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A79509
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The childs book and youths book in two parts. : The first teaching an easie and delightful way to read true English ... : The second containing a method for spelling, a catechism, a confession of faith, a copy book, a perpetual almanack ....
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1672
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Wing C3874A; ESTC R173832
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it off keeping your self very warm For the Head-ach Take Betany dried and rub it or Tobacco made small and put it in the Nose and snuff it up keeping your head very warm To help a Burning If you chance to burn your finger or any other part of the body hold the burnt place immediatly as near the fire as you can possibly endure it and the heat of the one fire will draw out the other fire To heal a Burning or a Scald Take the fat of dryed Bacon and hold it between a pair of Tongs red-hot and let it drop in a pot of fair water of which dropping make a Plaister snow-Snow-water and Oyle of Cream is likewise very good A Medicine for the Itch. Take half a pint of Borus two peny-worth of Quick-silver and four peny-worth of Frankincense put them together and anoint all your joynts How to make good Ink. Take a gallon of rain-Rain-water and put in a pound of Gauls beaten a pound of Gum and half a pound of Copperis and stir them together every morning till it be fit for use How to write with Gold Take a shell of Gold of 4 pence or 6 pence price and put in 3 or 4 drops of gum-Gum-water and stir it together then write as with Ink when it is dry put a clean paper upon it and rub it over with a smooth tooth and it will give it a gloss Gum dissolved in water is gum-Gum-water To keep Ink from freezing Take Aquavitae and put into your Ink and it will preserve it from freezing To write so that it shall not be read till it be holden to the fire Take milk or the juice of a Lemmon or Onion and write upon fair Paper and it will never be seen till you hold it and warm it before the fire A ready way to catch Moles Take Onions Garlick and Leeks and put them into the mouths of their holes and they will run out amazed A Letter of Counsel from a Father to a Son SON My prayers to God for thee and my love to thee Let this letter of counsel be accepted by thee above all things know and fear God thy Creator and Jesus Christ the Son of God the Saviour of the world keep a good Conscience void of offence towards God and man Let not I pray thee idle thoughts words and actions prevail bridle thy tongue and thou wilt find much peace and content keep not company with the wicked shun folly and idleness give thy mind to those Books you have I have sent you a Bible which I would have you to read study and practise and the Lord increase thy understanding I shall be glad to hear from thee and let me know what Books you want If you love to read you shall not want Books and so learn to be a dutiful child and you will engage me to remain London June 18. 1672. Your loving Father E. Masson The Answer from a dutiful Son HOnoured and dear Father my duty presented to you I hope God hath and doth hear your prayers for me for I do delight to read the holy Scripture and therein I learn to know and fear my God and Saviour I do love those that are good delight my self in their companies because they are good so always learning wisdom and goodness also it is my desire to live to your comfort my good Father Sir I have received a good token from you a Bible which the Lord give me grace to read and practise I beseech you to send me a Grammar and Wits-Common-wealth a Book called Youths Behaviour an English School-Master the Crums of Cumfort and I will in duty promise to read them and learn wisdom to the Glory of God and your comfort which shall ever be the desire of July 10. 1659 Your dutiful Son Tho. Masson The Superscription To my Honoured Father Mr. E. Masson London To my honoured Father Mr. Freeman in Tower-street London MY honored good Father and Mother my duty presented to you hoping that these few lines will find you in good and perfect health as I was at the writing praised be God I am every day more and more sensible of your Fatherly and Motherly love to me and care over me I am also sensible of my unthankfulness and unprofitableness to you these ten years I being so old I am very sorry for it and now with the help of my God as I grow in years I will grow in grace and good manners to the honour of God and comfort of you my good parents I have learned-out my Youths Book And be pleased good father so that I may not want such helps as Books and keeping at School so that I may persevere in knowledge and wisdom Sir I want a Bible a spelling Book and a Copy book My Master doth take great care and pains with me that your Cost and my time may not be lost But that it may tend to the glory of God and your comfort is the desire of Warwick 20. July 1660. Your dutiful Son John Freeman A Letter from the Son to the Father To my Honoured Father Master Brouton Merchant in London Honoured Sir YOur Letter I have received and Fatherly Counsel I joyfully embrace for to serve God is the duty of a Christian and no longer do I desire to live than in the care of that comfort To continue at School is my delight and desire learning is no burthen and knowledge is profitable the Scripture I do daily read knowing it is sufficient to make me wise unto Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ I find my self as yet weak in the understanding of the Scripture having neither Latin Greek nor Hebrew Sir I most humbly entreat you upon my bended knees to let me continue at School till I learn Latine and Greek at least for I know and am perswaded that where Learning iâ— wanting Ignorance aboundeth Learning I know is a handmaid to wisdom and vertue which are the things my soul desireth to that end I crave your prayers and remain Sept 22. 1659. Your dutiful Soâ— T. B. An Obligation BE it known unto all men by these presents that I William Jones of Keinton in the County of Kent Butcher do owe and am indebted unto Henry Fox of Rumford in the County of Essex Yeoman the sum of Ten pounds of good and lawful money of England to be paid to the abovesaid Henry his Heirs Executors Administrators or Assigns in and upon the first day of July next ensuing the date hereof for the which payment well and truly to be paid I bind my Heirs Executors and Administrators in the sum of twenty pounds of like money of England in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine W. J. Sealed and delivered in the presence of J. D H. F. A Bond with Condition KNow all men by these Presents That I John Day of Rochester in the County of Kent Carpenter am holden