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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09733	Sundrie nevv and artificiall remedies against famine. Written by H.P. Esq. vppon thoccasion of this present dearth	Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611?	1596 (1596)	STC 19996; ESTC S114752	18,417	36

the same to the view of the well disposed Reader whose courteous acceptation hereof may one daie peraduenture wring from me some matter of higher reach and farther seruice then as yet I see either iust cause to promise or reason to speake of And because in the treatise following my Author hath raunged ouer all manner of trees plants roots greene pulse and herbes out of which hee might by any probabilitie draw any kind of sustenance for the reliefe of man I will onely content my selfe with the handling or preparation of some of these particulars which are most plentifull in their quantitie least offensiue in their nature and most familiar with our soile and bodies so as their offensiue taste beeing first remooued by arte they may serue vs in a far better manner and to our greater liking then nowe they do either for bread drinke or food Howe to take awaie a great part of that ranke and vnsauourie tast of Beanes Pease Beechmast Chestnuttes Acornes Veches and such like IF this may in some good measure bee performed then I doubt not but that the bulke and body of our meale and flower will be much increased and multiplied at the least for the poore mannes Table then receiue mine owne experience therein Boile your beanes pease beech mast c. in faire vvater and if they be not yet pleasing inough change your vvater againe and at the second or third boyling you shall finde a strange alteration in taste for the water hath sucked out imbibed the greatest part of their ranknesse then muste you drie them and if you thinke good you may also hull them according to the maner set down hereafter in the Abstract of Anchora Famis c. or else you may grinde them vnhulled then make bread thereof either simplie of it selfe or with the addition of some third or fourth part of other wheat flower or else for better expedition at the least in drinke if not in bread you may take the ground meale of them and infuse warme water thereon and as it beginneth to coole dreyne the same avvay and reinfuse fresh warme vvater till the taste please you then drie vp the meale and make bread thereof either simplie or compounded as before And as concerning the Chestnuts we haue the experience of France therein already vvhere in great abundāce they are spent and consumed in their vsuall bread in diuers partes of that Country The beech mast doth yeeld a most sweet and delicate oile and euery waie comparable with the nut it selfe and therfore it is very probable that it wil make an excellent bread with a very smal correction if there might be some easie vvaie or maner found out for the ready husking or hulling of them which seemeth no matter of any great difficulty then I durst promise a most rich plentiful oile of our own growing and seruiceable for many necessarie vses But if notwithstanding my former preparation of beans pease c. the meale thereof do not yet content you then worke it into paast with a liquor first strengthened with some brused Annis seedes licoras or sweet Fennell seedes or with the seedes themselues incorporated in the paast or for the auoiding of charge with pepperwort Thime wintersauery penniroyal c. For if you can but deceiue the taste you shall find the bread very harty wholsome nourishing And whatsoeuer is here spoken of beanes pease c. may bee generally vnderstoode of all other graine seedes plants pulse rootes c. And that which is seruiceable for bread wil be much more tollerable in drinke for the making wherof in some more cheap maner then as yet is known or vsuall amongst vs you shal find some few notes of mine vpon the Abstract following in their seueral places Certaine strange and extraordinarie waies for the relieuing of a prisoner or other poore distressed creatures when al hope of vsual victual is taken from him THese as I dare not warrant so yet because I haue receiued them either from good Authors or frō the credible report of men of woorth I will deliuer them as faithfully as I haue receiued them 1 And first of al Paracelsus himselfe affirmeth that a fresh turfe or clod of earth applyed euery daie vnto the stomach of a man will preserue him from famishing for some smal number of daies 2 I haue heard many trauailers deliuer of their own knowledge and experience that a man may liue 10. or 12. daies by sucking of his owne bloud 3. Bapt. Port. telleth vs of a poor fellow vpon whom a ruinous house fel and the man so hedged in vvith the floores and timber that fel vpon him as that not being able to get out he vvas forced to relieue himselfe with his owne vrine for 9. or ten daies making his hand his cup to drinke in 4 But the strangest and most incredible of all the rest is that story which Parson Bateman sometime Parson of Newington had by relation of that reuerend father D. Grindal then Archbishop of Canturbury from the mouth of two English captiues that were imprisoned in Turky and for their offence condemned to bee famished to death and escaped by this means The keeper affecting his prisoners for those good parts which he found in them hauing receiued an oth of their secrecie deliuereth vnto each of thē a smal peece of Allom which hee willed them fiue or six times a day to rowle vppe and downe in theyr mouthes Howe at tenne daies ende the great Turk sending to knovv if the christians were dead or aliue and being informed of their liues he commaunded that vppon paine of death no manne should dare to relieue them with any maner of food Now when 10 daies more were expired and the like inquirie returne made as before Wel qd the Turk if they can continew yet 10. daies more without food I will say that the God of the christians wil haue them preserued and they shal be enlarged The last 10. daies expiring and the prisoners liues certified vnto the Turke they were forthwith deliuered out of prison and returned for their ovvn countrey and here discouered the secret The reason and probabilitie hereof I vvill leaue for better Magitians then my selfe For though vve might suppose that the salt of nature might receiue some strength or vigour from this minerall salt yet hovve the guts should bee filled vvith so small a proportion I cannot gesse much lesse determine ¶ A sift foode but receiuing some helpe from come vvas commended by Mendozza himselfe wherewith he assured me vpon his honor that he had relieued a Spanishe towne in an extreame dearth and scarcity of victual and therewithall shewed mee a loafe of that composition which was of wheate straw chopt into short peeces and grounde with som proportion of wheat into meale But since I haue beene farther informed that the same practise hath beene vsuall in harde yeares in some partes of England and for mine owne better satisfaction