you may warm it to that degree of Heat you usually do Ale or Beer which rather betters it than the Contrary Take a spoonful of ground Oatemeal and temper it with Water as you do to put into broth then add a Quart of clear Water to it Brew it 6 or 7 times out of one Cup or Pot into another and it s done An universal Medicine for all Wounds or diseases GOD is often pleased to manifest his great Power in things that seem very little in our esteem as appears by this Medicine of chew'd white Bread I was struck by a new shoed Horse on the Shin-bone my Leg swelled that my Bone was forced to be cut I lay'd some chew'd white Bread to my Leg when I went to Bed and next Day the Pain was gone My Hand was bit through by a mad Dog I lay'd this to it and Cured it in four Days I have Cured divers Green Wounds with it I Applyed it but six times and Mollifyed a Corn so that I took it out Core and Root and it grew no more I Cured my self of an old Pain in my Shoulder by it a great swelling in my Throat Occasioned by a violent Cold it broak out like the Kings Evel I Cured it in four Days a swelled Leg Putrifyed and great Holes in it and all over full of Tulch and Rottenness that it was conceived to be a Gangren I Cured with it a Pruning Hook stuck through my Thumb-nail and all I Cured with it also one run into the Knee with a Rusty Raper so Festred that it was thought it must have been out off I Cured one Black and Blew from Elbow to Shoulder by a blow and many other I Cured the quality of it is to stench Blood draw out Poison or a Thorn to ease Pains and heal greeved places Read more of this and abundance of Curiosities in a Book called the way to get Wealth by making 23 sorts of English Wine equal to French Metheglin Rum Rack Coffee Tea Mum Cyder and 40 sorts of Ale in a Minute to make Corn produce a treble Crop to dress Fish Flesh and Fowl Accounts cast up of great use to Traders to Write Letters Accounts where Coach Carts and Waggons Inns to Compound bad Debts and recover them and abundance of other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled the way to save Wealth by living well for 2d a Day to save Coals Shoes Candles Soap and Cloth in making a shift to Angle order Bees and Silk-worms Cattle Powltry c. to Improve Land by Hops Flax Liquorice to destroy Virmin to speake by Signs and 20 in the Room shall know nothing of it aod by this means cheating at Cards is plainly Demonstrated to feed Horses fatt without Corn Hay or Grass with many other Curiosities Also another Book Intituled a Thousand Notable things teaching speedily to Read Write and Indite Letters to speake any Language speedily the Laws of the City Observations in Planting Gardening and Grafting to catch Birds to Build and save Lime a cheap way to take spots out of Cloths the use of Dullidge-water to know what Weather will happen Rules of Health and how to live long of Moles Riddles Dreams Stories to make all sorts of Ink to make fine Pictures of Perfuming Dying Colouring with 900 other Curiosities price of each Book 1 s. 6d Sold at the Ring in Little Brittain To cure the Farce or Scurf in a Horse HAng a Toad about the Neck of a Horle in a little Bag and it will Infalibly cure him it must be a live Toad and this I am told cured a Child of the Evil hung about its Neck in a Bag a live and hang there till it dyes and Stink The Angler's Instructor TO be a Compleat Angler observe these things following 1. His Cloaths ought to be of a dark Colour 2. Let your Angling Rod be light and taper and the top prety stiff and about 4 yards long 3. The best time to provide Fishing Rods is from the 11th of December to the middle of January being then freest from Sap Hasle Black Thorn Crab-Tree and Yewswitches are mostly used Let your Stocks and Tops be taper and smooth and each joint neatly suited bind them together 16 Months with straight poles among them that they may not wrap If you use a Firr Angle rub it with Aqua fortis and it gives a curious Chesnut Colour Proportion your Rods and Lines according as the Rivers Ponds c. are in largeness your Lines also must be in strength proportionable to the Fish you expect to catch For the colour of the Hair if there be any difference I prefer a pale water Green which you may dye thus Take a Bottle of Allom-water a good handful of Marygolds boil them till a yellow Scum arises then put half a pound of green Copperas and half a pound of Verdigrease and beat them to powder put these into the Allom-water then put in the Hair set them to cool 12 Hours then take out the Hair and let it dry Let your Line for the Artificial Fly be stronger than the Ground Line for the Trout 5. Your Shot ought to be fastned about a foot from the Hook Your Float if a Quill make thus Take two soft Goose Quills cut the Heads of each about an Inch and a half then shut them together like a Pin case fastenwith melted Shoomakers Wax put a Pill of the same Wax within the end to keep out Water with 2 Caps or Rings made of Quill to slip on each end of the Float for the Line to go between some use a Cork cut like a Pear and bored thro' with a small hot Iron then put in a Quill of a fit Proportion then on a Grindstone rub it smooth 6 In the next Place be provided with a Plummet to try the Depth of the Water 7. Have Bags of Linnen and Woolen for all sorts of Baits and a little Wherstone to sharpen your Hook and also be provided with a Landing Net and a Pen-knife c. All your Tackling in Order go to the River and find a Place if you can that hath a gravelly or smooth Bottom and about 2 or 3 yards in depth the Stream not too swift then about a yard from the place you design to Fish at cast in a quarter of a Peck of Grains or as many more if you please dip them first in the River that they may sink the better and about an Hour after you may begin to Fish for by that time its probable the Fish may have found them If you have not Sport in an Hour you may conclude there is none or else that Pearch and Pike are there that live on small Fish 8. Then plumb the Ground and Fish about 2 Inches from the Bottom the best Summer Bait except in April and May their Spawning time when they are not gone should be large Wheat ordered as Furmety which may be kept 15 or 20 days in Water or Beer putting in fresh as the Skins
even with the surface in their Tracts and they 'll fall into it If the ground is troubled with Gaurse Tansie Fern Thistle c pull them up Hoe or strike of the Tops that the Root that remains being over Charged with Sap may Perish And to raise immediately a good Soard and prevent Weeds growing you must Dung your Grounds and spreading the Dung suffer the Rain to soak in levelling the Land with a Rowler and suffer not heavy Cattle if it lye Low to Graze when the Rain has made it soft for by treading they will spoil it's growing when soft and if you intend it for Hay then no Cattle must come in it after Lady-Day least by Croping too near the young blades of Grass they spoile the first cutt and hinder the latter also Read more of these things in Blith's Husbandry a Book wrote by Experience and the only Book of Husbandry Extant the Fourth Edition with large Aditions Sold at the Ring in Little Brittain Price 3 s To improve Ground by Hops Flax Liquorice and Saffron FOr a Hop Garden choose a good mellow Ground and rich Ground not two hot moist nor Cold well sheltred by Trees from strong Winds that may rend the Vines from the Poles turn it up deep with a Plough or dig it with a Spade and cast it up into little hills or Rows with Alleys betwixt the Hills about two foot distant from each other then take your best Sprouts or for want of them the Growth of slips and making four or five holes in a Hill crumble in some Mold lightly and put the slips or Sprouts into the holes and so cover them up do this in the beginning of April observing if time will permit the Moon to be in the Increase and to every Sprout that rises well fix a Pole and suffer that to twist about it Observe to set them all Inclinning towards the South that the Sun may the better compass them for this is most evident a bending Pole has more Hops than an upright And a Gentlemen in York shire places his Hops in such sort that one Plant may not shadow another but that his whole Garden receives the fulness and strength of the Sun Beams at once whereby his Hops are more kindly and the Bells much larger than any other Hop Ground whose Poles are erected and stand upright after our ordinary and gross manner To return I say fix the Pole for them to twist about it the Pole being 8 or 9 Foot above Ground at least being full of Snags for the better supporting the Vine At Lamas Tide you will find them Belled and when you find them fit to cut cut the Vines by the Root and take them off with the Poles into a plain place and gather them dry them on a Kiln and Bag them up an Acre of Hops are sometimes worth 100 Pound To Improve Land by Flax. PLough up a considerable mellow Ground and having a good sort of Seed sow it in the middle of April if possible in the Moons increase having before improved the Land with fat Soil from the streets or some Olse place casting the Seed 2 Bushel to an Acre and when it appears above Ground whilst young take care that the Weeds over grow it not tho when it has out slipt them it needs no Weeding for the Land being some what moist it will grow to an Extraordinary height when ripe which is known by the Yellowness of the outward Rind and the swelling of the Seeds then must you pluck up the Stalks and bind them up in little bundles suffering them to dry in the Sun then lay the bundles in Water soaking them with heavy weigth and when you find the Rind loose then are they steeped enough then take them out and unloose them again drying them in the Sun and strip off the Rind which you must hackle on Crins of Iron c. Fit for use an Acre well managed will bear 30 or 40 Pounds worth of Flax when dressed and ordered to the purpose Hemp Seed steeped in plain Salt-peter diluted in Water and other fit Earthy substance in its due time arrived to the Talness that it rather seem'd a Coppice of Wood of 14 Years growth than plain Hemp. Of Planting and Grafting IN Planting observe when you remove any Tree to mark it in the Rind that you set it the same way it grew first bring with you as much of the natural Earth as you can and over and above adding a small matter of Dung and fresh Mold cuting off part of the top Branches that they may not draw away too much Sap before its well Rooted In Grafting there are several methods to be observed and first when you have taken the Scion which must be from the body of the Tree and not a top Twig You must saw off your Stock about 3 or 4 Foot above the Ground then cuting the Twig flat at the great end but not the Bark off slit the Stock with a Knife or Chisell and put in the Scion that both barks may toutch then with Dung and Clay well tempred together bind it up close that neither Air nor Bugs can enter and let it continue Secondly there are some who bore a hole a sloap into the heart of the Tree and so put the Scion in Thirdly they take a Bud from one Tree and slitting the Bark of another Tree let it in and so close them together Fourthly there are those that slice off a Bud or Scion with the intire Bark and plaister and by opening the Bark of a Branch into another Tree and all these ways sometimes hit In Grafting the Fig will grow on a Mulbery the Apple or Pear on a Quince or Crab the Damson on a Wild Thorn Peach and Cherry upon a Peach the Apricock on a Plumb the Wal-nut upon the Ash the Quince on the Barbary the Almond on the Philbeart the Vine upon the Cherry Tree and so of other which are better and improved by Grafting To improve Liquorice LIquorice greatly improves Ground and is of a lasting quality to order it dig your Ground very deep then mellow the Mold and cast it up into Banks making Alleys between the Banks being about two Foot high then take your Crown-slips and make Holes with a setting Staff upon the Banks in a line put in the slips having first crumbled in some soft Mold covering all but the Top and as the Leaves sprout draw the Earth about them with a small Hoe and Water not the Plants except the Weather be excessive dry and then but very little and that in the Evening and because you can expect but little Benefit of these Plants the First and Second Year you may Sow Onions set Potato's Beans Cabbage or any thing of the like nature between them and the 3d Year about the beginning you may draw and dig the Plants and dry them in a Hot-house Killn or Stow and a good Acre of Liquorice will yeild 90 Pound To improve Saffron
come about it then with a Net you may take abundance of Fish Proper Flies for every Month. February PAlmer Flies little red Brow the Silver Hackle the plain Hackle the Gold Hackle the great blew dun the great dun the dark brown March The early bright brown the little whirling dun the Thorn-tree Fly the whitish dun the little black Gnat the blew dun the little bright brown April The little dark brown the small bright brown the Violet Fly the great whirling dun the Horse flesh Fly the yellow dun May. The green Drake the dun Cow the black May Fly the Stone Fly the little yellow May Fly the Camlet Fly the great Drake the yellow Palmer the Turky Fly the black flat Fly the little dun the brown light the white Gnat the Cow Lady the Peacock Fly the Cow-turd Fly June From the 1st to the 24th The Stone-fly and green Drake the Barn-fly the Owl-fly the purple Hackle the Flesh-fly the purple Gold Hackle the little Flesh-fly the Ant-fly the Peacock-fly the little black Gnat the brown Gnat the green Grashopper the brown Hackle the dun Grashopper July The Orange-fly the Badgers-fly the Wasp-fly the little white dun the black Hackle the black brown dun the Shell-fly August The Fern-fly the late Ant-fly Harry-long-leg the white Hackly September The late Bagger the Camel brown Fly October The same Flies that were used in March Artificial Flies how to make them and the Season they are to be used in IN April a Stone-fly is in Season the body of it is made with black Wooll made yellow under the Wings and under the Tail the Wings made of Mallards Feathers May at the beginning a ruddy Fly is in Season make the body of red Wooll wrapt about with blew Silk the Wings make of the Wing of a Drake and a red Hackle The yellow or green Fly is made of yellow Wooll his Wing made of red Hackle and the Wing of a Drake The dun Fly is made of black Wooll and sometimes dun in season in March his Wings made of Partridge Feathers black Drake's Feathers and the Feathers under his Tail The black Fly in season in May made of black Wooll and wrapt about with Peacock's Tail his Wings the Feather of the Wings of a brown Capon with the blew Feathers in his Head In June the said yellow Fly is in season made of black Wooll with a yellow List on either side the Wings of a Buzzard bound with broken Hemp. Also the Moorish Fly in season in June made of duskish Wooll the Wings the black Feathers of a Mall Drake Also in the middle of June the Taring Fly made of Bear 's Wooll the Wings made contrary one against the other of the whitish Feathers of a Mall Drake In July the Wasp Fly in season made of black Wooll wrapt about with yellow Silk the Wings made of the Feathers of a Buzzard or Drak The Shell Fly good in the middle of June made with greenish Wooll wrapt about with Pearls of a Peacock's Tail the Wings made of a Buzzards Feathers The dark Drake Fly made of black Wooll wrapt about with black Silk in season in August the Wings made of the Feathers of a Male Drake with a black Head The May Fly made of greenish coloured Cruel or Willow Colour and darken it in most Places with waxed Silk or ribb'd with a black Hair or some of them ribb'd with a Silver Thread and such Wings for the Colour as you see the Fly to have at that Season The Oak Fly the Body made of Orange paring and black Cruel the Wings the brown of a Mallard's Feathers To take Pikes TAke what quantity of blown Bladders you please and at the mouth of it tie a Line longer or shorter as the Water is in depth bait your Hooks Artificially and put them into the Water and as the Wind blows them gently the Pike will strike himself and make pleasant Diversion by flouncing about when spent take him out the same may be done by tying your Line at the Leg of Ducks or Geese To take a Pike as he lies sleeping and sunning in fair Weather with a Loop or Net MArch and August is the best time Take a long Pole or Rod that is light and strait on the small end fasten a running Loop of twisted Horse-hair and Silk or made of Wyre of a large Compass which gently draw on him and when it is 5 or 6 Inches over his Gills hoist him up if it is a small Pike draw it not so far on make no Noise in walking nor speaking if he lies so that you cannot conveniently noose him touch his Tail with the Rod and he 'll turn as you please also with a hand Net putting it gently under Water guide it just under him and lift it softly till you just touch him and then do it as quick as you can Baits for Fish TAke Oculus Indiae soft Cheese and Honey and Crumbs of White Bread make it into a Paste and throw little Pellets into the Water and the Fish will swim above the Water Of FOWLING LET your Net be made of the best Pack-Thread well twisted and dry'd and for great Fowl let your Meshes be two Inches at least form point to point the larger the better provided the Powl cannot creep through Let the Net be about 2 Fathom deep and 6 in length is the best verge it on each side and at either end extend it with long Poles that the lower end of the Poles may be fastned with a piece of a Line or two Stakes fast driven into the Ground And observe to do this at the Places where Birds feed and haunt in the Mornings and you may expect Sport To take Birds with Lime twigs THus you must make it At Midsummer peel the Bark from the Holli-Trees and fill a Vessel and put running Water to it then boil it over the Fire till the white and grey Bark rise from the green Take it off the Fire drain the Water well away and then separate the Barks and take the green lay it on some moist Floor and close Place and cover it with Weeds and let it lie about a Fortnight and in that time it will rot and turn to a slimy Substance and then put it into a Mortar beat it well and then take it out and wash it in some running Stream till the foulness is gone Then put it in a close Earthen Pot let it stand five days look to its purging and scum it When clean put it into another Earthen pot and keep close for use As for your Setting-dog it must be elected and trained thus He must be of good Scent and love naturally to haunt Fowls the Land Spaniel is best being of a good nimble size and couragious Mettle which you may know by his Breed and being of a good Ranger c. Then the first Lesson is to make him crouch and lie down close to the Ground and it s done by frequent laying him on the
forced under the Sword and by the spreading of the Plow and help of the turning board you force the Earth from ward which requires much more strength than if the Plow were made of a bredth proportionable from the Shares point to it's hinder part and the Sword or Earth caryed from the bottom and a turning board cast from ward and then you may either add a second Colter and share to succeed the former fixt to the very same beam about 4 or 5 Inches lower which said second Colter and share will cut and take up another course in the bottom of the Trench and carry it higher And then the turning board will throw it on the first Plowing or else you may make another to cast higher then the first to follow it Each of these Plows require but half the strength of the common forcing Plow for that it Cuts Raises and casts the Earth over without any side forcing at all You may make this Plow 5 6 or 7 Inches broad or more according to the Nature of the Ground and strength you design to use whether 1 2 or 3 Horses to draw it and it will serve not only to Plow and Plow-Trench Land but it will also serve to pare off the Turf of Ancient Pasture Land in order to burn it for the Foot on which the fore end of the Beam rests may be made to stand higher or lower as you please to have it to the end it may cut thicker or thiner and being as broad will do that sort of work as well as your brest Plow and with 6 fold more speed Worlidge says he has made a model of it that answers what is here proposed and had he an Ingenious Assistant should soon bring it to perfection but these hints he hopes may prove sufficient To make a Denshireing Plow THis must be drawn by one or two Horses It must have 2 Wheels or Trundles If they are low then let your paring Plow rest on the Axis but if larger Wheels are found more proper then fix your paring Plow at some distance under the Axis and both ways let it have a long stave or handle that the Labourer by lifting up or pressin down the same may cause the Turf to pare thin or thick as he likes best or as the unevenness of the Lands requires let him Regulate his Labour This way with one Horse and 2 men and a Skillfull-man to Regulate and Guide the Plow you may pare 2 Acres in a Day or more if the Ground be but smooth and even but if the Ground is full of Hills Stumps c. It must be done over again and then 2 men and one Horse may pair the one Acre a Day as well to the full as with a brest Plow and more easily and cheap a fourth part at least both in Charges and in time an Ingenious Man will quickly a mend any Error such an Instrument may meet with and it is so Beneficial and easy to be done that I commend it highly to those that may have occasion There is lately a Steel-plow invented by one dwelling in Catteaten-street London which with one Man and 2 Horses or 2 Oxen may be Plow'd any Land whatever as soon as double the men and Cattle performed by common Plows Worlidge says he has seen the Model which was well made and true and Questionless will far exceed the common or usual Plows and it may cost 30 or 40s extraordinary being of Steel it will soon repay it if 2s a Day can be saved by it there is a French Plow also much like our double Plow already described which carry 2 Furrows at once the Description and use you have in I Houghtons Collection of Husbandry to which I refer you To take Moles kill Foxes c Paxamus says that an Earthen Jug or Pot large Bely'd and narrow Necked and put into it Chaf or Straw Chopt Rosin Bees Wax and some Brimstone and Ceder-wood mix them together then set them on fire then put the Neck of the Bottle into one hole and stop all the holes besides that one and passages where the Moles pass your smoak Kills them or drives them away presently Another Take white Helibor or the Bark of Dogs Còle which you please powder'd mix it or them with Wheat-flower or Barly Meal or Rye-flower and with Milk and Wine make it into a Paste put this into their holes and they eat it and it Kills them Some keep Cats in Gardens and tame Wesells that will destroy them Some use to fill the Holes with Marking-stone and wild Cucumber Juice and pour it into their Holes Some pour Oyl of Lees into their Holes only Pliny Some set Traps at the mouth of the Holes with Hair Some with a Bough fastned down in the Ground take them or take Pitch Rosin and Brimstone with some loose Tow or Rags put into an Earth long Neck Pot with a great Belly Fired and put into their Holes Stifles them Or a deep Earthen Pot let in the Ground in their Stracks just even with the surface of the Earth they fall in and cannot get out if this is wisely set it takes many especially in Bucking time which is about March Another Incredible way A Mole catcher and his Boy in 10 Days time in a Ground of 190 Acres laid down for Tillage took near three Bushels of Old and Young by casting up their Nests only which are always built in a great Heap as big again as the rest easily disern'd and then presently the Old ones would come to look their Young which he would snap up presently also or if you have a conveniency of Water bring it over the Ground and it will destroy them as far as it goes To kill Moles TO take them in Trenches spoils much Ground therefore take a Mole Spear or Staff and where you see them cast go lightly but not on the side 'twixt them and the Wind least they hear you and at the first or second putting up of the Earth strike them with your Mole Staff downright and mark which way the Earth falls most If she cast toward you strike some what over If she cast up toward the Left-hand strike somewhat on the Right-hand and so on the contrary to the casting up In plain Ground strike down and there let it remain then take out the Tongue in the Staff and with the spitle or flat end dig round about your grains to the end thereof to see if you have Killed her if you have mist her leave open the Hole and step a side a little and perhaps she 'll come to stop the Hole again for they love but very little Air and then strike again but if your miss her pour into her Hole a Gallon or two of Water and that will make her come out for fear of Drowning mind them going out in a morning to feed or coming home when fed and you may take a great many To take Moles when you Plow TAke a she with