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A67915	Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry, concerning the liquor alkahest, the mercury of philosophers, and other curiosities worthy the perusal / written by Eir. Philaletha, Anonymous, Joh. Bapt. Van-Helmont, Dr. Fr. Antonie ... [et al.].; Collectanea chymica.	Philalethes, Eirenaeus. Secret of the immortal liquor called Alkahest. Latin and English.; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644. Praecipiolum.; Anthony, Francis, 1550-1623. Aurum-potabile.; Bernard, of Trevisan. De lapide philosophorum. English.; Ripley, George, d. 1490? Bosome-book.; Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. Speculum alchemiae. English.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. Admirable efficacy and almost incredible virtue of true oyl.; Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1611? Sundry new and artificial remedies against famine.; H. V. D. Tomb of Semiramis hermetically sealed.	1684 (1684)	Wing C5103; ESTC R5297	83,404	240

Earth and the pouring of Water upon the Earth so long until the Earth putrifie and be cleansed otherwise it would not bring forth its Fruit. Secondly when he saith mix Water and Air it 's no more then if he should have said mix Water now prepared with Air dissolved or joyn and mix together dissolved Air with Water Judge ye your selves For you know that Air is warm and moyst and ye have the saying of Morienus concerning the dissolution of Air Earth Fire and Water Some when they speak of Dissolution say that the Solution of the Fire is better because whatsoever is dissolved in the Fire that floweth in the Air. And Note that the Fire of the Philosophers is nothing else then the Air dissolved and congealed This you may better comprehend from similitude and suppose that first you have Air dissolved and congealed to which add Fire The Earth ought to be first prepared and the Fire dissolved before they are mixed For the Earth together with the Fire ought to be put into a fit Vessel and after is to be introduced the inextinguishable Fire of Nature which when it descendeth upon the Earth devoureth the whole together with its Gumm and converteth it into its own Nature Wherefore if ye consider well the Sayings and Precepts of the Philosophers and understand their Mystical Sence ye shall come to all the Secrets of the Divine Chymick Art FINIS A Catalogue of certain Chimical-Books Sold by William Cooper at the Pelican in Little-Britain London ROg Bacon of the Cure of Old-Age and Preservation of Youth 1683. 8o Edward Madeira Arrais his account of the Tree of Life 1683. 8o Cardinal Cusa the Idiot of Wisdom and of the Mind Sublime Philosophy for a mental Man 1650. Dominicus de Nuysement of the true Salt and Secret of the Philosophers 1657. 8o Lazarus Erkern of the Refining of Metalls with 44 Figures 1683. Folio Fulke of the Causes of all kind of Stones Metalls Earths c. 1563. 8o Dr. Meverells Answers concerning the Compounding Incorporating Separation and Variation of Metalls and Mineralls 1679. 8o Lirenaeus Philalethes Ripley reviv'd or a Commentary upon Sr. Geo. Ripleys Works of the Philosophers-Stone 1678 Aurifontina Chimica or 14 Treatises of the Philosophers Mercury 1680. 24 s Io. Ioach Bechers Magnalia Naturae of Transmutations done at Vienna c. 1681. Ioh. Ern. Burgravius his Introduction to Astral Philosophy 1664. 8o William Bacons Key to the understanding of Van-Helmonts works 1682. 4o Io. Case his Wards to the Key of Van-Helmont against Dr. Bacon 1682. 4o Rob. Boyle his Aerial Noctiluca or the wonder of this Age. 1680. 8o his Observations upon the Icy Noctiluca 1682. 8o his Antielixir or Degradation of Gold Sr. Ken. Digbies Rare Chymical Secrets as they were presented to him in his Travels through France Spain Italy and Germany by the best Chymists of those Countrys through which he passed and published since his Death by Mr. Hartman his Steward and Operator 1682. 8o Nic. Flammells summary of the Philoso●●ers-Stone 1680. 24. Chr. Glasers compleat Chymist 1677. 8o Geber the Arabian his Works in Chymistry 1678. 8o Hydropyrographum Hermeticum or the true fiery Water o● the Philosophers 1680. 24. Rara Avis in Terris or the compleat Miner their Laws Customs c. 1681. 12o Nic. Lemerys's Course of Chymistry 1677. 8o His Appendix to his Course of Chimistry 1680. 8o Reym Lullies's Clavicula or Key to his Works 1680. 24. A strange Letter concerning the vast Treasure of an Adept 1680. 24 s. William Maxwells's 100 Aphorisms of the Body of Natural Magick 1656. 8o The Principles of the Chymists of London 2 parts 1676. 8o A Philosophical Riddle in Verse with Aurifontina Chym. A Brief Preparation of the Philosophers Stone ibid. Paracelsus his Mystical Philosophy written to the Athenians 1657. 8o The Privy Seal of Secrets discovering the first matter of Philosophers 1680. Io. Rays's Account of the melting smelling preparing and refining of the Metalls and Mineralls in England 1674. 8o Sr. George Ripley's Treatise of Mercury 1680. Const. Rodo●anacis his Discourse of Antimony and its Vertues 1664. 4o An Account of the Philosophers transmuting Powder found by Winces Seilerus in the Chappel of a Monastery in Germany 1683. 4o David Persons Salamandra or Treatise of the Philosophers Stone 1636. 4o Synesius the Greek Abbot of the Philosophers Stone 1678. 8o Secrets Disclos'd of the Philosophers Stone 1680. 24. William Simpsons Philosophical Dialogues of the Principles of things 1677. 8o The Treasure of Treasures 1680. 24. A Treatise of the Blessed Manna of the Philosophers 1680. Tumba Semiramidis the Wise-men's inexhaustible Treasure 1676. 8o The Touch-stone of Gold and Silver wares by W. B. 1677. 8o A new Touchstone of Gold and Silver wares by Io. Reynolds 1679. 8o G. Kendall's Appendix teaching the way to make Mathew's Pill 1663. 8o Bernard Earl of Trevisan his Epistle to Thomas of Bononia concerning the Secret workings of Nature in the Product of things 1680. 24. William Cooper's Catalogue of Chimical Books in 3 parts 1675. 8o The end THE BOSOME-BOOK OF Sir GEORGE RIPLEY CANON OF BRIDLINGTON CONTAINING His Philosophical Accurtations in the makeing the Philosophers Mercury and Elixirs LONDON Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1683. The Bosome-Book of Sir George Ripley The whole Work of the Composition of the Philosophical Stone of the great Elixir and of the first Solution of the gross Body FIrst take 30 pound weight of Sericon or Antimony which will make 21 pound weight of Gum or near thereabouts if it be well dissolved and the Vinegar very good and dissolve each pound thereof in a Gallon of twice distilled Vinegar when cold again and as it standeth in Dissolution in a fit Glass Vessel stirr it about with a clean Stick very often every day the oftner the better and when it is well moulten to the bottom then filter over the said Liquors three several times which keep close covered and cast away the Feces for that is superfluous ●ilth which must be removed and entreth not into the Work but is called Terra damnata The making of our Gum or green Lyon Then put all these cold Liquors thus filtred into a fit Glass Ves●el and ●et it into Balneo Maria to evaporate in a temperate heat which done our Sericon will be coagulated into a green Gum called our green Lyon which Gum dry well yet beware thou burn not his Flowers nor destroy his greenness The Extraction of our Menstrue or blood of our green Lion Then take out the said Gum and put it into a strong Retort of Glass very well Luted and place it in your Furnace and under that at the first make sober Fire and anon you shall see a faint Water issue forth let it waste away but when you see a white Smoak or fume issue forth then put too a Receiver of Glass which must have a very large Belly and the mouth no wider then it may well receive into that

the Neck of the Retort which close well together that no fume issue forth of the Receiver Then encrease your Fire by little and little till the fume which issueth be reddish then continue the greater Fire until drops like blood come forth and no more fume will issue forth and when that leaveth bleeding let it cool or asswage the Fire by little and little and when all things are cold then take away the Receiver and close it fast suddenly that the Spirits vanish not away for this Liquor is called our blessed Liquor which Liquor keep close stopped in a Glass till hereafter Then look into the Neck of the Retort and therein you shall find a white hard Ryme as it were the Congelation of a Frosty vapour or much like sublimate which gather with diligence and keep it apart for therein are contained great Secrets which shall be shewed hereafter after the great Work is ended The Creation of our Basis. Then take out all the Feces which remaineth in the Retort and are blackish like unto Soot which Feces are called our Dragon of which feces Calcyne one pound or more at your pleasure in a fervent hot Fire in a Potters or Glass-makers Furnace or in a Furnace of vente or a Wind Furnace until it become a white Calx as white as Snow which white Calx keep well and clean by it self for it is called the Basis and Foundation of the Work and it is now called Mars and our white fixed Earth or ferrum Philosophorum The Calcination of the black Feces called our black Dragon Then take all the rest of the aforesaid black Feces or black Dragon and spread them somewhat thin upon a clean Marble or other fit Stone and put into the one side thereof a burning Coal and the Fire will glide through the Feces within half an Hour and Calcyne them into a Citrine Colour very glorious to behold The Solution of the said Feces Then dissolve those Citrine Feces in such distilled Vinegar as you did before and then filter it likewise three times as before and after make o● evaporate it to a Gum again and then draw out of it more of our Mens●ruum called now Dragon● Blood and ●terate this Work in all points as afore un●il you have either brought all or the most part of the Feces into our Natural and blessed Liquor all which Liquor put to the first Liquor or Menstrue called the Green Lyons Blood and set that Liquor then altogether in one Vessel of Glass fourteen days in Putrification and after proceed to the Separation of Elements for now have you all the Fire of the Stone in this our blessed Liquor which before lay hidden in the Feces which Secret all the Philosophers do marvellously hide The Separation of the Elements whereof the first is the Air and is also counted our ardent-Ardent-Water and our Water Attractive Then put all the said putrified Menstruum into a Still of fine Venice Glass fit for the quantity thereof put on the Limbeck and close it to the Still with a fine Linnen Cloth dipt in the White of an Egg and then set it in Balneo Mariae put to the Receiver which must be of a great length that the Spirit respire not out again and with very temperate heat separate the Elements one from another and then the Element of Air will issue forth first which is an Oyl Our Ardent Water or Water Attractive is thus made When all the first Element is distilled● then in another Still fit for it rectify it tha● is to say distil it over 7 several times and until it will burn a Linnen Cloth clean up that is dipt in it when it is put to th● flame which then is called our Ardent Water rectified and is also called our Water Attractive which keep very close st●pped for otherwise the Spirit thereof which is very subtil will vanish away By often rectifying the Ardent Water there will come Aer in a white Oyl swimming above the Water and there will remain behind a yellow Oyl which with a stronger Fire will also come over Put Sublimate beaten small upon a Plate of Iron and in the cold it will dissolve into Water and filter it then and put upon it some of the Ardent Water and it will draw to it self all the Mercury in form of a green Oyl swimming aloft which separate and put into a Retort and distil first a Water and afterward will come a green thick Oyl which is the Oyl of Mercury The Flood or Water of the Stone Then draw out the Flood or Water of the Stone by it self in another Receptory which Liquor will be somwhat white and draw ●t with a very gentle Fire of Balneo until ●here remain in the bottom of the Still a ●hick Oily substance like unto liquid Pitch keep this Water by it self in a fit Glass very close stopped Note when the Liquor cometh white you must put on another Receiver for then all that Element is come over two or three drops of this black Liquid Oyl given in Spirit of Wine cureth all Poyson taken inwardly Our Mans Blood is thus made and rectified Then put our Ardent Water upon that Matter black and liquid stir them well together and let it so stand well covered for 3 Hours then decant and filter it put on fresh Ardent Water and repeat this Operation 3 times and then distil it again with a moist lent Fire of Balneo and so do three times and then it is called Mans blood rectified which the Workers in the Secrets of Nature do so seek and so hast thou the Elements exalted in the virtue of their quintessence namely the Flood that is Water and the Air let this Blood be kept for a season The Oyl or Fire or the Earth of the Stone Then put up the Flood or Water upon the black and soft matter or Earth of the Stone let them be well mingled together and then distil the whole until there remain in the bottom an Earth most dry and black which is the Earth of the Stone save the Oyl with the Water for a season close stopt in any wise The Fiery Water Then beat this black Earth into Powder and mingle it with Mans blood and so let it stand 3 Hours after that distil it on Ashes with a good Fire and Reiterate this work 3 times and then it shall be called Water of the Fire rectified and so hast thou three of the Elements exalted into the Virtue of the quintessence namely Water Air and Fire The Earth Then Calcine the Earth black and dry in Furnace of Reverberation until it become very fine white Calx The Water of Life which is our Mercury and our Lunary Then mingle with this white Calx the ●iery Water and distil it with a strong Fire all 〈◊〉 as before and Calcine the Earth again ●hat remaineth in the bottom of the Still ●nd then distil it again with a strong Fire ●s before and again Calcine it and thus

in Mercury of white matter and of white Substance cometh that Mercury For so he is of a pure subtil Earth Sulphur most clear and most subtil commixed with pure Water and with Commixtion and heat these two Elements digesteth with Temperance of heat and so turneth into Mercury the Sperm of Metals therefore Water and Earth is the first matter of Mercury and Mercury is the first matter of all Mettals and when they be put into that Water they all melt and dissolve in him as the Ice doth in warm Water and why do they so because they were first Water coupled by cold and now here is Aristotles's Principle assoyled And although there were two things first yet nevertheless when they be resolved into clear currant Mercury and no palpable thing of the Body seen nor felt but passeth through the Philter clean as Water then is it but one thing upon the which all Philosophers accord and ground them est una Sola res And here now I have shewed you more plainly then it hath been shewed here before And I say to thee for truth this is the very true Key of this Science for Merlin and many others write here of divers ways as in the verse of Merlin dissipare leviter extracta c. and Albertus in the fifth Book de mineralibus de semine Metallorum where he upon a little Gloss teacheth Solution as there ye may see But of all special Books that ever I could read or see Stella Complexionis is the Father of Truth and Doctrine shewing the clear light and the right way of the Preparation of this precious Treasure and he expoundeth all the Figures of the Philosophers openly where I doubt not but God hath his Soul in everlasting ●iss For by the space of thirty years I ever ●udied and busied my self upon the Mystery ●arables Figures and Sayings of old Phi●oso●hers in the which I was marvellous blinded ●nd overseen and specially by one book which is called the 12 Chapters or 12 Gates ●n Metre in English which was made by a suf●●cient Clerk and well learned but I warn ●very man to beware of him for by him ye ●hall never know the privity but rather he ●eadeth you out of the way for he sayeth it is ●ne Vessel one thing one furnace and no ●ore True it is that it is but one thing as I have before opened and shewed It is one ●orm of a Vessel as Stella Complexionis declareth And I say to you this one thing in the which all ●he Wise Philosophers have grounded themselves on it is after the full putrefying and utter rotting of the Elements then to be separate and every one of them well rectifyed and then reduced again to the Body by Nature in marvellous Sulphur elect And here I Counsel thee to Practise truly and to remember and consider the saying of the great Philosopher Constantius Affricanus in the Book of Elements where he● sheweth that man is made by ingression of contrary things which is to be ●●●derstood of the four Elements and after this Body reverted to him simple then all his humour is turned into Water the Spirit into Air the heat into Fire and the Bones and Flesh into Earth now mayest thou hea● and know by visible Experience and in likewise with our Water one thing by rotting is turned again into his simple Elements and moisture then separate them and the first shall ascend as a Smoak and turn into Air as Water keep that Treasure and then thou shalt distil after that an Air more intentive and thicker and one drop of this will swim and go above Water if thou mix it with Water and in this Air is Fire aud beneath in the bottom of your Cucurbit is your Earth as a dead Body corrupt and infect Note well here be the four Elements reverted into their Simple as before is said by the Authority of Constantius And I assure you that this is as true as ever God made Gold and Silver and all things else and Heaven and Earth and the Sea therefore believe me if thou wilt or chuse thee to thy own folly and leave off true Doctrine of the Philosophers and wander forth in the World as Mist in the Wind and so thou shalt never come to thy purpose but thou must first make the Bodyes water after digest them not burning nor destroying their radical moisture which is the life of Tincture of this precious Treasure and utterly rot them and after divide the Elements and well rectifie thy Earth by due Calcination and with washing of his own Water till it be pure clear bright and white shining and then sublime up all the quintessence again then thou hast the wonderful Earth called Terra foliata Sulphur Elect of the Philosophers more noble more precious then Gold or Silver if ●hou wilt work it up as thou mayest at thy pleasure by continuance of Reiteration and Sublimation then he will become clear as Heaven Christaline shining bright as thou mayest see in the Rosary of the Secrets of all Philosophers in the last work Therefore may you see and understand when your Tincture is perfect which is in the fourth Governance plainly in writing and also mark other Authors of this secret Science for when he is perfect fixt and stable and will not fume then he will run through a Plate of Copper and make it perfect Silver or perfect Gold better then ever was produced out of the Mine by Nature and also the very truth of this Secret is more wo●th and richer then man can devise for of his own sperm or seed he shall evermore encrease and multiply to the Worlds end for as fire elemental burneth all and overcometh all things and nothing can overcome him even so this Magnesia the Child of Fire shall never be blemished nor va●quished by the Fire but ever standing and abiding bright shining clear so that almost man cannot express the brightness which is incredible to any man except to them that have seen it with their Eyes And thou that art a finder of this Book I charge thee as thou wilt answer to God that thou never shew this but to a vertuous and wise discreet and well disposed man which is ever glad to help the Poor and needy People for with this glorious Science ye may procure many glorious Gifts of the blessed Trinity both in Riches and Soul which shall never fail you everlastingly Da gloriam Deo Amen Magnalium Dei FINIS RAECIPIOLVM OR THE Immature-Mineral-Electrum THE FIRST METALL Which is the MINERA OF MERCVRY By Ioh. Bapt. Van-Helmont LONDON Printed for William Cooper at the Pelican in Little Britain 1683. Electum Minerale Immaturum id est Metallus primus est Minera Mercurii TAKE of the best Argentum vivum which you shall Distil from its own Minera that is of the best Hungarian Minera which shall hold abundance of Argentum vivum one pound will hold twelve thirteen or fourteen ounces of

bright permanent pure and shining of a Celestical Colour And if Water did not enter into our Medicine it could not purifie nor mend it self and so thou couldst not obtain thy desire But that which doth mend it is Sol for the Water cannot be made better without it For without Sol and his shadow a tinging Poyson cannot be generated Whoever therefore shall think that a Tincture can be made without these two Bodyes to wit Sol and Lune he proceedeth to the Practic● like one that is blind For Body doth not Act upon Body nor Spirit upon Spirit Neither doth Form receive an Impression from Form nor Matter from Matter when as like doth not Exercise either Action or Passion upon its like ● For one is not more worthy than an other wherefore there can be no● Action betwixt them when as like doth not bear Rule over like But a Body doth receive Impression from a Spirit as Matter doth from its Form and a Spirit from its Body because they are made and created by God that they may● Act and suffer each from other For Matter would flow infinitely if a Form did not retard and stop its Flux Wherefore when the Body is a Form informing it doth inform and retain the Spirit that it afterwards cannot flow any more The Body therefore doth tinge the Spirit and the Spirit doth penetrate the Body whereas one Body cannot penetrate an other Body but a subtil Spiritual congealed Substance doth penetrate and give Colour to the Body And this is that Gummy and Oleaginous Stone proportioned in its Natures containing a Spiritual Nature occul●●y in it self together with the Elements purifyed Therefore the Philosophers-Stone is to be wholy reduced into this Gumminess by the last Reiteration or Inceration of a certain gentle Flux resolving all the Elements that they flow like Wax But when it is the Stone it appeareth like Copper whereas notwithstanding it is a certain Spiritual Substance penetrating and colouring or tinging all Metallick Bodys From hence thou mayst easily guess that this doth not proceed from the cras●itude and grossness of the Earth but from a Spiritual Metallick Substance which doth penetrate and enter Wherefore it behoveth thee to resolve the Body into a subtil Metallick Spirit and afterwards to congeal and fix retain and incerate it that it may flow before ●it tinge For Gold doth Colour nothing besides it self unless first its own Spirit be extracted out of its own Belly and it be made Spiritual And know that our Mercurial Water is a living Water and a burning Fire mortifying and tearing in pieces Gold more than common Fire And therefore by how much more it is better mixed rubbed and ground with it by so much more it destroyeth it and the living fiery Water is more attenuated But now when three are made one in the Form of a congealed Substance then it hath in it a true Tincture which can endure the Violence of the Fire Therefore when the Body is so tinged it can tinge another and it hath in it self all Tincture and Virtue And from hence all they who tinge with Sol and his Shadow viz. with the Poyson that is Argent vive do perfectly compleat our Stone which we call the great and perfect Gumm And know for certain that it is not necessary that our Stone or Gumm lose its first Mercurial Nature in the Sublimation of its crude and first Spirit for the Oyl and Gumm pertaining to this Stone are nothing else then the Elements themselves Mercurialized and made equal together shut up and coagulated resoluble and living retained or bound in the viscosity of the Oyly Earth and inseparably mixed And we ought to know that that Gum or Oyl is first drawn out of the Bodys which being added it is reduced into a Spirit until the superfluous humidity of the Water be turned into Air drawing one Element out of another by digestion until the Form of Water be converted into the Nature of Oyl and so our Stone in the end getteth the Name of Gumm and Sulphur But whosoever hath brought the Stone thus far that it appear like a mixing Gumm and suffereth it self to be mixed with all imperfect Bodies he verily hath found a great Secret of Nature because that is a perfect Stone Gum and Sulphur This Stone then is compounded of a Body and Spirit or of a volatile and fixed Substance and that is therefore done because nothing in the World can be generated and brought to light without these two Substances to wit a Male and Female From whence it appeareth that although these two Substances are not of one and the same species yet one Stone doth thence arise and although they appear and are said to be two Substances yet in truth it is but one to wit Argent-vive But of this Argent vive a certain part is fixed and digested Masculine hot dry and secretly informing But the other which is the Female is Volatile crude cold and moyst and from these two Substances the whole may easily be known and the whole Stone intirely understood Wherefore if our Stone did only consist of one Substance in it there could be no Action and passion of one thing towards the other for one would neither touch nor come nigh or enter into the other As a Stone and piece of Wood have no Operation on each other since they do consist of a different matter and hence they can by no means no not in the least be mixed together and there is the same reason for all thing● that differ in matter Wherefore it is evident and certain that it should be necessary for the Agent and Patient to be of one and the same Genus but of a different species even as a man differeth from a Woman For although they agree in one and the same Genus yet nevertheless they have diverse Operations and Qualities even as the Matter and Form For the Matter suffereth and the Form acteth● assimulating the Matter to it self and according to this manner the Matter naturally thirsteth after a Form as a Woma● desireth an Husband and a Vile thing a precious one and an impure a pure one so also Argent vive coveteth a Sulphur as that which should make perfect which is imperfect So also a Body freely desireth a Spirit whereby it may at length arrive at its perfection Therefore Learn thou the Natural Roots and those that are better with which thou oughtest to reduce thy Matter whereby thou mayst perfect thy work For this blessed Stone hath in it all things necessary to its perfection The Practick of the same Author If we well consider the Words of Morienus that great Philosopher in Alchimy who saith Mix together Water Earth Air and Fire in a due weight without doubt thou wilt obtain all the Secrets of this Divine Science And first when he saith put into the Water or putrifie the Earth in Water this signifieth nothing else then the Extraction of Water out of

think you will find it in his best forme and of farthest extention when it is in his p●p or pulp for his Body is exceeding waterish and vanisheth away to a small sub●●ance if you seek to dry it This I write by mine own trial yet peradventure the Goord of Naples which he calleth Cucurbita may b● of a differing nature from our Pompions How to save much fl●wer● or meal that is lost in all our usual Corn mills that grind either with Wind or Water IF I teach the Miller so to grind his wheat as that neither the starchmaker if I be not deceived shall have stuff to make his starch with except he grind for himself after the a●cient manner nor the brown Baker any bran to make horsebread withal I hope that my fault will be pardonable at this time because I hold it much b●tter to want flower about our necks then in our bellies and that horses should s●●rve before their masters The conceit is short and easie and I hope without controlment Let every Mill that grindeth corn have also a boulting mill annexed unto it that the same mover may play upon both and by shaking of the boulter make a division of the bran from the flower This bran as soon as it is divided from the flower must be returned again into the hopper amongst the rest of the wheat that is unground and so as fast as you gather any bran you must mix it with more corn And by this means you shall have much less bran and also more flower though you would notwithstanding this course pass the same through a fine boulter again It is an usual manner in the higher part of Germany to boult with these mills but not to grind over their bran again in the first mill for ought that I know or as yet can learn How to make starch without any corn IT is well known that those Aaron-roots be●ore mentioned will make a white and delicate starch You must gather them in March or April washing them clean and paring away all the filth or foul skins from them and after slicing them into thin slices and so leaving th●m in fair clear water and changing your water every 12. hours for the space of four or five days till they become exceeding white and clean then stamp them and force them through a strainer with clean water and when the substance of the starch is setled in the bottom which will be in a few hours then drein away all the clear water that fleeteth on the top very gently and expose the rest being in flat earthen pans or clean tubs to the Sun which will attract or draw up all the water and leave a hard cake in the bottom But in the winter time when you cannot have the Sun of a sufficient force for this purpose then set your stone pans or pewter basons wherein you have strained out your starch upon a pot with s●alding water and so you may dry the same in a sufficient quantity for your own use all the year long And if you would harden the same without charge then place your pan upon your bief pot and so you shall make one fire to perform several actions at once But because these roots are not to be had in all places nor at all times of the year therefore for a second supply I have thought good to set down this receit following Take of the whitest Gum Arabique that you can buy at the Grocers let them beat the same into pieces for you as big as hasel nuts in their great morters then take 3. ounces of this Gum and first wash it in fair Conduit water in a Stone Bason stirring it up and down with your hands to take the filth from it then wash it again with some more water and pour that also away and then to every 3. ounces so washed put a wine pint of fair Conduit-Water stirring it up and down 3. or 4. times aday to procure a speedy solution or dissolving of the Gum Then cover your Pan and when all the Gum is dissolved strein the water through a clean and thin Linnen cloth and reserve the same in Glasses well stopt till you have cause to use it It will last sweet at the least three weeks after it is made When you would use this starch if you desire to have your ruffs to carry a pure and perfect white colour you must mingle some blew with the water stirring it up and down with your finger in a Porrenger and before the blew settle to the bottom wet your ruff therein and presently wring it out again then put it till it be clear and after set it as you do in your common starch I do find by experience that half the time that is lost in the other manner of starching is here gained For by reason that your starch is in a thin water the Lawn and Cambrick will be soon cleared and with much less beating And I think that a second profit will here likewise fall out by the way viz. That your Lawn and Cambrick will last much longer For if I be not deceived the continual patting or beating thereof between the hands in our usual starching worketh a great fretting and wearing of the same And I doubt not but that there be many other sorts of Grain Pulse and Roots which will make as good Starch as Wheat which at this time I leave unto the studious indeavours of those that are careful for the common good It may be that at my better leisure I may handle this subject more at large but now the present times inforce me to deliver that knowledg which I have And thus much for starch Sweet and delicate cakes made without Spice or Sugar SLice great and sweet Parsnep roots such as are not seeded into thin slices and having washed and scraped them clean dry them and beat them into powder here a mill would make a greater dispatch searcing the same through a fine searce then knead two parts of fine flower with one part of this powder and make the same into cakes and you shall find them to taste very daintily I have eaten of these cakes divers times in mine own house Quaere what may be done in Carots Turneps and such like roots after this manner Here I think it not impertinent to the purpose which I have in hand to wish a better survey to be made of my book of Husbandry being a parcel of the Jewel house of Art and Nature Printed an 1594. Wherein sundry new sorts of Marle are familiarly set down and published for the good of our English Farmers amongst the which those waste ashes of the Sope-boylers for such as dwell near unto the City of London or may by easie water carriage convey them unto their hungry and lean grounds have a principal place for the enriching of all cold moist and weeping grounds The book is to be had at the Peli●an in Little Britain And if there were