THE ENGLISH MOUNTEBANK: Or, a Physical DISPENSATORY, Wherein is prescribed, Many strange and excellent Receipts of Mr MARRIOT, the great Eater of Grays-Inn: With the manner how he makes his Cordial Broths, Pills, Purgatious, Julips, and Vomits, to keep his Body in temper, and free from SURFEITS.  
With sundry Directions, 

1 How to make his Cordial Broth.  
2 His Pills to appease Hunger.  
3 His strange Purgation; never before practised by any Doctor in England.  
4 The manner and reason, why he swallows Bullets & Stones.  
5 How he order his baked meat, or rare D●sh on Sundays.  
6 How to make his new fashion Fish-broath.  
7 How to make his Salad, for cooling of the Blood.  
8 How to make his new Dish, called a Frigazee: the operation whereof, expels all sadness and melancholy.    
By J. MARRIOT, of Grays-Inn, Gent.  
London, Printed for George Horton, 1652.   

The English Mountebank: OR, A new Physical Dispensatory: By J. Marriot of Grayes-Inn, Gent. Wherein is prescribed his rare Conceits, never before practised or administered by any Doctor: Also, the manner how he makes his Cordial Broths, Pills, Purgations, Julips, and Vomits, to keep his body in temper, and free from surfeits, etc.  

How to make his Cordial Broth.  
TAke three sheep hinges with the wool on their heads: three dozen of sheep Trotters: two Bullocks Livers, with half a peck of Oatmeal; boil all these in a Cauldron two hours; then strain the broth through a hair sackcloth, and let it cool: The use of it is to appease grumbling in the Guts, or a wambling stomach, by drinking one Gallon at a time, and eating the meat after it: This will preserve you from hunger and wind in the stomach, using it but once in two hours.   

How to make his Pills to appease hunger, ordinarily carried about him.  
TAke of Rye-tueal 9 pound, of Chandler's Graves 3 pound, of the skimmings of Honey one pound, warm water as much as will make it into a Paste: then roll them up into a dozen balks: then put them into some boiling broth, till they be through boiled: then set them to cool; but beware that the dogs do not deceive you of them, as they have done him oftentimes. The chief use of these Pills are for travelling; for Mr Marriot carried always a dozen to Westminster in the Term time for fear of fainting: his ordinary place for eating them, was in the dark place near the Common-pleas Treasury, where one might see him swallow these Pillt, as easily as an ordinary man would do a guilt pill in the pap of an Apple.   

How he makes a Purgation.  
MR Marriot would often follow the Fariars Rule for Drenches, which Receipt best agreed with his body: for he would take Milk and Oil with Aquavitae, Pepper, and Brimstone, all mingled together: a pottle at one time is nothing with him to scour his Maw.   

Why he swallows Bullets and Stones.  
THe heat of his stomach is such, that without such a Remedy he could not subsist; for when he hath gormondized himself at some great Feast, straight way he swallows bullets of almost 4 Ounces weight, which causes a present digestion: also round pebble stones he often swallows, which cools his Maw. These kind of tricks he hath, by which he puts down many of our new Jugglers now a days, who will be an hour eating of a Cheesecake; he vanquisheth all that dare oppose him in his Art.   

How he order his baked meat, or his rare Dish on Sundays.  
MR. Marriot out of niceness, because he would not have women's fingers in his meat, dresses his meat himself, having an earthen pot which holds half a bushel; he fills it in this manner as followeth. Take a Bullocks head, the bones being chopped small, and good store of Onions, and other course Herbs which are easily to be get, with an ounce of pepper, and as many Turnup's as will fill the pot: when he had laid all these in his pot, he put thereto a Gallon of pump-water, because it should not want moisture: then with his own paws he carries it to the Bakehouse, staying still by it, fearing lest he should be deprived of some of it in his absence. He never goes to Church on a Sunday, but gives much attention to the Baker when he says it is his time to draw; which time being come, he caries his pot home, and to dinner he goes without laying a cloth; first he cuts slices of stolen bread, and sops them in this Restorative: he is a right Englishman, for he eats his broth first; which being done, he sends the meat to be boiled once more in his hot maw, that hath so quick a digestion, that three Cooks are not able to provide him meat at all the motions of his stomach: This being an absolute Remedy for the present, I have here set it down for those stomaches that dare keep him company.   

How to make his rare Fish-broath.  
LIke a good Doctor he makes his broth, only in May or June, when Mackrel are 16 a groat; and then he hath great skill in choosing them, for none but the broken bellied ones will serve his turn: but because he would not be cheated in them, he will go to Billingsgate himself, and will sit on the stairs half a day, rather than be disappointed: but seeing fish for his turn, presently buys twelve penny worth, and away he comes home, getting water, and setting them on in his large Cauldron: many herbs he uses, as Fennel, B●yes, Rosemary, and a few Leeks; but when it is boiling he skims it, because it is to make broth: having so done, he lets them boil a little, and then takes up his fish and his herbs: then he puts half a peck of Malt in, and boiles it again; his fish he sets to cool, yet like a good Cook, he licks his fingers as he is a dressing them: having now boiled his broth sufficiently, he falls on it, and the fish, making no more of it then the Welshman did of his three penny Ordinary, who was ready for another, before he had done that he was about. The use he made of this broth and fish, was only to get him a stomach; for he would often say, That fish was of a light digestion: therefore good for those that have but a slight stomach at present, but desire a greater.   

How to make his cooling Salad, to cool the blood.  
I Am of opinion that he hath read Gerard's Herbal, or the History of Plants, wherein partly he found this Receipt; and being enlarged by himself, I thought fit to set it down amongst the rest: he being a man of a hot stomach, did use this Salad following very often, wherein he found great benefit.  
The way to make it is thus: 
 Take as many Water-Cresses as a large Flasket will hold, as many Radish tops, and half so many Colworts; boil all these together for the space of two hours: then take them up without much 〈◊〉, and put them in all 〈◊〉 Tub, putting thereto a Gallon of sour Ale, and a quantity of Goose-grease, sufficient to give it a taste, with a pound of Pepper strewed upon it: This Salad is excellent good to purge the blood, and loosen the belly, this quantity being taken three several mornings in the week.   

How to make Mr. Marriots Dish, called a Frigazee.  
THis Mr Marriot hearing of a new Dish that was much used at Oxford Cates, and in other places about the City amongst gallants, thought in his fancy to make one that should resemble it, because the materials that were used in it, were too dear for him; but being a man of a rare stomach, quickly guessed at something that was eatable, though dressed in a strange way: When he had thought upon all the materials of this Dish, he began to put it in practice, having gotten all the Ingredients together, to try this rare conclusion.  
And thus he made it; 
 He took three great Pomcitrons, and pulled out the Kernels that were within them: then he pared the outside rind off, and then sliced them into thin slices: then he had many Apples which he sliced also: then he took two Bullocks Livers and sliced them very thin and broad: then he laid a row of the former slices in the bottom of his Oxe-cheek pot; he peppered his Liver well, and laid a laying of one, and a laying of another, till he had filled his pot, strewing many fine herbs on the top of it: Then he carried it to the Bakehouse, where he stayed till it was baked; being come home, he invited his Landlord to taste of his new Dish, who I dare swear never faw the like before; but his Landlord knowing his stomach, and that a— was as good for a Sow as a pancake, praised his dish highly, saying, It is very good, but I have newly supped; therefore I desire you to excuse me to night: I shall leave none for to morrow, qd. he, and so fell on, as if it had been a Chicken roasted: so excellent is his stomach for digestion.   
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