The Treasury of commodious Conceits, and hidden Secrets.  
Commonly called The good housewives Closet of provision, for the health of her Household.  
Meet and necessary for the profitable use of all estates.  
Gathered out of sundry Experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly corrected, and enlarged, with divers necessary physic helps, not impertinent for every good housewife to use in her house, amongst her own family.  
LONDON. Printed by Richard jones, at the Rose and Crown near Holborn bridge. 1591.   

The Printer to all women, that covet the practice of good housewifery, aswell wives as maids.  
GOod housewives here you have, a jewel for your joy.  
A Closet meet your housewifery to practise and employ.  
aswell the Gentles of degree, as ●ke the meaner sort,  
May practise here to purchase health, their household to comfort.  
●nd as the prover be proveth true, to remedy each grief,  
●mongst the rest of the Physics helps, the housewives help is chief.  
Therefore good housewives once again, I say to you, repair  
●nto this Closet when you need, and mark what ye find there.  
●hich is a mean to make most things, to housewives use pertain  
●s all Conserves & Sirops sweet to comfort heart and brain.  
●●r banquets to, here may you find, your dishes how to frame  
●s Succad, Marmalade, Marchapane to & each thing else by name  
●●ne powders eke for linen clothes & woollen, furred or faced  
●o keep them sweet, and safe from Moths, in chests when they be placed  
●ood medicines to, for present health in Closet here you have  
●o maintain life, & keep ye young the chiefest thing ye crave.  
●hus to conclude, I wish ye mark, the benefits of this book.  
●●th Gentles state, the Farmer's wife, and Crafts-mans' housewife Cook.  
●●d if ye reap commodity by this my friends advice▪  
●●en give him thanks, and think not much, of four pence for the price.  
Far well.   

To the Worshipful, Master Richard Wistow, Gentleman, one of the assistants of the Company of the Barber's and surgeons: john Partridge, wisheth increase of knowledge by his worthy travel.  
AFter that I had (worshipful Sir) taken some pain, in collecting certain hidden secrets together, & reduced them into a necessary little book, for my own behoof & my familiar friends: yet at the instance of a certain Gentlewoman, being my dear and special friend, I was constrained to publish the same, & considered with myself the saying of the wise, which is: That good is best, which to all indifferently is of like goodness, or effect: or which without respect of person, is good to all indifferently. The consideration of which, & her importunacy together, instiged me to communicate unto the view & public benefit of all men, this small book: the contents whereof doth instruct & teach all manner of persons & degrees, to know perfectly how to make divers & sundry sorts of new conceits, aswell of meats, conserves, and Marmalades, as also of sweet and pleasant Waters, of wonderful Odours, Operations & Virtues: with divers other things, that have not hitherto been publicly known: Which fact of mine (I know) will be, not only, disliked of some, but altogether condemned: not for that it is evil: but that their fine heads cannot digest that any other beside themselves should enjoy the benefit thereof, having for their Maxim, that such things are of small price, as are common to all men: much after our English proverbs, Quainty & Dainty, Far fetched & dear bought is good for great estates. But I account that person foolish, & unworthy help of any Physician or Surgeon, that will refuse to receive, or gain health by the medicine of any such Physician or Surgeon, who by learning the same out of Galen, Avicen, Hipocrates, or any other such like, hath oftentimes cured the diseases in sundry and many persons, for that the same hath been commonly used: but rather most willingly and courteously to embrace the same (for present remedy) as a thing excellently well experimented and proved. I need not (Right Worshipful) to use these words for the defence of this little Book, considering that your Worship doth very well accept such things, as universally bring with them a public profit and utility whence consisteth your delight, rewarding liberally the travail of such, who have and do travail therein. Wherhfore, for that I among all other persons, do think myself most beholden unto your worship, to gratify your goodness, and to satisfy the request of my friend, I have compiled this little book: which I have put forth under your worship's name and protection: protesting, that if I shall see this work, which with some cost and charge I have brought to perfection, be well accepted at your hands, I shall shortly exhibit unto your worship, a thing of greater value & estimation. And thus committing your good worship unto God, I end: who send you your desire of understanding and knowledge.  Your Worships to command. I. Part.  

The Author to his Book, concerning his friend, whose importunate suit procured him to publish the same.  

Go little book, of profit and pleasance,  
Unto thy good Mistress without delay:  
And tell her I send thee for the performance  
Of her earnest suit, sith she would have no nay.  
Let her use thy commodities, as right well shemay  
To profit her friends, for health's preservation  
And also to pleasure them for recreation.   

Tell her, that all things in thee contained,  
I have seen them put oft times in ure:  
And given thee to be her servant retained,  
To serve her, faithfully doing thy cure:  
And also say, of this let her be sure,  
That she with her suit, of me hath obtained  
Thee, that no gold nor good could have gained   I. P.  

The Closet or treasury of hidden Secrets.  

To make March-pain. Chap. 1.  
TAke half a pound of blanched Almonds, and of white Sugar a quarter of a pound, of Rose-water half an ounce, and of Damask water as much: beat the Almonds with a little of the same water, and grind them till they be small: set them on a few coals of fire, till they wax thick, them beat them again with the sugar, fine: then mix the sweet waters and them together, and so gather them & fashion your Marchpame: Then take Wafer cakes of the broadest making, cut them square, passed them together with a little liquor, and when you have made them as broad as will serve your purpose, have ready made a hoop of a green Dazzle wand, of the thickness of half an inch, on the inner side smooth and on the outer side round and smooth, without any knags: lay this hoop upon your Wafer cakes aforesaid, and then fill your hoop with the gear above named, the same driven smooth above with the back of a silver spoon, as ye do a Tart, and cut away all the parts of the cakes, even close by the out side of the hoop, with a sharp knife, that it may be round: then having white paper underneath it, set it upon a warm hearth or upon an instrument of iron or brass, made for the same purpose, or into an Oven, after the bread is taken out, so it be not stopped, it may not bake, but only be hard and thorough dried, and ye may while it is moist, stick it full of Comfits of sundry colours, in a comely order, ye must moist it over with Rose-water and Sugar together: make it smooth, and so set it in the Oven, or other Instrument, the clearer it is like a Lantern horn, so much the morecommended. If it be through dried, and kept in a dry and warm air, a Marchpaine will last many years. It is a comfortable meat, meet for weak folks, such as have lost the taste of meats by much and long sickness. The greatest secret that is in making of this clear, is with a little fine flower of Rice, rose-water, and Sugar beaten together, and laid thin over the Marchpaine, ere it go to drying. This will make it shine like ye, as Lady's report.   

To gild a Marchpane, or any other kind of Tart. Chap. 2.  
TAke and cut your leaf of gold, as it lieth upon the book, into square pieces like Dice, and with a Coney's tails end moisted a little, take the gold up by the one corner, lay it on the place, being first made moist, and with an other tail of a Conie dry, press the gold down close. And if ye will have the form of an Heart, or the name of Jesus, or any other strange thing whatsoever, cut the same through a piece of paper, and lay the paper upon your Marchpane, or Tart: then make the void place of the Paper, through which the Marchpane appeareth, moist with rose-water, lay on your gold, press it down, take off your Paper, and there remaineth behind in gold, the print cut in the said paper.   

To bake Quinces Chap. 3.  
PAre them, take out the core, perboil them in water till they be tender, let the water run from them, till they be dry: Then put in every coffin one Quince, in it a good quantity of Marrow. Also take Sugar, Cinnamon, & a little Ginger, & fill the Coffin therewith, close it, let it bake an hour, and so serve it.   

To keep Quinces unpared all the year long. Chap. 4.  
TAke ripe Quinces, and at the great end cut a stopple, then take out the core clean, and stop the hole again with the same stopple (but pair them not) and parboil them a little, take them up, and let the water drain from them: then put all the cores, and some of the smallest Quinces, in little pieces all to cut, into the water wherein all the Quinces were perboiled, and let them seethe till the liquor be as thick as molten size that Painters occupy, then take it from the fire and let it cool: in the mean season couch your cold Quinces in a barrel; or in an earthen pot, the great end downward (if the stopple be out, it makes no matter) and one upon another. Then put the liquor in, that it be a handful over and above them: cover them close, and after iiii. or v. days look to them, and when you see the liquor sunk down, put in more of the same, which ye purposely kept to cover them, as before: then lay a board upon them, and a stone, that they rise not, and cover the vessel close with a thick cloth folded, that it take no air, so let them remain. And when ye intent to occupy some of them, uncover the vessel, and ye shall find a cream covering the whole liquor, break it in the midst, turn it over with your hand, then take out your fruit in order, beginning in the midst first, them by the sides, so that you remove nane, if it may be, but those that you take away: and every time that ye break the cream, turn it over again into his place, for you must know, that the Cream keepeth out air, and keepeth in the strength of the Syrup therefore it maketh much to the conservation of the fruit to save it, and also to see the vessel close covered. Also, when you will bake your Quinces, wash them well and clean in warm water, and bake them as before is written.   

To make Vinegar of Roses. Chap. 5.  
IN Summer time when Roses blow, gather them, ere they be full spread or blown out, and in dry weather: pluck the leaves, let them lie half a day upon a fair board, then have a vessel with vinegar of one or two gallons (if you will make so much Roset) put therein a great quantity of the said leaves, stop the vessell-close after that you have stirred them well together: let it stand a day and a night, then divide your Uinigre, & Rose-leaves together in two parts, put them into two great glasses, and put in rose leaves enough: stop the glasses close, set them upon a shelf under a wall side, on the South side without your house, where the Sun may come to them the most part of the day, let them stand there all the whole summer long: and then strain the Uinigre from the Roses, and keep the Uinigre. If you do once in ten days take and strain out the Rose-leaves, and put in new leaves of half a days gathering, the Uinigre will have the more odour of the Rose.  
You may use in steed of vinegar, wine, that it may wax eager, and receive the virtue of the Roses, both at once.  
Moreover, you may make your Vinegar of Wine, white, red. or claret: but the red doth most bind the belly, and the white doth most lose.  
Also, the Damask Rose is not so great a binder as the Red Rose, and the white Rose looseth most of all: hereof you may make Vinegar Roset.  
Thus also you may make Vinegar of Violets, or of Eldern flowers: but you must first gather and use your flowers of Eldern, as shall be showed here after, when we speak of making Conserve of Eldern flowers.   

Fine Sauce for a roasted Rabbit: used to king Henry the eight. Chap. 6.  
TAke a handful of washed Parsley, mince it small, boil it with Butter and Verinice upon a chasingdish, season it with Sugar, and a little Pepper gross beaten: When it is ready, put in a few crumbs of of white bread amongst the other: let it boil again, till it be thick: then lay it in a platter, like the breadth of three fingers, lay of each side one roasted Conie, or more, and so serve them.   

¶ To make Paste of Sugar, whereof may be made all manner of fruits and other fine things with their form: as platters, dishes, glasses, cups, and such like things▪ wherewith you may furnish a table: and when you have done, you may eat them up. A pleasant thing for them that sit at the Table. Chap. 7.  
TAke gum Dragant, as much as you will, and steep it in Rose water, until it be mollified. And for four ounces of Sugar, take of it the bigness of a bean: the juice of Lemons, a Walnut shell full, and a little of the white of an egg: but you must first take the gum, and beat it so much with a pestle in a mortar of white Marble, or of brass, until it become like water, then put to it the juice with the white of the Egg, incorporating well together. This done, take four ounces of fine white sugar well beaten to powder, and cast it into the mortar by little and little▪ until it be turned into the form of paste: then take it out of the said Mortar, and bray it upon the powder of Sugar, as it were meal or flower, until all be like soft paste, to the end you may turn it, & fashion it, which way you will: when you have brought your paste to this form, spread it abroad with Cinnamon, upon great or small leaves, as you shall think it good, & so shall you form & make what things you will, as is aforesaid, with such fine knacks as may serve a Table, taking heed that there stand no hot thing nigh unto it. At the end of the banquet they may break all, and eat the Platters, Dishes, glasses, Cups, and all such like: for this paste is very delicate and savourous. If you will make a thing of more ffnenesse than this, make a Tart of Almonds, stamped with sugar and Rose-water of like sort that Marchpanes be made of: this shall you lay between two pastes of such vessels, or fruits, or some other thing, as you think good.   

To make fine blanche powder for roasted Quinces. Chap. 8  
TAke fine sugar, half a pound, beaten in a hot mortar to fine powder, of white Ginger, pared, half an ounce, of chosen Cinnamon a quarter of an ounce, beaten ready to fine powder: mix them well together, and if you will have it most excellent, cast two spoonful of Rose or Damask water, in beating of the Sugar,   

To conserve Quinces in syrup condict. always ready to be served, in whole or in quarters. Chap. 9  
AFter your Quinces are coared and pared, seethe them till they be tender & soft: then lay them out till they be cold: in the mean time, take of the same liquor two quarts or more (according to the number of your Quinces which ye will keep) & put therein the cores & some other small pieces, seethe them in the liquor to make the syrup strong: strain them, and put into the liquor, being two or three quarts, one pint of Rose water, and for every quart of liquor, one half pound of Sugar: seethe them again together on a soft fire of coals, till the Sugar be incorporated with the liquor, then put in your Quinces: let them seethe softly, till you perceive that your syrup is as thick as life honey, than set them to cool, and take them out, lay them in a trey or platter till they be cold: then take one ounce of bruised Cinnamon, and some whole Cloves: put them with some of the Cinnamon in the Sirop, and when it is cold, lay a lard of Quinces in your glass (called a gestelin glass) or an earthen pot well glazed: then straw a little of your Cinnamon upon your Quinces, then power some syrup, lay on another lard of Quinces, and again of your spice and syrup, and so forth till you have done, & cover them two fingers over with syrup above, cover them close: and within three of four days look to them: and when you find the syrup shrunken down, put in more, and so reserve them. These are to be served in with syrup.  
See that the Quinces be tenderly sodden, and the syrup thick and strong enough.   

Plums condict in syrup. Chap. 10.  
TAke half a pound of Sugar, half a pint of rose-water, and a pint of fair Rainwater, or of some other distilled water, seethe the Sugar, and the two waters upon a soft fire of coals till the one half be consumed: then take it from the fire, and when it leaveth boiling, put therein half a pound of ripe Damasins, or other plums & set it again on the Embers, and keep it in the like heat, till the plums be soft, by the space of an hour if need be: then put into some Cloves bruised, and when it is cold, keep it in a glass, or in an earthen Gallipot: the stronger the syrup is with Sugar, the better it will continue. Some put into the syrup Cinnamon, Saunders, Nutmegs, Cloves, & a little Ginger: seethe them not hastily, for fear of much breaking.   

To make fine Rice pottage Chap. 11.  
TAke half a pound of Jorden Almonds, and half a pound of Rice, and a gallon of running water, and a handful of Oak bark, and let the bark be boiled in the running water, and the Almonds beaten with the hulls and all on, and so strained to make the Rice Porridge withal.   

To make Marmalade of Quinces. Chap. 12,  
after that your Quinces are sodden, ready to be kept condict as before in the chapter is written, them with some of the liquor wherein they were sodden (but without any spice) beat them and draw them as ye would do a Tart: then put some over the fire, and seethe them softly, and in the seething, straw by little and little, of powder of Sugar, the weight of the Quinces, or more, as your taste shall tell you: stir it continually, put thereto some pure rose-water, or bamask water, let it seethe on height, till it be walstanding, which thing ye may know, by taking some of it upon a cold knife, and let it cool, if it be stiff, then take it off, and box it while it is warm, and set it in a warm or dry air: if you will gild your Marmalade, do as afore is spoken of a Marchpane.  
The best making of a Marmalade is when the Quinces have lain long, and are through rupe, and very yellow, as in Lent season.  
And for as much as Quinces are binding, and therefore not good for some sick folks costiffe, it is necessary to put a good many of ripe Apples of good verdure, as Renet, Pippin, Lording, Russeting, Pomeriall, Rex pomorum, or any other Apple, that is pleasant raw, among them, being first drawn from a Tart, and then soadden among the other matter of Quinces. Thus shall you make your Marmalade somewhat souple, and also incrrase the quantity and virtue of the same, especially if it be well dashed with sweet water.   

To make Marmalade of Damsins, or Prunes. Chap 13.  
TAke Damsins which are ripe, boil them on the fire with a little fair water, until they be soft: Then draw them through a course Boulter, as ye make a Tart, set it on the fire again, seethe it on height with sufficient Sugar, as you do your Quinces, dash it with sweet water, etc. and box it.  
If you will make it of Prunes, even likewise do put some Apples also to it, as you did to your Quinces.  
This wise you may make Marmalade of Wardens, Pears, Apples and Medlars, Service, Checkers, or Strawberries, every one by himself, or else mix it together, as you think good   

To make Succade of peels of Oranges and Limmons. Chap. 14.  
FIrst take of your peels by quarters, and seethe them in fair water, from three quarts to three pints: Then take them out, and put to as much more water, & seethe them likewise, and so do again, till the water wher●n they are sodden have no bitterness at all of the peels, then are they ready. Now prepare a Syrup as ye do for Quinces condict in the syrup, in the 9 Chap. before written, seethe them in a glass or pot.   

To make green Ginger. Chap. 15.  
TAke the Races of cased Ginger of the fairest and use them as followeth: Lay a broad lane of fair sand upon a low floor on the ground, half a foot thick, then lay your Races of Ginger upon the sand in order, cover the Ginger with more sand, four or five inches thick, sprinkle the sand over with fair water twice every day that it be moist, thus daily do, till ye shall perceive your Races to be soft. Then take up your Races, wash them, & scrape them clean, have a syrup ready made, as above is said, seethe them in it till they be well seasoned: take them up, and with some of the syrup cast them, or put them in a pot of stone.   

To make Manus Christi. Chap. 16.  
TAke half a pound of white Sugar, put thereto four ounces of rose-water, seethe them upon a soft fire of coals, till the water be consumed, and the sugar is become hard: Then put therein a quarter of an ounce of the powder of Pearls, stir them well together, put for every spoonful a piece of a leaf of gold cut of purpose, cast them upon a leaf of white paper being first anointed with the oil of sweet Almonds, or sweet butter for cleaving too.   

To make Aqua Composita. Chap. 17.  
TAke four gallons of the best Ale, drawn from the yeast 24. hours after it hath stood tunned, and put it into a close vessel, wherein you shall put these herbs following, and four ounces of Licorase scraped, and bruised in a mortar, and so much anise seed well garbled: then stir them together twice a day for the space of three days, and let them stand 24. hours after: then put them into the stilling pot, and (if you please) you may also put in the Lees of Malmsey or Sack, or any other distilled waters, but fill not your pot too full: then set on your Limbeck, and close it fast to the pot, and keep a soft fire under it. These are the herbs with their quantities.  
Isope, Time, Rosemary, Sage, Parsley, Borage, Langdebeef, red fenel, Sorrel, Harts-toong, Bayleaves, bugloss, Scabias, Marigolde, Costmarie, Ribwoort, sentory, Liverwort, fumitory, of each a handful.  
Margeram gentle, Basil, Mints, Champaign, woodbine, Patience, Valerian, Endive, Wormwood, Peneroyall, Camomile, of each half a handful.   

To make Aqua Vitae. Chap. 18.  
TAke four gallons of strong Ale or Winelees, and put them in a vessel and cover it well: then put to it three or four handful of Rosemary, Peniroyall, Liverwort, Hartestongue, or any other good herbs, and stir them together twice or thrice a day, for the space of four days: then put them in a brass pot, and still with a temperate fire, for else you burn your pot and lose your Aqua Vite, which will stink and look red: also, look you keep your water in a temper, and when it is very hot, let it out, and put in cold water again into the upper part of the Limbeck, and so change your water as it waxeth hot.  
Take a spoonful from under the spout, and light it with a paper, and if it burn clean out, it is good, else not.   

To make hippocras. Chap. 19  
TAke of chosen Cinnamon two ounces, of fine Ginger one ounce, of Grains half an ounce, of Nutmegs half an ounce, bruise them all, and stamp them in three or four pints of good odiferous wine, with a pound of Sugar, by the space of four and twenty hours: then put them into an hippocras bag of woollen, and so receive the liquor. The readiest and best way is to put the spices with the pound of Sugar, & the wine into a bottle, or a stone pot, stopped close, and after xxuii. hours it will be ready, then cast a thin linen cloth, and letting so much run through as ye will occupy at once, and keep the vessel close, for it will so well keep both the spirit, odour and virtue of the wine, and also spices.   

How to make divers necessary Oils of great virtue. Chap. 20.  

Oleum Hiperici.  
TAke the tops & flowers of S. john's wort that hath red juice, three ounces, shred the small, & lay them to steep in sweet wine, as much as needeth, three days: then boil them in a double glass, close stopped, & press out the liquor from them, which done four times with fresh flowers, & a little more wine, if any be wasted, if not, take the wine the fourth time strained, put to it, Terebinthii, 3. ounces: of good Oil 6. ounces, and of Saffron a scruple, so let them boil till the wine be consumed: which poured clear out from the grounds, reserve to be used.  
It is hot & dry, and binding, wherefore it healeth the cuts and wounds of the sinews, taketh away the pain of the hips, thighs, and bladder, and helpeth the urine.   

Oil of Rue.  
TAke blossoms and tops of Rue so many as you lift, which small shred, put into some glazen vessel, and pour to so much sweet Oil as will cover them, and close stopped, let it stand in the sun, or in some other hot place, five days: then boil it, & being strained from the herbs, take so many fresh herbs, & use it as afore said, four or five times, & reserve it to use as aforesaid  
It is hot, opening, resolving, and mitigating pain: it heateth the rains, bladder and matrix, it taketh away the pains of them & the Colleck, if the belly be anointed therewith, or a glister made therewith, it is good for the sinews, helpeth the cramp, and putteth away cold humours.   

Oil of Dill.  
TAke the flowers and leaves of Dil. etc. as afore of Rue. It mitigateth pain, openeth the pores, provoketh sweat, resolveth vapours, impostumes, swellings & hardness in any place, and if the back bone be anointed, it easeth the painens and growing of Fevers.   

Oil of Elder flowers, in the same manner.  
It suppleth, cleanseth the skin, helpeth the weakness of the liver, and the stopping of the same, and greatly assuageth the pain of the joints.   

Oil of the leaves and flowers of Camomile, as of Rue and Dill.  
It is good against the pleurisy, openeth the pores, resolveth vapours, correcteth the evil quality of humours, and is good for the sinews, and abateth the pain marvelously.   

Oil of sweet Mints, as aforesaid.  
I comforteth a weak stomach, stays vomit, moves appetite, helpeth concoction, and taketh away loathsomeness.   

Oil of Wormwood.  
It is hot, & comforteth the parts that are too much cooled, chief the stomach, provoketh appetite, takes away obstructions, & killeth worms.   

Of Oil of Roses, and of Rose buds.  
It is good against inflammations, it cooleth the burning and boiling of the stomach, & fretting of the bowels, if it be given in glister, and to anoint the teeth, it taketh away the ache.   

Of the oil of Violet Flowers.  
It is good against all inflammations and heat.   

Of the Oil of water-Lillie flowers.  
It cooleth more than oil of Violets, it helpeth the heat of the rains.   

To make Oil of Earth worms.  
TAke of earth-worms half a pound, of good Oil two pound, of sweet wine two ounces: boil all together until the wine be quite consumed, then strain it and keep it.  
This Oil is good for the sinews that are cold, and helpeth the pain in the joints   

Oleum benedictum.  
TAke of Oil two pound, Storax calamity, Labdanun, Olibanun, Saffron, Gumarabbick. Madder, Gum of the ivy tree, Aloes, Succotrine, Mastic, Cloves, Galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Cubebes two ounces, Gum Elamy a pound, Myrrh Bdellium, half an ounce, Galbamun, six ounces, Spike, an ounce, Rosin of the Pine tree, armoniac, Opoponax, two drams: beat all to powder that is to be beaten, and mix it with the Oil, and put all into a stillitory of glass, with the head and receiver so closed, that no air come out, setting your Limbeck upon a soft fire, twelve hours, increasing your fire from six hour to six, till all be stilled. This done, beat all the residence in the bottom of the Still to fine powder, and with the same oil distill it the second and the third time as afore, & it shall be as it were Balm.  
It is good against Cramps, palsies, pains of the joints, cold Catarrhs, green wounds & Ulcers: it comforteth the spirits, openeth obstructions: one drop in the ear helpeth the hearing: A Rosecake dipped in it and laid to the Temples, helpeth the Megrim, and taketh away the swimming of the head: an ounce in sweet wine drunk three days together, cureth the disease of the Lungs, and the quartern Fever: If you give a spoonful with wine thirty days, with a little powder of Peony roots: It helpeth the falling sickness: so that if the coronal commissure be also anointed, it easeth the pain of the French Pocks, and is good against the stinging of any venomous beasts, and for all diseases of the sinews.    

To make Conserve of Roses, or other flowers. Chap. 21.  
TAke buds of red Roses, somewhat before they be ready to spread, cut the red part of the leaves from the white: then take the red leaves, and beat and grind them in a stone mortar with a pestle of wood, and to every ounce of Roses, put three ounces of Sugar in the grinding (after the leaves are well beaten) and grind them together till they be perfectly incorporated, then put it in a glass made for the nonce, and of purpose, or else into an earthen pot: stop it close, and so keep it.  
Thus ye may make Conserves of all kind of flowers, used thereunto.  

The virtue of Conserve of Roses.  
Conserve of Roses comforteth the stomach, the heart and all the bowels, it mollisteth & softeneth the belly, and is good against black Choler, & Melancholy. Conserve of white Roses doth lose the belly more than Red.    

To make Conserve of Violets. Chap. 22.  
TAke the flowers of Violets, and pick them from the stalk, beat and grind them with Sugar, as you did your Roses: to these put double the weight of sugar to the weight of Violet flowers, but to all flowers put three parts of sugar to one part of the flowers.  

The virtue of the same.  
Conserve of Violet flowers is good against the heat and inflammation of Choler, called yellow choler, it quencheth thirstiness, it maketh the belly moist and soluble.    

The virtue of the Conserve of bugloss. Chap. 23.  
Conserve of bugloss flowers comforteth the heart, it is good for the frantic, for the Lunatic, and for the Melancholic, it is good for the Sincop & swooning, it taketh away heartburning, and trembling of heart or stomach, it profiteth against choler.   

The virtue of Conserve of Borage. Chap. 24.  
Conserve of Borage flowers is of like virtue: it is especially good against black Choler, or Melancholy, it also maketh one merry.   

The virtue of Conserve of Rosemary. Chap. 25.  
Conserve of the flowers of Rosemary, comforteth the cold and moist brain, it comforts also the sinews, it is good against melancholy and flewine.   

To keep Cherries condict, or Goosberies. Chap. 26.  
MAke your syrup as for Plums▪ then take half a pound of Cherries, & cut off half the length of the stalk of every Cherry, put them into the syrup, & use them as you did the Plums, put in what spice pleaseth you, & so keep it as before is written: but make your syrup strong enough of sugar, lest it wax door & corrupt, then must ye make a new syrup stronger of the sugar, & put the cherries in it to keep, as before is said. Thus may ye do with Goosberies, to make of them tarts or sauces all the year long, saving that the Gooseberries may be well sodden without breaking, because of their rough skin, so it be softly & diligently done.   

The virtue of the Conserve of Succarie. Chap. 27.  
Conserve of Succary is good against yellow and black Choler, and in the burning and heat of hot Fevers.   

The virtue of Conserve Of Eldern flowers. Chap. 28.  
Conserve of flowers of Elder, is good against the Morphew, it cleanseth the stomach and the whole body from scabs.  
Gather the clusters or bunches whereon the flowers grow, when they are new blown and spread, lay them upon a fair sheet abroad in a chamber a day or two, till ye shall perceive the flower will shake off and fall away: then pick them clean, and make thereof Conserve, as ye do of other flowers.  
And whereas it is more wholesome than pleasant, therefore put some other Conserve (such as you list) amongst it, when you will occupy it.   

The virtue of the Conserve of Sorrell. Chap. 29.  
Conserve of Sorrell is good against all kind of heats of the stomach, & other principal parts of the body, and against yellow choler.  
Take leaves of Sorrel, wash them clean, and shake off the water clean, or else tarry till the water be dried clean: beat them, and grind them with Sugar, as above, & then keep them.   

The virtue of the Conserve of Maidenhair Chap. 30.  
Conserve of the leaves of Maidenhair, is good against the sickness of the side, called the Pleurisy, and for all the diseases of the breast, and of the Lights, and in all maladies of Melancholy, and against red Choler.  
Make it as you do Conserve of Sorrell.   

To make Conserve of Elicampana Roots. Chap. 31.  
TAke the roots of Elicompana, wash them clean, slice them into pieces as big as your thumb, seethe them in fair water till they be tender▪ take them up and pound them, & draw them through a hair sieve: put thereto in the second seething, the double or triple weight of Sugar, and when the Sugar is perfectly incorporated, take it off and keep it.  

The virtue of the same.  
Conserve of Elicompana is a good comfort to the stomach, & the nourishing of the members, it marvelously looseth tough phlegm, dissolveth, and consumeth the same, by the siege it avoideth it.    

To make Conserve of Acorns, or Gladen, with the virtue of the same. Chap. 32.  
TAke the roots of yellow Flowerdeluce, which groweth in moist ground, otherwise called a Flag root: wash them & scrape them, seethe them and order them as ye do of Elicompana, now last before rehearsed, and so keep it. This Conserve is good against all sickness of the brain, and Sinews, and against all diseases of flewine. Unto women it openeth natural course, and terms.  
And you must generally learn, that in making Conserves, fruits & roots are made with fire & seething. Moreover, the more Sugar or honey is put into them, so it be not past three pound to one, the conserve shall continued the better   

To make Conserve of Strawberries, with virtue of the same. Chap. 33.  
Take Strawberries one quart, clean picked and washed, set them on the fire till they be soft, strain them, put thereto two times as much sugar in powder as weight of the Strawberries let them seethe till the Sugar be incorporated with the Strawberries, put it in a glass or earthen pot well glazed.  

The virtue of the same.  
The Conserve of Strawberries is good against a hot liver, burning of the stomach, and specially in the fervent heat of an ague.  
Thus make Conserve of Damsins and Prunes.    

To make conserve of Cherries and Barbaries. Chap. 34.  
LIkewise you must make Conserve of Cherries, and also of Barbaries, saving that these require more Sugar than the other do, which are not so sour as they be. Here is to be noted, that of Conserve of fruits may be made Marmalade: for when your Conserve is sufficiently sodden & ready to be taken off, then seethe it more on height, and it will be Marmalade.  
Moreover, some make their Conserve, Marmalade, & strops, with clean Sugar, some with clean honey clarified, some with sugar & honey together: and after the opinion of some great Clerks, honey is more wholesome, though it be not so toothsome as the Sugar.   

To make all kind of Sirops. Chap. 35  
TAke bugloss, Borage, white Endive, of each one handful: of Rosemary, Time, Hyssop, winter Savoury, of each half a handful, seethe them (being first broken between your hands) in three quarts of water unto three pints, then strain it, and put in the liquor, whole Cloves an ounce, powder of Cinnamon half an ounce, powder of Ginger, a quarter of an ounce, one Nutmeg in powder, of Sugar half a pound or more, let them seethe upon a soft fire well stirred for burning too, until it come to thickness of life honey, then keep it Galley pots.  
If you put one pint of Malmsey in the second seething, it will be better. When it is perfect, have six grains of fine Musk in powder, stir it amongst your Syrup, as ye put it into your Gallipot, and cover it.  
This Syrup will last many years, and is excellent against swooning and faintness of heart: it comforteth the brain and sinews, if it be used as much as a Hazel Nut at once, at your pleasure,   

A Violet Powder for woollen clothes and Furs. Chap. 36.  
TAke of Ireos two ounces, of Calamus Aromaticus three quarters of an ounce, of Cypress, of Gallingale, of Spikenall, of rose-leaves dried, of each a quarter of an ounce, of Cloves of Spike, of Lavender flowers, of each half an ounce, of Nigella Romana a quarter of an ounce, of Benjamin, of Storax calamity, of each half an ounce, let them be all finely beaten, and seared: Then take two or three grains of Musk, dissolve it in Rose-water, and sprinkle the water upon the powder, and turn it up and down in the sprinkling, till it have drunk up the water: when it is dry, keep it in bags of silk.   

A sweet powder for Naperie, and all Linen clothes. Chap. 37.  
TAke of sweet marjoram (that which is hoary is the sweeter) when it hath in him seeds ripe, cut the branches, so that the root may spring again, when this marjoram is dried, then rub out the seeds and keep them to sow about Easter, and the husks and leaves that grow about the seeds take for your purpose, rub them small (for if you beat them to powder in a mortar, they will lose the most part of their savour) them take of white Saunders, or of grey Saunders, but look that they be new, of right sweet odour, for if they be old and have no pleasant & quick odour, they are nothing worth: Take (I say) of these sweet Saunders beaten into fine powder, an ounce, and put it into an ounce of your sweet marjoram, rubbed between your hands as before is said, and if you put one or two grains of Musk thereunto, for your wearing linen, it is the better: sow these up in a silk bag together and lay it among your Linen: of such bags have a dozen or two, which will continue many years, and when you look to your Linneu, then chafe each of the bags between your hands, that they may yield out their sweet odour.  
Moreover, in the Summer time, gather red Roses in fair weather, so soon as they be blown and opened, lay them upon a table, a bed, or fair floor of boards, and now and then remove them, lest they mould and wax foisty. When they are dry, pick of the leaves, that you may have two pecks of them, than straw them among and between the boughts and foldings of your linen with one handful of dry Spike flowers, to six handful of dry Roses, and lay your sweet bags amongst them. Be sure that your linen be ever through dry, ere ever you lay them up, or else the Roses will wax hoar, set your co●●er in a dry air, and in the winter time or in wet weather, when ye perceive your roses to wax moist, then put them in a pi●owhere or twain, that they fall not out, and lay them upon your bed between the coverlet and the blanket all night, or else before the fire, let them dry, and straw them again.  
Moreover, ye must always have a bag full of dry Roses in store; kept in a dry air: for if he lose his redness, then looseth the Rose his sweetness.  
Finally, you must every year put away your old Roses and occupy new, but help your sweet bags still many years.   

To make a Pomeamber. Chap. 38.  
TAke Bensamin one ounce, of Storax calamity half an ounce, of Labdanum, the eight part of an ounce, beat them to powder, and then put them into a brazen ladle, with a little Damask or Rose water, set them over the fire of coals till they be dissolved, and be soft like wax: Then take them out and chase them between your hands as you do wax: then have these powders ready, finely Tearred: of 〈◊〉, of Cloves, of sweet Saunders, grey or white, of each of these three powders half a quarter of an ounce, mix these powders with the other, and chase them well together, if they be too dry moisten them with some of the Rose water left in the ladle, or other: If they wax cold, warm them upon a knives point over a chasingdish of coals: then take of Amber Greece, of Musk, and 〈◊〉, of each three grains, dissolve the Amber grease in a silver spoon over hot coals, when it is cold, make it small, put it to your Musk and Civet: then take your Pome that you have chased and gathered together, and by little and little (with some sweet water if need be) gather up the Amber Musk and Civet, and mix them with your ball, till they be perfectly incorporated, then make one ball or two of the lump, as ye shall think good, for the weight of the whole is above two ounces, make a hole in your ball, and so hang it by a face.  
If you perceive that the ball is not tough enough, but too brittle, then take a courtesy of Storax liquida, & therewith temper your Ball against the fire, but take not too much Storax liquida, because it is too strong.  
Or, the better way is to have some Gum, called Dragagouthant, ready dissolved in sweet water, it will be dissolved in two days, and with that gather your ball with the heat of the fire: this ball will be of like goodness within as without, and of great price.  
Some men put in the making thereof, three or four drops of the oil of Spike, beware of too much because it is very strong.  
When you will have your Ball exceed in sweetness, break it, & have two or three grains of Musk, or Civet, or Amber Greece, all you delight in, or alcoge them, dissolve them in rose or, Damask water, and with the san●● 〈◊〉 your ball over the fire till it be drunk in, then pierce a new hole, as before.   

To make a fine Fumigation to cast on the coals. Chap. 39  
TAke of 〈◊〉 one ounce, of Storax calamity half an ounce; dissolve them as soya Pomander, then have ready these woods in powders or out of them: Ginger, or Cypress, or of white Saunders and Cloves, of either half a quarter of an ounce, all in fine powder, mix them altogether: and with some Storax liquida gather them together with the heat of fire, then make them ●ou●●, of the bigness of a black Slo● and with your seal print it a Cake while it is warm and soft.  
Of these cast one or two upon a chasting dish of coals, to purge all pestiferous and corrupt airs out of your houses if you put to the other things, the powder of Amber 〈◊〉, it will be the sweeter.  
Some put also Laudanum, as before said in making the Pomeander, herein do as the savour shall please you.   

To make the same in Oselets. Chap. 40.  
TAke a little of fine powder of Sallow, or willow coals, mix with it some of your Fumigation last before named, in the making, work them well together, then fashion it with three or four feet like a Clove, and when it is dry, kindle the end of it at a quick coal, and it will yield a sweet savour to put not too much coals, for than it will savour of them: put not too little coals, for than it will not keep fire: put not too much Storax liquida, for than it will be too brittle and too moist, and will not lightly dry: therefore, it shall be very well to have some Gum of the Cherie tree or Plum tree, which they call Gum Arabic: dissolve some of it into sweet water, till it be liquid & tough, with this gather your Oselets: or other Fumigations.   

A moist Fume upon a Fuming dish. Chap. 41.  
TAke a piece of Pomeamber, as big as a Hazel nut bruise it, put it into your Fuming dish with sweet water, put thereunto a few bay leaves, as much of dried Bazell leaves, a little Rosemary, and set it over the fire, upon a Cup 〈◊〉, or else in steed of the Pomeamber, put two or three of the cakes before written, broken small, and nine or ten whole cloves: and if you will have it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fewer, than put 〈…〉 grains of Musk, and let the leaves and them stand over the fire together, as before is said.   

A Fumigation for press and clothes that no Moth shall breed therein. Chap. 42.  
TAke of the mood of Cypress, or distemper, of Rosemary dried, of Storax calamity, of Benjamin, of Cloves, a like weight, beaten into powder: then take of the powder of Wormwood leaves dried, as much as all the others said them well together, cast thereof upon a chafing-dish of coals, and set in your press, and shut it close: and thus do oft times till you have well seasoned your Press or coffer.   

A Perstime for a Chamber. Chap. 43.  
TAke Rosemary, sweet marjoram. Bay leaves, of each a hand full, 〈◊〉 other Cloves, vinegar & rose-water 〈…〉 tity, boil these in your perfuming 〈◊〉. A which smell is sweet and wholesome.   

A Perfume of Damask. Chap. 44.  
TAke Storax calamity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Benjamin, Labdanum four ounces, 〈◊〉 ounce Mask four grains, Cloves and 〈◊〉 rose-water half a pound stamp them together and when you will occupy them, put them in your s●●●●ing pan and boil them.   

An odorifferous sweet ball against the plague Chap. 45.  
TAke Storax, Labdanum, of each a dram Cloves half a dram, Camphix half a scruple, spikenard a scruple, Nutmegs a dram: Of all these make a pass with rose-water tempered with Gum Dragagant and Gum Arrabicke, stirring and bruising them well of this paste make your balls & warm them.   

An Odorifferous white Powder. Chap. 46.  
TAke Trios elect three ounces, white Sandall two ounces. Damask Roses, Lignum Aloes, Benjamin, Ci●ri Alexand of each two ounces, Mask four grains, Civet, three grains: beat and sift them by themselves, and incorporate them in the same mortar you beat them in, and keep it in a vessel well stopped.   

A sine red Powder. Chap. 47.  
TAke Damask Roses two ounces, Sandilt Attrui● one ounce, Ligai Aloes, Ligni Alex. of each a grain, fine Musk three drams, Civet two drams, Amber two drams: mix them and beat them and keep them together, as before.   

A sweet Black Powder. Chap. 48.  
TAke Cipri Alerand, Ligni Aloes of each half a dram, Sandali Cytrini, damask Roses, of each an ounce, Cloves three grains, musk three grains, & as much Civet, beat these together, and keep them close in a vial well stopped.   

A Powder wherewith to make sweet w●ter. Chap. 49.  
TAke the wood of Cypress, or the root of Galingale one quartern, of Calamus Aromaticus one quartern, of Drace or Iris one quartern, of Cloves one quartern, of Storax calamity one quartern, of Benjamin one quartern.  
Or, ye may take of each of these one ounce for a portion, let all be beaten into powder, and when you will distill your Roses, fill your Still with Rose leaves, and a few Spike flowers, and upon the top of some, straw some of your powders, and so distill them.  
Some put a little of the powder of Nigells, Romana, to the other powders.  
These Cakes will be very sweet, put the water in a large glass, & to the pot put twelve grains of Musk, let it hang in the midst of the water, in a thin linen clothe with a thread, set it in the Sun twenty or thirty days, then take the glass in, and set it in a dry air.   

Conclusions & rules to be used in distilling, and the ordering of each herb of flower before they be distilled. Chap. 50.  
FIrst, a soft fire maketh sweet water, and the sweetness to continue strong. secondly, coals 〈◊〉 the best water.  
Thirdly, wash nothing that you will still, but wipe it with a clean cloth.  
fourthly, all herbs, flowers and seeds must be gathered when the dew is off them.  
fiftly, That which you will still, must lie at the least six hours before you still it.  
sixtly, All Spices corrupt your water, except Amber Greece, Civet and Musske.  
7. Scum your water well.  
8. Keep your still very clean.  
9 Wash your still, but not often, and then dry it with a dry cloth.  
10. The glass Still is best, the tin next, the earth not so good as the thine, and the leaden is the worst of them.  
11. Tender flowers, as Violets, Jill●flowers, and such like; would be stilled or glass.  
12. All compositions must be stopped close before, and in stilling diligently weighed and measured.  
13. Liquid waters must have greater fire than dry and light waters.  
14. Still not your glass too still.  
15. Put store of ashes under your still, that your Still shall not burn.  
16. Wipe the upper part of the Still often, but especially the ridge.  
17. Diligence in looking to all things. Borage, must be distilled: the herb with the root chopped together.  
Hyssop, the leaves stripped from the stalk when it bears blue flowers.  
Camomile, the herb and flower chopped together in the middle of May.  
Dil, the herb in the beginning of May.  
Fumitory, the whole substance chopped in the end of May.  
Mint, either red or other, the herb, stalk & leaves chopped in the middle of May.  
Roses, the flowers cutting away the white ends.  
Rosemary the flowers, buds & leaves stripped from the stalk in May, in the flowering.  
sentory, the herb and flowers chopped in the end of June,  
Violets, the flowers in April.  
Woodbine, the flowers in the beginning of June.   

To make the water of the same colour of the Flowers that you distill. Chap. 50.  
FIrst, distill your water in a stillitory: then put it in a fair glass, and take the buds of Roses and cut away the white, and put the leaves into the stilled water, then stop the glass, and put it into the stillitory to Still, putting herbs into the Still for fear of burning. After this, strain the water from the leaves, and scum it well.   

A compound Water to perfume gloves or other things. Chap. 51.  
TAke Damask water double stilled a pound, Mask ten grains. Cavet three grains. Amber grease four grains: heat all these together to powder, and put it into the water aforesaid, and stop it close, and use it without any more stilling.   

To make Damask water. Chap. 52.  
TAke Damask Roses, and red Roses of each 〈◊〉 handful, let them dry four hours in the shadow when take two drams of Labdanum Nigellae Romanae two pennyworth, Irios half an ounces Storax, two drams, Cloves an ounce, Beniam●n Cola●us Aromaticus Nutmegs, of each half on ounce marjoram & Bazel, of each half a handful: bruise the spice, & put it in Malmsey or the lees thereof the space of four days: then distill it and scum it fourteens days.   

Another manner of making of Damask water. Chap. 53.  
TAke of ●race of Iris, of Spike flowers dried, of Cloves, of each an ounce, make them in powder, put them together, with a pint of new Ale in corns, and one pint of rose-water in an earthen pot, put thereto a good mary of green rose-leaves, let them soak in it a night time stopped close, in the morning when ye shall distill, first, say other rose-leaves in the bottom of your stillitory for fear of cleaving too: then take of the rose-leaves out of the pot, and put them with other green rose-leaves, in your stillitory sufficient, and to the water put Musk, as above is said. This water is excellent to set forth a Tart, an Apple Moyse, or Almond butter.   

Powder of Holland against Colic, and the gnawing of the belly. Chap. 54.  
TAke Cinnamon, Annis seed, Fenell seed, Cominseed, of each a quarter of an ounce, of 〈◊〉 Lu●●oris three quarters of an ounce, of Gallingale one ounce and a half, of Spikenard a quarter of an ounce, of Stene of Alexandria two ounces: beat them all into fine powder, and serve them, whereof take a quarter of an ounce in a mess of Pottage.   

Powder to make the belly solluble, causing a gentle lask; meet for Noble Personages. Chap. 55.  
TAke S●ene of Alexandria one ounce, of fine Ginger half a quarter of an ounce, of anis seed a quarter of an ounce, beat them into fine powder into your fo●de Sugar, and make losing as before of the whole, the number of sixteen, whereof dissolve two of them into a mess of pottage, or in a cup of wine, fasting in the morning, and fast one hour after: If you do put as much of Sugar in powder as the weight of the whole powder, ye may keep it in a bladder, and the whole powder will serve eight times to receive: as even now is said   

A receipt to restore strength in them that are brought low with long sickness. Chap. 56.  
TAke of the brawn of a pheasant or Partridge, or of a Capon sodden or roasted, of each a quarter of an ounce, steep them in rose-water two hours, of the kernels of Nuts called Pistatiorum, and of the kernel of the pine Apple, of each a quarter of an ounce: of Cinnamon in fine powder, the weight of twenty barley corns, of the spices of Dianthos, Diamargariton, Letificentes, Galem, of each the weight of forty grains or Barley corns, of the seed of milon, Pepon, Gourd, and Cucummer, of each the weight of ten grains the skin taken off, let them be all ground small, then take six ounces of Sugar, dissolved in Borage water, seethe it on height, as for loosings, and when it is sodden enough, then put in all the other gear, and make loosings thereof. Whereof one is sufficient at once, dissolved in a mess of Pottage, or a draft of drink: Thus do two or three times every day.   

To make Loosings. Chap. 57  
TAke half a pound of Sugar, and as much rose-water, or other distilled water, as for Mamis 〈◊〉, seethe them likewise; and When you will know when it is s●●den enough, take out some upon a knives point, and let it cool; & if it be hard like sugar, than it is sodden inought: Then put into it powder of Gluger, Cinnamon or Nutmeg: stir them well together, lay it upon a paper oiled, drive it as thin as you think meet Lay on it your gold leaf with a 〈◊〉 tail, cut your Lose Diamond fashion, and so keep them.   

To perfume gloves. Chap. 58.  
TAke the gloves and wash them in rose-water, or Damask water, till the scurf of the leather be gone, and then stretch thent forth softly, and keep the water you wash them with still: thea hang them up to dry, and then lay them in a clean linen cloth that is folded three or four times double, and when they be dry, let them lie in rose-leaves dried a day or two, then take oil of Civet Almonds, and Musk: and grind them together upon a Marble stone, stretch them forth softly, and with your hand anoint your gloves three or four times, and ever among stretch them fourth as they dry. Then take Sandise● mixed with a little Amber Greece, and sta●●e the powder of it thinly upon them, and lay them in a paper, and in a boxes or else most the Amber Greece in a quantity of rose-water, and mix the Sandifex in it, and so anoint the glous with the same: then let them dry, and lay them in fair white paper.  

2. To perfume gloves another way.  
TAke the gloves and wash them, as aforesaid, three or four times, and wring them every time softly: then take Gum of Dragagant and steep it in fine Damask water one night, then strain the Water through a fine linen cloth, and take the Gum & mix it with an ounce of Amber Greece, and a quarter of an ounce of Musk: first grind your Amber Greece with oil of Turpentine: then mingle all together, and roll your gloves: with the same: lay them to dry, and lay a paper between.   

3. A preparative for gloves.  
WAsh the gloves, as aforesaid, till the sent of the Leather be gone, then take Benjamin two ounces, of Storax Calamit one ounce, let them be very fine: then take oil of Civet Almonds and mingle it with Beiamin and Storax upon a Marble stone. When it is well ground, put it into an earthen pot with more Dile of Civet Almonds, then put in Cloves in powder, and so let it stand close covered: and when you need, take a little rose-water in a Spoonge, and rub the gloves softly, and then in like manner, with the oil called Civet oil for the same purpose.   

4. Another way.  
TAke twelve grains of Musk, six grains of Amber Greece, three grains of Storax calamity, six grains of Benjamin, and a few Cloves: grind all these together with oil of Civet, Almonds. First, wash your gloves with Eusses, dissolved a day in Damask water.   

5. An other for gloves.  
TAke your gloves and wash them in Rose water once or twice, till all the scurf be gone from them, and then let them dry, and stretch them well out, fingers and all. Then plain them, and wash them once or twice: then take two ounces of Storax and as much Benjamin made in powder, dress your gloves all over, on a smooth board before they dry: then hang them to dry, and when they be dry, save the powder that is left.  
Then take a pint of rose-water, & two ounces of Storax, and two ounces of Cinnamon, put all these in powder, & cast them to the Rose-water, and let them seethe in a close Posnet covered; Then take a fine brush; and brush them over.   

6. another way to perfume.  
TAke Amber Greece a dram, of Musk half a dram, of Fusses a dram, of Civet half an ounce, put all these together in a pince of Rose-water, or Damask water.   

4. Another way.  
TAke a dram of Amber Greece, a dram of Benjamin, half a dram of Fusses, a dram of Storax, a quarter of an ounce of Labdanum, put all these in rose-water.    

A Perfume for Chests and Cupboards, and also for Gloves. Chap. 59  
TAke Benjamin and Storax of each an ounce, Labdanum and Fusses, of each a quarter of an ounce, half a dram of Civet: If you burn it for chests or cupboards, beat it in hot mortar: If it be for gloves boil it, and put it to rose-water.   

To colour Gloves. Chap. 60.  
YOu must have hulls of green Walnuts that must lie in water all the year long: roll them well with these hulls, and make them as deep a colour as you may.  

How to colour gloves yellow within.  
TO colour gloves yellow within, take the yolks of twenty Eggs, and put them in a frying pan, with a soft fire, stir them ever, and bruise them with a ladle, and the oil that ascendeth of them, being anointed on the inside of the gloves, will make them look yellow.    

To make musk Sope. Chap. 61.  
TAke strong lie made of Chalk and six pound of stone Chalk, four pound of Dear Suet, and put them in the lie in an earthen pot, and mingle it well, and keep it the space of forty days and mingle and stir it three or four times a day till half he consumed, and to that that remaineth seven or eight days after, you must put a quarter of an ounce of Musk, and when you have done so, you must also stir it, and it will linell of Musk.   

To make red sealing Wax. Chap. 62.  
TAke to one pound of Wax three ounces of clear Turpentine in Summer, in Winter take four: melt them together with a soft fire, then take it from the fire & let it cool: then put in vermilion very finely ground, and Salad oil, of each an ounce, and mix them well together, and it is perfect good.   

To keep Damasins in syrup. Chap. 63.  
TAke Damasins, and pick them well with a knife or a pin, then take clarifteu Sugar, as much as you shall think will screw, and then you must boil it till it be as thick as bird-lime. Then boil your Damasins in the clarified Sugar till they be soft, then take them up and put them in a glass, than you must boil the syrup, till it be as thick as the other was, before you put in the Damasins. And as soon as it is so thick you must pour it into the Damasins, and so cover them close.   

A Water for the face, used of Gentlewomen. Chap. 52.  
TAke goats milk two pound, fine Flower half a peck, the white of three eggs, and make it from paste to little loaves, and take it not too much: then take more of the said goats milk, and crumb of the crumbs of your bread into it, let it steep all night, and wipe your face with a dry cloth, and then wash with the said milk, and in using this, it will make the face shine as white as snow.  

Another to make the face fair.  
TAke the shearing of Scarlet four ounces, the whites of two new laid eggs, white wine two pound. Rosemary flowers, or Rosemary itself, and seethe it or still it, but if you seethe it, scum it clean, and when it is cold use it, and it will make the skin look smooth.   

Another, to remove high colour in the face.  
Lemons laid in buttermilk is an excellent means to remove high colour in the face.    

A Water for heat in the face, and breaking out with Pimples. Chap. 65.  
TAke alum glass two pound, the juice of Plantin, Purslane, berivice, of each half a pound, the whites of twenty eggs, beat them and mix them and distill them: which water destroyeth chaffinges, heats, pimples, weals, & scurfs, wheresoever they be.   

To know whether a Woman shall ever conceive or no. Chap. 66.  
TAke of the ruin of a Hare, and having frayed and consumed it in hot water, give it the woman to drink in the morning at her breakfast, then let her stand in a hot bath: And if there come a grief or pain in her belly, she may conceive, if not, she shall never conceive.   

To make a barren woman bear children. Chap. 67.  
TAke of those little Sea fishes, called in Latin Polipi or Polipodes, and roast them upon the Embers without oil, and let the woman eat of them, and it shall profit and help very much, having in the mean time the company of a man.   

To make women hava a quick and speedy deliverance of their children, and without pain, or at the least very little. Chap. 68  
TAke leaves of Bittanie, and stamp them, or else make powder of them, and give the woman that laboureth to drink of it with a little water, and she shall be delivered incontinent without any great pain or labour.   

To stop the running of the rains five several ways. Chap. 69.  
TAke Venice Turpentine washed in red Rose-water, four ounces, a Nutmeg, Plantine seed, a yellow Amber bead, of each a like, with like quantity of Cinnamon, & powder of Comsery roots, which being mingled, roll of the Turpentine in the powder, & make it into fine pills as big as a bean, and take them in a spoon with syrup of Rhubarb, three in the morning, and three, two hours before supper, and it will help it.  

Another for the running of the Rains.  
TAke Nutmegs half a pound, and bruise them in a mortar, and knead them in dough, and bake them, which bread is very healthful.   

Another special way approved.  
TAke hazel nuts well peeled or blanched two handful, Sinkfield and knotted grass, of each a handful, four Camphir leaves: stamp the herbs and strain out the juice into two pound of Muscadel: then beat the Nut kernels as small as you can, and put them in: also, take an Amber bead, and beat it to powder very fine, which being put in the wine to the rest, stir them all together a good while: then seethe it until it come to a pound and a little more, and drink the one half in the morning, and the other at night, making a very light supper.   

An other for the same.  
Nip and clary fried with the yolks of three or four Eggs, and taken every morning is very good.    

To strengthen the seed. Chap. 70.  
TAke Succory, Endive, Plantin, Violet flowers & the leaves, clary, Sorrel, of each half a handful, with a piece of Mutton, make a good broth, and to eat it evening and morning is especial good.   

For the gnawing in a Woman's Stomach. Chap. 71.  
TAke a good handful of Spearemint, and a handful of Wormwood, & heat a Tilestone, and lay these two things on it, and make a little bag, and when the herbs be hot put them in the bag, and so lay them to her stomach.  

To make a sweet Damask powder four manner of ways.  
TAke two or three handful of dried rose-leaves two grains of Musk, half an ounce of Cloves, and beat these all to powder.   

2. Another way.  
TAke six ounces of Orace, four ounces of Cloves, two ounces of Storax calamity, an ounce of Labdanum, with two ounces of yellow Saunders, and a little Musk.   

3. another way.  
TAke two ounces of Cloves, four ounces of Spruce, four ounces of Storax calamity, four ounces of Roses, three ounces of Benjamin.   

4. Another way.  
TAke three ounces of Cypress, four ounces of Benjamin, two ounces of Coliander or Labdanum, three ounces of Storax calamity, two ounces of Roses, beat all to powder.   

To make Pepper soft: with the virtue of the same.  
YOu shall do this after the same manner as is showed for green Ginger, in the 15. Chap. that is, with sand, and the like syrup, season and keep them. Ginger and Pepper in Syrup comforteth a cold stomach, and helpeth much to good digestion.   

To keep Barbery's.  
TAke clarified Sugar, and boil it till it be thick, which you shall perceive, if you take a little between your fingers, it will rope like bird-lime: then put in your Barbaries, and let them boil with a soft fire, until you perceive they be tender, than put them in a glass, and cover them, and so keep them.    

For the ague in a woman's breast. Chap. 72.  
TAke Hemlock leaves, and fry them in sweet butter, and as hot as she may suffer it lay it to her breast, and lay a warm white cotton, and it will drive it away in short time.   

For breasts that be sore with milk. Chap. 73.  
TAke Linseed oil and wax, melt them, and wet a rag therein, and lay it to the breast warm, which will dry up the milk.   

For a sore breast. Chap. 74.  
TAke bean flower two handful, bran, powder of Fengricke, of each a handful, white vinegar a pound, three spoonful of honey, and three yolks of Eggs, seethe all till they be thick, and lay it warm to the breast, which will both break it and heal it, always crushing out the matter when you shift it.   

To keep a woman's breast from breaking. Chap. 75.  
TAke Sage, Marigolds with the black seed, and the sharpest Nettles, of each half a handful, bruise them together, and lay it to, which will keep it from breaking.  

For the breasts broken or not.  
TAke Oil of Roses, bean flower, and the yolk of an Egg with a little Vinegar, set it on the fire till it be lukewarm, then with a feather anoint the place.    

For the unnatural heat of the Liver. Chap. 76.  
TAke Borage, bugloss, Succory, Violets, fumitory, young hop buds, Fenell buds, of each a quarter of a handful: young mallows, and Mercury, of each half a handful, boil these in a pottle of whey, and strain them.   

For the Canker in the mouth. Chap. 77.  
TAke half a pint of Ale, and a sprig of Rosemary, and seethe them together, and scum your Ale, and then put in a piece of Alum, as much as a nut, and a spoonful of honey, & two spoonful of Honeysuckle water.   

To make the face fair, and the breath sweet. Chap. 78.  
TAke the flowers of Rosemary, & boil them in white wine, then wash your face with it, and use it for a drink, & so shall you make your face fair, and your breath sweet.   

To make hair as yellow as gold. Chap. 79.  
TAke the rind or scrape of Rhubarb, & steep it in white wine, or in clean lie: and after you have washed your head with it, you shall wet your hairs with a sponge or some other cloth, & let them dry by the fire, or in the Sun. After this, wet them and dry them again: for the oftener they do it, the fairer they will be, without hurting your head any thing at all.   

To drive away all venomous beasts from your house. Chap. 10.  
TAke Juniper, the seed of Agnus Castus, the shells of the river Crevices, Harteshorne, the grease or suet of a Buck, Kerse or town Cresses, Organy and Bittanie, make of all these drugs a dough or paste. And when you will use or occupy it, burn it, for whereas the smoke thereof goeth, the beasts will void away.   

Against all poison eaten or drunken. Cap. 81.  
Having knowledge that any man is poisoned, the chief remedy is to make him vomit the poison, in giving him oil Olive lukewarm to drink alone, or mixed with warm water. And if you have no oil, give him butter with hot water, or with the decoction of Linseed or the seed of nettles, or of Semigrecum, & all these things purge the venom as well downward as upward. After, having made him vomit divers times, you must purge him with sharp glisters downward. Then give him water mixed with honey, and also old wine enough to drink. But if you can get good treacle or Metrinate, they are the principal against poisons, with Terra sigillata, acorn shells, and give it him in good wine. Let his meat be the fat flesh of old beasts, and fat broths, specially of hens and fat fish, and let him not sleep: And in continuing with this means, he shall be delivered by the help of God.   

To drive away Lice. Chap. 82.  
TAke incense, and the Lard of a Barrow hog, properly called Barrows grease, boil them together in an earthen pan or pot leaded, and with this ointment rub and anoint the place where the Lice be.   

¶ How to make a sovereign Water, that Master Doctor Steuens Physician, a man of great knowledge and cunning, did practise, and used of long experience. And therewith did very many cures, and kept it always secret, till of late, a little before his death, Doctor Parker, late Archbishop of Canterbury, did get it in writing of him. Chap. 83.  

The Receipt.  
TAke a gallon of good Gascoine wine, then take Ginger, Galinghale, Camomile, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Mace, Annisseedes, of every of them a dram: Then take Sage, Mint, Red Roses, Time, pelitory of the wall, wild marjoram, Rosemary, Penny mountain, otherwise called wild Time, Camamill, Lavender, and Avens, of every of them one handful: then beat the Spices small, and bruise the herbs and put all into the Wine, and let it stand twelve hours, stirring it divers tunes: Then still it in a Limbeck, and keep the first pint of the Water, for it is the best: Then will come a second Water, which is not so good as the first.   

The sundry virtues and operations of the same, many times approved.  
THe virtues of these waters be these: it comforteth the spirits, and preserveth greatly the youth of man, and helpeth the inward diseases, coming of cold, against shaking of Palsy: it cureth the contracts of sinews, and helpeth conception of women that be barren, it killeth the worms in the belly, It helpeth the cold Gout, it helpeth the toothache, it comforteth the stomach very much, it cureth the cold dropsy, it helpeth the stone in the bladder, and in the reins in the back: it cureth the Canker, it helpeth shortly a stinking breath. And who so useth this Water ever among, and not too oft, it preserveth him in good liking, and shall make one sceme young very long. You must take one spoonful of this water fasting, but once in seven days, for it is very hot in operation. It preserved Doctor Steuens that he lived lxxx. and xviii. years, whereof ten years he lived bedrid.    

To make a water that taketh off all staining, dying and spots from the hands of Artificers, that get them by working, and maketh them very white and fair: It is also good for them that be Sun-burned. Chap. 84.  
TAke the juice of a Lemon, with a little bay Salt, and wash your hands with it, and let them dry of themselves: wash them again, & you shall find all the spots and staining gone. It is also very good against the scurf or scabs.   

To heal all manner of inflammation, and evil disposition of the air, lepry faces, great swollen legs, or inflamed hands. Chap. 85.  
TAke flower or Amillum made of Barley, which ye shall easily find at the Apothecacaries, and seethe it half an hour in common water, then strain it and put it into another new pot that is clean and neat, putting to it a few Mallows, Succory, Hops, Endive and Borage, and seethe all these together until it be dissolved, and ad to it an ounce of Sandall, and then strain all, and take in a linen cloth as much Cassia extracta, as will go into two nuts, and put it within the said linen clothe with the Cassia, while the water be hot, pressing it so hard between your two fingers, that the substance of it may go into the said water, then put to it Sugar or pennides, as much as you will. Of this drink (which is of a very amiable savour) you must take from day to day a little glass full in the morning, lying in your bed with your breast upward, then laying some linen cloth upon your stomach, sleep if you can, and take of it also after you be up, and have done your necessary: the which doing, you shall find yourself very well healed in few days. But here note, that this must be done in the Summer and not in the Winter, and he that hath his Stomach very cold, may wear before his breast some piece of scarlet, or other cloth, and sometime anoint his Stomach with an Oil made for the weakness of it, the perfect composition whereof, we will put hereafter.   

A singular Ointment, which healeth all burning with fire, not leaving any ●katre where it hath been. Chap. 86.  
TAke the white of two Eggs, two ounces of Tutina Alexandrina, two ounces of quick Lime washed in nine waters, an ounce of new Ware, with as much Oil Roset as shall suffice, and make thereof an ointment, which ye shall find very good for this that we have spoken of.   

To draw an arrow head, or other iron out of a wound. Chap. 87.  
TAke the ●●ice of Vale●ian, in the which ye shall wet a tent, and put it into the wound, laying the said herb stamped upon it, then make your binding or band as it appertaineth, and by this means you shall draw out the iron. And after heal the wound according as it shall require.   

For him that hath a bunch on his head, or that hath his head swollen with a fall. Chap. 88  
TAke an ounce of bay salt, raw honey three ounces, Cummin three ounces, Turpentine two ounces, intermingle all this well upon the fire: then lay it abroad upon a linen cloth and make thereof plasters, the which you shall lay hot to his head, and it will altogether assuage the swelling, and heal him clean and neat.   

To know what time in the year herbs and flowers should be gathered in their full strength. Chap. 89.  
MEdicines are made divers and sundry ways, some by leaves, some by seeds, some by roots, some by herbs, some by flowers, & some by fruits. Such leaves as are put in medicines, should be gathered when they be at their full waxing, ere that their colour be changed, or that they fade any thing,  
Seeds when they be full ripe, and the moistness somewhat dried away.  
Flowers should be taken when they be fully open, ere they begin to fade.  
Herbs should be gathered when they be full of sap, and ere they shrink.  
Roots should be gathered when the leaves fall.  
Fruits should be taken when that they be at their full growth, or when they fall, and the heavier fruit is the better, and those that be great and light in ponderation choose not them, and those that be gathered in fair weather be better than those that be gathered in rain.  
And those herbs that grow in the fields, are better than those that grow in Towns and Gardens, and those that grow on hills in the fields are best for medicines, for commonly they be less, and not so fat, and have more virtue.  
Many herbs there be that have special time to be gathered in: and if they be gathered in that time, they have their full virtue to their property, or else not so good. Some do help whensoever they be gathered, & some nought if they be gathered out of time: therefore mark well what I teach thee.  
Bettanie shall be gathered principally in Lammas month, with the seed and the roots, and without any iron cool, and it shall be dried in the shadow: for medicines it may be gathered other times, but evermore it is the better if it be gotten without iron, and it must be gathered before Sunrising.  
Swinsgrasse shall be gathered when it pleaseth you, in time of need.  
Camomile shall be gathered in April.  
pelitory shall be gathered in June, before the Sun rising.  
Red Dock shall be gathered when they need daily.  
Longdebeef shall be gathered in June & July,  
Peniwoort shall be gathered in the beginning of Winter.  
Germander shall be gathered in Lammas month.  
Dragant shall be gathered in June & July.  
Columbine, in Lammas month.  
Addertong should be gathered in April.  
Pedelion, when thou wilt.  
groundsel, always after midday.  
Walwoorth, when it pleaseth you, without Iron.  
Violet should be gathered in the month of March, and in this month should Violettes be put into Sugar and to syrup.  
Roses should be gathered in April and in May, and of them should be made Sugar Rose● in syrup of Roses, and in the same month should oil be made of Camamill.  
Rosemary flowers should be gathered in May.  
sentory, when he beginneth to flower.  
Organum, in the month of June.  
Solsequie should be gathered the sixteenth day of August, before the Sun rising, without Iron.  
Hartsstrong should be gathered ere day in November.  
Aristologia should be gathered the same time  
Garlic may be taken when you need for medicines.  
Wild Garlke should be gathered when it flowreth.  
Gourds should be gathered in the end of September, when they be ripe, and dried where the Sun may be all day.  
Wild Nep berries should be gathered when they wax yellow.  
Cucumbers should be gathered when the fruit is ripe, and the fruit should be laid under vines, where the Sun may not have all his strength to him in a moist place▪ that it may root, for then the seed shall be good, and full of kernels.  
citrul when the fruit is ripe, and dried in a dry place in the Sun.  
calamint should be gathered when it slowreth, and dry it in the shadow, and it will last a year.  
Saffron should be gathered afore that the Sun arise.  
Godur, that groweth among flare, should be gathered when he beginneth to flower, and it may be kept three year.  
Drake should be gathered when it flowereth, and dry him in the shadow, and a year it will last,  
Eleber must be gathered in Harvest time.  
Fenil seeds should be gathered in the beginning of Harvest, and two year they may be kept  
The roots of Fenell should be gathered in the beginning of the year, and two years they are good.  
Baldemonie, that some men call Gentian, should be gathered in the last end of the year, and four years he is good enough.  
The root of this herb is used, and how thou shall shalt know him is this, that he be very bitter, the less bitter the worse.  
Also, look that it be white, whole, and not hollow within, but sad and not brittle, nor full of powder.  
Gallingale is called in Phyisick Typus: it may be taken at all times when thou wilt, but best is in the end of Ver: and three days it must be laid in the Sun, and so be dried, that the moisture rot it not, and then you must keep it in the shadow.  
Flowerdeluce should be gathered in the end of Ver, and dried in the Sun, and it will last two year well.   

Here followeth the sundry virtues of Roses, for divers medicines. Chap. 90.  
ROses be cold and moist in two degrees: It hath these virtues, stamp it, and lay it to a sore that burneth and acheth, and it shall cease both the burning and aching.  
Also it is good for the Fever in the stomach, and against all evils that are gendered in hot hummors.  
Also let any woman drink it with wine, and it shall forthwith testraine bleeding, and help the marrows of the womb.  
Also make oil of Roses, and that is a principal Receipt for pricking in sinews: and the water thereof is good for sore eyen, and for hot evils, and the oil is good for headache to anoint therewith the temples, and the root of him is good, to draw forth iron or other things in a man's foot, and the red Rose is much better than the white.   

The sundry virtues of Lilies. Chap. 91.  
Lilies are cold and dry in the third degree and so saith Galen, that who so seetheth the leaves in water, it is a noble plaster for sinews that are shortened, and it is good for all manner of burnings and scaldings.  
Also when the leaves and the roots are sodden in old wine, and tempered up with honey, ●t is a profitable plaster for sickness that are starven. Also the water and the juice is good for to wash thy brissers; and to do away the freckles on man's visage or woman's: and the root is good to ripe therewith botches, and for to break them.   

Of the sundry virtues of Milfoyle Chap. 92.  
MIlfoyle is hot and dry in the second degree, it is good to staunch the bloody flux, and the juice thereof healeth the biting of a red hound: and if it be sod in red wine, drink it, and it stayeth worms in the womb, and it softeneth hardness in a man's womb, and it helpeth the Jawndies & dropsy.  
And take the herb and stamp it and temper it with vinegar, and it will do away blood in wounds, and it will cease the toothache, when it is chewed fasting. Also it is good for the stinging of an Adder, when it is sodden in wine, drink it, and lay the substance thereto, and it will draw out venom of the sore.   

Of the sundry virtues of Rosemary. Chap. 93.  
Rosemary is hot and dry: take the flowers thereof, and put them in a clean cloth and boil them in fair clean water, until half be wasted, and cool it, and drink that water, for it is much worth against all manner of evils in the body.  
Also take the flowers & make powder thereof, and bind it to thy right arm in a linen cloth, and it shall make thee light and merry.  
Also eat the flowers with honey fasting, with sour bread, or else with other bread, and there shall rise in thee no evil swelling.  
Also, take the flowers, & put them in thy chest among thy clothes, or among thy books, and Moths shall not destroy them.  
Also, boil the flowers in Goat's milk, and then let them stand all night under the air covered, and after that, give him to drink thereof that hath the Tissick, and he shall be helped.  
Also, if there be any man that is rammage, take the flowers and the leaves a great quantity, and boil them together in a good quantity of clean water, in that Paciens Bulneat, and it shall heal him.  
Also, boil the leaves in White Wine, and wash thy face therewith, and thy beard, and thy brows, and there shall no corns spring out, but thou shalt have a fair face.  
Also, put the leaves under thy bed, and thou shalt be delivered of all evil dreams.  
Also, break the leaves to powder, and lay them on the Canker, and it shall slay it.  
Also take the leaves, and put them into a Wine vessel, and it shall keep the wine from all sourness and evil savours, and if thou wilt sell thy wine, thou shalt have good speed.  
Also, if thou be feeble with unkind sweat, boil the leaves in clean water, and wash thy head therewith, and thou shalt be delivered from that evil.  
Also, if thou hast lost appetite of eating, boil well these leaves in clean water, and when the water is cold, put thereunto as much of white Wine, and then make therein sops, eat thou thereof well, and thou shalt restore thy appetite again.  
Also, if thou have the Flux, boil the leaves in strong Eyzill, and lay them on a linen cloth, and bind it to thy womb, and anon thy Flux shall be withdrawn.  
Also, if thy legs be blown with the Gout, boil the leaves in water, & then take the leaves and bind them in a linen cloth, and wind it about thy legs, and it shall do thee much good.  
Also, take the leaves, & boil them in strong Eyzell, and bind them to thy stomach in a cloth and it shall deliver thee of all evils.  
Also, if thou have the cough, by stirring or by any other way, drink the water of the leaves boiled in white wine, and ye shall be whole.  
Make powder of the rind of Rosemary, and drink it, and if thou be in the pose, thou shalt be delivered.  
Also, take the timber thereof, and burn it to coals, and make powder thereof, and then put it in a linen cloth, and rub thy teeth therewith and if there be any worms therein, it shall slay them, and keep thy teeth from all evils.  
Also, of the would make a boist to smell thereto, and it shall keep thee yoongly.  
Also make thereof a barrel, and drink thou of the drink that standeth therein, and thou needest not dread of any evil being therein, and if thou set it in the steld, or in thy garden, keep it honestly, and it shall bring forth much increasing of itself.  
And if a man have lost his smelling of the air, that he may not draw his breath, make a fire of the wood, and bake his bread therewith, and eat it, and it shall keep him well.  
Also a man that hath the gout, take oil of Roses, and the yolk of an egg, and the flowers of Rosemary, and meddle them together, and do it to his sore, and he shall be helped.   

¶ How to make a special sovereign water, which is of three colours, and it is called the Mother of all waters: which is very excellent to cure the Canker, the Pocks, or Leprosy, or any other kind of superfluous humours, or any sore, old or new, and it is thus made. Chap. 94.  
TAke Turpentine four pound, of Frankincense, Mastic, of either two ounces, Aloes, Epaticke, Date stones, Labdanum, Castorum, roots of Detany, roots of C●ula Campana, of each two ounces, distill them in a Limbeck of glass, with a soft fire. The first water is clear: the second water is yellow, & swimmeth above the other: the third water is reddish, like Saffron, and when it beginneth to be red and thick as honey, then beginneth the third water.  
The first water burneth like a candle, the second water curdeth like milk, and if you put one drop of the third water into a cup of drink, it goeth to the bottom, & there will it lie an hour, & then mount up to the top, as true balm doth, and with this water, if you wash your face twice a day, and chieftly your Nostrils, it cureth the Rheum descending from the brain, & clarifieth the sight. And if you wet a linen cloth in this water, and lay it to any sore leg or arm that hath dead flesh, it will cleanse it, and drive away the ache within six hours space & it consumeth all Apostumes, Ulcers, Fistules, Pustules, Emeralds, and healeth all green wounds. And if ye dip a linen clothe therein, and make it six fold, and lay it to the noddle of your neck, it healeth the Palsy: and so likewise it cureth the Gout, or any sinew that is drawn together therewith, hath it three or four times together warm.  
The water that is of the colour of blood, is of such virtue, that if a leprous man or woman use thereof fifteen days together, half a spoonful every day, he shall be healed.  
The first water is of such virtue, that if it be put in a fresh wound, it healeth it in xxiiii. hours, if he be not mortal. And it healeth all kinds of Cankers, Crepces, Noli me tangere, within fifteen days, if you wash them with the said water every third day, & if you make rags of cloth, and dip it in the same water, and lay it upon a plague sore, and drop one drop therein, it mortifieth the malignity thereof, and that shortly And if you drop one drop in the eye that hath a pearl, or is half blind, it will recover it in eight days without any pains: and if you drink a spoonful of it with white wine, it will recover the strangury or dissure within six hours, and breaketh the stone within two hours, whether it be in the rains or in the bladder. The water that hath the colour of blood is most precious, it comforteth the weak members, and preserveth the body from all diseases, and purifieth rotten blood, and healeth all diseases of the milt, and keepeth away the Gout, and causeth good digestion, it purgeth cold and rotten blood, and putteth away ill humours, and healeth all agues. This water must be used from the month of November, to the month of April, and you must take but half a spoonful at once, nor oftener than ounce a week.  
The manner to make this water, ye must have a glass a cubit high, and fill it with Aquavite made with wine, and stop it well, then put it in hors-dong, so that it be not moist, nor too wet, lest the glass break, and you must leave the neck of the glass without in the air, that glass through the heat of the dung will boil sore, so that the water will ascend to the neck of the same, and descend again to the bottom through the air, and so let it stand thirty days, then ta●e out the glass, and put these things following in the water, and stop the mouth that it breath not out, and so leave it in eight days. Last of all, put the glass in Balneo Marie, with sand, setting on a head with a receiver well stopped, and make a soft fire, and gather the first water that drops clear, but when ye see the second water turn into red colour, change the Receiver, for than cometh the second Water, and that will keep well in a glass well stopped: The spices that go to this water be these, with the herbs: Cardonum, Cloves, nutmegs, Ginger, Galingale, Zedoaire, long Pepper, Spikenarde, Laurel berries, Smallage seeds, Mugwoort seeds, Fenell seeds, Annis seeds, flowers of Basill, Elder flowers, red Roses and white, lignum Aloes. Cubibes, Cardomum, Calamus Aromaticus, Maces, Germander, Frankincense, Turmentil, Juniper, agrimony, sentory, fumitory. Pimpernel, Dandelion, Eufrage, Endife, seeds of Sorrel, yellow Saunders, Fetherfoy, Aloes, Epaticke, of each two ounces, Rhubarb two drams, dry Figs, Reasins, Dates without stones, sweet Almonds, of each two ounces, Aquavite to the quantity of them all, and four times as much Sugar as they be all, that is, for one pounds of Engredience, four pound of Sugar, two pound of honey. This water is called the mother of all waters.   

A perfect way to cure the loathsome disease of the French Pocks, pains in the joints, lameness of limbs, paleness of colour, loathsome scabs, or any other filthy disease proceeding of superfluous or evil humours, as also to assuage over gross and foggy fat bellies, and that without danger Chap. 95.  
FIrst, it is needful to provide for the sick body a close and clean chamber, out of all gross air, and clean warm garments, both for body and legs, and at rising and going to bed, a fire of Charecoales, for wood is not wholesome, for smoking: also they must not be troubled with any thing to bring them out of patience, for that corrupteth the blood, which must be new altered: also the sick body must eat but little meat, and that kind of meat as shall hereafter be prescribed, and at such times as shall be appointed, and let the sick body use playing on some Instruments, or hear some playing, or tell merry tales, and have no company of women, for that is a most dangerous poison for the health of any person in that case.  
Secondly, you must prepare two brass pots or else iron, one being four gallons, the other six gallons, one for strong drink, the other for small drink: also, ye must have close covers to them of brass or iron, you must also prepare good earthen vessels, with close covers to keep your drink in, of both sorts by themselves: also, you must have a Strainer of a searce cloth, to strain your drink after it is decoct, Instruments to take out dead flesh, and to search a sore, and a syringe to cleanse any sore being deep, with the same drink. Also, you must have a wooden vessel to bathe the sick body in, at such times as hereafter shall be appointed. Also, you must prepare clean clothes to dry the sick body after a sweat, being warmed well first: other Instruments you shall need none, but only your wood raped small, or turned, and the bark of the wood pounded in a Mortar, and the drugs also small, and your water which you shall decoct, the same must be of a good Conduit or runnin brook, very clean without any kind of filth, Chalk water is good.  
Thirdly, for your strong drink, ye must take your pot of four gallons, and set it on a fire of coals, with four gallons of the fair running water, then put into the same one pound and a half of your wood, small raped, or turned at the Turner's, but when you do buy your wood, see it be not old, and lack moisture, this trial is best, take a little coal burning, and lay it on the block before it be raped, and if it be good it will boil up on every side of the coal, like Mirth: Then put thereto one ounce or a little more of the bark of the same wood, made in small powder, then take a quarter of a pound of Cummin seeded put whole into the same, and one half quarter of an ounce of Radix and Rhubarb, and then stop your pot fast, and lay paste about the cover, and so fast that no air come out, then seethe it on a soft fire, but ever keep it boiling, & let it boil at the least eight hours, than set it by, and unstop it not until it be cold, then take your Searce, and strain it into a fair carthen pot, and cover it close: The sick body must drink of this but one draught lukewarm in the morning, and one other at night.  
fourthly, you must take your pot of six Gallons, and put in it six Gallons of running water, and one pound of the wood raped, and a quarter of Cummin seeds, and decoct it in all kind of thing even as the other, being close stopped, and when it is cold, strain it into an earthen vessel or vessels: and that must the party drink at meal, and at all other times when he list to drink, and spare not, but draw it by.  
Fiftly, the sick body must be kept very warm and not rise out of bed before eight of the clock, and then eat a dozen or twenty Reisins of the Sun. & no bread, but a draft of strong drink warm, and about eleven of the clock, let the sick body eat a little meat, as may suffice nature, & what meat, it shall be here after showed: then let the sick body walk somewhiles in his chamber, or read some book, or play on instruments, to keep him from sleeping: then at six of the clock at night a dozen Reisins of the Sun, & nothing else but a draft of strong drink warmed.  
Sixtly, give to the Patient to eat, these meats following, Chicken, Partridge, pheasant, Hen, Capon, Rabbit, Conie, Veal, Mutton, & none other, nor any salt, nor leavened bread, nor Rye bread, and very seldom roasted, but boiled in water, & no broth nor porridge, nor any kind of sauce: if the sick body have roast, let it be but every third meal, and no kind of fish, milk, or fruits, Reisins excepted.  
Seventhly, once in three days, for the first 9 days in the morning let the sick body drink a good draft of the strong drink somewhat warm, & then lay very many clothes on him, till he sweat, for the space of two hours: then ease some of the clothes, and have warmed linen clothes, & rub all the body dry ere he rise, if he have any sores that be deep, wash the sore with strong drink, and with a searce, and dip a little cloth in the strong drink, and lay it to the sore, whether it be sore or knobs.  
eightly, after nine or ten days be past, once in three days let the sick body be bathed on this sort. Set fair running water on the fire, and put thereto a great deal of ground Juie leaves, and red Sage and Fennell also, and by a good fire, when the sick body is going to bed, put the water and herbs in a vessel of wood, and let the sick body stand upright in it, by the fire, and take up the herbs, and rush the body of the sick. Patiented downwards, and then dry him with warm clothes: use this three weeks, and by the grace of God the sick body shall be made whole, whatsoever he be: then if the party be very weak, after nine or ten of the first days, let him eat every day at four of the clock in the after noon, a new laid Egg, potched in fair water, and as much new bread as will suffice nature, and a little clean wine. Use this diet with good regard, as before is prescribed, and (by the grace of God) they shall be perfectly cured of the diseases above mentioned.   

The manner to make another kind of Diet drink of stronger operation, for the same diseases, which by the practice only of one man, hath done very great good, aswell in the City of London, as in divers parts of the Realm. Chap. 96.  
TAke of the best Guaicum, most heavy, and full of Gum four pound, let it be well rase● with a Rape, or turned into fine chips by a Turner, and of the same barks two pound: of Cardus benedictus, which is called the blessed Thistle, half a pound, of Maiden hair, Cotrach, the flowers of wild, and garden bugloss, Ana, one pound, sweet Tassia six ounces, Annisseed one ounce and a half, white Sugar six pound, cast all these unto a wine vessel, clean and apt for the same purpose, upon which, pour of the cleanest and best white wine that may be got, in quantity one hundred and fifty pound, cover this vessel close three days, them strain it through an baire cloth: then keep it in a clean vessel for the Patient at dinner and supper, but not to drink it in the morning and evening. Besides the drinking of this Guaicum at dinner & supper, the patient may between the times, as one bower before or after dinner or supper, drink four or five ounces. Also, your aforesaid receipts may be put in clean new, white or Claret wine being fived and made in the prescribed manner.  
Furthermore, the Patient that hath the Pox, Dropsy, or Gout, may drink among, this worthy medicine following: the doss or quantity, is two ounces or more, according to the age and complexion of the Patient.  
Take Maidenhair, clean fresh Hops, if fumitory, Sitrach, called Asplenum, Seen of Alexand. of each three drams, great Centaurie roots, Liquorice, polypody, wild and garden bugloss, each, four ounces, Annis-seeves, Nigella Romana, the flowers of bugloss, the three Sanders, Cinnamon, each, five ounces, put this into twenty four pound of the Gua●cum water, sodden after the description in the compounds following: then put it in a close vessel, and stop the mouth, and when that is done, set the said vessel in an other seething kettle upon the fire, so let it stand and seethe for twenty vowers fair and softly, then strain it, and keep it in a clean close Vessel for the use aforesaid: But if the Patient be full of humours than do thus: take Seine Alexander two pound, Succa Rosarum solativa, six pound, white Sugar seven pound, Rhubarb elected three ounces, finely cut, Turbit of the best one ounce, put these in a clean stone pot with a narrow mouth: pour into this pot xxiiii. pound of the common Guaicum water, made in manner in the compounds following: stop pour pots mouth, seethe it in the foresaid manner, upon a soft fire xxiiii. hours, until it come to a thin syrup, called Jelup, then strain it, and keep this precious purging drink for mornings, the dose one ounce and a half, according to the age, complexion and strength: the Patient must also eat bread three ounces, well baked like Biscuit, and the flesh of Chicken, Hen, Capon, Partridge, pheasant, small birds of the wood roasted, excel sodden meats: and if the common drink be too strong, than the Patient may your thereunto some small clean Wine or Beer: Let the Patient be merry kept in a fair clean chamber, with sweet perfumes, not much feeding, but little and fine, with clean warm apparel, and a fire of Charcoles, eschewing Venery, wines, fruits, fish, gross 〈◊〉 ●ottage, and white meats: care, anger, cold, much heat: and by Gods help ye shall have present remedy, whether it be for the pox, or to cleanse the rains, or for them that be over fat or foggy people, full of gross humours, gotten with ease and feeding, to rebate and assuage their fogginess without hurt, but rather renew them (as it were) and make them seem young. It helpeth also the Gout, Dropsy, Sciatica, Canker and Cympanie, and many other loathsome diseases, that proceed from over great abundance of gross humours, also for extreme pain in the joints.   

The manner to choose the best Guaicum or Lignum vitae. Chap. 97.  
OF this wood Guaicum, there are three kinds: the first is black within, in the heart pale coloured, having in it russet lines, very hard and heavy. The other black within, but white without, having very small lines, is hard and heavy, and not so great as the first. The third is all right white within and without, having very small lines, and the heart of this wood is the best, the arm of the tree is better than the body, the boughs nearer the fruits have more virtue, warmness, and dryness, than the lower parts of the tree, which are grosser and more earthly of nature, and the more uncteous the wood is, it is the better, the sap is not so good as the heart, neither the bark as good as the sap. But the white 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sweet & most excellent in operation, and is Lignum sanctum, the holy wood. The bark of the strait young branches or boughs, being heavy and white, moist, and without lives, hard compacted, be the best barks for the Poor. All these woods called Guaiac●, have a Rosin, or matter like Benjamin, or pleasant grim within the wood, which is the spirit or lively helping humour in decoction for the Porzin the sinews, veins, muscles, head hands, feet and the bones: No sickness is so sharp and cruel to nature, but this precious wood will both quickly and gently assuage the pain and grief of the same, if it be ministered accordingly in decoction, namely, to them whom either the Pox hath tormented, or else the Gout with intolerable grief.   

¶ A most certain and approved remedy against all manner of pestilence or plague be it it never so vehement. Chap. 98.  
TAke an Onion, and cut him overthwart▪ then make a little hole in each piece, the which you shall fill with fine treacle, and set the p●eces together again, as they were before: after this, wrap them in a wet linen cloth putting it to roast, covered in the Embers or ashes: and when it is roasted enough, press out all the juice of it; and give the Patient to drink thereof a spoonful, immediately he shall feel himself better, and shall without fail be healed.   

To make a syrup of Vinegar, good for many things. Chap. 99  
TAke sharp Vinegar a pound and a half Sugar two pound and a half, boil it till it be a syrup: It will digest choler, Melantholie▪ and phlegm: It will make gross humours thin: openeth obstructions, provokes urine, expelleth naughty humours, is good against all pestilent Fevers, cooleth and quencheth thirst, and keeps the body loose.   

To comfort the heart, and take away Melancholy. Chap. 100  
TAke the juice of Borage four pound, the flowers of Borage half a pound: let these stand infused in hot Embers fourteen hours, then being strained & clarified, put to good Sugar two pound, and boil it to a syrup.   

A syrup to cleanse the breast and the lungs, the cough and Pleurisy. Chap. 101.  
TAke Liquorice small shred and bruised an ounce, Maiden hair half an ounce, Hyssop two drams, water two pound, let these lie mixed four and twenty hours, then boil it till the third part be consumed, which strained put in of good honey, Sugar pellet, and white Sugar of each four ounces, and Rose water three ounces.   

For spitting either of lights or lungs. Chap. 102.  
TAke the juice of Purslane and Plantine, of each an ounce, red Coral a dram, and bloodstone half a dram fine powdered mixed together, use it.   

For worms in young children. Chap. 103.  
TAke dry lupines and make flower of them, which kneaded with honey, lay it to the stomach of the child.   

For the swelling of the Cod's Chap. 104.  
TAke Rue stamped, lay it to the grieven place, and thou shall have present remedy.   

For him that cannot hold his water. Chap. 105.  
TAke the small end of Oaken leaves and seethe them in Claret wine, being well beaten, lay it as hot as may be suffered upon the yard in a plaster fashion.   

For the Headache. Chap. 106.  
TAke the juice of marjoram, and put it into the nostrils, and it will help you.   

For grief of the stomach. Chap. 107.  
TAke Mastic, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each a dram, Mace & Cinnamon of each half a dram fine powdered: then take the bottom of a brown loaf toasted and dipped in Malmsey, strawing of the said powder upon it, lay it to the stomach, and it is a present remedy.   

For the itch. Chap. 108.  
TAke unwrought wax, fresh butter, Rose Vinegar, red rose-water, Brimstone fine beaten, and Cloves all boiled together, make an ointment.   

A Gargill for a sore throat. Chap. 109.  
TAke white wine, conduit water, of each a pound, roch Alum, half an ounce, two spoonful of honey, boil all to a pound and a half, and use it three or four times a day.   

A water for scabs Ulcers and bushes. Chap. 110.  
TAke Plantine water half a pound, water of Orange's four ounces, Sublimate powder an ounce, put all in a double glass or some other good vessel, and let it boil with a gentle fire, a quarter of an hour, and take it off, and keep it in a clean vessel, which use three or or four sundry times and it shall heal them.   

To make a water to take out all spots out of cloth of gold, & velvet. Chap. 111.  
TAke raw red Arsenic, Martem Cudum, of each of them a like quantity, and when they be well brayed, pour some fair water upon them, and putting the herb Cinkfoyle to it, seethe it unto the half, and then let it cool, and set it in the Sun two hours: then wash your cloth in it, and let it dry in the Sun.   

To take spots of grease and oil out of all sorts of cloth, white or other. Chap. 112.  
TAke the water that Pease have been sodde in and steep your cloth where the spot is in it, and then wash it with clean river water, and dry it in the Sun.   

To take all manner of spots out of silk. Chap. 113.  
TAke the juice of great and round Mushrooms of a sharp taste, wet the spots in it the space of two hours, and then wash them with clear water, and then let them dry.   

To take spots out of cloth. Chap. 114.  
TAke cold Lie, and lees of white Wine made a little hot, and mix them well together. But you must take heed they be not too hot, and wash your cloth.   

A sovereign remedy for the cough. Chap. 115.  
TAke Brimstone beaten in powder half an ounce, and put it in a new laid Egg soft roast, mingle it well together: then put to it Benjamin the bigness of a Zich Pease, lightly stamped, and drink it in the morning at your breakfast: Make as much again at night when you go to bed, and you shall be whole at the second or third time. But if the cough have holden you long, you must take it so much the oftener.   

To keep Poultry from destroying with Weisels. Chap. 116.  
rub your Poultry with the juice of Rue or Herbgrace, and the Weisels shall do them no hurt: if they eat the lungs or lights of a Fox, the Foxes will not eat them.   

A brief Treatise of urines, aswell of men's urines as of women's: to judge by the colours, which betoken health, which sickness, and which death. Chap. 117.  
IT is showed, that in four parts of the body dwelleth sickness and health: that is, in the womb, in the head, in the liver, & in the bladder: In what manner thou mayst know their properties, and thereof thou mayst learn.  
If a man's Urine be white at morrow, and red before meat, and white after meat, he is whole. And if it be fat and thick, it is not good: and if the Urine be meanly thick, it is good to like: and if it be thick as Ass piss, it betokeneth headache.  
Urine that is two days red, and at the third day white, betokeneth very health.  
Urine that is fat, white and moist, betokeneth the Fever quartain.  
Urine that is bloody, betokeneth that the bladder is hurt by some rotting that is within.  
A little Urine all fleshy, betokeneth of the reins, who pisseth blood without sickness, he hath some vain broken in the reins.  
Urine that is ponderous, betokeneth that the bladder is hurt.  
Urine that is somewhat bloody of sickness, betokeneth great evil within the body, & namely in the bladder.  
Urine that falleth by drops above, as it were great bolnes, betokeneth great sickness and long.  
Woman's Urine that is clear and shining in the Urinal as silver, if she cast oft, and if she have no talon to meat, it betokeneth she is with Child.  
Woman's Urine that is strong & white with stinking, betokeneth sickness in the reins, and in her secret receipt, in her Chambers full of evil humours, and of sickness of herself.  
Woman's Urine that is bloody, and clear as water under, betokeneth headache.  
Woman's Urine that is like to gold, clear and mighty, betokeneth that she hath lust to man.  
Woman's Urine that hath colour of stable cleansing, betokeneth her to have the Fever quartain, and she to die the third day.  
Woman's Urine that appeareth as colour of lead, if she be with child, betokeneth that it is dead within her.   

Hereafter follow all the urines that betoken death, aswell the Urine of the man as of the Woman. Chap. 118.  
IN a whole Axis, one part red, another black, another green, and another blue, betokeneth death.  
Urine in whole Axis, black & little in quantity, fatty and stinking, it betokeneth death.  
Urine covered over all as Led, betokeneth a prolonnging of death.  
Urine that shineth raw and right bright, & the skin in the bottom shine not, it betokeneth death.  
Urine thin in substance, having fleeting above, as it were a dark Sky, signifieth of death.  
Urine derstie, stinking, and dark, with a black Sky within, betokeneth a prolonging of death.  
Urine that is of the colour of water, if it have a dark Sky in an Axis, it betokeneth death.  
Urine that hath drestes in the bottom meddled with blood, it betokeneth death.  
Urine black and thick, if the sick loath when he goeth to the Privy, and when he speaketh overtwhatt; or that he understandeth no aright, and if these sicknesses got hot from him they betoken death.   
FINIS.   

The Table of the secrets in this book.  

TO make a Marchpane. Chap. 1  
To gild a Marchpane, Tart, or such like. Chap. 2  
To bake Quinces. Chap. 3  
To keep Quinces unpared a whole year. Chap. 4  
To make rose Vinegar, Chap. 5  
A fine Sauce for a roasted Rabbit. Chap. 6  
Sugar paste to make conceits for banquets. Chap. 7  
Blanch powder for roasted Quinces. Chap. 8  
To conserve Quinces in syrup. Chap. 9  
To conserve Plums or Damasins in syrup. Chap. 10  
Fine Rice pottage. Chap. 11  
To make Marmalade of Quinces. Chap. 12  
Marmalade of Damasins or Prunes. Chap. 13  
Succade of peels of Oranges or Lemons. Chap. 14  
To make green Ginger. Chap. 15  
Manus Christi. Chap. 16  
To make Aqua composita. Chap. 17  
To make Aqua vitae, Chap. 18  
To make hippocras. Chap. 19  
To make divers necessary oils of great virtue. Chap. 20  
To make Conserves of Roses, Violets, bugloss, Borage, Rosemary, Succarie, Elder-flowers, Sorrell, Maidenhair, Elacampana roots, Acorns, Strawberries, Cherries, and Barharies, with their several virtues. Chap. 21.22. etc. unto the 35.  
To make all kind of sirops. Chap. 35  
To make a Violet powder for woollen clothes etc. Chap. 36  
A sweet powder for Naperie & all linen clothes. Chap. 37  
To make a Pomeamher. Chap. 38  
A fine Fumigation to cast on the coals. Chap. 39  
To make the same in Oselets. Chap. 40  
To make a moist Fume upon a fuming dish. Chap. 41  
A fumigation for a press & clothes against moths Chap. 42  
A perfume for a Chamber. Chap. 43  
A Damask perfume. Chap. 44  
A sweet ball against the plague. Chap. 45  
To make an odorifferous white powder. Chap. 46  
A fine red powder. Chap. 47  
A sweet black powder. Chap. 48  
A powder wherewith to make sweet waters. Chap. 49  
Rules to be observed in distilling of all herbs and flowers. Chap. 50  
To make the water of the colour of the herb you distill. idem.  
A compound water to perfume gloves etc. Chap. 51  
To make Damask water. Chap. 52.53  
To make powder of Holland against the Colic. Chap. 54  
A powder to cause a gentle lask. Chap. 55  
A Receipt to restore strength, being weak with sickness. Chap. 56  
To make Loofing. Chap. 57  
To perfume gloves eight manner of ways. Chap. 58  
A perfume for chests and cupboards. etc. Chap. 59  
To colour gloves. Chap. 60  
To make musk soap. Chap. 61  
To make red sealing Wax. Chap. 62  
To keep Damasins or plums in syrup. Chap. 63  
A water for the face, used of Gentlewomen. Chap. 64  
A water for heat in the face, and for pimples. Chap. 65  
To know, if a woman shall ever, conceive or no. Chap. 66  
To make a barren woman bear children. Chap. 67  
To make women in labour have speedy deliue●●●●e. Chap. 68  
To stop the running of the rains three or four ways. Chap. 69  
To strengthen the seed of man or woman. Chap. 70  
For the gnawing in a woman's stomach. Chap. 71  
To make sweet Damask powder, four manner of ways. Chap. 72  
To make pepper soft, with the virtue of the same. Chap. 73  
To keep Barbery's. Chap. 74  
For women's breasts that be sore, five several ways. Chap. 75. etc.  
For the unnatural heat of the Liver. Chap. 76  
For the Canker in the mouth. Chap. 77  
To make the face fair, & the breath sweet. 78  
To make hair as yellow as gold. Chap. 79  
To drive all venomous beasts from your house. Chap. 80  
A Remedy against all poison eaten or drunken. Chap. 81  
To drive away Lice. Chap. 82  
To make Doctor Steuens water, with the sovereign virtues of the same for many things. Chap. 83  
To make a water to take away Sunburning, spots and stainings of the face and hands. Chap. 84  
To heal leaprie faces and swollen legs. Chap. 85  
A singular ointment, for burning with fire. Chap. 86  
To draw out an arrow head or other iron out of a wound. Chap. 87  
For one that hath his head swollen with a fall. Chap. 88  
To know what time herbs should be gathered in their full strength and virtue. Chap. 89  
The sundry virtues of Roses. Chap. 90  
The sundry virtues of Lilies. Chap. 91  
The sundry virtues of Milfoile. Chap. 92  
The sundry virtues of Rosemary. Chap. 93  
To make a sovereign water of three colours, called the mother of all waters. Chap. 94  
To make two the best and usual sorts of 〈◊〉 with the perfect manner to cure 〈◊〉 Pocks, and other loathsome and 〈◊〉 diseases. Chap. 95.96  
The manner to choose the best Guaicum or Lignum vitae Chap. 97  
A most certain and approved remedy against all manner of pestilence or plague, be it never so vehement. Chap. 98  
things. Chap. 99  
To comfort the heart, and take away the melancholy. Chap. 100  
A Syrup to cleanse the breast and the lungs, the cough and the pleurisy. Chap. 101  
For spitting either of lights or lungs. Chap. 102  
For worms in young children. Chap. 103.  
For the swelling of the cod Chap. 104  
For him that cannot hold his water. Chap. 105  
For the headache. Chap. 106  
For grief of the stomach. Chap. 107  
For the itch. Chap. 108  
A gargill for a sore throat. Chap. 109  
A water for scabs ulcers and bushes. Chap. 110  
To make a water to take out all spots: out of cloth of gold and velvet. Chap. 111  
To take spots of grease and oil out of all sorts of cloth. Chap. 112  
To take all manner of spots out of silk Chap. 113  
To take spots out of cloth. Chap. 114  
A remedy for the cough. Chap. 115  
To keep poultry from destroying with Wesels. Chap. 116  
A brief Treatise of urines etc. Chap. 117  
To know urines that betoken death. Chap. 118   
FINIS.