The Treasury of commodious Conceits, & hidden Secrets. and may be called, The housewives Closet, of healthful provision.  
Meet and necessary for the profitable use of all estates both men and women: And also pleasant for recreation.  
With a necessary Table of all things herein contained.  
Gathered out of sundry Experiments lately practised by men of great knowledge.  
By I Par.  
Imprinted at London by Richard jones. 1573.   

¶ john Partridge to his Book.  
Go forth my little Book,  
That all on thee may look:  
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Moore cunning works erst done,  
In any former Age  
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But that the Cur Dog he  
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The tongur that hath annoyed?  
Great works which have employed  
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A happy common weal?  
And which at large reveal,  
That time did long conceal,  
To pleasure every one:  
If thou which art but small  
To whom it happen shall,  
Small fruit to bring withal,  
for men to scan upon:  
Yet must thou be content,  
To bear what Zoylles bent  
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(to lay upon thy back)  
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Finis   

To the worshipful, MASTER RICHARD Mistow, Gentleman: one of the Assistants of the Company of the barbers & surgeons: john Partridge wisheth increase of Knowledge by his worthy travail. (??)  
AFTER THAT I HAD (worshipful Sir) taken some pain, in collecting certain hidden Secrets together, & reduced them into one libel, or Pamphlet (for my own behoof, & my familiar friends:) yet at the instance of a certain Gentlewoman (being my dear and special friend) I was constrained to publish the same, and considered which myself the saying of the wise: which is. That good is best, which to all indifferently, is of like goodness, or effect: or which without respect of person, is good to all indifferently. The consideration of which, and her importunacy togethers instiged me to communicate unto the view & public benefit of all men, this little Book: The comments whereof, doth instruct and teach all manner of persons & Degrees to know perfectly, the manner to make divers & sundry sorts of fine Conceits aswell of meats, as of Conserves & Marmalades, as also, of sweet and pleasant Waters, of wonderful Odours, Operation and Virtues: With divers other things that have not hitherto been publicly known: which fact of mine (I know) will be, not only dessyked of some, but altogether condemned: Not for that it is evil, but that their fine heads can not digest, that any other beside themselves should enjoy the benefit thereof, having for their MAXIM, that such things, are of small price, as are common to all men: much after our English Proverbs, Quainty and dainty: far fet and dear bought, is good for great Estates. But I accounted that Person foolish, and unworthy help of any Physician or Surgeon: that will refuse to receive, or gain health by the Medicine of any such Physician or Surgeon: Who by learning the same out of A VICENE, GALENE, or HIPOCRATES, or any others such like, hath often times cured the Deseuses in sundry and many persons, for that the same hath been commonly used: but rather most willingly and courteously to embrace the same (for present remedy) as a thing excellently well experimented and proved: I need not (right Worshipful) to use these words, for the Defence of this little Book, considering the your Worship doth very well accept such things, as universally bring with them a public profit and utility: (whence consisteth your delight,) rewarding liberally, the travail of such, who have, & do travail therein. Wherefore, for that I among all other persons, do think myself most beholden unto your worship: To gratify your goodness, and to satisfy the request of my friend, I have compiled this little Book. which I have put forth under your W. name and protection: protesting, that if I shall see this work, which with some cost and charge, I have brought to perfection, be well accepted at your hands I shall shortly exhibit unto your Worship, a thing of greater value and estimation. And thus, committing your good worship to God. I end: who send you your desire of understanding and knowledge.  
¶ Your Worships to command. I P.   

¶ Thomas Curteyse Gentleman, in praise of the Auctor.  
TO pleasure countries state who tends  
With careful heed, & more perpends  
The wealth of others: than his own,  
whose seed is sown.  
* To pleasure all, and he that sows,  
Of all his toil, lest profit mows:  
Deserves at lest, the dross to have,  
that frankly gave  
* The Gold that all enricheth so,  
Therefore thou Book where ere thou go:  
Say freely that thy Master's pain,  
deserveth gain.  
* And if that Momus give to chat,  
If thou be wise, yet fear not that,  
For good deserving, well doth crave,  
reward to have.  
* The which reward, without great charge  
Thou mayest give, if that at large  
Without reproach, thou lettest this go,  
and thankful show.  
Thyself, for that which herein he,  
Hath now set forth to pleasure thee:  
Who ear thou be, to this incline,  
The profits thine.  
* FINIS.  
T. C.   

¶ Thomas Blank Gentleman, in the behalf of the Auctor.  
THe Painter's Pen: with no small charge  
Doth now and then: depaint at lar●…  
BELLONA'S broils, & bloody fig●●  
To move somewhiles, a man's delight  
The Poet eke: with painful quill,  
Doth sometimes seek: men's ear to fill,  
With sundry sorts, of Verses new:  
When he reports, things false & tri●●  
In both whereof: the learned find,  
No toy nor scoff: or thing by kind,  
That brings not out, some learned sky  
For which no doubt, most wisemen wy  
Accept the thing: what ere it be,  
That so should bring: Commedytie,  
The Partridge here, the thing hath sought  
which nothing dear: need now be bought  
Wherein pleasure: doth full consist,  
And eke Treasure: if that thou list,  
By travail to, obtain the same,  
The which to do, I wyssh thee frame.  
And give him praise: that with his toil,  
Hath in these days: from foreign soil,  
Brought home to thee, pleasure & gain:  
Then thankful be, his is the pain.  
¶ FINIS.   

¶ The Chapters and contents of of this Book.  

TO bake a Capon with yolks of Eggs. Chapter. i.  
¶ To bake a pheasant, or Capon, in steed of a pheasant. Cap. two.  
¶ To bake Chickens, Sparrows, or other Birds. Cap. iii  
* To bake Woocoks. Cap. iiii.  
¶ To make Pescoos of Marrow. Cap. v.  
* To make a sauce for a roasted Rabbit, first used to King Henry the eight. Cap. vi.  
¶ To bake an Oxetung. Cap. seven.  
* To make vinegar of Roses violets, or Eldern Berries. Cap. viii.  
¶ To make a Marchpane. chapter. ix.  
* To gild a Marchpane, or Tart. cap. x.  
¶ To bake Quinces. chapter. xi.  
* To keep Quinces unpared all the year long. chapter. xii.  
¶ To make fine blanch powder for roasted Quinces. Apples, or Wardens cap. xiii.  
* To conserve Quinces condict, ready to be eaten. chapter. xiiii.  
¶ To keep Plums condicte in Syrup. chapter. xv.  
* To keep cherries, or Gooseberies' condicte. chapter. xuj.  
¶ To make conserve of Roses, Red, or white: With the sundry Virtues and Operationns of each of them. Cap. xvij.  
* To make Conserve of Violet flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Cap. xviij.  
¶ To make Conserve of Buglose flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Cap. xix.  
¶ To make conserve of Borage flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. cap. xx.  
¶ To make Conserve of Rosemary flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Cap. xxi.  
* To make Conserve of Succarie flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Cap. xxij.  
¶ To make Conserve of Elder flowers, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Cap. twenty-three.  
¶ To make Conserve of Sorrel, with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. chapter. xxiv.  
* To make conserve of maidenhair: with the sundry virtues & Operations thereof. chapter. xxv.  
* To make conserve of Elecampane roots with the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. cap. xxvi.  
¶ To make Conserve, of Gladon, or yellow Flowerdelice: With the sundry Virtues and Operations thereof. Ca xxvij.  
¶ To make Marmylade of Quinces. Chapter. xxviij.  
¶ To make Marmalade of Damasines or Prunes. Cap. xxix.  
¶ To make conserve of Strawberries, and the virtue thereof. And of Damasines: or of Prunes. Cap. thirty.  
¶ To make Conserve of Cherries, and of Barberies. Cap. xxxi.  
¶ To make Succade of the péels of Oranges: and Lemons. Cap. xxxii.  
¶ To make green Ginger, & Pepper condicte. Cap. xxxiii.  
* To make all kind of Syrups. Ca xxxiiii.  
¶ To make Manus Christi. Cap. xxxv.  
¶ To make Losings. Cap. xxxvi.  
* To make powder of Holland against the Colic. Ca xxxvij.  
¶ To make a powder to lose the Belly gently. Ca xxxviii.  
* To make a receipt to restore strength decayed with sickness. Cap. xxxix.  
¶ To make hippocras. Chapter. xl.  
¶ To make a Violet. or Damask powder for woollen and Furs. Cap. xli.  
* To make a sweet powder for linen clothes, Chapter. xlij.  
¶ To make a fine Pome Amber. cap. xliij.  
¶ To make a fine fumigation to cast on the coals. cap. xliiij.  
¶ To make the same in Oslets. cap. xlv.  
* To make a moist Fume, to put in a Fuming Dish. cap. xlvi.  
¶ To make a fumigation for a Press of Clotheses. cap. xlvij.  
¶ To make a powder for sweet waters. chapter. xlviii.  
¶ To make Damask water another way. chapter. xlix.  
¶ To perfume Gloves divers ways. chapter. l.  
¶ To make a Perfume for Chystes and Cubboords. And also for Gloves. cap. li.  
¶ To colour Gloves. cap. lii.  
¶ To make Musk Sope. cap. liij.  
¶ To make read sealing Wax. cap. liiij.  
¶ To make sweet Damask Powder. iiii. manner of ways. cap. lv.  
* To keep Barberies whole in Syrup. chapter. lvi.  
¶ To make fine Rice Porredg. cap. lvij.  
* For the Ague in a woman's Breast. chapter. lviii.  
¶ For the unnatural heat of the liver. chapter. lix.  
* For the canker in the mouth. cap. lx.  
* To know what time in the year Herbs and Flowers, should be gathered in their full strength. cap. lxi.  
¶ The sundry virtues of Roses for divers medicines. cap. lxii.  
* The sundry virtues of Lilies. cap. lxiij.  
¶ The sundry virtues of Milfoyle. ca lxiiii  
The sundry virtues of Rosemary. ca lxv.  
¶ A brief Treatise of urines aswell of men's urines, as of women's, to judge by the colours, which betoken health, which betoken sickness, & which also betoken death. chapter. lxvi.  
¶ How to make a sovereign Water, that Doctor Stevens Physician, a man of great cunning did use of long experience. And therewith did many cures, and kept it always secret, till of late a little before his death, that a special friend of his, did get it in writing of him: with the sundry virtues and operations thereof. chapter. lxvii.   
* FINIS.   

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

Go little Book of profit & pleasance,  
unto thy good mistress, without delay  
And tell her I sand thee for that ꝑformance  
of her earnest suit (sith she would have no nay)  
Let her use thy commodities, as well I know she may  
To profit her friends for health is preservation  
And also to pleasure them, for recreation.   

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

❀ The Closet, or Creasurie of commodious Conceits and hidden Secrets.  

¶ To bake a Capon with yolks of Eggs. Cap. i  
WHEN THE CAPON IS made redi, truss him in to the Coffin: then take viii yolks of eggs sodden hard, & prick into every of them .v. Cloves, & put the yolks into the Coffin with the Capon: then take a quantity of ginger and salt, and cast it on the Capon, and let it bake iii hours. Then take ii raw yolks of eggs beaten into a goblet of Vertuce, with a good quantity of sugar sodden together, put it into the Coffin and so serve it.   

¶ To bake a pheasant, or Capon in steed of a pheasant. Ca two.  
Dress your Capon like a Pheasant trussed, parboiled a little & larded with sweet lard: put him into the Coffin, cast thereon a little Pepper and Salt: put thereto half a dish of sweet Butter, let it bake for the space of iii hours, & when it is cold: serve it forth for a Pheasant. And thus bake a Pheasant.   

* To bake Chickens. Chapter. iij.  
TAke and truss your Chickens, the feet cut off, put them in the Coffin: them for every chicken put in every Pie a handful of Goose berries, & a quantity of butter about every Chicken: then take a good quantity of Sugar and Sinimon with sufficient talt, put them into the Pie, let it bake one hour and a half, when it is baken take the yolk of an egg & half a Goblet of veriuce with sufficient sugar sodden together, put in the pie & serve it.   

¶ To bake Woodcoks. Chapter. iiij.  
parboil them, and being trussed put them into the Coffin with sweet lard about them, season them with Pepper and salt, and a good quantity of butter, let them bake one hour & a half, & so serve them.   

¶ To make Peascods of Marrow. Chapter. u  
first slice your Marrow in length. drive your past as thin as a paper leaf: them take and lay small Raisins, Cinimon and a little ginger and Sugar about the Mary, fashion them up like Pescodes, fry them in butter, cast upon them Cinimon and iuger, and serve them.   

¶ A Sauce for a roasted Rabbit: to King Henry the eight. Cap. vj.  
TAke an handful of washed percelye, mince it small, boil it with Butter & veriuce upon a chafing dish, season it with sugar and a little Pepper gross beaten, when it is redi: put in a few fine Crumbs of white bread, put it in amongst the other, let it boil again till it be standing, them lay it in a Platter, like the breadth of three fingers, lay of each side one roasted Conye (or more) and so serve them.   

¶ To bake an Ox tongue. Chapter. seven.  
Seethe the tongue till it be tender, than slice it on a board in fair pieces: and take a good quantity of Marrow slceed small, cast it into the bottom of the pie: & lay the slices of the tongue upon it: and betwixt every one some marrow, and a little salt upon them. Bake it the space of an hour, then roast half a manchet a little at the fire, and put the toasts into half a pint of Redde-wine with a little Vinegar, strain them out together: them take cloves, Mace, Sinimon and Sugar, seeth them in that liquor till it wax somewhat thick: make a hole in the cover of the Pie, put it in, set the Pie again into the Oven for a quarter of an hour, and serve it.   

¶ To make Vinegar of Roses. Chapter. viii.  
IN Summer time when Roses blow, gather them ere they be full spread or blown out, and in dry wether: pluck the leaves, let them lie half a day upon a fair board. then have a vessel with Vinegar of one or two gallons (if you will make so much roset,) put therein a great quantity of the said leaves, stop the vessel close after that you have stirred them well together, let it stand a day and a night, then divide your Vinegar & Rose leaves together in two parts put them in two great Glasses & put in Rose leaves enough, stop the Glasses close, set them upon a Shelf under a wall side, on the Southside without your house where the Son may come to them the most part of the day, let them stand there all the hot Summer long: and then strain the vinegar from the Roses, and keep the vinegar. If you shall once in x: days, take and strain out the Rose leaves, and put in new leaves of half a days gathering, the vinegar will have the more flavor and odour of the Rose.  
You may use in steed of Vinegar, wine: that it may wax eager, and receive the virtue of the Roses, both at once. Moreover, you may make your vinegar of wine white, red, or claret, but the read doth most bind the belly, & white doth most lose.  
Also the Damask Rose: is not so great a binder as the read Rose, and the white Rose looseth most of all: hereof you may make vinegar roset.  
Thus also, you may make Vinegar of Violets, or of Elder flowers: but you must firstgather & use your flowers of Eldern, as shallbe showed hereafter, when we speak of making Conserve of Eldern flowers.   

¶ To make a Marchpane. Cap. ix.  
TAke half a ii of blanched Almonds, & of white sugar: a quarter of a. It: of Rose water, half an ounce: & of Damask water, asmuch. Beat the Almonds with a little of the same water, and grind them till they be small: set them on a few coals of tier, till they wax chick: then beat them again with the Sugar, fine: Then mixed the sweet waters and then together: and so gather them, & fashion your Marchpane. Then take wafercakes of the broadest making, cut them square, passed them together with a little liquor, and when you have made them as broad as will serve your purpose, have ready made a hoop of a green hazel wand of the thickness of half an inch on the inner side smooth, and on the uttersyde round & smooth without any knags: lay this hoop upon your Wafer cakes foresaid, & then fill your hoop with the gear above named, the thickness of the hoop: the same driven smooth above with the back of a Silver Spoon as ye do a Tart and cut away all the parts of the Cakes even close by the outlyde of the hoop with a sharp knife, that it may be round, then having white paper underneath it, set it upon a warm hearth, or upon an instrument of Iron or bras made for the same purpose, or into an Oven after the bread is taken out, so it be not stopped, it may not bake but only be hard and through dried, and ye may while it is moist stick it full of Comfits of sundry coolers, in a comely order ye must moist it over with Rose water and Sugar together, make it smooth: and so set it in the Oven or other instrument, the clearer it is like lantern horn, so much the more commended: if it be through dried, and kept in a dri & warm air: a march pane will last many years, it is a comfortable meat, meet for weak folks, such as have loft the taste of meats by reason of much and long sickness. The greatest secret that is in the making of this clear, is with a little fine flower of Rise, Rose water and Sugar beaten together & laid thin over the marchpane ere it go to drying: this will make it shine like Ice, as ladies report.   

To gild a Marchpane or any other kind of tart. Cap. x.  
TAke and cut your leaf of Gold as it lieth upon the book, into square pieces like dise: & with a Coney's tails end moist a little, take the Gold up by the one corner, lay it on the place being first made moist, & with another rail of a Conie dry, press the Gold down close: And if ye will have the form of an Heart or the name of JESUS, or any other thing, what soever, cut the same through a piece of Paper, & lay the Paper upon your Marchpayne, or Cart: then make the voided place of the Paper (throw which, the Marchpayne appeareth) moist with Rose-water, lay on your Gold, press it down, take of your Paper, & there remaineth behind in Gold the Print cut in the said Paper.   

¶ To bake Quinces. Cap. xi.  
Pair them, take out the Core, perpoyle thin in water till they be tender, let the water run from them till they be dry: then put into every Coffin one Quince, in it a good quantity of marrow. Also take sugar. Cinnamon, & a little Ginger, & fill the Coffin therewith, close it, let it bake an hour, and so serve it.   

* To keep Quinces unpared all the year long. Cap xii.  
TAke ripe Quinces and at that great end cut out a stoppel, then take out the core clean, and stop the hole again with the same stoppel (but pair them not) and parboil them a little, take them up and let the water drain from them, than put all the Cores and some of the smallest Quinces into little pieces all to cut, into the water wherein the Quinces were parboiled, and let them seethe till the liquor be as thick as molten size, that painters occupy, then take it from the fire and let it keel: in the mean season couch your cold Quinces in a barrel or an earthen pot the great end downward (if the stoppel be out it makes small matter) & one upon an other. Then put the liquor in, that it be a handful over and above them, cover them close, and after four or .v. days, look to them and when you see the liquor sunk down, put in more of the same which ye purposed li kept to cover them as before, then lay a board upon them and a stone that they rise not, and cover the vessel close with a thick cloth folded, that it take no air, so let them remain. And when ye intend t● occupy some of them, uncover the vessel and ye shall find a Cream covering the whole liquor, break it in the midst, turn it over with your hand, then take out your fruit in order beginning in the midst first: then by the sides, so that you remove none (it is may be) but those that you take away and every time that ye break the cream to fetch Quinces, turn the Cream over again into his place, for you must know that the Cream keepeth out air, & kepeeths in the strength of the Surrop, therefore it maketh much to the conservation of the fruit to save it, and also to see the vessel close covered. Also when ye will bake your Quinces, wash them well and clean in warm water, and bake them as before is written.   

¶ To make fine Blanch powder for roasted Quinces. Chapter. xiii.  
TAke fine Sugar half a pound beaten in a hot Mortar too fine powder, of white Ginger pared half an ounce, of chosen Sinimon a quarter of an ounce beaten ready to fine powder, mixed them well together, and if you will have it most excellent cast two Spoonful of Rose or Damask water in the beating of the Sugar.   

¶ To conserve Quinces in Syrup condict, always ready to be served whole: or in quarters. Cap. xiv.  
AFter your Quinces are cored and pared, seeth them till they be tender & soft: then lay them out till they be cold, in the mean time take of the same liquor. two. quarts or more (according to the number of your Quinces which ye will keep) and put therein the cores and some other small Quinces, all to cut in small pieces, seethe them in the liquor to make the Syrup strong, strain them, & put into the liquor being ii or iii quarts i pint of Rose-water, & for every quart also of liquor, one half pound of sugar, seeth them again together on a soft fire of coals till the sugar be incorporated with the liquor, then put in your Quinces, let them seeth softly till you perceive that your Syrup is as thick as live honey, them set them to keel, and take them out, lai them in a tray or treen platter: till they be cold, then take one ounce of bruised Cinimon, & some whole cloves, put them, with some of the Cinimon in the Syrup, and when it is cold lai a lard of quinces in your glass (called a gestelyn glass) or an earthen pot well glazed, than straw a little of your Cinimon upon you Quinces, them power some Syrup, lay on an other lard of Quinces, and again of your spice, and Syroppe, and so forth till you have done: and cover them two fingers over with Syrup above, cover them close: and within iii or four days, look to them, and when ye find the Syrup shrunken down, put in more, and so reserve them. Cheese are to be served in with Syrup.  
See that the Quinces be tenderly sodden, and the Syrup thick and strong enough.   

¶ Plums condict in Syrup Chapter. xv.  
TAke half a pound of Sugar, half a pint of Rose water and a pint of fair Rain water, or of some other distilled water, seeth the Sugar & the two waters upon a soft fire of coals, till the one half be consumed: them take it from the fire & when it leaveth boiling, put therein half a pound of ripe Damazines, or other plums, & set it again on the embers, & keep it in the like heat till the plums be soft by the space of an hour if need be, then put into it some cloves bruised and when it is could keep it in a Glass, or in an earthen or Gallypotte, the stronger the Syrup is with Sugar, the better it will continue.  
Some put into the Syrroup Sinimon, Saunders, Nutmegs. Cloves, and a little Ginger: seeth them not hastily for fear of much breaking.   

¶ To keep Cherries condict, or Goose berries. Cap. xuj.  
MAke your syrup as for plums than take half a pound of Cherries and cut off half the length of the stalk of every Cherry, put them into the syrup, and use them as you did the plums, put in what spice that pleaseth you, and so keep it as before is written: but make your syrup strong enough of sugar jest it wax door and corrupt, then must ye make a new syrup stronger of the Sugar: and put the cherries in it to keep, as before is said. Thus ye may do with Goosberies to make of them Tarts, or sauces all the winter long, saving that Goosberies may be well sodden without breaking, because of their tough skin, so it be softly and diligently done.   

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

The virtue of the conserve of Roses.  
Conserve of Roses comforteth the stomach, the heart and all the bowels, it molysyeth and softeneth the bowels, and is good against black Coler: melancoiny, conserves of white roses doth lose the bellymore then the read.    

To make conserve of Violets. Chapter. xviii.  
TAke the flowers of Violet's anpicke them from the stalk, beaten and grinned them with sugar, as you did your Roses, to these put double the weight of Sugar to the weight of Violet flowers, but to all other flowers put iii parts of Sugar to i. part of the flowers.  

¶ The virtue of the same.  
Conserve of Violet Flowers is good against the heat and influmation of Coler, called yellow Coler, it quencheth thirstiness, it maketh the Belly moist & soluble.    

¶ The virtue of the conserve of bugloss. chapter. xix.  
Conserve of bugloss flowers, comforteth the hot heart, it is good for the frantic, for the lunatic, and for the melancolicke, it is good for the Sincop and swooning, it taketh away heart burning, and trembling of the heart, or stomach, it profiteth against Coler.   

¶ The virtue of the conserve of Borage. Chapter. xx.  
Conserve of Borage flowers, is of like virtue, it is especially good against black Coler, or melancoli, it also maketh one merry.   

¶ The virtue of the conserve of Rosmary. Chapter. xxj.  
Conserve of the flowers of Rose marry, comforteth the cold and moist brain, it comforts also the sinews, it is good against melancholy and phlegm.   

¶ The virtue of the conserve of Succary. Cap. xxij.  
Conserve of Succary is good against yellow & black collar, & in the burning & heat of hot fevers.   

¶ The virtue of the conserve of Elder flowers. Cap. twenty-three.  
Conserve of the flowers of Elder is good against the morphewe, it cleanseth the stomach, and the whole body from scabs. Gather the clusters, or bunches whereon the flowers grow when they are new blown and spread: lay them upon a fair sheet abroad in a Chamber a day or two till ye shall perceive the flower will shake off and fall away, then pike them clean, and make thereof conserve, as ye do of other Flowers.  
And whereas it is more wholesome than pleasant, therefore put some other conserve (such as ye lust) amongst it, when ye will occupy it.   

¶ The virtue of the conserve of Sorrel. Chapter. xxiv.  
Conserve of Sorrel is good against all unkind heats, of the stomach and other principal parts of the body, and against yellow collar.  
Take leaves of Sorrel, wash them clean, and shake of the water clean, or else tarry till the water be dried clean: beat them, and grinned them with Sugar as above, and then keep them.   

The virtue of the conserve of Maiden hair. cap. xxv.  
Conserve of the leaves of Maiden heir is good against the sickness of the side, called the Pleuresy, and for all diseases of the breast, and of the lights, and in all maladies of melancholy, and against read collar, make it as you do of sorrel.   

To make conserve of Elecampana roots. cap. xxvi.  
TAke the roots of Elecampane wash them clean, slice them in to pieces as big as your thumb, seeth them in fair water, till they be tender, take them up, & pound them & draw them throw a haire-sive, put thereto in the second sething the double or triple weight of sugar and when the sugar is perfectly incorporated, take it off, and keep it. See it be well stirred in the se thing.  

The virtue of the same.  
Conserve of Elecampana is good to comfort the stomach, and the noorishing members, it marvelously looseth tough phlegm, desolveth, and consumeth the same, by the siege it avoideth it.    

To make conserve of Acorns, or Gladon. With the virtue of the same. chapter. xxvii.  
TAke the roots of yellow flower delice which groweth in moist ground, otherwise called a Flag root, wash them and scrape them, seeth them. and order them as ye do of Elecampana now last before rehearsed, and so keep it. This conserve is good against all sickness of the brain and sinews, and against all diseases of phlegm, unto women it oppeneth natural course and terms.  
And you must generally learn, that in making conserves, Fruits and Roots are made with fire and seething: but Flowers are made without fire or seething. Moreover the more Sugar or Honey is put into than, so it be not past iii ii to i, the conserve shall continue the better.   

¶ To make Marmalade of Quinces. Cap. xxviii  
AFter that your Quinces are sodden, ready to be kept condict as before in the chapter is written, then with some of the liquor wherein they were sodden (but without any spice) beat them and draw them as ye would do a Tart, then put some over they fire to seeth softly, and in the seething strew by little & little of powder of sugar, the weight of the Quinces, or more, as your taste shall tell you stir it continually, put there to some pure rose water, or damask water, let it seeth on height till it be w●l standing, which thing ye may know, by taking some of it upon a cold knit and let it keel, if it be stiff, then take it off & box it while it is warm, and set it in a warm and dry air, if you will gild your Marmalade, do as afore is spoken of a Marchpane.  
❧ The best making of Marmalade is when the Quinces have lain long & are through ripe, and very yellow, as in lent season.  
¶ And forasmuch as Quinces are binding, and therefore not good for some sickefolkes costife, it is necessary to put a good many of ripe apples of good verdure, as Renet, Pyppen, Lording, Russeting, Pomeriall, Rex pomorum, or any other apple that is pleasant raw among them, being first drawn, for a tare and then sodden among the other matter of Quinces. Thus shall you make your Marmalade, somewhat supple, and also increase the quantity and verdure of the same, specially if it be well dashed with sweet water.   

¶ To make Marmalade of Damsins or Prunes. Cap. xxix.  
TAke Damsins which are ripe, boil them on the Fire with a little fair water till they be soft, then draw them through a course Boulter as ye make a tart set it on the Fire again seeth it on height with sufficient sugar, as you do your Quinces, dash it with sweet water. etc. and box it.  
If you will make it of Prunes, even likewise do put some Apples also to it, as you did to your Quinces.  
This wise you may make Marmylade of Wardens, Pears, apples, & Medlars, Seruits or Checkers, strawberies every one by himself, or else mixed it together, as you think good.   

To make conserve of Strawberries, With the virtue of the same. chapter. thirty.  
TAke Strawberries i quart clean picked and washed, set them on the fire till they be soft, strain them put thereto two times as much sugar in powder, as weight of the strawberries, let them seethe till the sugar be incorporated with the straberis put it in a Glass or earthen Pot well glazed.  

¶ The virtue of the same.  
¶ The conserve of Strawberries is good against a bot liver, or burning of the stomach, and specially in the servant heat of an ague.  
Thus make conserve of Damasins and Prunes.    

* To make conserve of Cherries and Barberies. Cap. xxxi.  
Likewise ye must make conserve of Cherries, and also of barberis saving that these require more Sugar than the other do which are not so sour as they be.  
¶ Here is to be noted, that of conserves of Fruits may be made marmalade, for when your conserve is sufficiently sodden, and ready to be taken of them seeth it more on height and it will be Marmalade.  
¶ Moreover same make their conserve, Marmalade & Syrups with clean Sugar, some with clean Honey clarified, some with Sugar and Honey together. And after the opinion of divers great Clerks, Honey is more wholesome, though it be not so toothsome as sugar.   

* To make Succade of Peels of Oranges and Lemons. Chapter. xxxii.  
first take off your Peeles by quarters and feet hthem in fair water from iii, quarts to iii pints, then take them out, and put to as much more water, and seeth them like wise, and so do again, till the water wherein they are sodden have no bitterness at all of the Peeles, then are they ready. Now prepare a Syrup as ye do for quinces condict in syrup in the xiiii. chapter before written: seeth them in the Syrup a while, a keep them in a Glass or Pot.   

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

¶ To make Pepper soft: with the virtue of the same.  
AFter the same manner with sand ye may make pepper soft and with like Syrup season & kept them. Ginger & Pepper in syrup comforteth a cold stomach, & helpeth much to good digestion.    

To make all kind of Syrups. chapter. xxxiiii.  
TAke bugloss, Borage, white Endive, of each i handful, of Rosemary, Time, Isop, winter savoury, of each half a handful seeth them (being first broken between your hands) in iii quarts of water, untoiii pints, them strain it, and put to yliquor, whole cloves an ounce, powder of Cinimon: half an ounce, powder of Ginger: a quarter of an ounce i Nutmeg in powder, of sugar half a pound, or more: let them seeth upon a soft fire well stirred for burnning too, until it come to the thickness of live Honey, then keep it in Galley-pots, if you put i pynte Malmzey in the second seething, it will be better. When it is perfect, have six grains of fine Musk in powder, stir it amongst your Syrup as ye put it in the gallipot, and cover it,  
This Syrup will last many years and is excellent against swooning and faintness of heart, it comforteth the Brain and sinews, if it be used as much as a Hasell Nut at once, at your pleasure.   

¶ To make MANUS CHRISTI. Chapter. xxxv.  
TAke half a pound of white Sugar, put thereto four ounces of rose-water, seeth them upon a soft fire of Coals, till the water be consumed, and the Sugar is become hard, then put therein a quarter of an ounce of the powder of Pearls, stir them well together, put for every spoonful, a piece of a leaf of Gold cut of purpose: cast them upon a leaf of white Paper, anointed first with the Oil of sweet Almonds, or sweet butter for cleaving too.   

¶ To make Losings. Cap. xxxvi.  
TAke half a pound of Sugar, and as much rose-water: or other distilled water, as for Manus Christi seeth them likewise, and when ye will know when it is sodden enough, take out some upon a knives point, and let it keel, and if it be hard like Sugar than it is sodden enough: then put into it of any of the powders hereafter next following, one ounce: stir them well together, lay it upon a paper oiled: drive it as thin as ye think meet, lay on your Gold leaf with a coney's tail, cut your Losings Diamond fashion, and so keep them.   

¶ Powder of Hollond against Colic, and gnawing of the belly. cap. xxxvii.  
TAke Cinnamon, any seed, fenel seed, Cummin seed, of each a quarter of an ounce, of shaven Lyquerice iii quarters of an ounce, of galangal one ounce and a half, of Spyknard a quarter of an ounce, of Seine of Alexandrya ii ounces: beaten them all into fine powder, and serce them, whereof take a quarter of an ounce in a mess of Pottage.   

Powder to make the belly soluble, causing a gentle lask: meet for noble personages. Chapter. xxxviii.  
TAke Seine of Alexandria one ounce, of fine ginger half a quarter of an ounce, of any seed a quarter of an ounce, beat them into fine powder and serce them, put of this powder into your sod Sugar, and make Losynges as before: of the whole, the number of xuj. whereof dissolve two of them in a mess of Pottage, or in a Cup of Mine fasting in the morning, and fast one hour after, if you do put as much of sugar in powder, as the weight of the whole powder, ye may keep it in a Bladder, and the whole powder will serve viii times to receive, as even now is said.   

A receipt to restore strength, in them that arr brought low with long sickness. chapter. xxxix.  
TAke of the brawn of a pheasant or Pattridge, and of a Capon sodden or roasted, of each a quarter of an ounce, steep them in rose-water two hours, of the Kernels of Nuts called Pistaciorum & of the kernels of the pine apple, of each a quarter of an ounce of Cinimon, in fine powder the weight of twenty Barley corns, of the Spices of Dianthos, diamargarition, Letificantes Galent, of each the weight of forty grains, or barley corns, of the seed of milon, pepon, Go orde, and Cucummer, of each the weight of ten grains, the skin taken of, let them be all ground small, then take vi ounces of sugar, dissolved in borage water, seeth it on haighte as for Lofinges, and when it is sodden enough, them put in all the other gear, and make Losings thereof. Whereof one is sufficient at once dissolved in a mess of Pottage, or a draft of drink: thus do, it. or iii times every day.   

¶ To make hippocras. Cap. xl.  
TAke of chosen Cinimon, two ounces, of fine ginger one ounce, of Grains half an ounce, bruise them all, & sleep them in. iii or. iiii. pints of good odiferous wine, with a pound of Sugar by the space of. xxiiii. hours. then put them into an hippocras Bag of Woollen, and so receive the liquor. The readiest and best way is to put the Spices with the half pound of sugar, and the Wine into a stone Bottle, or a stone pot stopped close. and after: xxiiii. hours it will be ready, then cast a thin linen cloth, or a piece of a boulter cloth on the mouth, & let so much run thorough: as ye will occupy at once, and keep the vessel close, for it will so well keep both the spirit, odour and virtue of the Wine, and also Spices.   

¶ A violet powder for woollen clotheses and Furs. cap. xli.  
TAke of Ireos. two. ounces, of Calamus aromaticus. three quarters of an ounce, of Cypress, or galangal, of Spiknale, of Rose leaves dried, of each a quarter of an ounce, of cloves of spike: or Lavender Flowers, of each half an ounce: of Nigella romana, a quarter of an ounce: of Benjamin, of Storax calimit: of each half an ounce. Let them be all finely beaten, and serced, then take two or three grains of Musk dislove it in rose water, and sprinckell the water upon the powder, and turn it up and down in the sprinkling, till it have drunken up the water, when it is dry, keep it in bags of silk.   

* A sweet powder for Nappery and all Linen Clotheses. chapter. xlii.  
TAke of sweet Mariornm, (that is whore, that is the sweeter) when it hath in him Seeds ripe, cut the branches, so that the Root may springe again, when this marjoram is dried, then rub out the sedes and keep them to sow about Easter, and the Husks or leaves that grow about the Seeds take for your purpose, rub them small between your hands (for if you beaten them to powder in a Mortar, they will lose the most part of their savour) then take of white Saunders, or of grey Sanders, but look that they be new of right sweet odour, for if they be old, and have no pleasant and quick odour, they are nothing worth, take I say of these sweet Saunders beaten into fine powder one ounce, and put it to an ounce of your sweet marjoram rubbed between your hands as afore is said, and if you put one or two Grains of Musk thereunto (for your wearing linen it is the better) sow these up in a silk bag together, & lay it among your Linen, of such gabs have a dozen or two, which will continued many years, and when you look to your Linen: then chafe each of the bags between your hands, that they may yield our their sweet odour. Moreover in the Summer time, gather read Roses in fair wether, so soon as they be blown, & opened, lay them upon a Table, a Bed, or a fair floor of boards, and now and then remove them lest they mould, and wax foysty, when they are dry, pick off the leaves, that you may have. two. pecks of them, then strew them among and between the boughts and foldings of your Linen, with. i. handful of of dry spike flowers, to. vi. handful of dry Roses, and lay your sweet bags amongst them. Be sure that your linen be everthrough drier ye lay them up, for else the Roses will wax whore, set your coffer in a dry air, and in the winter time, or in wet wether, when ye perceive your Roses to wax moist, them put them into a pillow bear or twain, that they fall not out, and lay them upon your bed between the Coverlet and the Blanket, all night, or else before the fire, let them dry, and strew them again.  
Moreover ye must always have a bag full of dry Roses in store, kept in a dri air, for if he lose his readiness, them looseth the rose his sweetness.  
Finally ye must every year, put away your old Roses, and occupy new, out keep your sweet Bags still many years.   

* To make a Pomeamber. cap. xliij.  
TAke of Benjamin i ounce, of Storax calamit half an ounce of Labdanum the eight part of an ounce, beaten them to powder, & put them into a brazen Ladle with a little damask or Rose water, set them over the fire of Coals, till they be dissolved: and be soft like wax: then take them out and chafe them between your hands as you do wax: them have these powders ready finely serced, of Cinimon, of Cloves, of sweet sanders grey or white, of each of these. three powders half a quarter of an ounce mire the powders with the other and chafe than well together, if they be to dry moisten them a little with some of the Rose water left in the Ladle, or other: if they wax cold, warm then upon a Knives point over a Chafingdishe of Coals, then take of Amber grease, of Musk and Civet, of each, three grains, dissolve the Amber grease in a Silver Spoon over the bot Coles, when it is cold, make it small, put it to your Musk and Civet, then take your Pome, that you have chafed and gathered together, and by little and little, (with some sweet water if need be) gather up the amber, musk & civet: and mix them with your Ball, till they be perfectly incorporated, then make one Ball or two of the lump as ye shall think good, for the weight of the whole is above two ounces, make a hole in your Ball, & so hung it by a Lace.  
If you perceive that the Ball is not tough enough, but to brittle, then take a courtesy of storax liquida, and therewith temper your Bal against the fire, but take not to much storax liquida, because it is too strong.  
Or the better way is, to have some gumm called dragaganthi ready dissolved in sweet water, it will be dissolved in. two. days, & with the gather your Ball with the heat of the fire: this Ball will be of like goodness within as without and of great price. ¶ Some men put in the making hereof. iii or. iiii. drops of the Oil of spike, beware of to much, because it is veri strong.  
When ye will have your Ball exceed in sweetness, break it & have two. or. three grains of Musk. or Civet or Amber grease, as you delight in, or all together, dissolve them in rose or Damask water, & with the same chafe your Ball over the fire till all be drunken in, then pierce a new hole as before.   

* To make a fine Fumigation to cast on the Coals. cap. xliiij.  
TAke of Benjamin i ounce, of Storix calamit half an ounce dissolve them as for a pomeamber, then have ready these woods in powders or one of them, Gyniper, or Cypress, or of white Sanders, & of Cloves, of either half a quarter of an ounce, all in fine powder, mixed them all together: and with some Storix liquida gather them together with the heat of fire, then make them round of the bigness of a black sloe, and with your Seal print it a Cake while it is warm and soft.  
Of these cast one or two upon a Chafingdishe of Coals, to purge all pestiferous infection, and corrupt airs, out of your house: if you put to the other things, the powder of Amber beads it will be the sweeter.  
¶ Some put also Labdanum, as before is said in making of the pomeamber, herein do as the savour thereof shall please you.   

To make the same in Oseletts. chapter xlv  
TAke a little of the fine powder of Sallow, or willow Coals, mix it w tsom of your fumigation last before named, in the making work them well together. then fashion it with. iii or. iiii feet like a Clove. and when it is dry kindle the end of it at a quick Cole, & it will yield a sweet savour, put not to much coals for them it will savour of them, put not to little Coals▪ for than it will not keep fire: put not to much Storax liquida, for than it will be too brittle and to moist, and will not lightly dry: therefore it shallbe well to have some Gum of the cheritree or plum-tree, which they call Gum Arabic, dissolve some of it in sweet water till it be liquid and tough, with this gather your Oselets, or other Fumygations.   

¶ A moist fume upon a fuming dish. chapter. xlvi.  
TAke a piece of your Pomeamber as big as a hazel Nutt, bruise it, put it into you fumeing dish, with sweet water, put thereunto a few bay leaves, as much of dried basel leaves, a little rosemary, and set it over the fire, upon a Cupboard: or else in the stead of the Pomeamber, put ii or. iii of the cakes before written broken small, &. ix. or. x. whole Cloves, and if you will have it excellent sweet, then put. i or. two. grains of Musk, and let the leaves & them stand over that fire together, as before is said.   

¶ A Fumigation for a Press, and clotheses that no Moth shall breed therein. chapter. xlvii.  
TAke of the wood of Cypress, or of juniper, of Rosemary dried, of Storax Calamit, of Benjamin. of Cloves, a like weight beaten all in to powder, then take of the powder of Wormwood leaves dried as much as all the others, mix them well together, cast thereof upon a chafingdish of coals and set it in your press and shut it close, & thus do oft-times till you have well seasoned your Press or Coffer.   

* A Powder wherewith to make sweet waters. cap. xlviii.  
TAke of the wood of cypress, or the roots of Galingal. i quartern. Of Calamus aromaticus. i quartern. Of Orace or Iris one quartern. Of Cloves. i quartern. Of Storix Calamit, one quartern. Of Benjamin, one quartern.  
Or ye may take of each of these, one ounce for a proportion, let all be beaten into powder: and when ye will distill your Roses, fill your Still with Rose leaves: and a few Spick Flowers, & upon the top of them, strew some of your powders, & so distill them. Some put a little of the powder of Nigella romana: to the other powders. These cakes will be very sweet: put the water in a large glass, and to the pottle, put. xii. grains of Musk, let it hung in the mids of the water in a thin Linen cloth with a thread, set it in the son. xx. or. thirty days, then take the Glass in, and set it in a dry air.   

* An other manner of making of Damask water. cap. xlix.  
TAke of Arace or Iris, of Spike flowers dried, of Cloves, of each i. ounce, make them in poder, put them together with a pint of new Ale in corns, and. i pint of Rose water, into an earthen pot: put thereto a good many of green Rose leaves, let them soak in it, a night time, stopped close, in the morning when ye will distill, first lay other Roseleves in the bottom of your Stilitory for fere of cleaving to, then take of the Rose leaves, out of the Pot, and put them with other green Rose leaves in your Stilitory sufficient, and to the water: put Musk as above is said. This water is excellent to set forth a Cart, an Apple moyse, or Almond butter.   

¶ To perfume Gloves. cap. l.  
TAke the Gloves, & wash them in Rose water, or Damask water, till the scurf of the Leather be gone, and then stretch them forth softly, and keep the water, you wash them with still: Then hung them up to dry, and then lay them in a clean linen cloth that is folded. iii or. iiii. doubles: and when they be dry, let them lie in Rose leaves dried, a day or two: then take Oil of Civet Almonds, and Musk: and grinned them together up on a Marble stone. Stretch them forth softly, and with your hand anoint your Gloves. iii or. iiii. times: & ever among stretch them forth, then let them dry, and ever stretch them forth softly as they dry Then take Sandifer mixed with a little Ambergreace, and strew the powder of it thinly upon them and lay them in a Paper: and in a Box, or else melt the Amber grease with a quantiti of Rose water, and mix the Sandifer to it, and so anoint the Gloves with the same. Then let them dry, and lay them in fair white papers.  

2. To perfume Gloves another way.  
TAke the Gloves & wash them as aforesaid. iii or iiii, times & wring them every time softly: then take Gum of dragagant, and stepe it in fine Damask water one night, than strain the water through a fine Linen cloth, and take the Gum and mix it with an ounce of Amber grease, and a quarter of an ounce of Musk, first grind your Amber grease with Oil of Turpentine, then mingle all together, & roll your Gloves with the same: lay them to dry, & lay a paper between.   

3. A preparative for Gloves.  
Wash the Gloves as afore is said, till the scent of the leather be gone, then take Benjamin. two. ounces, of Storax Calamit. i. ounce, let them be very fine, then take oil of Civet Almonds and mingle it with Benjamin & Storax upon a Marble stone: When it is well ground, put it into an earthen Pot with more Oil of Civet Almonds, then put in Cloves in powder, and so let it stand very close covered: and when you need, take a little Rose water in a Sponge, and rub the Gloves softly, & then in like manner with the Oil called Civet Oil for the same purpose.   

4. Another way.  
TAke twelve Grains of Musk, six grains of Civet. viii. grains of ambergrece. three grains of storax Calamit. vi. grains of Benjamin and a few Cloves: grind all these together, with Oil of Civet Almonds. first wash your Gloves: with Fusses, dissolved a day in Damask water.   

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

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

7. another way.  
TAke a dram of Amber grece, a dram of Benjamin, half a dram of Fusses, a dram of Storax, a quarter of an ounce of Labdanum, put all these to rose-water.    

¶ A perfume for Chests and Cupboards: And also for Gloves. cap. lj.  
TAke Benjamin and Storax, of each one ounce, Labdanum, and Fusses, of each a quater of an ounce, half a Dram of Civet. If you burn it for Chests, or Cubbordes, beat it in a hot Mortar. If it be for Gloves, boil it and put it to Rose water.   

* To colour Gloves. Cap. lii.  
YOu must have Hulles of green Walnuts, that must lie in water all the year long: roll them well with these Hulles, & make them as deep a colour as you may.  

¶ How to colour Gloves yellow within.  
TO colour Gloves yellow, within take the yolks of xx. Eggs, & put them in a frying pan, with a soft fire, stir them ever, and bruise them with a ladle, & the Oil that ascendeth of them, being anointed on the in side of the Gloves, will make them look yellow.    

¶ To make Musk Sope. cap. liii  
TAke strong lie made of chalk, and six pound of stone chalk: iiii, pound of Dear Suet, and put them in the lie; in an earthen pot, and mingle it well, and keep it the space of forty days, and mingle and stir it. iii or. iiii. times a day, till it be consumed, and that, that remaineth. seven. or. viii. days after, than you must put a quarter of an ounce of Musk, and when you have done so, you must all flyrre it, and it will smell of Musk.   

¶ To make read sealing wax. cap. liv.  
TAke to one pound of Wax iii ounces of clear turpentine in Summer, in Winter take four: melt them together with a soft fire: Then take it from the fire and let it cool: Then put in vermilion very finely ground, and Salet Oil, of each an ounce, and mix them well together, and it is perfect good.  

To keep Damsins in syrup.  
TAke Damsins & pick them with a knife, or a pin them take clarified Sugar as much as you shall think will serve & them you must boil it till it be as thick as bird-lime: Then boil your Damsins in the clarified sugar, till they be soft, them take them up, and put them in a glass, than you must boil the syrup, till it be thick as the other was, before you put in the Damsins, & as soon as it is so thick you must power it into the Damsins and so cover them close.   

For the gnawing in a Woman's stomach.  
TAke a good handful of Spermint, and a handful of Worm would, and heat a tile stone, & lai these, two. things on it, & make a little bag, & when the herbs be hot, put them in the bag, & so lay them to her stomach.    

¶ To make sweet Damask powder four manner of ways. cap. lv.  
TAke. two. or. three handfuls of dried Rose leaves two. grains of Musk half an ounce of Cloves and beaten these all to powder.  

2. another way  
¶ Take. vi. ounces of Orace. iiii. ounces of Cloves. two. ounces of florax calamity. i. ounce of Labdanum two. ounces of yellow Sanders and a little Musk.   

3. another way.  
¶ Take. two. ounces of Cloves. iiii. ounces of Spruce, iiii. ounces of Storax calamit. iiii. ounces of Roses. three ounces of Benjamin.   

4. another way.  
¶ Take. iii ounces of Sypres. iiii. ounces of Benjamin, two. ounces of Coleander or Labdanun, three ounces of Storax Calamit, two. ounces of Roses, beat all these to powder.    

¶ To keep Barberries. cap. lvi.  
TAke clarified Sugar, & boil it till it be thick, which you shall perceive if you take a little between your fingers it will rope like Birdlime: Then put in your Barberries, and let them boil with a soft fire, until you perceive they be tender, them put them in a Glass and cover them: and so keep them.   

¶ To make fine Rise Porridge. cap. lvii.  
TAke half a pound of jordyn Almonds, and half a. li. of Rice and a gallon of running water, & a handful of Oak bark, and let the bark be boiled in the running water, & the Almonds beaten with the hulls and all on, & so strained to make the Rye Porrege withal.   

For the Ague in a woman's breast. cap. lviii.  
TAke Hemlock leaves & fry them in sweet Butter, & as hot as she may suffer it, lay it to her breast and lap a warm white cotton, and it will drive it away in short time.   

¶ For the unnatural heat of the Liver. Chapter. lix.  
Take borage, bugloss, sicory, violets, fumitori, young hop buds, fenel buds, of each a quarter of a handful, young meadows & mercury of each half a handful, boil these in a pottle of Whey and strain it.   

For the Canker in the mouth. cap. lx.  
TAke half a pint of ale, & a sprig of Rosemary, & seeth them together, & scum your ale, and then put in a piece of alum as much as a nut, and a spoonful of Honey, and two spoonful of Honysuckle water.   

* To know what time in the year Herbs and Flowers, should be gathered in their full strength. cap. lxi.  
MEdicines are made divers and sundry ways, some by leaves, some by sedes, some by roots, some by Herbs, some by flowers, & some by fruits: Such leaves as are put to medicines should be gathered when they be at at their full waxing, ere that their colour be changed, or that they fade any thing.  
¶ Sedes when they be full ripe and the moistness somewhat dried away  
¶ Flowers should be taken when they be fully open ere they begin to fade.  
¶ Herbs should be gathered when they be full of sap, and ere they shrink.  
¶ roots should be gathered when the leaves fall.  
❧ Fruits should be taken when that they be at their full growth, or when they fall, & the heavier the fruit is, the better, & those that be great and light in ponderation choose not them, and those that be gathered in fair, weather be better than those that be gathered in rain.  
And those Herbs that groweth in the Fields are better than those that groweth in Cownes, in Gardens, and those that groweth on hills in the field be best for Medicines, for commonly they be less, & not so fat, and have more virtue. Many Herbs there be that have special time to be gathered in: And if they be gathered in that time, they have their whole virtue to their property, or else not so good. Some helpeth when so ever they be gathered, & some be naught if they be gathered out of time, therefore mark well what I teach thee.  
¶ Betayne shallbe gathered principally in Lammas mont with the seed and the roots, and without any Iron tool, and it shallbe dried in the shadow, for medicines it may be gathered other times, but evermore it is the better if it be gotten without Iron, and it must be gathered afore Son rising.  
¶ Swinsgras shallbe gathered when it pleaseth in time of need.  
¶ Camimamill shallbe gathered in april  
¶ Perytory shallbe gathered in june before the Son rising.  
¶ Read dock shallbe gathered when they need daily.  
¶ Longedebefe shallbe gathered in june and july.  
¶ Penyworte shallbe gathered in the beginning of Winter.  
¶ Germander shallbe gathered in Lammas Month.  
¶ Dragaunce shall be gathered in june and july.  
¶ columbine in Lammas month.  
¶ Addertung should be gathered in April.  
¶ Pedelyon when thou wilt.  
¶ Groundsill always after midday.  
¶ Wal wort when it pleaseth you without Iron.  
¶ Violet should be gathered in the Month of March, & in this month should Violets be put into Sugar and to Syrup. ¶ Roses should be gathered in April and in May, and of them should be made Sugar roset in syrups of Roses, and in this same Month should Oil be made of Camamyll.  
¶ Rosemary Flowers should be gathered in May.  
Centory when he beginneth to flower.  
¶ Origanum in the Month of june.  
¶ Solsequie should be gathered the xuj. day of August, before the Son rising without Iron.  
¶ Hertstong should be gathered ere day, in November.  
¶ Aristologia should be gathered the same time.  
¶ Garlic may be taken when you need for Medicines.  
¶ Wild Garlic should be gathered when it flowreth.  
¶ Gurdes should be gathered in the end of September, when they be ripe, and dried where the Son may be all day. Wild Nep berries should be gathered when they wax yellow.  
¶ Cucumbers should be gathered when the fruit is ripe, and the fruit should be laid under vines, where the Son may not have all his strength to him in a moist place that it may root, for than the seed shallbe good and full of kernels.  
¶ citrul when the fruit is ripe and dried in a dry place in the Son.  
¶ Calamint water should be gathered when it flowreth, and dry it in the shadow, and it will last a year.  
¶ Saffron should be gathered afore that the Son doth rise.  
Godur that groweth among Flax should be gathered when he beginneth to Flower, and it may be kept three year.  
¶ Drauke should be gathered when it flowreth, and dry him in the shadow, and a year it will last.  
¶ Eleber, must be gathered in Harvest time.  
¶ Fenell seeds should be gathered in the beginning of harvest, and two year he may be kept.  
¶ The roots of Fenel should be gathered in the beginning of the year and ii year they are good.  
¶ Baldemonye that some men calleth Gencian, should be gathered in the last end of the year, and four year he is good enough. The root of this Herb is used, and how thou shalt know him is this, that he be very bitter: the less bitter, the worse. Also, look that it be white whole, and not hollow within, but sad, & not brittle, nor full of powder.  
¶ Gallyngale, is called in Physic, Cipus: it may be taken at all times when thou wilt, but best is in the end of Ver: and three days it must be laid into the Son, and be dried: that the moyslure rot it not, and then you must keep it in the shadow.  
¶ Flouredelice, should be gathered in the end of Ver, and dried in the Son, & it will last. two. year well.   

¶ Here followeth, the sundry Virtues of Races, for divers Medicines. Ca lxii.  
ROses, be cold and moist, in two degrees: it hath these virtues. Stamp it, & lay it to a sore that brenneth & acheth: and it shall cease both the brenning & aching.  
¶ Also, it is good for the Fever in the stomach, & against all evils that are gendered in hot humours.  
¶ Also, let any woman drink it with Wine, and it shall forth with restrain bleedings, and help the Marowes of the womb.  
¶ Also, make Oil of Roses, & that is a principal Receipt for pricking in Sinews: & the water thereof is good for sore eyen, and for hot evils, and the Oil is good for head ache to anoint therewith the temples, and the root of him is good, & drawing for Iron: or other thing in a man's foot, & the read Rose is much better than the white.   

* The sundry virtue of lilies. cap. lxiii.  
lilies are cold and dri in three degrees, and so sayeth Galyen, that who so setheth the leaves in water, it is a noble Plaster for Sinews that are shorted, & it is good for all manner burnings & scaldings.  
¶ Also when the leaves and the roots are sodden in old Wine, and tempered up with honi, it is a profitable plaster for sickness the are kortten. Also the water & the juice is good for to wash thy brissers, and namely to do away the frekles on man's visage or Woman's, and the root is good to ripether with botches, and for to help to break them.   

¶ Of the sundry virtues of Milfoyle. Chapter. lxiiii.  
MYlfoyle is not and dry in. two. degrees, it is good to staunch the bloody flyr, & the juice thereof healeth the biting of a read hound, and if it be sod in read Wine, drink it, & it fleeth worms in the womb, and it will destroy venom, and it softeneth hardness in man's womb, and it helpeth jaundice & dropsy.  
¶ Also take the herb and stamp it, and temper it with Vinegar, and it will do away blood in wounds, and it will cease the toothache, when it is chewed fasting. Also it is good for the stinging of an Adder when it is sodden in wine, drink it, and lay the substance thereto, and it will draw out the Venom of the sore.   

¶ Of the sundry virtues of Rosemary. Chapter. lxv.  
ROsemary, is hot & dry: take the flowers thereof, & put them in .... a clean cloth, & boil them in fair clean water, until half be wasted: and cool it, & drink that water, for it is much worth against all manner of evils in the body.  
¶ Also, take the Flowers, & make powder thereof, and bind it to thy right arm in a linen cloth, and it shall make thee light and merry.  
¶ Also, eat the Flowers with honey fasting with sour bread, or else with other bread, and there shall rise in thee none evil swelling.  
¶ Also, take the Flowers, and put them in thy Chest, among thy clotheses or among thy Books, and Moths shall not destroy them.  
❧ Also, boil the flowers in goat's milk, and then let them stand all night under the air covered, & after that give him to drink thereof that hath the phthisic, & he shallbe holpen.  
¶ Also, if there be any man that is ramage: take the Flowers and the leaves, a great quantity, and boil them together in a good quantity of clean water, in that, Paciens bulneat: and it shall heal him.  
¶ Also, boil the leaves in white wine and wash thy face therewith, & thy Beard, and thy brows, and there shall no corns spring out, but thou shalt have a fair face.  
¶ Also put the leaves under thy head, and thou shalt be delivered of all evil dreams.  
¶ Also, break the leaves to powder, & lay them on the canker, & it shall slep it.  
¶ Also, take the leaves, & put them into a wine vessel, & it shall keep the wine from all sourness and evil savours, and it thou wilt cell thy wine, thou shalt have good speed.  
¶ Also, if thou be feeble with unkind sweat, boil the leaves in clean water, and wash thy head therewith, and thou shalt be delivered of that evil.  
¶ Also if thou have lost appetit of eating, boil well these leaves in clean water, & when the water is cold; put thereunto as much of whit Wine, & then make therein Sops, eat thou thereof well and thou shalt restore thy appetite again.  
¶ Also if thou have the Flux, boil the leaves in strong eyzill, and lay them on a linen cloth, and bind it to thy Womb, and a none thy Flux shallbe with drawn.  
¶ Also if thy Legs be blown with the Gout, boil the leaves in water, and then take the leaves & bind them in a linen cloth, and wind it about thy Legs, and it shall do thee much good.  
¶ Also take the leaves and boil them in strong eyzyll, and bind them to thy stomach in a Cloth, and it shall deliver thee of all evils.  
¶ Also if thou have the cough by stirring or by any other way, drink the water of the leaves boiled in white Wine, and ye shallbe whole.  
¶ Make powder of the rind of Rosemary, and drink it, and if thou be in the pose, thou shalt be delivered.  
¶ Also take the Timber thereof and burn it to coals, and make powder thereof, and then put it in a linen cloth, and rub thy teeth therewith, and if there be any worms therein, it shall slay them, & keep thy teeth from all evils.  
¶ Also of the would make a boyst to smell thereto, and it shall keep thee youngly.  
¶ Also make thereof a barrel, & drink thou of the drink the standeth therein and thou needest not dread of any evil being therein, and if thou set it in the field or in thy Garden keep it honestly, and it shall bring forth much increasing of himself.  
¶ Also if a man have lost his smeling of the air, that he may not draw his breath, make a fire of the wode and bake his bread there with and eat it, and it shall keep him well.  
¶ Also a man that hath the Gout, take oil of Roses, and the yolk of an egg, & the flowers of Rosemari, and meddle them together, and do it to his sore, & he shallbe holpen.   

¶ A brief Treatise of urines aswell of men's urines, as of women's, to judge by the colours, which betoken health, which betoken sickness, & which also betoken death. chapter. lxvi.  
IT is showed that in iiii. parts of the body dwelleth sickness, and health. That is: in the Womb, in that head in the liver, & in the bladder: in what manner thou mayst know their properties, and thereof thou mayst learn.  
If a man's Urine be white at morrow, & read before meat, & white after meat, he is whole, & if it be fat and thick it is not good, & if the urine be meanly thick, it is good to like, and if it be thick as Ass piss, it betokeneth head ache.  
¶ Urine that is ii days read, & at the ten day white, it betokeneth very health.  
¶ Urine that is fat, white, & moist, betokeneth the fever quartain.  
¶ Urine that is bloody, betokeneth that the bladder is hurt by some rotting that is within. ¶ A little Urine all fleshy, betokeneth of the rains, who pisseth blood, without sickness, he hath some vain broken in the rains.  
¶ Urine that is ponderous, betokeneth that the bladder is hurt.  
¶ Urine that is some what bloody of sickness betokeneth great evil within the body, and namely in the bladder. Urine that falleth by drops above as it were great bolnes, betokeneth great sickness and long.  
❧ Woman's brine that is clear & shining in the urinal as silver, if she cast oft, and if she have no talent to meat, it betokeneth she is with child  
¶ Womanes Urine that is strong and whit with stinking betokeneth sickness in the rains, and in her secret receipt, in her Chambers full of evil humours and of sickness of herself.  
☞ Woman's urine that is bloody and clear as water under, betokeneth head ache.  
¶ Woman's Urine that is like to Gold, clear and mighty, betokeneth the she hath lust to man.  
¶ Woman's urine that hath colour of stable cleansing, betokeneth her to have the fever quartan, and she to die the third day.  
¶ Woman's urine that appeareth as colour of Lead, if she be with child, betokeneth that it is dead within her.  

¶ Here followeth all the urines that betoken death, as well the brine of the man, as of Woman.  
IN a hot Axcis one partred another black, another green. and another blue, betokeneth death.  
¶ Urine in hot Axcys black and little in quantity; fatty, & stinking betokeneth death.  
¶ Urine over all coloured as Lead betokeneth a prolonging of death.  
¶ Urine dark above and clear beneath, betokeneth death.  
Urine that shineth raw and right bright, if the skin in the bottom shine not, it betokeneth death.  
¶ urine thin in substance, having fleeting above as it were a dark sky, signifieth of death.  
¶ Urine dersty, stinking, and dark with a black skis within, betokeneth a prolonging death.  
Urine that is of the colour of water, if it have a dark skis in an Axcis it betokeneth death.  
¶ Urine the hath dresses in the bottom meddled with blood: it betokeneth death.  
¶ Urine black and thick: if the sick loath when he goeth to the Privy, and when he speaketh overtharte, or that he understandeth not aright, and these Sicknesses go not from him, they betoken death.    

¶ How to make a sovereign Water, that M. Doctor St●●uyns Physician, a man of great knowledge and cunning, did practise: and used of long experience. And therewith did very many Cures, and kept it always secret, till of late a little before his death, a special friend of his, did get it in writing of him. Cap. lxvij.  

¶ The Receipt.  
TAke a Gallon of good Gascoigne Wine: then take ginger, Gallyngale, Camamyll, Cinnamon. Nutmegs, Grains Cloves, Mace, anis seeds, Fenel seeds, Caraways seeds: of every of them a dram. Then take Sage, Mints, Redroses, Cime Pellitory of the wall, wild Margerst, Rosemary. Peny mountain: otherwise called wild Time, Camamyll, Lavender and Avens, of every of them one handful: Then beat the Spices small, and bruise the Herbs, & put all into the Wine: and let it stand. xii. hours: stirring it divers times: Then still it in a Limbeck, and keep the first pint of the water, for it is the best: then will come a second water, which is not so good as the first.   

¶ The sundry virtues and operations of the same, many times approved.  
THe Virtues of this Water be these: it comforteth the spirits, and preserveth greatly the youth of man, and helpeth the inward deceases, coming of cold, against shaking of Palseye: It cureth the contraction of sinews, and helpeth the conception of Women that he barren, it killeth the worms in the Belly: it helpeth the cold Gout, it helpeth the Tooth ache, it comforteth the stomach very much: it cureth the col● dropsy, it helpeth the stone in the bladder and in the veins in the back: it cureth the Canker: it helpeth shortly a stinking Breath, and who so useth this Water ever among, and not to often, It preserveth him in good liking: and shall make on seem young very long. You must take one spoonful of this water fasting but once in. seven. days: for it is very hot in operation. It preserved Doctor Steevens that he lived. lxxx. and. xviii: years. Whereof. x. he lived bedrid.    
¶ FINIS.   

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