CHAPTER VII

LATER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY HERBALS AND SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY STILL-ROOM BOOKS 163

Later seventeenth-century Herbals--Revival of belief in astrological lore--Nicholas Culpeper--His character--Popularity in the East End of London--His Herbal--Coles's _Art of Simpling_--Doctrine of Signatures--Herbs used by animals--Plants used in and against witchcraft--Coles's astrological beliefs--On the pleasures of gardening--Still-room books--Their relation to herbals--The Fairfax still-room book--An old love-letter--Recipes: "To make a bath for melancholy," "Balles for the face," "For them theyr speech faileth"--_Lady Sedley her receipt book_--Noted contributors to this book--_Mary Doggett Her Book of Receipts_, 1682--Recipes: "A pomander for balme water," "To dry roses for sweet powder," "A perfume for a sweet bagg"--The Countess of Kent's still-room book--"A comfortable cordial to cheer the heart"--Tryon's still-room book--Sir Kenelm Digby--Charm of his books--Recipes: "Sweet meat of apples," "Wheaten Flommery," "A Flomery Caudle," "Conserve of Red Roses"--The old herb-gardens--Fairies and herb-gardens--Revival of the old belief in the communion between stars and flowers.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

ENGLISH HERBALS 189

I. Manuscript herbals, treatises on the virtues of herbs, etc. Manuscripts written in Latin after 1400 are not included in this list.

II. Printed books. The herbals are listed according to authors, or, in the case of anonymous works, according to the names by which they are usually known, and full titles, etc., of all known editions are given. In cases where only one copy of an edition is known the library where it is to be found is indicated. Editions mentioned in Ames, Hazlitt, etc., but of which no copies are now known, are listed, but in each case the fact that the only mention of them is to be found in one of the above is stated.

FOREIGN HERBALS 225

This list includes only the chief works and those which have some connection with the history of the herbal in England.

INDEX 237

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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HERBS BEING DUG UP AND MADE INTO MEDICINES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF A SAGE _Frontispiece_

ÆSCULAPIUS PLATO AND A CENTAUR FROM THE SAXON TRANSLATION OF THE "HERBARIUM OF APULEIUS" 10

MANDRAKE FROM A SAXON HERBAL 22

(1) ARTEMISIA AND (2) BLACKBERRY, FROM A SAXON HERBAL 30

FROM A SAXON HERBAL 40

WOODCUT OF TREES AND HERBS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH BOOK OF "DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM" 48

INITIAL LETTERS FROM "BANCKES'S HERBAL" 56

WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1526) 64

WOODCUT OF PETER TREVERIS' SIGN OF THE "WODOWS" FROM THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1529) 70

WOODCUT FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE FOURTH EDITION OF THE "GRETE HERBALL" (1561) 71

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM TURNER'S "HERBALL" 88

PORTRAIT OF JOHN GERARD FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF THE "HERBALL" (1597) 104

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SASSAFRAS AND TOBACCO FROM NICHOLAS MONARDES' "JOYFULL NEWES OUT OF THE NEWE FOUNDE WORLDE" (1577) 128

TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S "PARADISUS" (1629) 144

TITLE-PAGE OF PARKINSON'S "THEATRUM BOTANICUM" (1640) 152

PORTRAIT OF JOHN PARKINSON FROM THE "PARADISUS" (1629) 160

NICHOLAS CULPEPER FROM "THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED" 166

FRONTISPIECE OF "THE CURIOUS DESTILLATORY," BY THOMAS SHIRLEY, M.D., PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY (1677) 174

THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS