Part 6

Take 3 pints of the best muskadine or malmesey boyle therein rue and Sage of each one handfull untill a pint be consumed then strain out the herbs hard then set the liquor on the fire again and put thereto long pepper ginger cutcheneale or grains of each an ounce a quarter of an ounce of nutmegs all beaten to poweder let all these boyle together a little then take it off the fire and put therein an ounce of the best methridate 2 ounces of y^e best treacle and a quarter of a pint of angellicoe water keep this and your life above all worldly Treasures take it always warme morning and evening a spoonfull at a time but if infect’d 2 spoonfulls this is good against the plague y^e sweting disease, the smallpox, measells surfets all pestilent distempers and feavours used as followeth take a spoonfull of it when you first fall sick & swet 3 hours in bed after it & then carefully taken out of it if they are dry they must drink posset drink with marygolds boyled in it & drink nothing but caudles & warme drink at other times.

182. _A Cordiall Water of Dr. Stevens._

Take ginger cloves mace cinnamon nutmegs gallingall grains, fennell seed annyseeds carraway seeds groomwell seeds of each a dram liquorish 4 ounces avens cammomile, pellitory of the wall balme red roses garden time rosemary lavender flowers wild marjerom basill mints sage penny royall of each a handfull beat y^e spices very well shred the herbs and steep them in a gallon of claret wine 24 hours then still it in a glass still or Limbeck.

183. _For the Sinking of the Pallet._

Take a dryed walnut and pound the same and pour therein as much aquavite as you make a little pap thereof and spred it on a little cloth or tow and aply it to the crown of the patient bind the same stiffly thereon and it imediately aweighteth the pallet but if it were descended exceedingly then add as much frankinsence as the walnut.

184. _For an Ache or Bruise._

Take one pound of Sage one pound of rue half a pound of wormwood half a pound of bay leaves cut them small and beat them in a morter then take 3 pounds of Sheep sewit ran from the caul mince it small & put it in a morter to the herbs beat them together till the sewit be not seen and till the herbs be all of one colour then take it out of the morter and put it into a bason put into it a pottle of sallet oyle and work it with your hands into the herbs till it be all of one softness then put it into an earthen pot & cover it close so keep it 8 days then take it and seeth it in a brass pot till the strength of the herbs be boyled out then strain it through a canvas cloth and put it into a clean earthen pot and anoint the pain therewith evening and morning laying thereto a warme linnen cloth.

185. _A Poultise for the Kings Evil._

Take a bushel of foxglove flowers the green pluckt from them and stamp them as small as possibly you can and put them into pipkin never used before and put them to 3 pound of butter never salt’d before and boyle them together a full hour and if they are boyl’d to dry put more butter to them y^n let it stand till tis cold & keep it for use.

186. _The Imperiall Water._

Take bittony scabious pimpernell, dragons, Tormentill roots & all burnet leaves and knots of each 4 handfulls pick your herbs & wash or scrape your roots lay them on a clean table 3 days to wither then chop the herbs and roots together and put them in a clean earthen pan then put as much whitwine to it as will throughly wet the herbs & let it stand 24 hours close covered then distill it in an ordinary still to this water put a peck of burrage or buglos flowers 2 ounces of good methridate or Treacle and 3 penny worth of turmerick roots a quarter of a pound of liquorish a handfull of anyseeds a little saffron 4 ounces of hartshorne let it infuse 24 hours then distill it again & as much loafe Sugar into y^e glass to sweeten it to your taste.

187. _The Palsey Water._

Take sage rosemary bittony flowers of each half a handfull burrage and burglass flowers and flowers of lilly of the valley of each a handfull steep these in spirit of wine muskadine or aquavite each one in their seasons till all may be had then put to them balme motherwort sage leaves, leaves of orange trees and the flowers if to be gott of each one ounce put them into the rest and as many Lavender flowers stript from the stalks as will fill a gallon glass steep all these 6 weeks or 2 months then distill them in a Limbeck then put into y^e water citheron peels dry’d & piony seeds of each 6 drams of cinnamon half an ounce nutmegs and mace cardimums cubibs and yellow sanders of each half an ounce lignum alloes one dram make all these into powder and put them into the distilled water and put to them Jubebs new and good half a pound, the stones taken out & cut small close the vessel very well with a double bladder let them disgest 6 weeks then strain these hard with a press & filterate the liquor and put thereunto prepared perl Smaragdis musk saffron of each 10 grains of ambergrease one scruple red roses well dry’d red and yellow sanders of each 1 ounce hang these in a sarsnet bag in y^e water stop it close.

188. _The Vertues of the Palsey Water._

It is of exceeding vertue in all sounding fits in weakness of heart decay of spirrits it restores speech in apoplexies and palseys helps all pains of y^e joints occasioned by cold, and bruises outwardly bathed and cloths dipt in it and laid to the place it Strengtheneth all animall and natural spirits & cleareth the externall sences, Strengtheneth the memory restoreth lost appetite helpeth all weakness of the Stomach being both taken inwardly and bathed outwardly it taketh away the giddiness of the head, it helpeth the hearing, makes a pleasant breath restores the lost speech helpeth all cold, distempers of liver and the begining dropsey helps all cold diseases of the mother. in Sum none can express the vertues of this water. Take bread crums and Sugar of each a like quantity wet it very well with this water, takeing it in the morning fasting & as much at night going to bed if need is but if a fit of the dead palsey or apoplexie you must give as much every hour to restore speech.

189. _To make Veale Collops Jn^o Raisyes way._

Take fat and leane veale sliced thin & well beaten with the back of a knife then lard them if you please put 2 anchoves, nutmeg grated some pepper & salt into the frying pan with your meat then frye it very leasurely in fresh butter else it will turn to oyle, when it is enough pour away the butter then take 6 yolks of eggs well beat with a little vinegar then have some fresh butter ready drawn up to pour into your eggs this being done pour it all into your frying pan upon your meat and so shake and toss and mingle it well together then put it into your dish squeezing in some juice of lemon & lay some slices over it & serve it in to be eaten while hot besure to fry the meat very leasurely else it will be hard.

190. _John Raysies Beefe Collops._

Take fat and lean beefe slice it thin with your minceing knife chop it tender take an oynion and quarter it and some sweet herbs shred, fry your meat with the gravie that comes out of it and half a pound of fresh butter then pour off that gravie from it and let it stew in a dish for sauce then take another half pound to frye up your meat then take the meat clean out of the last butter and take out your oynions season it with some nutmegs & salt before you put in the sauce to ye meat then put in the sauce & serve it up with lemon as the foregoing was & to be eaten hot.

191. _The Lady Buttons Melancholy Water._

Take of wall Jilly flowers 4 handfulls, of rosemary flowers 3 handfulls of Damaske Rose leaves & cowslip flowers a like quantity of burrage & bugglos flowers of each 2 handfulls a like quantity of primroses and clove Jilly flowers balme leaves and pinks of each 6 handfulls, of marygolds 2 handfulls of cinnamon grossly beaten half an ounce 2 nutmegs 3 pennyworth of english saffron 2 orange peels 4 ounces of blew figs Steep them in Sack enough to cover them, and as you add flowers add Sack when you have gotten them all together distill them in a cold still & cover them in the still with Sack & when all is drawn off you must put into your water before you use it 6 ounces of white Sugar Candie, it must be stilled with a soft fire or your water will be y^e smaller it is good for any heaviness of spirits & may be given to weomen in travell.

192. _The Purge for Winde._

Take a Dram of rubarbe and half as much Sena (if easy to worke) otherwise as much of the one as the other half a spoonfull of sweet fennell seed the length of one little finger in liquorish tosed abroad a pint of white wine as much water infuse it altogether & take half a pint & dissolve in it an ounce of manna, & drink it when you have strain’d it from the dregs, drink a small half pint & when it Grumbles about half an hour after take another half pint before you take any posset drink when it works you may drink posset as with other phisick & eat chick or hen for dinner if you like Sirrop of roses better you may exchange the manna for it and when you expect wormes change y^e fennell seeds for worme seed keep warme in the taking.

193. _A purge for Spleen and Winde._

Take a quart of Sider put to it 2 ounces of the roots of pollipodiume of the oake, one ounce of feynae, one ounce of anyseeds let all these boyle gently together till half be consumed then strain it well out put to a pint a pound of sugar then put into a thin bag these spices one sliced nutmeg the like quantity of cloves and mace & a less quantity of mace & cinnamon & 4 pennyworth of saffron then let it stand simmering over ye fire 3 hours till it become a sirrop of w^{ch} you must take a large spoonfull in a quarter of pint of posset drink & drink posset drink in ye workeing.

194. _To make a Pretious Ointment for y^e Eyes._

Take 4 ounces of may butter 2 ounces of vergins wax 2 scruples of Putty fully prepared 2 scruples of camphirr 4 spoonfulls of red or white rose water, melt the butter and wax & then put in all the materialls and besure to keep stirring it till it be quite cold when there is occasion to use it take a little of it & put it in the palme of your hand & when softned with your finger anoint ye outside of your eyes & temples last at night and wash them with white rose water next morning.

195. _To make Currant Wine._

Let your fruit be very ripe and gather’d on a dry day and to every 3 pound of currants good weight with their stalks and stems on take one quart of water and one pound of sugar then put your water to your fruit and with your hand squeeze them through a hair sive then put your sugar to your juice & when it is well mingled together and the sugar dissolved then put it into a dry Sweet vessel fill your vessel quite full & let it worke a week & then stop it up and not tap it under 10 weeks then draw it out of the vessel as you drink or bottle it which you please.

196. _Mrs. Herbert a Midwife her Receipt against Miscarrying._

Take oake buds before full blown and still them in a cold still 3 times over put on your first water on fresh buds next water on ye 3^d fresh buds w^{ch} will then be strong enough so keeping for use and let the woman that doubts miscarriage if at any certain time let her begin to drink this water a month before her usiall time of miscarrying and so drink it 2 months together about 5 spoonfulls every morning fasting an hour after it at any time of the day and then rest but on any fright or Longing or any other occasion whilst with child so as may give a fear of miscarrying this water may be taken at any time of the day again & thus distilled twill hold its vertues very effectually 2 years.

197. _Mr John Ashfields Re^{ct} against a Cold._

An ounce of conserve of red roses of dyascordium the quantity of a nutmeg one spoonfull of the Sirrop of poppeys and 3 drops of the Spirrit of vitriol all these well mixt and take morn: & evening the quantity of a nutmeg fast 2 hours after it.

198. _The Black Plaister good for Sprains Aches Wens Sores new or old._

Take 3 quarters of a pound and better of pale yellow vergins wax and a pint of Sallet oyle mingle both these together the wax being sliced thin in a fair brass bason or pan then take half a pound of the best white ledd in fine powder then take the oyle and the wax from the fire and let it coole a little then put in ye ledd leasurely and stir them together then set it over the fire and boyle it half an hour then take it from the fire and to it put 2 ounces of frankinsence and 2 ounces of mastick both finely powdered 2 ounces of mirrh 2 ounces of obliven in fine powder set your pan into another for fear it should run over when all the ingredients are in Stir it till it hath done rising, set it on the fire and let it boyle half an hour more, keep stirring it all the time then take it from the fire and put in 4 ounces of Camphire in powder then set it on again & boyle it till tis black then make it up in rowles oyleing your hands y^e older the better.

199. _To make Sack thin when it is Ropy._

Take to 20 gallons of sack 1 pound & half burnt allome 2 spoonfulls of baysalt beat all this together half an hour & then put it into your vessel & so let it stand a week before you perse it.

200. _Against the Stone in y^e Kidneys or Bladder._

Take oyle refined and mix with it Sugar and juice of Lemons it is said to dissolve the stone in the bladder to my Lord Savill.

201. _Dr. Butlers Powder against the Stone._

Take nutmeg and sugar refined well beaten and mixt together so take a spoonfull of it every morning in a little quantity of white wine.

202. _For the Goute._

Take raisons of the Sun beaten to a conserve & spread upon white soft leather laying it to y^e greenest place fresh and fresh as you find it dry but it need not till it be quite dry. probatum.

203. _For a Sore Throat._

Gargle it well when you go to bed with allome posset drink and if very sore towards a quincey then lay y^e curds warme to your Throat. Probatum.

204. _For a Cold._

Take a pint of milk boyle in it a large onion and at night when you go to bed take out your onion put thereto 2 or 3 spoonfulls of rosewater sweeten it either with Sugar or honey of roses & so drink it warme in your bed 3 nights together forbareing your supper those nights you take it. probatum.

205. _For the Piles inwardly._

Take pilewort leaves and roots with the flowers of Elder buds the like quantity chopp them small and boyle them in hogs Lard till it looks green over a gentle fire then strain it and put in fresh herbs so do till it is of a very deep green strain it and keep it for your use take some mutton sewit & mix with the ointment and make it into suppositors.

206. _A Glister for the Piles inwardly._

Make water into a warme pot & put it into a glister bag take it presently before it be cold you take one of these glisters every other day and when you do not you must use the suppositer but if you are in great pain you may use them at any time for they do not worke if you boyle pilewort in broth or grewell it will do much good, if the pain be violent take 2 quarts of scumme milk put in a good many turnips sliced and a great deal of the inner rine of Elder boyle them together 2 hours and pour it into a close stool boyleing hot and set over it as hot as you can possibly endure it this cures ye pain be it never so violent if often bath’d with it & twice a day apply’d hot to ye place.

207. _How to dry Flowers._

Take single pinks and take ye leaves out of ye husks and cut y^m somewhat Long leaving some of ye white to ye leaves then put them into a flat glass wherein you have mingled half a spoonfull of Aquafortis with 12 spoonfulls of water and when the leaves have layne in the water half an hour or more take them out one by one and lay them on a paper y^e right side down not to touch one another and after an hour or 2 when the water is well dryed up (as it will if the paper be laide on a woollen cloth) then strow them over with fine dry sand till they be all cover’d so let them lye a fortnight in a place where the sun comes in, in which time they will be dry and stiff then take them off the fire one by one shaking off the sand and wipe them between your fingers lay them in boxes till the winter each colour by themselves and then bind them up together by the white part of the leafe that remains till they be of what bigness you please and so put them into the green husk which must be kept for them, pickt early in the year they will keep the better takeing the natural flowers out of them, rowle a little piece of paper up and fill the husk with it lay them also in sand till they be dry use no water to them when you put your flowers into the husk fasten them with a private stick by ye green silk you bind them up withall with a fine needle at the bottom of the husk. So many severall colours as you have must be put in severall glasses of water or the colours will not be perfect, Rose buds are only laid in water 2 or 3 hours and laid out on a woolen cloth to dry without sand, for marygolds, primroses, or larke heels or the like are only in sand without water. Experience must be ye best M^{rs} to teach this art.

208. _An Aprov’d Diet Drink to be taken every Spring and Fall from the First of September to the 1^{st} of October & from y^e 1^{st} of April to the Last._

Take 4 gallons of the strongest wort boyle it to 3 gallons tun it up with good store of barm that it may work well then make a Canvase bag with a heazel stick thrust through it and so fasten the bag to the stick that it may not go within 3 inches of the bottom of the barrell nor float on the top put these following ingredients into the bag 6 ounces of scena 6 ounces of polipodium of the oake 7 ounces of bayberrys huld 2 ounces of anyseeds 3 ounces of aishen keys bruised 2 ounces of sarsafrage wood, 2 ounces of saldonella, 2 drams of rubarb, let all these be grossly powdered except the scena, and when it hath done workeing stop it up close leaving some barm on the top in 3 or 4 days you may drink of it half a pint in the morning and 3 quarters of a pint in the evening, drink a draught of brothe an hour before dinner & when you go to bed keep yourselfe warme dureing the time y^e more you exercise your body ye more twill work. Probatum est.

209. _For Proud Flesh._

Take half a pound of Sheeps Sewit finely shred and melt it then strain it and put half a pound of rozin finely beaten when the rozin is melted put in 3 penny worth of turpentine and boyle it a little together Keep stiring it; then pour it into cold water and keep beating of it (changeing y^e water) till tis white.

210. _To dry a Hamm the best Way._

Lay your ham before a Good fire turning it sometimes till it is very hot then pound 2 penny worth of Salt peeter very small & rub on it & cover it over and under with half a peck of bay salt which has been heat very hot in a frying pan till it has almost done snappering & pour it hot on the ham when the ham is hot let it Lye in the saltpeeter a fortnight y^n smoke it.

211. _To wash Poynt or any Sort of Lace._

MAKE you a board of well seasoned Dry Deale, of 3 boards in bredth well Poynted, and as long as anything you desine to wash on it naile or brace on a flaxen Cloth very tight sew your poynt and lace by the purl and footing very streight on the cloth, then sew or pin very streight over it a thin canvas or bolter cloth, Soap it all over & pounce it w^{th} a brush and warme water (but gently) till your Ladders come clean y^n rince it well and starch it (with white starch of a thickness just to Jelly when it is cold) with a spunge but leave not much on it you must dry it quick (if you cannot abroad) by the fire for fear the board should stain when it is very dry pull off your upper cloth hastily to raise a nap on it, then rip it off. Grey lace must be stiffned with Iceingglass which has been asoke over night & boyle thin.

212. _A Diet Drink for the Kings Evil._

Take a handfull of egrimony one handfull of wood Bittony 2 ounces of Lignum vite; 2 ounces of scena 2 ounces of Sarsaparella, 2 penny worth of sarsafras, half an ounce of rubarb 2 penny worth of Hermidatis, Pethimony and Stigados of each one penny worth fennell seeds and Annyseeds of each one ounce, a pound of raisons of the Sun, 2 pound of English liquorish, wash the herbs, Stone the raisons, Scrape and slice the rest and bruise the seeds and put them into 2 gallons of fair conduit water and let it simmer half a day till it comes to one gallon, Strain it and when cold bottle it stoping it close and when you use it your Diet must be only dry bread & raisons of the Sun and mutton roasted dry without basting. Drink mornings & afternoons & at night about a Dozen spoonfulls at a time. Probatum est.

213. _To make Counterfeit Nants Wine._

Take 12 pounds of malliga raisons and steep them in 8 gallons of water about 10 days then barrell up the liquor and put to it a gallon of the juice of elder berrys set it in some warme place that it may work and when tis fine bottle it up and drink it half a year old half the quantity of fresh reasons put to the first & half the quantity of juice will make a smaller sort of wine and may be drank in a little time.

214. _A Varnish for Deal Floor’d Rooms._

Take Indian red a quarter of a pound half a pound of yellow oaker let them be ground by a grinder of colours as for painting, put these together and mix them thin with linseed oyle and put some drying oyle into it wash the rooms with a cloth.

215. _To make an Oatmeal Pudding very good._

Take a pint of great oatmeal set it on the fire in a pint and half of good milk or cream 3 spoonfulls of rose water a large flake of mace when tis well boyled put it into an earthen pan and let stand all night next day put to it 2 eggs a pound of beef sewit a little canded citheron & orange peel (if you like it) sweeten it to your taste and put to it a cold custard made as followeth Take a pint of sweet cream, boyle it with mace put to it ye yolks of 6 eggs & 2 whites stir it till it be cold add a little more rosewater put some bits of marrow on top and let it stand a little in a moderate oven so Serve it in.

216. _For Mother Fitts in a Woman._

Get the after birth of a woman with her first child take off the string then put it into a pot with 3 nutmegs shaved thin a pinte of white wine a handfull of sweet time put these into an oven to dry it till it will powder and search it through a fine sive. Give as much every morning and night as will lye on a 6 pence in a Spoonfull or 2 of Sack take it Spring and fall for 3 changes of the moon 3 days before the new moon & 3 days after & 3 days before the full.

217. _The Milk Water._

Balme spearmints, wormwood, of each 6 handfulls 12 handfulls of cardus all Shred lay these all night to steep in 6 quarts of new milk and the next morning draw it off. Ye Lady Downs adds angelicoe & to every still full an ounce of liquorish & sweet fennell seeds.

218. _For Deafness._

Put ground Ivy one leafe into each ear rowle it up but not too hard put it in fresh morning and evenings.

219. _A Water for any Sore or Sore Eyes._

Take 2 ounces of allume one ounce of white copperis, half an ounce of baysalt, boyle these in 2 quarts of runing water till half be wasted and when tis cold put into the bottle with it one penny worth of camphire then stop it close and twill keep 7 years.

220. _For Convultion Fits._