you may warm it to that degree of Heat you usually do Ale or Beer which rather betters it than the Contrary Take a spoonful of ground Oatemeal and temper it with Water as you do to put into broth then add a Quart of clear Water to it Brew it 6 or 7 times out of one Cup or Pot into another and it s done An universal Medicine for all Wounds or diseases GOD is often pleased to manifest his great Power in things that seem very little in our esteem as appears by this Medicine of chew'd white Bread I was struck by a new shoed Horse on the Shin-bone my Leg swelled that my Bone was forced to be cut I lay'd some chew'd white Bread to my Leg when I went to Bed and next Day the Pain was gone My Hand was bit through by a mad Dog I lay'd this to it and Cured it in four Days I have Cured divers Green Wounds with it I Applyed it but six times and Mollifyed a Corn so that I took it out Core and Root and it grew no more I Cured my self of an old Pain in my Shoulder by it a great swelling in my Throat Occasioned by a violent Cold it broak out like the Kings Evel I Cured it in four Days a swelled Leg Putrifyed and great Holes in it and all over full of Tulch and Rottenness that it was conceived to be a Gangren I Cured with it a Pruning Hook stuck through my Thumb-nail and all I Cured with it also one run into the Knee with a Rusty Raper so Festred that it was thought it must have been out off I Cured one Black and Blew from Elbow to Shoulder by a blow and many other I Cured the quality of it is to stench Blood draw out Poison or a Thorn to ease Pains and heal greeved places Read more of this and abundance of Curiosities in a Book called the way to get Wealth by making 23 sorts of English Wine equal to French Metheglin Rum Rack Coffee Tea Mum Cyder and 40 sorts of Ale in a Minute to make Corn produce a treble Crop to dress Fish Flesh and Fowl Accounts cast up of great use to Traders to Write Letters Accounts where Coach Carts and Waggons Inns to Compound bad Debts and recover them and abundance of other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled the way to save Wealth by living well for 2d a Day to save Coals Shoes Candles Soap and Cloth in making a shift to Angle order Bees and Silk-worms Cattle Powltry c. to Improve Land by Hops Flax Liquorice to destroy Virmin to speake by Signs and 20 in the Room shall know nothing of it aod by this means cheating at Cards is plainly Demonstrated to feed Horses fatt without Corn Hay or Grass with many other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled a Thousand Notable things teaching speedily to Read Write and Indite Letters to speake any Language speedily the Laws of the City Observations in Planting Gardening and Grafting to catch Birds to Build and save Lime a cheap way to take spots out of Cloths the use of Dullidge-water to know what Weather will happen Rules of Health and how to live long of Moles Riddles Dreams Stories to make all sorts of Ink to make fine Pictures of Perfuming Dying Colouring with 900 other Curiosities price of each Book 1 s. 6d Sold at the Ring in Little Brittain To cure the Farce or Scurf in a Horse HAng a Toad about the Neck of a Horle in a little Bag and it will Infalibly cure him it must be a live Toad and this I am told cured a Child of the Evil hung about its Neck in a Bag a live and hang there till it dyes and Stink The Angler's Instructor TO be a Compleat Angler observe these things following 1. His Cloaths ought to be of a dark Colour 2. Let your Angling Rod be light and taper and the top prety stiff and about 4 yards long 3. The best time to provide Fishing Rods is from the 11th of December to the middle of January being then freest from Sap Hasle Black Thorn Crab-Tree and Yewswitches are mostly used Let your Stocks and Tops be taper and smooth and each joint neatly suited bind them together 16 Months with straight poles among them that they may not wrap If you use a Firr Angle rub it with Aqua fortis and it gives a curious Chesnut Colour Proportion your Rods and Lines according as the Rivers Ponds c. are in largeness your Lines also must be in strength proportionable to the Fish you expect to catch For the colour of the Hair if there be any difference I prefer a pale water Green which you may dye thus Take a Bottle of Allom-water a good handful of Marygolds boil them till a yellow Scum arises then put half a pound of green Copperas and half a pound of Verdigrease and beat them to powder put these into the allom-Allom-water then put in the Hair set them to cool 12 Hours then take out the Hair and let it dry Let your Line for the Artificial Fly be stronger than the Ground Line for the Trout 5. Your Shot ought to be fastned about a foot from the Hook Your Float if a Quill make thus Take two soft Goose Quills cut the Heads of each about an Inch and a half then shut them together like a Pin case fastenwith melted Shoomakers Wax put a Pill of the same Wax within the end to keep out Water with 2 Caps or Rings made of Quill to slip on each end of the Float for the Line to go between some use a Cork cut like a Pear and bored thro' with a small hot Iron then put in a Quill of a fit Proportion then on a Grindstone rub it smooth 6 In the next Place be provided with a Plummet to try the Depth of the Water 7. Have Bags of Linnen and Woolen for all sorts of Baits and a little Wherstone to sharpen your Hook and also be provided with a Landing Net and a Pen-knife c. All your Tackling in Order go to the River and find a Place if you can that hath a gravelly or smooth Bottom and about 2 or 3 yards in depth the Stream not too swift then about a yard from the place you design to Fish at cast in a quarter of a Peck of Grains or as many more if you please dip them first in the River that they may sink the better and about an Hour after you may begin to Fish for by that time its probable the Fish may have found them If you have not Sport in an Hour you may conclude there is none or else that Pearch and Pike are there that live on small Fish 8. Then plumb the Ground and Fish about 2 Inches from the Bottom the best Summer Bait except in April and May their Spawning time when they are not gone should be large Wheat ordered as Furmety which may be kept 15 or 20 days in Water or Beer putting in fresh as the Skins
another with a gentle Hand shake the Bough they hang on that they may fall into the Hive them immediately set it on a large Cloth and take Boughs that are Green and put just under the place you take the Bees from and cover them with some more Boughs and the Corner of The Cloth they stand on and let it rest till all the Bees are gaue 〈◊〉 If in a hard Winter Honey fail then replenish their more with Brown Sugar mixed with anniseed-Anniseed-Water till its just Liquid and by fiting long pieces of 〈◊〉 Cans with it and then put the Cane gently into the Mouth of the Hive You may give them also Honey and Raisins after the same manner Be sure you cover them with warm Housings of Staw and feed them with Care and they 'l reward your Pains Bountifully Thus I have given you the Opinion of several of the best Authors for the improving of this Noble Insect and that with as much Brevity as possible It s said Bees will not Fly away if you smear the Holes of their Hives with the Dung of a Calf newly Killed Wicker Bees will not Fly away if you bruise the Leaves of the Wild and Garden Olive-Tree together and about the Evenings anoint their Hives with the Juice or else with Water and Honey both the Walls and the Hives To know if Honey is mixed or falsified throw some into the Fire and that that is false will not burn clear Diophans The best Water for Bees is That that runs through Stones and Pebbles and is very clear This makes them Healthful and makes good Honey and you must lay in great Stones and pieces of Wood for them to pitch upon when they drink If you have no Running Water bring it to them from a Well or Fountain in Pipes least they fall Sick with carrying Water In taking Honey you ought to leave them a Tenth part both in Summer and Winter but in Winter you must take but one third part Dodymus How to Order Silk-Worms the right way THe Silk Worms feed chiefly on Mulberry-Leaves the scarsity thereof is the cause of their fewness some say they will feed on Lettice Dandelion Poplar-Trees Plum Trees and Apple Trees but I leave the certainty of it to be tryed by Experience In the beginning of May the Mulberry Trees begin to spread their Leaves and the Silk-worms Eggs are at it were adapted for a release from their Imprisonment that if you lay them in a Window in the Sun or keep them in a warm place about you but keep them warm in the Night and they will quickly appear in a new form cut them some Paper full of little holes and lay over them and some of your young Mulberry Leaves over that these Worms will Easily find the way to the Food and as fast as Hatched apply themselves to the Leave after they betake themselves to the Leaves place them on Shelves or Tables at a distant convenient according to the Number of Worms and Proportion of place you have for them in their feeding thy are four times sick about twelve or thirteen Days after they are Hatched and from that time Successively every Eight Days and their sickness lasteth two or three days then feed them but little which is but to Relieve such as are past their sickness before the rest and those that do not fall sick so soon the time of feeding them is Nine Weeks and then feed them twice a Day laying Leaves over them and they 'l soon make way through them and as they grow in bigness and strength feed them more Plentifully and oft Observe the Leaves be clear of Rain or Dew before you give them in case they be wet spread them on a Table you may gather them and keep them two or three days in case you live Remote from Mulberry Trees or the Weather prove bad rid their Shells often off their Dung and Remainder of their Leaves by removing the Worms when they are fast on new Leaves laid on for then Easily you may remove the Worms with the Leaves A Principal means to preserve them is keeping clean the Shelves of the Room also give them some Air in warm Weather and keep the Room warm in cold Weather keep them not in a cold moist Room nor too near the Tiles or Top of the House They will look clear of an Amber Colour when they are feed as long as able and are then ready to go to Work therefore with Heath made very clean make Arches betwixt their Shelves or with Lavender Rosemary-stalks and upon those the Worms fasten themselves and make their bottom which is finished in fifteen days but the best way is to make small Cones of Paper and with their sharp ends downward place them in Rows in each of which put a Worm as they appear to you to be just going to work and then they 'l Finish their bottom most Compleat When their bottoms are Finished take as many as you intend for Breeders then lay them by themselves and in Four or Five days time the Worms within will Eat their wayout then put them together on some Piece of old Say or the backside of old Velvet or the like made fast at the Hangings or Wall of the House or on a Tables these Flies will then Engender and the Male having spent himself dyes and the Female doth the like when she hath Lain her Eggs then with the point of a Knife put them on a piece of Say or old Velvets keep them in a Box among Woolen Cloaths till next Spring the Female will lay abundance of Eggs but a few kept for Increase is Sufficient the Residue put into an Oven after Baking of Bread that it be only hot enough to kill the Worms for their gnawing their way out prejudices the bottom then take the Bagg having obtained the bottoms and having found the end put twelve or more in a Bason of Water where a little Gum Traganth is mixed and then you will Easily wring them if you feed them not well the Silk is small and Easily breaks Prognosticks of the Weather HOw to know when it will be fair for four or five days together which seldoms fails When the Wind hath been in the North or North-East two days without Rain and sits there the third Day then go your Journey if the Air be clear How to know when it is like to Thunder WHen the Wind hath been South two or three days and it grow very Hot or when you see Clouds rise with great high Tops like Towers as if one Cloud were upon the Top of another and joyn'd together with black on the nether side then it is like to be Thunder and Rain suddenly in many places How to know when it is like to be a wet Spring and Summer and Danger of Rotting Sheep If the Eighteen last Days of February and the Ten first Days of March prove for the most part Rainy then the Spring Quarter and the Summer Quarter
come about it then with a Net you may take abundance of Fish Proper Flies for every Month. February PAlmer Flies little red Brow the Silver Hackle the plain Hackle the Gold Hackle the great blew dun the great dun the dark brown March The early bright brown the little whirling dun the Thorn-tree Fly the whitish dun the little black Gnat the blew dun the little bright brown April The little dark brown the small bright brown the Violet Fly the great whirling dun the Horse flesh Fly the yellow dun May. The green Drake the dun Cow the black May Fly the Stone Fly the little yellow May Fly the Camlet Fly the great Drake the yellow Palmer the Turky Fly the black flat Fly the little dun the brown light the white Gnat the Cow Lady the Peacock Fly the Cow-turd Fly June From the 1st to the 24th The Stone-fly and green Drake the Barn-fly the Owl-fly the purple Hackle the Flesh-fly the purple Gold Hackle the little Flesh-fly the Ant-fly the Peacock-fly the little black Gnat the brown Gnat the green Grashopper the brown Hackle the dun Grashopper July The Orange-fly the Badgers-fly the Wasp-fly the little white dun the black Hackle the black brown dun the Shell-fly August The Fern-fly the late Ant-fly Harry-long-leg the white Hackly September The late Bagger the Camel brown Fly October The same Flies that were used in March Artificial Flies how to make them and the Season they are to be used in IN April a Stone-fly is in Season the body of it is made with black Wooll made yellow under the Wings and under the Tail the Wings made of Mallards Feathers May at the beginning a ruddy Fly is in Season make the body of red Wooll wrapt about with blew Silk the Wings make of the Wing of a Drake and a red Hackle The yellow or green Fly is made of yellow Wooll his Wing made of red Hackle and the Wing of a Drake The dun Fly is made of black Wooll and sometimes dun in season in March his Wings made of Partridge Feathers black Drake's Feathers and the Feathers under his Tail The black Fly in season in May made of black Wooll and wrapt about with Peacock's Tail his Wings the Feather of the Wings of a brown Capon with the blew Feathers in his Head In June the said yellow Fly is in season made of black Wooll with a yellow List on either side the Wings of a Buzzard bound with broken Hemp. Also the Moorish Fly in season in June made of duskish Wooll the Wings the black Feathers of a Mall Drake Also in the middle of June the Taring Fly made of Bear 's Wooll the Wings made contrary one against the other of the whitish Feathers of a Mall Drake In July the Wasp Fly in season made of black Wooll wrapt about with yellow Silk the Wings made of the Feathers of a Buzzard or Drak The Shell Fly good in the middle of June made with greenish Wooll wrapt about with Pearls of a Peacock's Tail the Wings made of a Buzzards Feathers The dark Drake Fly made of black Wooll wrapt about with black Silk in season in August the Wings made of the Feathers of a Male Drake with a black Head The May Fly made of greenish coloured Cruel or Willow Colour and darken it in most Places with waxed Silk or ribb'd with a black Hair or some of them ribb'd with a Silver Thread and such Wings for the Colour as you see the Fly to have at that Season The Oak Fly the Body made of Orange paring and black Cruel the Wings the brown of a Mallard's Feathers To take Pikes TAke what quantity of blown Bladders you please and at the mouth of it tie a Line longer or shorter as the Water is in depth bait your Hooks Artificially and put them into the Water and as the Wind blows them gently the Pike will strike himself and make pleasant Diversion by flouncing about when spent take him out the same may be done by tying your Line at the Leg of Ducks or Geese To take a Pike as he lies sleeping and sunning in fair Weather with a Loop or Net MArch and August is the best time Take a long Pole or Rod that is light and strait on the small end fasten a running Loop of twisted Horse-hair and Silk or made of Wyre of a large Compass which gently draw on him and when it is 5 or 6 Inches over his Gills hoist him up if it is a small Pike draw it not so far on make no Noise in walking nor speaking if he lies so that you cannot conveniently noose him touch his Tail with the Rod and he 'll turn as you please also with a hand Net putting it gently under Water guide it just under him and lift it softly till you just touch him and then do it as quick as you can Baits for Fish TAke Oculus Indiae soft Cheese and Honey and Crumbs of White Bread make it into a Paste and throw little Pellets into the Water and the Fish will swim above the Water Of FOWLING LET your Net be made of the best Pack-Thread well twisted and dry'd and for great Fowl let your Meshes be two Inches at least form point to point the larger the better provided the Powl cannot creep through Let the Net be about 2 Fathom deep and 6 in length is the best verge it on each side and at either end extend it with long Poles that the lower end of the Poles may be fastned with a piece of a Line or two Stakes fast driven into the Ground And observe to do this at the Places where Birds feed and haunt in the Mornings and you may expect Sport To take Birds with Lime twigs THus you must make it At Midsummer peel the Bark from the Holli-Trees and fill a Vessel and put running Water to it then boil it over the Fire till the white and grey Bark rise from the green Take it off the Fire drain the Water well away and then separate the Barks and take the green lay it on some moist Floor and close Place and cover it with Weeds and let it lie about a Fortnight and in that time it will rot and turn to a slimy Substance and then put it into a Mortar beat it well and then take it out and wash it in some running Stream till the foulness is gone Then put it in a close Earthen Pot let it stand five days look to its purging and scum it When clean put it into another Earthen pot and keep close for use As for your Setting-dog it must be elected and trained thus He must be of good Scent and love naturally to haunt Fowls the Land Spaniel is best being of a good nimble size and couragious Mettle which you may know by his Breed and being of a good Ranger c. Then the first Lesson is to make him crouch and lie down close to the Ground and it s done by frequent laying him on the