THE widows treasure, plentifully furnished with sundry precious and approved secrets in Physic, and Chirurgery for the health and pleasure of mankind. ⸪  
Hereunto are àdjoined, sundry pretty practices and conclusions of Cookery: with many profitable and wholesome medicines for sundry diseases in cattle.  
At London, Printed by Edward Alde, for Edward White, 1588.   

❧ To the Courteous Reader,  
THis Pamphlet being written (not many years past as it should seem) at the earnest request and suit of a Gentle woman in the country for her private use, which by these singular practices hath obtained such fame, that her name shallbe remembered for ever to the posterity. The original Copy (by great chance) was lent me by an especial friend of mine, in the perusing whereof I found it so furnished with such rare experiments and pretty conceits as t●e like are not to my knowledge extant in the English tongue. I thought it my duty for the health and pleasure of many my friends, to set them forth to the view of the world, to be practised especially of those that take delight in such matter, or hath any occasion through their defects to use them for their healths sake. This I dare presume to report of the work, that there are herein included very many secrets, that I know by the Widows own practice, to be most singular and approved, and though perhaps they are not orderly set down as many of better skill might have done, I desire you to consider that this was of the collectione of such a one as never once thought to have made them common: but only to his good friend M. R. This caveat she also giveth by the way, to read them advisedly and practise with discretion, and as you find commend: and so wi●h all humility concluding, I dedicate unto you this her Treasure and chief jewel: desiring you to be a defence aswell for her as for me, from all such as shall in your hearing scorn her, or me for disclosing such profitable experiments. ⸪  
Fareyou well.  
FINIS.   

¶ The widows Treasure.  

To make Syrup of Roses or violets.  
TAKE of violets or Roses a pound, stéep them in three pints of warm water put it in an earthen pot with a narrow mouth the space of vig. hours▪ or more, after strain it and warm the water again: & put in it a gain so many Roses or Violets, & likewise let them lie in steep eight hours, & thus do at the least five times, the oftener the better, in especial the roses, and after take to every pint: half a pound of Sugar, and steep them together till the Sugar be melted, then seethe them together with a soft sweet fire to the height of a Syrup: If you have more Roses or violets, or Fewer, let so much be the proportion of the water according to the proportion before.   

To make Diatreon Piperion the best.  
TAKE white Pepper, black Pepper and long Pepper, of each six drams and eighteen grains, Time, Ginger, aniseeds of each a dram: beat the long Pepper, aniseeds, Ginger, and Time into▪ fine powder, bruise the other two Peppers as gross as may be: then take Sugar clarified with Hissop water, eighteen ʒ. seethe the Sugar, and take so much of the water above said as will cover it. To know when it is enough, drop a drop on a saucer, and if it will come from the saucer without cleaving: it is enough. Then after cooling, put in your powder and stir them altogether, and after put all into a Pot. etc.   

Virtutes huius confectionis sequuntur.  
THis decoction is good to eat,  
always before and after meat.  
For it will make digestion good,  
and turn your meat to puer blood.  
Besides all this it doth excel,  
all windiness to expel.  
And all gross humours cold and raw,  
that are in belly, stomach or maw.  
It will dissolve without pain,  
and keep ill vapours from the brain.  
Besides all this it will restore,  
your memory though lost before.  
Use it therefore when you please,  
fortherin resteth mighty ease.   

To make Rosa solis.  
TAKE first a quart of the best Aqua vitae that you can get, and put it into a Glass or Pot of earth, then put into it five handfuls of Rosa Solis clean picked, and the Roots and dead leaves clean clipped off, a quartern of Sugar beaten to powder, nine Dates opened and the white skin within peeled or plucked off, then shred the Dates in small pieces, and one ʒ. Ginger, di.ʒ. Nutmegs, ʒi. Anniseedes, ʒiiii. Liquorice, beating all these last rehearsed into fine powder: Then put them altogether in the said glass or pot, letting them stand very close stopped the space of three or four days, then take them all & strain the foresaid things into some clean vessel as hard as you may, so that you may have asmuch of the strength as is possible to have of it: then take and put the liquor into the glass or vessel that you mean to preserve it in, and stop it very close that no strength pass out of it in any manner.   

Doctor Hatchers powder against the Stone.  
TAKE the Roots of Ireos, Liquorice, calamus aromaticus, the hair of the Heart's skin burnt, of each ʒ. s. the Roots of Enula campana, Fillependula, Ginger, long Pepper, aniseeds, Fenell seed, Saxifrage seed, Ana. ʒii. Cinnamon, Maces, Ciperus, Spicknarde, Saffron, betony, Anaʒi. Sugar ʒ s. seen of Alexandria ʒiii. Rhabarke, ʒi. Of all these premises make a powder fine and small, and take thereof the weight of viii d. in the morning fasting with white Wine, twice or thrice a week leuke warm. It cleanseth the Bladder, Back, Reins and Kidneys from the Stone, it remedieth belly ache, and provoketh a lax.   

Master Stranges' plaster against the stone.  
TAKE Plantain, Featherfewe, Garden tansy, and Houflike, of each alike quantity, and stamp all these together and strain them, then take the juice and put to it bean flower as much as shall make it thick, and then take three or four spoonfuls of Honey, and clarify them in the fire: which done put the juice and the flower into the Honey, and boil them on the fire together until they be stiff like a plaster. When you will use this medicine, you must take a double cloth that shall be a quarter of a yard broad, and as long as will go round about you, and as hot as you can sow it round about you, and this must you wear two days and a night or else two nights and a day before you take it off.   

To provoke sleep.  
TAke a spoonful of Woman's milk, a spoonful of rose-water, and a Spoonful of the juice of Lettuce boil them in a dish, then take some fine Flax, and make your plaster as broad as you will have it lie on your forehead, and then moist it with the same Liquor, ad grate a little Nutmeg to straw over it, and lay it to your temples and it will provoke sleep.   

A sovereign medicine for the Colic.  
MAKE a toast of Household bread of clean Wheat, and ever as you toast it cast malmsey on it, then take dried Lavender Flowers, and cast it on the Toast than lay it on a thin cloth, and as hot as you can suffer it lay it to your Navel as close as you can.   

To make Aqua composita.  
TAKE a handful of Rosemary, a good root of Enulacampana, a handful of Hissop. di handful of Time, di. handful of sage, six crops of mints as many of pennyroyal, as many of Marierum, di. handful of Horehound, two ounces of Liquorice, two ounces of aniseeds bruised, then take three Gallons of good Ale, and put therein all these things aforesaid, and cover the pot close till it boil, and then set on your Limbeck, and keep under it but a soft easy fire. And if a man have the Stone, these Herbs be good to put into the said water, viz. di. handful of Sarifrage, one handful of Parcelye, di. handful of Philependula, and di. handful of fennel.   

For Cough and Flew me in the stomach.  
TAKE a quart of stolen Ale, and a handful of Goosemeate which is named Hayrefe, and a quantity of pared Liquorice, and a quatity of small Raisins, and boil altogether unto a pint, and drink thereof first and last.   

For the Sciatica.  
TAKE savoury and mix the juice thereof with Wheat Flower, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it where you feel the pain.   

A sovereign Ointment for weakness in the back.  
TAKE a handful of Dasse roots, and as much of Planten, Bursa pasto●…s, centumnodi, and the crops of Acorns, Ana i, handful of Bole armoniac and the powder of Hearts horn, then take a Buck Conye that is fat, and boil all these together in white Wine and water, as much water as Wine till the said Coney be consumed the flesh from the bones, and after take the Conye and the other gear forth of the broth, and strain the broth into a clean vessel, and let it stand till it turn into a jelly, and when you be in bed cause the back therewith to be anointed by a chasingdishe of Coals three nights together: and lay thereon a Linen cloth warm and softly lay it on, and in no wise chase your back.   

For phlegm or stopping in the Stomach.  
TAKE two handfuls of Honeysuckle leaves, and an ounce of aniseeds: and three Sticks of Liquorice, boil all these together in a quart of water till they be boiled from a quart to a pint, then drink thereof in the morning fasting.   

For Strangury or Stone in the reins of the back.  
TAKE Water of Camomile Stilled, and drink thereof when you feel pain, one ounce fasting until the pain be alaid: and eat a little Sugar after: because the water is bitter.   

To make Oil of Camomile.  
TAKE Oil a pint and a half, and three ounces of Camomile flowers dried one day after they be gathered in the shadow than put the vile and the flowers in a glass and stop the mouth close, and set it into the Sun by the space of forty days.   

To make oil of Roses.  
TAKE Oil washed eighteen ounces, the buds of Roses the white ends of them: cut away three ounces, lay the Roses abroad in the shadow four and twenty hours, than put them in a Glass to the Oil, and stop the glass close: and set it in the Sun at least forty days.   

The manner how to wash the Oil.  
TAKE and put it into a Basin of fair Water, and beat it well with your hand that the dross may fall down, then take of that part which remaineth above on the Water with a Spoon, and put the same Oil into an other basin of fair water and wash it as you did before: and so purify it three or four times.   

To make the Ointment of Roses.  
TAKE Oil of Roses four ounces, white Wax one ounce, melt them together over seething Water, then chase them together with rose-water and a little white Vinegar.   

To make a Tysande.  
TAKE Borage, Langdebéefe, Sorrel Endife, cinquefoil, two or three handfuls of Barley well picked, and both the ends taken off, then take half a handful of red Fennel roots, and a quantity of Liquorice, sugar Candie, Figs, Dates, great Raisins, boil all together from a gallon to three pints.   

For the strangury.  
TAKE a pound of Guiacum, otherwise called Lignum vitae, and let it be beaten to powder as the Apothicary informeth you then put the substance thereof in a pot with three quarts of pure water, and close the mouth of the pot surely, that in no wise the air thereof go out, then make but a soft fire under the Pot that it doth not seethe or boil, and to remain so hot (but not boiling the space of four and twenty hours, and at the end of four and twenty hours open the head of the pot, and take the whole substance and liquor, and put it in a stillitorye, and put thereto a Pottle of white Wine, and when you have stilled the same drink thereof in the Morning fasting, or any time else when you feel pain, and if you will have but half a pound of Guiacum, then according to the proportion of that quantity, use the ingredience as is above written: and because many can not come by white Wine if you have a pound of Guiacum, after the rate put to the pound a gallon of clear water to be ordered the space of four and twenty hours as is aforesaid: then strain it through a Cloth: and drink of it at your pleasure, but the virtue thereof will not last past three or four days.   

A Clyster for the Strangury.  
TAKE Camomile Flowers and Melons of each one handful, seethe them in a quart of water to a pint: then strain the liquor and put thereto three ounces of oil of Camomile: & the weight of two groats or less of sal●●●d so prepare the Clyster.   

For the swelling of the Yard or cods.  
TAKE Egrimonye of the Water thereof stilled: and put thereto a quantity of Allome and set them over the fire till they almost boil: then with a rag of Linen cloth anoint the Yard under the skin with the water well and warm: and it will abate the pain of the Yard and of the Cods also if they be washed with the same. Also to incarnate the skin of the Yard within, take the water of Fumitary, & lay Liquorice pared therein one night, and put of the same water into the Yard with a sponge, or else with a tent of linen cloth.   

¶ Doctor Bartlet's Medicine for Aches with swelling.  
TAKE flowers of Camomile and Rose leaves, seethe them in white Wine, making a plaster thereof, lay it to the place where any pain, ache or swelling is.   

To make one to piss.  
TAke the powder of the berries of ivy, and drink it with white Wine, or else with stolen Ale hot.  
THe worthy Doctor and excellent practitioner Rasis writeth, that whosoever oftentimes snuffeth up into his nostrils the juice of great Margerum shall never be diseased in the head.   

A singular remedy for all diseases in the head of what cause soever.  
TAke a handful of Camomile, a handful of betony, a handful of Vervain leaves clean picked, stamp them and seeth them in Ale woorte, and when it hath sodde, put thereunto a little Commin seed finely beaten, with a little powder of Heart's horn, three spoonfuls of Vinegar, the yolks of two Eggs and a little Saffron, stir them about, and lay a plaster hot over all his forehead. It is an approved medicine for the Megrim.  
Chestwoormes that are found between the Bark of Trees, which will be round like a Pease sodden in Oil it maketh a singular ointment for the Megrim: and the same Oil dropped into the ears suageth the pain.   

An approved remedy for the Toothache  
The Roots of Henbane sodden in Vinegar and rose-water, put the decoction in your mouth.   

A worthy purgation to avoid Choler.  
TAKE half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn, a dram of good Rhubarb, infused a night with water of Endife, with a little Spicknarde, and an ounce of Syrup of Violets: mix all the said things with three ounces of Ptisan or Whey, and drink it warm.   

Against unkindly heat of the Liver.  
TAke a good handful of Liverwort that groweth upon the stones, and an other of fumitory, with as much of Hearts tongue, and seethe them in Whey clarified, and drink them every day twice. Also seethe Barberies in Whey and drink it.  
THe Liver of a Hare dried and made in powder, is approved for all diseases of the Liver.   

mythridate's medicine against corrupt airs.  
Twenty leaves of rue, two fat Figs, two Walnuts, and a little salt, whosoever eateth of this composition, shall be sure from all kind of venom that day.   

To increase Milk in women's Breasts.  
PArsney roots and Fenell Roots sodden in broth of Chickens, and afterwards eaten with a little fresh Butter, maketh your milk increase.  
RIce sodden in Cow milk with crumbs of white bread. Fenell seed in powder and a little Sugar is exceeding good.  
Crystal made in fine powder, and mix it with as much Fenell seed and Sugar, and use to drink it warm with a little Wine.   

An excellent soap for Scabs and Itch.  
TAke white Soap half a di. and steep it in sufficient Rose water, till it be well soaked, then take two drams of Mercury Subblimed, dissolve it in a little Rose water, labour the Soap and the Rose Water well together, and afterward put in it a little Musk or Civet, and keep it. This is singular to cure a great Scab or Itch without peril.   

An approved medicine to drive away Lice.  
TAke the dregs of Oil, or fresh Swine's Grease a sufficient quantity wherein you shall chase an ounce of Quick Silver till it be all suricke into the grease, then take powder of Staves-acre fearced and mingle all together, make a Girdle of a woollen list meet for the middle of the patient, and all to anoint it over with the said medicine, then let him wear it continually next his skin, for it is a singular remedy to chase them away. The only odour of Quick silver killeth Lice.   

For to stop the flux.  
TAke Seine crops and stamp it, and drink it with stolen ale, and it will amend by God's help.   

For the bloody flix.  
TAke an Apple and roast it, and put therein as much Wax as a Bean, and let the Patient eat it, and by Gods help it will amend.   

For any bruise.  
TAke an Ore Gall and Onions, and fry them with sheeps Tallow, and it will help presently.   

An ointment for the back.  
TAke four ounces of unguentum, Frigidum Galeni, an ounce of the juice of houseleek, two drams of Mirt●e, and as much of Lead burned, one dram of Camphier, half a dram of red Rose leaves, as much red Coral, and according to Art make all these an Ointment in a Mortar of Lead.   

For an Ague.  
TAKE a handful of Hearts horn that groweth in the field, and a handful of bay Salt, and lay it to your wrists.   

For the Tooth ache.  
TAKE Bytonye, Sage, and Allome, seeth them in Vinegar, and let it lie in your Tooth.   

To keep Venison fresh a long time.  
Press out the blood clean, and put it into an earthen pot, and fill it with clarified Honey two fingers above the flesh, and bind a Leather close about the mouth that no air enter.   

To keep it from rotting after it is new slain.  
Cover it close from the Sun or Air with Fearne, and lay it in a cold place, then wash it clean and let it lie in Water half a day, and then lay it on the Floor to dry, than set the Water and Salt together, and let it cool till it be leuke warm, and then wash the Venison therein, and let it lie in that pickle three days and three nights, then take it out and powder it with dry Salt, and barrel it and stop it fast.   

To keep Pears.  
Put them in a vesse vessel that they touch not each other, and make a bed of pears and an other of fine white Salt, and cover them close.   

To kill Lice.  
MAke a fire and put quick silver therein, and hang the clothes over it in the smoke and no vermin will come in them.   

Against drunkenness,  
Drink the juice of yarrow fasting, or else the Marrow of Pork fasting.   

To make Linen cloth or Yearn white.  
TAke a Herring barrel, and fill it full of Ale dregs, and stop it fast, but first you must have a good dishefull of parthed Beans, and put them in a Linen bag, and being hot, put them to the dregs till they cool, and shut it fast the space of one quarter of an hour, then take a pawned of Allome ground to powder, and cast it therein, and let it lie so four days well closed, then wash it.   

To remedy the feet that are sore with Travailing.  
TAke Plantain and stamp it well, and anoint your feet with the juice thereof, and the grief will suage.   

A notable experiment against the Phitiske of the Lungs.  
TAKE of the pimpernel brought into very fine powder two ounces, of new pimpernel water, and of Sugar as much as shall suffice, making thereof an Clectuarie, of which take daily two drams.  
parsley with crumbs of Breode applied in the steed of a plaster, doth heal the Shingles, but the decoction of the same drunk doth break the Stone, Florenti.  
Mints put into Milk, it neither suffereth the same to cured, nor to become thick, in so much that laid into curdled milk, this would bring the same thin again, so that by the same virtue and property he saith to resist and abate the generation as well in man as woman. Florentinus.   

A good drink for the pestilence.  
TAke a lily root and wash it clean and boil it in white Wine till the one half be wasted, and then give it the sick to drink, and he shall break out full of bladders as if he were burnt of scalded, which of themselves will dry and wax whole. Pastor.  
CHestnuts eaten with Honey fasting, do help a man of the Cough.   

To make a perfect black Ink to write or limb withal.  
TAke one pound of Galls, one pound of Gum Arabic, of Vitriol an ounce, bruise your Galls and Vitriall, and put them into a vessel fit for your purpose, fill it with white Wine, that all your stuff may be covered above a hand breadth: then set it in the Sun and stir it daily.   

A very good Greene..  
TAke the juice of rue, Verdigris, and Saffron, bray them, and when you will use it, mingle it with Gum water.   

An other Greene..  
TAke green Baize, steep it alone in vinegar, then strain it through a Linen cloth, and grind it with a little Honey and Gum water.   

An emerald Greene..  
TAke Verdigris, Litarge, Quick Silver brayed to powder, and ground with the piss of a young child.   

For to make a colour like Gold.  
TAke an ounce of Orpiment, one ounce of fine Crystal, bray them severally, and mingle with them the white of an Egg.  
TAke Saffron dried, beaten into powder, and put to it as much glistering Orpiment that is scaly & not earthy, then with the gall of an Hare or a Pike, bray them together, put them in some viol under a dunghill five days, then take it out and keep it, for it is the colour of Gold.   

¶ A notable receipt to make hippocras.  
TAke of Ginger two drams, of Cinnamon i. ʒ, of Cloves, Nutmegs & Galanga, of each a quarter of an ounce, stamp them, and put them in a Bag or Strainer. Then take a pint of the best red or white Wine that you can get: or a pint of good malmsey, and mix them all together, then take a pound of Sugar fined, and having stamped it, put it into the other Wine, and so pour it upon the strainer wherein you did put the said Wine with Spices, then having taken it out, you must power it on again, so often until it become as clear as it was before, stirring it sometime in the strainer or bag, with this special note, that that is but to make a Flagon full: therefore as you will have it in quantity, take the more store of the said things: you may bind a little Musk in a fine Linen cloth at the end of a Strainer, so that all the substance may run over it: so that it shall have the odour of Musk.   

A proper device to make lights of an excellent savour.  
TAke two ounces of white incense, of Camphire an ounce, beat it in powder, and make thereof little round pellets adding there unto some white Wax, than put them in a platter full of sweet Water, and fire the pellets with a Candle, and you shall have an excellent light and sweet savour.   

To destroy Lice.  
TAke Frankincense beaten to powder, and a quantity of Boar's Grease, and boil them together in an earthen pan and herewith anoint the places where the Lice are.   

To make red Ink.  
TAke two ounces of brasil, and a pint of Water, and put the brasil into it, and let it remain there six or seven hours, then seeth it until the third part be diminished, and it is a perfect red.   

Whether the Wine be mingled with Water or no.  
TAke ripe Mulberries and put them into your Wine, if they swim the Wine is pure, but if they sink there is water mingled. Also a Pear clean pared causeth the same effect.   

To heal lips that are chapped with wind or cold.  
NEw Wax, Mastic, and Frankincense, with oil of Roses, all this made in an ointment, and there with anoint the chaps, and they will heal presently.   

For kibed heels.  
TAke Gum Dragant and galbanum, of each a like, and make thereof a powder, then take Ox Tallow, and a little Oil of Violets, and melt them on the fire and therein put the said powders, and make hereof an ointment, and herewith dress your heels.   

For scabs in Children.  
Oil of Roses, the weight of six pence in common salt, and a little fresh Butter stirred altogether until it become an ointment, healeth them.   

To destroy Crablice.  
AShes laid in Oil, or take of Aloes, Olibanum, and Ceruse, of each four ounces, beating them all into powder, and mingled with Oil of Roses, or fresh barrownes grease.   

An order to make Wormwood water of the best sort as followeth.  
TAke six gallons of old and strong Ale, and take a voider full of Wormwood clean picked and washed, the Water well wrong out of it, or shaken, half an ounce of large Mace, half an ounce of Cinnamon, two ounces of Nutmegs, a quarter of a pound of aniseeds, and as much Liquorice, and bruise all those Spices together, but not too small, and cut the Wormwood betwixt your hands, and then set all these together in the pot, and still them as you still Aqua vitae together, and so you shall have two quarts of the best, besides the smaller or weaker.   

To make a good Posset cured.  
first take the Milk and seethe it on the fire, and before it seeth put in your Eggs according to the quantity of your Milk, but see that your Eggs be tempered with some of your Milk that standeth on the fire, and you must stir it still until it séethe, and beginneth to rise, then take it from the fire, and have your drink ready in a fair Basin on a chasingdishe of coals, and put your Milk into the basin as it standeth, and cover it, and let it stand a while, then take it up, and cast on ginger and cinnamon.   

A medicine for the mother.  
TAke nep royal, and stamp it, then take two spoonfuls of the same juice, and a spoonful of salad oil, and let it seeth away two parts, thest unto that remaineth but the quantity of the Oil only, and anoint the place where the Mother riseth.   

To make syrup of Roses or flowers.  
first have a glass with fair Water, and make it warm in a Pot of seething Water, and when your water in the glass is warm, then put to it rose leaves and let it stand till it be cold, then wring out your Roses, & make the foresaid water warm again as before, and then put in other Roses, and so do nine days: and then put in Ginger, and seethe it until it be syrup.   

To take away the Cough or stitch.  
TAke a pint or a quart of malmsey one handful of aniseed, one handful of unset Hissoppe: one liquorice stick bruised, half a dish of sweet Butter, seeth all these things together till they be thick: and after spread it upon a toast of wheat bread and lay them within a linen Cloth as warm as you may suffer it to your Stomach. But if you will take this for a stitch leave out the Butter.  
The Head anointed with the juice of leeks, preserveth the hair from falling.   

To make jellye.  
FOR a Pottle of jelly, take of Cinnamon a quarter of a pound, of Ginger two ounces and di. of Grains two Peniwoorthe, of long Pepper two Peniwoorthe, Cloves half an ounce, of Sugar two pounds, di. of Turnesoles two ounces and di. and ten Nutmegs, look that the Spice be good and well made clean, then take six Calves feet, or an old Cock and three quarts of Claret Wine, and a pint of Water, and let them boil so long together until you may see the sodliquor clammishe between your fingers, then take it from the Fire and strain it through a strainer, and so let it stand till it be cold, that the filth may descend to the bottom and when you will finnishe your jelly, take the best of the said liquor and put into an other Pot with the proportion of Spices, and boil them together by the space of half an hour, and in the mean time make clean your Turnesole and dust it well, then take a Ladle full of the said liquor and put your Turnesole in it, and when it is a little well soaked, then wring out so oft as it shall be needful, until your jelly be fair coloured. Then take the whites of eight Eggs, and beat them together a good while and skim of the froth, and a little before you shall think it time to draw your jelly, put the said whites into the jelly with three spoonfuls of Vinegar, and forthwith draw your jelly through a woollen bag, and put in a branch of rosemary in the end of it, and so dish it.   

How to dress Oranges.  
TAKE Oranges and shave them with a Knife, and quarter them like an Apple and take out all the meat out of them, and lay them in Water, and shift them twice a day: then when you think they be enough, take them out, then set on fair Water on the fire: then put your Oranges in and parboil them: then take them out and set their mouths downwards in a Flasket that the Water may run out, then set on fair water over the fire to parboil them again: and if they be not well parboiled, boil them again till you may pinch them through: then take them out and put them in a fair cloth, and lay them in a Flasket that it may drain out of them: then take a gallon of running Water and put them into it, & at every four Oranges you must put in a pound of Sugar, & when you have done so: set it on the fire, but before you set it on the fire, take an Egg and break it & take out the white of it and lay it in water, take your hand and beat it in that water: then set it on the fire and let it burn clear under it: and look that no smoke arise: and when it doth, seethe skim of the top of it very clean, then take it off the fire and with a strainer strain it into another pot, then put in your Oranges, then make the fire good and temperate, so that it séethe not too fast, than you must take a spoon and skim of the some: so that you touch not the Oranges, and as the syrup doth seethe, so with a spoon turn them, and always lay the syrup upon the Oranges, when they have sod half an hour take them out and let your syrup seethe a good space, then take some of the syrup and cool it, and if you see it any thing stiff, then put the oranges into it again.   

To preserve Damsons.  
TAke a glass that hath a wide mouth, and strew some Sugar in the bottom, then lay a row of Damsons and a row of Sugar, thus do till your glass be almost full, then put to it rose-water and a few Cloves and a little Sinamonne, then stop your glass with paste: then have a pot with hot water ready on the fire, and put some hay in the bottom of the Pot for saving the Glass from breaking, and let not your pot boil too fast, then take up the Glass and lick whether your Sugar be consumed, and in the mean space make ready your Syrup, then when it is cold, put in your Damsons. The Syrup must be made of sugar, and Wine, rose-water, and whole Cinnamon, or half fair water: provided that the glass must boil till the Sugar be consumed.   

To make dry Pears.  
TAke fair water and rose-water according to the quantity of your pears, then take Honey as much as you think good and put in your Pears, then let them seethe very softly that they break not, then take them out and put them in a Collander and let them drain, then when you draw your bread put them into the Oven in some earthen pan, and if they be not dry at the first, put them in again until they be dry, than barrel them.   

For the shaking of the hand.  
Wash your hands in the Water that is in a Lavor, and put therein some Sage, let your hands dry of themselves without wiping.   

To stay the bloody flix.  
TAKE and cut out a piece of a piece of Beef of a new killed Ox about the Brisket, & eat it raw, and this helpeth it.   

To restore the blood again.  
TAke half a pint of Muskadel, and a peniwoorth of salad Oil, and put them together and drink it in the morning, and walk an hour after.   

For running of the Rains.  
TAke pellitory of the wall a good handful, wild Time and Parslie, boil them in a quart of strong Ale, until it come to a pint, and drink thereof morning and evening nine or ten days half a pint at a time, and warm it.   

For the Ague.  
TAKE a handful of smallage, and a handful of bay Salt, and a handful of white Frankincense, and six Plantain leaves, beat all these finely in a Mortar then divide them into four parts, and lay two parts to your breasts, and the other two parts to the bought of your arms. An hour before your fit come, you must have a pint of Ale sodde to the half, and when it riseth skim it, then put in a white bread crust, and let it seethe with the Ale, and when your Ague beginneth to come drink it and eat the crust of bread.   

A drink for the ague.  
TAKE Bay leaves and Sage leaves and seethe them in white Wine, after strain the wine from the leaves, then take baye-berries & bruise them, somewhat grocelye and put them in the Wine, and a little before your fit cometh drink it.   

A medicine for the Worms in a child's belly or any other.  
TAKE a pound of May Butter, and clarify it in the Sun, then take two pounds of Woormwood stamped, and then weigh it after it be stamped, the Wormwood must be gathered green, then mingle them together with your hands after they be put together, and set them in the Sun nine days in a pot or Glass, and let it boil an hour and a half, then strain it, so put it up in a Galley pot or in a double glass and always at the full of the moon anoint the belly of the party against the fire, at no time else, and the medicine made in may.   

A medicine for to get the Beetelwigges out of a man's ear.  
TAke Hearbgrace, stamp it and strain it with Aqua Composita, and put the juice into the ear that is pained, after lie down on that side, and bind a cloth fast about the head and it will come out.   

For a Leg that is swollen with a fall.  
TAke hemlocks, and heat them hot between Tiles and lay them to it: and it will assuage the pain.   

For a wen when it beginneth.  
TAke an old ladle and hold it against the fire until it doth fry, and anoint the Wen with that that fryeth out of the Ladle three or four times in a day, and it will help it.   

For the Colic.  
TAke a quart of white Wine and make a Posset, then take the Posset drink and put therein a handful of Mother of Time and a handful of young Parsley, and seeth it in the Posset drink, and take half a penywoorth of long Pepper, and put in the posset and give it to the patiented to drink.   

For the canker in the mouth or throat, or to wash your teeth that be hollow and stinketh.  
TAke a quantity of Red Sage, and xii. crops of rosemary, and Honysuccles, and wild Daisies, and Sinckfoyle boil them all in a pint of fair water till it be sodden the half pint, and then take a little Roch Allome and burn it to powder and then take half a spoonful of Honey, than put them into a fair cloth and strain it, and when it is cold put it into little glasses.   

For the Gout.  
TAke Camomile, Balm, Hollyhockes, Lettuce, Mallows, groundsel, chickweed, of each a handful, boil them in fair Water till it be tender, then take a quantity of great oatmeal and beat it small, then put it into those Herbs that you have boiled, with two spoonfuls of Capon's grease, and then boil them all together until it be so thick as it may be spread upon a Cloth, and as you seethe it, stir it that it burn not too, then being sodde: spread it on a cloth, that it may be laid to the grieved place as hot as may be, and it shall help in twice dressing.  
IF you have any pain in the sole of your foot, take half a dozen of the leaves of ground ivy, and prick them and wrap them to the sole of your foot, and so continue until you find ease.   

To preserve Quinces.  
FIrst pare your Quinces, and core them then take to every pound of Quinces a pint of Rose water and a pound of Sugar, then take the Rose water and Sugar, boil them together with some of the cores of the Quinces, then clarify the Liquor with the whites of Eggs, and set it over the fire again, and when it seetheth put in the Quinces, and cast in a stick or two of Cinnamon, and if they cast not colour quickly, cover them and let it seethe until you may put a rush through them then let it stand until it be cold, and so set it up.   

Marmalade of Quinces.  
TAKE your Quinces and core them, and pair them: then put to them so much Water as shall suffice to boil them so tender that they may be strained, when they be sodden, put out as much of the Liquor as you leave when that you have sufficient to strain it, and let it stand until the next day morning, then measure with a pound dish how many pounds of substance you have: then take to every eight pound of Quinces six pound of Sugar: then put it to the Liquor that you kept before that your Quinces were first sodden in and then set it on the fire and let it seethe a while: and clarify it with white of Eggs: then strain the said liquor, and put it to the substance of the Quinces aforesaid: and so set it on the fire, and let it boil until it have a fair colour, that it may cut at the sides of a dish: then put it into boxes. If you will put in any Musk, take Rose water in a Saucer, and put in your Musk and when you have taken your marmalade from the fire: immediately put in the same rose-water and Musk, and stir it together and box it.   

A Borage Tart or spinach.  
Parboil your spinach, then stamp it and strain it with half a dozen yolks of Eggs, season it as your Cream Tart.   

A medicine for the Plague  
WHen you suspect yourself to be infected, go to bed, and cause a pint of malmsey to be put in a Pot, and half a Penywoorthe of Grains beaten small to put in the same Pot, boil them together, and drink thereof as hot as you can and sweat.   

A Whey for Itch or breaking out.  
Clarify Whey with the Leaves of succory, Endive, Borage, of each an ounce of fumitory flowers, of Hops an ounce, one Fennel and Succorye Root bruised, of great Raisins an ounce, let these be clarified with a quantity of Whey, drink thereof every Morning a draft Warm five or six mornings, then take a handful of Seine sodden in a Pot closely stopped from a Pint to a quarter of a Pint with a few Anniseedes bruised, then strain it and drink it in the morning fasting, and by and by a little Aleburye, and some thin broth.   

Against the felon and Vncomes.  
TAKE an ounce of Sage, of rue the weight of the Sage in Senegreene, wash these together and shake out the water, dry them clean with a cloth, and chop them very small, then take sour Leaven the bigness of a Tennis ball, black Soap a spoonful, two spoonfuls of Tar, stamp it in a wooden dish with a pestle of Wood, lay the same morning and Evening unto it an inch thick.  
Syrup of fumitory, openeth and taketh away all obstructions of the liver and stomach, and fortifieth all the members, it cureth all the sores about the in ward parts, which come of Salt and burnt water, as Scabs, Leper, and French pax.   

Syrup of Rosa solis good for swooning or any other diseases in the stomach.  
TAke a quart of the best Aqua Composita, Aqua vitae a quart, a quantity of the Roses of Solis clean picked: and some what dried in the Sun, put all these in a glass, set it in the Sun four or five days: then take di▪ ʒ. of case Ginger, di. ʒ. of Nutmegs, di. ʒ. of Cloves, white Pepper, of Grains, aniseeds: Colianderséede, Ana a quarter of an ounce of Seine, a Stick of liquorice, four corns of long Pepper, di. ʒ. of Sinamonne, than put all these Spices being well chosen, finely fried somewhat bruised into the pot, then take a quarter of a pound of Red Currans, di. a quarter of a pound of dates, a quarter of a pound of Raisins at the Sun, eight Figs of Algarye, viii. grains of Musk, as much of Ambergrice, white and red Coral, Ana. of Pearls ʒ, all these infused together in the said Liquor: and set in the Sun forty days, and closely covered that no air may come unto it.   

Aqua Rosa Solis.  
TAKE a pint of Aqua vitae, a Gallon of the flowers of Rosa Solis well picked, a piece of Angel Gold, of Rosemary flowers or the herb itself, and a quantity of fine Sugar, still them in a Stillatorye and keep the Water close, and occupy it by a spoonful at once.   

To make fine Cakes.  
TAke a quantity of fine wheat flower, and put it in an Earthen Pot stop it close and set it in an Oven, and bake it as long as you would a Pastye of Venison, and when it is baked it will be full of clods, then serce your flower through a fine Serser, then take Clouted Cream or sweet Butter, but Cream is best: then take Sugar, Cloves, Mace, Saffron and yolks of Eggs, so much as will seem to season your Flower, than put these things into the Cream, temper all together, then put thereto your flower, so make your Cakes the paste will be very short, therefore make them very little, lay paper under them.   

To make an excellent Pomander.  
TAke of Storax Calamitaʒ. ss. of Beniemin two ounces, of Labdanum ʒ. ss. of Cloves, white Saunders, of each three drams, Margerum two drams: mingle with these powders Musk and Ambergrice of each a scruple: make your ball with the infusion of rose-water and Civet in a mortar somewhat warm.   

A precious ointment for all manner of Aches.  
TAke a pound weight of Sage, as much of Rew, half a pound of Wormwood, and as much of Crops of Bays, and beat them very small in a Mortar: then take two pound and a half of sheeps Tallow, and temper it with the Herbs that be beaten: and beat them again together new and then put them in a pan, and set them upon hot Embers, and put thereto a pottle of Oil of Olife, and let it stand upon the hot Embers two hours and a half at the least, then strain it through a course cloth, and put it in an earthen Pot, and so occupy it. This would be made in May or in june.   

For the canker in the mouth.  
TAke white Vinegar a quantity, with as much Honey: and then set them on the fire to boil with a little Allom: and wash your mouth therewith as oft as shall need.  
TAke the juice of Plantain, and Vinegar, and Water of Roses, and wash your mouth.  
TAke the juice of Woodbin, and the juice of Solseque, that is Marigolds: and Honey, and powder of Canell, and powder of Copporis, and the powder of wild Sage, burnt and meddled all together, and lay it thereon where the Canker is, and it shall dry it. But to slay the Canker take a Red Onion and lay it thereon.  
CArduus eaten or drunk in powder provoketh sweat.  
A Mouse roasted and given to Children to eat, remedieth pissing a bed.   

A precious drink for the Pestilence, approved.  
TAKE Fetherfew, Matfelon, Mogwort, Solsequi, Scabions, and Mallows, wash them and stamp them: and temper them with Ale: and give the sick to drink six spoonfuls at once, if he have it betimes it will destroy the corruption, and save the sick patiented.   

A singular medicine to resist the pestilence.  
TAke powder of Saffron ten grains, Wallnutes twenty grains, Figs ʒ. ij. and six Sage leaves stamped together with ʒ i. of pimpernel water, and iij. Grains of Mithridatum, keep this in a close Glass, and eat thereof in the Morning twelve Grains, and this will defend the receiver from the Pestilence.  
THe great Garden Dock drunk in Wine, purgeth Phlegm, Cholour, and water downwards.   

The virtue of Motherwoorte.  
IT groweth by the high ways and Stony Walls, bushing with many stalks leaved like a Nettle, but more ragged: and towards the bottom like Crow foot. It is of wonderful force against any sickness of the heart: whereof the chief name is derived, it helpeth Cramps and Palsies, it killeth Worms in the body, it cleanseth the breast from Phlegm, it doth open cold obstructions, it provoketh Urine. Moveth women's flowers the juice drunk, or the herb in decoction, and a spoonful of the powder of this herb given in Wine, helpeth the hard labours of Women.   

An excellent medicine against Impostumes Pleurisy, Coughs, and all diseases in the Breast.  
TAKE a handful of Scabions the herb● dried, of Liquorice cut small an ounce, twelve Figs, Fenell seed an ounce, aniseed as much, Erius half an ounce lay these in water or white Wine a night, the next day boil them till it be consumed to that third part, then sweeten it with sugar.   

A medicine for the Colic.  
TAKE Oats and bren them in a pan, as ye do parched Peason, and as hot as ye may suffer it, lay them to the Navel in a Linen cloth.   

For the same.  
TAke a fair flat stone, and make it red in the fire, and then take it out, and let it cool till the redness be passed, and then take a halfpeniwoorth of Saffron, and lay it upon the stone, and turn it thither and hither, until it be turned almost to powder and take a spoonful of malmsey, and put the Saffron there unto and so drink, it will soon pass away.   

A present remedy against the plague.  
TAke a great red Onion, and make a hole in the midst, and put a spoonful of treacle, roast him in the fire: take a spoonful of Vinegar, a spoonful of Aqua composita: bruise them all together, strain them through a cloth and give it to drink.   

For the cough.  
TAke three Figs and roast them, and put them in a Cup of Beer, and a little Liquorice and aniseeds beaten, then let it stand by the fire till it be warm, then take out the Figs and eat them, then drink up the drink and go to bed warm and in iiij. nights it breaketh the Cough.   

To delay heat.  
TAke of Vinegar one part, fine Sugar two parts, running water four parts boil them all together to the one half or more: and when you shall occupy it, take a spoonful and a half of the said syrup, and eight or nine spoonfuls of Barley water drink it.   

To break Phlegm.  
TAke a quart of Muskadel, a pint of Hisoppe water, three good Races of cased Ginger, and as much of Liquorice clean pared, then take two peniwoorth of Sugar candy bruised, put all these in a glass, shake them together: cover your glass four and twenty hours, drink thereof Morning and Evening.   

A preparative before you purge the Stomach.  
TAKE Seine three ounces, of polypody three ounces, of aniseeds three ounces, seethe all these in a quart of water to a pint: and strain them through a fair cloth put in Sugar to make them pleasant.   

To purge the stomach.  
TAke a handful of Mercury, as much of young Mallows, an ounce of Seine, three spoonfuls of aniseeds, put them in a pint of white Wine, and as much Ale all night, the next day seeth them together till half be consumed, then drink a good draught thereof in the Morning, sleep upon it.   

An excellent purger from all parts of the body.  
TAKE an ounce or two of perfect Turpentine of the chiefest, bruise it and dissolve it in a Mortar with a Pestle, with half the yolk of an Egg, put thereto three ounces of smallage water, beat them together till it be like milk, and sup it up but first wash your Turpentine in Fenell water.   

To make the hair of the beard to grow.  
TAKE Cane roots, Brionye roots, Beets, radish, Flower de Luce, Onions, of each a like the quantity of four ounces, six fat Figs bruised and stamped very small, Maidenhayre, Sothernwood, Dill of each a handful, seethe all these in good Wine: then wring out the liquor and strain it through a Strainer, then put to it fresh Butter never Salted, pure honey two ounces, Oil of Almonds sweet and sour, Oil of Sefania an ounce, oxymel squillicke half an ounce, the powder of Meal, Nigella, fenugreek well sifted and throughly bolted in a Boulter, one handful of Grass, Labdanum an ounce: set these upon the fire and stir them well till it be thick. This Linament being applied to the Chin and Cheeks, will become hear: The body first purged from all filth inwardly proved by experience.  
Oil of Myrrh healeth all kibes, burnings, Pimples, Cliffs, about the Fundament.  
Oil of Tartar mingled with Camphire, the face being therewith anointed, it maketh it fair and smooth.   

For a cut or sore bruise.  
TAke roots of Lovage, Alehofe, parsley, Anaʒ. ss. beat them in a Mortar very fine, then take Barrowes grease and boil them together, then strain forth the juice: then take as much unwrought Wax as a Walnut, half as much Rosin and let them boil together: and after you have thus done let it pass through a strainer into a little pan of water, then let it stand until it be cold, then labour it in your hands until it be somewhat short, and then wrap it in a piece of Leather, and so use it.   

For a weak Back.  
TAKE six Crops of red Neppe, two spoonfuls of Archangel flowers, and shred them fine, and take two new laid Eggs and stir it together, make three or four Fritters with a morsel of sweet Butter, fry them in a little earthen pan and let them be eaten without bread or salt but with fine Sugar.   

The plaster for the back.  
TAke white Archangel flowers and leaves, Chumphrye leaves and roots i.ʒ. Plaintaine and Bursa pastoris, Ana. i.ʒ. beaten very fine, and put to them a spoonful of Honey, and fry them in a frying pan, and divide it into four parts, and make of every part a plaster, and so lay it to the Patients back every night a plaster.   

Master Roses medicine against the stone, and to cause one to make water.  
TAke a new laid egg and in the great end thereof make a hole and take out the yolk and white of it: and lay the hole of the same Egg downwards upon a hot Brickstone until it be purged, so that you may make powder thereof, then take it and drink it with white wine first in the morning and last in the evening and it helps.   

For the heat in the Rains, and to avoid the blistering of the mouth.  
TAKE Liverwoorte, sorrel, Succory, Balm, Ana i ʒ. and seethe these in a Quart of Whey well clarified half an hour, and drink thereof every morning a good draft of half a pint at once.   

For one that is deaf.  
TAke sweet Salad Oil half a pound, add to it Wormwood, sorrel, Anniseedes, Perwincle, Ana di.ʒ. and dry all this to powder. Take powder of old Roses, an ounce of coloquintida being boiled in Oil a good while, then strain it through a cloth a good while, and put hereof three drops into the ears of the party that is grieved being warm, and use this every day twice: this hath been proved   

Against the piles  
TAke a great silver Cele, flay him, draw him, and let him touch no water nor salt, cut him in gobbittes and roast him: the first dropping being cast out: take the next dropping, and with a fine Linen cloth being dipped in it, the dropping of the Cele being heat, and so with the cloth soak it upon the places grieved: this will help be they never so sore.   

For the passion of the heart.  
TAke red Rose leaves, the powder of Saffron, the Oil of Mace, and melt them together, quilt the same in a little thin Silk, and draw it over with a little thin Civet, and apply it to the region of the heart.   

For the Itch.  
TAKE twelve of the yellowest Dock roots, scrape them as you will scrape pars nips, cut them small and stamp them ve-very fine, set them over a Chase dish of coals, and put therein half a dish of sweet Butter, and let them boil together till your Roots be ready to strain, and when they be thoroughly boiled strain them, and when you have so done, put thereto a spoonful of Brimstone beaten to powder, then stir them both together, and set them in a cold place and it will be a salve, and so let the patient anoint his body before the fire and let it soak into the skin, use it morning and evening.   

For a Felon.  
TAke leaven very sour, and crumb it into a little Pipkin, then take a quarter of a penny dish of Butter and four spoonfuls of Rose Vinegar leaves and all, and so boil all together, and lay it to the place as hot as may be: this is proved.   

To destroy an Impostume.  
TAke the Roots of hollyhock and wash it very pure, seethe it till it be tender; then put that water that you sod it in into a clean vessel then take linseed, fenugreek of each the like quantity: and look that you have as much of them both as of the root, then seeth it in the same water until it doth rope as bird-lime then stamp the Roots, and put thereto barley Meal: then mingle all together and fry them with Boar's Grease and lay it to the fore plaster wise.   

For the Rheum and Cough of the Lungs.  
TAke young elecampane roots a pound, of Setrarch, of Maiden hair Ana i. ʒ.al being new gathered: scrape the Elecampane roots and cut it into small slices: seeth them altogether into five pints of running water till they come to a pint and a half: then strain them and put thereto fine Sugar three quarters of a pound, then boil it till it come unto three quarters of a pint, then take two yolks of new laid Eggs and beat them: and let them boil together while you may say that Psalm Miserere, and take hereof at night a spoonful, and an other in the morning, lying on their backs an hour after they have received it: & in four days keeping them warm, it will rid the greatest Cough that is.   

For a Canker or disease of the Gums or Throat.  
TAKE a handful of Plaintaine, a handful of Honey-succles, an ounce of daisy leaves, half a handful of Sage, a quart of running Water, these things being boiled therein until it come to a pint then strain them and put therein five spoonfuls of sharp Vinegar, five spoonfuls of stone Honey, as much Rochallom as a Wallnutte: this is proved to heal a Canker.   

A Gargoyle for a furred mouth.  
TAKE Barley water, strawberye leaves, and Sinkioyle, Ana di. ʒ.a stick of Liquorice di. pint of white Vinegar, let it run through a two fold linen cloth; it is good for a surred mouth or throat.   

To heal the Canker upon the Yard.  
TAke an ounce of roche alum, and half an ounce of Verdigris, with Smiths water: and put all in some vessel of glass and seethe it two hours; strain it and use it as you think good.  
PIllute Aeliphauge, helpeth the stinking of the mouth, being taken every day nipped betwixt your teeth.   

For a stitch or wind Colic.  
TAKE Capillus veneris, Parsley roots, Fennel roots, of each a quarter of an ounce, bruise these herbs and drink that juice with white Wine.   

Hair to grow.  
A Corns burnt and mixed with bears grease.   

Against Spots and Pimples in the Face.  
NIgella brayed and mixed with Flower and Honey, and make thereof an ointment, and anoint herewith the spots at night, and in the morning wash them with Parslie water.   

For a hot burning in the stomach grown of Choler, which causeth the Fever.  
TAKE borage, Mallows, fumitory Violet leaves, beets, great Raisins the Stones taken out: Prunes, polypody with a little Dill: seeth these in pottage and eat hereof.   

For a saustem face.  
TAKE the juice of houseleek, and the juice of Tansye, and seeth them in a pint of white Wine to half a pint, and when it is cold, lay it to the face with a Flaxen cloth dipped in the same, and so let it lie all night, and when it is dry, than you may wet it so often as you list.   

For an Ache.  
TAke Oil de Bay, and Aqua vitae, a spoonful and mix them together, and anoint it.   

For heat in the face.  
TAke a pound of Almonds, a pint of warm Water, strain them, than put thereto half an ounce of white Camphor, a pint of white Wine, beat them together, and strain it with a pint of Margerame water, and put it in a glass, and wash therewith.   

For the same.  
TAke Vinegar half a pint, dears suet as much as you can hold in your hand Brimstone so much as will go into an Egg being finely bruised, seethe them altogether till they be almost dry, being made in a ball, take a little thereof, and put it into a Saucer and melt it with a few Coals, then take a fine cloth and dip therein, and rub softly the place where the corruption is, until it be taken away.  
If this help not within a month, then drink every morning a Cup of Beer, put into it fine English Madder finely picked, bruised, and searced and drink it.   

For the same.  
TAke Capons Grease melt it and strain it through a cloth, and let it stand to cool a a quarter of an hour, then put in Brimstone finely bruised, and mingle it with the Capon's grease, and anoint the face therewith when you go to bed where the pimples be or redness, and in the Morning wash it with rose-water lukewarm Remember you pick not your Nose, if you will have it stronger: put in Ginger finely beaten, a peniwoorth of each will serve, but of Capon's grease y.d.   

To vomit up choler.  
TAke six Dock Roots clean washed and the pith taken out, a few tops of Red Mints and a little Woormwood being steeped in a quart of Ale, or white Wine all night, and drink thereof half a pint at one draft: It is good to cleanse the body in all parts, as before is said, perhaps with a froole or two, this is approved being taken between March and june.   

For a Felon.  
TAke twelve Snails in the garden, and beat them shells and all until that it come to a salve and apply it, and when it waxeth dry, take fresh still, and it will kill heal, and draw.   

To stop the whites in women.  
POmegranet Flowers, the kernels of Pine apples bruised together, with two or three branches of S. john's woorte, being boiled in a quart of red Wine from a quart to a pint and a half: and drink morning and evening.   

For the stuffing of the Lights and Lungs.  
TAKE Arthemesia, Epithimum, red Sage, rosemary tops, red Fenell of each a handful, a Galingale root half ʒ. of green Ginger, half ʒ. of Manus Christi, a stick of Liquorice, seethe it from a quart to a pint.   

For the heat in the back approved, D. Huicke.  
TAKE the water of Plantain distilled or the juice thereof put to the leaves, the leaves of red Roses distilled, and the Water of red roses, and the water of red Rose Vinegar, than put all these together in an earthen pot, & put it into the water as Linen cloth: and the same steep there, then after a while take it out, and with a few leaves of red Rose cake, lay it to the back and when it waxeth ●ot use another cloth dipped therein.   

To dry up the Rheum.  
TAke Nutmegs, Cloves and Mace, beaten to powder with the powder of Rosemary: boil these together in sweet Salad Oil until it be somewhat thick: spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the crown of the head: this is approved to help it.   

To keep the eyes clear, cool, and from redness and to kill the Itch.  
TAke of P●a●●●ne two handful, Housléek one handful, stamp them and strain them and let it settle, then power out the clear juice from the drowsy, put thereto half as much red rose-water, and a quarter of a Spoonful of white Sugar Candy in powder, then take Lapis Caluminaris a piece as big as your thumb, and slake it 12 times in the same water, and hereof put 4 drops morning and evening lying upon your back. Approved.   

Against the Colic and Stone in manner of a plaster.  
TAKE Parslye and smallage, Ana. two spoonful of Capon's Grease, put this in an earthen vessel, putting the one spoonful in the bottom, and the other in the top upon the herbs, set these on the Embers to boil from Morn to night, then stamp them and strain them: and spread the ointment upon a linen cloth, and lay it hot to the Navel and bottom of the belly.   

A Clyster to be given to a Child or woman in child bed.  
TAke a pint of new Milk, three ounces of red Sugar candied, boil your Milk well, then take it of: and let it stand till it be no warmer than you can abide it on your cheek, and with a Clyster pipe put it up.   

A Clyster.  
TAKE a Hen pullet, draw it very clean and break all the bones thereof, then seethe it with a quart of liquor, until that it come to a pint, then take a handful of spinach, one handful of March Mallows or other Mallows, and a handful of Violet leaves, seeth these herbs in the liquor of the pullet very well, with as much salt as will season an Egg, than put thereto a Saucer full of pure Salad Oil, and warm it.   

To break the Stone.  
TAke a Cock of a year old, and open him, and you shall find in his Maw small white stones, take them and beat them in a brazen Mortar very fine, and put it in good white Wine, and drink it: and it will break the stone.   

Against toothache.  
TAke a little burnt roche alum, and in the burning put a little fine lint into it, and put it into your teeth that is hollow this will ease the pain.   

A medicine to strengthen the back.  
TAke a quart of good Ale, three or four whole Maces and as many Dates, the stones taken out, and pith also: then take the tops of rosemary a good handful and boil all together from a quart to a pint, then take the oil of two or three new laid Eggs, and take off the rind about the yolk: then put the yolk into the Ale, and boil them together, and stir them well, and so drink it morning and evening.   

For the heat in the back.  
TAke Vng. frigidum Galeniʒ. iij. you must take the ointment and spread it upon a fine Linen cloth, being first dipped in red Rose water, then warm it against the fire and so lay it upon the Kidneys, & when it waxeth hot take it off, and lay to an other   

For the Colic and Stone.  
TAKE the cutings of a Vine and dry them throughly, when you will make your Medicine: burn them, then take the Ashes that doth come thereof: and put it into a pint of Renishe wine or white Wine and let it stand in it all night, and in the morning drink thereof: thus using the quantity of the vine to the quantity of the wine Probatum est.   

To staunch blood.  
TAke the best Vinegar that you can get, Plantine Water, of each two pounds: and therein wet divers linen clothes, and lay them to the soles of the feet, the palm of the hand, and against the Liver: and the blood shall forthwith staunch.   

To take away spots from the hands or sunburnings.  
TAKE the in●●e of a Lemon with a little Bay Salt, wash your hands with it and let it dry, then wash them with conduit water, and you shall find all spots gone: it is good against scurf or such like.   

Against stuffing of the Lungs.  
TAKE and make a Posset of Sack and Ale, with aniseeds and liquorice beaten to powder, and let it seethe with the drink, put in it a good piece of Sugar, and Dredge, if you have any, and drink thereof every morning, it helpeth.   

A water to wash the yard, for one that had the running lately of the Reins.  
TAKE Daisies, Plantine leaves, and woodbind, of each three handfuls, of the best English honey, and a piece of roche alum as big as a Walnut, boil all these in a quart of fair water with a prittye quantity of red Rose-Water in an Earthen Pot close covered, so long as you will seethe an Egg until it be hard, then strain it: and with this water with your sering, squirt it into the yard, the water being lukewarm: so that the pipe thereof be put an inch or more, and spout it strongly that the water may come behind the sore place, and so use it every day three times for a months space.   

For Sinews that be shrunk, in manner of an ointment.  
TAke twelve young swallows out of the nest: take also unset Time, the leaves and strings of Strawberries, and Lavender Cotten of each a handful, and stamp them together, and the Swallows, with their feathers Guts and all: then stamp them in a mortar, and so boil it in may Butter, and then let it be put into an earthen Pot, stopped close the space of nine days, then seeth it again with some more May butter, and strain it: and when need is chase it against the fire.   

For sore eyes that smart or Itch.  
TAKE Lapis Caluminaris, and make it hot in the Fire, quench it in a pint of white wine three or four times: then take the srane and stamp it to fine powder, and strain the wine with the powder, and put it in a glass, and when you have need use it. Remember to shake the glass till it be thick, and with a feather drop two or three drops in your eyes the party lying on his back.   

Against the Sciatica.  
TAKE four or five great Onions and roast them very soft, than pil and stamp them in a Mortar, and put thereto half a pint of Aqua vitae, three spoonfuls of Neat's feet Oil, and boil them together till it wax very thick, then strain them, and therewith anoint the grief, chase it in before the fire a quarter of an hour: evening & morning, then lay a wild Cat's skin thereto: the hairy side next your flesh, and within xv. days you shall have ease.   

¶ An ointment for Aches, bruises, lameness, Stitches, gouts hardness of the Spleen, Ague, Cankers, and for pain in the ears.  
TAKE of Sage and rue of each a pound, of Wormwood of Bay leaves, of each half a pound, of sheeps Suet clean picked from the Skin three pound, of sweet Oil Olife a pottle, chop the herbs very small and then stamp them as small as may be, them shred the suet very fine and put them all together: and then stamp them altogether until the suet be not seen: then take it forth and put it into a fair Pan and put the Oil into the Pan and cover it close, and so let it stand for the space of ten days: then take it forth and break it into a brass pan, and set it on a soft fire, and always stir it until the herbs be cracking, then take it off and strain it through a wide Canvas Cloth into a fair Earthen pot and so keep it. For those vehement aches when you shall lay of this ointment upon it, you must take the Wool that groweth between the sheeps Legs or the longest of the wool and card it in broad flakes and baste it upon a linen cloth and keep that always to it.   

To cause one to piss.  
TAke horsedunge of the Stable, new may Butter and Aqua vitae, of each like portions, fry them together and make thereof a plaster and apply it to the patiented from the Navel to the Fundament as hot as you may suffer it, and fear not though it cause to make blood issue, for such is the working of the medicine; it causeth the stone to avoid: approved.   

A sovereign medicine for an ache in the shoulder.  
TAke Figs and Raisins of the Sun of each a like quantity, and half asmuch mustered seed, and beat them very small; grind them with the best Vinegar in a pair of Mustard Quernes, that done spread it upon a lambs skin and lay it to the ache.   

To staunch blood at the nose.  
TAKE an Egg and break it and put out the meat: and then receive so much blood as will fill the shell of the party bleeding: that done set the same in the fire until it be hard, then burn the ●a●ie to ashes and it will staunch the bleeding.   

Idem.  
TAke an Inkell and bind the person so bleeding about the temples of the head, and knit the knot thereof in the neck, and it stauncheth.   

For an Ague.  
TAKE three pints of Ale, an ounce of red Sage, the like quantity of Bay leaves, three ounces of fine Sugar, with a spoonful of Pepper, seeth all these together in the Ale until it be sodden to a pint: then strain it through a fairecloth, and drink this before the fit cometh.   

To bind to the hands being parcel of the same Medicine.  
TAke as much green glass as will fill a spoon being beaten to powder, take three spoonfuls of stone Honey, with a handful of Red Sage: mingle these with a head of Garlic, putting thereto as many Cobwebs as will temper the same, being an Egg shell full, then take them all together and use this a quarter of an hour before the ●…itte: this must be used round about the wrists.   

For one that consumeth, to be eaten in the morning.  
TAKE a new laid Egg let it be rear roasted, and put thereto a Cake of Manus Christi, and let it dissolve in it: and eat the same evening and morning.   

For a cold stomach.  
TAKE a new laid Egg being rear roasted, and put thereto a pretty quantity of gross Pepper: let him eat it next his heart to dissolve cold humours.   

For the swelling of the heart, and breaking of Phlegm.  
TAKE a quarter of a pint of Damask rose-water, three spoonfuls of white Wine, with a few sops of white Bread a pretty quantity of Butter and Sugar, this being boiled upon a Chafingdishe of coals, let the party eat thereof three or four spoonfuls after meat.  
TAke a small quantity of malmsey, butter and Vinegar, of Roses, boil them in a Chafindish, and put thereto a rose cake to heat in it until it be through soaked, and lay it to the stomach, and let the party be rolled.   

Against an Ague, the Plague, and good to comfort nature.  
TAke a pint of malmsey, and a handful of may Weed bruised, and the juice thereof put into malmsey, and let the party drink thereof.   

For the wind Colic.  
TAKE of Sack and Aqua vitae, of each a quarter of an ounce, put thereto a piece of Sugar and let the party drink thereof.   

To scour the inward parts, and for the rising of the Lungs.  
TAke a pint of Sack and burn it, for to delay the heat thereof, put therein a peniwoorthe of Treacle, a little Ginger, a Nutmeg grated, Cinnamon a good quantity with Sugar, and after it is boiled put thereto a peniwoorthe of Salad Oil, and drink thereof morning and evening: it will cleanse the body.   

For an Ague.  
TAKE a pretty quantity of Daffadondillies the blades, and bruise them and seethe them in a pint of Ale or wine, with a spoonful of Grains bruised: let the party drink thereof before his fit come.   

For one that is deaf.  
TAke a red Onion and cut out the Core being in the midst thereof, putting therein the Oil of roasted Almonds, the Onion being something warm: the next morning when it is cold, let the party grieved cause one to drop three drops thereof in the ear of the party in the morning or evening, stopping his ear with black wool that groweth under the sheep's ear: and let him lie on the same side.   

Idem.  
TAke ground ivy the juice thereof and white Copper is being burnt, and lay the same in the juice of the ivy till it be dissolved, and so use three drops morning and evening.   

For the bloody flix.  
TAKE jurden Almonds and blanch them, and let them boil in English Honey till they be black, and so eat them with a little of the best English honey.  
AMber Beads beaten to powder and put into a Chafingdishe of Coals, the party grieved must sit over them, as he would ease himself.   

An excellent medicine for the green Sickness.  
TAKE a gallon of Morning Milk after it be settled Cream and all, take also breast of the yungest Veal, and the fattest you can get, and wash it fair, and dry it with a Cloth, so that no water remain in it, bruise the same Bones and all, and put it into the Milk, take twelve Dates or more, and cut them in the mids, and take also a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, and half a pound of Currans, two handfuls of mints, a handful of wild Time, and put all these into the Milk with the Veal, and let the liquor seeth until half be consumed in seething, and when it is well sodden, it will be as a jelly: when it is cold the patient may either drink it being warm, as a broth, and may be eaten as jellye being cold. If the pacientes stomach will bear it make a toast of wheaten bread, and soak it in malmsey, and strew upon it the powder of Mints, the party must use this five or six weeks, or as long as you think good, being towards Spring time, with some exercise.   

To provoke Urine speedily.  
TAKE Wood betony both Roots and leaves, wash them, and put them to dry in a Sin in an Oven where brown bread hath been newly drawn, use half a spoonful of this powder in white Wine Posset drink, pottage or in your drink.   

For heat in the Liver.  
TAKE a quart of Strawberries, wild tansy, three pints of new Milk, still all these together, and drink it in the morning next your heart, and wash your face therewith.   

To preserve nature to eat a mornings.  
THE yolk of an Egg with Manus Christi.   

To make a Clyster.  
TAke a fat sheeps head, or a Capon, a handful of beets, a handful of Mallows, a handful of Violets, and if the patiented be hot, take three spoonful of Oil of Roses, if cold: take the like quantity of oil of Violets, boil all these together until it come to a pint, then strain it, and let the patiented drink.   

For one that is weak, and to comfort the stomach.  
TAKE a pint of sack, and burn it with a top or two of Unset hyssop and Rosemary, take three Dates beaten in a mortar to pay, and let it burn with the wine, also with a new laid Egg beaten, a spoonful of Damask rose-water, and a spoonful of Salad Oil, drink this morning first, and night last.   

Idem.  
malmsey burnt with a halfepeniwoorth of Saffron, being dried to powder, with Salad Oil and treacle, of each a halfepeniwoorth, use it morning & evening.   

Idem.  
NEttle seeds dried and beaten to powder, and drunk with Malmsie every morning.   

To restore nature, and helpeth a weak back.  
TAke a quart of Sack, a top of Rose mary, Winter succory, Peniriall, of each a like, Ginger and Nutmegs, as will burn the Wine. Then take a new laid Egg or two yolks and all, and beat it with three spoonfuls of red rose-water, and put thereto a piece of Sugar, then take the burnt Sack, and burn it with the Egg a good while, and put in it a Mace, and it will be in manner of a Caudle, use to drink of this warm three times a day, morning, after dinner, and when you go to bed: put therein some Salad Oil.   

To stay running of the rains.  
TAke a pint of Milk, and a good quantity of Otemeale, being well bruised, and seethe it with the Milk, and put therein a good piece of Sugar, and eat the Milk thereof being strained.   

A precious ointment or Oil.  
For Swelling or aching in Feet, Legs or in Knees, taken with cold, excellent to heal a Wound, far better than any Balm, for old bruises and shrinking of Sinews, marvelous good: an Oil for all manner of sores passing all other. Thus it is noted in an old Register book.  
TAKE a Gallon or a pottle of Salad Oil of the best: then take Sage, Lavender, Southernewood, Woormewoode, and a quantity of Camomile, after the quantity of the Oil, and cut the herbs small, then put them in that oil in a far basin of Latin or other metal, and stir it well together: and put in so many herbs that it may be thick standing, and so let them stand and rot a month full: then make a fair fire of Coals, and putting to a quantity of the same Oil, let it on the fire in the same Basin, and let it boil three hours or more. Then take it from the Fire and let it fry, and when it is Milk warm or somewhat hotter, then take a bag of great Canvas, and with a staff strain out all the matter as clean as you may and then put it in a Glass or other fair thing and keep it well closed, and it will continue in his virtue twenty years after.   

Probatum est. For stewed Mutton.  
PUT your Mutton into a Pot with fair water, and let it seethe and scum it fair then put in Salt, make not too much broth then take Hissop, Time and parsley, and chop them small and put them into the pot with a little Pepper: and serve it out with sops, and if it be in Winter put in some Carrot roots.   

To dress a Hare or Coney in broth with a pudding in their bellies.  
YOur Hare or Cunnye being flayed and the Ears left on, let it be washed in two Waters, having before prepapared in a readiness Grated Bread, Currans, sweet Mutton suet or Beef suet finely minced with pleasant and wholesome herbs, as Winter savoury and pennyroyal, with sweet Margerome, these also very finely chopped, and seasoned with pepper and Salt: Cloves and Mace, the yolks of three Eggs, with sweet Cream, and Sugar with two or three Dates, all these mingled together, put into the belly of the Hare or Cunnye, and so sow it up Then take Mutton broth of the best and fattest, put it in such a Kettle where your Hare may lie compass, or Cunnye long ways, after it hath boiled a little put it in, and put thereto Grapes or Gooseberries, sweet Butter, Salt, verjuice, Currans, grated Bread and Sugar, and when it is boiled serve it forth with sops.   

Mutton.  
PUT your Mutton in a Pot with fair Water and let it be well scummed, then take some toasts of Bread and toast them brown, and then cast them into cold water, but take them up again quickly: and let them lie and dry a while, then strain them with Wine and Vinegar, and so put it into the pot and let it boil: But in some Pepper, whole Cloves, and Cinnamon, and let all this be well stewed, but forget not Salt▪ Serve it out upon sops: and boil some Onions in it cut into pieces. And likewise this will serve for Venison, Mallardes and Teles.   

To boil chickens with Endive and succory or Lettuce, or any other cold herbs.  
PRepare a Loin or a rack of good Mutton with a marrow bone or two, and being chopped, put it in a Pipkin with fair Water over the fire, and let them seethe a pretty while together, then take half of it out of the Pipkin, and strain it with a strainer, then put in your Chickens, afterwards having prepared your cold herbs clean washed put them in: Also having steeped your white bread ready to strain through a Strainer, let your broth be therewith thickened: So take Pepper, salt verjuice and Sugar, and season your broth: then upon Sops serve it forth with the marrow upon it.   

For small Lampernes.  
LET your Lampernes be cut in small pieces: then take a frying Pan with Butter and Onnions minced, and so fry them together. And when they be well fried put them in a Pot, then take two toasts of brown bread and toast them well then strain them with a quantity of Vinegar, Wine and Water: and put thereto a little Pepper, and Cloves and Maces, and boil all this together with your Lampernes upon the coals: and so serve them out with sops.   

To potch Eggs in broth.  
TAke Vergies and fair water, and a dish of new Yeast: and put therein Cloves, Mace, Currans, Sugar, sweet Butter, a handful of spinach: and let them boil a good while: then having potched your eggs in fair Water that is seething: then lay your Eggs in broth and serve them forth with herbs laid over them.   

To bake Breme, Trout, Mullets, Pike or any fish.  
LEt them be well seasoned with Cloves and Mace, Salt and pepper, and so bake them with small Currans verjuice and butter, great raisins and prunes.   

For sops on the fish days.  
TAKE some Onions and fry them with Butter a while: then take Water Pepper and Salt, and put altogether into a pot with the Butter and Onions, and let them simper upon the fire. And so serve them out upon sops, and cast a few small Raisins upon the sops, and put the broth upon them.   

For spinach.  
TAKE spinach and wash it well, then lay it upon a board and give it five or six chops with a knife, than put it into a frying pan with a little fair water and seethe it well, then take Butter, verjuice and Salt, and put it to the spinach, and so boil it together in a pot or between two Platters: and so serve them out with Sops.   

Sodde Eggs.  
seeth your Eggs almost hard, then peel them and cut them in quarters, then take a little Butter in a frying pan and melt it a little brown, then put to it in to the Pan a little Vinegar, Mustard Pepper and Salt, and then put it into a platter upon your Eggs.   

For Ox tongues boiled.  
WHen your Ox Tongues be boiled take them and peel them, then cut them overthwart in small pieces, then fry them with Butter, and put them in a Pot with toasts strained with Wine vinegar and Water, and let them boil: put thereto Salt, Onions quartered, Pepper Cinnamon, and whole Cloves, and so serve them with Sops.   

spinach.  
TAKE spinach and parboil it well, then wring the liquor clean from it then chop it very small, and put it into a Platter and break some Eggs into it: then take a handful of grated bread and put into it and sugar with a little salt, and beat all this together but let it not be too thick nor too thin, but better thick than thin: then take a frying pan with some Butter, and when the Butter is a little more than melted, take a spoon and lay your spinach in the Frying pan every spoonful by himself, and so fry it as you would fry Fritters, and put it in a dish and cast sugar on it.   

for Eggs.  
TAKE some Eggs and beat them well with a little fair water and salt: then take a frying Pan and melt your butter and then put in your Eggs: then take a knife and lift up the Eggs, that the raw may go all to the bottom of the Pan, then turn it up with your Knife on every side that it may be square, than lay a dish upon the pan, and turn the pan upside down upon the dish and so serve in your Eggs with verjuice or Vinegar, as you will.   

A drench to plume up a horse, and to expel cold, to clear him of the Glanders and to open the pipes.  
TAKE ground Willis, alias groundsel, Enulacampane of each a handful, stamp them and strain them in Ale, seethe them all together: then take of Fenicreke, of Turmeric, Aniseedes, of Cumminséedes, of Garlic, of long Pepper, of liquorice: of Grains, and if he have the bots or worms give him savin. Give him this drink lukewarm a quart at a time, then ride him till he be hot, then bring him into the Stable, and litter him well, and corie him till he be thorough cold, then let him after stand upon the bit, and turn him to grass.  
TO a Horse that hath eaten a Feather, give a branch or two of savin dry.   

A drench for a cough.  
A Quart of Vinegar Fenicreke a peniwoorth, Turmerick i. d, Enulacampana i. d. long Pepper i. d. Barberies i. d. Liquorice y. d four Eggs, aniseeds, lay the Eggs in Urine all night, and after in these drugs beaten and so give it the beast.   

To make a good powder to give a Horse in his provender, or to give him to drink for the cough, and other diseases.  
TAKE of Liquorice i d. cut it in pieces, and beat it into powder, then take Anniseedes i d. of grains i d. of ●●●…mericke i d. of Fenicreke i d. one Nutmeg, ●●●e a pint of oil Olive a quart of Milk.   

To cause a horse to have a good hoof.  
TAKE Cow dung or Ore dung, and let it be mingled with strong Vinegar, and in the evening apply it being made very hot upon his feet, and wrap upon the hoof a piece of Leather, or some old rags to keep in the heat, and within two dressings it shall be remedied.   

For a horse that is stung with an Adder or Snake, a present remedy.  
TAKE three handfules of Sanicle (it is a weed commonly known) and stamp it, and put it in new Milk, and with a Horn drinche him. Or take Honey and Salt, and two Onions: then stamp them and apply it to the sore place, and drinche him with this composition as followeth: Wine a quart, and put into it white Pepper, Herbegrace, and Time with a little treacle.  
AND if he be pricked with a Nail this is a sure remedy, search well to find out the Nail, his hoof being clean pared, specialiye the corrupted place or hole where the nail had fettered, then take Rosin and Wax to fill the same place, and with an hot Iron let stone Pitch be melted upon it, and lay thereupon some Cotton then being well shod again you may travail: him at your pleasure.  
IF your Horse by hap drink a Horseléech he is in great danger: for by their succking they will kill him, but presently take sweet Oil and power into his mouth the quantity of a quarter of a pint, and it will destroy them quickly.  
IF your Horse swallow down Hen's dung in his Hay it will so fret his guts, that he will void at his Fundaurent, very foul excrements, which being perceived make him a drench with Parsley seed, Smallage seed, Honey and Wine, and walk him at least after it two hours.  
IF your horse have the bots, give him every Morning two handfuls of Agrimo nigh without any other meat in his rack, till six hours after, and within four or five days it shall destroy them.  
IF your Horse be Lousy about the ears, neck or tail or any other part of his body: take the best Soap you may have a pound, and half a pound of quick Silver, mortified with Aqua vitae, and with this ointment you shall destroy them.  
IF he cannot piss, give him a quart of Chalk water somewhat warm, if broken-winded, take Longwoort dried, or Dwarse Gentian and mingle it with his water that he drinketh till he amend.  
IF he be scabby let him be let blood, and afterward with this ointment let him be anointed where the scabs are. Take Soot of the chair, soft Soap, the juice of hemlocks and Vinegar, Quicksilver, liquid Pitch and honey, and mingle them till they come to be an Ointment. Kill the Mercury with fasting Spittle.  
IF his back be galled: take the powder of two old Shoes being burnt, with a prittye quantity of Butter melted, and power it upon your horse back very hot, after that, put the powder thereon. This is approved.   

An excellent medicine for a sore horseback, if he be never so sore bruised, if there be a Fistula it healeth it or any dead Flesh.  
TAKE a quantity of Allome and burn it, and also take a handful or more of Barley and burn it, and take the powder thereof and mix it with the roche alum being both mingled together: power it upon the sore morning and evening, but if the sore be corrupt and full of dead flesh, then use more of the roche alum, then of the power of Barley, and when it beginneth to heal, use them both together, but more of the Barley then of the roche alum: this is a most excellent remedy, if you have no Allome presently, let him take a good quantity of Butter and verjuice and put it upon the fire, and make it very hot, and so power it upon the sore morning and Evening, laying a little Hay and a cloth, bind it close all night. If the horse be pinched and swollen then keep it warm and dip a pad of Hay in water, and lain it upon it and keep the saddle or somewhat else upon it all night, and it will delay the swelling Proved.   

A present remdeye for the Cow-flixe.  
TAKE a pottle or gallon of fair water, and put therein so many Hedge flows as will suffice to be steeped in the said water and set it over the fire to seeth, and therewith mingle the powder of Chalk Eggs: which you may have at the Keel, because it is the best and finest in medicine: & give it your cattle.   

For faint cattle as well Cow, Ox, Bull or steer.  
Only verjuice is the remedy given them to drink, and presently turned to good Pasture.  
OR else thus: take for every one a pint of verjuice, and put thereto a little handful of Bay Salt, and therewith rub their tongues, and afterwards let them drink the rest, as we have above declared.  
AND also, sometimes by evil feeding or bruising, their teeth are so lose that they feed not, which you shall remedy thus. Take the tail of the beast thus diseased, and with your hand feel for soft places, which being found, slit it a long and bind it up again with soot and Garlic mingled together, and it helpeth presently.  
BUT the most perfectest medicine that may be given, is to have this special care that they want no water.   

An excellent drench for cattle to be given them, either at the spring time or fall of the Leaf.  
TAKE hard soot that commonly is upon the post of a house or roof where the smoke hath his issue, which being beaten into powder with Bay salt, seeth the same in running water and give it them to drink, Rank ivy with the soot and salt, and when the ivy is soft, wring out the juice and strain it through a Strainer, and let your cattle drink thereof blood warm. Often proved.  
IF they be hidebounde, take the leaves of Flower-de-luce, strain them and let them drink the juice thereof. It is approved.  
IF they be swollen of the Taint, give them to drink presently man's Urine mingled with Salt and Treacle. Approved.  
IF your cattle viz. Horses, Milchekine, or Oxen happen to be bruised or wounded by any misfortune, presently give them to drink the juice of Sanicle, and also apply the herb to the outward part where the grief may happen▪ Comphrye is of the same virtue: especially for a fall, squat or bruise,  
Snails stamped with sour Leaven and Comphrye, and applied to any part of the Beast that is pricked with thorn, it will draw it forth soon.   

For Cats that are sick or hurt.  
THe blood of a gray mixed with Salt, and instilled into the horns of Beasts is approved for to preserve them from the Murrain.  
IF you suspect them to be infected, apply to their nostrils the herb pennyroyal somewhat bruised.  
OR cut the beast in some part and put into the wound powder of black Helebor, which is of this singular virtue to draw unto it any poisoned humour, and it yieldeth present remedy.   

A sovereign drink for all manner of cattle that you suspect to be Lung sick.  
TAKE me the Herb that is called cowslip or Lungwoort, it groweth under every hedge, and stamp it: and put thereto fenugreek and madder with good Ale, and with a Horn or prittye tunnel drench either your horse Ox, Cow or Swine, and it shall yield present remedy if there be any disease in the Lungs.  
DVarfe Gentian of some called Mock Gillofer, small chopped and given to Swine and all other cattle: it preserveth them wonderfully from the Murrain, and all such contagious diseases as happen to cattle in corrupt times.  
THE bitter vetch is most profitable to be given to oxen or other Kine, that you are desirous to have soon fatted.  
THe water which standeth in the hollows of beeches, doth perfectly cure the naughty scurf and wild Tetters or scabs of men, horses, Kine and sheep, if they be washed therewithal.  
THE leaves of black Elder are very good Fodder and feeding for Kine, and causeth them to yield store of Milk.  
PRicktimber or Spindletrée is hurtful for all cattle, especially Goats, for it killeth them if they purge not presently upwards and downwards.  
Hogs and Swine are very quick of hearing, and are given much to sleep, and will eat their own Pigs and feed upon vile Carrion: which causeth them many diseases, as Botch, Bile, and sore throat: But the best remedy that I know is to let them blood under the tongue, and give them Madder with Pansies, called herb Trinity, sod in Whey: and it shall heal them presently.   

Most precious and approved drinches for all cattle, but specially Kine and Oxen.  
TAKE two handfuls of Lungewoorte of both kinds, of rue, of the inner rind of Elder, these being small chopped, let it be put in a gallon of good Ale, which being set over the Fire in a Skillet, let it seeth till a quart be consumed, then stirring it, put thereto of long pepper, of grains, of liquorice, of aniseeds, of Cominséedes, of turmeric of each an ounce: of Madder a quarter of a pound, and while these seeth, take me a great Boule dish, and put therein a handful of Bay Salt, half a handful of Garlic, three or four new laid Eggs shells & all: two balls of Orlament, grind all these things with a pestle in the bowl, then take the liquor aforesaid from the fire till it be half cold, and put the warm liquor into the bowl, with the garlic salt, Eggs, and Orlament, brew them together well, and let beasts drink of this blood warm.  
OFten times by many occasions, Oxen will piss blood, which may be helped thus: Take two ounces of Broomeseeds two ounces of Pepper, three ounces of red Phasioli made all in powder, and mingle it with a pottle of white wine, and when you give it them, stir it well together, and drench them twice or thrice a day.   

another excellent drench.  
TAke Bay berries a handful, of Cominséedes two ounces, a handful of Madder, a bowl of Orlament, of fenugreek, Turmeric and treacle of each an ounce, of aniseeds and Grains, of each two ounces, these being well pouned, put them into a gallon of good Ale, and set them over the fire till they be blood warm, and suffer not your beasts to drink till noon in the Summer, and in the Winter not till night.   

The virtue of Angelica or Healeall.  
IF any person be suddenly infected with the Pestilence, fever or immoderate sweat: let him take this Root in powder the weight of a groat, and put there a dram of Treacle, and then compound them with four spoonfuls of the water of the said Root, and then after he hath drunk: let him lie and sweat fasting for the space of four hours. It is approved.  
THE Rootte steeped in Vinegar and smelled unto: and the same Vinegar sometimes drunk fasting, is an excellent preservative.  
THE Root and water thereof is excellent against all inward diseases, it scoureth the gatherings of a Pleurisy when it beginneth: it helpeth corrupted Lungs, good against the Colic, Strangury and provoketh terms: menstrual in women, helpeth inflammations and swellings. The juice of the Root assuageth the pain of the teeth being put into it, and worketh excellently against the pain in the eyes, the juice of the Root dropped into the eye quickeneth the sight, and purgeth it from all filth, and the water or powder of leaf or root, hath an excellent virtue or healing of rotten Ulcers, and cankerous Sores, for it cleanseth them and covereth the bone with good flesh.  
THE Herb Carduus Benedictus, or blessed thistle, is most excellent against the headache, being eaten or drunk it is good against the giddiness of the head, and comforteth the memory, and restoreth hearing: the leaf, juice, seed and water, healeth all kind of poisons: for the water hath healed a woman, whose breast was eaten with a Canker in the very ribs.  
Balm sodden in white wine and drunk three or four mornings together, purgeth the breast, helps the short winded, comforteth the heart, driveth away dumpish heaviness, helpeth the falling sickness and all other diseases. If you will distill Balm, chop the herb small and steep it in white Wine a night: it is of sovereign virtue, for it delivereth Women from their pangs and grief of the Mother: also it cureth the pains of the heart it restoreth the memory, and causeth sweet and pleasant sleep.  
betony hath the like virtues, it is of Sovereign virtue to break wind, and comforteth a weak Stomach, either the herb or Flower boiled, or the water distilled, the dry herb in powder worketh all the effects, and then alone or with Honey, women that are troubled with the Mother let them use it: to be short, the leaf, flower, or root of betony sodden or drink in Conserve, Electuarye, Syrup, potion, or powder, is singular for all diseases of the Stomach, Liver, Spleen, Kidneys and Bladder. It fretteth the Matrix from obstruction, and draweth from thence all hurtful moistures, for consumption of the Lungs, Coughs, Dropstes, continual Fevers coming from the stomach, boil the leaves and flowers of Betony in Homed water, and you shall have present remedy.   

To dry and heal up all sores.  
TAke of common Salad Oil a pound, of Ceruse 4. ounces, of Litarge three ounces, Myrrh half an ounce, make these like a Sere cloth which is made of Wax.   

Approved against the Plague.  
TAke Aqua vitae three ounces, rose-water an ounce and a half, wherein lay in steep three drams of Cinnamon, yellow Saunders one dram: strain it through a hearen strainer, and sweeten it with conserve of Roses, then take an ounce thereof every morning, either in a spoon or upon a Toast of bread.  
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