is the best and stone them and skin them and two ounces of white Sugar-candy and two ounces of Oyl of sweet Almonds and bruise them well and when they be well incorporated together use it to eat morning noon and night A very special Drink against a Consumption Take of Colts-foot Hysop Scabious and Maidenhair of each a handful and a quarter of a pound of Figs and cut them in two pieces and a quarter of a pound of Raisins and stone them and take ten Dates and stone them and so boyl them in four quarts of fair water and after it hath boyled a little put into it half an ounce of Liquorish scraped and bruised and so let it boyl till one quart be boyled away then take it off and when it is cold strain it into a pot and drink half a pint each morning at four of the clock and so much after dinner at four of the clock For Worms in Children Wormseed boyled in Beer or Ale and then sweeten it with clarified Honey and let them drink it How to drive away the Yellows of the Face that is caused by the over-flowing of the Gall. Approved Take a great white Onion and make a hole in the top of it and then put into it the quantity of a Nutmeg of good Treacle and then stop the hole again with the said piece that is cut out of it but mingle the Treacle with Saffron powdered this being done roast the Onion in hot Embers being wrapped up in wet paper and when it is well roasted wring out the juice thereof hard and give the party this drink in the morning and sweat an hour after it and so continue for three months together and then let the party take a gentle purge Fiat An excellent Medicine for the Dropsie made for Queen Elizabeth by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lacy. Proved Take Polypodium Spikenard Squat Ginger Marjoram Galingal Setwel ana a pennyweight Sena leaves and cods so much as all the rest grosly beaten put them into a bag and hang it in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale and every four days cover the pot with new Barm and drink no other drink for six days and this shall purge all ill humours out of the body neither will it let the blood putrifie nor flegm to have domination nor Choler to burn nor melancholy to have exaltation it doth encrease Blood and helpeth all evil it helpeth and purgeth Rheum it defendeth the stomach it preserveth the body and ingendreth a good colour comforts the sight and nourisheth the mind For the Dropsie that swelleth Eat Water-cresses and Raisins use it often and it will send down the Disease into the legs and feet and when it is there take the green bark of Elder in the Winter and the crops in summer and boil them well in fair water and Oatmeal to a Poultess and apply it to the grief and this will heal it The Celestial Water the best in the World for the Eyes Aqua Celidonia Aqua Euphrasia Aqua Fenicula Of each a quarter of a pint Lapis Calaminaris Lapis Tutia Of each a drachm An Excellent Water for one that is near or in a Consumption Take Milk three pints red Wine one pint twenty four yolks of new laid Eggs beat them very well together then add so much white bread as will drink up the Wine and put to it some Cowslip flowers and distil them and take a spoonful first and last in broth made of a Chicken or Mutton and in one month it will cure any Consumption For to stay vomiting presently Take a little Mastick and 〈◊〉 it upon a hot coal and set a Funnel over it and receive the furne into your mouth and let it go into your stomach Et fiat Doctor Turcables green Balsom Take in the month of May Rosemary-crops Wormwood Balm and Rue ana two ounces red Sage and Bay-buds ana four ounces Sheeps-suet twelve ounces beat all these very well together in a stone Mortar till it be all as a Salve then put it into a clean Pipkin well stopt and set it for eight days in a cold place then put it all in a clean brass Chafer and add to it a pound of sweet Sallet Oil and as many of the said Herbs as aforesaid well bruised and let them boil over a soft fire very softly the space of an hour and stir them all the time with a wooden Spatula then take them from the fire and presently put into it an ounce of Spike Oil and stir them together then with a spoon take off the oily substance from the Herbs and then strain it into a Gally-pot and keep it very close stopt and set it in a
on the top of it and 1 pound weight for one hour then lay 2 pound weight for an hour more then turn him when he hath stood 2 hours lay three pound on him for an hour more then take him out of the Vate and let him lie 2 or 3 hours and then salt him on both sides when he is salt enough take a clean cloth and wipe him dry then let him lie a day or a night then put Nettles under the upon him and change them once a day the Cheese will come to his eating in 8 or 9 days To make Cheese-Loaves Take the curds of a tender new-milk Cheese and let them be well pressed from the Whey and then break them as small as you can possible then take crumbs of Manchet and yolks of Eggs with half the whites and some sweet Cream and a little fine flower mingle all these together and make a paste of it but not too stiff then make them into little Loaves and bake them when they be baked cut off the tops and butter them with Sugar Nutmeg and melted Butter and put it in with a spoon and stir it altogether then lay on all the tops and sear them with scraped Sugar How to make a very good Tansie Take 15 Eggs 6 of the whites beat them very well then put in some Sugar and a little Sack beat them again and put about a pint or a little more of Cream then beat them again then put in the juice of Spinage or of Primrose-leaves to make it green then put in some more Sugar if it be not sweet enough then beat it again a little and so let it stand till you fry it when the first course is in then fry it with a little sweet Butter it must be stirred and fryed very tender when it is fryed enough then put it in a dish and strew some Sugar upon it and serve it in To make black Tart stuff To a dozen pound of Prunes take half a dozen of Maligo-Raisins wash and pick them clean and put them into a pot of water set them over the fire till all these are like pulp and stir them often lest they burn to them take them off and let them be rubbed through a hair Sive hard with your hands by little and little till all be through then season them to your taste with searced Ginger To make yellow Tart stuff Take 24 Eggs beat them with salt together and put into it a quart of seething Milk stirring it until it caudles then take it off and put it into a napkin hanging it up till all the whey be run through when it is cold take it and grind it in a stone-Mortar with Sack and Sugar to your taste and otherwise to make it look white leave the yolks and instead of Sack put in Rose-water To make a made Dish Take a quarter of a pound of Almonds beat them small and in the beating of them put in a little Rose-water to keep them from Oyling strain them into Cream then take Artichoak bottoms and Marrow and boyl the redness of the Marrow out then take a quart of Cream boyl it with Dates Rose-water and Sugar when it is boyled to a convenient thickness take it off and take your Artichoaks and pare off the leaves and lay them into a dish and some Marrow upon them then pour some Cream upon them then set it on coals till you serve it in A Sauce for a Shoulder of Mutton Take a few Oysters and some sweet herbs and an Onion and a pint of White-wine and a little beaten Nutmeg a little Salt and a large Mace a little Lemon pilled and a little Sugar a little leaker posset if you have no Oysters take Capers in the room of them and some gravy of the Mutton To fry Apple Pies Take Apples and pare them and chop them very small beat in a little Cinnamon a little Ginger some Sugar and a little Rose-water take your paste roul it thin and make them up as big pasties as you please to hold a spoonful or a little less of your Apples and so fry them with butter not too hasty lest they be burned To make Curd Cakes Take a pint of Curd four Eggs take out two of the whites put in some Sugar a little Nutmeg and a little flower stir them well together and drop them in and fry them with a little butter To make Furmenty Take a quart of sweet Cream 2 or 3 sprigs of Mace and a Nutmeg cut in half put it into your Cream so let it boyl then take your French-Barley or Rice being first washed clean in fair water three times and picked clean then boyl it in sweet Milk till it be tender then put it into your Cream and boyl it well and when it hath boyled a good while take the yolks of 6 or seven Eggs beat them very well to thicken on a soft fire boyl it and stir it for it will quickly burn when you think it is boyled enough sweeten it to your tast and so serve it in with Rose-water and Musk-sugar in the same manner you make it with Wheat To make an Artichoak Pye. Take the bottom of six Artichoaks being boyled very tender put them in a dish and put some Vinegar over them season them with Ginger and Sugar and a little Mace whole putting them into a Pye and when you lay them in lay some Marrow and Dates sliced in and a few Raisins of the Sun in the bottom with good store oâ— Butter so close the Pie when it is half baked take a dish of Sack being boyled first with Sugar and a Pill of Orange put in into your Pie and set it in the Oven again till you use it To make a Chicken Pie. Make your paste with good store of Butter and yolks of Eggs and Sugar then take six small Chickens taking out the breast-bone trussing them round take 2 Nutmegs and a good quantity of Cinamon cut it in little pieces take 2 yolks of Eggs and beat them with six spoonfuls of Verjuice then take your juice and Verjuice a little salt stir them well together take a good deal of Butter and wet it in the Verjuice and put it in the bellies of the Chickens so lay them in the Pie with Butter under them then take half a pound of Currans washed and dried so lay them on the top of the Chickens with a piece of Marrow Barberries Grapes and good store of Butter and Sugar as will season it a little before you draw out your Pie put in Verjuice and Sugar boyled together To bake Beef like red Deer Take a pound of Beef and slice it thin and half a pint of good wine Vinegar some 3 Cloves and Mace above an ounce 3 Nutmegs pound them all together Pepper and Salt according to your discretion and a little Sugar mix these together take a pound and a half of Suet shred and beat it small in a
lay it on them to keep them down then tye them close and set them in the Sun and let them stand a month or thereabouts but keep them from any rain or wet To pickle Broom-buds Take as many Broom-buds as you please make linnen-bags and put them in and tye them close then make some brine with water and salt and boyl it a little let it be cold then put some brine in a deep earthen pot and put the bags in it and lay some weight on them let it lye there till it look black then shift it again so you must do as long as it looks black you muâ—â— boyl them in a little Cladroâ—â— and put them in Vinegar a weeâ— or two and then they will be 〈◊〉 to eat To pickle Oysters Take your Oysters and picâ— them out of the shells and save thâ— liquor that cometh from them then take your Oysters one bâ— one and wash them clean out â—â—grist then strain the liquor anâ— take a quantity of White-wine 〈◊〉 a large Mace or two and 2 or 〈◊〉 slices of Nutmeg Pepper grosâ— beaten and salt them boyl it together then put in your Oysters anâ— boyl them then take the yolk of aâ— Egg and beat it well with Wineâ— vinegar then take up your Oysterâ— and let them cool then put in yoâ—â— Egg and let it boyl take it off leâ— it cool and put it up together To make Grout Take some Wheat and Beaâ— and when you have made it intâ— Malt then rittle it take some water or some small wort and heat it scalding hot and put it into a Pail then stir in the Malt then take a piece of sowre leaven and stir it about and cover it and let it stand till it will cream then put in some Orange-pills then put it over the fire and boyl it keeping it stirring till all the white be gone To make Jelly of Marmalet Take Quinces and pare them cut them into water into little pieces and when you have done all then take them out of the water and weigh them and to every pound of Quinces take five quarters of a pound of Sugar and half a quarter then put it into the Skillet and put as much water as will make it pretty thin then set it on the fire and clarifie it with the white of an Egg and scum it off clear then put in your Quinces and let it boyl a pretty space and cover it close till it is pretty thick then leave stirring it till it is thick enough for Marmalet and take it off and put it in a glass and do it with your knife in little works when you have done let it stand your Posnet must boyl all the while you must put in as much water as will make it pretty thin when it is boyled to a pretty good colour then strain it and weigh it then take of loaf-sugar as much as it weighs and boyl it all together to a jelly then pour it into your Marmalet glass then put it in a stove and put some fiâ—e in every day To make Jelly of Pippins Take Pippins pare quarter and core them lay them in water and when you set them on the fire shift them in another water and put them in a skillet and put as much water as will cover them and a little more set them over the fire and make them boyl as fast as you can when the Apples are soft and the liquor tasts strong of the Apples then take them off and strain them through a piece of Canvas gently take to a pound of juice a pound of Sugar then set it on the fire when it is melted strain it into a Bason and rince your skillet again set it on the fire and when it is boyled up then scum it and make it boyl as fast as you can and when it is almost boyled put in the juice of 3 Lemons strained through a cloth if you will have Orange-pill pare it thin that the white be not seen and then lay it in the water all night then boyl them in the water till the pill be soft then cut them in long pieces then put it into the syrrup and stir it about and fill your glasses and let it stand till it be cold and then it is ready to eat To preserve green Walnuts Take Walnuts and boyl them till the water do tast bitter then take them off and put them in cold water and pill off the bark and weigh as much Sugar as they weigh and a little more water than will wet the Sugar set them on the fire and when they boyl up take them off and let them stand 2 days and boyl them again once more To preserve white Quinces Take a pound of Quinces boyl them with the skin on but core and pare them take a quarter of a pound of Sugar with water no more than will wet the Sugar put the Quinces into it presently boyl them as fast as may be and skin them when the Syrrup is thick take it up To make Goosberry Tarts Take a pint of Goosberries and put them into a quarter of a pound of Sugar and 2 spponfuls of water and put them on the fire and stir them as you did the former To preserve Rasberries Take as many as you please a lay of Sugar and a lay of Rasberries and so lay them into the Skillet and as much water as you think will make Syrrup enough and boyl them and put two spoonfuls of water in bescum it take it off and let it stand To preserve Currans Part them in the tops lay a lane of Currans and a lane of sugar and so boyl them as fast as you do Rasberries do not put in the spoon but scum them boyl them till the syrrup be pretty thick then take them off and let them stand till they be cold and put them into a glass To preserve Medlars Take the just weight of sugar as they weigh to a pound of sugar put a pint and half of water scald them as long as the skin will come off stone them at the head put the water to the sugar and boyl it and strain it put in the Medlars boyl them apace let them stand till they be thick then take them off To preserve Goosberries Take the fairest Goosberries you can get with the stalks on prick 3 or 4 holes in every one of them then take the weight of them in Sugar lay the best part of the Sugar in the bottom of a silver or pewter dish then lay your Goosberries one by one upon it strew some of the rest of the sugar upon them and put 2 spoonfuls of the water into half a pound then set the Goosberries on a Chafing-dish of coals and let them stand uncovered scalding upon the fire a pretty while before they boyl but not too long for then they will grow red and when they be boyling let them not boyl too fast when they be enough put them up you must
of each of them and put a row of Sugar oâ— a silver dish or bason and then lay in a row of plumbs and then cover it with Sugar and so lay it in tilâ— they be all in and then take two spoonfuls of clear wheat and make a hole in the middle of them and set it over a soft fire and look to 〈◊〉 carefully for fear the Sugar should burn and when the Sugar is all dissolved shake them together and stir them gently and then set theâ— down and cover them till they be cold and when they be cold sâ—â— them upon the coals again and then let them boil gently till they be ready and when they are ready take them down and take them every one by its stem and cover them with the skin as welâ— as you can and then put them alâ— one by one in a dish and if the syrrup be not boiled enough set it over and let it boil a little longer and when the plumbs be cold put them in a gally-pot or glass and pour the syrrup to them while it is a little warm you must not forget to take away the skin of the plumbs as it riseth How to make Pap of Barley Take Barley and boil it in fair water softly until it begin to break then put that liquor out then put as much hot liquor to it as you put forth and so let it boil till it be very soft then put it into a Cullender and strain it then take a handful of Almonds and grind them very well with your Barley and some of the liquor so season it with Sugar and a little Rose-water a little whole Mace and Cinnamon and boil them well together How to candy Oranges and Lemons Take the peels of your Oranges and Lemons the white cut away and lay them in water 5 or 6 days shifting them twice every day then seeth them till they be very tender then take them out of the water and let them lie until they be cold then cut them in small pieces square the bigness of a penny or less then take to every 3 two ounces of Sugar put to it a quantity of fair water and a less quantity of Rose-water and make a syrrup thereof then scum it very clean and put in your peels and let them boil for the space of an hour or longer if you find your liquor wanting you may put in more water at your pleasure then boil them a little space after with a little sharp fire stirring it always for burning then take it off the fire 3 or 4 times stirring them all the while and set them off again until they be candied How to make Cakes of Almonds Take 1 pound and a half of fine flower of Sugar 12 ounces beaten very fine mingle them well together then take half a pound of Almonds blanch them and grind them fine in a mortar then strain them with as much Sack as will mingle the flower Sugar and Almonds together make a paste bake them in an Oven not too hot How to make white Lemon-Cakes Take half a dozen of white Lemons the best you can get then cut and pare them leave none of the yellow behind then take away the sowre meat of it and reserve all the white and lay it in water 2 days then seeth it in fair water till it be soft then take it out and set it by till the water be gone from it then weigh it and take twice the weight in Sugar mince the white stuff very fine then take an earthen Pipkin and put therein some fair water and some Rose-water if you have a pound of Sugar you must have half a pint of water of both sorts alike let your water and sugar boil together then scum it and put in the stuff and so let them boil together always stirring it till it be thick it will shew very thin and when it is cold it will be thick enough To make Oyl of Violets Set the Violets in Sallet-oil and strain them then put in other fresh Violets and let them lie 20 daies then strain them again and put in other fresh Violets and let them stand all the Year To preserve Pomecitrons Take Pomecitrons and grate off the upper skin then slightly cut them in pieces as you think good lay them in water 24 hours then set over a posnet with fair water and when it boils put them in and so shift till you find the water not to be bitter then take them up and weigh them and to every pound of Pomecitron put a pound and a quarter of Sugar then take of your last water a pint and quarter set your water and sugar over the fire then take two whites of Eggs and beat them with a little fair water and when your sirrup begins to boil cast in the same that riseth from the Eggs and so let it boil then let it run through a clean fine cloth then put in a clean posnet and when your sirrup begins to boil put in your Pomecitron and let it boil softly 3 or 4 hours until you find your sirrup thick enough be sure you keep them alwaies under sirrup and never turn them take them up and put them into your glass and when they be cold cover them To Candy Ringus Roots Take your Ringus roots and boil them reasonable tender then pill them and pith them then lay them together then take so much sugar as they weigh and put it into a posnet with as much Rose-water as will melt it then put in your roots and so let it boil very softly until the Sugar be consumed into the roots then take them and turn them and shake them till the Sugar be dried up and then lay them a drying upon a lattice of wyer until they be cold in like sort you may candy any other Roots what you please To candy all kind of Fruitages as Oranges Lemons Citrons Lettice-stocks Sugar-candy such as the Comfit makers do candy the Fruits with Take 1 pound of refined sugar and put it into a posnet with as much water as will wet it and so boil it till it come to a candyâ— height then take all your fruit being preserved and dried then draw them through your hot sugar and then lay them on your hurdle and in 1 quarter of an hour they will be finely candied To candy all kind of Flowers in ways of Spanish Candy Take double refined Sugar put it into a posnet with as much Rose-water as will melt it and put into it the pap of half a roasted Apple and a grain 〈…〉 let it boil till it come to a candy height then put in your flowers being pick'd and so let it boil then cast them on a fine plate and cut it in waves with your Knife then you may spot it with gold and keep it To make Essings Take 1 peck of Oatmeal-grout the greatest you can get and the whitest pick it clean from the black and searce out all the smallest
party requires and boil it well down and bruise the Chicken and put it in again and it is a pretty Broth and to alter it you may put in half a dozen Prunes and leave out the herbs or put them in so when it is well boiled strain it and season it A Broth to eat on Fasting-days Take fair water and set it a boiling and when it is boiled put to it so much strained Oatmeal as you think will thicken it and a large Mace a handful of Raisins of the Sun as many Prunes and as many Currans if your quantity require so boil it and when it is boiled season it with salt sugar and a piece of sweet butter if the time will allow it and for an alteration when this broth is boil'd put in a quantity of Cream and it will do well To make a Ponado The quantity you will make set on in a posnet of fair water when it boils put a mace in and a little piece of Cinnamon and a handful of Currans and so much bread as you think meet so boil it and season it with Salt Sugar and Rose-water and so serve it To make a Caudle Take Ale the quantity that you mean to make and set it on the fire and when it is ready to boil scum it very well then cast in a large mace and take the yolks of 2 Eggs for 1 Mess or one draught and beat them well and take away the skin of the yolks and then put them into the Ale when it seetheth be sure to stir them well till it seeth again for a young-ling then let it boil a while and put in your Sugar and if it be to eat cut three or four toasts of bread thin and toast them dry but not brown and put them to the caudle if to drink put none To make Almond Butter Blanch your Almonds and beat them as fine as you can with fair water 2 or 3 hours then strain them through a linnen cloth boil them with Rose-water whole mace and Annise-seeds till the substance be thick spread it upon a fair cloth draining the whey from it after let it hang in the same cloth some few hours then strain it and season it with Rose-water and Sugar To stew Beef Take a good Rump of Beef cut from the bones shred Turnips and Carrots small and Spinage and Lettice put all in a pan and let it stew 4 hours with so much water and a quart of White-wine as will cover it when it is stewed enough then put in a Wine-glass full of Elder Vinegar and serve it in with sippets To souce a young Pig. Take a young Pig being scalded boil it in fair water and White-wine put thereto Bay-leaves whole Ginger and Nutmeg quartered a few whole Cloves boil it throughly and leave it in the same broth in an earthen pot To boil Flownders or Pickerels after the French fashion Take a pint of White-wine the tops of young Time and Rosemary a little whole mace a little whole Pepper seasoned with Verjuice salt and a piece of sweet Butter and so serve it this broth will serve to boil fish twice or thrice in or four times To make flesh of Apricocks Take Apricocks when they are green and pare them slice them and take half their weight in sugar put it to them so put them in a Skillet and as much water as you think will melt the sugar so let them boil and keep them stirring till they be tender and so take them off and scum them very clean so put them forth of the skillet and let them stand take as much sugar as you had before and boil them into a candy height and then put in your Apricocks and set them over a soft fire but let them not boil so keep them with oft stirring till the syrrup begin to jelly then put them in glasses and keep them for your use To make flesh of Quinces Take Quinces pare them and core them and cut them in halfs boil them in a thin syrrup till they be tender then take them off and let them lie in syrrup then take Quinces pare and quarter them take out the cores put as much water to them as will cover them then boil them till they be very tender and then strain out the liquor clean from them and take unto a pint of that liquor a pound of sugar put as much water to the sugar as will melt it then boil it to a candy height then stir the Quinces that are in the syrrup as thin as you can when your sugar is at a full candy height put in a pint of the liquor then set it over a soft fire stirring it leisurely till the sugar be dissolved then put in half a pound of your slices keeping it still stirring but not to boil you must take the jelly of Quinces kernels that have lain in water 2 or 3 hours take 2 good spoonfuls of it and put it to the flesh so keep it stirring leisurely till it begin to jelly upon the spoon then put it into thin glasses and keep it in a stove To preserve Oranges Take a pound of Oranges and a pound of sugar pill the outward rind and inward white skin off take juice of oranges put them into the juice boil them half an hour and take them off To dry Cherries Take the fairest Cherries stone them take to six pound of Cherries a pound of sugar put them into a Skillet straining the sugar among them as you put them in then put as much water to them as will boil them then set them upon a quick fire let them boil up then take them off and strain them very clean put them into an earthen pan or pot let them stand in the liquor 4 days then take them up and lay them severally one by one upon silver or earthen dishes set them in an Oven after the bread is taken out and so shift them every day upon dry dishes and so till they be dry To dry Peaches Take Peaches and coddle them take off the skins stone them take to four pound of Peaches a pound of sugar then take a gally pot and lay a lane of Peaches and a lane of sugar till all be laid out then put in half a pint of water so cover them close and set them in embers to keep warm so let them stand a night and a day put them in a skillet and set them on the fire to be scalding hot then put them into your pot again and let them stand 24 hours then scald them again then take them out of your syrrup and lay them on silver dishes to dry you may dry them in an Oven when the bread is taken out but to dry them in the Sun is better you must turn them every day into clear dishes To boyl Veal Take Veal cut it in thin slices and put it into a pipkin with as much water as will cover it then wash a handful of Currans
drink Take half a pound of Horse-raddish then wash and scrape them very clean and slice them very thin-cross-ways on the root then put them into six quarts of small Ale such as is ready for drinking which being put into a pipkin close covered set on the embers keeping it a little more than blood warm for twelve hours then take it off the fire and let it stand to cool until the next morning then pour the clear liquor into bottles and keep it for your use drinking a good draught thereof in the morning fasting two hours after and the like quantity at four in the afternoon this drink is excellent good against winds as also for the scurvy and dropsie being taken in time An excellent Syrrup against Melancholy Take four quarts of the juice of Pearmains and twice as much of the juice of Bugloss and Borage if they be to be gotten a drachm of the best English Saffron bruise it and put it into the juice then take two drachms of Kermes small beaten to powder mix it also with the juice so being mixt put them into an earthen vessel covered or stopt forty eight hours then strain it and allow a pound of sugar to every quart of juice and so boil it to the ordinary height of a syrrup after it is boiled take one drachm of the spices of Dramber and two drachms of the spices of Diamargariton frigidum and so sew the same slenderly in a linnen bag that you may put the same easily into the bottle of syrrup and so let it hang with a thred out at the mouth of the bottle the spices must be put into the syrrup in the bag so soon as the syrrup is off the fire whilst it is hot then afterwards put it into the bottle and there let it hang put but a spoonful or two of Honey amongst it whilst it is boiling and it will make the scum rise and the syrrup very clear You must add to it the quantity of a quarter of a pint of the juice of Balm An excellent Receipt for the Plague Take one pound of green Walnuts half an ounce of Saffron and half an ounce of London Treacle beaten together in a mortar and with a little Carduus or some such water vapour it over the fire till it come to an Electuary keep this in a pot and take as much as a Walnut it is good to cure a Feaver Plague and any infection An excellent Cordial Take the flowers of Marigolds and lay them in small spirit of wine when the tincture is fully taken out pour it off from the flowers and vapour it away till it come to a consistence as thick as an Electuary For a bruise or stitch under the Ribs Take five or six handfuls of Cabbage stamp it and strain it after it is boiled in a quart of fair water then sweeten it with Sugar and drink it off in a wine-glass in the morning and at four in the afternoon for five or six days together then take a Cabbage leaf and between two dishes stew it being wet first in Canary wine and that lay hot to your side evening and morning An excellent Receipt for an Itch or any foul Scabs Take Fox gloves and boil a handful of them in posset-drink and drink of it a draught at night and in the morning then boil a good quantity of the Fox gloves in fair running water and anoint the places that are sore with the water A Receipt good for the Liver Take Turpentine slice it thin and lay it on a silver or Purslane Plate twice or thrice in the oven with the bread till it be dry and so make it into powder every day take as much as will lie on a six-pence in an Egg. For Flegm and stopping in the throat and stomach D. T. Take oyl of Almonds Linseed oyl buds of Orange flowers boil all these in Milk and anoint the stomach well with it and lay a scarlet cloth next to it For an extream cold and cough Take of Hyssop water 6 ounces of red Poppy water four ounces six Dates ten Figs and slice them small a handful of Raisins of the Sun the weight of a shilling of the powder of Liquorish put these into the aforesaid waters and let them stand 5 or 6 hours upon warm embers close covered and not boil then strain forth the water and put into it as much sugar of Roses as will sweeten it drink of this in the morning and at four of the clock in the afternoon and when you go to bed To distil Treacle water Take one ounce of Harts-horn shaved and boil it in three pints of Carduus water till it come to a quart then take the roots of Elecampane Gentian Cypress Tormentil and of Citron rinds of each one ounce Borage Bugloss Rosemary flowers of each two ounces then take a pound of the best old Treacle and dissolve it in six pints of white-wine and three pints of Rose-water so infuse all together and distil it It is good to restore spirits and speech and good against swooning faintness agues and worms and the small pox Treacle-water Take three ounces of Venice Treacle and mingle it in a quart of spirits of wine set it in Horse-dung 4 or 5 days then still it in ashes or sand twice over after take the bottom which is left in the Still and put to it a pint of spirit of wine and set it in the dung till the tincture be clean out of it and strain the clear tincture out of it and set it on the fire till it come to be a thick consistence it must be kept with a soft fire And so the like with saffron To take away Hoarsness Take a Turnip cut a hole in the top of it and fill it up with brown Sugar-candy and so roast it in the embers and eat it with Butter To take away the Head-ach Take the best Sallet oyl and the glass half full with tops of poppy flowers which grow in the Corn set this in the Sun a fortnight and so keep it all the year and anoint the temples of your head with it For a Cough Take Sallet oyl Aqua vitae and Sack of each an equal quantity beat them all together and before the fire rub the soles of your feet with it To make Jelly of Harts-horn Take a quart of running water and three ounces of Harts-horn scraped very fine then put it into a stone Jug and set the Jug in a kettle of water over the fire and let it boyl 2 or 3 hours until it jelly then put into it 3 or 4 spoonfuls of Rose-water or White-wine then strain it you may put into it Musk or Ambergreece and season it as you please To make a Glister Take half a quart of new Milk or 3 quarters set it on the fire and make it scalding hot then take it off and put it into it the yolk of a new laid Egg beaten two ounces of brown sugar-candy or black
the juice of them and put to the juice as much Goats milk and let them seeth together and let him that is hurt drink of it 7 days together till the waxing of the Moon and let him drink also Osmory and Comfry with stale Ale and he shall be whole For to heal him that spitteth Blood. Take the juice of Bettony and temper that with good milk and give the sick to drink four days and he shall be whole For to know whether one that hath the Flux shall live or die Take a penny weight of Tresoile seed and give him to drink in Wine or water and do this 3 days and if it cease he shall live with the help of Medicine if not he shall die For to stench the bleeding of a Vein Take Rue and seeth it in water and after stamp it in a Mortar and lay it on the Vein then take Lambs wooll that was never washed and lay that thereon and that shall stench bleeding For a Vein that is evil smitten Take Beans and peel away the lack and seeth them well in Vinegar and lay them on the Vein hot in manner of a Plaister For one that pisseth Blood. Take and seeth Garlick in water till the third part be wasted away let him drink of the water and he shall be whole For a woman travailing with Child Take and give her Tittany to drink in the morning and she shall be delivered without peril or else give her Hysop with water that is hot and she shall be delivered of the child although the child be dead and rotten and anon when she is delivered give her the same without Wine or bind the herb Argentine to her nostrils and she shall be soon delivered or else Polipody and stamp it and lay that on the womans foot in manner of a Plaister and she shall be delivered quick or dead or else give her Savory with hot water and she shall be delivered Against surfeiting and digesting Take the bottom of a wheat loaf and toste it at the fire till it be brown and hard and then take a good quantity of Aqua vitae and put upon the same roasted and put it in a single linnen cloth and lay it at the breast of the Patient all night and with the help of God he shall recover and he shall vomit or purge soon after A water to comfort weak Eyes and to preserve the sight Take a gallon and a half of old wheat fair and clean picked from all manner of soil and then still it in an ordinary Still with a soft fire and the water that comes of it must be put in a glass then take half a pound of white Sugar-candy and bruise it in a mortar to powder and after 3 days when the water hath been in a glass then put in the powdered Candy then take an ounce of Lapis Tutia prepared and put it into the glass to the rest of the stuff then take an ounce of Camphire and break it between your fingers small and put it into the glass then stop the glass close and the longer it stands the better it will be For tender Eyes or for Children Take a little piece of white Sugar-candy as much as a Chesnut and put it into 3 or 4 spoonfuls of White-wine to steep then take it out again and dry it and when it is dry bruise it in a clean Mortar that tastes of no spice then put it upon a white Paper and so hold it to the fire that it may be thorow dry and then search it thorow a little sieve For hot and red Eyes Take slugs such as when you touch them will turn like the pummel of swords 12 or 16 shake them first in a clean cloth and then in another and not wash them then stamp them and put 3 or 4 spoonfuls of Ale to them and strain it through a dry cloth and give it the party morning and evening first and last For Corns Take fair water half a pint Mercury sublimate a pennyworth Allum as much as a Bean boil all these together in a glass Still till a spoonful be wasted and always warm it when you use it this water is also good for any Itch Tetter Ring-worm or Wart Searcloth for a Sore or Sprane or any swelling Take Vervain 7 ounces of Sires 7 ounces of Camphire 3 drams of oyl of Roses ten ounces let the Wax and this Oyl boyl till the Wax be melted then put in your Sires finely beaten stirring it on the fire till it look brown then put in the Camphire finely beaten and let it boyl 2 or 3 walms and then dip in your clothes A Poultess for a Swelling Take a good handful of Violet leaves and as much Grundsel of Chickweed and Mallows half a handful cut all these with a knife and so seeth them well in Conduit water and thicken it with Barly meal being finely sifted and so roul it sure and lay it to the swel'd place and shift it twice a day To make a strong water good for a Canker or any old Sore or to eat any lump of flesh that groweth Take of Celendine a handful of red Sage a handful and of Wood-bind leaves a handful shred all these together very small and steep them in a quart of White-wine and a pint of water letting it stand all night and on the morrow strain it and put therein of Borax and Camphire of each nine penny-worth and of Mercury four penâ—yworth and set them on a soft fire boyling softly for the space of an hour and when you will use it warm a little of it dip in it a cloth and lay it on the Sore or dip it in any Cotton To heal any Bruise Sore or Swelling Take two pound of Wax and two pound of Rosin and two pound and a half of butter and four spoonfuls of Flower and two good spoonfuls of Honey put in your Wax Rosin and your Butter altogether boyl all these together and clarifie it then put in two ounces of Carmerick and when it hath thus boyled a quarter of an hour put a little water in a dish and put it in and let it stand till it be cold and when you will use it you may melt it on a soft fire and put in your clothes and make a Searcloth and you may spread it Plaister-wise to heal any wound A Medicine for any wound old or new Take a pint of Sallet Oyl and 4 ounces of Bees Wax and two ounces of Stone pitch and two ounces of Rosin and two ounces of Venice Turpentine and one pennyworth of Frankincense and a handful of Rosemary tops and a handful of Tutsan leaves and a handful of Plantain leaves these herbs must be stamped and the juice of them put to the things aforesaid and let them boyl together about a quarter of an hour or thereabouts this being done put it into an earthen pot and when it is cold you may use it as you have occasion and keep it a year
To kill worms Take Aloe succatrina 2 ounces let it stand in a quart of Malmsey eight hours drink it morning and evening For a hot Rheum in the Head. Take Rose-water Vinegar and sallet-oyl mix them well together and lay it to the head warm For a Lask Take the nether jaw of a Pike beat it to powder and drink it For an Itch or any scurf of the body Take Elecampane roots or leaves stamp them and fry them with fresh Grease strain it into a dish and annoint the Patient For one that is bruised with a fall Take Horse-dung and sheeps-suet boyl them together and apply it to the same place being laid upon a cloth For the Emeroides Take Hops and Vinegar fry them together and put it into a little bag and lay it as hot as it may be endured to the Fundament divers bags one after another and let one continue at it For one that is burned with Gun-powder or otherwise Take one handful of Groundsel twelve heads of Housleek one pint of Goose dung as much Chickens dung of the newest that may be gotten stamp the Herbs as small as you can then put the dung into a mortar temper them together with a pottle of Bores grease labour them together half an hour and strain it through a Canvas bag with a cleft stick into an earthen pan and use it when need requireth it will last two year To heal a prick with a Nail or Thorn. Take two handfuls of Celendine as much Orpen cut it small and boyl it with oyl Olive and unwrought Wax then strain it and use it To stop the bleeding of a cut or wound Take Hop stamp it and put it into the wound if Hop will not do it then put to it Vinegar with the Hop For a Scald Take the leaves of ground Ivy three handful Housleek one handful wash them and stamp them in a stone Mortar very small and as you stamp them put in a pint of cream by little and little then strain it and put it in a pot with a feather take of this and annoint the scalded place and then wet a linnen cloth in the same ointment and lay it on the place and over that rowl other clothes An Ointment for a Tetter Take Sal armoniack one ounce beat it into fine powder then mix it with sope and fresh grease of each two ounces make an ointment and annoint the place For the singing in the Head. Take one Onion cut out the core and fill that place with the powder of Cummin and the juice of Rue set on the top again and roast the Onion in embers then put away the outside and put it in a cloth wring out the juice take black wooll and dip it in put this into thine ear where the singing is and if it be on both sides then serve one after another A Drink for one that is weak and misdoubting a Consumption Take 3 handfuls of Rosemary bruise it a little and close it in paste bake it in an Oven until it be well dried then cut the paste and take forth the Rosemary infuse it in 2 quarts of Claret wine with two ounces of good Treacle 1 ounce of Nutmegs of Cinnamon and Ginger of each half an ounce bruised let them stand infused 2 nights and one day then distil it in a Limbeck drink hereof one spoonful or two next your heart A Drink for the Plague Take red Sage Herb-grace Elder leaves red Brier leaves of each one handful stamp them and strain them with a quart of White-wine and then put to it Aqua vitae and Ginger drink hereof every morning one spoonful nine mornings together and it will preserve you For a bruise or stitch Take the kernels of Walnuts and small Nuts Figs Rue of each one handful white Salt the quantity of one Walnut one race of Ginger one spoonful of Honey beat them all together very fine and eat of it three or four times every day make a plaister of it and lay it to the place grieved A Drink for one that hath a Rupture Take Comfrey one good handful wild Daisie roots as much and the like of knotted grass stamp all these together and strain it with Malmsey and give it to the Patient to drink morning and evening 9 days blood warm if it be a man that hath been long so he must lie nine days upon his back and stir as little as he can If he be a child he must be kept so much lying as you may for nine days if you think the drink too strong for the child give it him but 5 days in Malmsey and the rest in stale Ale have care that the party have a good Truss and keep him trussed one whole year at the least A Plaister for a Rupture Take the juice of Comfrey wild Daisie-roots and knotted grass of each a like quantity fresh butter and unwrought Wax of each a like quantity clarifie them severally then take of the roots of Comfrey dry it and make powder of it take the powder of Annise-seed and Cummin-seed but twice as much Cummin-seed as Annise boyl these powders in the Butter and unwrought Wax on a soft fire a good while then put in your juice let it boyl a walm or two so take it from the fire stir it altogether till it be cold take hereof and spread it and lay it to his Cods as hot as he can suffer it and use this till he be whole this plaister is most excellent for a Child that is burst at the Navel GRATIOSA CURA A Water for a Cut or a Sore Take Honey-suckles the knots nipt off flowers of Celendine flowers of red Sage of each three spoonfuls Five-finger Comfrey such as is to knit bones Daisies with the roots thereon Ladder of Heaven blossoms of Rosemary Setwel Herb-grace Smallage red Roses with the knots on or else red Rose cakes Adders-tongue of each of these one handful seeth all together in six gallons of water that runneth towards the East until two gallons be sod in then strain them and put to the water 3 quarts of English Honey one pound of Roch-allum one pennyworth of madder one penny-worth of long Pepper seeth all together until one gallon be consumed then cleanse the water For the Wind Colick Take the flowers of Walnuts and dry them to powder and take of them in your Ale or Beer or in your broth as you like best and it will help you To make a soveraign Oyl of a Fox for the nummed Palsie Take a Fox new killed cased and bowelled then put into the body of Dill Mugwort Cammomil Camepites Southernwood red Sage Oliganum Hop Staecad Rosemary Costmary Cowslip flowers Balm Bettony sweet Marjorum of each a good handful chop them small and put thereto of the best Oyl of Castor Dill and Cammomil of each 4 ounces mix the herbs and oyls together and strow over them Aphronium a good handful put them all into the Fox and sew up his belly
sweating therefore let her muffle her self with double old cloth wherein is Wormwood Rue Fetherfew crums of sowr Bread and Vinegar and a little Rose-water beat all these together and put it into the muffler made new every day while you do keep him and let the sick party have of it bound in a cloth to smell on while he is in a sweat then after do it away and take a new and because he shall be faint and distempered after his sickness he shall eat no flesh nor drink wine the space of nine days but let him use these Conservatives for his health as Conserve of Bugloss Borrage and red Roses and especially he shall drink 3 or 4 days after he hath sweat morning and evening 3 ounces of the juice of Sorrel mixed with an ounce of Conserve of Sorrel and so use to eat and drink whatsoever is comfortable for the heart also if one take the quantity of a Pea of the said Electuary with some good Wine it shall keep him from the infection therefore when one is sick in the house of the plague then so soon as you can give all the whole houshould some of this Receipt to drink and his keeper also and it shall preserve them from the infection yet keep the whole from the sick as much as you can beware of the clothes and bed that the sick party did sweat in To make Balm Water Take 4 gallons of strong Ale stale half a pound of Liquorish two pound of Balm two ounces of Figs half a pound of Annise seeds 1 ounce of Nutmegs shred the Balm and Figs very small and let them stand steeping 4 and 20 hours and then put it in a still as you use Aqua vitae To make Doctor Stevens Water Take one gallon of good Gascoign Wine of Ginger Galingals Nutmegs Grains Annise seeds Fennel seeds Carraway seeds Sage Mints red Roses garden-Thyme Pellitory Rosemary wild Thyme Pennyroyal Cammomil Lavender of each one handful bray your spices small and chop the herbs before named and put them with the spices into the Wine and let it stand 12 hours stirring it very often then still it in a Limbeck closed up with coarse paste so that no air enter keep the first water by it self it is good so long as it will burn An Ointment for any strain in the Joynts or any Sore Take 3 pound of fresh Butter unwashed and set it in an Oven after the bread be drawn out and let it stand 2 or 3 hours then take the clearest of the Butter and put it into a Posnet then take the tops of red Nettles as much as will be moistned with the Butter and chop them very small and put them into the Butter set it on the fire and boyl it softly 5 or 6 hours and when it is so boyled put thereto half a pint of pure oyl Olive and then boyl it very little and take it off and strain it into an earthen pot and keep it for your use If you think good instead of Nettles only you may take these herbs Cammomil Rosemary Lavender Tunhoof otherwise Alehoof Five-finger Vervain and Nettle tops For an Ague Take the inner bark of a Walnut tree a good quantity boyl it in Beer until the Beer look black and then take a good draught and put it into a pot then take six spoonfuls of sallet Oyl for an extream Ague brew it to and fro in two pots then drink it and let the party labour at any exercise until he sweat then let him lie down upon a bed very warm until he hath done sweating this do three times when the Ague cometh upon him A Powder against the wind in the Stomach Take Ginger Cinnamon and Gallingal of each 2 ounces Annise seeds Carraway and Fennel seeds of each 1 ounce long Pepper Grains Mace and Nutmegs of each half an ounce setwel half a dram make all in powder and put thereto 1 pound of white Sugar and use this after your meat or before at your pleasure at all times it comforteth the stomach marvellously carrieth away wind and causeth a good digestion For a Pin and a Web in the Eye Take the white of an Egg beat it to oyl put thereto a quarter of a spoonful of English Honey half a handful of Daisie leaves and in winter the roots half a handful of the inner rind of a young Hazle not above one years growth beat them together in a Mortar and put thereto 1 spoonful of Womans Milk and let it stand infused two or three hours and strain alâ— through a cloth and with a featheâ— drop it into the eye thrice a day For blood shotten and sore Eyes coming of heat Take Tutty of Alexandria oâ— Lapis Tutty 1 ounce beat it unto fine powder and temper it with a quart of White-wine put thereto 1 ounce of dried Rose leaves and boyl them all together with a soft fire until one half be consumed then strain it through a fine linnen cloth and keep it in a glass and use it evening and morning and put it into the sore eyes with a feather or your finger If the Tutty be prepared it is the better which is thus done steep the Tutty in Rosewater and let it lie half an hour then take it forth and lay it on a white paper to dry then take it when it is dry steep it and dry it again as before twice or thrice and then use it as before For an Ach in the Bones Take Southernwood Wormwood and Bay leaves of each one handful one Ox gall one pint of Neats foot oyl put all these together and let them stand 2 or 3 days and let them boyl upon a very soft fire then put in of Deers suet a good quantity strain them and put them into a pot and so annoint the Patient put to this a good quantity of Tar and as much Pitch as the bigness of a Walnut and of the juice of Pimpernel a good quantity For Children that are troubled with an extream Cough Take Hyssop water and Fennel water of each half a pint of sliced Liquorish and sugar of each a pretty quantity seeth them easily over a good fire strain it and let them take a little hereof an ounce and often you may dissolve pellets therein and you may annoint their chest with oyl of Almonds and a little Wax A Medicine for sore Eyes Take red Fennel and Celendine of each one handful stamp and strain them that done take five spoonfuls of Honey and white Copperas the quantity of 1 Pea Rose-water five spoonfuls boyl all these together in an earthen pot skim it well and clarifie it with the white of an Egg this is an excellent Medicine to clear the sight of the Eye if there be any thing in the Eye superfluous to hinder the sight but if there be nothing but heat it is nothing so good To help one that is inwardly bruised Take of Borrage and red Sage of each a handful stamp these together
which you will serve it in if you like it seasoned you may put some Rose-water between every clout as you lay one upon another with your slice in the Dish you mean to serve it in To make Quince Cream Take the Quinces and put them into boiling water unpared then let them boil very fast uncovered that they may not colour and when they are very tender take them off and peel them and beat the pap very small with Sugar and then take raw Cream and mix with it till it be of fit thickness to eat like a Cream but if you boil the Cream with a stick of Cinnamon I think it the better it must stand till it be cold before you put it to the Quinces To make a fresh Cheese Take a pint of fresh Cream set it on the fire then take the white of six Eggs beat them very well and wring in the juice of a good Lemon to the whites when the Cream seeths up put in the whites and stir it about till it be turned and then take it off and put it into the Cheese-cloth and let the whey be drawn from it then take the curd and pound it in a stone-Mortar with a little Rose-water and Sugar and put it in an earthen Cullender and so let it stand till you send it to the Table then put it into a dish put a little sweet Cream to it and so serve it in To make a Codling Cream After your Codlings be throughly cooled and yielded put them into a silver dish and fill the dish almost half with Rose-water and half a pound of Sugar boil all these liquors together until half be consumed and keep it stirring till it be ready then fill up your dish with sweet Cream and stir it till it be well mingled and when it hath boiled round about the dish take it up sweeten it with Sugar and serve it cold How to make a Goosberry Fool. Take your Goosberries and pick them and put them into clean water and boil them till they be all as thick that you cannot discern what it is to the value of a quart take six yolks of Eggs well beaten with Rose-water and before you put in your Eggs season it well with Sugar then strain your Eggs and let them boil a little while then take it up put it in a broad dish and let it stand till it be cold thus it must be eaten How to make a white Fool. Take a quart of Cream and set it over the fire and boil it with whole Cinnamon and sliced Nutmeg and Sugar then when it is almost ready take the white of six Eggs well beaten with Rose-water and scum off the froth from them and put it into the Cream and boil it together a pretty while then season it and take the whole spice out of it and put it up in a broad dish and when it is cold then it must be eaten To make a Goosberry Custard Take as many Goosberries as you please boil them till they be soft then take them out and let them stand and cool and then drain them draw them with your hand through a Canvas strainer then put in a little Rose-water Sugar and three whites and stir them all together put them in a Skillet and stir them apace else they will burn let them stand and cool a little while take them off and put them in a glass To make a Fool. Take two quarts of Cream set it over the fire and let it boil then take the yolks of 12 Eggs and beat them well with 3 or 4 spoonfuls of cold Cream before you put the Eggs into the hot Cream take 3 or 4 spoonfuls of the Cream out of the Skillet and put into the Eggs and stir it together and then strain the Eggs into the Skillet of hot Cream stirring it all the time to keep it from burning then set it on the fire and let it boyl a little while but keep it still stirring for fear of burning then take it off and let it stand and cool then take 2 or 3 spoonfuls of Sack and put it in the dish and some 4 or 5 sippets and put them in the dish set the dish and sippets a drying and when they be dry that they hang to the dish sweeten the Cream and pour it in the dish softly because the sippets shall not rise up this will make three dishes when it is cold it is fit to be eaten To make Cheese-cakes For the crust take half a pint of flower and 4 spoonfuls of cold water and 3 parts of a quarter of a pound of Butter beat and knead these together and put the paste asunder several times then roul it square and turn it over then take a pint of Cream and 7 Eggs and a quarter of a pound of Sugar and a quarter of a pound of Currans plumpt before you put them in and a whole Nutmeg grated on a knife and some Pepper beaten but not too much it must be gently boyled and stirred as you do butter'd Eggs the stuff must be cold and then put in the Coffin and so bake it To make a Sack-Posset Take two quarts of pure good Cream a quarter of a pound of the best Almonds stamp them in the Cream and boyl Amber and Musk therein then take a pint of Sack in a Bason and set it on a Chafing-dish till it be blood-warm then take the yolks of 12 Eggs with 4 whites and beat them very well together and so put the Eggs into the Sack and make it good and hot let the Cream cool a little before you put it into the Sack then stir all together over the coals till it be as thick as you would have it if you take some Amber and Musk and grind it small with Sugar and strew it on the top of the posset it will give it a most delicate and pleasant tast To make Leach Make your jelly for your Leach with Calves-feet as you do your ordinary jelly but a little stiffer and when it is cold take off the top and bottom and set it over the fire with some Cinnamon and Sugar then take your Turnsels being well steept in Sack and crush it and so strain it in your Leach and let it boyl to such a thickness that when it is cold you may slice it To make yellow Leach Your yellow Leach is just the same but instead of Turnsels you must colour it with Saffron and when it is boyled enough then put in your Saffron and not before it must not boyl in it To make a slipcoat-Cheese Take five quarts of new Milk from the Cow and 1 quart of water and 1 spoonful of Runnet and stir it together and let it stand till it doth come then lay your Cheese-cloth into the vate and take up your curd as fast as you can without breaking and put it to your Vate and let the whey soak out it self when you have taken it all up lay a cloth
then take as much evening-milk as will cover it and something more boil it and cool it again till it be blood-warm then put it to the Oatmeal and let it soak all night the next morning strain it from your Milk as dry as you can through a cloth then take three pints of good Cream boil it with a Mace and the yolks of 8 Eggs when it is boiled put it into your stuff then put in six Eggs more whites and yolks season it with a 〈◊〉 quantity of Cinamon Nutmeg and Ginger and a less quantity of Cloves and Mace put in as much sugar as you think will sweeten it have good store of Suet shred small and forget not Salt so boil them To make Sugar-Cakes Take one pound of fine flower one pound of sugar finely beaten and mingle them well together then take 7 or 8 yolks of Eggs and if your flower be good take one white or two as you shall think good take 2 Cloves and a pretty piece of Cinnamon and lay it in a spoonful of Rose-water all night and heat it almost blood-warm temper it with the rest of the stuff when the paste is made make it up with as much hast as you can bake them in a soft oven To make a Calves-foot Pye. Take your Calves feet boll them and blanch them then boil them again till they be tender then take out all the bonâ—◠〈…〉 with Cloves Mace Ginger aâ—â— Cinnamon as much as you shall think good then put in a good quantity of Currans and Butter bake your Pie in a soft Oven and when it is baked take half a pint of White-wine Vinegar beat 3 yolks of Eggs and put to the coals season it with sugar and a little Rose-water alwaies stirring it then put it into your Pie and let it stand half a quarter of an hour How to make a very good Pie. Take the backs of four white Herrings watered the bones and skin taken away then take so much Wardens in quantity pared and cored half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned mince all these together and season it with Cinnamon and Ginger and when the Pie is baked put in a little Rose-water and scrape sugar on it if you put in Butter then put in a handful of grated bread 〈…〉 Cimbals â—ake fine flower dried and as much sugar as Flower then take as much whites of Eggs as will make it paste and put in a little Rose-water then put in a quantity of Coriander-seed and Annise seed then mold it up in that fashion you will bake it in How to preserve Angelica Roots Take the Roots and wash them then slice them very thin and lay them in water 3 or 4 daies change the water every day then put the roots into a pot of water and set them in the embers all night in the morning put away the water then take a pound of roots 4 pints of water and two pound of sugar let it boil and scum it clean then put in the roots it will be boiled before the sirrup then take them up and boil the sirrup after they will ask you a whole daies work for they must boil very softly at St. Andrew's time it is the best time to do them in all the Year To boyl a Capon with Brewis Take a Capon and truss him to boil then set on the fire a good quantity of water scum it very clean before you set on your Capon put a little water Savory and Thyme into the belly of it and a little salt and gross pepper when you have scummed it clean cover it close to boil then take a good handful of herbs as Marigolds Violet-leaves or any such green herbs as you shall think fit wash them and set them on the fire with some of the uppermost of the broth that boils the Capon then put into it good store of Mace and boil it with the Capon when the herbs be boiled and the broth very green and almost consumed away take the uppermost of your Capon and strain it together and scald your Brewis and put it into a dish and lay the Capon on them To make a Spice Cake Take one bushel of Flower six pound of Butter eight pound of Currans two pints of Cream a pottle of Milk half a pint of good Sack 2 pound of Sugar 2 ounces of Mace 1 ounce of Nutmegs 1 ounce of Ginger twelve yolks 2 whites take the Milk and Cream and stir it all the time that it boils put your hot seething milk to it and melt all the Butter in it and when it is blood warm temper the Cake put not your Currans in till you have made the paste you must have some Ale-yeast and forget not salt To make Broth of a Neats-tongue Take Claret-wine grated bread Currans sweet Butter Sugar Cinnamon Ginger boil them altogether then take the Neats-tongue and slice it and lay it on a dish upon sippets and so serve it To souce a Carp or Gurnet Take fair Water and Vinegar so that it may be sharp then take Parsly Time Fennel and boil them in the broth a good while then put in a good quantity of Salt and then put in your Fish and when it is well boiled put the broth into a vessel and let it stand To make a fine Pudding Take Crums of white bread and so much fine flower then take the yolks of four Eggs and one white a good quantity of Sugar take so much good Cream as will temper it as thick as you would make pancake-batter then butter your pan and bake it so serve it casting some Sugar upon it you must shred suet very small and put it into it To make a broth to drink Take a Chicken and a little of the neck of Mutton and set them on and scum it well then put in a large mace and so let it boil while the Chicken be tender then take the Chicken out and beat it all to pieces in a stone Mortar and put it in again and so let it boil from four pints to a little more than half a pint then cast it through a strainer and season it To boil a Chicken or Partridge Take your Chicken and set it a boiling with a little of the neck of Mutton and scum it well then put in a Mace and so let it boil down and when it is almost boiled have some few herbs parboiled as Lettice Endive Spinage Marigold-leaves for note these herbs are usually used to be boiled which by course will hold their colour in boiling and put some of these aforesaid herbs to the Chicken and Mutton if you think your broth strong enough take out your Mutton then you may put a little piece of sweet butter and a little Verjuice and a very little Sugar and Salt so serve it in with sippets A Broth to drink Take a Chicken and set it on and when it boils scum it then put in a Mace and a very little Oatmeal and such herbs as the
and as much Prunes then take a Court-roul and cut it in long slices like a Butchers skiver then put in a little Mace Pepper and Salt a piece of Butter and a little Vinegar some crumbs of bread and when it hath stewed 2 hours take it up and serve it To boil a Capon in white broth Truss a Capon to boil and put it into a pipkin of water and let it boil 2 hours and when it is boiled take up a little of the broth then take the yolks of Eggs and beat them very fair with your broth that you take up then set it by the fire to keep warm season it with grated Nutmeg Sugar and Salt then take up your Capon and pour this broth on with a little sack if you have it garnish it with sippets and serve it remember to boil whole Mace with your Capon and Marrow if you have it To boil a Capon or Chicken in white broth with Almonds Boil your Capon as in the other then take Almonds and blanch them and beat them very small putting in sometimes some of your broth to keep them from boiling when they are beaten small enough put as much of the uppermost broth to them as will serve to cover the Capon then strain it and wring out the substance clear then season it as before serve it with marrow on it How to boil Brawn Water your Brawn 24 hours wash and scrape it 4 or 5 times then take it out of the water and lay it on a fair Table then throw a handful of salt on every collar then bind them up as fast as you can with Hemp Bass or Incle then put them into your Kettle when the water boileth and when it boileth scum it clean let it boil until it be so tender that you may thrust a straw through it then let it cool until the next morning By the souced meats you may know how to souce it How to boil a Gammon of Bacon Water your Gammon of Bacon 24 hours then put it into a deep kettle with some sweet Hay let it boil softly 6 or 7 hours then take it up with a scummer and a plate and take off the skin whole then stick your Gammon full of Cloves strew on some gross pepper and cut your skin like sippets then garnish your Gammon and when you serve it stick it with bays How to boil a Rabbet Fley and wash the Rabbet slit the hinder leg on both sides of the back-bone from the forward and truss them to the body set the head right up with a skuer right down in the neck then put it to boiling with as much water as will cover it when it boils scum it season it with Mace Ginger Salt and Butter then take a handful of Parsley and a little Time boil it by it self then take it up beat it with the back of a knife then take up your Rabbet and put it in a dish then put your herbs to your broth and scrape in a Carret-root let your broth boil a little while put in Salt pour it on your Rabbet and serve it in How to boil a Mallard with a Cabbage Half roast your Fowl then take it off and cast it down then put it into a Pipkin with the gravy then pick and wash some Cabbage and put to your Mallard with as much fair water as will cover it then put in a good piece of butter and let it boil an hour season it with pepper and salt and serve it upon sops How to boil a Duck with Turnips Half roast her then cover her with liquor boil your Turnips by themselves half an hour then cut them in cakes and put them to your Duck with Butter and Parsley chopt small when it hath boiled half an hour season it with Pepper and Salt and serve it upon sops How to boil Chickens and Sorrel-sops Truss your Chickens and boil them in water and salt very tender then take a good handful of Sorrel beat it stalks and all then strain it and take a Manchet cut it in sippets and dry them before the fire then put your green broth upon the coals season it with Sugar and grated Nutmeg and let it stand until it be hot then put your sippets into a dish put your Chickens upon them and pour sauce upon it and serve it How to boil a Pike in white Broth. Cut your Pike in 3 pieces and boil it with water and salt sweet herbs let it boil until it strain then take the yolks of half a dozen Eggs and beat them with a little Sack Sugar melted butter and some of the Pikes broth then put it on the fire to keep it warm but stir it often lest it curdle then take up your Pike and put the head and tail together then cleave the other pieces in two take out the back-bone and put one piece on the one side and the other piece on the other side but blanch all then pour on your white broth garnish your dish with sippets and boiled parsley and strew on powder of Ginger and wipe the edge of the dish round and serve it How to boil divers kinds of Fish. Bat Conger Thornback Plaice Salmon Trout or Mullet boil any of these with water salt and sweet herbs when they boil scum it very clean then put in vinegar and let it boil till you think it is enough your liquor must be very hot of the salt then take it off you may let it stand 5 or 6 days in the liquor then if you would keep it longer pour that liquor away and put water and salt to it or soucing drink you must remember to let your Mullets boil softly and your Thornback and other fish very fast you must blanch your Thornback while it is warm and when you serve any of those fishes strew on some green herbs How to make a Sallet of all manner of Herbs Take your Herbs and pick them clean and the flowers wash them clean and swing them in a strainer then put them into a dish and mingle them with Cucumbers and Lemons sliced very thin then scrape on sugar and put in vinegar oyl then spread the flowers on the top garnish your dish with hard Eggs and all sorts of your flowers scrape on sugar and serve it in How to stew Steaks between two Dishes You must put Parsley Currans Butter Verjuice and 2 or 3 yolks of Eggs Pepper Cloves and Mace and so let them boil together and serve them upon sops likewise you may do steaks of Mutton or Beef How to stew Calves feet Boil them and blanch them cut them in two and put them into a Pipkin with strong broth then put in a little powder of Saffron and sweet Butter Pepper Sugar and some sweet herbs finely minced let them stew an hour put in salt and save them How to stew a Mallard Roast your Mallard half enough then take it up and cut it in little pieces then put it into a
put it into your Tart with the juice of an Orange then close it bake it and ice it scrape on sugar and serve it How to make a Tart of Medlars Take Medlars that are rotten then scrape them then set them upon a chafing-dish of coals season them with the yolks of Eggs Sugar Cinnamon and Ginger let it boil well and lay it on paste scrape on Sugar and serve it How to make a Tart of Cherries Take out the stones and lay the Cherries into your Tart with Sugar Ginger and Cinnamon then close your Tart bake it and ice it then make a sirrup of Muskadine and Damask-water and pour this into your Tart scrape on sugar and serve it How to make a Tart of Strawberries Wash your Strawberries and put them into your Tart season them with Sugar Cinnamon Ginger and a little Red-wine then close it and bake it half an hour ice it scrape on sugar and serve it To make a Tart of Hips Take Hips and cut them and take out the seeds very clean then wash them season them with sugar Cinnamon and Ginger then close your Tart bake it ice it scrape on sugar serve it How to make a Pippin Tart. Take fair Pippins and pare them then cut them in quarters and core them then stew them with Claret-Wine Cinnamon and Ginger let them stew half an hour then pour them out into a Cullender but break them not when they are cold lay them one by one into the Tart then lay on Sugar bake it ice it scrape on sugar and serve it How to scald Milk after the Western fashion When you bring your Milk from the Cow strain it into an earthen pan and let it stand two hours then set it over the fire till it begin to heave in the middle then take it off but jog it as little as you can then put it into a room where it may cool and no dust fall into it this Milk or Cream you may keep two or three days To make a Junket Take Ewes or Goats milk if you have neither of these then take Cows-milk and put it over the fire to warm then put in a little Runnet to it then pour it out into a dish and let it cool then strew on Cinnamon and sugar then take some of your aforesaid Cream and lay on it scrape on sugar and serve it To make Cream Clutter Take milk and put it into an earthen pot and put thereto Runnet let it stand two days it will be all in a curd then season it with some sugar Cinnamon and cream then serve it this is best in the hottest of the summer To make a White-pot Take a quart of Cream and put it over the fire to boil season it with sugar Nutmeg and Cinnamon Sack and Rose-water the yolks of seven or eight Eggs beat your Eggs with Sack and Rose-water then put it into your cream stir it that it curdle not then pare two or three pippins core and quarter them and boil them with a handful of Raisins of the Sun boil them tender and pour them into a cullender then cut some sippets very thin and lay some of them in the bottom of the dish and lay on half your Apples and curians then pour in half your Milk then lay on more sippets and the rest of your Apples and Raisins then pour on the rest of your Milk bake it scrape on sugar and serve it How to make a Pudding in hast Take a pint of Milk and put thereto a handful of Raisins of the Sun and as many currans and a piece of Butter then grate Manchet and Nutmeg also and put thereto a little flower when your Milk boileth put in your bread let it boil a quarter of an hour and put in a piece of butter in the boiling of it and stir it always then dish it up pour on butter and serve it To make a Pudding in a dish Take a quart of Cream put thereto a pound of Beef-suet minced small put it to your Milk season it with Nutmeg Sugar Rose-water and Cinnamon then take some seven or eight Eggs and beat them very well then take a cast of Manchets and grate them and put unto it then mingle those together well then put it into a dish and bake it when it is baked scrape on sugar and serve it To boil Cream Take a quart of Cream and set it a boiling with Mace whilst your cream is boiling cut some thin sippets then take seven or eight yolks of Eggs put them with Rose-water and sugar and a little of your cream when your cream boileth take it off the fire and put in your Eggs and stir it very fast that it curdle not then put your sippets into the dish pour in your cream and let it cool when it is cold scrape on sugar and serve it To draw Butter Take your Butter and cut it into thin slices put it into a dish then put it upon the coals where it may melt leisurely stir it osten and when it is melted put in two or three spoonfuls of water or Vinegar which you will stir them and beat it until it be thick Lady of Arundels Manchet Take a bushel of fine Wheat-flower twenty Eggs three pound of fresh butter then take as much salt and barm as to the ordinary manchet temper it together with new Milk pretty hot then let it lie the space of half an hour to rise so you may work it up into bread and bake it let not your Oven be too hot To boil Pigeons Boil them in water and salt take a handful of Parsley as much Time stript two spoonfuls of Capers minced all together and boil it in a pint of the said liquor a quarter of an hour then put in two or three spoonfuls of Verjuice two Eggs beaten let it boil a little and put to a little Butter when you have taken it off the fire stir this all together and pour it upon the Pigeons with sippets round the dish A Florentine of sweet-bread or Kidneys Parboil three or four Kidneys and mince them small season them with Nutmeg one stick of Cinnamon beat as much Sugar as will sweeten it and a penny loaf grated and the marrow of three bones in good pieces and a quarter of a pound of Almond paste a glass of Maligo-sack two spoonfuls of Rose-water a grain of Musk and one grain of Ambergreece and a quarter of a pint of cream three or four Eggs and mix all together and make it up in puff paste and bake it three quarters of an hour A Pork-pie Boil your leg of Pork season it with Nutmeg and Pepper and salt bake it five hours in a round pie A Chicken-Pie Scald and season your Chickens with Nutmegs as much sugar as cinnamon pepper and salt then put them in your Pie then put three quarters of quartered Lettice and six Dates quartered and a handful of Goosberries and half a sliced Lemon and 3 or four branches of
Potatoes and put them in your Pie then take the marrow of three bones rouled in yolks of Eggs and sliced Lemon and large mace and half a pound of butter six Dates quartered put this into your Pie and let it stand an hour in the Oven then make a sharp caudle of Butter Sugar Verjuice and White-wine put it in when you take your Pie out of the Oven A Pigeon or Rabbet Pie. Take one ounce of Pepper 〈◊〉 more salt than season your Pigeons or Rabbet and take two Nutmegs grated with your seasoning then lay your Rabbet in the Pie and one pound of Butter if you heat the Pie hot then put in two or three slices of Lemon and 2 or 3 blades of Mace and as many branches of Barberries and a good piece of fresh butter melted then take it and let it stand an hour and half but put not in the fresh butter till it comes out of the Oven To make Puff-Paste Break 2 Eggs in three pints of flower make it with cold water then roul it out pretty thick and square then take so much butter as past and lay it in a rank and divide your butter in five pieces that you may lay it on at 5 several times roul your paste very broad then rake one part of the same butter in little pieces all over your paste then throw a â—â—â—â—dful of flower slightly on â—â—en fold up your paste and beat â—t with a rouling-pin so roul it out again thus do five times and make it up A Pudding Take a quart of Cream and two Eggs beat them and strain them into the Cream and grate in a Nutmeg and half take 6 spoonfuls of flower beat half a pound of Almonds with some Cream and put it into the cream and mix this together boil your Pudding an hour and no more first flower the Bag you put it in then melt fresh butter and take sugar Rose-water beat it thick and pour it on the pudding you may put to it a little Milk and stick blanched Almonds and Wafers in it add to the same pudding if you will a penny-loaf grated a quartern of Sugar 2 Marrow-bones 1 Glass of Maligo-sack six Dates minced a grain of Ambergreece a grain of Musk 2 or 3 spoonfuls of Rose-water bake the Pudding in little wood-dishes but first butter them your Marrow must be stuck to and again then bake it half an hour five or seven at a time and so set them in order in the dish and garnish them with a sprig in the middle and wafers about it strew Sugar about the branch and sliced Lemon set four round and one in the top Frigasie of Veal Cut your meat in thin slices beat it well with a rouling-pin season it with Nutmeg Lemon and Tyme fry it slightly in a pan beat 2 Eggs and 1 spoonful of Verjuice and put it into the pan and stir it together and dish it Frigasie of Lamb. Cut your Lamb in thin slices season it with Nutmeg Pepper Salt mince some Thyme and Lemon throw it upon your meat then fry it slightly in a pan then throw in 2 Eggs beaten in Verjuice sugar into the pan also a hanâ—ful of Goosberries shake it together and dish it Frigasie of Chickens Kill your Chickens pull skin and feathers off together cut them in thin slices season them with Thyme and Lemons minced Nutmeg and Salt a handful of Sorrel minced then fry it well with six spoonfuls of Verjuice one spoonful of Sugar beat it together so dish it with sippets about Another Frigasie of Chickens Take the former ingredients and add to it boil'd Artichoak bottoms with the meat of the leaves and a handful of scalded Goosberries and boiled Skirrets Lettice tossed in butter and when they are boiled and 2 spoonfuls of Sugar 2 Eggs and Verjuice beaten together and lay your Lettice upon your Chickens as before and sliced Lemon upon it and sippets upon the Dish A Frigasie of Rabbets Cut your Rabbets in small pieces and mince a handful of Thyme and Parsly together and a Nutmeg pepper and salt season your Rabbets then take two Eggs and Verjuice beaten together and throw it in the pan stick it and dish it up in sippets To hash a Shoulder of Mutton Half roast your Mutton at a quick fire cut it in thin slices stew it with gravy sweet Marjoram and Capers and Onions 3 Anchovies Oysters half a Nutmeg half a sliced Lemon stir this altogether with the Meat let it stew till it be tender in a dish then break 3 or four yolks of Eggs and throw it in the dish with some butter toste it well together and dish it with sippets To make a Cake Take half a peck of flower two pound and a half of Currans 3 or 4 Nutmegs one pound of Almond paste 2 pound of Butter and one pint of Cream three spoonfuls of Rose-water 3 quarters of a pound of Sugar half a pint of Sack a quarter of a pint of Yest and six Eggs so make it and bake it To make a Leg of Mutton three or four Dishes Take a Leg of Mutton cut out the flesh and the bone but save the skin whole divide the meat in three pieces and take the tenderest and cut in thin slices and beat it with a rouling-pin season it with Nutmeg pepper and salt mince Thyme and Lemon-peel fry it till it be tender then beat 2 Eggs with a spoonful of Verjuice throw 2 Anchovies into the pan shake it all together and put it into the dish with sippets round the Dish being drest with Barberries scalded parsley and hard Eggs minced Another part of the same meat stew in a dish with a little White-wine a little butter and sliced Lemon one Anchovy two Oysters two baldes of Mace a little Thyme on a branch and one whole Onion take out the Thyme and the Onion when it is stewed do it all together on a Chafing-dish of coals till it be tender then dish it garnish your dish with hard Eggs and Barberries and sliced Lemons and sippets round the dish Take another part of the same meat mince it small with Beef suet and a handful of Sage to 3 quarters of a pound of suet add one pound of meat you may use a spoonful of peper and salt mix this all together stuff the skin of the leg of Mutton hard skuer it close and spit it at a quick fire and well roast it in an hour Take another part of the same meat then put in the pepper and salt with a grated Nutmeg some sweet Herbs and a Lemon-peel minced a penny-loaf grated one spoonful of Sugar a quarter of a pound of Raifins and a quarter of Currans minced all together with the meat and the suet and the rest of the ingredients put to 2 spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much salt as spice then make it up in little long boles or roules and butter your dish and lay them in with a
dissolved strain it and put to it four ounces of Damask Prunes eight Cloves a branch of Rosemary let all these stew together while they be very tender then eat a dozen of them with a little of the liquor an hour before dinner or supper then take a draught of broth and dine To make the China Broth for a Consumption Take China roots thin sliced two ounces steep it 24 hours in eight pints of fair water letting it stand warm all the time being close covered in an earthen Pipkin or Iron pot then put to it a good Cockrel or two Chickens clean dressed and scum it well then put in five leaved Grass two handfuls Maiden-hair Hearts-tongue of either half a handful 20 Dates sliced 2 or 3 Mace and the bottom of a Manchet let all these stew together until not above one quart remains then strain it and take all the flesh and sweet bones beat them in a stone Mortar and strain out all the juice with the broth then sweeten it with two ounces of white Sugar-candy in powder and take thereof half a pint at once early in the morning warm and sleep after it if you can and 2 hours before supper at your pleasure when you steep the root slice two drachms of white Sanders and as much red Sanders and let them boyl in the broth A Gentle Purge Take an ounce of Damask Roses eat it all at one time fast three quarters of an hour after then take a draught of Broth and dine Another Purge Take the weight of 4 or 5 pence of Rubarb cut it in little pieces and take a spoonful or two of good Currans washt very clean so mingle them together and so eat them fast an hour after and begin that meal with broth you may take it an hour before if you will. Broth for a Consumption Take a coarse Pullet and sow up the belly and an ounce of the conserves of red Roses of the conserves of Borage and Bugloss flowers of each of them half an ounce Pine Apple kernels and Pistachs of each half an ounce bruised in a Mortar 2 drachms of Amber powder all mixed together and put in the belly then boil it in 3 quarts of water with Agrimony Endive and Succory of each one handful Sparrow-grass roots Fennel-roots Caper-roots and one handful of Raisins of the Sun stoned when it is almost boyled take out the Pullet and beat it in a stone Mortar then put it into the liquor again and give it three or four walmes more then strain it and put to a little red Rose-water and half a pint of White-wine and so drink it in a morning and sleep after it To prevent miscarrying Take Venice Turpentine spread it on black brown paper the breadth and length of a hand lay it to the small of her back then give her to drink a caudle made of Muscadine and put into it the husks of twenty three sweet Almonds dried and finely powdered For Boils or Kibes or to draw a Sore Take strong Ale and boyl it from a pint to four spoonfuls and to keep it it will be an Ointment To make Cammomil Oyl Shred a pound of Cammomil and knead it into a pound of sweet Butter melt it and strain it A Receipt for the Pleurisie Take three round Balls of Horse-dung boyl them in a pint of white wine till half be consumed then strain it out and sweeten it with a little Sugar and let the Patient go to bed and drink this then lay him warm For an Ague Take a pint of Milk and set it on the fire and when it boyls put in a pint of Ale then take off the curd and put in 9 heads of Carduus let it boyl till half be wasted then to every quarter of a pint put a good spoonful of Wheat-flower and a quarter of a spoonful of gross Pepper and an hour before the fit let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint and be sure to lye in a sweat before the fit An excellent Balm for a green Wound Take two good handfuls of English Tobacco shred it small and put it in a pint of Sallet Oyl and seeth it on a soft fire to simper till the oyl change green then strain it and in the cooling put in two ounces of Venice Turpentine For an Ach. Take of the best Gall white-wine Vinegar and Aqua vitae of each a like quantity and boyl it gently on the fire till it grow clammy then put it in a glass or pot and when you use any of it warm it against the fire rub some of it with your hand on the aking place and lay a linnen cloth on it do this mornings and evenings To make a Sear-cloth Virgins Wax Sperma Ceti Venice Turpentine oyl of white Poppy oyl of Ben oyl of sweet Almonds For Wind in the stomach and for the Spleen Take a handful of broom and boyl it in a pint of Beer or Ale till it be half consumed and drink it for the wind and the stomach and for the Spleen A most excellent water for a Consumption and Cough of the Lungs Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him when he is almost cold cut him abroad by the back and take out the Intrails and wipe him clean then cut him in quarters and break the bones put him into such a Still as you still Rose-water in and with a pottle of Sack a pound of Currans a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned a quarter of a pound of Dates the stones taken out and the Dates cut small two handfuls of wild Thyme two handfuls of Orgares two handfuls of Pimpernel and two handfuls of Rosemary two handfuls of Bugloss and Borage flowers a pottle of new milk of a red Cow still this with a soft fire put into the glass that the water doth drop into half a pound of Sugar candy beaten very small one Book of leaf Gold cut small among the sugar 4 grains of Ambergreece 12 grains of prepared Pearl you must mingle the strong water with the small and drink 4 spoonfuls at a time in the morning fasting and an hour before supper you must shake about the glass when you drink it For a Bruise Take six spoonfuls of Honey a great handful of Linseed bruise these in a Mortar and boyl them in a pint of Milk an hour then strain it very hard and anoint your breast and stomach with it every morning and evening and lay a red cloth upon it The Eye water for the infirmities and diseases of the Eye Take of the distilled water of the white wild Rose half a pound of the distilled water of Celandine Fennel Eye-bright and Rue of each two ounces of Cloves an ounce and a half of white Sugar-candy one drachm of Tutia prepared these ounces pulverize all these ingredients each by themselves saving that you must bruise the Camphire with your Sugar-candy for so it breaks best then mix all the powders together in a Paper put
them in a strong glass pour the distilled waters upon them and three pints of the best French white wine that can be had shake it every day 3 or 4 times long together for a month and then you may use it remember to keep it very close stopt This is verbatim as it was had from the Lord Kelley A Medicine very good for the Dropsie or the Scurvy and to clear the Blood. Take 4 gallons of Ale drawn from the tap into an earthen Stand when the Ale is two days old then you must put in of Brooklime of Water-cresses of Water-mints with red stalks of each four handfuls half a peck of Scurvy-grass let all these be clean picked and washed and dried with a cloth and shred with a knife and then put into a bag then put in the Ale and stop it close so that it have no vent stop it with Riâ— Paste the best Scurvy-grass groweth by the water side it must be 7 days after the things be in before you drink it Take two quarts of water and put in 4 ounces of Guiacum two ounces of Sarsaparilla one ounce of Saxifrage put it into a pipkin and infuse it upon the embers for 12 hours and then strain it and put it into the Ale assoon as it hath done working this being added makes the more Caudle For sore Eyes Take half a pint of red Rose-water put therein 4 penny-worth of Aloe succotrina as much Bolearmoniack in quantity let this lie 24 hours in steep then wash your eyes with it evenings and mornings with a Feather and it will help them A Sirrup to strengthen the stomach and the brain and to make a sweet breath Take Rinds while they be new one pound of running water the value of 5 wine pints then seeth it unto 3 pints then strain it and with one pound of Sugar seeth it to a syrrup and when you take it from the fire put to it four grains of Musk. For the burning in the back Take the juice of Plantain and Womans milk being of a Woman with Child put thereto a spoonful of Rose-water and wet a fine cloth in the same and so lay it to your Back where the heat is A very good Medicine to stay the Vomiting Take of Spear-Mints Worm-wood and red Rose leaves dried of each half a handful of Rye-bread grated a good handful boyl all these in red Rose-water and Vinegar till they be somewhat tender then put it into a linnen cloth and lay it to the stomach as hot as you can endure it heating it 2 or 3 times a day with such as it was boyled in For weakness in the Back Take Nep and Clary and the Marrow of an Oxes back chop them very small then take the yolks of 2 or 3 Eggs and strain them all together then fry them use this 6 or 7 times together and after it drink a good draught of Bastard or Muscadine To make a Cap for the pain and coldness of the Head. Take of Storax and Benjamine of both some 12 penny-worth and bruise it then quilt it in a brown paper and wear it behind on your head To make pectoral Rouls for a Cold. Take 4 ounces of Sugar finely beaten and half an ounce of fearced Liquorish 2 grains of Musk and the weight of two pence of the syrrup of Liquorish and so beat it up to a perfect paste with a little syrrup of Hore-hound and a little Gum-dragon being steeped in Rose-water then roul them in small Rouls and dry them and so you may keep them all the year For the Running of the Reins Take the pith of an Oxe that goeth down the back a pint of red Wine and strain them together through a cloth then boyl them a little with a good quantity of Cinnamon and a Nutmeg and a large Mace a quantity of Ambergreece drink this first and last daily For Sun-burn Take the juice of a Lemmon and a little Bay-salt and wash your hands with it and let them dry of themselves wash them again and you shall find all the spots and stains gone For a Pin and Web and redness in the Eye Take a pint of white Roseâ—water half a pint of White-winâ— as much of Lapis Calaminaris as Walnut bruised put all these in glass and set them in the Sun oâ— week and shake the glass everâ— day then take it out of the Sun and use it as you shall need A special Medicine to preserve the Sight Take of brown Fennel Honey suckles of the hedge of wild Dalâ— sie-roots picked and washed anâ— dried of Peal-wort of Eye-brighâ— of red Roses the white clippeâ— away of each of these a handfuâ— dry gathered then steep all thesâ— herbs in a quart or 3 pints of thâ— best White-wine in an earthenâ—pot and so let it lie in steep 2 or â— days close covered stirring it â— times a day and so still it with â— gentle fire making two distilâ—lings and so keep it for your useâ— A proved Medicine for the Yellow Jaundies Take a pint of Muscadine a pretty quantity of the inner bark of a Barbery tree 3 spoonfuls of the greenest goose dung you can get and take away all the white spots of it lay them in steep all night on the morrow strain it and put to it one grated Nutmeg one penny-worth of Saffron dried and very finely beaten and give it to drink in the morning To make Pectoral Rouls Take one pound of fine Sugar of Liquorish and Annise seed two spoonfuls Elecampane 1 spoonful of Amber and Coral of each a quarter of a spoonful all this must be very finely beaten and searced and then the quantity that is set down must be taken mix all these powders together well then take the white of an Egg and beat it with a pretty quantity of Musk then take a brazen mortar very well scoureâ— and a spoonful or two of the Powâ—ders and drop some of the Egg 〈◊〉 it so beat them to a paste the make them in little rouls and laâ— them on a place to dry A plaister for a sore Breast Take crums of white bread thâ— tops of Mint chopped small anâ— boyl them in strong Ale and makâ— it like a poultess and when it 〈◊〉 almost boyled put in the powdeâ— or Ginger and oyl of Tyme so spread it upon a cloth it wilâ— both draw and heal A Medicine for the dead Palsie and for them that have lost their speech Take Borage leaves Marrigold leaves or flowers of each a good handful boyl it in a good Ale Posset the Patient must drink a good draught of it in the morning and sweat if it be in the arms or legs they must be chafed for an hour or two when they be grieved and at meals they must drink of no other drink till their speech come to them again and in winter if the herbs be not to be had the seeds will serve An approved Medicine for an Ach or Swelling Take the flowers of Cammomil and Rose leaves
it and if the Wound bleed wipe it and make it clean washing it with White-wine or water then lay the said juice upon the wound and the herb whereof you take the juice upon it then make your band and let it abide on a whole day and you shall see a wonderful effect A Bag to smell unto for Melancholy or to cause one to sleep Take dry Rose leaves keep them close in a glass which will keep them sweet then take powder of Mints powder of Cloves in a gross powder and put the same to the Rose leaves then put all these together in a bag and take that to bed with you and it will cause you to sleep and it is good to smell unto at other times For spitting of Blood. Take the juice of Bettony tempered with Goats Milk and drink thereof three or four mornings together An Ointment for all sores cuts swellings and heat Take a good quantity of Smallage and Mallows and put thereto 2 pounds of Bores grease 1 pound of Butter and Oyl of Neats foot a quantity stamp them well together then fry them and strain them into an earthen pot and keep it for your use Salve for a new Hurt Take the whitest Virgins wax you can get and melt it in a pan then put in a quantity of Butter and Honey and seeth them together then strain them into a dish of fair water and work it in your hands and make it in a round Ball and so keep it and when you will use it work some of it between your hands and strike it upon a cloth and lay it upon the sore and it will draw and heal it Against the biting of a mad Dog and the rage or madness that followeth a man after he is bitten Take the blossoms or flowers of wild Thistles dried in the shade and beaten to powder give him to drink of that powder in White-wine half a Walnut shell full and in thrice taking it he shall be healed Against the grief in the Lungs and spitting of blood Take the Herb called of the Apothecary Vngula Caballina in English Colts foot incorporated well with the lard of a Hog chopped and a new laid Egg boyl it together in a pan and give it to the patient to eat doing this nine mornings you shall see a marvellous thing this is also good to make a man fat Against spitting of Blood by reason of some vein broken in the breast Take Mice dung beaten into powder as much as will lie upon a groat and put it in a half a glassful of the juice of Plantane with a little sugar and so give the patient to drink thereof in the morning before breakfast and at nighâ— before he go to bed continuinâ— the same it will make him wholâ— and sound For to cleanse the Head. Take Pellitory of Spain and chew the roots three days a good quantity and it will purge the head and do away the Ach and fasten the teeth in the gums A good remedy against the Pleurisie Open a white loaf in the middle new baked and spread it will with Treacle on both the halfs on the crum side and heat it at the fire then lay one of the halfs on the place of the disease and the other half on the other side of the body directly against it and so bind them that they loose not nor stir leaving them so a day and a night or until the Imposthume break which I have sometimes seen in two hours or less then take away the bread and immediately the Patient will begin to spit and void the putrefaction of the Imposthume and after he hath slept a â—ittle you shall give him meat and with the help of God he shall shortly heal For a Pin or Web in the Eye Take two or three Lice out of ones head and put them alive into the eye that is grieved and so close it up and most assuredly the Lice will suck out the Web in the eye and will cure it and come forth without any hurt A Remedy to be used in a fit of the Stone when the water stops Take the fresh shells of Snails the newest will look of a reddish colour and are best take out the Snails and dry the shells with a moderate heat in an oven after the bread is drawn likewise take Bees and dry them so and beat them severally into powder then take twice so much of the Bees powder as the Snails and mix them well together keep it close covered in a glass and when you use it take as much of this powder as will lie upon a six-pence and put into a quarter of a pint of the distilled water of Bean flowers and drink it fasting or upon an empty stomach and eat nor drink nothing for 2 or 3 hours after This is good to cause the party to make urine bring away the gravel or stone that causeth the stopping hath done very much good A Syrrup for the pain in the Stomach Take 2 good handfuls of young Rue boyl it in a quart of good White-wine Vinegar till it be half consumed so soon as it is through cold strain it and put to every pint of the liquor a pound and a quarter of loaf-sugar and boil it till it come to a Syrrup when you use it take a good spoonful of this in the morning fasting and eat nor drink nothing for 2 or 3 hours after It is good for pain in the stomach that proceeds of windy vapours and is excellent good for the Lungs and obstructions of the Breast Receipts for bruises approved by the Lady of Arundel Take black Jet beat it to powder and let the Patient drink it every morning in beer till it be well Another for the same Take the sprigs of Oak trees and put them in paper roast them and break them and drink as much of the powder as will lie upon a six-pence every morning untill the Patient be well To cause easie labour Take 10 or 12 days before her looking 6 ounces of brown sugar-candy beaten to powder a quarter of a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned 2 ounces of Dates unstoned sliced half an ounce of Annise seeds bruised a quarter of an ounce of Cowslip flowers one dram of Rosemary flowers put them in a fine lawn bag with a flint stone that it may sink into a pottle of White-wine let it steep 24 hours and after take of it in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon and in the evening the quantity of a wine glass full A Cordial for the Sea. Take 1 ounce of syrrup of Clove-Gilliflowers 1 dram of Confectio Alchermes an ounce and a half of Borrage water and the like of Mint-water 1 ounce of Mr. Mountfords water and as much of Cinnamon water temper all these together in a Cordial and take a spoonful at a time when you are at Sea. A Plaister to strengthen the Back Take 8 yolks of Eggs new laid 1 ounce of Frankincense beaten
of Bayes then let it boyl again a little then let your clothes be but of a reasonable size to dip them in it then you must have two sticks which must be hollow in the middle to strip the clothes through then lay them abroad until they be cold upon a board then rowl them up and keep them and when you use them lay them upon the place grieved and let them lie 12 hours then take it off and wipe it and lay the other side and let that lie as long A Plague Water to be taken three times for the first helpeth not Take a Gallon of White-wine Ale or Beer and to that quantity take a quarter of a pound of each of these Herbs following Rose-water a quarter of a pint Rue Sage Vervain Egrimony Bettony Celendine Carduus Angelica Pimpernel Scabious Valerian Wormwood Dragons Mugwort all these Herbs must you shred in gross together and steep in the aforesaid liquor the night before you distil it in a Rose-water still and then keep the first water by it self being the weaker and therefore fitter for Children it helpeth all Fevers Agues and Plagues being thus taken seven spoonfuls or thereabout of the strongest blood warm and give it to the party to drink in an Ague or Fever an hour before the fit come and so to sweat either by exercise or in your bed but your stomach must be empty and if it be taken for the Plague then put it into a little Diascordium or Mithridate A Defensive Plaister Take the white of an Egg and Bole Armoniack spread it on leather A Syrrup for a Cold. Take Colts foot Water Hyssop water and Honey put Liquorish Annise seeds and Elecampane put thereto the juice of Fennel and boyl them To stay the bleeding of a wound Take Charcoal red hot out of the fire and beat it to powder A Poultess Take Milk Oatmeal and red Rose leaves and a little Deers suet For the Running of the Reins Take Cups of Acrons and grate them and grate some Nutmeg put this in Beer and drink it For a Poultess Take Linseed and beat it to powder boyl it in Milk with Mallows and Sheeps suet For a Blast Take a good quantity of Vervin and boyl it in Milk and wash the blast therewith very well then bind the herb very close to it some few hours after wash it again the Milk being warmed and so bind it up again the oftner it is done the better and in a day or two it will be well if it be taken before it fester Another Take a good quantity of Vericon being green with as much Dill chop them together and boyl them in Boars grease as much as will cover them and for want thereof so much May butter and when they be boyled together let them stand 2 or 3 days and then boyl it a little and so strain it through a cloth A Balsamum Take in the latter end of September good store of Honey suckle berries and put them in a body of a glass Still stopped and set it in hot horse-dung 8 days distil it in Balneo then when you have drawn the water forth pour the water into the stuff again stop it close and put it into the dung 24 hours then set it in ashes and distil both water and oyl with a great fire as much as will come forth and at last separate the water from the oyl in Balneo To make an excellent oyl of Hypericon Take flowers leaves and seed of Hypericon as much as you list beat them together and infuse them in White-wine that they may be covered therewith and set them in the Sun for ten days then put thereto so much oyl-Olive as all the rest do weigh and let it stand ten days more in the Sun but look that you weigh the Oyl to know how much it is then put thereto for every pound of Oyl two ounces of Turpentine and 1 dram of Saffron and of Nutmegs and Cloves of each half an ounce of Myrrh and Rosin of each 1 ounce and of the root of Briony 2 ounces put them all in a Vessel of glass and mix them well together and set them in a Vessel of hot water and then set thereto a head of glass and Receiver well shut and boyl it so long until no more will distil from it which will be about 24 hours then take it out and strain it whilst it is hot and keep it in a Vessel of Glass and when you first use it heat it well and apply it upon a wound without using any tent at all this is excellent for a green wound especially if there be veins sinews or bones offended or cut it keepeth wounds from putrefaction it cleanseth them and easeth pain and doth incarnate and skin them it helpeth bruises pains aches or swelling in any part and is wonderful good against venom or poyson For the Falling sickness Take the roots of single Pionie grate them drink them and wear some of them about your neck For the kibed Heels Take a Turnip make a hole in the top of it take out some of the pith infuse into that hole oyl of Roses then stop close the hole roast the Turnip under the embers when it is soft apply it plaisterwise warm to the kibe bind it fast Lapis Prunellae A Medicine for sore Eyes Take one pound of Saltpeter boyl it in a Goldsmiths earthen pot with a very hot fire round about it let it boyl till it be very black and melted then take a quarter of an ounce or 6 pennyweight of Roch-allum and a quarter of an ounce of Brimstone break them and put them in the Saltpeter by little at once as it boyleth and let it burn till the flame go out of it self then pour it in a brass Ladle or into a Chafer and so let it stand till it be cold and when you will use it scrape it very fine with a knife and put a little of it to the sore eyes hold down the eye-lids till the pain be gone then let the water drop out of the eye This Medicine taketh away the Pearl Pin and Web in the eye and all sores and blood-shed it also helpeth the Toothach being put into the hollow Tooth with a little lint if the Tooth be not hollow rub it outward Finally it helpeth a stinking breath being eaten in the morning fasting For a Scald-head Take a handful of Grovers shreds and a handful of Dock-roots the pith taken out and boyl them in strong Ale until they be reasonable thick and annoint the head therewith For a Bloody Flux Take Rubarb and roast it then grind it to powder and take as much as will lie upon a six-pence and keep warm that day the next day eat conserve of Roses mixed with Coral and drink that day if you will posset Ale made of Cammomile For the Itch. Take a pound of Butter unwashed and unsalted 3 good handfuls of red Sage and as much Brimstone beaten into powder as a