A CLOSET for LADIES and GENTLEWOMEN, OR, The Art of preserving, Conserving, and Candying. With the manner how to make divers kinds Syrups: and all kind of banqueting stuffs. Also divers sovereign Medicines and Salves, for sundry Diseases.  
AT LONDON Printed for Arthur johnson, dwelling near the great North door of Paul's. 1608.   

❧ An especial note of CONFECTIONARY.  

To preserve pippins red.  
TAke your best coloured Pippins and pair them, then take a piercer and bore a hole through them, then make syrup for them as much as will cover them, and so let them boil in a broad preserving pan: put into them a piece of Cinnamon stick, and so let them boil close covered very leisurely, turning them very often, for if you turn them not very often, they will pot, and the one side will not be like the other, and let them thus boil, until they begin to jelly, then take them up, and pot them, and you may keep them all the year.   

To Preserve Pippins white.  
TAke fair large Pippins, and after Candlemas pair them, and bore a hole through them, as you did for the red ones, then make a weak Syrup for them, and so let them boil till they be tender, then take them up, and boil your syrup a little higher, than put them up in a Galley pot, and let them stand all night, and the next morning the Syrup will be something weaker, then boil the Syrup again to his full thickness, and so pot them, and you may keep them all the year. If you please to have them taste a pleasant taste more than the natural Pippin, put in one grain of musk, and one drop of the Chemical oil of Cinnamon, and that will make them taste a more pleasant taste.   

To preserve Pippins green.  
TAke Pippins when they be small and green of the tree, and pair three or four of the worst, and cut them all to pieces, then boil them in a quart of fair water till they be pap, then let the liquor come from them as you do from your quodiniacke into a basin, then put into them one pound of sugar clarified, and put into this as many green Pippins unpared as that liquor will cover, and so let them boil safely, and when you see they be boiled as tender as a quodling, then take them up, and pill of the outermost white skin, and then your Pippins will be green, then boil them in your Syrup again till the Syrup be thick: and so you may keep them all the year.   

To preserve Apricockes.  
TAke a pound of Apricockes, and a pound of sugar, and claryfie your sugar with a pint of water, and when your sugar is made perfect, put it into a Preseruing-pan, & put your Apricockes into it and so let them boil gently, and when they be boiled enough and your Syrup thick, pot them and so keep them. In like manner may you preserve a Pear-plum.   

To preserve Mirabolans or Malacadonians.  
TAke your Malacadonians and stone them, and per boil them in water, than pill of the outward skin of them, they will boil as long as a piece of beef, & therefore you need not fear the breaking of them, and when they be boiled tender make Syrup for them, and preserve them as you do any other thing, and so you may keep them all the year.   

To preserve Pomcitrons.  
TAke your Pomcitrons one pound and a half, and cut them some ● halves, some in quarters and take the meat out of them, and boil them tender in fair water, then take two pounds of sugar being clarified, and make Syrup for them, and let them boil in syrup a quarter of an hour very gently, then take them up, and let your Syrup boil till it be thick, and then put in your Pomcitrons, and you may keep them all they year. If you please you may pair some of them, for some delight the skin, and some pared.   

To preserve Cherries.  
TAke of the best and fairest Cherries some two pound, and with a pair of shears clip of the stalks by the midst, then wash them clean, and beware you bruise them not, then take of fine barbarie sugar, and set it over the fire with a quart of fair water in the brodest vessel you can get, and let it seeth till it be somewhat thick, then put in your Cherries, and stir them together with a silver spoon and so let them boil, always scumming, and turning them very gently, that the one side may be like the other, until they be enough, the which to know, you must take up some of the syrup with one Cherry, and so let it cool, and if it will scarce run out it is enough, and thus being cold, you may put them up, and keep them all the year.   

To preserve red Rose leaves.  
TAke of the leaves of the fairest buds half a pound, sift them clean from seeds, then take a quart of fair water, and put it in a earthen pipkin, and set it over the fire until it be scalding hot, and then take a good many of other red Rose leaves, and put them into the scalding water, until they begin to look white, and then strain them, and thus do until the water look very red: then take a pound of refined sugar, and beat it fine, and put it into the liquor with half a pound of Rose leaves, and let them seeth together till they be enough, the which to know is by taking some of them up in a spoon, as you do your Cherries, and so when as they be thorough cold, put them up, and keep them very close.   

To preserve Oranges and Lemons.  
TAke your Oranges and Lemons large and well coloured, and take a raspe of steel, and raspe the outward rind from them, then lay them in water three days and three nights, then boil them tender and shift them in the boiling to take away their bitterness, and when they be boiled tenderly, take two pound of sugar clarified with a pint of water, and when your syrup is made, and betwixt hot and cold, put in your Lemons and Oranges, and there let them be infused all night, the next morning let them boil two or three walmes in your Syrup, let them not boil too long in the sugar, because the rinds will be tough, take your Lemons out and boil your Syrup thicker, and so when it is cold, put them up and keep them all the year.   

To preserve Quinces.  
TAke your Quinces two pound, & core them, & then parboil them, & pil off the outermost white skin, and then weigh them, and put them into clarified sugar one pound, and then boil them closely covered upon a very gentle fire, putting unto them a stick or two of good Cinnamon, cut into small pieces, and so stir them continually that they may be well coloured on every side: and when the syrup is come to the height of a perfect jelly, take them off the fire, and so keep them, for the higher your syrup is, the better will your Quinces keep.   

To preserve Peaches.  
TAke a pound of your fairest and best coloured Peaches, and with a wet linen cloth wipe of the white hoar of them, then parboil them in half a pint of white wine, and a pine and a half of running water, and being parboiled, pill off the white skin of them, and then weigh them; take to your pound of Peaches, three quarters of a pound of refined sugar, and dissolve it in a quarter of a pint of white wine, and boil it almost to the height of a Syrup, and then put in your Peaches, and let them boil in the Syrup a quarter of an hour or more if need should require, and then put them up, and keep them all the year.   

To preserve Eringus roots.  
TAke your Eringus Roots fair, and not knotty one pound, and wash them clean, and when they be washed, set them on the fire, and boil them very tender, pill off the outermost skin of them, but see you break them not, and as you pair them put them into cold water, and let them remain there till all be finished, and then you must take to every pound of Roots, three quarters of a pound of clarified sugar, and boil it almost unto the height of a syrup, and then put in your roots, but look that they boil very gently together, with as little stirring as may be for fear of breaking, until they be enough: and when they be cold, put them up, and so keep them.   

To preserve Barberies.  
TAke your Barberies very fair and well coloured, and pick out every stone of them, and then weigh them, and to every ounce of Barberies, you must take three ounces of hard sugar, and with half an ounce of the pulp of Barberies, and one ounce of red Rose water, you must dissolve your sugar: and then boil it to a syrup, being so boiled, put in your Barberies, and let them boil a quarter of an hour, and then take them up, and as soon as they begin to wax cool, put them up, and they will keep their colour all the year.   

To preserve Goos-berries.  
TAke of your large Berries, but not thoroughly ripe, and pick off all the staulkes from them, and wash them clean, take a pound of them, and set them on the fire, till they be hot, and then take them off, and let the liquor run from them, then take ten ounces of hard sugar, and four ounces of sugar Candie, and clarify it with a pint of water and the white of an egg, and boil it to a thick Syrup, and then put in your Goos-berries, and let them boil one walm or two, and so betwixt hot and cold, put them up, & keep them all the year.   

To preserve Damsins.  
TAke of your Damsins large and well coloured, but not through ripe, for than they will break, and pick them clean and wipe them one by one, then weigh them, and to every pound of damsins, you must take a pound of Barbary sugar white & good, & dissolved in half a pint or more of water, and boil it almost to the height of a Syrup, and then put in your Damsins, keeping them with continual scumming, and stirring, and that with a silver spoon, and so let them boil until they be enough upon a gentle fire, and when they be enough, take them up, & keep them all the year.   

To preserve Raspises.  
TAke of your fairest and well coloured Raspises, and pick of their staulkes very clean, then wash them, but in any case see that you bruise them not: then weigh them, and to every pound of Raspises you must take six ounces of hard sugar, and six ounces of Sugar-candy, & clarify it with half a pint of fair water, and four ounces of juice of Raspises, being clarified, boil it to a weak Syrup, and then put in your Raspises, stirring them up and down, and so let them boil until they be enough: That is, using them as your Cherries, and so may you keep them all the year.   

To preserve Enula Campana roots.  
TAke of your Enula Campana roots, & wash them, scrape them very clean, and cut them thin unto the pith, the length of your little fingar, and as you cut them, put them into water, and let them lie in water thirty days, shifting them twice every day to take away their bitterness, weigh them, and to every pound of roots, you must take xii. ounces of clarified sugar, first boiling your roots as tender as a Chicken, and then put them into your clarified sugar, and let them boil upon a gentle fire, until they be enough: and so let them stand off the fire a good while, and betwixt hot and cold put them up to your use.   

To preserve Saterion roots.  
TAke your Saterion Roots, and pick out the fair ones, & keep them by themselves, then wash them, and boil them upon a gentle fire, as tender as a quodling, then take them off, and pair off the blackest skin of them, and put them as you pair them into fair water, and so let them remain one night and then weigh them, and to every pound of roots, you must take xj. ounces of clarified sugar, and boil it almost to the height of a syrup, and then put in your roots, but take heed they boil not too long, for than they Will grow hard and tough, and therefore when they be boiled enough, take them off, and set them a cooling, and so keep them according to the rest.  
here endeth the preservatives.   

To make Manus Christi.  
TAke half a pound of refined Sugar, and some Rose water, and boil them together, till it come to sugar again, then stir it about while it be somewhat cold, then take your leaf gold, and mingle with it, than cast it according to art, That is, in round gobbets, and so keep them.   

To Candy Ginger.  
TAke very fair and large Ginger, and pair it, and then lay it in water a day and a night, then take your double refined sugar, and boil it to the height of Sugar again, then when your sugar beginneth to be cold, take your Ginger, and stir it well about while your sugar is hard to the pan, then take it out race by race, and lay it by die fire for four hours, then take a pot and warm it, and put the Ginger in it, then tie it very close, & every second morning stir it about roundly, and it will be rock Candied in a very short space.   

To Candy Rose leaves as naturally as if they grew upon the Tree.  
TAke of the fairest Rose leaves, red or damask, and on a Sunshine day sprinkle them with Rose water, and lay them one by one upon fair paper, then take some double refined sugar, and beat it very fine, and put it in a fine lawn searce, when you have laid abroad all the Rose leaves in the hottest of the sun, searce sugar thinly all over them, than anon the Sun will candy the sugar, then turn the leaves, and searce sugar on the other side, and turn them often in the Sun, sometimes sprinkling Rose water, & some times searsing sugar on them, until they be enough, and come to your liking: and being thus done, you may keep them.   

To Candy Marigolds in wedges the Spanish fashion.  
TAke of the fair yellow Marigold flowers, two ounces, and shred them, and dry them before the fire, then take four ounces of sugar, and boil it to the height of Manus Christi, then pour it upon a wet Preplate, and betwixt hot and cold, cut it into wedges, then lay them on a sheet of white paper, and put them in a stone.   

To Candy all manner of flowers in their natural colours.  
TAke the flowers with the staulkes, and wash them over with a little Rose water, wherein Gum-arabecke is dissolved, then take fine searced sugar, and dust over them, and set them a drying on the bottom of a siue in an oven, and they will glister as if it were Sugar-candy.   

To Candy all sorts of flowers, fruits, and spices, the clear rock Candy.  
TAke two pound of Barbary Sugar, great grained, clarified with the whites of two eggs, and boil it almost as high as for Mantus Christi, them put it into a Pipkin, That is, not very rough, then put in your flowers, fruits and spices, and so put your Pipkin into a still, and make a small fire of small coals under it, and in the space of twelve days, it will be rock candied.   

To Candie Eringus roots.  
TAke your Eringus ready to be preserved, and weigh them, and to every pound of your roots, you must take of the purest sugar you can get, two pound, and clarify it with the whites of eggs exceeding well, that it may be as clear as Crystal: for than it will be very commendable: it being clarified, you must boil it to the height of Manus Christi, & then dip in your roots, two or three at once, till they be all candied, and so put them in a Stow, and keep them all the year.   

To Candie Elecampane.  
TAke of your fairest Enula Campana roots, and take them clean from the Syrup, and wash the sugar off them, and dry them again with a linen cloth, then weigh them, and to every pound of roots you must take a pound and three quarters of sugar, and clarify it well, and boil it to the height of Manus Christi, and when it is so boiled, dip in your roots, three or four at once, and they will candy very well, and so stone them, and keep them all the year.   

To Candy Violet flowers.  
TAke of your Violet flowers which are good and new, and well coloured, and weigh them, to every ounce of your Violet flowers, you must take four ounces of refined sugar, which is very white and fair grained, and dissolve it in two ounces of fair running water, and so boil it till it come to sugar again, but you must scum it often, lest it be not clear enough, and when it is boiled to sugar again, then take it off, and let it cool, and then put in your Violet flowers, stirring them together till the sugar grow hard to the pan: this done, put them into a box, and keep them in a stoave.   

To Candy Goos-berries.  
TAke of your fairest Berries, but they must not be two ripe, for than they will not be so good, and with a linen cloth wipe them very clean, and pick off all the staulkes from them, and weigh them, and to every ounce of Berries, you must take two ounces of sugar, and half an ounce of Sugar-candy, and dissolve them in an ounce or two of Rose water, & so boil them up to the height of Manus Christi, and when it is come to his perfect height, let it cool and put in your Berries, for if you put them in hot, they will shrink, and so stir them round with a wooden spatter, till they be candied: and thus put them up and keep them.   

To Candy Rosemary flowers.  
TAke of your Rosemary flowers, ready picked, and weigh them, to every ounce of flowers, you must take two ounces of hard sugar, and one ounce of Sugar-candy, and dissolve them in Rosemary flower water, and boil them till they come to sugar again; which done, put in your Rosemary flowers, when as your sugar is almost cold, and so stir them together, until they be enough, and then take them out, and put them in a box, and keep them to your use in your stoave.   

To Candy borage flowers.  
TAke your flowers, & pick them very clean, & weigh them, & use them in every respect as you did your rosemary flowers, save this, that who they be candied, you must set them in a still, & so keep them in a sheet of white paper, putting every day a chafindish of coals into your Still, and it will be candied very excellently, and that in a short spare.  
Here endeth the sorts of Candying.   

To make Past of Pippins the GENVA fashion, some with leaves, some like Plums with staulkes, and stones in them.  
TAke your Pippins, and pair them, and cut them in quarters, then boil them in fair water till they be tender, then strain them, and dry the pulp upon a Chafindish of coals, then weigh it, & take as much sugar as it weigheth, and boil it to Manus Christi, and put them together, then fashion them upon a Pie-plate, and put it into an Oven, being very slightly heat, the next morning you may turn it, and put them off the plates upon sheets of paper upon a hurdle, and so put them into an Oven of like heat, and there let them remain four or five days, putting every day a Chafindish of coals into the Oven, and when they be thorough dry, you may box them, and keep them all the year.   

To make Past of Eglantine of the colour of thrred Coral.  
TAke your Eglantine Berries otherwise called Hips, and stamp them in a mortar, with Gum-tragacant and Rose water, then strain it through a strainer, then take half a pound of refined sugar, beaten and searced, and work it up into Past with this straining, then print it with your moulds, then stoave it, and then gild them.   

To make Past Royal white.  
TAke a pound of refined sugar beaten and searced, and put into an Alabaster mortar, with an ounce of Gum-tragacant, steeped in Rose water, and if you see your Past Bee too weak, put in more sugar, if too dry, more gum, with a drop or two of oil of Cinnamon, so that you never deceive yourself to stand upon quantities, beat it into perfect Past, and then you may print it with your moulds, and when it is dry, gild it, and so keep them.   

To make Past royal in spises.  
TAke of Cinnamon and Ginger, of each a like quantity, being finely searced, mingle it with your searsed sugar, and Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water, and work it into Past, as you did your Past royal white, and then you may turn it upon sticks made of pieces of arrows, and make them hollow like Cinnamon sticks: in like sort you may make it taste of wh●● spices you please.   

To make Past of Genua the true way.  
TAke two pound of the Pulp of Quinces, and as much of peaches, and strain it, and dry it in a pewter platter upon a Chafindish of coals, then weigh it, and take as much sugar as it weigheth, and boil it to the height of Manus Christi, and then put them together, and so fashion it upon a Pie-plate, and dry it in an Oven with a Chafindish of coals, until it be thro' rough dry, and then if it please you, you may spot them with Gold.   

To make Past of Violets.  
YOu must take of your Violets, which are ready picked, & bruise them in an Alabaster or marble mortar and wring the juice from them into a porringer, and put as much hard sugar in fine powder as that juice will cover, dry it, and then powder it again, and then take as much Gum-tragacant steeped in rose water, as will bring this sugar into a perfect past, when it is perfect, take it up and print it with your moulds, and so dry it in your Stoave, and not by the fire for fear of danger, and when it is dry, gild it. It is a fine banqueting conceit.   

To make Past of Goos-berries.  
TAke of your Goos-berries, and cut them one by one, and wring the juice from them, till you have gotten so much as you think will serve your turn, boil your juice a little, that it may be the thicker, then take as much double refined sugar, as your juice will sharpen, and dry it as you did for your Violets, and being dry, beat it very fine, and take as much Gum-tragacant steeped in Red rose water as will serve, and beat it into perfect past in an Alabaster mortar, and then take it up, and print it with your moulds, using it in every respect as your past of Violets: This is excellent good for one that hath a weak stomach.    

Here beginneth Banqueting conceits, as Marmalades, Quodiniackes, and such like.  

To Make muscadine Comfits.  
TAke half a pound of Musk sugar beaten and searced, then take Gum-tragacant, steeped in Rose water, and two grains of Musk, and so beat them in an Alabaster mortar, till it come to perfect Past, then drive it very thin with a rolling pin, and then cut it into small pieces like Diamonds, some cut with a roll spoon on the sides: being thus cut, stove them, and so keep them all the year.   

To make Diacitonium simplex of Quinces.  
TAke of your Quinces, and pair them, and cut them in pieces, and boil a pound of these pieces in a quart of fair water, till they be very soft: then let the liquor run from them, then take a pound of Sugar-candy, and beat it fine, and put it into that liquor, and let it seeth till you see it stand like Jelly, then take it from the fire, and put therein four drops of oil of Cinnamon and Nutmegs, and then put in five and twenty leaves of fine gold and stir it together, and so put it in fine Crystal Glasses, and keep it all the year.   

To make fine Christ all Jelly.  
TAke a knuckle of veal, and four calves feet, and set them on the fire with a Gallon of fair water, and when the flesh is boiled tender, take it out, then let the liquor stand still until it be cold, then take away the top and the bottom of that liquor, and put the rest into a clean Pipkin, and put into it one pound of clarified sugar, four or five drops of oil of Cinnamon and Nutmegs, a grain of Musk, and so let it boil a quarter of an hour leisurely on the sire, then let it run through a jelly bag into a basin with the whites of two eggs beaten, & when it is cold, you may cut it into lumps with a spoon, and so serve three or four lumps upon a plate.   

To make white leech of cream.  
TAke a pint of sweet cream, and six spoonfuls of Rose water, and two grains of Musk, two drops of oil of Mace, or one piece of large Mace, and so let it boil with four ounces of Isin-glasse: then let it run down through a jelly bag, when it is cold, slice it like brawn, and so serve it out: this is the best way to make leech.   

To make a Walnut, that when you crack it, you shall find Biscuits, and caraways in it, or a pretty Pofey written.  
TAke a piece of your Past royal white, being beaten with Gum-tragacant, and mixed with a little fine searced Cinnamon, which will bring your past into a Wolnut shell colour, then drive it thin, and cut it into two pieces, and put the one piece into the one half of your mould, and the other into the other, then put what you please into the nut, and close the mould together, & so make three or four Walnuts.   

To make Quodiniacke of plums.  
TAke two pound of plums, and put them into a posnet with a pound and half of brasil sugar, clarified with a pint of fair water, and let it boil till the plums break, then take it off, and let your liquid substance run through a strainer, and then put it again into the posnet, and so let it boil till it come to his thickness, and then print it with you: moulds on what fashion you please.   

To make Biskatello.  
TAke two ounces of very fine sugar, beaten and searced, and put into it half a spoonful of Amidum, That is, white starch, a grain of Musk, then beat it into perfect past with Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water, then make it into little pretty loaves, the fashion of manchets, and so put a wafer in the bottom of every one of them, and bake them in a baking-pan, but take heed your pan be not hot, and so speck them with gold, and so box them. It is a very fine banqueting conceit.   

To make a special sweet water to perfume clothes in the folding, being washed.  
TAke a quart of Damask rose water, and put it into a glass, put unto it a handful of Lavender flowers, two ounces of Orris, a dram of Musk, the weight of four pence of Ambergris, as much civet, four drops of oil of cloves, stop this close and set it in the Sun a fortnight: put one spoonful of this water into a basin of common water, and put it into glass, & so sprinkle your clothes therewith in your folding, the drugs left in the bottom, (when the water is spent) will make as much more, if you keep them, and put fresh Rose water to it.   

To make Moss powder.  
TAke two pound of Moss of a sweet Appletree, gathered between the two Lady days, and infuse it in a quart of Damask Rose water four and twenty hours, then take it out and dry it in an Oven upon a sives bottom, and beat it to powder, put unto it one ounce of Lignum-aloes, beaten and searced, two ounces of Orris, a dram of musk, half a dram of Ambergris a quarter of a dram of civet, put all these into a hot mortar and pestle, and beat them together, then searce them through a course hairen searce, and put it into a bag, and lay it amongst your clothes.   

Tr make Aromaticum Lozenges.  
TAke of fine sugar, half a pound, boil it with red Rose water, until it come to the height of Lozenges, and in the cooling put in of the spices of Aromaticum rosarum four drams, with a little Confectio Alchermes, and so make them into Lozenges, guilding them first, and then cut them square with a knife for that purpose, and when you gild them, if your guilding will not stick on, wet them gently with a little Rose water, but not too much in any case.   

To make a Marchpane, to ye it, and garnish it after the Art of Comfit making.  
TAke two pound of small Almonds blanched, and beaten into perfect Past, with a pound of sugar finely searced, putting in now and then a spoonful or two of Rose water, to keep it from oiling, and when it is beaten to perfect Past, roll it thin, and cut it round by a charger, than set an edge on it, as you do on a tart, then dry it in an Oven, or a backing pan, than ye it with Rose water and sugar, made as thick as batter for fritters, when it is iced garnish it with conceits, and stick long comfits in it, and so gild it, and sure it.   

To make all sorts of banqueting conceits of Marchpane stuff, some like Pies, Birds, Baskets, and such like, and some to print with moulds.  
TAke a pound of Almond past, made for the Marchpane, and dry it on a Chafindish of coals, till you see it wax white, than you may print some with mouldds, and make some with hands, and so gild them, than stove them and you may keep them all the year. They be excellent good to please children.   

To make all kind of Birds and Beasts to stand on their legs in cast work.  
TAke Barbary sugar, clarify it, and boil it to the height of Manus Christi, then pour it into your moulds, they being seasoned as for your Quodiniacke: let them stand a quarter of an hour and they will be cold, and then you may take them out and gild them.   

To cast all manner of fruitage hollow in turned work, and put them in their colours, as Oranges, Lemons, and such like.  
TAke your Sugar, being boiled to the height of Manus Christi, and put it into your Alabaster moulds, being made of three pieces, turn it round about in your hand while it is hot, and when it is cold, take it out and put them in their natural colours.   

To make Prince biscuit bread.  
TAke a pound of very fine flower, as much sugar thoroughly searced, one ounce of annisseeds clean picked, take eight eggs and a spoonful of muscadine, and beat all into batter as thick as for fritters, beat it thus in a bowl one hour, then put it into your coffins of plate, or frames of wood, and set in an Oven, and let it remain there one hour, you may slice some of them when they be a day old, and dry them again upon a hurdle of wicker, you may also take one of your loaves, and wash it over with the yolk of an egg, beaten with a little Rose water, and while it is green, cast biscuits and caraways on it and a little white candy, and it will show as if it did hail on it, then spot it with gold and give to whom you please.   

To make the usual biscuit sold at Comfitmakers.  
TAke a peek of flower and four ounces of corriander seed, one ounce of aniseed, take three eggs, three spoonfuls of ale yeast, and as much warm water as will make it as thick as passed for Manchets, make it in a long roll, and bake it in an Oven one hour, and when it is a day old pair it, and slice it, sugar it with searsed sugar, and put it again into the Oven, and when it is dry, take it out, and new sugar it again, and so box it and keep it.   

To make an especial sweet Powder for sweet bags.  
TAke of the purest orris one pound, of red and damask rose leaves, of each two ounces, of Cloves three drams, corriander feed one dram, Cyprus and Callamus, of each half an ounce, Benzoin and Storax, of each three drams, beat them all save the Benzoin and the Storax, and powder them by themselves, & mix it with the rest of the powder, then take of Musk and Civet, of each twenty grains, Ambergris ten grains, mix these with a little of the foresaid powder with a warm pestle, and so by little and little you may mix it with all the rest, and so with Rose leaves dried you may put it up into your sweet bags, and so keep them seven years.   

To make an excellent Marmelate which was given Queen Mary for a newyears gift.  
TAke a pound and half of Sugar, boil it with a pintoes fair water till it come to the height of Manus Christi, then take three or four small Quinces, one good Orang pill, both very well preserved and finely beaten, & three ounces of Almonds blanched and beaten by themselves, Eringus roots preserved, two ounces and a half, stir these with the sugar till it will not stick, and then at the last put in of Musk and Amber, dissolved in rose water, of each four grains, of Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves and Mace, of each three drams, of oil of Cinnamon two drops, this being done, put it into your Marme late boxes, and so present it to whom you please.   

To make another sort of Marmelate very comfortable and restorative for any Lord or Lady whatsoever.  
TAke of the purest green Ginger, six drams, of Eringus and Saterion roots, of each an ounce and a half, beat these very finely, and draw them with a silver spoon thorough a hair searce, take of nut kernels and almonds blanched, of each an ounce, cocks stones half an ounce, all steeped in honey twelve hours, and then boiled in milk, and beaten and mixed with the rest, then powder the seeds of red nettles, of rocket of each one dram, Plantain seeds half a dram, of the belly and back of a fish called Scincus marinus three drams, of Diasaterion four ounces, of Cantarides add a dram, beat these very finely, and with the other powder mix it, and so with a pound of fine sugar dissolved in rose water, and boiled to sugar again, mingle the powder and all the rest of the things, putting in of leaf gold six leaves, of pearl prepared two drams, oil of Cinnamon fix drops, and being thus done and well dried, put it up in your Marmelate boxes, and gild it, and so use it at your pleasure.   

To make a blanch for any Lady's face.  
TAke of white Tarter two drams, Camphire one dram, Coperas half a dram, the whites of four eggs, juice of two Lemons, oil of tarter four ounces, Plantain water as much, white Mercuri a pennyworth, bitter almonds two ounces, all must be powered and mixed with the oil and water, and then boiled upon a gentle fire, and strain it and so keep it: The party must rub her face with a scarlet cloth, and then over night wash her with it, and in the morning wash it off with bran and white wine.   

To make printed Quodiniacke of Quinces a ruby colour.  
TAke two pound of Quinces, pared & cut in small pieces, and put them into a posnet with three pints of fair water, and so let them boil till they be tender, then put into them a pound of sugar, and let it boil till the fruit fall to the bottom of the pan, let the liquor run through a strainer into a basin, and put it into a fair posnet, and let it boil till it come to his colour and thickness, then print it with your moulds, you shall know when it is ready to print by rolling a little upon the back of a spoon, and if you see it will stand and not run down print it, in like sort you may make your Quodiniacke of Pippins, your Pippins will hold all the year.   

To make Quodiniackes of Raspises or English Coriants.  
Take Raspises ripe and well coloured and put them in a dish, and put them iiiij spoonfuls of rose water, & mix them together with the back of a spoon, then wring the liquid substance through a linen cloth, season it by your mouth with sugar till it be sweet enough, then boil it on a chafindish of coals in a dish till it be ready to print: then print it in your moulds and box it, and so keep them.   

Here endeth the conceits of Banqueting.  
Your moulds must lie in water one night before you use them: and an hour before you print with them, take them out of the water.    

CORDIAL Waters.  

Aqua Coelestis.  
TAke of Cinnamon six ounces, Cloves one dram, Nutmegs one dram and a half; of Ginger two drams and half, of Gallingale one dram and half, Cubebs two drams, Callamus roots one dram, all brusen and keep in a paper, then take of betony and sage flowers of each a handful, Maxioram, Penneryall, of each half a handful bruised likewise, then take of these powders, of Aromaticum Rosarum three drams, Diambrae Diamargariton frigidum, Diamoscum dulce, of each a dram and half, you must put all these into a gallon of spirit of wine, and steep them three days and three nights shaking them well every day, and then distill it in your Limbeck, and when it is distilled, you must hang half an ounce of yellow Sanders and twenty grains of Musk and amber in it.   

To make Cinnamon water.  
TAke one pound of the best Cinnamon you can get, bruise it well, and put it into a gallon of the best sack, and infuse it three days and three nights, and then distill it as your Aqua coelestis.   

To make Doctor Steeuens water.  
Take of Rose leaves one dram, Borage, bugloss, violets and rosemary flowers, of each a dram and half, spikenard a dram, Cinnamon two ounces, Ginger one ounce, Cloves & Nutmegs of each half an ounce, Cirdamons' a dram and half, Gallingale two drams, Cubebs a dram, Pepper three drams, Aniseeds caraway seeds and Fennill of each an ounce, Lignum Aloes half a dram, Coral and Pearl in fine powder of each one dram, bruise these and put them in a pottle of Aquavitae and a quart of Sack, using it in every respect as your Aqua coelestis.   

To make Baume water.  
TAke Baume dry three ounces, time, Peneryall of each an ounce Cinnamon four ounces, a dram of Cardomons, Grames half an ounce, sweet Fennil seeds one ounce, Nutmegs & Ginger, of each a dram, Galingale one ounce, Caliamus and Cyprus, Cubebs and Pepper, of each two drams, of Caper roots half a dram, of Diptamus one dram, bruise these things, and put them to a pottle of sack, & steep them xxiv. hours, and then use it as the former waters.   

Angellica water.  
TAke Cardus dry a handful, Angelica roots three ounces, of Myrrh one dram, Nutmegs half an ounce, Cinnamon, ginger, of each four ounce, Saffron one dram & half, Cardamons', Cubebs, Galingale & Pepper, of each a quarter of an ounce, Mace two drams, Grains one dram, Lignum Aloes, Spicknard, juncus odoratus of each a dram, Sage, Borage, bugloss, Violets, and Rosemary flowers, of each half a handful: bruise these and steep them in a pottle of sack xii. hours, & distill it as the rest.   

Rosa Solis.  
TAke Liquorish eight ounces, Aniseed, Caraway, of each an ounce, Raisins stoned, Dates, of each three ounces, Nutmegs, ginger, Cinnamon, Mace, of each half an ounce, Gallingale a quarter of an ounce, Cubebs one dram, Figs two ounces, Sugar four ounces, bruise these and distill it with a gallon of Aqua vitae as the rest: but when it is distilled, you must colour it with the herb Rosa Solis, or else Alkanet root.   

Wormwoode water.  
Take of Wormwoode two ounces and half, Sage, Betony, and Rue, of each half a handful, Rosemary tops a handful, Cinnamon 3. ounces, Nutmegs half an ounce, Cloves and Mace, of each half a dram, Ginger, an ounce, galangal, Cubebs, and Spicknard, of each a dram and half, of Scordium half a handful, bruise these and put them into a pottle of Sack and a pint of Aqua vitae, and steep them four and twenty hours, and distill them as the the rest.    

❧ Here beginneth Consarues.  

To make marmalade of Quinces.  
TAke your Quinces and boil them tender, then pair them and cut them to the core, then draw the pulp, That is, the Quince through a hair searce and weigh it, to every pound of pulp, take a pound of clarified sugar, and boil them together till they come to a perfect colour, putting to them in the boiling a little oil of Cinnamon, and when it is boiled enough that it will not stick to the pan, put it into your marmalade boxes. But your conserve must not be boiled so high in any case, for than it will not be so good.   

To make conserve of red and damask Roses.  
TAke of the purest and best coloured buds you can get, and clip off the whites from them and to every pound of leaves you must take three pound of Barbary sugar, and beat them together till they be very fine, and then with a wooden spatter take it up, and set it on the fire till it be through hot, and then presently put it up, and it will be of an excellent colour.   

To make Conserve of Violets.  
TAke of your Violet flowers, and pick off all the blue flowers, and keep them and weigh them, and take to every ounce of flowers three ounces of refined sugar, and beat them in a alabaster mortar till they be very fine, and then take them up and put them into an earthen Pipkin, and set them upon the fire until such time as they be through hot, and then take them off, and put them up and keep them.   

To make pectoral rolls for the Cough.  
TAke liquorish powder finely searced one ounce, of the spices of Diatragacanthum frigidum ij. drams, of Gum-arabecke and Tragarant in fine powder, of each a drum, white starch half a dram, Aniseeds in fine powder one ounce mingle with the rest, then take of sugar six ounces, of Pennits an ounce and half, Sugar-candy one ounce powdered & mingled with the former powder, then take Gum-tragacant steeped in Rose water and bear it into past, and so make it into long rolls and so dry them, and keep them.   

To make Conserve of Borage flowers.  
TAke of your Borage flowers well coloured and pick the blacks from them, then weigh them, to every ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of sugar, and beat them together in an Alabaster mortar with a wooden pestle until they be very fine, so that you cannot discern any sugar in jumps, then take them out and put the conserve into a pipkin, and heat it through hot, and having thus done put them up & keep them all the year.   

To make conserve of Rosemary flowers.  
TAke your Rosemary flowers, fresh and good and pick them from the green tusk, weigh them, and take to every ounce of flowers three ounces of Sugar-candy, and beat them very fine, using them in every respect as you did your other Conserves.   

To make Conserve of bugloss flowers.  
TAke your bugloss flowers, and pick them as you did your borage flowers, and then weigh them, and to every ounce of flowers you must take two ounces of hard sugar and an ounce of sugar Candie, and beat them together till they be exceeding fine, and then set them one the fire to dissolve the sugar, and when it is dissolved and the conserve hot, put it up and keep it all the year.   

To make a Pomaunder.  
TAke of Beazou in one dram and half, of storax, half a dram of Lignum aloes in fine powder half a scruple, of Labdanum half an ounce, powder all these very fine and searce them through lawn, and then take of musk a dram, Amber grease ten grains, Civet ten grains, and dissolve them in a hot mortar with a little rose water and so make them into a pomander putting into it six grains of Civet.   

To make Consaure of Barberies.  
TAke of your Barberies which are very red and ripe and pick them from the stalks and then wash them and put unto them a pretty deal of fair water and set them on the fire in an earthen pan and so scald them, and being thoroughly scalded pulp them through a fine searce, and to every pound of pulp take a pound of powder sugar and boil them till it be enough that is, till it will cut like marmalade.   

To make conserve chicory flowers.  
TAke of your Cichory flower new gathered; for if you let them lie but one hour or two at the most they will lose their colour and do you very little service, therefore beware them presently, and to every ounce of flowers you must take three ounces of double refined sugar and beat them together in a mortar of Alabaster and a wooden pestle until such time as they be thoroughly beaten, for the better the flowers and sugar be beaten, the better will your Conserve be, let this always be for a general rule, and being very well brayed, you must take them up, and put it into a chaffer clean scoured, and set it on the fire till it be thoroughly hot, and then take it off, and put it up ●nd keep it all the year.   

To keep Cowecumbers in pickle all the year.  
TAke four gallons of Conduit water and put unto it three quarts of bay salt, two handfuls of Sage, one handful of sweet Marjoram, and four handfuls of Dill, let these boil till it come to three gallons, and then take it off, and when it is almost cold, put in a hundredth of Cucumbers into that liquor, into a butter barrel & keep them all the year, but look that always the herbs lie upon them, and thus done, it will be a most excellent salad with oil, vinegar, and pepper.   

An exceeding fine pill used for the gout.  
TAke of Aloes two ounces, Mastic three drams, Agricke half an ounce, Ginger half a dram, let these be powdered very fine, then take of the extraction of rhubarb three drams, and with white wine let them be incorporated into a mass of pills, adding unto them a drop of oil of cloves, and as much or Nutmegs.   

A Medicine for the Gout.  
TAke of the slips of stars to the number of four, and then take to every stippe four snails, and put them into an earthen pot, & sprinkle four or five handfuls of salt upon them, and then put to them Sage, Rue, Wormwood, and Hyssop, of each four handfuls, and so distill them, and when you have distilled them, put to them a quart of wine Vinegar, wherein an ounce of white Mercury is dissolved, and so bathe the place infected with the gout, and it will ease them presently.   

To make Syproupe of Pomcitrons  
TAke of Pomicitrons, and cut them in halves and juice them, but beware you writing them not too hard, lest it be slimy, and then take to every pint of juice three quarters of a pound of refined sugar, and boil it in an earthen pipkin, till it come to the height of a Syrup, and take heed in any case that you boil it not on too hot a fire, lest it burn, and then when it is boiled enough, put it up, and keep it all the year.   

To make Syrup of Violets.  
TAke your Violets, and pick the flowers, and weigh them, and then put them into a quart of water, and steep them upon hot embers, until such time as the flowers be turned white, and the water as blue as any violet, then take to that quart of infusion and take four pound of clarified Sugar, & boil it till it come to a syrup, scumming them and boiling them upon a gentle fire, lest it turn his colour, and being boiled, put the Syrup up and keep it.   

To make Syrup of Liquorish.  
TAke your Liquorish eight ounces, and scrape it very clean, and briuse it very well, and maiden hair one ounce, Any feed, and Fennell seed of each half an ounce, steep these in four pints of rain water half a day, and then boil it to a quart, then take a pound and a half of clarified sugar, and boil it with that liquor, till it come to a Syrup, and then put it up and keep it.   

To make Syrup of horehound.  
TAke of Hor-hound two handfuls, of Coults' foot a handful, of time, penerial, and Calamint of each two drams, of Liquorish one ounce and a half, of figs and raisins of the sun of each two ounces, Pionye kernels a quarter of an ounce, Aniseeds, and Fennell seeds, of each a quarter of an ounce, boil these in a gallon of fair water, till it come to a pottle or three pints, and then strain it, and take three pound of Sugar, and three eggs, and clarify that liquor, and so boil it to a Syrup, and so keep it all the year.   

To make Syrape of Maiden hair.  
TAke of Maiden hear six ounces, of Liquorish one ounce scraped and sliced, steep these four and twenty hours in four pints of Conduit water, and then boil them to quart, and then take two pound of clarified Sugar, and boil it with that liquor upon a gentle fire, upon Charcoals, until it come to a Syrup, scumming it very often, that it may be the clearer, for the clearer it is the better it is, and being boiled enough, put it up.   

To make Syrup of Hyssop.  
TAke of Hyssop one handful, of Figs, Raisins, Dates of each an ounce, of Calamint half a handful, of French barley one ounce, boil these in three pints of water to a quart, and then strain it, and then clarify it with the whites of two eggs, and two pound of Sugar, and so boil them to a Syrup, and being boiled enough, keep them all the ye are.   

To keep Cherries all the year to have them at Christmas.  
TAke of your fairest Cherries you can get, but be sure that they be not bruised, and take them and rub them with a linen cloth, and put them into a Barrel of hay, and lay them in ranks, first laying hay in the bottom, and then Cherries, and then hay again, and then stop them up close, that no air may come near them, and lay them under a featherbed, where one lieth continually, for the warmer they are, the better, yet near no fire, and thus doing, you may have Cherries at any time of the year.   

To make a Syrup of Mulberries.  
TAke your Mulberries which are very ripe, press out the juice from them, through a linen cloth between two sticks, and then to every pint of juice, take a pound of sugar and boil it to the height of a Syrup, and then keep it all the year long, and if it wax any thing thinner a month after you put it up, boil it again, and then put it up.   

To make Syrup of Lemons.  
TAke your Lemons, and cut them in halves, and betwixt your finger's juice them, and the liquor that runs from them will be very clear, then take to a pint of juice, a pound and a quarter of hard sugar, which is very white and boil it to a Syrup, and it will keep excellent well.   

To make Syrup of Roses sollitive.  
TAke of Damask Roses, and pull them, then take a gallon of water, and when the water is hot, put a good many Damask Rose leaves, and take them out when they look white, and do so ten times, and then the water will look red, and then to every pint of that liquor, put a white of an egg▪ and a pound of sugar, and clarify it, and boil it to a Syrup, and keep it all the year, the thicker the Syrup is the better it will keep.   

To make Syrup of dry Roses.  
TAke of red Roses dried four ounces, & infuse them in a quart of fair water upon hot embers, till the roses have lost their colour, then take a pound and a half of Sugar, and clarify your Liquor and Sugar with two eggs, and then boil it to the height of a Syrup: but take heed in any case that you set not your Syrup upon too hot a fire, for than it will lose his colour, and be worth nought.    


A Medicine to give a woman in travel, to make her have throws.  
TAke Coral, amber, date stones, Pearl, Peony seeds, Saffron, Commine, beat all these in powder, and put it into Malmsey, and take unicorns home, and put it into a spoon with a little Malmsey, and give it to her, and presently let her drink a draft of the Malmsey with the powders aforesaid, warming of it a little.   

A Medicine for the falling down of the matrisse to the bearing place.  
TAke Chicke-weede, and seeth it in an earthen pot, then lay of it upon a piece of scarlet, as hot as the party may suffer it, let her take it to the privy place, and as one plaster coooleth, so lay another, and use it.   

Another for to be taken to the Navel, and to the back right against the Navel for the same.  
TAke a red Onion, and roast it very tender, then take of Allysander seeds, and bruise them in a wooden dish, and mingle the Onion and the bruised seeds together, and lay it upon a piece of linen cloth, so lay it to the Navel a little warm, roll that on, and let it lie on xxiv. hours, then change it, and take a new one till it be whole.  
It is good for the Midwife to hold musk below, tied in a little Lawn to draw down the Child.  
Take Torch-wort, and lay a leaf of it to the Crown of a woman's head warm, to stay other flowers.   

A Medicine for a woman after burden, if need be to bring it down.  
TAke Sowtherwood, and wash it clean, and stamp it, and strain it in strong Ale, and give it her to drink warm.   

To stop the Whites in women.  
FRy Hemlock in fresh swine's grease, lay it as hot as she may suffer it to the secret place.   

For a Teter.  
TAke Oates and seeth them in water, and where the Teter is, hold over the reek thereof as hot as may be, laying a cloth over it to keep in the reek, so that the cloth do not touch the Teter, use this five times morning and evening.   

To make a Cerecloth for an Ache that is nextly come.  
TAke Boars grease, Camphire, and wax, and boil them altogether, and so make a Cerecloth thereof, and lay it to the grief.   

For a Felon or an Andcome.  
TAke Hearbe-grace, rusty Bacon, sour leaven, and Snails that be with shell on their backs, taking them out of their shells, and beat all these together, & lay it to the grief.   

For to heal any, if they be scalded with hot liquor.  
TAke Alehose and Avens, Sheep suet, and Sheep's dung, and Goose dung, and when you have washed the herbs, break them altogether a little, and so fry them together, and then strain it, & make plasters thereof, and lay it to the grief, warm it a little when you lay it too, laying new plasters to it twice a day, you may take the juice of Houseleek, and Salad oil, and water, and beat them together, and wash the grease before you use this plaster.   

A Medicine for the Whites.  
TAke a quart of new milk of a red Cow, x. spoonfuls of red Rose water, a pomegranate pill beaten, and a little Cinnamon beaten, and seeth it half away, & sweeten it with sugar, and drink a draft morning and evening, & two Whites of eggs beaten.   

A Medicine for them that are given to bleeding.  
MAke a posset, & take of the curd, and take Liver-wort, and beat it, and put the juice thereof into the Posset drink, and drink it morning and evening warm.   

For the heat in the Kidneys.  
TAke Houseleek and Plantine, and not wash them, but wipe them with a cloth, and beat them and strain them, and put to the juice thereof red Rose water, and wine Vinegar and woman's m●lke, and take the herbs and put them into clothes, and tie the clothes with thread like a couple of balls, and you must (when you do use it) have one to do it for you in the morning when you are in your bed, and the party must take the balls, and dip them in this liquor, and so bathe your Kidneys, and as soon as one of the balls is hot with doing of them, take the other, and so use it an hour every morning.   

A Medicine for the Stone.  
TAke pelitory of the wall, Smaladge, Holihockes, Mallows, tansy, & Saxifrage, of each a handful, chop them small, and quilt them in a little linen bag, then take three pints of cream, half a pint of Malmsey, a quarter of a pint of running water, and let them on the fire, and when it doth seethe, then put in the bag of herbs into the pot, and when the bag is thoroughly hot, wring it between two trenchers over the pot to save the liquor, then lay the bag to the grief, as hot as you may suffer it, and as soon as it cooleth, make it hot again in the same liquor, and so apply it to the grief.   

For the Worms.  
TAke a handful of Basill mints, a handful of Lavender Cotten, as much of Wormwood, Peach leaves as much, Fertherfue a handful, of unset Leeks a handful, and boil them together in three spoonfuls of of wine Vinegar, and of his own water as much, and quilt them in a bag, and so lay it warm between his Navel and his stomach,   

To heal a sore Breast that comes with the infection of the milk.  
TAke Mallows and Saffron, and seeth them in milk, and when it hath sodden a good while put in some crumbs of leaven bread, and boil them well together, and a little before you take it up, put some Salet oil into it, you must let it boil till it comes to a Poultis, and so lay it warm to your breast, and if you perceive this that will not help your breast without it be broke, you must roast a Lily root, and lay it to your breast, where you will have it break, and when it is broken, you must tent it with leaven and milk sodden thick together, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the place where it is broken, you must dress it twice a day, laying the Poultis all about your breast, saving the place that the plaster lies on, you must dress it both with new Poultis, and a new plaster twice every day, until it beginneth to heal, and then once a day is sufficient.   

To stench bleeding at the Nose.  
TAke Bolerminake, and the white of an egg, and Vinegar, and beat them together, and make Plasters thereof, and lay them to your Temples.   

To stench Bleeding of a wound.  
TAke of unset Hyssop, and bruise it a little, and take the powder of the bone that is to be found in a Capers head, and strew the same powder on the Hyssop, and lay it to the wound.   

Another for to staunch the bleeding of a wound.  
TAke Hogs dung hot from the Hog, with Sugar, and lay it to the wound.   

For the weakness in the back.  
TAke Clarie and Dates, & the pith of an Ox, and chop them together, & then put them to your cream and eggs, and grated bread, and Fry them together, and straw Sugar on it, and eat it in the Morning fasting, and you must put some white Saunders in it also when you temper it together.   

For the Worms.  
TAke Mares milk, and drink it as hot as you can have it from the Mare, in the morning fasting.   

To know whether a Child hath the Worms, or no.  
TAke a piece of white Leather, and peck it full of holes with your knife, and rub it with Worme-word, and spread honey on it, and starwe the powder of Alesackatrina, and lay it on the Child's Navel, when he goeth to bed, and if he have the worms, the plaster will stick fast, and if he have them not, it will fall off.   

For one that is bruised with a fall.  
TAke stone Pitch, and beat it, and drink it with whit wine, or Sack, or Malmsey, and if you have none, then take some other liquor, then melt Parmacitie, & anoint the place where the bruise is.   

For the wind Colic.  
TAke Parsley seed, & bruise them, and seeth them in Sack, and drink it warn when you have your pain.   

For the Gout that is newly come.  
TAke rhubarb, and grate it, and mingle it with Conserve of red Roses, and eat thereof query morning fasting a pretty quantity.   

A Water to wash a sore.  
TAke of Plantain, and Woodbine leaves, and white Roses, and still them together, and when the water is stilled, put a quantity of Camphire into it, and so let it lie in the water continually.   

For the shrinking of the Sinews.  
TAke the marrow of a Horse bone, and the crops of Elders, and as much of Sage, and chop them together, and boil them in the marrow, and then strain out the herbs, and put to the liquor one spoonful of honey, two spoonfuls of Aqua composita, and a quantity of Pepper, & boil it again, and keep it for your use.   

For the piles.  
TAke a quantity of Ragwort, and a quantity of ground ivy, and the marrow of the hinder Leg of a Bullock, and beat the marrow and the herbs together, and boil them on a soft fire, and strain them, and keep it for your use.   

A Salve to take dead flesh out of a sore.  
TAke a spoonful of Vinegar, and a spoonful of honey, and aquantitie of verdigris, and as much Allom, and boil all these together, and keep it for your Use.   

For the staying of the Flux.  
TAke a new laid egg, and take off a little of the top of it, and pour out a little of the white, and fill up the egg with Aqua composita, and stir it together, and roast it and sup up the egg in the morning fasting, till you be well use this.   

Another for the same.  
MAke Rise pottage with Almond milk, you must not blanch the Almonds, and make little Balls of Virgin's wax, make them less than Pease, and when you do eat of the pottage, take three or four of the Balls, and put them in every spoonful as you do eat it.   

For the Gout.  
TAke an earthen pot, and put into it a quart of Aquacomposita, and take two handfuls of Hen-bane, and break it, and put it into it, and set the pot in the earth all the month of May, and it will come to an oil, and at the end of May, you must take it up, and keep it for your use, you must cover the pot very close when you set it in the ground; and when you anoint the grease therewith, you must do it against the fire.   

For the piles.  
TAke Martylmasse Beef, and dry it, and beat it to powder, and then put it into a Chasindish of coals, and set it in a Chair and sit over it.   

For an Ague.  
IF it be for a child, take two spoonfuls of good ale, and seeth it, and scum it, and one spoonful of the Syrup of roses, and let him drink it lukewarm: If for an old body, then take three spoonfuls of good ale, and two spoonfuls of the Syrup of roses.   

To make a fresh Cheese.  
TAke a quantity of new milk, and set it on the fire, and let it boil, and take half a dozen yolks of eggs, and beat them and stir them in the milk on the fire, then take it off the fire, and keep it stirred, until it be lukewarm, and then put rennet into it, and stir it, and let it stand until it be gathered together & take up the curd, and put into it Cinnamon and Ginger, and stir it about, & make dishes of it, as you think good.   

A Medicine for a Pestilent Ague, or to drive any thing from the heart.  
MAke a posset with white wine, and take away the curd, & take horse dung of a stone Horse, as hot as you can get it from the horse, and strain it with the Posset drink, and put a little Mithridate, and Cardus Benedictus water, and unicorns horn, and if you have no unicorns horn, than put ivory, or Sea-horse tooth, and give it to the sick to drink fasting in the Morning, warming it, and you must put the unicorns horn into the spoon, and take it with some of the Posset Drink, and so drink the Posset presently after it, and use this two or three mornings.   

A Medicine for the soreness in the throat that cometh with the Rheum.  
TAke half a pint of Honeysuckle water, and two jews ears, of Plantain, & Sinckefield half a handful, and a few columbine leaves, these must be sodde with as much white Sugar-candy, as will bring the liquor to a Syrup, you must put in a little Howell, Cinnamon, and so take it in the morning, and in the evening, and at such times as your throat is dry.   

Another for the falling of the Eualow, or other pain in the throat.  
TAke a handful of red Sage, a spoonful of Dill seed, a piece of leaven, boil these in a little new milk, until it be thick, then lay it on four fine clothes, & lay one cloth to the nape of the neck, and another to the throat, and to each temple one, and bind the clothes, and do this as often as need shall require, for it hath been proved.   

A salve for a green wound.  
TAke a pound of Rosin, half a pound of wax, four ounces of old Swine's grease, one ounce of verdigris, boil them altogether upon a soft fire, and strain them.   

A Water to heal all sores in legs and Ulcers.  
TAke a pound of roch-allom, four ounces of green Coperas, beat them somewhat small, and put them in a pan on the fire, ever stirring them until they be molten and dried again ready to be powdered, and beat them again in fine powder, and keep them to your use. When you will make your water, set a pottle of fair Conduit water over the fire, until it boileth fast, then take it away, and assoon as it leaveth boiling, cast abroad your powder upon the water, the which will make it to boil, as long as your water riseth, so long cast your water in, and when it leaveth rising and is black in the bottom, than it is perfect, then if you see a dangerous sore Leg, first cast you powder presently thereon, and lay thereto three or four fold of linen cloth wet in the water, and roll it up, do so till the ulcer be clean.   

A very good water for a sore mouth.  
TAke of Conduit water a pint, one handful of Hyssop, of whit wine, and of Almonds a pound, of Roses three ounces, seeth them altogether till the herbs be tender, then take it from the fire and strain it, and keep it, and keep it for your use, you must always wash your meat, and rub it after meat, and in the morning.   

A Castille to break any swelling that is ready to break.  
TAke of Commine, of Hyssop, and of quick lime a like quantity, bray them together in a mortar, till it be very fine, when you would open an impostume, lay it as big as an haysell Nut upon the next place, and bind it very hard, and let it remain there four hours, then take it off, for it will make the place dead, and then you may let out the matter without grief to the patient.   

A Catitus Plaster.  
TAke of Litrage of gold powdered very fine, common oil, hog's grease a pound, white Coperas four ounces, put them all together in a brazen pan, and seeth it over a very soft fire of coals, and try it continually until it come to a body, and in the boiling you must cast into it one ounce of good Rose water or two, and now and then a spoonful, and when it is come to a good body take it off the fire, and stir it till it be cold and ready to be made up in a roll, and then make it up.   

To make Populier.  
TAke of Popular buds a peck, of Hogs grease four pound, seeth them both together a quarter of an hour, & then take it off, & strain it, if it be two thin, put in a little wax.   

Basilicon.  
TAke Pitch, Rosin, Wax, sheep suet, common oil, a like quantity, beat these small, and put them in a brazen pan, and melt them all together, then take them of the fire, and strain them through a course linen colth, for the pitch will not be molten, this is good for all manner of sores, and when you will put in a tent, mix it with the yolk of an egg.   

Maturacum poultnis.  
TAke Onions, garlic, dough, Lily roots a like quantity, roast them all in a wet cloth under ashes, and then put them in a mortar, and beat them small, this is good for all impostumes to break them out.   

A Medicine to heal old sores.  
TAke Plantine, bramble tops, Orpin, Betonie, agrimony of each one handful, strain them, and put thereto Rosin, and wax of each a quarter of a pound, fresh Hog's grease, and sheep suet, of each four ounces, boil them all together, till the juice be confirmed, then strain it, & keep it to raise flesh, and heal old sores.   

A Plaster to heal old sores, after they be made clean, and filled with flesh.  
TAke Salad oil half a pint, Led a quarter of a pound, boil these until they be black, and keep them for your use.   

To cleanse a sore, and take away the dead flesh.  
TAke woodbine flowers, white Roses, Plantine, and still them together, and when it is stilled, than six pennsworth of Camphire, and put it into a quart of the water, and set it in the Sun for ten or twelve days, and so wash the sore withal.   

A Medicine for a sore abroate.  
TAke a pint of milk, half a handful of Collumbine leaves, half a handful of Gasell, and half a score leaves of Sinkefield, two jews ears, and so the party must use it evening and morning, and gargase it in his throat,   

A Medicine that will heal any wound or sore, and keepeth it without proud flesh or dead flesh.  
TAke half a pound of wax, a quarter of a pound of Sheep suet, a quarter of a pound Rosin, and a quarter of a pound of Turpentine, half a pint of Salad oil, two handful of Bugle which groweth in the wood, a handful of Smallage, a handful of Mallows, a handful of Valerin, a handful of grunsel, and a handful of balm, stamp and strain the herbs, and put the juice into the foresaid things, being a while boiled, then seeth them together a quarter of an hour, then take it from the fire, and let it stand till it be cold, then take away the Smallage from the bottom, then take some of your Balm water, and put into it so much as will make it green, and let it boil together a half quarter of an hour, and so take it to your use.   

A Glister.  
TAke Camomile, Betonie, Dil, Pellitory of the wall, Hyssop, Rue, of each a handful, boil these in the broth of a sheep's head, till the broth be very slippery, then take a pint of the broth strained, and put two of the Pills of Diabes, for each a crown weight and a half, Diaca tholice, Diaphenicon, of each half an ounce, oil of Camomile, oil of Dill, of each an ounce, a little salt, and a Glister: if you will have it break wind, put into the aforesaid Common seed, fennel seed, Anniseedes, of each bruised two good handfuls, and boil all together, and strain it, and make it as aforesaid, and put in the Glister.   

To take away the heat of a burn or out of a Scaled.  
TAke eggs and roast them hard as a stone, then take out the yolks of them, then take a frying pan and put in the yolks of the hard eggs, and so let it fry till it cone to an oil, then strain it and anoint the burn withal then take a bladder and anoint it with salad oil, and lay it to the burn.   

To make another Glister.  
TAke running water and ij. handful of Carmon, a handful of Mallows, a handful of Wormwood, a handful of Marcury, an ounce, of Commine, two ounces, of Fennell seeds two ounces, of Aniseeds, and beat all your seeds, and set your herbs a boiling and strain them.   

A Medicine for one that is broken.  
TAke a quantity of Comfry, a quantity of Knehome, a quantity of knotted grass, a quantity of Riberuorum, and a quantity of polypody, and stamp them altogether, and strain them in ale, and then give the Patient the same to drink cold, and truss him up with some bolster, and let his diet be but competent, eschewing all slippery meats, as butter, and such like, provided always, that the Patient keep his bed six or seven days, lying upon his back, and sometimes hold his belly with his hand.   

To make a Poultis for swelling  
TAke the crome of manchet, and seeth it in milk till it be thick, then put in a piece of new butter, about the quantity of a wale nut or somewhat more.   

For the Rheum.  
TAke a little quantity of Mastic, and as much of Pellitory of spain cut in small pieces, sew them in a little bag of linen cloth, keep the bag in your mouth till the Pellitory and the Mastic be consumed, and spit in the mean time as much as you can.   

For the toothache and the rheum.  
TAke a quantity of Gum ot ivy, put it in a little bag of linen, then wet your bag in Aqua vitae or vinegar, & keep it in your mouth till the Gum of ivy be consumed, hold the bag over or upon the hollow tooth.   

A water for the eyes.  
TAke a pint of white wine, then heat a stone called Lapis Calaminaris red hot nine or ten times in the fire, and quench it eurey time in the wine, the last time you quench your stone stir it about in the wine, then keep your water in a clean glass, and let it stand, use to put in your eye one drop or two morning and evening.   

For the eyes.  
TAke Rosemary, houseleek, reedle Fennill, and roast an egg, and take out the yolk, beat these herbs together and strain them.   

For pain in the head.  
TAke of the best salad oil you can get, & the flowers of wild primroses and put them into the oil, and then set it on the fire, and let it boil half an hour very softly, then put it in a glass and set it in the sun three weeks, and then rub your temples evening and morning. E. C.   

A Gargas for to purge the head.  
TAke a pint and a half pint of wine vinegar, Mustered seeds, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmegs, Pellitory roots, about the quantity of one ounce, when they are beaten, put it into the liquor, and stir them together for the space of a week, then gargas it every morning before you use the oil to your head.   

For a pin and web.  
TAke the oil compacted of the bone of the Goose's wing, & rub it in the palm of your hand that no shivers of the bone do stick in it and put it in with the point of a pin, for the bigness of a pings head is enough at once.   

For a swelling.  
TAke Barrows grease, & Sutherenwood, and Aqua vitae, and boil it together, and when you have boiled it, strain it in a pan.   

For a bone ache.  
TAke two or three handfuls of Camamill, a quarter of a pound of sheeps suet chopped small, and a piece of stony pitch of the quantity of a Wall nut, and a piece of leavened bread in it crumbled very small, boil it in your own water, until it be very thick that you may spread it upon a cloth like a plaster, and lay it on the place where the ache is for xxiv. hours, and so dress it three times, if you do, it will take away the ache.   

A medicine to heal an old sore or a new.  
TAke a quarter of a pound of Rosen, and melt it in a pan till it have left cracking, and then take half as much wax and a little Turpentine and sheeps suet chopped small, and a spoonful of oil olive, and boil them all together, and when you have done so, strain them in a pail of water, and make it up even as you will occupy it, and draw your plasters thin, and dress it three times a day, that is to say, at morning, noon, and evening, till it be almost whole, then dress it but twice a day, morning and evening, but if there be any core that doth hinder the healing of it, take a little Mercury, and put it in two spoonfuls of water, and when the Mercury is melted in the water and congealed together, take a feather & drop in two or three drops, and lay a plaster upon the wound, and it will bring forth the core.   

For an Andcom.  
TAke half a dozen knots of a young Oak, and put them in a fire-pan, and burn them to a red coal, and take Boar's grease, and fine fuet, and two or three corns of salt and stamp them very fine, and so make a plaster of it, and if it do draw and heal too fast, lay lint underneath the salve, and you must dress it twice in the Winter days, and thrice in the Summer days.   

The Copy of Doctor Stephen's water.  
TAke a gallon of the best Gascoine wine, then take Ginger, Gallingall, Cinnamon, Nutmeegs, Grains, Cloves, Aniseeds, Fennel seeds, Garaway seeds, of every of them a dram weight, then take wild Time, hyssop, Lavender, Sage, mints, red Roses, garden Time, Pellitory of the wale, and Rosemary, of every of them one good handful, & bray the herbs very small, and stamppe the spices all together very small, put all together into the wine, and close it fast twelve hours and stir it divers times, then still it in a Limbeck, and keep the first water for it is the best, and then keep the second for it is good, but not so good as the first. E. C.  
A dram weight of the seed of Colembyn, bruised with half a penny weight of Safron drunken with wine, is good for the janders, then go to bed and provoke sweat, the flowers distilled is good for the same purpose, and against swonding.   

Pymypinell.  
THis herb is good against the pestilence, to be taken fasting in a morning, and good against the stone, the roots sodden condited in sugar, may profit them that have cold stomachs, and are troubled with two much phlegm, the Colic and stone, this root any way taken is good against poison.  
mouse-ear is hot and dry, some use to give the juice of this common mouse-ear to hinder the cold of a quartan Ague, some use together the roots in May, and dry it and give it to them that be broken, it is good for the bloody flix, the great scouring of the Mother, for worms both outward and inward, common flixes, for vomiting of choler, and spitting of blood and bursting, and specially, for breaking of the brain pan.  
The juice of Coste-mary drunken, killeth both small and great worms in the belly, it is good for a cold Mother, it strengtheneth the stomach whether it be drunken or laid to, and stayeth vomiting, the herb of his nature, whether it be strawed, or else perfume be made thereof, driveth away Serpents, and it is good against their poisons, and it helpeth and strengtheneth the head.   

To take out the heat of a burn.  
TAke the fat of hogs guts, and sheeps tirdles and boil them, and put them in a pot, and this will heal the party, and take out the fire, and will keep good a hole year, this hath been proved.   

To take the heat out of the face.  
TAke running water and elder flowers, Plantain, white daisy roots, and herb Robert, put them in the running water, and wash your face morning and evening therewith.   

A Medicine for a canker in ones mouth, proved.  
TAke running water, a handful of wood bind leaves, a handful of Bramble leaves, a handful of Collumbind leaves, a little Rosemary, and boil them together until half the water be wasted, then put two or three spoonfuls of honey, and a piece of roch Allom, three or four spoonfuls of wine vinegar, and wash your mouth with the sodden herbs thereof three or four times every day.   

The Diet drink.  
FIrst buy a diet pot of the common sort, such a one as will cost eight pence or ten pence, then put into it half a pound of Liquorish scraped and bruised, half a pound of Aniseedes bruised, three quarters of a pound of Lignum vitae bought at the Turner's, and one ounce of the bark of the same wood, which is to be bought at the Apothecaries, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, the stones taken out, a good handful of Scabias, an ounce of Chiny, two ounces of Salyprilla, a quantity of white wine, then fill up your pot with fair water, saving a pint, then cover your pot with his cover, and close it round about the brim with past, than set it on a soft fire of coals, and let it boil three hours till the fourth part be wasted▪ then strain it, and let it settle, and then put the clearest into bottles, and drink it Morning and Evening a good draft, and so use fourteen or fifteen days.  
If you put a little of the wood into the fire, and there fry out of it like oil, than you shall be sure it is good.   

For the head ache.  
TAke two handfuls of vervain, Betonie, Camamill roots, Letcie, Checmete, of each sort two handfuls, dried Roses, put them to powder of Nutmegs, boil this in white wine, take out the herbs then and fry them in oil olive, and strain them in a cloth, and make an ointment thereof, and therewith anoint the head.   

To make the rheum medicine.  
TAke five quarts of Hyssop water, it must be stilled when the Hyssop beareth flowers, and one pound of English Liquorish clean scraped, and cut in little pieces, bruise them & then put it to the water, and boil them till half be consumed away, then strain it in shallow pans, & set it in the sun & stir it now and then, and sometimes set it over the fire, until you see it wax black, but do not boil it, and it will wax stiff with standing in the Sun, that you may make it in little cakes.   

A salve for a cut.  
TAke six ounces of Dear suet, four ounces of Wax, four ounces of Rosin, and stamp and strain Velerian, and take the juice as much as you think will make the saule look green, and boil them together till it come to a salve.   

A medicine for the stopping of the liver, very good for them that have the janders.  
TAke Parsley roots, Fenell roots, Asperigon roots, Kneeham roots, Succory roots, of each the weight of half a crown in silver, of Dock roots, the weight of xii. pence, a little Liquorish, half a handful of Raisins of the sun stoned, boil this in three pints of water unto a quart, and make Almond milk with the liquor, and take two parts of sweet Almonds, and one part of bitter, sweeten it with Sugar, or else with syrup of Sucory, and drink a draft three mornings together, fasting three hours after it, use this every month: you may put in Batly husked, Saxifrage, Maidenhair, & Liverwort.   

For the Worms  
THe powder of Coralina to the weight of three pence in silver, given in the water of Couchgrasse.   

A Medicine for a quartan or a tertian Ague.  
TAke the herbs and roots called Hartshorn, Plantain, and Orpine, and beat them with a little white wine and a little bay salt, and so lay it on a cloth upon your wrist, but be sure it lie on the pluces on both arms changing it every twenty four hours, but be sure that you lay it two hours before the fit cometh, and hang nine roots of the Hartshorn about your neck in a silk bag, so that it may lie upon the hollow of your stomach, and let it hang till your Ague be gone, you must not wash neither herbs nor roots, and you may take the roots when you cannot get the herbs, and use them so.   

For the Canker in the mouth or rawness, or in the lower part of the woe.  
TAke red Fennell, red Sage, Hyssop, Hearbe-grace, Rosmary, Honysuckell leaves, Fetherfewe, and daisy leaves, of every one a like quantity, in all two handfuls, boil these in a quart of running water to a pint and strain it and let it stand until it be clear, and put therein a spoonful of English honey, & as much roch alum beaten as the bigness of a bean, and boil it together, you must take off the scum as it doth arise when it is boiled, put it into a glass and keep it for your use, you must warm it when you take it.   

A good medicine for an Andicome, or a Boch, or a sore breast or Carbunckell, to ripe or break them.  
TAke a quantity of Herb-grace, a quantity of leavened bread well crumbed, half a spoonful of salad oil or Capon's grease, and boil these in good ale grounds, and keep it with stirring until it be thick, and when you do use it, lay it upon a cloth warm to the grief: this Medicine will resolve a breast without breaking of it, without it need breaking, you must change it every day once.   

A good salve to heal it when it is broken.  
TAke a quantity of Barroes' grease, a quantity of Rosin, of each a like quantity, you most scrape the wax and beat the Rosin, and boil them together till they be melted, then take Lapis calaminaris and Roch alom as much as a bean of each, and beat them together, then take a spoonful of english honey and put them together and boil them again, and when it is well boiled, pour it into cold water, and make it up in rolls, and keep it for your use.   

A medicine for a bruise.  
TAke a quantity of stone pitch and as much grey soap, and beat the pitch finely to powder, and boil them together with stirring until it be boiled, then take it off the fire and let it cool, and then spread it upon a cloth and lay it to the grief, it must not be through cold, for than it will not spread, and if one do not heal it, then lay on another cloth spread with the same.   

An Ointment for an Ague sore, or other sores, and for swellings.  
TAke a Bryome root, and cut off the outside thin, some do call it wild Vine, slice it and lay it all night in a pint of salad oil, and then boil it and and strain it keep it for your use, for this is good to anoint any Ague sore, or any other swelling.  
Then take half a pint of Salad oil, and as much red lead as you can buy for two pence and boil them together, and keep it stirring until it look black, and then take as many clothes as you think will drink up the oil and the lead, and then cool it and keep it for your use This oil and lead is good for Ague sores and other sores Remember to anoint the sores with the ointment aforesaid first, and then lay on the cerecloth, doing this twice a day until the sore be hole. And for swelling, you must use the Bryome roots and the oil only, without the oil and the lead.   

An approved good medicine for the Tooth ache.  
TAke Rose water either red or Damask, take yellow wax a quantity, and fresh butter of either an equal quantity, and mingle them together in a dish upon the coals, and then take a linen cloth and dip it therein, and lay it unto that side of your jaw where you are grieved, as hot as you can suffer it, the hotter the better.   

A midicine for the bloody flux.  
TAke two toasts of cheat bread and tossed them & two eggs and roast them hard, and take the yolks of them and the liver of a chick, and beat all this together small, then put all this into a pint of charne milk, then take half an ounce of Cinnamon and beat it small, and put it in the medicine, and then take of it evening and morning fasting, for so it most availeth you, but if your stomach be weak, then put in some sugar to sweeten it.   

For the pin and web in the eye.  
TAke the juice of Parsley and half as much Honey, and with a feather drop it in the eye, and after it you must put in some powder of white Sugar Candye: you must dress it thus very often.   

For to take the Ague out of any place where it doth fall.  
TAke Succory a pretty quantity of it, and mingle it with some Boar's grease, and spread it upon a cloth, and warm it against the fire, and lay it to the place.   

A medicine for a green wound.  
TAke a quantity of Venice Turpentine, and wash it in fair water until it be white, then take a Plaster thereof, and lay it to the wound until it be drawn, then take the yolk of a new laid egg, and add thereunto a small quantity of fine wheat flower, and a little fresh butter, and mingle them together, and lay a plaster thereof unto the wound after it is drawn with the Turpentine.   

Another medicine to be taken inwardly for a green wound to be taken in Ale or Beer, it is likewise good for the shutting of a bone broken or cut, either for man or beast.  
TAke juice of an herb called Bonwort, to the quantity of iij. or iiij. spoonfuls or more, according to the stomach of the party that is hurt, take the same quantity, and drink it either in the milk or as before it is written, three or four several mornings fasting, or oftener as you will, and it will free the party, when the herb is not to be gotten, than you may use the root, and it will avail as much.  
If the wound be but little, either this drink or the Medicine before written will help it, but if it be great, you must use both together.   

For to heal wounds and sores.  
TAke Rosin and Frankincense, of each four ounces, of white wax and Olibinum, of each three ounces, of Heart's suet, of Mastic, of each an ounce, Venice Turpentine, half an ounce, white Wine a pint, melt the Rosin, the Frankincense, and the Heart's suet together, then strain it in a pan, and put thereto all the white wax, the Olibinum, and the Mastic made into powder, and the white wine, boil all together till the wine be consumed, then take it from the fire and stir it till it be almost cold, then put in the Turpentine and make it in a roll, and keep it in parchment or leather,   

Another.  
Take Callamint, Penniriall, of each a like quantity, Nigella romana seed a little bruised, a French crowns weight, boil all these in posset drink made of white Wine and ale, a good draft evening and morning you must drink.   

A medicine for the head burning that long time hath been.  
TAke a quantity of the gall of a Hare, and as much of honey, mingle it together a good while till it turn red, and with it anoint the forehead, and all the aching shall be taken away, this is a precious ointment.   

For to set in a bone, or heal a broken bone in man or beast.  
TAke the juice of Comfrey roots, and wild daisy roots, and boil them with Turpentine and yellow wax, and make a flat plaster thereof, and lay it to the grief, and set splinters about it, and roll it to keep it stiff once in five days till it be hole: and you must drink the juice of the roots nine days in some liquor, either to man or beast when you use the plaster.   

For the piles.  
TAke new milk and chicken it with otmeale finely sifted through a five, & let it seeth till you make it up like suppositaries, & then take it up & cut off the outside of a race of ginger, and grate it and mingle it together, and some of it make into a Plaster, and the rest make like suppositaries, and put them up as you do suppositaries, and then lay a plaster on the place, and use this until you be hole.   

A medicine for a Rupture in old or young.  
TAke Knotwort, Ribworte, and Comfrey, of each a like quantity, wash them and dry them, and set them in the oven when the bread is drawn so that they may dry, then beat them to powder, them s●●rce them finely through a searce ●●●siue, and look what quantity you take of the herbs when they be dried, take half so much aniseed, & beat them with the powder of the herbs and searce them, & thus having made the powder ready, when you will use it, take as much of the powder as you can lay or take upon a good broad sixpence, and xiv mornings together give it to the party to drink with a little malmsey fasting, & anoint the place first with oil of spike mingled with any other thing, and also take such herbs as you make your powder of, and seeth them in fair running water, till they be tender, wring the water out of them, & apply them to the place as hot as the party can suffer it, and let not the truss be too strait, lest it force the place do rend further, take the herbs to make the powder with, in May when the chief strength is in them, the Knotwoort beareth a little wachet flower: This hath been proved on children so borne, and on old folks that have been four and twenty years broken, and doth help all sorts that with good usage do not abuse themselves through the grace of God.   

A medicine to be used during all the time of the Plague, good agaiast infection.  
TAke a pint of white wine vinegar, and half a pint of jene, Tickell, and a quantity of Bole Armonacke, otherwise called Bolles verus, and stir all this together, and take three spoonfuls in the morning, fasting, and fast an hour after it, and take three spoonfuls an hour after supper.   

Another medicine for pain in the head.  
Seethe leaves of Agrimony with honey, and give them to drink, and draw it through a cloth, and keep it in a box, and therewith anoint your head, and wash your head in the water that Celondine is sodden in.   

For aching of the head.  
Seethe Pulioll in Aysill, and then put in thy nose.  
Take Rue and Fennell, and seeth them together in water, and wash therewith the head.   

For a Felon of the head that swelleth the head of a man: and that before written is for the same.  
TAke the grease of an heart, and honey, and barley meal, and ote trest, and moicell, and stamp them together, and after shave thy head, and then make a plaster, and lay it to thy head as hot as you may suffer, and let it lie until it be whole.   

For all Ebilles' of the head.  
TAke Rew, and stamp it with strong Aysill, mingle it and wash the head therewith.   

For the Carbuncle or the Postume in the head.  
TAke wormwood, Origanum, Mayron, byeven, porcod, & seeth them in sweet wine, and after that wring out the juice, and lay it to the ears of the sick with two sponges, as hot as he may suffer it, and use this two or three times, and he shall be whole.   

For the Mygrims, Postume, Dropsy, Fever, and all manner of achings in the head.  
TAke a penny weight of the root of Pellitory of Spain, six penny weight of Spicardy, & grind them together, & seeth them in good vinegar, and take a saucer full of honey, and five of mustard, and when the liquor that is boiled, is cold, do thereto the honey & the mustard, & stir them well together, & let the sick use thereof, half a spoonful at once, and hold it still in his mouth, the space of two creeds saying, and then spit it out into a vessel, and do so ten or twelve times, a good while after he hath eaten at noon, and a little before even ten or twelve times, and when he goeth to bed, take and wash clean his mouth, and drink a draft and go to bed: use this Medicine three days and he shall be whole.   

For the headache,  
TAke and seeth vervain and betony, fills and wormwood, and wash the party's head with the water thrice in the week, and take the herbs and make a plaster, and lay it upon the upper part of the head, on this wife.  
TAke the herbs aforesaid when they are well sodden, and wring out the juice of them, and then stamp them in a mortar, and temper them with the water wherewith they were sodden, and do thereto the bran of wheat, for to hold the juice of the herbs that it go not out, and make a garland of linen that may go about the head and bind the plaster under it, as hot as the sick may suffer it: do this three times, and he shall be whole.   

Another.  
Cloves comfort the stomach, liver, and heart, they help digestion, and stop the belly, they quicken the eyesight, and scour away the clouds and haws of the eyes, they are good against all cold diseases, and they are hot in the third degree: the oil of Cloves is very good for a cold stomach, and for any other places that hath need of warming, as a rheumatic brain.   

Another.  
TAke of litrage of lead sour ounces, of vinegar, of common oil a like quantity, put the lytrage in a mortar, and put a little of the vinegar, and a little of the oil, and beat them together, and so put in by a little and a little all your oil and vinegar, you must beat them two hours together, it must be as thick as your green salve.   

Another.  
TAke camphory, heartsease, privit, plantain, of each of them one handful bruise these in a mortar, and put thereto of Heart's suet, of fine salad oil, of each dim a lib, mingle them well together, and let them stand four and twenty hours, than put them into a pan or brass pot, and put thereto of wax and rosin broken in small pieces, of each dim a lib, let these boil all together over a fire of coals, until the juice of the herbs be consumed, and the ointment green, then strain it through a canvas cloth into some pot that you will keep it in, and when it beginneth to be cold, then put thereunto four ounces of venis turpentine, and stir all together until it be through cold, and keep it close covered.   

Another.  
THe wine of eyebright is made for the eyes, by putting the herbs into the must, until it be perfect wine, whose use make the eyes of old men look young, for it is hot and dry, and the powder of it beaten with the yolk of an egg it worketh the same effect: the powder received in wine, if the wine be too strong, put in fennel water or sugar.   

A medicine against the stone in the back or bladder, or for the weakness of the back, which is called the running of the reins.  
TAke venis Turpentine, and wash it in rose water, either red or damask, until it look white, then divide it into small balls, as you may easily swallow to the full quantity of threat hazel nuts or there about, then roll them in sugar, to make them the more esie to be taken, then swallow them in the morning fasting, and fast four hours after them: take these three or four several mornings together, and in your water you shall find much gravel.   

To take away the pocke-holes, or any spot in the face.  
TAke white rose water, and wet a fine cloth therein, and set it all night to freeze, and then lay it upon your face till it be dry, also take three poppies, the reddest you can get, and quarter them, taking out the garbitch, then still them in a quart of new milk of a red Cow, and with the water thereof wash your face.   

To make Snow.  
TAke the whites of five or six eggs, a handful of fine sugar, and as much rose water, and put them in a pottle of cream of the thikest that you can get, beat them all together, as the snow riseth, take it off with a spoon, you must beat it with a stick cloven in four, then must you take a loaf of bread and cut away the crust, and set it upright in a platter, than set a fair rosemary branch in the loaf, and cast your snow upon it with a spoon.   

A medicine for the Piles.  
TAke the herb called Torchworte, is groweth high, bearing a yellow flower, blowing out of the stalk, the leaves look boar. Take the juice & boil it with fresh butter a little while, & keep it close, and use it evening and morning: If a cows udder be stung or bit with a snake or such ltke: Take Lavender, and wash it clean, and seeth it in chamber-lye a good while, and wash it evening and morning warm, you may put a little fresh butter in it, and milk out the milk when you do it.   

A medicine for a cold, or burn, or a sore, approved.  
TAke water-sucke leaves, otherwise called Hogwort leaves, alliehouse daisies, roots and leaves and all, and a little Rosemary, and wash them and stamp them, and boil them in cream until it is butter, then strain them, and apply it warm to the burn, prick the water-sucke leaves, and lay them upon it, dressing it twice a day, or three times if need: To heal a sore, put Turpentine, Rosin & wax in it, dressing it with lint.   

For the stitch.  
TAke stich-wort, bay leaves, holly without prickles, of each a like quantity, the juice, grains beaten, drink it in ale warm.   

For the swelling.  
TAke the grounds of good Ale, glovers shreds, and white bread crumbs, and sage, boil them, lay it to warm, it will suage the swelling and the ache: it hath been proved.   

For the toothache.  
TAke organny that groweth close to the ground, that tasteth like aquavitae, bruise it, lay it to the tooth: Bursa pastoris will do the like.   

For a bite, or Felon, or sore leg.  
Seethe a pint of ale to two spoonfuls like a syrup, prick a piece of leather with a pin, it will heal it without breaking: if it be broken, take lint to the whole with some salve, let it lie four & twenty hours, lay it to cold.   

For the scrathes of a horses leg.  
TAke vinegar, mustard seed, gunpowder, boil them, wash it hot three or four times, proved.   

For the Gout.  
TAke Mallows, and sengren, beat them and boil them in water, then strain them, put oatmeal groats soaked in vinegar and sheeps suet untried, then boil it to a poltesse, proved.   

For the Ague.  
TAke a red onion cut small, six and fifty grains of pepper beaten small, bind it to the wrist half an hour before the sit, proved.   

For the Gout.  
TAke a fat whelp of a hound, scald him like a pig, garbage him in the side, take then red nettles stamped with two ounces of brimstone, and four ounces of turpentine, four yolks of eggs, stuff the belly and sow it up, roast it with a soft fire, save the dripping, oynt the place, it is good for sinews, and cramp, it will drive it away: for the like effect, oil nettles, white wine, boil them, apply them hot.   

For the sciatica.  
TAke the gail of a Bull, a quart of wort, boil it to a pint, them put in a pint of vinegar, frankyncense one ounce in powder, of honey half a pound, of cumin half a pound in powder, boil it thick, spread it on leather, lay it to hot two or three days, lay a linen cloth between the skin and the plaster, the plaster will serve many times. proved.   

For the toothache.  
Alum as big as a walnut, garlic an handful, twenty beans, an handful of bay salt, pepper, beat it together, lay it to the wrists twenty four hours or more.   

For to stop the bleeding of a wound.  
THe wool of an incke-horne, sanguis draconis, & bowl armonycke, and the whites of eggs laid on tow.   

For a Consumption, either for old folk, young folk or children.  
TAke longwort, liverwort, hearts tongue, of each an handful, red mints, red sag, mother of time, of each an handful, parsley and fennel roots, the piths out of each half an handful, liquorish on ounce, anise seeds on ounce, sceeney two ounces, turbet on ounce, tap dates two ounces, cinnamon on ounce, nutmegs two ounces, white sugar candy sour ounces, rhubarb on ounce sliced, stamppe your spices and your seeds, & beat your other poite carry stuff, & shred your herbs fine, boil it in iij. quarts of rhenish wine to a pottle, strain it, drink four times a day a quarter of a pint at a draft warm put in a pennyworth of aquavitae, & as much safron beaten fine: after it is boiled, if the patient be laxative, leave out your rhubarb, sceeney & turbith, & boil it in wort, it is best in wort for children: for aged folks that be weak, boil in the stone of a Boar, or a ram, or a horse is best, on stone is enough for one time, you may take one to purge, and another not to purge, the second receipt is enough, purge first.   

To make one make water.  
TAke the stones and kernels of peaches and meddlers, beat them fine, sift them through a searce, put in sugar, drink it in white wine.   

To make a Scare  
TAke a pound of stone pitch, as much rosin as a great walnut, and twice so much clean wax, a spoonful of fresh Swine's grease, boil all together till it be well mixed, then cool it in water, than oil your hands with hogs grease, and labour it in your hands an hour and more, till it will cleave to your hands.   

For the same, and the lest for all manner of aches.  
TAke Rosin dim. li. of perroson a quarter of a pound, as much gum mastic, a quarter of a li. of Dear suet, two ounces of turpentine, one ounce of cloves, and mace, of saffron two ounces, and the liquor must be oil of roses.   

For a great ache, a soveragine medicine.  
TAke sparmacitie eight pennyworth, ot oil two d. of black soap half a pound, of butter without salt, as much as a great walnut, boil it on a chafindish of coals half an hour, stirring it well from the the bottom, spread it on leather, as broad and as long as your grief, lay it too four or five days.   

To make a good ointment or salve for any sore.  
TAke a good handful of Sage, as much of Plantain, as much of brown wort, as much of honey suckles as much of tursame, as much velerion, boil all these in May butter, till it be brown, then strain it, and put in a quantity of virgin wax, then boil it again.   

A good Receipt for all manner of sores, old or new, named the gift of God, praise be to him.  
TAke Bectonie, vervin, pimpernel, bugle, smallage, plantain, Scabeas water▪ agrimony, of each a like, stamp them together, boil them together in a gallon of white wine to the third part, then strain them, and put to them a quantity of sheeps suet, and half a pound of wax, di. li. of rosin, di. li. pitch, one li. of olibanum, and boil it again.   

For bags in the Fundament.  
TAke the yolk of an hard egg roasted, the oil of roses, and marigold leaves, beat it together, lay it to hot.   

To kill a Tetter.  
TAke green Broome, boil it in a quart of running water half away, bathe it with it.   

For the Pestilence.  
TAke the water of Beetony, and pimpernel, turmentill, of Scabeas, mix it together, drink it nine days fasting, and fear no pestilence.   

For one that is taken within the body, or any place.  
TAke Rose cakes, aquavitae, and rose water, heat it on a chafindish of coals, lay it to the stomach, they shall mend by God's grace.   

For the Ague or cold.  
TAke green Alderstickes, take the inner rind a handful, bear them, drink it in ale fasting, fast iij. hours, walking after it, then eat a caudle.   

Another for the Ague.  
TAke a spoonful of juice of oranges, as much aquavitae, mingle it with a yolk of a new laid egg in the shell, sup it up fasting once or twice.   

King Henry the eight his perfume  
TAke six spoonfuls of compound water, as much of rose water, a quarter of an ounce, of fine sugar, two grains of musk, two grains of ambergris, two of Civet, boil it softly together, all the house will smell of Cloves.   

For the Strangurion.  
TAke horehound one handful and an half, red wine half a pint, of olive oil five spoonfuls, boil it together, put it in a linen cloth to the small of the back, as hot as may be.   

To cleanse a wound.  
TAke beer, wheat, stone flower, and honey, boil it thick, apply it to.   

For the Gout.  
TAke wornwood, walwort, wheaten bran, Cow dung, and salt, boil it in vinegar, plaster it to the grief.   

For a Bruise.  
TAke half a pint of salad oil, as much oil of roses, as much aquavitae, and three or four scour snails that bear shells, stamp them small, boil them to oil.   

To keep one Laxative.  
TAke a new lade egg, put out the white, then put in new butter unsalted, heat it, then eat it, use it often.   

Two remedies very good against worms in little children.  
TAke flower of wheat well bolted as much as will lie upon three crowns of gold, and put it in a glass and power into it well water so much as will steep the said sloure, and make it look as if it were milk and no thinner, then give the child drink of it, and you shall see with his excrements the worms come forth dead, which is a very good remedy.   

The second remedy against worms.  
FOr children that be so little, that the medicine cannot be ministered at the mouth, you must take very good aqua vitae wherewith you must wash or wet the stomach or breast of the child, than power it upon the said place with the powder of fine myrrh, and lay the child down a little while with his breast upward, and you shall see incontinently the worms with the child's dung come fourth dead.   

To heal children of the lunatic disease which happeneth unto them by reason of a worm with two heads that breedeth in their bodies, the which worm coming to the heart causeth such a passion in the child that oft times it killeth them.  
TAke the tender stalks of a wilding Tree and dry them in the in the shadow, then stamp them well and sift them, and take of the said powder and roots of Gention and of long Pyome of each of them a quarter of an ounce, and a quarter of an ounce of myrrh, all these well beaten to powder, you must put in a dish, or in some other vessel, and moist them with a little water, then take of it with your two fingers, and wet the lips and mouth of the child, do this three or four times, and you shall see the worm come forth dead with the excrements.   

A remedy for the falling sickness.  
TAke Germander gathered in may when it is in the blossom dry it in the shadow, and make it in powder and when you will use it take the yolk of an egg or two, and stir and break it with a spoonful of the said powder, then seeth it, and give it to the patient to eat, do this morning and evening eight days, abstaining from wine, carnal Company of women, from all pulse, beans pease, fetches, tars, and such other from Salates, salt fish, and from all other things which are hard of concoction and digestion a very good and notable secret.   

A remedy to cure the biting of all venomous beasts.  
AS soon as the party feeleth himself bitten with any venomous beast, or as soon after as may be, take green leaves of a fig tree, and press the milk of them three or four times into the wound, and for this serveth also mustard seed mingled with vinegar.   

To draw an arrow head or other iron out of a wound.  
TAke the juice of valerian, in the which, wet a tent and put into the wound laying the said herb upon it stamped, then make your binder as best fitteth, and by this means you shall draw forth the Iron, and after heal the wound.   

For a knock or fall, causing a bunch upon the head.  
TAke an ounce of bay salt, raw honey three ounces, Comen three ounces, Turpentine two ounces, mingle all these well upon the fire, then spread it upon a linen cloth, and make thereof a plaster, and lay it hot to his head, the which will assuage the swelling & heal the hurt.   

A secret remedy against the pleurisy.  
OPen a white loaf new baked, in the middle, and spread it well with good Treacle, on both parts, upon the crummy sides, and heat it at the fire, then lay one part upon the place of the disease, and the other part on the other side of his body directly, and so bind them that they stir not, leaving them so a day and a night, or until the impostume break, and then take away the bread and immediately the patient will spit forth the putrefaction of the impostume, and when he hath slept a little, let him eat, and by God's help he shall shortly be well.   

A very good remedy for a wound with a sword, staff, stone, or such like.  
TAke Taxus Barbatus, stamp it and take the juice of it, and if the wound bleed, wipe it and make it clean, washing it with white wine or water, than put the juice upon the wound, and the herb upon it out of the which you took the juice, then bind up the wound, and in one day you shall see a wonderful effect.   

Against the disease or grief of the flanks, and the colic passion, experimented, and proved divers times.  
TAke half a glass or less of the juice of Barberies, when they be very ripe and red, and put into it as much red Coral as will lie upon ij. groats well broken into powder, and give the patient to drink thereof.   

Another perfect remedy for the same disease, and to make a man piss within half an hour that hath not made water in three or four days, and will break the stone within ten or twelve days.  
TAke fine powder of Virga Aurea, and put a spoonful of it into a new laid egg, soft roasted, and give the patient thereof in the morning to his breakfast, and let him not eat in four hours after, and then shall he make water in less than half an hour, and let him use this for the space of ten or twelve days as aforesaid, the patient shall void the stone without any pain or grief.   

A remedy for spitting of blood, occasioned by the breach of some vain in the breast.  
TAke mice dung beaten in powder as much as will lie upon a groat, and put it into half a glass full of juice of plantain with a little sugar, and so give the patient to drink thereof in the morning and evening continuing the same, he shall be found.   

Against the grief of the lungs and spitting of blood, a remedy experimented and tried.  
TAke an herb called farfara or Tussilago of the Apothecaries Vngula cabellina, in English called Colt's foot, in French, pat de lion, incorporate it well with the lard of a hog chopped, and a new laid egg, boil all together in a pan, and give the patient of it to eat nine mornings, this is also good to make one fat.   

Against stinking of breath.  
TAke Rosemary leaves with the blossoms, if you can get them, and seeth them in white wine with a little myrrh and Cynamond, and you shall find a marvelous effect, if you use it often in your mouth.   

Against the biting of a mad dog, and the rage or madness that followeth the party bitten.  
TAke the blossoms or flowers of wild thistles dried in the shade and beaten into powder, half a nutshell full, put into white wine and drink it, and in thrice taking it you shallbe whole, A thing tried and experimented.   

A medicine for waterish eyes.  
TAke a red colelease, and anoint the leaf with the white of an egg when you go to bed, lay the same to your eyes.   

A medicine for sore eyes.  
TAke a little ground ivy, and strain it & woman's milk together, and let it be somewhat green of the ivy, and then drop a drop or two into the eyes.   

Another for the same.  
TAke Fannell water stilled, and live honey, and mingle them together, and put a drop or two into the eye, these are approved.   

To make water for the eyes to kill the heat of any sore.  
TAke red sage and boil it in Smiths water, until the third part be consumed, then strain out the sage very hard, and put into it a quantity of the liquor, a penny worth of Allome, and as much of white coperas, after you have taken it from the fire, and anoint your eyes therewith.   

Another for the same.  
TAke the leaves of red brambles, and of plantain, and honeysuckles, and boil all them in running water, from a quart to a pint, and use it to the sore.   

A medicine for the pin and web in the eye.  
TAke the white of an egg, being hot, take out the yolk clean and put thereto a good quantity of sugar-candy, then strain it hard through a cloth and therewith make a water, and every day two or three times drop it into the eyes.   

A medicine to clear the sight.  
TAke red rose-water, clean myrrh, as much as a nut and break it into powder, and bind it in a linen cloth, and let it lie in the water xii. hours, then take of this water and put in your eyes, and it will clear your sight.   

For a pearl in the eye.  
TAke red Fennell, and the leaves and roots of white daisies, use them without any liquor, and put together three spoonfuls of either of them, then take one good spoonful of clarified honey, and two or three spoonfuls of woman's milk, and drop this into your eye three or four times a day, and if there be any sight in the eye this will cure it.   

For eyes that are blasted.  
TAke a tossed made of brown bread, and lay it in red wine that is not mingled, and let it lie until it be soaked half an hour, then put it into a fine cloth, in two pieces for each eye one, and the fine cloth must be between the eye and the tossed, dress it when you go to bed at night.   

To purge the head and eye sight.  
TAke the juice of Hei-hoo, and put it into your nostrils, & the phlegm shall follow and the running water.   

For the eyes that be red and sore.  
TAke Fennell, Verueine, Roses, Salendine, and Rue, of each two ounces, and distill it all together, and when need is, than put a drop or two into the sore eye, for it is good for all manner of diseases in the eye.   

Against the pain of the eyes.  
TAke the yolk of an egg roasted hard, and laid to with rose oil and saffron, the juice of Basill put in.   

For to see well.  
TAke eye bright, red Fennell, of each half a handful, of Rue one quarter of a handful, cause these to be distilled, and wash your eyes daily with the water.   

For the taking in the leg.  
TAke a piece of sour leaven, and as much barm, and as much black soap, and temper them all together, and so spread it upon a linen cloth and put it to your leg where the heat is, and change it twice a day, and by Gods help it will heal you in three or four dress.   

A diet drink for the consumption.  
TAke a gallon of running water, measured by ale measure, and put thereto an ounce of Cinnamon, an ounce of cloves, and an ounce of mace, a dram and a half of Actor roots, and boil it until it come to three quarts, let this be your only drink till you do mend.   

A medicine for the headache.  
TAke a handful of Rosemary, and two handful of betony, and a spoonful of honey, and seeth them all in Malmsey, and wash your head therewith.   

Another for the head ach.  
TAke five nutmegs, and grate them, and seeth them in malmsey till they be thick, and make a plaster thereof and lay it to your temples.   

For wind and shootings in your head.  
TAke Egremony and Cynamond, and bay them, and put them in ale and lay it to the temples of the head, and if the pain remove, lay it where the pain removeth.   

Another for the head ache.  
TAke a handful of Camomile, a handful of penneryall, a handful of sage, a handful of wheat bran, chop them altogether small, and boil them in a pint of sharp vinegar till they be thick, and thereof make a plaster and lay it to the temples of the head as hot as you may suffer it, and it shall (by God's help) do you good.   

Another for the same.  
TAke a piece of raw beef, and lay on the nape of your neck, and shift it every night when you go to bed, and use this as often as you see good, proved.   

Another for the same.  
TAke an ounce of oil of Roses, two ounces of white Vinegar, iiij. ounces of plantain water, mix these together, and wet a linen cloth in it, and lay it to the temples.   

A medicine for Megram in the head.  
TAke Houseleek, and Garden worms, the greater part being houseleek, stamp them together and put thereto fine flower, and make a plaster in a fine cloth and lay it to the forehead and temples.   

Another for the same.  
TAke mustered seed and temper it with vinegar and make an ointment therefore, and lay it to the temples in a plaster, and an other in the nape of the neck behind, where it is not sore, and it will avoid and shortly be hole.   

A medicine to keep up the palate of ones mouth.  
TAke a piece of wheaten leaven, and comen seed beaten in a mortar, a quantity of bay salt, and red Rose vinegar, and red Rose water, put them into a bag of cloth, and lay it to the mould of the head.   

To dry up Rheum in the head.  
TAke a quantity of dried rose leaves, the flower of Camamell, Bassell, Margerum all dried a quantity of Cloves and mace, gross bruised, a nutmeg, and a quantity of dill seed, all quilt in a cap.   

A Poultis to cool any place either face, or any where else, that is red and full of heat pimples.  
TAke houseleek, mallows, pursaline, water roses, called numium, beat all these, and take the juice of them, and put a little oil of Roses to them, and wash the place with it, or stamp the herbs till they be thick like pap, then seeth it with a little rose oil and wax, and then you may lay it on as a plaster.   

Against red pimples of the face.  
TAke an ounce of camphor, as much of brimstone beaten, myrrh, frankincense, of each four drams, of rose water a pound, put all these in a glass, and set it in the sun ten days and then lay it on the places.   

Another.  
TAke the distilled water of ash tree, tamaredes oft eaten, wine of strauberries laid upon the face.   

Another.  
TAke the distilled water of mulline, and a little champhire mixed together, and laid to the face.   

A medicine for them that are deaf so that they have heard before.  
TAke juice of bittanie, woman's milk, that hath a man child, mingle them together, and dip a piece of black wool into it, and put a piece of it into your care for the space of ten or a leaven days or more, if it happen that this will not take away the deafness, then take the milk of a cow, and seeth it with oatmeal, and juice of bittany and lay it plaster wise over the ears, night and day for a long time.   

To make an ointment for a red face.  
TAke half an ounce of Camphire, and two drams of Sulphur vinum, and an ounce of Deeres suet, melt the suet and the camphor together, then put in the Brimstone, fine ground in a mortar, when the other is almost cold, and set them no more over the fire after the Brimstone is put in, These being laid on all night, will take away the heat and the pimples.   

Another for the same.  
TAKe as much Mercury sublimate as a Bean, and twice as much Allom, and put them in a quart of fair water, and boil them together with two or three corns of bay salt, and bathe your face there with often in a day with the same cold, and open the pimples with your fingers before you wash.   

For a sore mouth.  
TAke a quart of white wine, and a quart of water, and a pint of wine vinegar, and a good quantity of red sage, two pennyworth of mercury, and half an ounce of roch Allom, and a quantity of Rosemary, and a greater quantity of woodbine leaves, and iij. spoonfuls of honey, seeth them together, and wash your mouth therewith.   

A water for a Canker and sore mouth.  
TAke rosemary crops, Sage, Singfield, woodbine leaves, Allom, live honey, or pure honey boiled in spring water, half a handful of each of the foresaid herbs boiled in three pints of water, till they be boiled a third part away, & keep it in a glass stopped, and wash your mouth with it.   

For a canker and starnes in the mouth.  
TAke two ounces of fine coperes beaten into powder, half a pint of fair water, and let the same coperes be distilled or steeped, two days and two nights, then strain the same softly through a linen cloth, then take a spoonful thereof, and wash your mouth & throat with it so●tly, blood warm, but drenke none of it, this medicine will not continue good above fourteen days, therefore you must make it fresh as occasion serves, you must take it morning and evening.   

A medicine for the mother in a woman's side that riseth.  
TAke Aqua-composita, and beat bay berries in powder, and put it into the aqua-composita, and put a spoonful or two in a draft of beer or ale, and so drink it.   

A medicine for the pricking of a needle, or thorn in the joint.  
TAke fair bolted flower of wheat, and temper it with wine, white or red, and a little oil olive and a few rose leaves, and seeth them together till it be plaster thick, and lay it to so hot as you can suffer, It will draw forth the needle, and ease the Ache.   

A medicine for a Canker that eateth man's flesh.  
TAke wheat bran of the smallest powder, the juice of smallege, the juice of woodbine, and burnt allam, beat into powder, and a little honey, mingle all these together and make a plaster of it, and lay it to the sore, and it shall destroy the Canker.   

For a bruise.  
TAke Virgin wax, and comen seed well beaten, mix them together, and lay it to the bruise plaster wise.   

For a white scalde.  
TAke salad oil beaten with the whites of eggs till they be thoroughly wrought together, cut away the hear, and so anoint the head and lay a bladder upon it.   

A medicine against all stitches.  
TAke linseed and boil it in new milk, and make a plaster thereof and lay it to the place grieved.   

A medicine for a sore breast.  
TAke groundsel and chop it small, the grounds of small beer, wheaten bran, and sheeps suet beaten in mortar, and boil them altogether, and lay it plaster wise to your breast.   

A medicine for swollen breasts.  
TAke white wine, wheat bran new bolted, rose leaves, old and new, seeth them until they be thick, then lay it to the breast as hot as she may suffer it, from even till morning, and shift it again.   

To break the phlegm of the breast.  
TAke butter without salt, and honey, of each a quantity, fair bitter Almonds, blanche them, and beat them fine, and eat a little every day.   

A very good medicine for any ache or sore breast, often approved.  
TAke Frankincense, fine wrought Wax, Boar's grease, and Rosin, of every one of them a like quantity, and seeth them together to a cake, spread it on a cloth as broad as the sore or pain is, and lay it too four and twenty hours, or twelve at the least.   

An approved medicine for a sore breast.  
TAke a handful of mallows, seeth them very soft in fair water, and then let the water run away from the mallows, than chop or shred them, than put them in a dish with bores grease, and heat them very hot and lay it in a plaster of linen cloth to your breast, as hot as you can suffer three or four times a day heating it, this hath been approved very good.   

A remedy for the pains of the breast.  
TAke hyssop, parsley, & sage, stamp them together, and lay them to the breast, and they will be whole.   

Another for the sloping of the breast.  
TAke rue, and seeth it with allegant, and drink it three or four times.   

A medicine for the bloody flux.  
TAke as much fine linen cloth, as will make a suppositary, being rapped together button wise, then wet the same in the best aqua vitae, or aqua composita, and let the party grieved convey the same into his fundament, and it will help them by the grace of God, within three or four dress, this is approved, and hath holppen many that have been brought low and thought past cure.   

Doctor Smiths medicine for the colic and stone.  
TAke posset ale made of Rhenish wine, boil Camamill, running time, parsley, pellitory of the wall, with a good spoonful of comen seeds, till the third part and more be consumed, then strain them with sugar sufficient, drink a good draft warm, and use it as occasion serveth.   

A medicine for the Chin-coffe for a child.  
TAke boars grease, and warm the souls of the feet to the fire, and chafe them with that, and go to bed and keep it warm, and lap clothes to it.   

To stay a Laxe.  
TAke half a quarter of a pound of almonds, and parch them upon two new tiles, beat them in a mortar, and take a quarter of fair water, and set it on the fire, and put half a handful of knotgrass, and half a handful of plantine leaves, and let them seethe a good while, then take the water, and strain the foresaid almonds therewith, and make an almond milk thereof, & put in a piece of sugar then take date stones, and beat them to powder, as small as may be, and put some of that powder into the almond milk, so drink it lukewarm.   

An excellent medicine for a child that cannot part with his water, or urine.  
TAke three or four hive bees, kill them, then dry them upon hot flat, being through dry, bruise them to small powder, than put the powder into a quart of small ale, & give the sick to drink, and he shall have present remedy.   

A medicine for the pain of swelling in the stomach.  
TAke a good quantity of rosemary, flowers, boil them in whit wine, and as hot as may be suffered, apply it to the stomach.   

An approved medicine for the spleen.  
TAke a quart of claret wine, a pint of oil of olive, two good handfuls of camamill being shred small and boil the wine and camamill together from a quart to a pint, and anoint the hardness of the spleen, morning and evening therewith, and it will dissolve.   

A medicine for a felon or and come.  
TAke Rusty bacon, and Colewort leaves stamp them together, then take a piece of dogs leather, being pricked full of holes, and spread it upon the leather, laying it to the soar twice a day, and when it beginneth to heal, but once a day.   

A medicine for the itch of the body.  
TAke sweet butter, unwrought wax, vinegar, brimstone, a little Rose water, red cloves hole, boil them together, till they be like a salve, then anoint the flesh, three sundry nights by the fire therewith, and no more.   

A medicine for the Canker in the body.  
TAke bollarmoniacke, roch alum, and honey, than beat them to powder, take twice as much of the alum, as of the bollarmoniacke, and stir them together, till they come to a salve, and so anoint the soar.   

A medicine for the heat or ache in the body, or legs or else where.  
TAke red dock roots, and take out the over pith and seeth them in running water, then draw the water from them, and beat it with thick cream, and so anoint the place that is grieved, or with a cloth dipped in the same, and laid over the place.   

A medicine good to cleanse the body.  
TAke balm and lay it in white wine, till it be well steeped, and then distill it, the water thereof is good for any disease that is in the body, but you must distill the wine and all together, drinking a spoonful or two in the morning, proved.   

A medicine for a fistula.  
TAke veruon, and dry it upon a tile, and make powder thereof, & make clean the soar with a linen cloth, and fill the hole full of the powder.   

A remedy for one that vometeth to much.  
TAke coliander seeds, fine beaten in powder and drink it with mint water.   

To make a scare cloth for all manner of aches.  
TAke a pound of unwrought wax, half a pound of rosin, two ounces of frankincense, a pound and half of sheeps suet and boil them altogether, and strain them in a fair basin, and then put them in a chafindish of coals, and dip a linen cloth therein, and so lay it to the soar.   

A medicine for a ring worm or Tetter.  
TAke red dock roots, and slit them, and lay them in vinegar, and so wash the ring worm or tetter.   

A medicine for the stitch.  
TAke wheat flower, & bake a cake and cut it in the midst, then strike the dough sides all over with tar, and lay it to the patient as hot as may be, you must lay the one half of the cake to the one side of the patiented, the other half to the other side.   

A Poultis for all manner of swelling.  
TAke a lapful of wild Mallows, and seeth them in running water till they be tender, and then swing them, and chop them small, then take a pennyworth of sweet butter, and the crumbs of white bread, and put the mallows and all into a quart of milk, and seeth it till it be thick, and stir it well, then lay it to the grief as warm as can be suffered.   

A medicine for the Cough.  
TAke mustered seeds and put it into figs, and seeth it in ale & drink it.   

A medicine for the Mother.  
TAke Rosin and beat it very fine, and put into salad oil and white wine and drink it, and it will do you good.   

A medicine for the bloody flux.  
TAke the pills of Pomegranut, beat them, and drink them with red wine, Morning and Evening blood warm, and heat a brick red hot, and lay it under a close stool, and cast rosemary and malmsey on it, and let the patient sit over it.   

A very good medicine for the Piles.  
TAke the hard row of red herring, and roast it hard, then take the seeds of nettles, and beat them together small, then beat them with barrows grease, and boil them together, and anoint the piles therewith, then take a chafindish of coals, and set it under a close stool, and cast a little Frankincense thereon, and let the patient sit over it when they be anointed with the foresaid ointment.   

A medicine for a burne.  
TAke oil of Roses and woman's milk, and put it into the open place, and it will heal it.   

Another for the same.  
TAke a linen cloth clean washed, and burn it, and make a powder thereof, and take the oil of eggs, and anoint the sore, than straw the powder thereon.   

A medicine for the dropsy.  
TAke Anny seeds, cotiander seeds, spignard of spain, use this in your meat and drink eight days together, and it will do you good.   

A medicine to dry a sore.  
TAke a pot of smith's water, a quartern of roch Allom, half a pint of oil of olives, and put thereto a handful of sage and boil them together till they be half consumed, then use it to the soar, and it will dry it.   

A medicine for an ache that cometh against reign.  
TAke the horns of a stag, cut them in small pieces, and boil them in water, till it be consumed from a gallon to a quart, then pour the water from the bones, and it will jelly when it is cold, and therewith anoint the grieved place against the fire, evening and morning.   

A medicine for a burn or scald  
TAke mallows & smaleg, and seeth them in water, & when they be tender, take them forth, & wring out the water clean, chop them small and set them on a chafindish of coals & put to it a little sheeps suet, and make of it a salve, and lay it to the sore place thick, and lay a cloth upon it, and tie it on.   

A salve for any old sore.  
TAke the inner rind of an oak that is not very old, and burn it to a coal, then quench it and make thereof a powder, and temper it with the yolk of an egg, and make thereof a salve.   

To make a drink for a burning Ague.  
TAke a quart of running water, and half a pint of vinegar, half a quarter of a pint of Rose water, a quarter of a pound of Sugar, and one stick of Cynamond, and boil them all together, let it cool, and give the sick to drink.   

A medicine for the heat of the Liver.  
TAke wort of the first tap, and drink it every morning next your heart for a month together, and it will help you.   

A medicine to make a young Child go to stool.  
TAke May butter, and chafe the Navel therewith against the fire, then take some black wool that groweth between a black sheeps legs, and dip it in the May butter, and dry it, then lay it to the Navel, it is good for an old man also that cannot take no inward medicine.   

An approved medicine for the Navel when it cometh out with crying.  
TAke wax which is used no other way, but to take the honey from it, and when you have an occasion, melt some of the wax in a Saucer, and dip black wool in it, and lay it to the Navel, and it will help it.   

A medicine for the swelling of a Child's cods.  
TAke red rose leaves, and bray them, and boil them in red wine an hour, then wet a cloth in it, and lay it to the child's navel, as hot as you can suffer it.   

A medicine to staunch the flux.  
TAke a saucer full of the juice of Milfoyle, & as much of the juice of plantine, and wheat flower, and temper it with the juice of the herbs and so make a cake of it, and bake it and eat it hot.   

For to staunch blood at the nose, or at a vain that is cut, proved.  
TAke feathers burned to powder, and lay it upon the vain that is cut, and also take a wet cloth and lay it round about the members, and wet the cloth three times, and lay it to cold every time, and it shall stench wheresoever it be, proved.   

For to help a drunken Man or Woman for ever.  
Give him a purgation, and after that give him a swallow to drink in powder for the space of twelve days, and for a months space give him every day to eat iiij. Almonds with four leaves of wood beaten, you must eat them in the morning next your heart, proved.   

For scabs.  
TAke snails and prick them, and take the water that cometh out of them, & anoint the scabs therewith, & take vine leaves and bind them to the scabs, & do it every morning and evening, & you shallbe whole, proved.   

To dry Scabs.  
TAke gumme-arabecke and put it in rose water till it be consumed, and wash them therewith, proved.   

For the palsy or shaking in the hands.  
TAke Sell and Eysill, & seeth them together, and wash thy hands therewith, and eat sage with mustered fasting.   

To restore a man to nature that is in a consumption.  
TAke the oldest Cock you can get, scald him and draw him, and cut him all in pieces in a glassen pot, and stop him as fast as you can, and put amongst these pieces cloves, mace, small reasons, and salt, & then put this glass into a great pot, and let all these seeth together till they be a jelly, and then strain it into a clean vessel, and give it to the sick first and last, blood warm.   

To restore the brain.  
TAke powder of Bittany, and use it in your pottage, it will restore the brain and destroy the stone.   

For a perilous Cough.  
TAke Sage, Rue, and Commin, and stamp them with pepper, seeth them together with honey, and thereof make an electuary, and use thereof a spoonful Evening and Morning, and by the help of God it shall do you good.   

For them that cannot see, and have red eyes.  
TAke white vinegar, and rub upon a whetstone in a fair basin, and take as much salt as powder, and grind them well together in a basin, and temper them with wine, and let it stand a day and a night, and put it in a viol of glass, you must take the thinnest that standeth above in the basin, and put in your glass, and when the patient goeth to bed, take a feather and wet therein, and anoint your eyes.   

To anoint the face and to make it white.  
TAke fresh Bacon grease, and the whites of eggs, and stamp them together, and a little powder of bays and anoint your face therewith, and it will make it white.   

For a fair face, proved another way.  
TAke Plantain and white vinegar, and still them together, and wash your face therewith fifteen days, morning and evening, and after this, drink a draft of vinegar in the morning once in three days.   

To make the face white and fair.  
TAke Rosemary and boil it in white wine, and wash thy face therewith, and you shall be fair, then take Erigan, and stamp it, and take the juice thereof, and put it all together, & wash thy face therewith, prob.   

To help the face with red pimples.  
TAke bay berries and pluck off the husks and make fine powder thereof, and temper it with honey, and anoint thy face therewith six times, and it will help you.   

To draw broken bones forth of the head.  
TAke Bittany, vervain, and Rue, and stamp them all together very small, and put thereto Rye meal, or wheat, and the white of an egg, and make a plaster and lay it to the head.   

To quench one's thirst.  
TAke the root of Lovege, wash it clean, and stamp it, and temper it with water, and drink a good draft of it five nights together, and drink not in two hours after it.   

For one that speaketh in his sleep.  
TAke Southernwood, and temper it with Wine, and let the diseased drink thereof in the morning, and when he goeth to bed.   

For a woman that hath too much of her flowers.  
TAke the foot of a hare, and burn it to powder, and drink thereof with red wine, and Cynamond first and last nine days, and it will help her.  
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