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A96121	The way to save wealth shewing how a man may live plentifully for two-pence a day. Likewise how to make a hundred noble dishes of meat, without either flesh, fish, or fowl. To make bread of roots, herbs, and leafs of trees. To brew good cheap liquor, without malt or hops. To make shoes last long. To make coals last long. To save soap in washing. To save cloth in cutting out a shirt. To make coffee of horse-beans To feed cattel well, without hay, grass, or corn. To save candles. To know any one's mind by signs; if there be twenty in company, they cannot apprehend it. To order bees aright. To settle your estate with Christian prudence. To know Scripture-weights and measures. Of dreams. To cure wounds by sympathy. The way to live long. To make spring-potage. To cure all sorts of cattle for 12 d. charge. To improve land, order and cure all deseases in singing birds. To kill vermin. To brew pale ales. To make wines, and all sorts of liquor, and an easy way to fine, and order them. With divers other curious matter	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1172; ESTC R204135	45,191	78

c. which I omit for Brevity If wet Weather happen about July August or September or when it is generally a wet Summer and continues till Michaelmas a Rot is greatly to be feared In wet Weather give your Sheep Hay at Night and Morning or give them three times a Week Oats or other Grain mixing a little Salt with it and this will prevent the Rot Low wide Houses like Barns open on all sides to house Sheep in wet Weather preserves them from Rot this is a General Rule in Flanders Those that live where the Rot is often ought to change their Sheep for Hill-Country Sheep which will thrive and prove less subject to this Disease Divers other Notable Things How to harden LEATHER that it shall last much longer than it doth unprepared THis Secret is so necessary for the whole Land that I shall discover it Lay such Leather as is well taw'd to soak in Water wherein there hath been store of Filings of Iron a long time or else in Water that hath lain a long time under a Grindstone where Iron hath from time to time fallen and there settled To beautifie SHOES and keep them dry and beautiful and to preserve them Take two ounces of Bees-wax a penny worth of Lamb-black twelve or thirteen drops of Neats Oil or a little Grease let them boil and stir them well together then take it off and when cold make it into a Roll and rub a little of it upon a hard Brush then heat your Brush and rub your Shoes observe that your Shoes must be rub'd from Dirt clean before you rub your Wax and likewise dry and this will keep out wet and set a Gloss and preserve your Shoes To make COALS last much longer than usual Take your smallest Sea-Coals and mix them well with large pieces of Clay as big as large Balls and lay them upon your Fire To save SOAP in washing Linnen Infuse Spring or River-water two or three days in open Vessels in the Air a quantity of Chalk and it will save a great deal of Soap It purges being drank by Urine brings away Gravel and slimy offensive Matter Put Chalk into stale Beer and it immediately takes away the eagerness of it Drink it with Water and it cures the Heart-burn it is good to brew-withal Directions to Dress HATS. Smear a little Soap upon the places of your Hat that is filthy and then with some hot Water and a hard Brush rub your Hat then scrape it with the back of a Knife what filth sticks and it will bring both Grease and Scap out Another Some take the Grounds of Beer and boil it and with a Brush rub their Hats and so clean it To make Powder INK or White Powder INK Take of Gum Sandrach two ounces and beat it well to a Powder then sift it thro' a fine Sieve take as much Calaminthus which the Druggists sell mix them well beaten to Powder and a quarter of an ounce of this will turn a pint of Water or Vinegar into good Ink presently To make COFFEE of Horse-Beans Take Horse-Beans and roast them then grind them as you do Coffee-Berries and put a small quantity of Coffee to them then take a little sweet Malt tyed in a Rag and put into your Water and boil it as you usually do Coffee I am told it will answer the end for Colour Taste and Virtue Another Take 12 ounces of Horse-Beans unhusk't and roasted 2 ounces of Coffee 2 ounces of Wheat parched or roasted and pouder'd in your Liquor you may boil some sweet Malt tyed in a Bag and make your Coffee with that Liquor This I had from a Friend I am told that Pease does the same thing If you cast Salt into a Lamp of Oil it makes the Oil last twice as long as it will without it A pleasant wholsom and cheap Way to make Wine of Cherries Gooseberries Apricocks and Plumbs Take Gooseberries Cherries and Plumbs or any other such like Fruit bruise them then put them into a Tub such as is used to mash Malt in with a Tap in it then put in it as much good Water as you think fit either to make it small or strong let these infuse 11 13 17 or 20 hours then you must draw it if you would keep it put some bitter Herb or Seed 3 or 4 hours in it for present use Balm or any good Herb then to every Gallon put two pound and a half or three pound of Honey Sugar or Treacle the more sweetning the stronger it will be then put some Yeast to it and let it work Grease the edge of new Shoes or new-soled Shoes then with a hot Iron seer them well on the edge and round the heel it preserves your Shoes from spunginess and makes them last much longer How a Man may Advance his Corn 5 d. or 7 d. in a Bushel and that is by cutting down his Corn before it be over-ripe for if it is over-ripe the Straw becomes so brittle that it hardly supports the Ears by that means it sheds more than was sowed but especially Barly it likewise makes the Bread eat husky therefore take care it stand not too long nor you cut it over-soon but observe a Medium How to Brew Ale Take your Water as hot as you can without boiling then put it into the Mash-tub or other Vessel let it stand a small time before your Malt be put into it for if you put your Malt into the Water hot it will make the Wort of a red colour but the cooler the Water is the paler will your Wort look You may put into the Ale a small quantity of Hops but they must not be boiled but you may do thus fill your Vessel or Copper that you use with your Wort make it boiling-hot then what quantity of Hops you will you may take infuse them nigh half an hour when that is done strain them out not letting it boil at all then you have all the vertues of Hops that are necessary for the Body you must likewise let your Ale be thoroughly wrought or fermented that it may be well cleansed from its Yeasty substance for if not it quickly grows sour likewise you must take care that you don't set it working whilst too hot for that weakens the original heat and if your Ale work too furiously it will not keep but turn sour sooner than the other that is set a working in such a degree of heat neither let your Wort be set a working too cold for that makes the spirituous quality become dead or flat You may Brew as wholsom Ale or wholsomer and not boil it at all try before you judge and speak as you find Read an excellent Book call'd The Way to Health Long-Life and Happiness pag. 154 155 156 157 c. To take Ink out of Paper Take Aquafortis and dip a little of it upon the blot or writing you would take out and immediately it will disappear then take a little Water steeped