Author of Life an handful of the tops of Rue and a few Aniseeds a Walnut a dry Fig and a little Salt beat them all together and eat thereof fasting at divers times A Collection of divers Secrets taken out of the Cabinet of a Person of Quality CHAP. V. A Water for inflam'd Eyes TAke the Water of an Infant purified three pints Roman Vitriol and Tutty prepar'd of each four ounces mingle them for eight daies space then distill and put a drop Morning and Evening into the Eye and it will quickly be cur'd For the Colick Take of green Anise Cummin Agarick Wormwood Centaury Gentian equal parts and make thereof a Powder the Dose is two drams in Broth. An admirable Water against the Colick Take the distill'd Water of Nuts and Camomil of each four pints infuse therein the Flowers of Camomil and Elder of each six Landfuls for four daies in Balneo Maria or other hot place then strain it and add the Flowers above-said and Fennel seed Aniseed Juniper Berries of each two ounces Bay-berrys five ounces and an half Cinamon half an ounce dryed Mint a Pugil let them infuse two days in B. M. then distil them the Dose is two or three ounces Against the heat of the Sun Take Rose-water two ounces Milk one ounce Verjuice half an ounce Incense beaten two drams the white of an Egg well beaten rub the Face before you go to bed For them that Spit or Vomit Blood from a Fall Take the Powder of the Vine-leaves in three ounces of Broth one Pugil then being setled you must take half a Glass of the Vulnerary decoction for eight days For Pain o' th' Teeth Take equal parts of Honey of Roses and Aqua-Vitae boil them together and wash the Mouth therewith Contusions Falls Blows without Wounds Take a Cake of Honey let it boil in the best red Vinegar till it come to a Pap make an Emplaister thereof and apply it For Wounds and Pricks Take Night-shade Leaves bruised and apply them For the Head-ach Take the shavings of Harts-horn drink it in Wine and powder the head therewith For Warts Take the Juice of Celandine let it drop upon the Wart first cut and then apply the Herb do this two or three times Oyl of Juniper Take Juniper-berries gathered from the month of August to the end of September bruise them and infuse them in Fountain-water three or four days and the Water of the first infusion will serve for the rest for the first is the best take two earthen Alembics the one full of Berries and the other half full of the Infusion this put into the Earth and the one fastned upon the other after having strained it through a Cloth put it into a Furnace being cold open it and gather the Oyl letting the water run out take care that it take not wind The Vse A Secret for Wounds Cancers Reins Spleen Leprosie the Dose is two or three drops in Broth. For the Tooth-ach Take good Honey two ounces a glass of the strongest Vinegar Cloves half an ounce let them boil in a new Pot till a quarter be wasted rub your Teeth therewith morning after dinner and at night To turn a Defluxion from the Breast Take Cephalic Powder put in your Broth a little Anula abstain from all sharp things The Cephalic Powder Take Grape-flowers half an ounce Violet-flowers white Nutmegs half an ounce Betony-flowers two ounces all dry'd and powdred besprinkle them with Rose-water dry them again beat them together with a grain of Amber-grease An Oyl as good as Balm Take flowers of St. John's-wort half an ounce put to two ounces of Sallet-Oyl one spoonful of the Juice of Coronata put them all in a glass and set it in the Sun for three or four hours Hyppocras Extempore Take a quart of Aq. Vitae in which infuse four ounces of Cinamon an ounce of Cloves and Nutmeg or else Ginger infuse them all together and to make Hyppocras put two or three spoonfuls in a quart of Wine Rosa Solis Take two quarts of Aq. Vitae of Sugar or powdred Sugar a pound and half common Water a pint and half wherein you shall boil them to the consistence of Syrup not quite boil'd enough then put in half an ounce of Cinamon powdred and put it to the Syrup when 't is boil'd enough to scent it pour it through a Cloth with two grains of Musk and half an ounce of Sugar Candy Of Jewels and Pearls CHAP. VI. Artificial Pearls as fair as the Natural TAke the fairest and greatest Seeds of Pearls bruise them and dissolve them in allum-Allum-water which is all the Secret then make them into a Paste and wash it gently with distilled Water afterwards make it into a Paste with Bean-flower-water and digest it in Dung the space of fifteen days then having the consistence of Paste you shall form Pearls thereof with a silver Mold and pierce them with Hogs-hair and hang them in an Alembic stopt close to the end the Air alter them not then you shall after this manner Roul each one apart in Leaf Gold then cleave a Barble in the middle and put them therein make a Paste of the said Barble with Wheat-flower and bake it in an Oven as you bake Bread If they have not lustre enough take the Water of a kind of Herb called Grastuli with six ounces of Pearls in Powder one ounce of Salt-Petre two ounces of Roch-Allum and Litharge of silver the Pearls being made you shall heat them a little and quench them in this Composition then dry and wash them repeating this five or six times To harden them Take Lapis Calaminaris in powder and Vitriol of each one ounce the whites of Eggs beaten to a Water mingle them together and distill them and there will come forth a clear Water with which and with very fine Barly Meal you shall make a Paste in which you shall put your Pearls to be bak'd in an Oven An admirable Secret to whiten Pearls Take Common and Roch-Allum of each one pound distill this to a Water half an ounce of Camphire Solomon's Seal two ounces rectifie it then use it with a moist Linnen Cloth Another more Excellent Take half an ounce of Bean-flowers Lime and Eggs an ounce white Salt one pound Water of Confound Alcobol of Wine eleven ounces distill them and use it For the same Take an handful of Wheat Bran boil it in a Posnet with a pint of Water and when 't is boil'd pour out half of the said Water and then in an earthen Porringer varnish'd wherein shall be the Pearls strung which you shall let steep therein till the Water be almost cold that you may rub them gently with your hands till the Water be wholly cold then throw away that Water and put on new upon the Pearls do thus often and then your Water will be clear which you shall warm and put into the said Porringer wherein you shall clear the said Pearls without rubing them and do it so
thereon two or three drops of Juice of Citron and it will instantly become red A wonderful Cure for a Fistula Take a living Toad put it into a Crucible covered that it may not get out and reduce it to Ashes with a fierce Fire the Fire not touching the Toad Apply this Powder to the Fistula washing it first with White-wine warm or the Urine of a male Child Probatum A remarkable Receipt made of a Man's Skull Take of the impalpable Powder of a Scull and apply it to any Wound or Ulcer whatever and it will cure it This was experienc'd by Monsieur President Bolanger in an Ulcer that none could cure in ten years Against the Bloody Flux and how to draw the Tincture of Coral Take a Pumice-stone quench it three or four times in good Vinegar in an earthen Pot till it look red bray the Coral very fine and make a bed of Pumice-stone in an earthen pot then a bed of Coral do this thrice so that the first and last be of Pumice-stone lute the Pot well and put it in a Glass or Potters Fornace for two dayes take it out and pour Vinegar upon the Powders so often till they have lost their redness then evaporate the Vinegar in a Glass or Earthen-vessel well glaz'd in which will remain the tincture or colour of Coral So you may draw all sorts of Colours of Minerals and Metals reduc'd to powder The Dose is one dram in an Egg. The Syrup is made after this manner Take two ounces of this Tincture and three ounces of Sugar-Candy which put in a large varnish'd earthen Vessel in Balneo Mariae continually stirring your Matter with a wooden Spatula till it be boyl'd to the consistence of a Syrup for this hinders the precipitating of the tincture of Coral Another way to draw the Tincture of Coral Take Virgin-wax and scrape it into a new Pot wherein you have put little pieces of Coral so that the Coral be therewith covered melt and boyl them gently upon live coals and the Wax will draw all the Tincture of Coral the which you shall try by taking out a little piece of the Coral which you must do commonly within a Quarter of an hour Withdraw the Fire and let the Wax cool which you shall take and scrape into an Urinal and pour thereon good thrice distill'd Vinegar or strong Spirit of Wine and put it on hot Embers that the Wax may give to the Vinegar the tincture which it took from the Coral then take it from the Fire and being cold separate the Vinegar from the Wax and evaporate it being evaporated you 'll find your Tincture at the bottom red like Cinaber Against the Stone Take two pounds of Sallet Oyl which you shall distill in an Alembick with Sand and take three Spoonfuls every day of the Water or Phlegm that flows in the morning three hours after Dinner and at night going to bed for nine dayes This Water dissolves the Stone in the Kidneys and Bladder That which remains in the Alembic is for the Gout and Contraction of the Nerves from a cold cause An excellent Receipt for the Gravel Take two pounds of the Roots of male Nettles and cleanse them and boyl them in a Gallon of Water to the diminishing of the third part then add three pints of good White-wine boyl them over a gentle Fire for an hour then let them cool being almost cold take out the Roots and press them then put the Juyce with the Decoction into a new earthen pot when 't is clear'd by seething and that you would use it take three Pills of fresh Butter having swallow'd them drink a glass of the Decoction fasting as early as you can and two hours after a Porringer of clear Broth for three dayes together at each decrease of the Moon Laxative Clysters are excellent you must take them the night before you take the Decoction For the same Take Eglantine Berries dry the Seeds in the Sun or in an Oven powder them put a dram of them in a small glass of White-wine to steep seven or eight hours drink it half an hour before you go to bed stirring it well that nothing remain in the bottom This produces great Effects for it drives out all sorts of Gravel and breaks the Stone so that you will void it by small pieces Probatum But you must take it but for two dayes together and eight dayes after and at the decrease of the Moon You may make a Marmalade of the red Fruit and cat thereof after meals and it will hinder any thing from coagulating in the Body For the same Take Wild-Parsly seeds infuse them in White-wine for twelve dayes and drink a glass thereof three mornings fasting For the same Take the skins within the Gizards of Pullets and wash them with White-wine dry and powder them the dose is a dram in as much White-wine as you please To cure all Ruptures a Remedy much approved of by the Cardinal de la Rochefoucault Take a pound of black Pitch yellow Wax and Rosin twelve ounces Mutton Suet eight ounces Cats-tail and Dragons-blood four ounces Gum dragant Arabic and Gauls one ounce Blood-stone two ounces severally prepar'd and dryed with Vinegar Pepper beaten two ounces Wood-lice and Cumin-seed dried and powdered two ounces green Acorns prepar'd with Vinegar and powdred two ounces they are mixed by melting the Suet with a pint of thick red Wine to which add the Galls bruised and boyl them to a consumption of the Wine that done strain it and put it on the fire adding the Wax and Rosin which you must melt therein melt the black Pitch in another Vessel then pour the first mixtion into the melted Pitch stirring it continually with a stick to incorporate them then you must take away the Fire and put it upon hot Embers then pour in the Powders by little and little stirring them very well that the Plaister may be well mix'd before you apply it you must shave away the hair if there be any and foment the place where the Malady is with strong Vinegar wherein Allum hath been dissolv'd and change the Plaister every two dayes and renew the Fomentation every four and twenty hours Moreover let the Patient keep his Bed for about a fortnight more or less and lye upon his back with his head as low as he can and drink no Wine unless it be allay'd with Water or small Beer c. and eat no salt meats Pulse nor Beef For the same whether Man or Woman though aged experimented by one that was bursten thirty years Take an ounce and half of white Mastich Troy weight an ounce and half of common Turpentine an ounce and half of Masticorum which is a sticking Gum or Liquor found in the head of great wild prickly Thistles which have a head like Artichoaks from which having taken the prickly leaves you will find this glewish Humour stick to your fingers Mix all together in a little earthen pot new
linnen in the straining that it may be throughly wet then fold the Cloth four-fold and let it dry in the shade A Pulmonic Person that was abandoned was cured in three Months by carrying this Cere-cloth four double upon his Stomack fastned behind this Remedy fails not and one will find ease in a short time the Stomach that could not digest is soon restored by applying this If you sweat and that the Cerecloth be moist with sweating you must take it off and dry it and lay it on again For the same distemper of the Lungs they must use as long as they please Lozanges made with the Flower of Brimstone For the Wind and also for the Lungs Take eleven Crab-fish alive the which beat in a Mortar till they be all to pap then strain them through a very white linnen Cloth pouring upon them two quarts of White-Wine to make them strain the better put this straining in a Pot to infuse twenty four hours then take every morning fasting two ounces till you find some ease An excellent Remedy for the Lungs and against a Cough and shortness of Breath Take the longest Raisins of the Sun Jujubes St. Antonies Prunes without Kernels or Stones of each two ounces three fat Figs three Dates put them all in an earthen Pot with a cover with two quarts of Water boyl them all to the Consumption of half then put into the said Pot the four Capillaries and Flowers of Colts-foot of each one handful let them all boyl to a pint strain it and add thereto Sugar-candy Diaphenicon and common Sugar of each four ounces make a Syrup boyl'd a little the dose is a spoonful at Night and as much in the Morning and being troubled with the Cough steep every day a Liquirice stick therein and you will find success at last A wonderful Opiate to refresh the Liver and purify the Blood Take the roots of Cichory two drams roots of Polypodie damask Raisins Liquirice and Dogs-teeth of each one dram of the four Capillaries Borrage Scariola Endives Betony Agrimony Hops Pimpernel Scabious of each one handful of the four great cold Seeds Fennel Endive of each two ounces make a decoction then take six ounces of Senna boyl it in the Decoction then take two ounces of white Agaric two drams of Cinnamon and a Pugil of the Cordial Flowers which put to infuse therein and boyl them with a pound of Sugar then add Cassia cleansed four ounces Conserve of Borage two ounces Conserve of Bugloss and Violets of each one ounce of all which make an Opiate the dose is a dram and a half two hours before Meals or twice a Month. To temper the heat of the Liver Take a quantity of Liverwort which grows in watry Places beat it in a Mortar and draw out the Juice with a Press which you shall Clarifie over the Fire with the whites of Eggs and scum it well then let it cool and pour it out by inclination leaving the dregs at the bottom in every pound of this Water dissolve six ounces of sine Sugar and then 't is made take an ounce thereof in a Glass of Water or alone if you will A Remedy for all sorts of fluxes of Blood upwards or downwards or for Veins broken in the Body for Men or Women that have an extraordinary flux Take a dram of Bistort-Root finely powdred put it into two ounces of White-wine and if the Patient hath a Pever you put it into Broth and without fail the Flux will cease even if the Patients shall void their Excrements at the Mouth and if the Flux of Blood shall be so violent especially in a Woman give her of this power in a Clyster made of the Broth of a Capon with two yolks of Eggs and if one be but a little disorder'd let them them take the Dose abovesaid and lay this following Plaister to the Stomach nigh the Heart Take a Quince rost it with hot embers which you shall beat into a Paste in a silver Porringer and strew thereon powder of Cinamon and Cloves and apply it For a Rupture tryed upon a Man of seventy Years of Age. Take Water-Cresses beat them a little and boil them in a quart of White-wine in a new Pot till it be wasted to the half or two thirds and take three ounces thereof morning and evening for nine days keeping it rowled For the Pain in the Head Falling-sickness Vertigo and Megrim Take two drops of Oyl of Sulphur thrice in a Week in a Glass of Water wherein Vervain Betony Oak of Jerusalem Leaves and Flowers of each two Handfuls have been infus'd twenty four Hours in two Quarts of River-water upon hot Embers For the same Take the Juice of Pimpernel and drop it into the Ear and it will appease the Pain Otherwise Take a dram of white Hellebore and as much black with an handful of Salt which you shall put in a brass Pot that will hold six Quarts of Water which you shall boyl the space of a quarter of an Hour then take it off the Fire and let it infuse forty hours in a Window then boyl it till it be reduc'd to three Quarts which you shall put into a Bottle close stop'd for your use drawing it up your Nose Probatum For the same and to cause Sleep Take common Roses with the White of an Egg beaten and well mingled together make a Forehead-cloth Moreover to cause Sleep make a Forehead-cloth of Poppy Probatum To make one wake or sleep You must cut dexterously the Head of a Toad alive and at once and let it dry in observing that one Eye be shut and the other open that which is found open makes one wake and that shut causes Sleep by carrying it about one To dissolve all sorts of Catarrhs and Tumours Take a white Onion and roast it in hot Embers being enough cut it in four quarters without taking any thing away and apply it to the Ear putting in a little Venice Treacle before then a hot Napkin upon it and when the Onion is cold lay on another presently with Treacle as at first do this four times and you will see all the Matter come out at the Ear do the same to a Bubo if you would have it come to Suppuration To make one sneeze Take a little white Ellebore or Euphorbium in Powder and blow it up the Nose with a little Tunnel A Bath for the Feet and Legs to cause Sleep Take eight or ten Lettuces or more or six Handfuls of Vine-leaves and five or six Heads of Poppyes boil them in a Kettle with a sufficient quantity of Water then poure all out into another Vessel and therewith wash the Feet and Legs for the space of a quarter of an Hour then wrap them in a Linnen-cloth For Deafness Probatum Take Humane Blood or Harts Blood distill it in an Alembic cast away the Phlegm and change the Recipient when you see Liquor white put two or three Drops of the said white Liquor
into the deaf Ear and stop it with Cotton and lye on the other side To preserve the Eyes from Weeping and keep them fair and clean Distill a great quantity of Leaves of Mallows in white or red Wine and with the Water thereof wash the Eyes Night and Morning Pope Paul the Fifth used it in his Old Age. For a Pain in the Eyes Take Rose-water in a Glass boyl hard an Egg warm from the Hen and take away the Shell cut it in the middle and take away the Yolk and fill it with Sugar-Candy and re-joyn both Parts which you must tye with Crimson Silk which done dissolve a little Salt of Saturn in the rose-Rose-water and put the Egg therein for twenty four Hours then wash the Eyes with the same Water There is nothing better to take away an Inflammation An Emplaister to be apply'd to an Artery which the King made use of Take half an Ounce of Mastick Bolearmoniack two drams Saffron fifteen Grains Opium a Scruple the whole being reduc'd to a Consistence in an hot Mortar make an Emplaister thereof with a little Turpentine adding towards the end a little Vinegar For the Pain of the Eyes Apply a Snakes Skin and burn the said Skin and receive the Smoke into your Eyes For the same Take ripe Sloes and beat them in a Marble Mortar then distill them and put a drop of this Water into the Eye For the same A Secret of Marshal de Thorstexson in Swedeland Take Rose-water and Plantan-water of each two ounces Fountain and Fennel-water of each one ounce Aloes Succotrine powdred half an ounce put them into a Marble Mortar with the White of an Egg and incorporate them till the Aloes be dissolv'd when you use it warm a little in a silver Spoon and put a drop in the Eye Night and Morning For the same Take a little white Vitriol in powder one part Oris of Florence powdred another part Sugar Candy another part mingle them together and put them in a Glass of Fountain Water more or less warm it and stir it coutinually and put a drop warm in the Eye going to Bed at Night For the same Take a new-laid Egg roast or boyl it hard take out the Yolk which done crumble it in a Glass then cover it with fountain-Fountain-water and infuse it all night in the morning strain it and add of Putty the bigness of a Filberd which you shall dissolve therein put one drop of this into the Eye Another for the same Take Plantan Leaves that have not been eaten by the Worms cleanse them well from Dirt and warm them a little then apply the out-side long-ways to the Eye two to each and let them lye on all Night if the Eye be curable the Leaves will dry if not otherwise For Deafness and Noise in the Ears Take a white Onion cut it long-ways to take out the middle Stalks then joyn it together and tye it with a String and fill the Vacancy with Oyl of Cammomil and roast the Onion in hot Cinders being roasted press it between two Trenchers and put some of the Juice thereof into the Ear with Cotton A Water of great Virtue to comfort the Teeth preserve the Gums from Putrefaction and cure the warry Eyes Take half a pound of white Vitriol Bole Armoniack six ounces Camphir an ounce and half make them into a Powder whereof take an ounce and half and put it into water ready to boyl and let it boyl a little and strain it through a Linnen-cloth then take it from the Fire This Water cures all sorts of Ulcers alone cures all Defluxions and mundifies comforts the parts makes the Hands fair and cures all sorts of Itch. To appease the Tooth-ach Take as much Water as Vinegar and boil it with Cloves Salt Pepper and a little Aqua Vitae and make thereof a Gargarism For the same Take of the inward Bark of Ash and the inward Bark of Rosemary of each half a quarter burn them in a hot chaffin-dish and of the Powder thereof make a Paste with Aqua Vitae and apply the bigness of a Pease to the Artery For the same Take of the Juyce of Celandine condens'd cut it in two and apply it to the Tooth For the same Probatum Take the quantity of a Bean of Camphir dissolve it in as little as may be of Aqua Vitae in a small Glass Vial upon hot Cinders then touch the Tooth with a little tent of Cotton or Linnen and if it be hollow leave the Cotton or Linnen moistned in the Tooth An admirable secret to make a Tooth fall out of the Mouth without Pain Take a green Lizard alive put it into a new Earthen Pot unglas'd stop it and lute it well and put it into a Furnace and when you know 't is dead take the Pot out when 't is cold make an hole in the Cover the bigness of a Pease into which pour an ounce of Aqua Fortis and half an ounce of Aqua Vitae mixed together then stop the hole with fat Earth and put the Pot to the fire again till the Waters be all consumed and the Lizard reduced to Powder then beat it in a woodden Mortar and keep it in a dry Place to use as followeth Rub the Gum of the pained Tooth and in a moment after it will make the Gum to part from the Tooth and it from the Jaw-Bone and so you may take it away without pain For the Jaundies Take fine Steel make it red hot in a Farriers Forge when 't is very red take a quartan of common Sulphur and put to the Steel having a woodden Vessel underneath in which is three quarts of White-wine and when the Sulphur touches the red Steel it will melt drop by drop which you shall let fall into the Wine this done strain the Wine through a Linnen Cloth and drink thereof for four mornings fasting two hours after the dose is a Glass at a time You may also take the melted Steel in the woodden Vessel and powder it which is excellent for the same Disease and for the stopping of the Months in Women given in the Decoction of Betony or Lungwort For the Falling Sickness Take 20 grains of a Ravens Brain dryed and powdred in a Glass of White-Wine in the decrease of the Moon Another infallible Receipt for the same Take a mans Scull if for a Man and a Womans if for a Woman it must be an entire one make it into an impalpable Powder to which add the Root of Peonie powdred one ounce with nine grains of its seed and a dram of Misseltoe of the Oak all in Powder in a pint of White-Wine of the best red Spanish Wine or the best red Wine that you can get drink it all in nine Mornings the nine last dayes of the Moon and if the Disease returns at the increase give it for nine days in the new of the Moon and continue this for three Moons For the Spleen Take a Piece of Steel powder
of the Leaves of Chicory Baum and Ceterach a little of each beat and mingle them well together and take thereof the quantity of a Filberd Night and Morning Imperial Violet Water Take a quart of Rose-water half a quartern of March Violet-Flowers put them into an open Glass-bottle that will hold two quarts the Violets being stripped and the white cut away and set them in the Sun till the Leaves be white then strain them and put them in the Sun again for about a fortnight or three weeks taking them in every Night then add a pound of fine Sugar powdred and let it dissolve then an ounce of good Cinamon beaten which leave therein for about twenty four hours to draw out all its Virtue then strain it and stop it take a Spoonful thereof when one hath the Fits of the Mother or a Catarrh or in Child-birth or Weakness or the Colick To embellish and preserve Beauty CHAP. III. The Receipt of the Queen of Hungaries Water IN the City of Buda in the Kingdom of Hungary is to be seen the present Receipt of the most serene Princess Donna Isabella Queen of Hungary I Donna Isabella Queen of Hungary aged seventy two years infirm in my Members and Gouty have used this present Receipt a whole Year which an Hermite whom I never saw before nor since gave me which had such effect upon me that from that instant I was cured and recovered my Strength insomuch as appearing beautiful to every one the King of Poland would have espoused me whom I refused for the Love of our Lord Jesus Christ believing it was given me by an Angel Take Aqua Vitae distilled four times thirty ounces Rosemary-flowers twenty ounces put all into a Vessel close stop'd the space of fifty hours then distill them in an Alembick in Balneo Mariae and take thereof a dram in the morning once a week in some other Liquour or else with your Victuals and wash the Face every morning and rub the infirm Members therewith This Remedy renews the Vigor causes a good Spirit cleanses the marrow fortifies the animal Spirits renewing their Operations restores the Sight and preserves it to old Age it is excellent for the Stomach and Brest rubbing them therewith When you use this Remedy you need not warm it For the Pimples in the Face Put Salt-petre into a Linnen-cloth and tye it well then having wet it in fair Water wash them therewith For the Redness in the Face Take Monks-Rubarb and Mutton boil them together and wash the Face with the Water thereof For the same Upon a pound of Veal put six new laid Eggs beat them together and add half a pint of White-Wine-Vinegar and an handful of wild Tansy distill them in Balneo Mariae and wash the Face therewith For the same Take plantan-Plantan-water with the Essence of Sulphur put them together and apply them night and morning with a Linnen-Cloth To take the Spots out of the Face Take the Roots of sharp pointed Docks and Melons of each two pounds ten Swallows Eggs Salt of Nitre half an ounce white Tartar two ounces beat and mingle them all together and distill them in a Glass Alembic and wash with this Water and you will see Wonders Cloths for Masques Take four ounces of white Wax Goats Grease Sperma Coeti of each two ounces Camphir one ounce melt them all together and dip your Cloths therein A most excellent Water for the Face Take a Loaf of Wheat flower moistned with Goats-milk put it into the Oven and draw it our before it be baked enough and take out the Crumbs which you shall crumble as small as you can and soak it in new Goats milk to which add half a dozen oâ— the whites of Eggs strained through a Sponge this done take an ounce of Powder of burnt Egg-shells and put them all together being well mingled into a Glass Alembick and distill them with a gentle Fire and you will have an excellent Water to take away the Spots and Redness of the Face and will whiten and beautifie it wonderfully A Water to whiten the Face Take of the Root of the wild Vine and of the Roots of Narcissus put them both into an Alembic of Glass with a pint of Cows milk and the Crums of white-bread â—…till them and to use it mingle it half with the Queen of Hungaries Water and you will see it will whiten very well Water of Venice very good for the Face Take two quarts of black Cows Milk in the month of May put it into a Glass Bottle with eight Citrons and four Oranges pill'd and slic'd an ounce of Sugar-Candy and half an ounce of Borax put them all in Balneo Mariae or in Sand to distill them in a fire always equal which is the principal thing and stop not the Bottle till the day after 't is distilled For the same Take two Citrons without their Peels and slice them twelve new-lay'd Eggs six Sheeps-feet cut in pieces with their Bones Sugar-Candy four ounces a good slice of a Melon as much of a Pompion two drams of Borax distill them all in a Glass Alembic with a Leaden Cover To take away Spots in the Face Take Housleek and Clary and distill them in Balneo Mariae and wash them with this Water How to prepare Oxe-Gall Take such a quantity of Oxe-gall as you will and put it into a glass Vial and for one ounce of Gall add a drachm of Roch Allum half an ounce of Sal Gemma or Salt of Glass an ounce of Sugar-Candy two drachms of Borax and one drachm of Champhire beat them apart then mingle them together and put them to the Oxe gall and stir them the space of a quarter of an hour or thereabouts then let them settle do thus two or three times a day for a Fortnight till the Gall become as clear as Water the which you shall filtre through a brown Paper and keep it for your use 'T is us'd to preserve Persons from being Sun burnt in putting it upon the Face when you would go in the Country washing them at night with common Water and this will take off all the gross Tan. A Water for a tan'd Face Take half a quarter of Wheat-Bran sift it well till there remain no meal infuse it in good Vinegar for at least three or four hours then add the yolks of Eggs dissolve or distill it in B. M. from this Distillation will come an admirable Water which will set a wonderful Lustre upon the Face you will do well to put it in the Sun for eight or ten days the Bottle being well stop'd A Water to Beautifie the Face and to take away the wrinkles Take River Water and strain it through a white Linnen Cloth put it into a new glaz'd earthen Pot with an handful of Barley well wash'd and cleans'd from dust and boyl it over a Charcoal fire till the Barley be broken then take it from the fire and let it stand and then strain
it through a Linnen Cloth into a glass Bottle that it be a quarter empty to which add three drops of white Balsam or Balsam of Peru the first is the best to a quart of Water and then shake the Bottle for 10 or 12 hours without intermission till the Balsom be intirely incorporated into the said Water and the Water remain a little troubled and a little whitish and then it hath arriv'd to its perfection It wonderfully embellishes the Face and preserves it young and fresh it takes away wrinkles also in time in using it once a day Note you must wash your Face with River Rain or Fountain-water before you use this Water To take away the wrinkles from the Face Take a Fire-shovel and heat it and cast thereon the Powder of Myrrh putting the Face over it to receive the Fume having a a course Cloth about the Head the better to receive the Fume do this thrice then heating the Fire-shovel again take some White-wine in your mouth and besprinkle the Shovel therewith receiving the Fume that rises doing thus likewise thrice continuing it morning and evening as long as you will and you will see wonders A most excellent Pomatum for the Face Take what quantity you please of Sheeps-feet and having peel'd them take out the Bones and break the long Bones to take out the Marrow do this at full of the Moon for there 's then much more Marrow to do this well you must steep the Bones a day or two in Water and set it in a Cellar changing the Water three or four times a day by which means you will break them more easily to two dozen of Sheeps-feet you must add at least half a dozen of Calves feet having taken out the Marrow wash it in several Waters and in Rose Water till it be very white then also wash the Bones well after you have taken out the Marrow and boil them in fair water an hour or two then strain them through a Linnen Cloth and let the Water stand till the next night then with a silver Spoon take off the oyl or grease that swims or is fixt upon it the which you shall put to the Marrow and melt them over a Charcoal Fire adding to the weight of about four ounces a dram of Borax and as much Roch Allum calcin'd and boiling them a very little add thereto two ounces of the Oyl of the four cold Seeds drawn without Fire with a little white Wax or Mutton Suet but that of the Hide or Skin of a Kid is best of all for some hold that the first reddens the Face and the Wax cuts it when this doth neither then strain it through a Linnen Cloth and keep it for your use An excellent Pomatum for the Lips Take Oyl of sweet Almonds one ounce put it upon the Fire with about a drachm oâ— a little more of Mutton Suet newly kill'd and of wild Bugloss scrap'd to give it a Colour boil them some time together and 't is made for your use you may if you will in lieu of Oyl of sweet Almonds take that of Jasmin or other Flowers if you would give it a good Scent the Oyl of sweet Almonds must be drawn without Fire To take away the redness of the Face Take the long Bones of Sheeps-feet and burn them in the Fire till they may be easily powdred which you shall infuse in White-Wine for the space of twenty four hours then strain it and use it to wash and cleanse the Face for four Feet you must have a Glass of White-wine Handcherchiefs of Venice Take of French Chalk half a quarter calcine it in a Glass Furnace or otherwise then moisten it with good Aqua Vitae or good Spirit of Wine letting them incorporate well together for twenty four hours then wet your Cloths therewith and let them dry in the shade out of the Dust the Sun or Fire 't is good to moisten them thrice and then use them dry'd This manner is most excellent and never fails Lac Virginis Take Storax and Benjoin of each two ounces Powder them and strain them with twelve ounces of Spirit of Wine three or four times put them all in a Glass Bottle that is two thirds empty stop it with Parchments pricking four or five holes in it then put in Balneo Mariae for a quarter of an hour only that is when you see the Water boil take the Vial off quickly and wrap it in a Napkin that the Bottle break not then take an ounce of white Balsam or that of Peru into which put the treddle of an Egg first mingled in your hand with as little as may be of Aqua Vitae then let all settle for forty Days and then use it Another Lac Virginis more ready and sure Take Housleek beat it in a Marble Mortar and take out the Juice with a Press strain the Juice warming first a very little which helps to Clarifie it and when you will you may use it you must put it into a Glass and put therein some drops of good Spirit of Wine and instantly you will have a kind of curdled Milk of the said Juice which is most excellent to unite the Skin and take out wrinkles A most excellent Spanish White Take the Seeds of Oriental Pearl white or pale Coral of each two ounces beat them apart then put them into a Matras and add as much Aq. fort as you shall think fit Juice of Citron is better then you must have another Matras wherein you must put Tin-Ice 8 ounces having first beaten it well and pour therein the said Water till all be dissolv'd then mingle the Pearl and Coral together and that which you have dissolv'd to the Tin-Ice pour upon the said Pearl and Coral to cause them to precipitate and before you mingle them you must add twice every day fountain-Fountain-water till you perceive no Taste of the Aqua-fortis and then you shall use it with Peach-Flowers distilling each apart and when you use them take a little quantity of each and so Compound them To whiten the Teeth Take rose-Rose-Water Syrup of Roses white Honey Plantan-Water of each half an ounce Spirit of Vitriol four ounces mingle them together and rub your Teeth with a Linnen-Cloth and wash them with equal parts of Rose and Plantan-Water For the same Take Sage Flowers of red-Roses of each a small handful Orris-root half an ounce Guaiacum three drams Rose-wood a dram Cuttle-bone two drams Mastich three drams Myrrh and Cinamon of each a dram Pumice-stone prepared six drams red Sanders finely powdred half an ounce red Coral six drams make them into a Powder For the same Take red Coral Cuttle-bone both reduced to fine Powder Pearls Crabs-claws calcin'd burnt Harts-horn of each one dram Salt of Worm-wood a Scruple make them into a Powder For the same Take Rosemary-wood and burn it to a Coal which you shall put into Rose-Vinegar letting it infuse twenty four hours in a clear Shade then dry it in the Sun
afterwards well wash'd are very effectual Likewise burnt Nettles mixt with Cloves Sugar and Nutmeg Probatum To destroy Buggs Boyl the Paunches or Gutts of Rabbits in Water set it hot under the Bed and the Fume will destroy them To prevent the smoaking of Lamp Oyl Steep your Match or Cotton in Vinegar and dry it before you use it Against Lice Fleas and Buggs Stretch out a Bears Skin and hang it up in the Chamber and you 'l soon be rid of them To whiten a red Rose This is done by holding it over the smoak of Brimstone To make Pinks or Gilliflowers blue Take a Root of wild Succory slit it and set your Gilliflower in it To make very sharp Vinegar Put into the Vessel a piece of Barly Bread and in two daies it will be eager To keep Pease Green Put them in a Pot with one part Water and as much Vinegar when you take them out to use soak them in fair Water To preserve Fruit to the very Kernel Incorporate Honey and Water very well put in your Fruit half ripe and keep them in a Cellar A most exquisite way of invisible Writing The first Ink. Take a penny-worth of Litharge of Gold or Silver unprepared beat it then infuse it in a Viol half full of strong Vinegar having well shaken them together leave them to settle and being clear write upon your Paper with a new Pen and it will not appear at all The second Ink. Take Cork burn it till it has done smoaking extinguish it in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine dry it and mix it with Water and a little Gum Arabic to the consistence of thin Paste when you would write with it make it thinner with common Water and write upon what 's written with the foremention'd Ink. The third Ink. Take yellow Orpiment and quick Lime of each an ounce beat them and put them in four ounces of common Water stir them well this Water will take away the second Ink and make what was written with the first appear A Glew both for Fire and Water Mix quick Lime and Lynseed Oyl together and whatsoever you shall glew with it dry in the shade and 't will become as hard as Iron Against Buggs Take Spriggs of Fearn and lay upon the Boards To give a lustre to Plaister of Paris Take a piece of Soap of the bigness of a Nut dissolve it in a Glass of Water and pass it over the Plaister being dry burnish it with a Tooth To whiten a false piece Take Salt rub it with a piece of good Silver till it become black with this Salt rub the counterfeit piece and 't will be as white as the other Probatum To separate Silver from other Metals Melt the piece in a Crucible cast in some Sulphur the Silver will remain and the allay will look like Dirt. Probatum A most excellent writing Ink. Take Gum Arabick three ounces Vitriol two ounces Galls three ounces White-wine two pounds and a half beat the Gall put them with the Wine into an earthen Vessel set it in the Sun for six days stirring them every day twice or thrice then set it over a moderate heat for half a day or a day then strain it then having dissolv'd some Vitriol and Gum in a little Wine put it into it then put it in to the Sun three daies more and it is made To keep it from freezing put into it a little Aqua Vitae Excellent Spanish Wax Melt in an earthen Dish one ounce of Rosin to which add as much Vermilion and two ounces of Shell-lach being well melted and mixt rowl it into Sticks A Counterfet Ink which will vanish in five dayes Take Sal Armoniack an ounce infuse it four or five dayes in strong Water make Ink of it with a piece of Touch-stone beaten fine what is written with this will be gone in five dayes Aqua fortis for etching Take Verdigreece an ounce green Copperas an ounce Salt an handful these being put into strong Vinegar set them in a pot of boyling Water for half an hour or more To know true Mercury from Sophisticate Put some Mercury upon a Plate of Silver or Copper and evaporate it over some fresh Coals if it leaves a white spot behind 't is fine if black or yellow 't is not To soften Ivory Take Vinegar three times distill'd with Sage leaves put in your Ivory and boyl it a little To take out Spots of Pitch or other Gums Take common Oyl the oldest you can get warm it a little rub the Spots with it and so leave it twenty four hours then rub it well and wring it well with your hands then wash it with warm Water and Soap To stop the freeting of Wine Cast in a little of Cheese To purifie Gum-Lack Soak it in strong Lye three or four dayes To gild Iron Take common Water three pound Roch Allum two ounces Roman Vitriol one ounce Verdigreece two ounces Sal Gemma four ounces Orpiment two ounces make them all boyl then throw in some Tartar and Salt-peter of each a little then boyl them a little more and take them off with this Water rub your Iron then warm it well and burnish it Another for the same Take Roch Allum burnt Nitre of each half an ounce Sal Armoniack an ounce beat them fine and boyl them in strong Vinegar in a brass Vessel and with this Water rub the Iron To counterfeit Ebony Take Box or any other hard Wood rub it with Allum-water near the Fire then take Sallet-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl into which cast some Roman Vitriol and Sulphur of each about the bigness of a Nut put all into a Kettle and boyl your Box for some time and t' will appear to be perfect Ebony the more you boyl it the fairer it will be but more brittle To calcine Tartar quickly Take the best Tartar the finest Nitre of each a like quantity beat them apart then mix them put them in a new Pot on a Charcoal Fire and the Nitre will melt mix them with a stick till they become like Salt then put some Fire into the Pot and they will melt and the Tartar will be calcin'd if it be not white add a little Salt-peter to reduce it into Oyl of Tartar put it in a Cellar upon a Marble and it will run into Oyl To make Brass of a true Gold colour Take Sal Armoniac mingle it in a Mortar with Spittle till it become like a liquid Ointment rub the Brass with it put it on burning Coals and when 't is well dryed rub it well with a Linnen Cloth and it will appear like Gold To make clean Silver Take Wheat-straw burn it to Ashes and rub your Silver with it Or else take strong Lye of Soap Ashes put some Allum into it wash your Silver with it and dry it in the Sun To make Muscadel Take Flowers of the wild Vine dry'd one part Elder Flowers dry'd two parts Coriander three parts beat the Coriander put all these
earthen glaz'd Pot boil it till it has quite done smoaking then put in half an ounce of Sandrac as much Mastick well beaten mix them till they are all well incorporated then take off the Pot adding half a pint or more as you see cause of oyl of Turpentine upon a slow fire for a quarter of an hour and keep it for use if it be too thick 't is but adding more Turpentine To make Red soft Wax Take Vermilion one pound common Oyl one pound Wax twenty pound Rosin ten pound work them well together To Dye a Yellow Colour Take the inner bark of a Plumb-Tree cut in pieces put it in allum-Allum-water boil what you think fit in it and it will be of a fair Yellow the like is done with Sumach and allum-Allum-water A Cloth Shasse Take half a pound of Lytharge of Silver well ground three pound of clear Oyl of Nut set it over a small fire that it do not boil the next day pour out the Oyl by Inclination what remains at the bottom will serve another time then take Rosin a pound and a half beat it and mix it with the Oyl upon a Charcole fire always stirring it till it be melted then take it off and put in half a pound of Venice Turpentine being cold anoint the Cloth this will last many years Also you may mix Burgundy Pitch with Oyl of Nuts or else Rosin and Virgins Wax Another for Shasses with Glew and Varnish Take Glew made of Glove Leather very clear Vellum Glew is better lay it on the Cloth and let it dry at leisure then give it one laying more and leave it again to dry then take Virgins wax and Turpentine melted together and lay that on letting it dry to a pound of Wax allow a quarter of a pound of Turpentine To Gild or Silver over Metals Take a little Fish-Glew dissolve it in Aquae Vitae lay on the Glew with a little Cotton and apply the Gold or Silver in Leaf or else temper the Leaves and apply them with Glew to give them a lustre take a Horse-hoof put it on a Chaffindish of burning Coals and dry the thing gilt over the fume of it To make Copper white quite through Take Kettle Copper not that which is cast add to it some Arsenick well ground mix them well in the Crucible and when they have done smoking cast it in the Mould you have ready A fair Blew Colour Take Turnsole infuse it all night in Urine the day following grind and mix it with a little quick Lime according as you intend the Colour If you 'd have it a little shining add a little Gum Arabick To take spots of Ink out of Paper or Parchment Rub the spot with a little Aqua-fortis at the end of a Feather and it will soon vanish then wash it with fresh Water with the edge of a Feather To take them out of Parchment scrape it with a Pen-knife and rub it with a Pumice-stone An Excellent Water Perfume Take Benjamin Storax-calamita a few Cloves and Mastick beat all put them in Aqua Vitae or Spirit of Wine in a glass Vial when the Water becomes red add a grain of Musk and strain it A very good Pomatum Take the fat of unsalted Bacon stick it full of Oats roast it by a slow Fire take up the Dripping and save it Divers sorts of Perfumes CHAP. VII To counterfeit Amber-greece TAke Starch Florence Orris root of each an ounce Aspaltum or Bitumen half an ounce Benjamin one ounce Sperma Ceti Ben-nuts an ounce and halt Musk a dram Gum Tragacanth a sufficient quantity Take the Starch the Benjamin and Sperma Ceti and make them into a Paste which being done take one part in which make up half the Aspaltum the other part make into a black Paste and then mix them altogether with your hand To augment Civet Take the pulp of Raisins of the Sun very cleanly pulped one ounce musk one dram mix and incorporate them well together put them into the same Retort wherein you put the Civet and set it in a Horse-dunghill seven or eight days upon two drams of Civet put one dram of this Composition To make Essence of Cinnamon in consistence of an Extract Take Oyl of Nutmegs set it in the Sun in Summer to make it lose its Scent then put in the half part of Oyl of Cinnamon which you may reduce to the consistence of an Extract To make Cassolet or Perfume Cakes to burn Take Storax two ounces Benjamin four ounces twelve Cloves Laudanum a dram Calamus Aromaticus a dram a little Citron Pill take a new glaz'd earthen Pot in which boyl the Storax and Benjamin in half a pint of rose-Rose-water for several hours the Pot being well cover'd then put the Cloves Laudanum Calamus and Citron Pill in a little Linnen bag and boyl them with the fore-menon'd things when boil'd enough take off the Pot strain all through a Linnen Cloth not squeezing it too hard then put the Paste in a Paper Excellent Pastills or Perfume Cakes Take Benjamin two ounces Storax half an ounce Lignum Aloes a dram Coals of Sallow or Willow Wood according to discretion reduce all to fine Powder adding twenty grains of good Civet and fine Sugar as much as you think fit pulverize and mix all the Druâ—s and put them in a Skillet with Rose-water which must rise above all the Ingredients make them boil a little till the Paste be well digested always stirring with a stick lest it burn then if you desire to make the Pastill somewhat better add twelve grains of Amber which you shall before have ground on a Marble with a little Sugar put it in the Skillet when the Paste shall be boyl'd enough and not before all being well incorporated form your Pastills Several Grounds for Hair-Powders To make the Ground for white Powder Take one pound of Orris twelve pound of Cuttle-bone eight pound of Starch a handful of Beef or Mutton Bones burnt white beat all very well in a Mortar and pass them through a fine hair Cieve A Ground for gray Powder Take what remains in the Cieve of the foresaid Powder which you must beat again and mix with a little Starch and a little yellow Oker to give it a colour then coals of White-wood or for want of that some of the fresh Coals out of a Bakers Oven mix all these well together in a Mortar you may make it of what colour you will then pass it through a hair Cieve what goes not through keep to beat again as before Another ground for powder Take worm-eaten or rotten Wood beat it well and pass it through a Cieve then mix it with the aforesaid Powder Perfume for ordinary Powder Take Florence Orris one pound dryed Roses one pound of Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce yellow Sanders an ounce and half Cloves two drams a little Citron pill beat all to fine Powder in a Mortar put twenty pound of Starch or the aforesaid
White-wine boil them together three or four hours then wash his Tail and Main Another way Rub the Tail and Main with Lye made of Vine-ashes To hinder Horses from Neighing after a Mare and carry her any where amongst Horses Take Oyl of Petroleum and rub the Mares privities once a week with a Quill or once a fortnight and the Horses will not care for her To keep a Horse from Neighing Rub the Bitt when you bridle him with common Oyl and glass Oyl mixed together and the Horse will not Neigh in three hours or else put a stone under his Tail For a Horse that has been over-heated Take half a pint of Milk which boyl with four ounces of fresh Butter Laurel-berries Pepper Sene fine Sugar of each an ounce all in Powder well mixed together must be put into Wine which make the Horse drink without covering or walking him and he will void at the Nostrils and recover To fatten a Horse Take good White-wine two pound juice of Sorrel one pound common Oyl one pound mixt together and warm it then make the Horse drink it being bridled before after which cover him warm walk him an hour and put him into the Stable continuing this fifteen days and he will certainly grow fat Of Dogs CHAP. XXIV For Dogs Mange TAke large Millet and sweet Turnep-roots which boyl in Cows-piss till it is all like a Broth with which rub the Dogs For Dogs bitten by mad Beasts Take Rue Comfrey and Mugwort more Rue than Comfrey and of this than Mugwort with a head of Garlick beat all together with a handful of Salt and steep the herbs in White-wine and Water make the sick Dog drink it fasting and take care in two hours after he neither eats drinks nor sleeps You must also make the Sore bleed and lay over it the remainder of the herbs This Receipt is most certain To cure Dogs of the burst Wash them in water in which Hemlock has been boyled then cut the flesh so that he may not feel it and wash the place with juice of Hemlock To destroy a Dogs Fleas Take a quantity of Worm-wood and boil it in water an hour and half take it from the fire when cold take the Herb and rub the Dog against the grain of the Hair and wash him with that Water and the Fleas certainly dye in the place you have touched To cure Sheep Burn and powder some of their Wool and make them drink it To cure the Hogs Meazles Take a little mineral Antimony in Powder which wrap up in a Linnen Cloth and infuse in Lye made of white Briony twenty four hours adding two fingers of Salt of Saturn make them drink the quantity of a Glass full mixed with Bran and within eight or nine daies they will be cured For Fowl that are hurt Pull the place that is hurt gently or else cut off the Feathers and take a Plaister of Villemagne made upon sofâ— Leather lay it upon the sore and it will heal To make Fowl feed well Take Rhubarb Agaricum Aloes Saffron Cinnamon Aniseed Sugar-candy of each a Dram beat it to Powder At Night give them as much as will lye upon a Shilling this draws a great deal of moisture from their Brain and their Maw in the Morning will be found full of Water if you squeeze it You must give this when the Bird is full or when you would have it do strange things To purge them To purge and give Fowl a Stomack we use Pills of old Preserve of Province Roses liquid about the bigness of a Pea. The last and XXV Chapter In which are contained many Secrets which have been tried by the Author since the foregoing And also some excellent Remedies not spoken of before To make a thick course Dye thin and delicate TAke Aloes Borax Salt Bones Mastick of each three Drams pound all and incorporate it with French Soap and Oxes Gall. To beautifie the Face and other parts of the Body Take Oyl of Myrrh or Water of Linden Flowers rub with it twice a Week when you go to Bed To make the Hair bright or shining When you comb your self dip the Comb in Oyl of Lillies Roses or Violets To make the Hair grow long Take Ashes of Venus Hair Polythricon and Cane Root with Hemp seed of which make Lye melt some Myrrh into it adding one part of White-wine with which wash your Head every fortnight To make Hair Curl First shave it off and then rub the Skin with Daffodil Roots Another way Take Roots of Marsh-mallows Hemp and Psillium-Seed boil them long together and with the Decoction wash your Hair Another Take Daffodil Water mixed with thick Juice of the Roots of white Mallows as much of one as of the other For swetty stinking Feet Take Roch-allum dissolved in hot Water and wash your Feet often therein A Bath to beautifie the Body Take sweet Almonds blanched four pound pure Apple Kernels one pound Hemp-seed four handfuls Marsh-mallow-roots and Lilly-Seeds of each an ounce Roots of Elicampane a pound and half all cut and beaten very small make three or four Bags of it and in each put a handful of Bran. Having well prepared the Water for the Bath it being taken near the Wheel of some Mill take some to boil the Bags in then sit down in the Bath-Tub upon one of the Bags and with the others rub your Body You may put into the Bath a pound of Roses or sweet Waters or Oyl of Spikenard about two ounces or Musk Amber Civet Benjamin Storax or Orange Flowers You must stay in the Bath three hours A secret for making artificial Wine Take a Loaf as it comes out of the Oven steep it in strong Vinegar then lay it by and keep it to make Wine immediately you need only steep a piece of this Bread in a Glass of Water and it will give it the colour and taste of Wine A good secret for Ladies to beautify their Faces Take Parsly-Seed and Nettle-Seed the Kernels of Peaches boil them together and with that Water wash your Face A true secret to catch all sorts of Birds with your Hands without any other Instrument Take some Oxes Gall and white Hellebore then Hony and Corn boil them in the said Gall strew them where there are any Birds you would catch and when they have eaten it they will fall down dead within half an hour then you may take them with your Hands To get a good Memory either in Man or Woman Take the blood of a Swallow and Rosemary-flowers Borrage Bugloss of each two drams then take Cinnamon beaten small Nutmeg Clove long Pepper of each half a dram fine Musk two grains Preserve of Violets and Roses of each an ounce powder it all very small and sift it very fine mix the said Powder with an ounce of Syrup of Roses and make an Electuary of which take every Morning the bigness of a small Nut for a Month together This will certainly make you have a good
memory It is an experienc'd Secret and necessary for those that are troubled that way To know whether a Girl be a Maid or not Take Marble in Powder and make her drink it in Wine if she be deflowred she will vomit immediately For Womens white Flowers Take two good handfuls of the roots of Pettiegree which put into three pints of water and boil away to a pint and half and take two glasses a day Virgins Milk Take four ounces of Litharge in Powder which put into a little earthen Pot with a pound and half of Vinegar make it boyl a little upon the fire then take it off and pour your Vinegar and Litharge into a Porringer distill it with a Filter and keep the Water Take also 3 or 4 ounces of Allum which infuse in a pound of Water set a little upon the fire take it off as soon as you can perceive the Allum is melted then put it into a Porringer and distill it with a Filter and keep this Water by it self To use the said Water you must take a little of each and when they are mixed they will become as white as Milk and with it you must wash where you feel any itching For any burning Take two penny-worth of Lead-ore put it into a little Vessel with Vinegar leaving it there at least twenty-four hours then take out the Vinegar which becomes white and put in Sallet-oyl beating them well together of which is made an Ointment very useful for any burning The way how to use it is taking some of this Ointment and laying it upon the burnt place then lay a very fine Cloth over it and over the Cloth some of the same Ointment it must be left on till it falls off it self and nothing will appear upon the burnt place Modern Curiosities OF ART and NATURE Containing the whole Art of Moulding and Casting all sorts of Figures Medals and other Forms in Lead Tin Silver Copper Plaister of Paris Wax Sulphur and otherwise as well hollow as sollid CHAP. I. To cast the Figures of all sorts of Animals in Tin Silver and Copper very thin and light HAving the Figure ready to mould oyl it and take off the hollow Mould in Plaister as follows Being oyl'd lay it upon Potters Earth then make choice of such parts of it as you think best to take off there make a Border or Edging of the same Earth that being done cast your Plaister being well temper'd neither too thick nor too thin that part being well taken lift it up in as few pieces as you can repair the Edges and make some little notches with a Knife grease the Edges with Sallad Oyl and put them exactly together again then make an Edging or Border of the same Earth in the place from whence you took that part of your Figure that being done cast your Plaister as before then lift up the Piece to repair it and put it in its place continue thus till the whole be done being dry dress the outside of your Mould with a Knife or piece of Iron and when throughly hardned mark the Pieces one after another dry them at leisure then joyn and tye them together with a Cord thus have you a hollow Mould of Plaister which according as Figures are more or less easie may be made of three four six ten or twelve pieces but this depends upon the Judgment of the Moulder or Caster To cast a hollow Figure Oyl your hollow Mould of Plaister till 't will receive no more and dry it with Cotton then take all your pieces and tye them together with a Cord and find out the fittest place for the Mouth or Casting Place having then melted your Wax so that it be neither hot nor cold run it into the Mould if your Figure be small fill it and after a little time take out the Stopple of Earth with which you stopt the Mouth of the Mould and on a sudden turn your Figure upside down that the remainder of the Wax may run out after some time when you think 't is cold open it and you 'l find a hollow Figure of Wax if it be too thin leave the next longer in the Mould if too thick take it out sooner To know the weight of your Figures mould off a Weight of four or five ounces more or less and you 'l find how much the bigness of a pound Weight in Wax will weigh in Copper but the most certain rule is to fill the Mould with Wax How to put the Kernel or inward Mould into a Figure of Wax and put on the Shell or outward Case to cast it in Metal Thus having your Figure if it be of a living Creature you may cut it with a hot Knife in two pieces either at length or cross or overthwart being thus parted take Potters Earth mingled with a little very fine Charcoal Dust moistning and beating them with a Rod or little Bar of Iron till it becomes as soft as Paste with this Earth fill your waxen Figure which being dry cover the outside of each piece where they are to be joyned with the same Earth made very moist and thin taking care it run not over upon the edges of the Wax being joyned repair it with a Tool of Copper or Iron made warm to melt the Wax upon the Joynt this done make a Git or Casting-hole in the most convenient place let it be long enough with Breath-holes if you find any part of the Figure to which you think the Metal will not easily pass then roul little pieces of Wax about the bigness of a Goose Quill or bigger according to the size of the Figure which with a hot Iron you may stick to some part of it that the end may reach the place where you suspect the Metal will not easily run and there fasten it then take little Points of Tin or Iron about the bigness of a Tag about half a finger long according to the thickness of the Wax or the inner Mould thrust these Points quite through the Figure to the end that the Kernel being in all parts supported by the Points it may not touch or joyn to any part of the outward Mould To make the Case or Faceing to the Figure of Wax Take good Founders Earth and steep it in an earthen Vessel in fair Water pour it by inclination into another and the grosser part will remain in the bottom of the first having left it to settle pour off the Water and add to it some Bonne mingle them together and with a large Pencil give a smooth laying of this Earth upon your Wax Figure being dry a second continue this to a sixth laying on when dry strengthen it with Potters Clay beaten with Hair when perfectly dry put your Mould over the Fire on Iron Rods in form of a Gridiron and take heed your Wax boyl not within the Mould which will break it let it lean on one side that the Wax may run out at the Mouth or Casting-place
and if the Wood were white you will have an admirable Blew To make a Purple upon Wood. Having your Turnsole steep'd as above add to it the Tincture of Brazil boyl'd in Lime-Water and it will be an excellent Purple these Colours ought to be varnish'd as well to beautifie as to preserve them To imitate Inlaying or Marble upon Wood. Beat the Yolk of an Egg with water till it be thin enough to write with take a Pencil and with the Yolk vein the Wood according to your Fancy being dry some slake Lime in Urine till it become thick like Mud with a Brush lay this on the Wood when dry clean it with a Rubbing-Brush rub with a clean Cloth burnish and varnish it and you will have a very pleasant piece of Work To make all sorts of Vessels as Flower-Pots or Dishes to imitate very neatly fine Porcelain or China ware Turn your Vessels according to the Fashiâ—… 〈◊〉 the true China 't is no matter what 〈…〉 except Beech first glew it and whiten it with Whiting and glew very smoothly three or four times make it more smooth with a wet linnen Cloth last of all pollish it with dryed Rushes then give two layings of Cerus with Oyl of Turpentine and white Varnish then with a Knife mix upon a Pallet a little Blew Ammel with Cerus till the Colour become only a little blewish the Cerus and the Ammel must be ground very fine with water and left to dry when this last laying of Blewish White is laid on with Varnish and dry'd design your Figures upon it with very fine blew Ammel spread on the Pallet with Oyl of Turpentine in laying on this Blew moisten the end of the Pencil in Varnish to mingle with the Blew taking care that the Ammel grow not hard in mixing and by that means trouble some to lay on when dry if you find occasion you may with the point of the Pencil touch it over again Another way of Staining or Marbling Wood. Grind White-Lead and Chalk together on a Marble put it in a Pot and temper it again with the Yolk of an Egg beaten with water then with a large Pencil lay on this White when dry repeat it that being dry take a Point made of Stags-Horn draw off the white where and in what Form you will then sprinkle the Lime mixt with Urine the Violet Wood which Dyers use will become black as Ebony by sprinkling the Lime and Urine Plum-Tree and Cherry-Tree turn of a deep Red the Pear-Tree and Service-Tree turn Reddish Wallnut-Tree grows black by mingling some Galls in Pouder with the Lime and Urine A Pencil made of Mutton Suet rub'd in those places where you would draw with Yolks of Eggs will do the same thing 'T will be excellent upon Black-Cherry-Tree or Plum-Tree or any Wood of a dark Colour To counterfeit Ebony The most solid Wood and freest from Veins is best such as Pear-Tree Apple-Tree and Service-Tree black well either of these when dry rub it with a Cloath then make a little Brush of Rushes tyed near the ends melt some Wax in a Pot mixing with it some Lamp-black then with the Brush throw on some of the Wax brushing it till it shine like Ebony then rub it with a Cloth and some of the black Wax the Wood should be well pollisht and rusht before you do it To counterfeit Ebony Holly is the best of all Woods which you must put into a Hat-makers Furnace where he dyes his Hats when you find it by cutting to be struck in about the thickness of a Sixpence take it out and dry it in the Shade that it may the better drink up the Dye-Water then pollish it with an Iron to take off the foulness of the Dye then with Rush and Pouder of Charcoal and Sallad Oyl as is done to Ebony the Wood of Tunis pollishes easily it also burnishes well with a Tooth and is better to cut than Ebony which is very brittle A pollisht Black Grind Lamp-Black with Gum-Water and with a Pencil cover the Wood when dry pollish with a Tooth 't will look very well Another black Dye for Wood. Put into good Ink little pieces of Iron very rusty leaving it so some days then rub the Wood which 't will penetrate pollish with a Tooth and 't will be very beautiful To make Wood of â— Silver Colour Beat Tin-glass in a Mortar to fine Pouder then put some Water to it grinding it to the fineness of Paint or grind it on a Marble then put it into an earthen Pan washing it two or three times till it be very clean mix it with clear Glew and lay it upon the Wood being first warmed lay it on the Wood with a Pencil when dry pollish with a Tooth To make Wood of the Colour of Gold Silver Copper or Brass Take Rock-Cristal beat it very fine in a Mortar then grind it on a Marble with clean Water then put it in an earthen Pot with a little Glew warm it and lay it on when dry lay it on as above rub it with Gold Silver or Copper and 't will be of the same Colour you rub it with then pollish To lay on Pencil-Gold or Silver on Wood. Temper the Gold or Silver with weak Gum-Tragaganth-Water very clear with a Pencil lay it on the Lights of your Work without touching the Shadows which must be made with Indico ground with a very weak Gum-Arabick Water then varnish it with drying Varnish made of Spike-Oyl and Gum Sandrac if it be too thick add some Oyl in making it let it not have a greater heat than may be endur'd by the Hands black Wood or Wood so dyed is most proper to gild For Silver upon Wood. First glew your Wood over with Parchment Glew when dry figure it as you think fit as before mentioned shadow and finish with Water in which Tallow has been boyled heighten with Silver as in the Chapter for Gold and varnish it A Red Colour for Wood. Take Orchanet beaten in Pouder mix it with Oyl of Nuts make it luke-warm and rub the Wood. A Yellow Colour Is made with French Berries and Allum also with Turmerick or Saffron also with Merita Earth Yellow in most cases is an easie Colour A Violet Colour Take four ounces of Brazil and half a pound of Logwood boyl these together in two quarts of Water adding an ounce of common Allum in this boyl the Wood. An excellent Blew Take four ounces of Turnsole boyl it an hour in three pints of Lime-water and paint your Wood. To make Bronze or Pouder of the Colour of Gold Take Gum Elemi twelve Darchms melt it then crude Mercury one ounce Sal Armoniac two ounces put all in a Glass Viol with Bole and Whites of Eggs make all melt when melted add Orpiment at discretion with some Filings of Brass being well mingled together lay it with a Pencil on that which you would bronze CHAP. XXI Divers ways of Beautifying things made of Wood Stone Plaister
Another for Silks ib. To take off Dirt dash'd on Cloths ib. To take off Iron-moulds from Linnen ib. To take out all Ink spots upon Linnen or Woollen 155. Another for the same ib. How to soften whiten and restore discoloured Ivory CHAP. IX HOw to soften Ivory so that it may be cast in a Mould ib. An excellent Receipt to whiten discoloured Ivory ib. Another for the same 156. To whiten green Ivory and restore that which is spotted ib. To whiten Bones ib. Rare and wonderful Curiosities CHAP. X. A Representation of the four Elements in a Glass Vial 157. To make several colours upon water ib. To break an Iron as thick as an Arm 158. Another for the same ib. A wonderful Spirit that dissolves all sorts of stones though never so hard ib. How to melt any Metal in a Nut-shell 159. A perpetual Motion ib. To make a mans face appear hideous 160. A waggish way to make Pease leap out of the Pot ib. The like to make an Egg move about ib. To make all the People in the house sleep without being able to wake 161. An excellent way to cleanse silver without boyling ib. A Cloth that wholly resists a Sword ib. To make a Jerkin or Coat-Armour proof against a Musket 162. To hinder the Pot and Meat from boyling ib. To make a wind blow out of a River ib. A Water that will give light in the dark 163. A strange way to hold Fire in the hand without being burnt ib. To handle Fire without being burnt ib. To make a Light in a Chamber at night ib. To make Glass or Christal clear 164. To make Parchment Shasses as clear as Glass ib. To whiten Paper glewed upon Shasses to endure many Years ib. To make fat Oyl ib. An unlukey way to calcine the Blade of a Sword without hurting the Scabbard ib. A secret way to write white and invisible on a Mans Skin and after make the Writing appear ib. Divers useful and curious Compositions CHAP. XI TO make black Writing vanish and appear again 165. A ingenious way to write a Letter so as it shall or shall not appear or the double Letter 166. The second Ink ib. A Water to make the second Ink vanish and the first appear ib. Ink that may be rubbed out when you will ib. Ink that will vanish in six dayes ib. Ink for Parchment that will last till you rub it out 168. Indian Ink ib. Portable or dry ink to carry about ib. An excellent Writing Ink ib. A useful way to write on Greasie Paper or Parchment 169. To write Silver and Gold Letters ib. An Ink that may be wiped out in forty dayes 170. Ink upon Glass ib. To make a Resemblance of Wines of several Colours ib. Incombustible Oyl 171. To make Arsenick run like Oyl ib. To slack Lime for several Uses ib. To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoke or waste ib. A Candle that cannot be put out 172. To hinder Oyl from smoking ib. To make Oyl of Eggs white ib. Of Artificial Fireworks Hunting and Fishing CHAP. XII AN excellent Composition for Granado's flaming Lances Pikes and other Instruments 173. Flaming Lances ib. Fire Pikes ib. Good Squibs 174. A pleasant Invention to kill Game ib. To make Powder strong 175. To catch Partridges ib. To fetch Rabbits out of their Berries without a Ferret ib. Another for the same ib. To gather together a great number of Hares ib. To preserve Arms from Rusting and take off the Rust 176. Another for the same ib. To make an unextinguishable Wild-fire 177. Another for the same ib. A Fire that burns upon Armour ib. To make a Pistol carry far ib. A pleasant way to catch Crows 178. Of Fishery A sure way to catch Fish ib. Another way ib. Another to catch Fish 179. A wonderful way to bring Fish to the Place you desire ib. Another to catch Fish ib. Another way 180. Another way ib. Otherwise ib. Another for the same ib. To make Worms for Baits come out of the Ground 181. Admirable Receipts in Cookery CHAP. XIII THE true way of making Bolonia Sauciges 182. Milan Sauciges 183. Mentz Gammons ib. Madam de Bis her Gammons 184. An excellent Hogs-head after the manner of Piemont 185. An excellent way to salt Pork Beef and other Meats as is used in Germany and Flanders 186. To make Mentz Gammons 187. To make Lumbardy Sauciges ib. A white Pot ib. Excellent Italian Fritters by Andrea Doria 188. A Pike after the manner of Poland ib. To make the Bones of a Shad-fish eatable and to preserve them boyled from year to year 189. To make Cream without Fire 190. To make a delicate Fool ib. To make an excellent sort of boyled Fool 191. To make an excellent Cake ib. To pickle and preserve Cabages 192. For Cucumbers ib. For Purslane ib. For Artichokes 193. For Sparagus ib. For Green-pease ib. To keep Beans ib. To keep Mushrooms 194. To make Fowl tender presently ib. To keep Grapes till Easter as red and fresh as upon the Vine ib. To freshen salt Pottage 195. To make live Crafishes red ib. To sweeten ill tasted Oyl ib. To preserve all manner of Fowl a Month without spoyling ib. A very wholsom and excellent Spice 196. To preserve fresh Lard ib. A most excellent Cake ib. Sweet-meats Flowers and Fruits CHAP. XIV GEnoa Biskets 197. The Queens Bisket ib. Makaroons 198. To make a Paste of any Fruit whatsoever ib. An admirable Gelly of Quinces and other sorts of Fruit 199. Genoa Paste ib. To keep any fruit a long time particularly Grapes ib. To preserve Apples from Rotting 200. To keep all ston'd Fruits and even Figs ib. To keep all sorts of Flowers 201. To keep Roses red all the Year ib. Another for the same 202. To make excellent Hypocras immediately ib. Another Liquor for the same use 203. To make Rosa Solis ib. The same another way 204. Another sort of Liquor which the French call Populo ib. To make good Spirit of Wine 205. To make cheap Lemonade ib. To make Franchpane Water ib. To make Jessamine Water 206. Water of Strawberries Rasps Cherries and Apricocks ib. To make Ice in Summer 207. To cool Water extreamly without Ice ib. Of several sorts of Wines how to preserve them and how to recover decayed Wine CHAP. XV. TO recover Wine that is prick'd 208. Another for the same ib. Another way 209. For Wine that is decay'd by too much vent or soure ib. To recover Wine that tasts of the Cask ib. To recover Wine that is turn'd ib. To take away the musty smell of Wine 210. To prevent the turning of Wine ib. For Wine that smells soure or bitter ib. To soften a green Wine ib. For Wine that is turned ib. For green Wine 211. To preserve Wine from souring ib. Another way ib. To make Wine fine ib. To make Muskadine Wine 212. To make Wine sweet ib. To make it black ib. For White-wine turn'd deep coloured ib. To make new
the same Take oyl of Scorpions Mithridate of Montpelier of each two ounces mingle these in a Mortar till they be well incorporated and put them into a glaz'd earthen Pot. Rub the Back-bone therewith the Temples and the Groins and the Joynts the spaces between the Knees the Soles of the Feet the Palms of the Hands and alwayes when you use this Ointment you must wash the Parts you intend to anoint with Rose-water The Remedy is admirable An Astringent to stop the Blood in a Wound or at Nose Take the tenderest tops of Nettles crush them between your Fingers or in a Mortar and apply them to the Wound and the Blood will stop which is very certain For the same Take half a Spoonful of the smallest Earth-Worms of the inner bark of Elder a good Handful a good spoonful of red Wine as much Sallet-Oyl a good handful of Mouse-ear a piece of fine Sugar as much new Wax three grains of Salt boil them all till half be wasted strain it and apply it to the Part. For all Intermitting Fevers Take an handful of St. John's-Wort infuse it in White-Wine strain it twenty four hours after and take it before the Fit For the same Take the Skin that sticks to the Eggs-shell fold it about the little Finger of the left hand and there let it remain for twenty four hours and 't will Cure them To Purge gently and chiefly those troubled with a Dropsy Take Spurge-seed well beaten steep it twenty four hours in Aqua Vitae dry it in the Sun steep it again twenty four hours and dry it again then steep it the third time as long in Sallet-Oyl dry it and keep it To use it you must dry it upon a Plate to take away the husk put the white being beaten to infuse in White-Wine all Night and drink a Glass thereof fasting For the Dropsie Take the Juice of the inner rind of the Elder give thereof two ounces to the Patient to drink in a Glass of Cows Milk an hour before Meals this will make you void much Flegm and Purges gently For the Watry Dropsie Take every morning a Glass of two pints of White-Wine and a fourth of Saller-Oyl wherein put a drachm of Salt of Wormwood do thus for eight dayes in which time you shall Purge with Rubarb Turbith and Jalap powdered and mingled together the dose is one dram in White-Wine After Purging you shall take the aforesaid Oyl for eight dayes more and so be cured Note you must rub your Belly every Night before the Fire with Sallet-Oyl till there comes a little Sweat on the forehead For the same Take what quantity you will of Crabs-Eyes wash them with White-Wine dry and powder them whereof give a drachm fasting in the morning in half a Glass of Lilly-Water To Cure a Bruise quickly Take Burgundy Pitch dissolved in Aqua Vitae and spread a Plaister thereof upon Leather and apply it to the Malady and 't will Cure it For Apoplectics Take seven or eight drops of the Essence of Rosemary in a Glass of good Wine Note the Patient must be standing and rub his Stomach to make the Remedy penetrate the better if it succeeds not the first time it will not fail the second For the Bowels fallen down Take Ladies mantle in Water or in Powder in Broth or White-Wine it pulls back and stays up the Bowels it is likewise proper for Women that cannot conceive with Child To Cure the Gonorrhea and Carnosity Probatum Take the Juice of the Herb and Root of our Ladies Thistle an ounce in as much more White-wine for eight mornings or more and you will be cured Otherwise Take two or three ounces of Mercury well purified which put into a glaz'd Pot which you must fill with Fountain Water adding two spoonfuls of crude Tartar powdered and a handful of Salsaparilla let them boil for half an hour set them to cool and use it for your ordinary Drink this will cure you even of a Bubo or Winchester Goose An excellent Ptisan for the French Pox. Take six drachms of Salsaparilla as much Antimony in Powder fold the Antimony in white Linnen tye it to the middle of a Stick to hang in a Pot not touching the bottom Powder the Salsaparilla that is beat it well or cut it in small pieces but 't is better in Powder put in also in powder forty Walnuts with the skins that divides the Kernel the oldest are the best six drachms of China Wood and a little Brazil Wood rasp'd to give a Colour to the Ptisan you having put them all in the Pot with two quarts of Water and the Antimony hanging in the middle let it boil open two or three boilings then put in also your powders of Walnuts and China and boil them over a gentle Fire to the wasting of the third part You must make this Drink three or four times over and strain it well every time for a perfect Cure You must first purge the Patient with an ordinary Purgation the day after you have let him Blood the third day make him drink a full Glass of the Ptisan at five a clock in the morning eating nothing for three hours after at eight a clock let him Eat and three hours after let him take a Glass of Ptisan at twelve a clock let him Eat at five a clock another Glass of Ptisan at nine a clock let him Sup at midnight another full Glass of Ptisan and so continue this Course for twelve days he must abstain from Womens company from drinking pure Wine and eating salt or spiced Meats all other honest exercise is permitted For ten days he must take Clysters morning and evening if he be bound in his Body and eat Prunes at his Meals Among his Wine he shall put half of this Water following Put in two quarts of Fountain Water upon the dregs that settles at the bottom of the Pot without the Antimony boil it to the Consumption of the third part this Water hath no bad Taste Pills of Lytharge for the Venereal Disease Take Trochisches of Alhandal Crocus Metallorum Sal Gemma of each one drachm Aloes Succotrine two drachms Electuary of Roses six drachms make them into Pills the Dose is twelve Grains which must be taken in the morning fasting taking a few Anniseed Comfits after it They are to be taken for fifteen or twenty days together and if you will you may take at the beginning a Decoction made of the bark of Guajacum Salsaparilla six drachms China three drachms Sassaphras and Wood of Cubebs of each two ounces infusing them twenty four hours in ten pints of Fountain or River Water An Emplaster for the Lungs and Stomach which will keep good two years Take two drams of Aloes Rue a little bruised three or four handfuls common Water seven or eight Porringers full boyl all in a glased earthen Pot to the consumption that the Liquour may wet a linnen Cloth then strain it through a linnen cloth and dip
of Sallet Oyl three quarts of White-wine and half a pound of Salt let them boyl together for some time then add a a pound of Turpentine which dissolve in Wine and Oyl and afterwards Wax if you will make a Balsam Arceus his Balsam Take Sallet Oyl Venice Turpentine Gum Elemy Oyl of St. John's-wort of each three ounces Oyl of Roses two ounces Rosin half an ounce boyl them all till 't is enough 't is most excellent for Gun-shot and all other Wounds A red Oyntment Take Sallet Oyl Litharge wash'd white Hony of each four ounces new Wax two ounces red Lead half an ounce melt the Wax in the Oyl then add the Honey and Powders finely beaten being well incorporated take them from the fire and your Oyntment is made 't is good for the Scurf of Womens Breasts for Ulcers to incarne and dry them both at once For a Scal'd Head Take the Buttons of vvild Cucumbers for vvant of them the Leaves one handful Oyl of Nuts half a pound tvvelve musty Pilchards beat them together and put them into a glaz'd Pot vvith a pint of the blackest Wine you can get boyl them to the vvasting of the Wines then shave the Head and vvash it vvith Ox Piss and anoint it vvith this Ointment for four days vvhich vvill be about the time of the Cure and the longest that may be Probatum For a Paraphymosis Take what quantity of Snails you please beat them in a Marble Mortar with their Shells and towards the end add a little Pork Grease beat and mingle all together and apply it to the Part and repeat it Night and Morning till it be cur'd A most sovereign Remedy for Persons that lose their Blood from what Part soever either Man or Woman Take fresh Asses Dung beat it in a Mortar and press out all the Substance in a course Linnen Cloth take a Spoonful thereof with twice as much Syrup of Plantan For the Ptysick Take half an ounce of Crab-fish alive beat them well in a Marble Mortar and distill the Water that comes from them give half a Glass every Morning fasting for eight or ten Days To Bind Take Cypress-Nuts bruise and boil them in Red Wine and give it to the Patient A gentle Purge Take a dram of Jalap with a little Powder of Liquirice infuse them all night in White Wine A Ptysan that Purges gently Take half a Pint of Verjuice infuse therein half an ounce of Senna in a new Pot over hot Coals when the Verjuice is hot put the quantity of a Nut of fresh Butter and as much Salt as is enough for one Egg boil it a little and take it from the Fire and let it infuse all night i' th' Morning strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth and take a Dose thereof every Morning in fat or lean Broth. Foelix's Ptysane Take Liquirice Polipody red Roses of each one ounce Senna half an ounce a Pugil of Annise a dram of Chrystal Mineral a Renet Apple and a Citron cut in pieces infuse all in a quart or three pints of cold Water and take a Glass thereof Morning and Night A Medicine that Purges gently Take an Handful of March Violets and an Handful of the Herb Mercury boil them in a little Earthen Pot with Mutton or Veal Broth then strain it and take it at Pleasure if you desire to add a few Mallows and an Handful of Sorrel 't will not be amiss Excellent Purging Lozenges Take of the three Sanders red Roses Nutmegs Cinnamon Turbith Scammony of each half a dram of Senna two Scruples Melon and Gourge Seeds of each five Scruples powder them all with four ounces of Sugar make them into Lozenges according to Art A Syrup for those that are subject to Swooning Fits and cannot recover Take as much rose-Rose-water as of the Queen of Hungary's Water and Sugar-Candy which melt over a gentle Fire and you will have a Syrup which mingled with Cinnamon-water works Wonders with those that are subject to Swooning-Fits Madam the Countess of Daillon's Water by Monsieur de Forgeray M. Take three Handfuls of Cow-dung Scabious Lungwort Veronica Flowers of each an Handful Plantan Queen of the Medows Shepherds Purse Pimpernel Bugloss Fennel of each an Handful two River-Crabs bruised distill all in an Alembic in Balneo Mariae the Dose four ounces every Morning Otherwise Take 4 l. of Cow-dung Flowers of Perwincle Scabious of each two little Handfuls four Pugils of red Poppy Flowers Flowers of Coltsfoot as much of the Tops of St. Johns-wort distill all as before and take the same dose To preserve Health Easter Dwarf Elder Leaves in the Season without any Dew and set them to dry in the Sun and take them in about four a Clock i' th' Afternoon to serve you in Winter Make a Bed of these Leaves and let the Party lye thereon whom cover over with other Leaves then with a Sheet and Covering which will make him sweat and by this means one may keep himself in perfect Health Magistery of Pearls Take Oriental Pearls put them grosly powdred into a Matrice and pour distill'd Vinegar thereon or Citron Juyce which is better as not having so much Sharpness let it be three fingers breadth above the Powder then stop the Vessel with good Wax and put it to digest upon hot Cinders stirring it two or three times a day till you see the Pearls in the bottom of the Vessel converted into a Lemony Juyce pour off the Juyce of Citron gently by Inclination and evaporate the rest over a gentle Fire till the Pearls remain in the bottom of a white Powder which wash five or six times with distill'd Rain water till they have lost all their Sharpness and then the Powder being wholly dry'd 't is the true Magistery of Pearls Note You must pour on a few drops of Oyl of Tartar which will make the Magistery precipitate to the bottom of the Vessel The Spagiries attribute to it these wonderful Virtues following nigh to those of Aurum Potabile They say 'T is good to preserve the Body in Health to drive away all ill Dispositions and particularly the Frenzy the Vertigo the Apoplexy the Falling Sickness and other Diseases of the Brain They say also 't is a powerful Cordial and has very great Effects upon them that are subject to Swoonings Palpitation of the Heart and those that are seiz'd with a pestilent Fever Briefly they accommodate it for the Cure of all the principal Parts The Dose is twelve Grains or one Scruple in Juleps or other convenient Liquors An Aurum Potabile and an inestimable Treasure which cures Leprosies Falling-Sickness the Pox the Palsie and all incurable Maladies Take seven old double Ducats cement them with half a dram of Sal Gem well prepar'd in an earthen Pot well boil'd over a gentle Fire then wash them and dry them and make them very red in the Fire keeping them in an earthen Vessel very clean and new being very red quench them in Sallet Oil
doing all this seven times then they will be calcin'd and may be made into Powder of a Saffron Dye if you rub it between your Fingers Take a Pound of Sugar-Candy finely powdred and therewith make one Lay upon another in a Retort of sealed Earth the which bury in a Pot full of Sand and cover the said Pot with another Pot to keep in the Heat and give it a gentle Charcoal-fire above and below let it be such a Heat as that when they bake the Bread in the Oven without being excessive twenty four Hours then take it from the fire and bray all in a Marble-Mortar and put it into a Vessel that the Matrice hold about twice as much as the Alembick and at the sides a Neck for the Matter which put into the said Vessel with a Pint of pure Aqua vitae and let them be sealed well twenty four Hours together over a good Fire that the Aqua vitae may always boil and when you see a Whiteness at bottom which is the Calx of the Gold 't is done pour out the said Water by Inclination which will be of a Violet Tincture approaching to red or yellow the which will cure the Leprous giving them one grain a day and all other forsaken Maladies and all incurable Diseases Another manner of making Aurum Potabile Take three Pints of Leaves of Gold three of Glass of Antimony three Pints of Sugar-Candy the whole well powdred mingle them together and put them into a Glass Alembick the which being cover'd with its Head and Recipient distill them with a gentle Fire at first and at last a strong one the whole will turn into a Liquor which will be done in five or six hours The Dose is four or five Drops in some specifick Water and purges very gently A most excellent Preparation of Antimony and its Vertue Take mineral Antimony at least fifteen or twenty pounds bruise it grosly that done take three Pots of Earth of an Alembic or of another sort that will endure the fire well pierce it at bottom with little holes and there put a great Iron Pan full of holes wherein you shall put your Antimony then put it upon another Pot and cover it with a third that the Mouth of the one may just go into the other lute the Joynts well the Lute being dry and without clefts bury the first in the Earth and make round about that which shall contain the Antimony a four-square Fornance of Brick within the distance of four fingers which you shall fill with burning Char-coals encompassing all the said Pot with the Pot above and there continue a great Fire for a long hour let it be dying a whole Night that it be all wholly cold then unlute it and you will find all your Antimony in your Pot below which make into an impalpable Powder which you shall put in an earthen Plate like a pastry Cooks which is very large at the bottom the which place upon a Furnace wherein you shall make a gentle Fire stirring the Powder continually with a Spatula till it smoak not and be of a greenish Color taking heed that it melt not through too much Fire then melt it in a new earthen Vessel with a great Fire in an open Furnace when you have put it in Water plunge in it a Rod of Iron and taking it presently out see at the Light if it be transparent and of a Citron Colour then pour it out into a clean Copper Bason being cold make it into an impalpable Powder and put it into a glass Cucurbite and pour thereon Vinegar thrice distilled cover the Cucurbite with a glass Box luted with a starched Cloth being very dry put half the Cucurbite into Horse Dung for three daies then taking it out of the Dung unlute it and having rested a good hour pour out clear that coloured Vinegar by inclination into an earthen Vessel without disturbing it stop the Vessel well then pour other Vinegar upon your Powders digest them as before in the Dung for three Daies then pouring them gently into the said Vessel continue this extraction and process as long as the Vinegar will colour it this done take the Dreggs at the bottom of that Cucurbit and wash them well with clear Water and being well rubbed with a dry Cloth pour on the Vinegar coloured then having put on its top distill it dry in the Cinders and there will remain a yellowish Powder in the bottom upon which you shall pour the quantity of two ounces of good spirit of Wine then having stirred it well and covered the Cucurbit with its Box that is one of those glass Vessels where they put the preserved Cherries lute it well with starched Bands and the lute very dry put it in Horse Dung half covered for three daies then having taken it out of the Dung unlute the Cloths letting it stand an hour pour out your Tincture into a clean Vessel without any Dregs then stop the Vessel well and put into the Cucurbit other Spirit of Wine high two Fingers bredth repeating this operation as long as the Spirit of Wine will colour it self then put all the Spirit of Wine so coloured into a clear Cucurbit and covering it with its top luted with a Recipient distill entirely all the said Spirit of Wine and keep the Powders which you find in the bottom of the Alembic upon which you shall pour Rain-water distilled thrice in Sand with a very gentle Fire and pour it on your Powders and distill it as before after which your Powders will not be any wayes vomitive the Virtues and Doses of which are as follow Four grains taken in White-wine drives away the Leprosy Pox purifying the corrupt Blood Purges the Malancholic resists Worms cures the Asthmatics Purges without Stool or Vomiting but by Sweat Urine and Spittle removes the cause of Diseases and restores what is corrupted To incite Venery Easter Satyrion at the end of the Month of May and take the two Kernels that are within its root that o th' lest side is the better and put five or six whole Kernels or in pieces into a Bottle of Spanish Wine and stop it very close and put it very deep in Horse-Dung the space of two or three Months then take thereof at your Discretion fasting in a Morning and at Night going to Bed For the same Take a Quart of Spanish Wine wherein put half a dram of Salt of Sage and stop it well then bury it in Sand for a fortnight or three weeks and take thereof as before To bereave one of their Wits and make them come again Eat of the Root of Faba Inversa in Powder and to make them come again take the Juice of an Onion and put it into the Ears For the same and amaze a Person Infuse the Berry called Strammonium in White-wine for twenty four hours and make him drink it and immediately he or she that drank shall fall down to the Ground as if they were
dead to make them come again put Linnen dipt in strong Vinegar to their Nose This Drink works the same effect upon an Horse and in lieu of Vinegar put some Water into his Ears Against the Wind in the Belly Apply a living Tench to the Patients Navel the Head being upwards towards the Stomach and tye it fast on with a Napkin and there leave it twenty four hours till it be dead then bury it in the Dung and you will see the Wind will vanish Dormitive Pills to be put in a Chaffin-dish between the Thighs and they will make one sweat abundantly Take an ounce of white Wax half an ounce of Tobacco make a mass thereof and make pills thereof according to Art Oyl of Butter for a Cold Gout and other Pains Melt your Butter upon hot Cinders and when it boils scum it very well then add the same weight of Spirit of Wine rectified and put it over the Fire till it be evaporated and the Oyl remain at the bottom To cleanse and incarnate the Teeth and Gums Take Dragons Blood and Cinamon three ounces burnt Allum two ounces make all of them into a fine Powder and rub the Teeth therewith every other Day To preserve the Gums and the Teeth that are loose Take Earth-Worms calcin'd and rub the Teeth therewith or else a Calves Liver dryed in an Oven and powdred adding the same quantity of Honey and boil it to the Consistence of an Opiate For the Marks of the Small Pox. Wash the Face with Water of White-wine-Vinegar distill'd at night going to Bed and the next morning with a Decoction made of Mallows and Bran do thus eight days together To cause that Antimony shall only purge downwards Take Crocus Metallorum and make it into a very fine Powder the which mingle with Aqua Vitae the which must be three fingers breadth above the Crocus Metallorum but it matters not what quantity for the Aqua Vitae draws what vertue it can and leaves the rest then strain the Aqua vitae and add thereto the same weight of good Sugar-Candy and set Fire to the Aqua vitae till it will burn no longer so there will remain a Syrup whereof you may give two or three Spoonfuls even to Women with Child for it works gently To keep one from growing fat Take Cherry-Kernels and put them in Sugar confect and use them night and morning you may use white Tartar in lieu of Salt with your meat Probatum The singular Vertues of the Herb called Fluellin This Herb is very common and yet little known by its Name it grows frequently among Corn and plough'd Lands about Harvest time the Country People use it when they cut themselves with Sythes c. The Water of its Leaves and Branches drawn when 't is in its full Virtue by an Alembic or Balneo Mariae is of wonderful use to stay the spreading of a Cancer in the Breasts and the spreading Polipus though one would think they were incurable and if you apply the same Herb to the forehead it will infallibly appease the pains of the Head injected it mundifies and consolidates Wounds and quickly drys up Fistula's and Ulcers which by other Remedies are made worse instill'd into watry Eyes it cures them and stays all Defluxions that may happen to them and so cause Inflammations and Dimness also applyed with a Linnen Cloth upon Tetters Itch Pustules Scabs Pimples Ring-worms St. Anthonies Fire c. 't will extinguish them in a little time as also all Inflammations drank for one day it stays all Rheums Vomittings Flux of the Belly drys up Hidropick Waters appeases pains of the Cholic cures Tertian and Quartan Fevers and I believe may profitably be given in other Fevers A wonderful Receipt for the Cure of the King 's Evil and other Wounds Take a quart of White-wine put it in a glaz'd earthen Pot and boil it with two ounces of Sugar and two ounces of round Birthwort cut in thin Slices and let it infuse upon hot Embers for four hours till the half be wasted For the Kings Evil you must add two drams of Zedoary and two drams of Rhapontic well beaten and tyed in a Linnen Cloth When you use it you must foment it as hot as it can be suffered and if it be deep you must seringe it and dress it thrice a day then take a Colewort Leaf dry it a little and apply it to the Wound with a Linnen Bolster To make the Plaister called Manus Dei. Take an ounce and a quarter of Galbanum three ounces and three drams of Ammoniacum and an ounce of Opoponax bruise the gums in a Mortar and infuse them in two quarts of good White-wine Vinegar without Mixture if it be possible the space of eight and forty hours stirring them every day twice or thrice with a Spatula then put them over the Fire in a Posnet and let it boil to the diminishing of half or thereabout then strain through a Strainer or strong Cloth pressing them so that there remain no Substance then put them again in the Fire and make them boil as before stirring them always with an Iron or wooden Spatula till the Gums come to a Body of the Consistence of Honey which you will know by letting fall a drop or two upon a Plate This done take two Pounds and an half of Sallet Oyl which you shall put into another Skillet apart with a Pound and half of Litharge of Gold and an ounce of Verdigrease both first powdred and sears'd and let them boil over a very gentle Fire stirring it continually with an Iron or wooden Spatula for otherwise the Litharge will get together till all be well incorporated together then encrease your Fire and boil it till it become of a red-brown Colour though it will be black before it will become reddish This being done put in a pound of new Wax cut in little Pieces and melt it therein stirring it continually with a Spatula then put in your Gums boil'd before and warm'd a little that they may strain the better but before this take heed that your Oyl be not too hot for if so all will boil i' th' Fire This done take what follows well powdred and sers'd four ounces of Diamond of Levant two ounces of long Birthwort Mastick Myrrh and Bdellium of each one ounce and two ounces of the purest Frankincense which you shall put into the Skillet and incorporate them very diligently together the Skillet being taken from the Fire and take heed that when you put in the said Powders your Oyl be not too hot for all will fly out and then you shall set all over the Cinders or a very gentle Fire that they may incorporate the better And when it is cold make a Paste thereof with your Hands moistned with Vinegar and make it into Rowls upon a Table besprinkled also with Vinegar and when they are dry wrap them in a Paper and keep them for your Use The said Plaister will
keep good fifty years and 't is not good to use it till it hath been made two or three Months You need not use any Tents nor Lint unless the Wound whereon you apply it close up or that the Flesh encrease too much To be cur'd quickly you must eat no Garlick or Onions 't is very good for old or new Wounds it cleanses and makes Flesh come without Corruption it unites Nerves cut asunder and strengthens the bruised ones it cures any Windiness even in the Head it cures Wounds made by Gun-shot allays the Inflammation draws out Iron and Bullets out of Wounds and Splints of Bones if they be in the Body It cures the Bitings of venemous and mad Beasts sensibly drawing out the Venom it cures all sorts of Apostumes and Kernels Cancers King's Evil Fistula's and even the Plague it self It is also very good to make rebellious Haemorrhoids flow it is also very good to cure the Farces in Horses In short 't is daily approv'd of for curing a multitude of Diseases For the Megrim In the Month of May and in a fair Morning early before the Sun rise take Mallow-leaves and draw up the Dew thereof into your Nose This absolutely cures the Megrim without Relapse For the Diseases of Women and Children CHAP. II. To make a Woman lose her Milk within a Day or two TAke Rue and put it between the two Arm-holes night and Day and she will quickly lose her Milk Probatum For an Infant dead in the Mothers Womb. Give the Mother the Juyce of Hysop to drink in warm Water and she will immediately be deliver'd though it were rotten Probatum To deliver a Woman quickly and make her void the After-birth or dead Child and for the Apoplecticks Take seven or eight drops of the Essence of Rosemary in a Glass of good White-Wine Note The Patient must stand upright and you must rub their Stomachs to make the Remedy penetrate the better and if it succeeds not the first time 't will not fail the second For the same Take half a quarter of Eeles Livers wash them in White Wine and dry them upon a Tyle and powder them and give a dram thereof in white Wine to the Woman in Labour For the same Take Mallows and beat them in a marble Mortar and apply them in form of a Cataplasm or Pultis to the Reins of the Back Note You must not let them remain there long For Pains after Child birth Take two new-laid Eggs and swallow them with the quantity of a small Nut of Sugar immediately after she 's deliver'd then drink a little Water and Wine For a Fever coming from Milk Take white and green Populeum melt it upon hot Cinders then rub the Breasts therewith and lay waste-Paper upon the Teat and lay a Cloth four double thereon and let not the Air come to them For the same Take Potters-Earth Beans the Husks taken off Whites of Eggs Eels boil'd in Vinegar Oyl of Roses all beaten and well mingled together make a Pultis and apply it cold To procure the monthly Courses Take two Daisies wash them in clean Water and dry them then boil them with the White of an Egg in Water in a glaz'd Pot and strain them then put them into a Pot again with Wine wherein put half a dram of Saffron dry'd let it boil three or four times and of this take a full Glass Night and Morning for three days together For the same Take black Chick Pease boil them in Water and strain them when they are boil'd whereof take a full Glass every other morning for three mornings To make them have their Courses in order that have them not Take a good Handful of Feverfew boil it in Water strain it through a course Cloth and take thereof a good Glass-full three mornings every other morning To know if a Woman be with Child Take her Urine and put it in a Copper-Pot wherein put a piece of Iron filed bright all Night if she be with Child you will see red Spots if not it will become black and rusty To provoke the Terms Take the Leaves Bark or Berries of Privet beat them and infuse them twenty four Hours in White Wine whereof take two or three ounces for three mornings together To make the Small Pox come forth Take a Piece of Pork enterlarded with Fat and Lean roast it upon a Spit and as long as 't is roasting besprinkle it with Rose-water till it taste no more of Grease keep that which remains in the Dripping-Pan which put in a Glass-Vessel for your use and anoint the Face and other Parts therewith and it will assuredly and perfectly make them come out Probatum To prevent the Marks of the Small Pox. Take a Calf's or Oxe's Lungs put them upon burning Charcoals and when they begin to drop take a Sponge and suck up the Water and press it out into an earthen Vessel adding thereto the same weight of male Pork's Grease and as much of the Juice of Wormwood mingle them well and incorporate them upon a good Chafing-dish then with a Sprig of Wormwood which you shall moisten therein sprinkle it upon the Face Note You must not use this Remedy till nine days be past For Worms in Little Children Melt fine Tinn several times and every time quench it in Fountain Water which give the Children for their common Drink To cure Infants of the Convulsion Take Hens-dung Peacocks Dung dry is yet better part each piece in two and you will find a little white inside which you must take out dexterously with the Point of a Knife and beat it with Loaf-Sugar and make thereof a Powder and give half a dram thereof as you see occasion or a little more in Broth or White Wine To cure a sore Throat Take Roche Allum two ounces dry'd Cutle-bone sandy Spunge of each one ounce calcine them in an unglaz'd Earthen Pot in an Oven when the Bread's taken out night or morning lay some of this Powder upon the Tongue at your Discretion rubbing the Throat well above and below and in the morning drink good and strong Aqua Vitae so continuing for twelve or fifteen days For the same Take a Sheeps small Guts put them about your Neck till they be cold then apply others hot from the Sheep new kill'd and so continue this as long as you please For the same Take the Powder of a Vipers Head and sow it in a Ribbon and hang it about your Neck To stay Womens Fluxes Take white Vine-Leaves dry'd in the Shade the Dose is half a dram or a little more in White Wine To stay the Blood in Women Take a dram of Pomegranate Rinds in Powder in two ounces of Plantan-Water then take a Skain of new Thred moisten it in strong Vinegar and apply it to the part An Opiate for the Green-sickness Take Crocus Martis Harts-Horn prepared of each one ounce Aromaticum Rosatum Sugar-candy of each two ounces liquid Conserve of Rosemary one ounce
and powder it and rub your Teeth therewith To hinder the Hair from falling Take Parcely Seed and make it into an impalpable Powder and Powder the Head therewith three Nights every other Night once a Year only and there will never fall one Hair To make the Hair Grow Take the tops of Hemp when it begins to appear above Ground steep it twenty four hours in Water wherewith you shall well moisten the Teeth of the Comb you make use of only every encrease of the Moon it is certain this Makes the Hair grow much To Colour the Hair Take Oyl of Tartar warm as much as you think fit anoint a Sponge or a Comb therewith and comb the Head in the Sun having first washed your Head do thus thrice a day and in seven daies at farthest they will become black and if you would have them odoriferous anoint them with Oyl of Benjoin A Water to Colour the Hair black Dissolve an ounce of fine Silver in thin Plates in two ounces of Aqua Fortis in a Matras with a gentle Fire the Silver being dissolved add half a pint of Rose water and make them boil a quarter of an hour then add the Juyce of two Citrons then boil them again another quarter of an hour and when you use it take a spoonful of this Water which you shall keep in a Bottle and add four spoonfuls of Rose-water and as much of Juyce of Citrons warm them and wash the Head or Beard therewith taking care that you touch not the Skin but take a little Stick and tye a Linnen Cloth to its end and therewith touch the Hair of the Head or Beard and let it dry A Past for the Hands Take a pound of blanch'd Almonds and an ounce of yellow Sanders sers'd two ounces of Calamus sers'd an ounce of Orris two Glasses full of Rose-water a Rennet Apple cut in little pieces the Crumbs of a white penny Loaf well dryed and sers'd make a Paste of all with two ounces of Gum Draganth dissolved in Rose-water for your Hands or Face Another Past for the Hands Take Apples and pare them and beat them in a Marble Mortar slicing them first moisten them with Rose-water and White-wine put White-bread Crumbs and Almonds well moistned blanch'd and bray'd with Wine then add a little white Soap and keep it for your use Otherwise Take two pounds of sweet Almonds blanch and beat them in a Marble Mortar infuse them in two quarts of Goats or Cows Milk for two or three hours strain and press them in a course Linnen-Cloth put this strained Liquour in a Basin over a Charchoal Fire adding thereto the Crumbs of a two penny white Loaf with about two drams of Borax and as much burnt roch Allum and towards the end an ounce of Sperma Coeti you must stir it constantly that it stick not to the bottom of the Basin the sign that 't is enough is that it will not fall from the Spatula in taking it out to boil it to purpose it will take five or six hours at least this Past is most excellent To make the Hair grow quickly Take the Juyce of Nettles that grow in the Sun rising wherein moisten the Teeth of your Comb every Morning and comb the Hairs upward and they will grow quickly Probatum To make one have a good Voyce Take a dram of Elder Flowers powdred and put into White-Wine fasting in a Morning Wonderful Secrets which must be collected and compounded according to the Influences of the Stars to cure the Infirmities hereafter specified in a short time CHAP. IV. The seven Planets that cause Diseases SAturn reigning causes cold Diseases as the Gout in the Feet Leprosy Palsy Quartan Agues Dropsies Catarrhs Coughs c. Jupiter causes Cramps Numness Inflammations of the Liver Head aches pain in the Shoulders windiness in the Body Sanguine Fevers and all Diseases caused of Putrefaction the Apoplexy Cardiac Passions Squinsies c. Mar causes acute Fevers and tertian Agues continual and intermittent Fevers Apostemes Erysipelas Carbuncles Fistulas bloody Fluxes and such like hot and dry Diseases The Sun causes Rheum in the Eyes coldness in the Stomach and Liver Swoonings Choler Catarrhs Pustules in the Matrix and the like in the lower Parts Venus causes Scabs the Venereal Disease Lientery Suffocations of the Womb Sickness in the Stomach from cold and moist Causes Infirmities of the Liver and the Lights Mercury causes hoarsness Distempers in the Senses impediments in the Speech and its Passions Falling-sickness Coughs Jaundies Vomiting Catarrhs and all Melancholy Diseases The Moon causes the Palsy Cholick the Whites Dropsie Phlegmatick Apostemes Lienteries and all Infirmities that come from the Obstruction of the Veins He that would Cure any Infirmity infallibly and not as some Physicians proceed it is necessary to make use of Astrology and the Aspects of the Stars and their Influences and this is intended in jure regulari non coacto wherefore in such case as Hippocrates tells us â—… 1. Aph. 4. Medicari in acutis morbis eadem die si materia turgeat tardari enim his malum est Monardus in his Epistles says in such a case potius lotium inspiciendum quam astra and this is intended to be Bleeding and Purging but in regard to other local Remedies it is necessary to observe the Plenetary hours and for that end you must be advised by what Planet the Infirmity is caus'd yet you may gather the Herb or Flower Seed Root or such like in what hour the Planet hath Dominion that is an Enemy to that Planet that causes the Disease For contraria contrarus curantur and to know the hour of the Planet you must see what hour the Sun rises At whatever hour the Sun rises in any Planet all the days in every Month are under the same Dominion Friendly PLANETS Sol is a Friend to Jupiter and Venus Luna is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Mars is a Friend to Venus Mercury is a Friend to Jupiter Venus and Saturn Jupiter is a Friend to Sol Luna Mercury Venus and Saturn Venus is a Friend to Sol Luna Mars Mercury Jupiter Saturn is a Friend to Jupiter Sol and Luna Planets that are Enemies Sol is an Enemy to Mars Mercury and Luna Luna is an Enemy to Mars and Mercury Mars is an Enemy to Mercury Luna Saturn Sol Jupiter Mercury is an Enemy to Sol Luna and Mars Jupiter is an Enemy to Mars Venus is an Enemy to Saturn Saturn is an Enemy to Mars more than to Venus Planetary Friendly hours of the Night and Day Calculated exactly to the Ephemerides Sunday 1 Sol 2 Venus 3 Mercury 4 Luna 5 Saturn 6 Jupiter 7 Mars 8 Sol 9 Venus 10 Mercury 11 Luna 12 Saturn Munday 1 Luna 2 Saturn 3 Jupiter 4 Mars 5 Sol 6 Venus 7 Mercury 8 Luna 9 Saturn 10 Jupiter 11 Mars 12 Sol. Tuesday 1 Mars 2 Sol 3 Venus 4 Mercury 5 Luna 6 Saturn 7 Jupiter 8 Mars 9 Sol 10
Enemies kill it and give the quantity of two Glasses full of its Blood and it will infallibly cure The same doth the Juice of Ivy mingled with Honey and the weight of two drams drank thereof For the Yellow Jaundise This is caused by Mercury Take the Flowers or Seed of Rosemary in the Hour of Sol Luna or Mars his Enemies powder them and mix therewith the Juice of Cinquefoil what quantity you please For Obstruction of the Spleen This Disease is caused of Luna Take Gum Ammoniacum in the Hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies dissolve it in Vinegar and give thereof the weight of two drams to Persons of riper years to drink it works admirable effects For the Stone in the Reins This Infirmity is caused by Saturn Take Pellitory of the Wall in the Hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies press out the Juice and give what quantity thereof you please to drink in White-wine it purges the Reins and infallibly breaks the Stone For difficulty of Vrine This Disease comes from Luna then take in the hours of Mars or Mercury her enemies the Leaf and Seed of Trefoil and Southernwood-seed boil them in Water to which Decoction add a Spanish Fly powdred without its Head Wings or Feet and give a spoonfull to drink and it will quickly cause one to void Urine For the Stone in the Bladder This comes from Luna Take what quantity of Snakes you please in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies and put them into a new earthen Pot with a narrow Neck put it into an Oven that is not too hot and there let it remain for six hours space then take it out and powder them finely and give a dram thereof For the Cholick This Disease comes from Luna Take Powder of Bay-berries and give two drams thereof to drink in Aromatick Wine For the Flux and bloody Flux These are caused by the Moon Take Pomegranate Flowers and Hypocistis in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder them and give two drams thereof to drink in red Wine or Cistern Water For difficulty in Child-birth This is caused by Venus Take then in the hour of Saturn her enemy Basil and powder it and give it to drink in good Wine and she will suddenly be deliver'd To provoke the monthly Courses and the Secondine This Disease is caused by Luna Take Fupaterium in the hour of Mars or Mercury her enemies powder it finely and likewise the Seed of Mountain Smallage and give two drams to drink in the Water of Maiden-hair and it will quickly work the effect For the immoderate flux of the Courses unto the Mouth of the Womb. This Infirmity comes from Venus Take the Root of Hysop in the hour of Saturn her enemy with the middle rinds of Chestnuts and the rinds of Pomegranates powder them very fine and give often a dram thereof to drink For Ruptures These are caused by Sol. Take Cypress Nuts in the hour of Mars Saturn or Luna powder them and mingle them with the juyce of their lops when they are green apply them in the form of an Emplaister but you must first put up the Gut that is fallen For the Hemorrhoids This Disease is caus'd by Luna Take the Juyce of Sow-bread in the hour of Mars or Mercury her Enemies apply it to the Fundament after what manner you will and it will perfectly cure the Malady For the Pain of the Gout This Infirmity comes from Saturn Take a Hen of four years old in the hour of Mars or Venus his Enemies kill her and fill her with Vervain and Worm-wood in six quarts of Water and let it boil till it be wasted to the half and with the Liquour that remains bath the grieved parts For a Tertian Ague This Fever is caused by Mars Take Centaury in the hour of Luna Mercury Saturn Sol or Jupiter his enemies powder it and give two drams in Wine fasting For the Quartan Fever This Fever is caused by Saturn Take Myrrh and Castor in the hours of Mars or Venus his enemies of each one dram powder them and give it to drink in Wine fasting 't will work Wonders To take away the Spots of the small Pox Meazles and Purple-fever This is caused by Mars Take in the hour of Luna or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies the Roots of Beans dryed Flower of Chick-Pease Rice Meal and Garlick powder them all very fine and mingle them with Oyl of sweet Almonds and Mutton fat melted and anoint the Face therewith and let it remain on all Night and in the Morning wash it with warm Water For the King 's Evil. This Infirmity is caused by Luna Take the Boughs and Roots of Castors in the hour of Mars or Mercury beat them and apply them in form of an Emplaster Maiden-hair doth the same For Wounds in any part of the Body These are caused by Mars Take Savine in the hour of the Moon or Mercury Saturn or Jupiter his enemies and powder it and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Wounds and it will cure them For Scabs and Leprosie These Maladies are caused by Saturn Take Ivy in the hour of Mars or Venus his enemies what quantity you will and boil it in Water and bath the Body therein hot 't is the last Remedy for this Disease For Corns or Agnails These come from Saturn Take the Bark of Willow and mingle its Powder with strong Vinegar and in form of an Emplaster apply it to the Corns and it will work great effects For Cancers This Disease is caused by Mars Take the Boughs of white Galingale the Root of Dragon-wort in the hour of Luna Mercury or Saturn his Enemies press out the Juice and mix it with Honey and apply it to the Disease For Fistula's These are caused by Mars Take Orris-root in the hour as abovesaid powder it and mingle it with the powder of burnt Oisters and apply them to the Fistulas To preserve one from the Gout in the Feet This Disease is caused by Luna Take Iva Arthritica in the hour of Mars or Venus beat it and mingle it with the Yolk of an Egg dress'd after the manner of a Pancake and eaten fasting will certainly preserve one from the Gout in the Feet To know if one sick shall live or dye Diverse are the Judgments which pass upon a sick Person whether he will live or die but I shall publish this present infallible sign which any one may make use of and make certain Judgment thereof Take a Nettle and put it into the Urine of the sick Person presently after he hath voided his Urine and that it be not corrupted and leave the Nettle in the said Urine the space of twenty four hours then if the Nettle be found dry 't is a sign of Death but if it be found green 't is a sign of Life An admirable Secret to keep one alwayes in Health which Charles the Fifth made use of Take in the hour of Sol as the
reiterating it with a second warm Water at last you shall put up the said Pearls without fouling or unstringing them on white Paper and carry them into a Cellar upon a Board or Bench without covering them and let them remain there only twenty four hours Note For fear the Rats or Cats should enter and throw them down you must put at the bottom some weighty thing To make excellent Saphyrs Take white River Crabs and calcine them so that they look red i' th' fire and quenching them in strong Vinegar repeating this Operation six or seven times in the same Vinegar reduce them into powder in an Iron Mortar then put it into a Crucible with the weight of the Crabs and moss of Tartar which is thus to be ordered Calcine the Tartar and put it in a moist Place in an Hippocrates sleeve and in the bottom of the said sleeve there will be gathered a moss which the said Tartar makes in liquifying and turning it self into Water Then cover the Crucible and set it to dissolve for the space of four hours To Dye Crabs white and Transparent You must Calcine them after the manner before prescribed and reduce them to powder within the space of four hours and cast thereon very fine Powder of Salt of Tartar and of Salt of Alcali and towards the end throw in of Bay-Salt fixt a very little a quarter of an hour after let it cool of it self Before you put your Crabs in Infusion you must take a part of them and beat them in a Brass Mortar and you will make an Emerald the second part you must beat in an Iron Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be of a Rubie Colour and the third part in a Glass Mortar with a Pestle of the same and this will be a Diamond To reduce a Crab into Paste and make it into what form one would Take River Crabs and calcine them and break them into little pieces then let them steep twenty four hours or more in strong Vinegar till they may be reduc'd to a Powder the which Powder you shall mix with Turpentine and Organicum the whole being well pasted together make them into what form you please and then bake them in an Oven To make yellow Amber white Take for Example a pound of yellow Amber and put it into a very strong Cucurbit of earth and add thereto two pounds of Sal Gemm or Bay Salt and upon them as much Fountain Water as will serve to dissolve the Salt which being dissolv'd pour on a little River Water and boil them all together in an Alembick without a Neck the space of four Hours China Ink. Take an ounce of Lam black two drams of Indigo half a dram of Peach black Endive burnt one dram beat them all with a moity of Fig-Leaf Water and another part of common Milk and a very little Gum Arabick being all well beaten form Tablets thereof Note you must clarifie your Lam-black in an earthen Pot to take away all the filth To make Lavanturine You must lay one or two lays of Cinaber beaten with Isinglass being dry moisten them with Gum Arabic somewhat strong and then presently searce your Lavanturine with a little Silken Searce by beating the Searce with your hand and your Powder will equally garnish all that you have moistned with your Gum Water To make Horn for Lanthorns Take a dram of Lytharge of Gold half an ounce of quick Lime mingle them together with Wine in form of Paste and with this Composition make divers lays of one side and th' other of the Horn having first well clear'd it being dry take out all the Powder and repeat it as I have said being dry take out your white Powder unite them and lute them with Tripolis and Sallet Oil and Linnen rubbing them well To make the Grain of Walnut upon white Wood. You shall spread upon the Wood seven or eight lays of strong Glew till it become shining and then quickly give a good many blows with a wooden Brush well wet in common Water An excellent Varnish to lay on Copper Plates for Etching Take two ounces of clear Linseed-Oyl two ounces of Benjamin the bigness of a Nut of Virgins Wax boil them to the consumption of a third part alwayes stirring it with a stick and 't is done when you would use it warm a little the Plate you are to Engrave and with your Fingers end take up a little of the Varnish and spread it as thin and even as you can the thinner the better then smoke it with a Candle and lay your Plate on burning Coals till it has done smoking then draw your Design and engrave with a Needle or Point A very fair Green for Minature Grind Verdigreece with Vinegar and a little Talk or Tartar being well ground add a little quick Lime and Sap-green grind all very well together and keep it in Shells if it grow hard make it thin with Vinegar To make Shasses as clear as Glass Take Parchment Vellum or fine Paper very thin and smooth on both sides being wet stretch it on the Shass and let it dry then take two parts of Nut-Oyl or Linseed-Oyl two parts of fair Water and a little beaten Glass make them boil in a Glass on a Tile pretty near the fire till the water be quite consumed and t is done lay it on in the Sun or a little warm A Varnish as bright and shining as Glass for Frames Leather or what else you shall think fit Take Amber a quarter of an ounce Gum-Lac two drams Oyl of Turpentine two drams Turpentine one dram Litharge and Linseed-Oyl as much as is sufficient The way of making this Composition is to take a Pot or Glass in which put a quantity of Linseed-Oyl which boil till it burn a Feather being put into it and 't is enough then melt the Amber in a clean earthen Pipkin and put it into the Linseed-Oyl the Gum-Lac must be melted by it self in the Turpentine which pour into the same Pot the Gum-Lac will melt if you lightly anoint the Pot with Linseed-Oyl then strain all through a Cloth if you would use it on Silver or Gold take the finest yellow Earth well washed from Gravel and other foulness and being well dryed add a little Minium and Cerus with an equal quantity of Oyl of Nut and Spike Oyl boil them well and with this Composition design what you will when 't is cold and with what colours you please mixt with Glew water After all repeat the Varnish and 't will be as bright as a Looking-glass To gild Paper Grind Bole-armoniac with Rain-water and give one laying of it being dry beat the White of an Egg to Water or Glair adding a little Sugar-candy and Gum-water lay it over with this and lay your Leaf gold or silver upon it To harden Tin and give it a Silver colour Make a mixture of Tin and Lead with Greek Pitch then take a piece of Potters Earth
and with a stick make a hole in it into which put your mixture upon which pour six ounces of Tin melted in a Crucible before it be cold make also a hole in that into which pour half an ounce of Mercury which will penetrate the substance of the Tin and both harden and colour it To colour Straws of divers sorts of Colours Having the largest Barley Straws which must be gathered in the shade take the yellow Bark of Barberry-tree according to Discretion boyl it in clear Lye then throw in your Straws and boyl them till you like the colour which you may make of several degrees then put them in cold water take them out and dry them To colour them red use Brasil as aforesaid For a dark colour steep them four or five days with Indian wood and the shells of green Nuts For blue take Litmos or Logwood and when blue boyl them in the yellow Decoction and they 'l become green Oat-straws are many of them naturally of a flesh-colour How to counterfeit Coral Take Ox-horn cut or rasped small put it in a strong Lye made of the ashes of Ashwood for five dayes then take it out and add to it some Vermilion dissolved in Water put it over the fire to thicken and form your figures as you think fit To preserve Wine sweet Stop your Vessel very well and sink it under water for thirty dayes and you 'l have the desired effect To make an Excellent Red of Brasil Take a pint of fair Water into which cast a piece of unslack'd Lime let it stand all night then decant all that is clear of the Water to which put half the quantity of Brasil rasped let it infuse four hours then boil them to the Consumption of half then whilst it is very hot cast in the bigness of a Pea of Roch-allum in Powder and a little Gum Arabick To soften or dissolve Horn. Make a Lye of the ashes of Bean-cods burnt Tartar quick Lime and strong Vinegar boil therein pieces of Horn and they will either soften or dissolve according to the time you allow To Dye Bones of an Excellent Black Take Lytharge quick Lime of each alike heat them in fair Water till ready to boil always stirring the Bones with a stick till they boil apace then take it off the fire stirring it till it be cold and the Bones will be very black An Excellent way to take Spots of Oyl or Grease out of white or red Silk without changing the Colour Take Aquae Vitae Spirit of Wine is better wet the spot well with it then take Glaire made of the white of a new Egg with which rub well the spot and dry it in the Sun then wash it with clean water and press it well To soften Bones Take equal Parts of Roman and Common Vitriol distill them in an Alembick and with this Water rub the Bones and they will be soft To take away the mustiness of Wine Take Medlars cut them in four pieces hang them so in the Vessel as they touch not the Wine To make a Bullet that Kills without making a Wound Melt some Lead when it begins to grow cool make a hole in it by thrusting in a stick fill the hole with Quick-silver which by that means will be fixt and when cold melt it in an Iron Ladle and cast it in a Bullet-mold they keep not above eight days nor is any Fowl thus kill'd fit to be eaten A Powder to take out spots Burn the Bones of Sheeps-feet till they become white beat them to fine Powder warm some of it and lay it on the spot or stain till it begins to change Colour then take that away and apply more till the Spot be quite gone Another for the same Take a piece of White-bread just drawn out of the Oven lay one piece above and the other underneath the Silk and it will draw out the Oyl or Grease Another for the same Take raw Honey Glaire of Egg and Sal Armoniack lay them on the Spot for some time and wash it with fair Water An excellent Violet Colour Take Turnsole the Ashes of Lees of Wine which is burnt Tartar of each four ounces beat them tye them in a Linnen Cloath and steep them in Water A very fair Blew Take quick Lime and Sal Armoniack of each half a pound Verdet two or three ounces put all in a Viol and set it in a Horse-dunghill for forty days An Excellent Pomander of Cloves Take four ounces of Cloves Gum Arabick Coals of burnt Sage of each four ounces beat them all apart mix them in a metal Mortar with Oyl of Roses make it into a Past anoint your Hands with Oyl of Cloves knead it and form it as you please To make Brass look as well as when 't was new To a pint of strong Lye add an ounce of Roch Allum boyl them and wash your Brass to take out all the Spots dry it well and rub it with Tripoli 't will be as bright as Gold To make Silver clean Take the Ashes of Wheat-straw burnt and rub your Silver with it Another for the same Make a Lye of Soap Ashes into which throw some Roch Allum mix the froath in with it wash your Silver and dry it in the Sun To keep Roses fresh all the Year Take Rose-buds when almost ready to blow gather them with a Knife without touching the bud lay them so in the Air all Night as that the Dew fall not upon them in the Morning put them in a Glass Vessel upright upon the Stalks cover them close set them in a Vault or Sellar and bury them in dry Sand. To take out Writing without spoyling the Paper Take Roch Allum beat it with Juice of bitter Orenges dry it in the Sun and with this Powder rub your Paper To take Spots of Ink out of Silk Take strong White-wine Vinegar hot Ashes rub them well upon the Spot and wash it afterwards with Soap Water thus may you take out all sorts of Spots from coloured Silks To recover the Colour of black Cloth when decay'd Take Fig-tree Leaves boyl them well in Water wash your Cloth in it dry it in the Sun and it will be a much fairer black A truly Experienc'd Remedy against the Plague Take Bay-berries full ripe take off the skins beat the remainder of them into fine powder put a little Salt to it mix it with Vinegar and give it thus to the Person infected if he hath a hot Fever but if he has the cold Fever which is an Ague give it in Wine instead of Vinegar cover him well for he 'll sweat afterwards dry him well and the day after repeat it again Multitudes have been cured by this means For the Tooth-Ach Take a little Honey a little Pepper a little powder of Sage boyl them together and apply it to the Tooth To whiten the Teeth Rub them with the Roots of Spurge also the Ashes of burnt Barley or burnt Nettles rub'd about the Teeth and
into a linnen Cloth and put it through the hole of the Vessel so that it may hang in the middle of the Wine without touching a part of the Vessel continue it so about ten dayes then draw it forth by the string you tyed to it This secret has been often experimented and found true To keep wine from growing eager Take the Fat of Bacon melted pour it into the hole of the Vessel so it may only touch the Superficies of the Wine and it will never grow eager To restore the colour of Cloth when lost Take quick Lime two parts Ashes one part Lye six parts put them into a Copper Vessel and mingle them well with a stick let it settle and when clear wash your Cloth in it To whiten Pearls Wash them with Lye made of the Ashes of burnt Tartar and boyl them upon a warm Stove To melt Amber Put it into Vinegar or Juice of Citron so that it swim above it about an Inch or two set it over a slow Fire To preserve Roses Tulips and Pinks Take a glazed earthen Pot fill it with sharp Verjuice put some Salt into it cut the Flowers before they are blown put them in this Liquor cover the Pot with Parchment set them in a moist place and when you take them out hold them near the Fire to make them blow To make a very fair green Take Verdigreece Tartar and Vinegar boyl them altogether and it is done A Walnut-tree colour on other Wood. Take the Pills of Walnuts dry them in the Sun boyl them in Oyl of Nuts and rub your Wood with it To lay Gold and Silver upon Paper Grind Bole-armoniac with verjuice-Verjuice-water lay it on the Paper when dry glaire it with the white of an Egg mixt with Sugar-candy-Water and immediately lay on the Gold when dry burnish Excellent Pastills of Roses Take four ounces of Rose Buds cutting only so much of them as shall be red beat them Benjamin beaten four ounces Musk four grains as much Amber mix them with Essence of Oranges or Roses grind them well together form them into Pastills and dry them in the Shade An Ink which vanishes in twenty four hours Boyl Galls in strong-water put to it some Vitriol a little Sal Armoniack and a little Gum Arabic and it is done Another for Pastills but more rich Take four ounces of Benjamin Storax two ounces Lignum Aloes a dram and half boyl the Storax and Benjamin in a clean Skillet with rose-Rose-water the space of half an hour then put in the Lignum Aloes in very fine Powder that done put all into a warm Mortar with two drams of Amber-Greece and one dram of Civet and whilst warm quickly make up your Grains or little Balls Excellent sweet Baggs Take Florence Orris one pound and a half Rose-wood six ounces Calamus Aromaticus half a pound yellow Sanders four ounces Benjamin five ounces Cloves half an ounce Cinnamon an ounce To preserve Rose-buds to make sweet Baggs Take Province Rose-buds pull off the green cut off the Stalks thrust into the Bud a small Clove with a little Civet at the end of it dry it in the shade between two linnen Cloths Violet Powder for Cussinets and sweet Baggs or to strew amongst Linnen Take Florence Orris one pound Roses two pound Rose-wood one pound and half yellow Sanders one ounce Benjamin two ounces Storax one ounce Calamus Aromaticus and Cyperons or Galingale of each an ounce and half about half-penny-worth of Coriander one Nutmegg a penny-worth of Cinnamon an ounce and half of Cloves a little Citron Pill and Orange Flowers beat all in a Mortar take it out and being well mingled together in a Silk or Hair Cieve according to the fineness you would have it then put it into your Baggs or amongst your Linnen True Cypress Powder Take Oak-moss put it in a Linnen bag and lay it to soak a whole day in water then trample it with your feet two or three times dashing clear water often upon it then set it three or four days to dry spreading it on a boarded Floor being dry beat it well and spread it again on a boarded Floor to dry it then beat it again and spread it again and sprinkle it with Rose-water dry it again and beat it then pass it throw a Cieve or fine Searce and mix it with the following perfum'd Composition more or less according to the goodness you intend it A most admirable Composition of Perfume Take Musk one dram four Cloves four ounces of Lavender-seed Civet one dram and half Ambergreece half a dram warm the Pestel and Mortar then take the Musk Cloves Lavender and about a penny worth of white Sugar and a glass of eau d'Ange or Rose-water grind them all in the Mortar take a handful of this Powder incorporate them well together then pass it throw a Searce with so much of the Powder as shall abate of the force of the Perfume till it come to your liking whether three four or five pound or more for the Civet it must be put at the end of the Pestel rubbing and grinding the Powder well then take six pound of the said Powder put it by little and little into the Mortar incorporate the Powder and the Civet in braying it well with the Pestel then pass it again through a hair Cieve to mix with the other Musk-powder for the Ambergreece it must be well beaten in the Mortar putting by little and little about two pound of the white Powder before mention'd or else of the gray until the Amber be all beaten into it then pass it a hair Sieve and mix all three Powders togeâ—… Take a little bag of white Sheeps Leather well sewed with bands in the seams wherein put the Powder and Perfume to preserve it mingling the Perfume more or less according as you would have the scent A Varnish of a Gold Colour Take Sandrac two ounces Lytharge of Gold one ounce the clearest Linseed-oyl four ounces boil them all in a glaz'd earthen Pot. A Varnish for Images Take Oyl of Turpentine and Turpentine mingled together stirr them with your finger till it become of a convenient thickness to work withal To make Porcelane of Majorca Take calcin'd Egg-shels Gum-Arabick water and Glaire of Eggs make all into a paste shape it with Moulds dry it in the Sun and 't will be very neat To whiten Copper Put a piece of Copper in a Crucible with Sublimate Sal Armoniack Allum and Borax melt it and quench it twice in Sorrel-water Writing not to be Read but in Water Write with the Juice of Spurge or Allum-water dry it 't will not be legible without wetting A Fire that burns under the Water Take three ounces of Powder Salt-peter one ounce Sulphur three ounces beat silt and mix these together fill your Moulds fire them and throw them in the Water An Excellent transparent Varnish to lay upon any white thing to make it seem Marble Take the clearest Turpentine put it in an
Powder mix it well together colour it as you please and pass it through a Searce Another way for Cypress Powder much finer Take Oak Moss wash it often in fair Water till it hath lost its smell then lay it on a Hurdle set out in the Air being dry sprinkle it with the best Rose-water and Orange-flower-water and leave it again to dry if the scent be too strong wash it in fair Water till the smell become more sweet and pleasant after this done the Moss being yet on the Hurdle put a Cassolet or Perfume Cake with Coals of Fire with which perfume your Moss as long as you think fit In fine to one pound of Ground thus prepared put two drams of good Musk and one dram and half of Civet if it be very good if not the same quantity of Musk. Excellent Amber-powder Take six ounces of Bean flower as much worm-eaten Wood pass them through a Searce four ounces of Cypress wood two ounces of Sanders two ounces of Benjamin half an ounce of Storax two drams of Calamus Aromaticus as much Laudanum pass all through a silk Sieve then to two pound of this Composition take four grains of Ambergreece half an ounce of Machaleb or Pomander Privet beaten and sifted which you must mix in a hot Mortar with the Amber then mix them all together and keep it in a Glass bottle well stopped put a pound and half of this Powder into each sweet Bagg The Queens perfume Water Take red Rose-water a quart Damask-Rose-water Muskadine and Orange flower-water of each three pints Water of Melilot-Flowers Flowers of Mirtel and Garden Costmary three Pints put all the aforesaid distilled Waters into a Glass-bottle to which add a pound of Benjamin in Powder Cloves Cinnamon and Orange-pill dryed of each half an ounce all being bruised stop the Bottle Close without opening it in a whole Month. To make a curious compound Water Take Benjamin four ounces Storax two ounces yellow Sanders one ounce Cloves two drams two or three pieces of Orris half a Citron Pill two Nutmegs Cinnamon half an ounce and about two quarts of Water put it all into a new earthen Pipkin and let it boil till a quart of it be consumed then take about six grains of Musk powdered with about as much Sugar as the bigness of a small Nut which disâ—olve with a little of the said Water strain and put it into a Glass-bottle well stopped the better to preserve it Keep the Dregs dry and powder them and use them to perfume the Powder aforesaid A curious Extraction of the Perfumes and Colours of all Flowers Extract through a Retort after the manner of Aqua fortis the Spirit of Salt-peter or common Salt and keep it close in a Glas Bottle well stopped then take what quantity you will of Rose Leaves which put into a Limbick with one ounce of the Spirit of the said Salt one pint of pure Spring Water and so proportionably till your Limbick be full let it thus infuse and lye four and twenty hours till you see your Water well coloured which pour out by inclination in another glass Vessel it will have the colour and smell of the Rose leaving in the Limbic your Leaves fresh as if they had been new gather'd You may do the same with all other Flowers as Violets Gilliflowers and others To make the best Bolonia Wash-balls Take one pound of Genoua Soap cut into small pieces four ounces of unslacked Lime which beat well in a Mortar with two Glasses of Aqua Vitae and let it steep eight and forty hours then take a sheet of Paper on which spread it a drying being dry beat it in a Mortar with half an ounce of Mahaleb an ounce and a half of yellow Saunders half an ounce of Orris as much Calamus all in Powder and make it into a Paste with whites of Eggs and four ounces of Gum-dragacanth dissolved in Rose-water then make your Wash-balls Another sort of excellent Wash-balls Take one pound of Orris four ounces of Benjamin two ounces of Storax as much yellow Saunders half an ounce of Cloves one penny worth of Cinnamon and a little Lemon-peel one ounce of Machaleb one Nutmeg beat it all to Powder Then take about two pound of white Soap scrap'd and put it into almost three pints of Aqua Vitae to lye and steep four or five dayes then work it well with about one pint of Orange-Flower or other sweet Water Next prepare the quantity you shall think fit of white Starch beaten and sifted which mix with the Drugs aforesaid and the Soap to make a Passe have ready a little Gum Dragacanth dissolved in sweet Water and five of six whites of Eggs and make up your Wash-balls of what size you will To perfume them well Take what quantity of Musk you please which dissolve in any sweet compound Water then take about the quantity of one Wash-ball of the aforesaid Composition and mix it together in a Mortar then mix and incorporate that with your Paste like Leven and so make your Wash-balls Several approved wayes to take out Stains of Oyl Grease or other things CHAP. VIII To take out a Spot of Oyl upon Sattin or any other Stuff and even upon Paper TAke Sheeps-Feet calcined of which lay on both sides of the Paper or Stuff upon the Spot and so leave it one Night this Powder or Ashes will draw out all the stain but if it be not clear taken away do it the second time but the stain must not be old Another way to take out Stains Take half a pound of Soap four ounces of Fullers earth and one of unslacked Lime mix it all in faâ—r Water and lay it to the Stain Another way Take Water and Starch and make it into a Paste with which cover the Stain laying it about as thick as a Shilling and leave it there next day rub it off as you would do dry Dirt and the Stain will appear no more Probatum Another way for Silk Rub the Stain with Spirit of Turpentine this Spirit evaporates and carries away with it the other Oyl To take off the Dirt that dasheth upon Cloths Wet a white Cloth and lay it upon it that sucks in all the Dirt and makes it appear no more To take off Iron-Moulds from Linnen The Linnen being whitened take boiling Water in a Pewter Pot and immediately put in your Linnen and lay it over to receive the Smoke squeezing and rubbing it with a little Sorrel than wash it out in clear Water To take out all Ink spots upon Linnen or Woollen Take some juice of Lemmon put it upon the stain which wash immediately in fair Water rubbing it well for want of Lemmon use Verjuice of Grapes or Sorrel Another way Wash the stain with white Soap dissolved in Vinegar How to soften whiten and restore discoloured Ivory CHAP. IX How to soften Ivory so that it may be cast in a Mould BOil the Ivory in common Water in which
must be six ounces of the Root Mandrake and it will be as soft as Wax An excellent Receipt to whiten discouloured Ivory Take a sufficient quantity of Roch-allum according to the number of pieces you would whiten and when the Water is very white which must be made to boil up and put the Ivory into soak for an hour or thereabouts and rub it with a little hair Brush and then put it into a wet Cloth that it may dry leisurely or else it will split Another way Lay black Soap upon Ivory placed near the fire so that it may by little and little bubble up then clear it To whiten green Ivory and restore that which is spotted Take unslacked Lime and put it with water into an earthen Pot in which shall be the Ivory you would whiten put it upon the fire and make it boil till such time you see the Ivory is white to be polished it must be turned in a Lath after having worked it as you desire take some of the Lime and Pummice stone in very fine Powder and with water rub till you see it every where well coloured to polish you must first warm it turning it in the Lath and rubbing it with a white Linnen Cloth and a piece of Sheeps Skin When it is very hot take Cerus with some Sallet-Oyl and rub it till it is dry with Cerus alone and at last only with a white Cloth very dry and your Ivory will be very white and smooth To whiten Bones Take unslacked Lime and put to it one handful of Bran into a new Pot letting them boil till all the grease is out Rare and Admirable Curiosities CHAP. X. A Representation of the four Elements in a Glass Vial. FIrst you must dye some Aqua-Vitae with Turnsole to represent the Air then take some of the Ethereal Oyl of Turpentine which dye of a fire Colour with Saffron then some Alkanet and Oyl of Tartar to which add a little Lapis Lazuli to give it a Sea Colour and to represent the Earth a little bruised Enamel it is good to stir and mix them together each thing after a little standing will return to its place for those three Liquors never mix To make several Colours upon Water If you throw some drops of Nut Oyl upon still water that runs not fast but rather lyes without motion there will appear to you as many Colours as are in the Rain-bow To break an Iron as thick as an Arm. Take melted Soap with which anoint the Iron in the middle then with a Thread clear the place where you would have it break next take a Sponge dipped in Aqua Vitae thrice distilled wrap it round the Iron and within six hours it will break Another way to do the same Take two pound of Aqua fortis make it dissolve for the space of twenty four hours Orpiment Sulphur Aconite Verdigreece of each an ounce unslacked Lime killed in two ounces of Vinegar thrice distilled put it all into a Limbick with one ounce of Salt peter two ounces of Antimony and all the Water shall come from it pour it again upon the Dregs with two ounces of Arsenick in Powder and distill it when you would use it dip in it a Napkin or handkerchief which wrap about the Iron Barr and when it has so lain three hours you may break it with ease Take care of the Fumes when you distill it A wonderful Spirit that dissolveth all sorts of Stones though never so hard Take the Flower of Rye make it into small Balls which dry then put them into a Retort well closed with a strong Fire as is used for Aqua Fortis and there will distill a Liquor that will perform as above How to melt all manner of Metals in a Nut-shell without burning of it Take Salt-peter two ounces Sulphur half an ounce sawings of Oak Walnut-tree or other dry Wood half an ounce the said Saw-dust must be very small the Salt-peter and Sulphur powdred to impalpable Dust mix it altogether and fill a Nutshell with this Powder to the Edges then put a piece of Gold Silver or other Metal upon it and cover it with the said Powder then set fire to the Powder that is under it that Metal that shall be between the two Powders will melt and remain at the bottom of the shell How to dissolve Gold upon ones Hand You must distill the Blood of a Deer newly killed in Balneo Mariae and soak the Gold upon the Lees three times and at the third it will certainly dissolve A perpetual Motion Take Aqua fortis into which cast filings of Iron of the smallest and leave them there till the Water has taken the quantity of Iron that is requisite which will be in seven or eight hours take off your Water and put it into a Vial an inch wide with a large Mouth and put in a stone of Lapis Calaminaris stop the Bottle well and keep it very close To make a Mans Face appear hideous Take common Salt and fine Chalk in Powder with which powder very well some Hemp or Flax dipping them in good Aqua Vitae then set them on fire first putting out all other Lights and you will see wonderful things A waggish way to make Pease leap out of a Pot. Take some of the Herb Clary and put a sprig of it into a Pot in which Pease are boyling so the Water be not very low nor the Pot too close covered you will see it succeed according to your Desire The like to make an Egg move about You must first empty it through a little hole then put never so little Vitriol into it stop it up presently and you will see the effect The same is done by putting a Leech into it having some Water spilt in some part of the Room To make all the People in a House to sleep without being able to wake Take half a quarter of an ounce of the herb called Dragon-wort which put into a Gourd or Pumpkin which cover with another and put it in a Horses belly for the space of nine days after which time you will find it converted into little red Worms from which according to Art extract an Oyl which put into the Lamps which being lighted all that are in the House will be seiz'd with a profound Sleep so that they cannot be awaked without putting out the Lamp An Excellent way to cleanse Silver without boyling Take four ounces of white Soap scraped in a Plate with half a pint of hot Water a penny-worth of old dry Lees of Wine in another Plate with the same quantity of hot Water as in the other and in a third Plate one penny-worth of Ashes of Wine Leesburned with the same quantity of Water as before then take a hair Brush which first dip in your Liquor of dry Lees next in the burnt Lees then in the Soap that done wash it in hot Water and wipe it with a dry Cloth A Cloth that wholly resuts a Sword
before make it up into a Paste which make in what fashion you will and let it dry in the shade Portable or dry Ink to carry about Take of the black of Rosin one part Coal made of Walnut Peach or Apricock-tree one part Vitriol and Galls equal parts Gum Arabic four parts all in Powder or in a Cake if you will An Excellent Ink for writing Take half a pound of Log-wood cut into small slices boil it in a quart of Wine or Vinegar till half be consumed then take out the Wood and put into the Pot four ounces of good Glass pounded and put all into a strong Bottle which expose to the Sun for three or four days stirring of it three or four times a day then add to it two ounces of good Roman Vitriol or green Copperas and let it steep two days then two ounces of Gum-Arabick pounded next day strain it into another Vessel to keep the dregs that remain may serve again with the same Liquor and you need only add half a pint of Logwood-water to make it shine you must put to it a handful of Pomegranate shels which put into the bottle with the Galls being in want of Ink you may boyl it a quarter of an hour but it is never so good but thick and muddy A very useful way to write upon greasie Paper or Parchment and make the Ink run Take an Oxes gall which prick and put into a Pot with a handful of Salt and a little Vinegar then stir it all very well and thus you may keep it a year without spoiling when you write and meet with any Paper or Parchment that in some place is greasy take one drop of that Gall which mix with the Ink in the Ink-horn and you will write with ease Rain or Nut-water is excellent and the Ink made of it is very good White-wine is best for shining Ink. To write Silver and Gold Letters Take one ounce of Touchstone two ounces of Sal Armoniack half an ounce of Gum Arabic beat all to Powder and mix it then when you would write dissolve your dregs in Water or milk of Figs when your letters are dry rub them with the metal you would have them be of An Ink that may be wiped out in forty days Take Aqua-fortis in which boyl as many Galls Roman Vitriol and Sal Armoniac as the Water can dissolve at last add Gum Arabic then write it is very black till wiped out Ink upon Glass Take scales of Iron and Stone well ground upon a Copper Plate equal quantities of each then dissolve them in Gum Water and write with a glass Pen. Several sorts of Colours Take Tutty which incorporate with the juice of Celandine upon a Marble stone and write with it To make a resemblance of Wines of several Colours Shave Brasil-wood which steep in common Water so that it remain like a Paste and let it dry in a Glass till it soaks up the Water Take what you can carry between two Fingers of these shavings which put into a Glass of Water and it will suddenly become red like Claret Pour the said red Water into another glass wash'd in good Vinegar it will turn yellow put out the greatest part and retain but about the depth of three fingers putting fresh Water to it it will be of the colour of small pale Wine to which put a little Vinegar it will look like a Muscadine inclin'd to yellow add Water it will be like White-wine to this last put two drops of writing Ink blow your Water and it will become of a good pale Greediline Incombustible Oyl Oyl of Olives unslacked Lime and Salt distilled together make incombustible Oyl To make Arsenick run like Oyl Take white Soap which distill and there will come out an Oyl in which boyl your Arsenick till the said Oyl be consumed and it will melt like Wax To slack Lime so that it shall be good for several Vses Put it into a Pot and fill it with Water when it begins to boyl it makes a small Skin on the top which must be taken off with a Knife so doing till it rises no more and then it will be fit for use To make a Light for a Lamp that shall not smoak by distilling with an excellent Week Distill a pound or more of common Oyl which use in your Lamp the Light of it is very steady and even the Week may be of Talk or stone Allum like other Weeks which is done by steeping them well in Water and they will spin out observe you must make a great many little holes in the Week with an Awl or great Needle to make the Oyl rise Aqua Vitae Put into an Earthen Limbec well tinned a quart of the strongest Vinegar with a handful of Allay and as much Salt and distill it A Candle that cannot be put out Fill a Cane with natural live Sulphur and wrap it about with Lints then cover it with Wax and light it To hinder Oyl from smoaking Distill some Juice of Onion and put it at the bottom of the Lamp the Oyl upon it which hinders it from making Soot To make Oyl of Eggs white Put among the Oyl of twelve Eggs extracted after the common way one spoonful of Oyl of Tartar mixing them well together set them out to the Sun there remains at bottom a thick settlement the Oyl that remains at top must be gently poured off into another Vial leaving it in the Sun it becomes as white as a Curd Of Artificial Fire-works Hunting and Fishing CHAP. XII An excellent Composition for Granadoes staming Lances Pikes and other Instruments TAke fine Cannon Powder six parts Salt-peter Rosin of each a fifth part Greek-Pitch all being beaten to Powder sprinkle it with Nut Oyl till it be made into a hard Paste Flaming Lances Take two foot in length of the Lance which fill with the aforesaid Composition till within two inches of the top which fill up with fine Cannon Powder over that make a round Ball of the aforesaid matter covered with fine Flax putting in a stick for the touch-hole which leave there after having dipped the said Ball in melted Pitch redoubling this Composition when you please Fire Pots Take six ounces of fine Powder powdered Rosin one ounce Arsenick four ounces in fine Powder mix them together with Yarn and Hemp a little fill your Pot cast it as you know and you will see the effect Good Squibs Take a pound of fine Powder Salt-peter two ounces all well beaten together and fift them through a fine Sieve or Strainer then sprinkle with Aquae Vitae or good White-wine beat down and ram the said Matter hard in your Cartridge which must be washed with white of Egg and Starch or some other fine Glew A pleasant Invention to kill Game Make a stopple of Hemp with melted Grease and fresh Hogs Lard put the said stopple into your Gun instead of Paper and ram it upon the Powder with your scowring Rod then take
a little Rag and thrust it never so little into the muzzle of your Gun with the scowring Rod and having put in your shot fold the four corners of the Rag that hang over the muzzle of your Piece over one another and drive them down with your scowring Rod then shoot either at Quelsts Stock-doves Ducks c. and you will see strange Effects and you need not come so near as is usual because this carries a great way so when the Birds run upon the Ground you must shoot at them as they rise To make Powder strong To eight ounces of Powder add one of Borax well pounded and mix them together To catch Partridges Steep Wheat in Aquae Vitae strew it where the Partridges repair and they will fall down drunk To make Rabbets come out of their Berries without a Ferret Take Powder of Orpiment Sulphur and an old shooe or Parchment or Cloth which burn at the Mouth of the Berrie upon which the Wind blows and spread your Bags under the Wind. Another way Put one or two Cray-fishes into the Mouth of the Berry and they will certainly make the Conies come out To gather together a great number of Hares Take juice of Henbane mixed with the Blood of a young Hare and sew it in a Hares Skin whi4ch bury in the Earth An admirable way to preserve Arms from rusting and take off the rust Take a pound and half of Beef Suet a pound and half of Oyl of sweet Almonds extracted without Fire one pound of freshned Olive Oyle four ounces of Camphire twelve ounces of Lead burnt with Sulphur make a Composition of them and boil it to the substance of an Oyntment with which rub the Armes to prevent rusting Note that Lead is burnt by melting and then throwing upon it powdered Sulphur always stirring the Lead with an Iron Rod till it remains in a black Powder Olive Oyle is freshned with luke-warm Water beating them together and then letting them settle again lastly put them into a Funnel to filtrate the Water will run out first when you unstop the bottom hole Another way Take new white Wax heat the Iron you will rub with the Wax very hot and when it is so hot you can hardly hold it rub it well and let it soak the said Wax letting it afterwards dry before the Fire that it may suck in the said Wax rubbing and cleansing it with a piece of Serge and thus it will never rust To make an unextinguishable Wild fire Take live quick Sulphur Tartar Sarcocolla Oyl of Pitch boyled or decrepitated Salt Petroleum and common Oyl and boyl them well together it cannot be extinguished but by Vinegar Another way Take Oyl of Petilium Oyl of Turpentine of each an ounce Camphire six drams in Powder hard Rosin half an ounce melt all together then take Hemp or Flax and dip it in this Composition then throw it upon the place you design A Fire that burns upon Armour Take Cannon-powder five parts Salt-peter three Sulphur two parts Rosin and Turpentine of each one part white Vitriol half a part Oyl of Acorns the same quantity as much Linseed Oyl and one part and half of Aqua Vitae To make a Pistol carry far Put a good charge of Powder into it and instead of Paper ramm a Bullet of Camphire upon your Powder beating it well down then you must have a thin skin dipped in Oyl of Petroleum in which wrap up your Bullet over that a little more Camphire which you must not ramm too much A pleasant way to catch Crows You must mince some Oxes Liver or Lights with some Nux Vomica which make up into little Balls as big as small Nuts and spread them in any Field as soon as the Crows eat of them they fall down stounded and you may easily catch them with your hands Of Fishery A sure way to catch Fish Take fresh Horse-dung and put it into a Bag or Net throw it into the Water and the Fish will gather about it Another way Take Quick-silver which put into a thick glass Vial fasten it to a Pack-thread and let it down to the bottom of the Water in the Night especially when the Moon shines and you will see a multitude of Fish come together To catch Fish Put Oyl of Camomil into a Vial and when you would fish you must have some Worms and kill them in the said Vial of Oyl and bait your Hooks with those Worms A wonderful Secret to bring the Fish to the place you desire Boyl Barley in Water till it bursts and boyl it with Liquorice a little Mummy and Honey beat all together in a Mortar till it is stiff as Paste which put into Boxes close stopped when you would fish in any place take about the quantity of a Walnut of it and boyl in an earthen Pot with two handfuls of fresh Barley and a little Liquorice leaving it till it is almost dry then throw it into the place whither you would have the Fish come and they will gather there To catch Fish Take the Herb Dragon-wort from which extract the Juyce with it rub your Hands and the Fish will come near and suffer themselves to be taken holding them in the Water the proper hour for fishing is from five till six in the morning Another way Take some of a Herons Flesh and put it into a Bottle close covered with Clay or Wax with some Musk Amber and Civet put the Pot into a Kettle full of Water and make it boil till you are sure the said Flesh is converted into Oyl then take out the Bottle and pour out the Oyl with which rub your Line and all the Fish will come to be taken Another way Take fat of a Heron Mummie Galbanum of each two drams Musk one grain Aqua Vitae two ounces mix all together in an Earthen Porringer over a gentle Fire and stir till it be as thick as if boiled keep it in a leaden Porringer and with it rub the Hook or the ends of the Line or Cork and all the Fish will come so that you may take them with your Hands Otherwise Take the Belly of a Heron that is the Bowels or Entrals cut it in pieces and put it into a Glass Vial which stop close with Wax then bury it in hot Horse-dung and let it turn to Oyl which will be within ten or fifteen daies then take an ounce of Asa foetida and mix it with the said Oyl it will all thicken like Honey with which noynt a Line Stick or Rod or else the bait you put upon the Hook Another way to do the same You must kill a Cat by smothering bleed him and having flayed and panched rost him upon a Spit without larding and keep the dripping that falls which mix with Yolks of Eggs and an equal quantity of Oyl of Spicknard which mix well together in a Mortar to the thickness of an Oyntment and use it as above To make Worms for baits come out
of the Ground Take Verdigreece and boil it in a little Vineger with which sprinkle the Earth and the Wormes will come out Admirable Receipts in Cookery CHAP. XIII The true Method of making Bolonia Saucidges TAke fat and lean Pork which mince very small and to twenty five pound weight of it add one of Salt four ounces of whole Pepper a pint of White-wine and a pound of the Hogs Blood then stir and beat it all together for above a quarter of an hour and put it into the Guts which wrap round with a Napkin lest crushing down the Meat close they burst make the divisions at what distances you think fit which knot with a Packthread and hang them a drying in the Air or Smoak when dry if you think fit cut the Skin which divides the Saucidges for the Maggots may get into them and after you have wiped off the Dust they have gathered rub them with Sallet Oyl and put them into an Earthen Pot glazed covering it with its ordinary Cover and thus you may keep them sweet as long as you will Milan Saucidges Take six pound of good lean Pork one of good fat four ounces of Salt one of Pepper all being well minced mix them together adding some White-wine and the Blood aforesaid with half an ounce of Cinnamon and Cloves beaten and mixed together and some pieces such as are used for larding made of the Hogs-head which must be well sprinkled with that Spice and then lard the said Saucidges and sprinkle them as above these must be boiled to be eaten Mentz Gammons You must rear up good Gammons of Bacon keep them a fortnight to grow tender then wash them in equal quantities of White-wine and Water dry them with a Cloth rub both sides very well with fine white Salt then you must have great Wicker Panniers and cover the bottom about a Finger thick with very fine Salt and over the Salt place a layer of Isop Sage Savory Laurel and Rosemary but not very thick and it will be better to lay the said Herbs at the bottom of the Pannier and the Salt upon them that the Gammons may take the Salt the better upon which alwayes lay the fleshy part of the Gammon then put the same quantity of Herbs and Salt upon the Skin placing your Gammons one upon another till you fill the Pannier and press it down hard leaving them there a fortnight to take the Salt Then take them out hang them in a very close place making under them for five or six days a fire of green Juniper that it may smoke the more leave them there till your fire be quite out which you are to put in all together Next hang them up in a dry place and they will keep three or four years to make them Eat the better if they are too dry you must beat them with a Pestel then keep them in warm Water with a handful of Bran for a day or two rubbing them and the night before they are to be Eaten wrap them up in good dry Hay put them into a Kettle of boyling Water which fill with cold as fast as it consumes till they are boyl'd enough before they are served up the Skin must be raised whilst hot and the flesh be powdered with Cinnamon Cloves Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg all beaten together be kept warm and Eaten Madame de Bis Gammons You must have a young Hogs Gammon salted eight days after wiping off the Salt that is upon it with your hand lift up the Skin to the very Hock then stick the flesh with Cloves and Cinnamon sprinkle it with a good quantity of Sugar and lay down the Skin let it be baked in the Oven basting it at times with its own Dripping it is an excellent Dish hot An Excellent Hogs-head after the manner of Piemont Take a dry Hogs-head and Feet boyl them together till the Bones come out easily take them from the fire and having poured out the Water cut the Ears into small pieces and so the Feet lay the Head upon a Cloth and upon it place the said pieces of the Ears and Feet powder all with Salt and Spice to it Cinnamon Clove Pepper Ginger and Nutmeg a little of each and some Orange-peel scraped then wrap all together in the Cloth and press it leaving it so five or six hours till all be cold this will keep good three Months You must take the Cloth laying it into a glaz'd earthen Pot covering it with its own cover when served up you must cut it in slices upon a Plate with good Vinegar and Sugar for those that like it An excellent way to salt Pork Beef and other Meat well as is used in Germany and Flanders Your Powdering Tub should be made of some old Cask which makes it much the better then boil two or three handfuls of Juniper Seed more or less in a Kettle of Water which having boyled for some time soak the Tub in that Water leaving the Seed in it till all the Wood takes the scent which done pour it out and put in clear Water which also cast out when the Tub is well washed and it will be fit to use To salt Meat well it must be first steeped in Water then wiped dry with a Cloth and then make one layer of Salt and another of Flesh till your Tub be full the last layer must be of Salt of which for fear of mistakes there must be a pound to twenty five pounds weight of Flesh and add if you think fit some quantity of Cloves a little beaten no Pepper as some through mistake do because it makes the meat black The Meat must lye in the Powdering Tub a Month to be throughly salted and take care above all things that no Woman in her Menstruum come near it for it would cause Corruption The Meat being taken out and designed to be dryed presently every piece must immediately be steeped in boyling Water and hung up with a Twig of Osier in some place where the Air may come to it To make Mentz Gammons Salt your Gammons and keep them so five dayes then take them out and lay them for six dayes in filings of Iron next wash them in red Wine and shut them up in some small place making in it a Fire of Juniper for ten daies or more and they will be excellent To make Lombardy Saucidges Take four pounds of Hogs Flesh three pound and half of Beef one pound of Veal and four ounces of fresh fat Pork let the Flesh be minced small and the Fat sliced mix all together with two ounces of Pepper two of Ginger Cloves and Nutmeg of each half an ounce Salt by ghess then put it into Hogs Guts and dry them they must be boiled to be eaten and do as is spoken of before to keep them long A White Pot. Take half a pound of blanched Almonds made into a Paste well beaten adding some Milk that they may the better hold together and not
grow oyly you must have a Spoonfull and half of Rice Flower mix it together and strain it with a great Porringer full of Milk make it boil gently alwaies stirring it and add as much Sugar as will please your Pallat and boyl it thicker than common Porridge if you will add some of the brawn of a Capon it must be beaten with the Almonds and Rice and strained and the rest done as above Excellent Italian Fritters By Andrea Doria Take some Flower which dissolve in a Mortar of Marble with hot Milk or rather in good strong Chickin Broth this Paste must be beaten a long while then add the yolk of an Egg and beat it still at last almost as much Sugar as there is Paste continuing still beating then every time you fry them put fresh Hogs-lard into the Pan. They are very delicious to one glass of Flower put a quartern of boyling Milk A Pike after the manner of Poland Take water of boyl'd Parsley-roots White-wine Vinegar and Salt when this boyls up throw in the Pike then when you think fit add some Lemon Pepper Sugar and a little Saffron and Eat the Pike with this Sauce To make the Bones of a Shad-Fish eatable and preserve them boyl'd from Year to Year First you must cut your Shads into pieces about two fingers thick or any other sort of Fish and observe the Head nor Tail must not be in it then wash it well in several Waters and with a little small stick take out all the marrow that is in the Back-bone clearing it so that nothing remain for that is the chief Secret for preserving Fish and keeping it from all manner of Putrefaction then season with Salt Pepper and Spice each piece by it self and stick some Cloves in them but they must be wiped before they are seasoned then put them into a new well glazed earthen pot one upon another and add thereto two parts of Sallet Oyl and one of White-wine so that it be two fingers above the Fish that done cover the Pot close laying Salt about the edges let it boyl gently upon a Coal fire till the Wine be quite consumed which you may certainly know by the Pot making no more noise when it boyls then take it from the fire and let it cool You may keep it thus all the year round very good for it is much firmer this way than the common the bones are quite consumed You must take out the Pieces with a Silver or Wooden fork but nothing of Iron lay them upon a Plate with a little Vinegar and they are admirable To make Cream without a Fire Take a dish full of the top of Milk with the Cream to which add about four spoonfuls of scraped Sugar and at the same time about the bigness of a Pins head of good Rennet which dissolve therein then stirr all together that it may thicken a little When you would serve up this Cream scrape Sugar over it and add ten or twelve drops of Orange-flower Water If the Rennet be good it will harden in an hour they that will put in a very little bit of Musk the Orange flower Water is put in when it is served up lest it should dissolve the Cream To make a delicate Fool. Take the Yolk of an Egg and an hundred whole ones beat them well-in a dish putting over them Sugar as it dissolves and a little Rose-water the least you can at most a quarter of a Spoonful there must be at least four ounces of fine Sugar scraped then mix with it your Milk with the Cream stirring it then put the dish upon hot Embers so that it may not boyl nor be stirred after it is upon the Fire when it grows stiff it is enough Colour it with a red Pan serve it up cold and scrape over it some Sugar it will be an Hour stiffening but the longer the better To make an excellent sort of boyled Fool. Take Cream or fresh Milk and set it a boyling in a Pan with the Crumb of white Bread crumbled small and well dryed and fresh Butter let all boyl well together so long till it bubbles up stirring it very much with a Spoon to the end it stick not to the Skillet then take Yolks of Eggs beat and strain them through a Cieve add Salt and Sugar proportionable to the Quantity and if you will a little Saffron then when it has boyled and you perceive it begin to rise put in the Yolks of Eggs alwayes stirring it so that it may not burn to leaving it so long till the Butter comes up then take it from the Fire and take great care it burn not lay it by and when you want it serve it up with Sugar How to make an excellent Cake after a particular manner Take a dozen of Whites of Eggs with the shells well washed pound them so long in a stone Mortar till all be dissolved then add small Sugar and Flower but there must be more Sugar than Flower beat all well together till it comes to a hard Dough which spread upon a Paper like to another Cake and bake it in an Oven not over hot To Pickle and Preserve Cabbages Cut the Cabbages into many pieces which you must salt very well sprinkling them with Cloves not too small beaten and lay them in an earthen Pot glaz'd placing one layer of Salt and another of Cabbage to the top of the Pot the first and last lavers must be of Salt then fill it with good Vinegar and keep it stopped when you take any out to Eat it must be with a silver or woodden Spoon nothing of Iron must be put in nor the Vinegar be touch'd with your hand it can serve for a Sallet with a few Lettice-leaves which will make them be taken for Cabbage Lettice but then there must be no Cloves put to them but only Salt For Cucumbers You must chuse the least in the latter season and proceed as above For Purslane You must do the same observing that the sort which is lightcoloured is best and not the dark For Artichokes Do the same thing For Sparagus The same For Green Pease Fill an Earthen Pot with half Vineger half Water into which put your green Pease cover the Pot and stop it close and when you would take them out to eat steep them in fresh Water To keep Beans They must be gathered thorough ripe that is when the Cod begins to grow black and having taken them out of the Cod peel off the Skin that covers each Bean dry them upon a hurdle in the Oven after the Bread is taken out or if you will at the Sun and of all things take care there be no moisture left in them when you would dress them if it be when they are come again you may add a few of the new Leaves and Flowers to give them a taste and make them pass for that years Beans garnish the Dish round with Bean flowers before you stew them they must be
just boiled in Water To keep Mushroomes They must be boiled in only the Water that comes from them with Salt and Pepper being pretty well boiled put to them about one Glass of Wine and half a quarter of Butter put them into an Earthen Pot glazed and cover it close they will keep thus two or three Months you must observe there must be a little more Salt and Pepper put to them than if they were to be eaten immediately To make Fowl tender presently You must make them swallow a spoonful of good Vineger a quarter or half an hour before you kill them and let them run then kill and put them in the Chimney from Night till Morning and they will be very good and tender there are some that draw them and put a hot Stone into their Bellies leaving them in like manner in the Chimney in the Smoak How to keep Grapes till Easter as red and fresh as if they were upon the Vine You must gather your Grapes pretty green about eight daies before the usual time and when they are dry not rotten mouldy noâ— moist then lay them â—…dsomely in a little Barrel one against another very softly when full thrust them down again and fill it at the Bung with old or last years Raisins keeping it in a Cellar when you would use them knock out the Head of the Cask and they will be very good To freshen salt Porridge Put into the Pot a small quantity of Wheat Flower To make live Cray-fishes red Only rub them with Aqua Vitae and mix them in a Dish with boiled Cray-fishes which will be very pleasant To sweeten ill tasted Oyl Put into it some Roch-Allum or boiling Water you must observe that Oyl in which Aniseed has been steeped will not corrupt the same will happen if it be exposed to the Sun or Fire To preserve all manner of Fowl a Month without spoyling You must have a large Cask that has had Wine in it knock out one board or two into which 〈…〉 Very wholesom and excellent Spice Take two ounces of dryed Orange Peel sweet Marjerom one ounce Time and Hysop one ounce all being well dryed pounded and mixed together makes the wholesomest Spice that can be used To preserve fresh Lard When you would melt it put to it a little good Verjuice then when it begins to boil to six pound put one pint of Verjuice and let it consume the same may be used to preserve Pomatum A most excellent and singular way of making a Cake Take two whites of new laid Eggs and cut off the Sperme or String then beat them as long as you can put in a quarter of a pound of fine Flower and as much Sugar pounded work it all well together then put to it about two penny-worth of Aqua Vitae and a little Coriander in Powder let all be well mixed then lay it upon a fine Paper about as big as a Plate or thereabouts sprinkle it with Sugar and let it be baked Sweet-meats Flowers and Fruits CHAP. XIV Genoua Biskets TAke one pound of Flower four ounces of Sugar Coriander and Aniseed what you think fit mix it with four Eggs and as much warm Water as will be requisite make a Paste and that into a Cake which bake in the Oven being baked cut it into five or six pieces or slices which bake again The Queens Bisket Take twelve ounces of Flower one pound of fine Sugar twelve Eggs whereof three Yolks must be layed aside lest it make it too yellow add what Aniseed and Coriander you think fit beat and mix it all very well together till it come to a soft Paste some add a little Leven to make it the wholesomer let this Paste be put into Paper or in tin Cases about two Inches broad and twice as long which put in a Tart-pan into the Oven which must not be over hot when you think them baked enough take them out and lay them on a sheet of Paper to bake again at the heat of the Oven keep it in a hot Place Macaroons Take one pound of sweet Almonds beat them carefully in a stone Mortar sprinkling them with Rose-water add one pound of Sugar beating all well together and make a great round Cake that will fill a Dish or Bason which put into a warm Oven to bake gently being half baked cut it into small pieces and put them to bake again upon white Paper To make a Paste of any Fruit whatsoever Take the quantity of Fruit you will and having pared boil it well in clear Water then strain and let it lye then take ten pound of the said Fruit six pound of fine Sugar in very fine Powder and put but five pound of the six to the ten pounds of Fruit and mix them very well then boil the Paste a little and lay it with a Spoon upon tin Plates each Spoonful by it self and sprinkle each spoonful with the remaining Pound of Sugar dry them like Macaroons turning them every Night and Morning keeping them in a very warm place over an Oven in the Sun or the open Air look upon it often and turn it sprinkling as above till it be very dry then put them into deal Boxes to keep them dry wrapped up in Papers and let them not touch one another lest they grow soft You may thus make preserves of Roses Borrage Bugloss and all others into a Paste as Gooseberries c. An admirable Gelly of Quinces and other sorts of Fruit. Take some of the Decoction of the peel and inside of a Quince or other Fruit that has boyled long in a great deal of water the Decoction being made let it waste in the Sun or at the Fire or long standing of this Decoction make your Gelly Genoua Paste Take the insides of Quinces and sweet Apples equal quantities of each with Rose-water pound and strain it through a Cieve then dry it with a wooden Slice over the fire then add as much Sugar as there is Paste and boyl it to a convenient thickness To keep any Fruit whatsoever a very long time and particularly Grapes Provide some Sand out of a River which dry in your Store-room then gather your Grapes or other Fruit when the Sun shines upon it for it must be dry then spread a layer of Sand about an inch thick in a Box and lay your Fruit upon it presently strow Sand upon it so that it go quite thorough and so continue layer upon layer your Box or other wooden Vessel being full shut it close that no Air may come to it and put it in a dry place without removing it the Grapes must not be over ripe but somewhat green about eight days before their ripening the Grapes will keep till new ones come the same may be done with Pears Prunes Cherries Apples Gooseberries Peaches c. Some keep them in Ashes or Oat-straw and bury their Vessel in the said straw and so they keep two years if you will others use
Millet instead of Sand. For the more security the stalk of the Grape may be dipped in melted Wax the same of any other Fruit. To preserve Apples from Rotting You must rub them with Juice of Spearmint To keep all Fruit that has Stones and even Figs. Take an earthen Pot put into it equal quantities of Honey and Water which must be first well beaten together into this put your Fruit just gathered and cover the Pot close when you take them out of the Pot put them into fresh Water To keep all sorts of Flowers Fill a Pot with half Water and half Verjuice and put as much Salt to it as will season it well gather your Flowers into the Liquour close up the Pot and set it in a Sellar when you take out your Flowers let it be by the Stalk shake and hold it never so little to the Fire to recover its Colour To keep Roses red all the year The Roses must be gathered when they are half open then you must have a hard earthen Pot well burnt and let it be burnt over again then take your Roses and place them upright squeesing them pretty close together and make of them one Bed or Layer over them spread some Cloves and over that some Nails about the bigness of Lath-nails all over and continue your Layers one upon another till the Pot be full the last must be of Nails and close the Pot well that no Air may pass these Nails that are to be layed upon the Cloves serve to preserve the red of the Roses which when you would use you must wash them very gently then stop the Pot close again and thus you may have Roses at any time as beautiful as in May. Another way to do the same Gather the Roses before they open when they are just ready to break they must be red Province Roses leave the Stalks long enough and wrap them up in Vine Leaves or in Hemp in little Parcels placing twelve Roses in each which powder with white Salt placing them in an earthen Pot and powder them with Salt as you would do Purslain then fill the Pot with Verjuice and so cover it laying Clay round that no Air may come to them at Christmas or any other time when you would take them out you must do it with a silver or wooden Fork and cover the Pot again for fear they take Air the Liquour that is in the Pot is very good to dress Meat with and the Roses as good in taste as to look at and will keep open six Weeks The way to open them is by making some Water luke-warm and leaving them full two hours in it so that after it they open by only blowing them Observe that the Pot must be kept in the bottom of the Cellar To make excellent Hypocras immediately Take five ounces of Aqua Vitae Cinnamon two ounces Pepper two Ginger two Cloves two Grains of Paradise two ounces Amber-greece three grains Musk two grains let all infuse twenty four hours in a glass Bottle upon warm Ashes and when you would use it to make Hypocras take one pound of Sugar and a quart of Wine and the Sugar being melted therein add to it three or four drops of this Liquor and you will have excellent Hypocras Another Liquor for the same use Take Cinnamon a little pounded two ounces Mace one ounce Ginger one ounce Ambergreece ten grains Musk six grains each being apart in Powder mix and put into a glass Bottle with four ounces of Spirit of Wine and do as above To make Rosa Solis Take a pound and half of White-bread very hot just come out of the Oven put it into a Limbic with half an ounce of Clove beaten green Aniseed Coriander of each an ounce over that a pint of good Red-wine and as much Milk then close it and put to it the Recipient close the Joints with glewed Paper let it lye thus twenty four hours after which time distill it in Balneo Mariae to extract all the Liquor which keep The Syrup must be made apart with Aqua Vitae or rather Spirit of Wine burning it upon very small Sugar in an earthen Dish or Porringer always stirring it with a Slice or Spoon till the flame goes out You must also dissolve Amber-greece with the purest Spirit of Wine first mixing a dram of Sugar with as much Amber-greece and pounding them well together then add to it in a little Bottle an ounce of Spirit of Wine and let it digest twenty four hours and evaporate in Balneo where it will all dissolve but will stiffen in the cold To make the Composition you must mix the Syrup of Aqua Vitae with this Essence of Amber such a quantity as you shall think fit to add to the distill'd Water if you would have it stronger put the greater quantity of Spirit of Wine Another way Boyl your Syrup to a thickness as is usual being boyl'd add what quantity of Spirit of Wine you shall think fit as also of the aforesaid Essence or such other as you shall like and it will be such as comes from Turin To make another sort of Liquor which the French call Populo Take one pint of Syrup boyl'd to a thickness a pint of the clearest White-wine and a pint of Spirit of Wine warm it a very little that they may mix then strain it through a Bag with two or three Almonds blanched and beaten to warm it and a little Bag of Perfume if you have no Essence To make good Spirit of Wine You must have a Glass Limbick and distill good Aqua Vitae in Balneo Mariae and put a piece of filter well dipped in common Oyl between the Helm and the Limbick and over it put in Flower of Rosemary only once you will extract the purest Spirit in the World A very cheap Lemmonade Scrape Lemmon-peel as much as you think fit into Water and Sugar to which add some drops of Essence of Sulphur with some slices of Lemmon it will be very good and refreshing there must be half a pound of Sugar to a pint of Water To make Franchipane Water Put half a quarter the quantity of Jesmin Flowers upon your Water sweetned with Sugar and let them infuse a while then smell whether it be sweet enough if not add fresh ones when the Water is as you would have it strain it and put in a few drops of Essence of Amber To make Jessemine Water You must do as above without adding any essence or mixture but what the Flowers give it That of Tuberose is made after the same manner That of Tonquille as also all other Flowers is done the same way Water of Strawberries Raspars Cherries Hart Cherries and Apricocks Squeeze out the Juice of these sorts of Fruit and mix that Liquour with Water well sweetned with Sugar and do as above To freeze them even like the Fruit. Take a little Tub and a tin Vessel of what size you please then put in the
Fruit into the Water you would freeze a little wider at top then at bottom that the buried Ice may come out with a tin cover then fill the said tin Vessel with the said Waters or else with the Fruit with clear Water to make it freeze at the bottom of the Tub lay a little Straw and a bed of Ice with a quarter of small Salt then another bed of Ice and Salt over it and put in your Vessel into the middle far enough from the sides of the Tub that there may be space enough to put in Ice and Salt as above and so continue till you cover your Vessel half a foot above it and leave it thus in a cool Place for four or five hours the Water will be frozen and because it will stick to the Vessel heat a Cloth with which rub the said Vessel round and it will loosen To make Ice in Summer Take a large stone Bottle that will hold three quarts put into it two ounces of refined Salt-peter half an ounce of Florence Orris and fill it up with boyling Water and stop it close immediately let it down into a Well leaving it there two or three hours take out the Bottle and break it to get the Ice which will be very hard and as good as the natural To cool Wine extreamly without Ice Dissolve about a pound of Nitre in a Bucket of Water and put in your Bottles to cool Several sorts of Wines how to preserve them and how to restore decayed Wine CHAP. XV. To restore Wine that is prickt YOu must rack your wine down to the Lee into another Cask in which are fresh Lees of good Wine then take one pound of the best strong Aqua Vitae with half a pound of yellow Wax scraped into the said Aqua Vitae which melt in it over a very gentle fire then dip a Cloth in this Liquor and set it on fire with Sulphur which put flaming into the Bung and stop the Cask close Another way Take a handful of old Walnuts with the Shells for half a Teirce for a Tieece two handfuls then put the said Nuts into a hot Oven and dry them so that they turn red then take the same quantity of Willow Chips of the Wood next the Bark and put your Walnuts hot and red into the Cask and stop the Bung with those Chips let it lye so three or four daies and you will see a strange alteration Another way Take out a Bucket full and boyl it or rather a Bucket of good Wine and pour it boiling hot into the corrupted Vessel instead of what you took out and stop it close and in the aforesaid time it will come to it self For Wine that is decayed by too much vent or sour Stir the Wine through the bung with a stick without touching the Lee then pour in a pound of good Aqua Vitae let it lye ten days and it will come to it self Wine that has taken vent is also recovered by putting into the Pot before you drink it a crust of Bread burning hot To recover Wine that tastes of the Cask Rack all the Wine off upon a good Lee then put down in a linnen Bag four ounces of Laurel-berries in Powder with some filings of Steel at bottom to make the Bag sink let it down to the middle of the Cask and as you draw the Wine let it down lower To recover Wine that is turned The Water of Saturn or red Litharge recovers Wine that is turn'd that is Red-wine and white Litharge for White-wine To take away the musty smell of Wine You must make a long piece of Dough like a stick and half bake it in the Oven take out it and stick it with Cloves and put it in the Oven till thoroughly baked then hang it within your Cask so that it touch not the Wine you may also throw it into the Cask and it will take away the ill smell To prevent Wine from turning Put one pound of Lead melted and thrown into Water into your Cask For Wine that smells soure or bitter Boyl about half a peck of Barley in four pints of Water till half be consumed strain and put it into the Cask at the Bung stirring it with a stick without touching the Lee. To soften a green Wine Put into a pint of such Wine one drop of Vinegar soaked with Litharge and it will lose its greenness For Wine that is turned Put into the Cask some Spirit of Tartar For green Wine Boyl some Honey to draw out the Wax and strain it through a Cloth put two pints of it to a Teirce which will make it very good If it be in Summer and you find any danger of it turning put in a stone of unslack'd Lime To preserve Wine from souring Take Sand out of a River in March wash it well and dry it in the Sun and throw two Porringers full of it into a Teirce of Wine with two pints of Water Another way Take about St. Martin's day a Teirce of Wine and boyl it till but one third be left and of this Wine put four pints or thereabouts into each of your other Casks with two bits of Frankincense about as big as Walnuts and stop them close To make Wine fine Put into a Vessel two pints of Milk well boyl'd and scummed that all the Cream may be off To make a Muscadine Wine You must infuse the flowers of Clary in the Cask or else put in a little bag of Elder-flowers To make Wine sweet It must be filled upon the Lee and lay at the bottom of the Cask half a pound or more according to the bigness of the Vessel of Mustard-seed in Powder To make it black Put in a couple of Pewter-pots when the new Wine boyls up For White-wine that is turn'd deep coloured You must stir the Wine and Lee together and take out five pints in which dissolve a peck of Wheat-flower which put in at the Bung then add half a pint of Aqua Vitae and let it settle three days To make new unsettled Wine very good Take about a pint of Wheat which boyl in a quart of Water till it burst so that touching it with your finger all the flower fall out squeese it in a new Cloth put a quart of this Water into the quantity of two Teirces of White-wine when it boyls up at the same time put in a little Bag somewhat long full of dry Elder-flowers To make White-wine red and red white Take ashes of white Briony to make Red-wine white and one the contrary ashes of black Briony to make white red Probatum To make Malmsie Take of the best English Galingale Clove and Ginger one dram beat it all not too small and infuse it twenty four hours in Aqua Vitae in a woodden Vessel close stopped then put all into a Cloth which hang by a thread in the Cask containing a load and half of Claret leave it there three days and you will have as good and
strong a Wine as the natural Malmsie To make Rose Vinegar in an hour Green Bramble-berries put into good Wine makes Vinegar in an hour To make Rose Vinegar immediately Take green Black-berries common Roses of each four ounces Barberies one ounce dry all in the shade and beat to fine Powder when you would use it put about a quarter of an ounce to half a glass of Claret or White-wine mix and let it stand a Moment then strain it Another way in an hour Take pure Flower of Rye and steep it in good Vinegar make it into a thin Cake which bake in the Oven and beat to Powder and steep again in strong Vinegar do this three times over then put the said cake into about a quarter Cask of Wine which will soon grow sharp A sort of Vinegar used by the deceased Monsieur Gr. the Connestable of France Take one pound of the best and newest Raisins of the Sun and take out the Seeds then put them into an earthen glazed Pot with a quart of good Rose-vinegar and let it infuse a whole Night upon warm Embers in the Morning make it boil a little after 't is taken from the Fire and cold strain and keep it in a Bottle close stopped An admirable sort of Vinegar Vinegar is made in three hours if you steep the Root of Beets in Wine and comes to it self again if you add Cabbage Root Admirable Curiosities in Painting Varnishing c. CHAP. XVI How to calcine Azure BEat your Azure into fine Powder and boil it with distilled Vinegar till the Vinegar be consumed then lay your Azure upon the Fire-shovel hot and dry it thereon upon a sheet of Paper then grind it with Nut-oyl and use it To calcine Lamp-black and make it better Take a Fire-shovel which make red hot and lay the black upon it and when it has done smoaking it is enough it may be used with Gum water and ought not to be ground when used with Oyl A finer Lamp black then what is commonly bought It must be made with Lamps of Oyl laying something close over to receive the Smoak A black of Sheeps-feet Take what quantity of Sheeps-feet you think fit calcine them in a Crucible and quench them in a wet Cloth grind them in Water before you add any Gum this black will mix with Lake and Umber for Carnation in Miniature or Water painting A fine white for Water-colours Take an ounce of fine Silver in small bits like shot or as it comes from the Mine which dissolve in Aqua fortis for twenty four hours being dissolved and that it looks like Christal at the bottom of the Glass cast off the Aqua fortis and wash the Silver well in fair common Water five or six times till no strength of the Aqua fortis be left in it to try which lay it upon your Tongue then set it a drying in a little earthen Pot for Use it must be dissolved in Gum-water with a little water of Sugar candy A very fine white of Eggs. Take a great earthen Pot glazed and a Plate of new Lead that may reach two inches over the edges put into the Pot two pound of Mutton-Suet of that which is about the Kidnies cut into small pieces as big as Nuts then add to it a dozen of new laid Eggs and three pints of the strongest Vinegar lay the Plate upon the Pot and close it round with Paper glewed that nothing may evaporate put it into a temperate place neither hot nor cold after fifteen daies take off your Plate to which you will find a great deal of white sticking which scrape off gently with a Knife and put another pint of strong Vinegar into the Pot throw off the Eggs and put in as many fresh ones and cover the Pot as before after fifteen daies take up the Plate and take off the white that sticks do this as long as you think fit afterwards take the white and put it into a Pot that is not glazed pour over it a pint of Water and dissolve all by stirring it and the Water will be like Milk which pour into another Pot and filtrate and there will remain a very good white upon what remains in the Pot pour another Water wash as the first time and filtrate in the same manner you will have another white which will not be quite so good as the first Note that in pouring off and filtrating the Water you must be careful the settlement does not go off with it for that settlement is useless and therefore to be thrown away To make extraordinary fine white Lead Take the best chosen white Lead in Scales grind them well upon a stone with Vinegar and it will turn black then take a Pot full of Water wash your white Lead very well let it settle and pour off the Water by inclination grind it again with Vinegar and wash again doing the same three or four times and you will have an excellent white as well for Water-colours as painting in Oyl How to make Vltra Marine of Lapis Lazuli Take a pound of Lapis and calcine it in a Crucible covered with Oyl when it is well calcined throw it into Vinegar to make it break then being dryed pound it in a Brass Mortar and grind it upon a shell with Nut or spike Oyl which is better grind it very fine and not too thin Then for one pound of the said Lapis take a pound of Linseed Oyl one pound of white Wax one pound of Rosin a pound of Burgundy Pitch a pound of Turpentine half a pound of Colophonium put all these things into a new Pot melt them gently over a small Fire so that they may not boil alwaies stirring them with a stick till they are well mixed then put in your Paste of Lapis and with a wooden Slice take out the Composition laying it upon a Table turning it up and down then you must have a little Cock running with luke-warm Water upon your Paste which will drive out the Ultra Marine which must be received into an earthen Pot placed under the Table then pour off the water by inclination or filtrate as you think fit repeat this often with warm water and you will have the best Ultra Marine Another way to extract Vltra Marine Make your Lapis Lazuli red hot in a Crucible and quench it in good Vinegar two or three times then you may pound it with ease in a Mortar next grind it with Linseed Oyl upon a stone and some Spirit of Wine both which must have been first upon Embers in a Glass Bottle and very well stirred together before they are poured upon the Lapis to grind it which being reduced to impalpable Powder incorporate with the following cement Take two ounces of Linseed Oyl Turpentine Mastick Assa soetida Colophonium the same quantity Wax and Rosin of Firr three ounces boil all this for a quarter of an hour in a glazed Pot then strain it through a Cloth
letting it drop into fair Water this is a Cement of which you must take one part and as much Lapis which beat and incorporate together in an earthen Pot glazed then pour fair water over it and let it lye a quarter of an hour then stir the Composition hard with a wooden Slice and within a quarter of an hour you will see a blue water which pour off into another glazed Pot pour more water upon your Composition continuing stirring and changing Waters till it gives no more colour Note that you must pour no water upon the Ingredients but what must be hot then evaporate all your blue waters and there will remain the true Ultra Marine producing four ounces out of each pound and almost all the rest in blue Ashes Excellent Greens Take as much Verdigreece as you think fit and grind it with Vinegar and put it into Dough of houshold Bread and bake it then break open your Loaf and take out your Verdigreece which mix with Water or Oyl and grind it and it will be very excellent A green to be kept in a Bladder useful for Limning and Colouring Take Buck-thorn-berries which must be gathered the latter end of August when they are ripe they must be beaten and made boil seven or eight daies in a hot place they will boil of themselves and become like sweet Wine add some water to make it clearer that done strain it through a Cloth squeesing the feces as much as you can and sprinkle the expression with powdered Allum more or less as you shall see convenient some add Vinegar but it is much longer a drying and is ruddy it must be kept in a Bladder in the shade or Chimney and that done it will keep very well this Buck-thorn-berry grows along the Hedges in Avignon To make a very beautiful liquid Green Take a pound of Verdigreece and half a pound of white Tartar of Montpelier in Powder mix them together and steep them one Night in a quart of good Vinegar which boil till half be consumed then having setled two daies pour it off by inclination into a Glass-bottle or filtrate to use it in colouring and glaze over Buck-thorn-berry use Gum Ammonicak and Saffron to stiffen it being mixed with juice of Berries the aforesaid Green and Azure you may make several Greens To make the green of Berries Take four ounces of Buck-thorn-berries which beat and boil in two or three pints of water leaving it till half be consumed then strain all through a Cloth and put into that Liquour as much Ceruse in fine Powder as you think fit then make it up into Balls and dry them upon Tiles when dry stiffen them with Gum. It will be the better for mixing with it some water of Gum Ammoniack Vermilion in Stone Cinaber or Vermilion is made the more beautiful by mixing with it when it is ground some Water of Gum Ammoniack with a little Saffron and it does not grow black For Red and other Colours Vermilion prepared as above For Orange colour mix a little red Lead For Yellow the best Orpiment well ground in Water then put in little parcels upon Paper as must be done with all other colours to dry them When it is very dry and in small Powder you may use it For a Greediline boil Lyons Sorrel alone in Water the thickest and deepest coloured you can which is used to colour White-lead already ground and dryed grind it again with this Tincture then dry and grind it again with the same and do it over as often as you think fit being thus ground and powdered it must be incorporated with the others to colour To make fine Prints look like Oyl Painting Glew the white edges of your Print upon a frame as when you make Chases for Windows before you glew it moisten it well with water that it may stretch as it dryes upon the Frame then take Oyl of Turpentine or any other that is not yellow and rub over the Print when it is dry lay on your Colours ground in Oyl and lay them upon the back of your Print as if you would paint upon a Cloth except that they must be layed on plain without shadowing because the stroaks of the Graver that shadow the Print work that effect that done on the printed side where there is no colour lay on some fine drying Vernish which is that of Venice or the white Vernish and it will appear like a real Picture upon Cloth Note that the Flesh-colour must be done the nearest that may be as if you painted upon Cloth because the colour lying under must express the true colour of Flesh How to wash old Paintings and give them a good Gloss Take one ounce of Tartar and as much white Glass wort which boil in a pint of water till half be consumed which strain and rub the Picture presently with the Water and a Spunge the water must be luke-warm then immediately wash it with warm fair Water and wipe it over To vernish them Take an ounce of clear Venice Turpentine with an ounce and half of Spirit of Turpentine and three or four ounces of drying Vernish mix all in a Glass Vial and dissolve it in Balneo Mariae when cold strike it over the Picture with a Pensil Another way Take whites of Eggs beat them to a froth with a Fig-tree Twig with the thin rub the Picture To cleanse smooth Painting Rub them with a Spunge dipped in Lye made of Vine Branches burnt or mix equal parts of it and Urine To make Flanders Images Take four ounces of Verdigreece in Powder which put into a glazed Pot with a quart of Water and stirr it well with a stick letting it infuse three Daies and three Nights shaking it now and then then strain it through a Cloth four times double in this water dissolve Fish-glew upon a little Fire taking care it grow not too thick then pour it upon your Moulds with an edging of Wax about them To make them yellow take Saffron with a little Roch-allum If red Brazile infused in Water For to make Gold or Silver Images put into your Glew Shell-Silver or Gold and your Glew being dissolved you must strain the Feces through a Cloth before you lay all upon the Mould How to take off any Design without pricking or pouncing of it which is called Tracing Rub the back of your Design or Print with red black or Chalk if it were to be drawn upon black and strike over all the Lines with a blunt point and the Paper underneath will be very well drawn but if you will not rub the Print you may do the sheet of Paper lay it under the Print and strike over the Lines without spoiling it To write burnished Gold Letters upon Vellum as well as the Ancients Take an ounce of fine Bole-Armoniack two drams of fine Vermilion one dram of black Lead and half a dram of Jet and as much white Lead all being ground together mix with the white of
an Egg beaten to a froth and let it lye till next day take that which runs in which steep four or five Quince-seeds a whole day that being somewhat thick let it dry when you would use it dissolve it in fair water and grind all well together you must scrape a little Soap upon it if you use the bigness of a Nut of Bole Armoniack put the bigness of a Pea of Soap write with a Pen and let the Writing dry then strike it over with a Pensil dipped only in fair water and lay upon it the Leaf or Shell-gold when it is thoroughly dry polish it with a Tooth but observe it must be very dry before you rub it and the best way is to let it lye a day Take a very smooth white Paper and put the sleekest side upon the Gold then polish it over the Paper that it may be well united take off the Paper and rub it without and it will be very beautiful To make excellent Creyons and as hard as Vermilion invented by Prince Rupert Take some white Clay as it is prepared to make Tobacco Pipes which grind upon a stone with fair water as thick as Paste and take what colours you will each by it self grind them dry upon the stone the finest you can then sift them through a very fine Cloth and mix each of the Colours with the said Paste according as you design to make the Creyons deep or pale in colour and mix with it a little Honey and Gum Arabick-water at Discretion Note that of each colour you must make some deeper then others that they may serve for shadowing then take each Paste by it self and make it up into little rouls as thick as your Finger or Thumb roul them between two Boards well joyned to bring them to the thickness you desire for use that done lay them a drying upon a clean Board or upon Paper without Fire or Sun for two daies then to dry them thoroughly lay them in the Sun or before the Fire and when dry they will be fit for use This is a very good and rare Receipt for this purpose To preserve Silver upon Wood or Plaster and prevent its turning Red. Wash it every Month with Water-glew made as above with a Pensil Ho to gild Lead or white Lattin or any other thing provided you tin it over first Take black Pitch Oyl of Turpentine two ounces Rosin a very little melt all upon the Fire and make a Vernish which strike over your Work To soften Ivory and Bones Take Roch Allum and melt it in water over the Fire then put in one part of Rose-water and of fine sifted Ashes and let the Ivory and Bones steep therein twenty four hours and they will grow soft boyling them in fair Water they will return to their former hardness To draw without Ink or Creyons Rub your Paper with Tripoly To hinder Beech from cracking upon the Fire You must boil it in fair Water Divers sorts and imitations of Marble and Jasper Stone and how to repair decayed Marble CHAP. XVII To make very good Marble or Jasper Stone TAke unslacked Lime which dissolve with Whites of Eggs and Linseed Oyl of it make several Balls into one put Lake to make it red your Lake must be in very fine Powder in another Azure for blue in another Verdigreece for green and so of other Colours keeping one or two white squeeze all these Balls flat and lay them one upon another the white ones in the middle then with a Knife cut slices all the length of the Paste and having cut it all mix all the slices in a Mortar and beat them when thus mixed you will have a fine Jasper stone take it and with a Masons Trowel or your Hands spread it upon the Place you design it for striking it over till you see it sticks being polished if you have not before put Oyl to it but only the Whites of Eggs boil some and lay it scalding hot upon the Work running it all over as long as it drys in for the Oyl will soak in and give it a good Gloss but if you put in the Linseed Oyl at first to dissolve the Lime there is no need of adding any more that done dry your Work in the Shade Of this Jasper you may make Chaplets the Work whereof being cast in a Mould you must lay them in a Pot full of Linseed Oyl where they will dry and vernish For black Jasper Take Water of unslacked Lime and Aqua fortis and rinds of green Walnuts dissolve and mix all together then taking this black which is very good lay it with a Brush upon what you desire to imitate Jasper that done set your Work black as it is in the Smoak for eight daies then take it out and it will be all marbled Another way Make your black into a great Ball and leave it the same time in the Smoke and with that rub your Column or other Work as above and whether you use the one way or the other when your Work is marbled you must vernish it to give it a gloss The Vernish of these marbled Jaspers is set down at large in the Chapter of Vernishes in the fifth Paragraph To counterfeit Marble Take white Plaster well beaten powdered and sifted and make Parchment Glue when it is melted dissolve your Plaster in it till it comes to a Paste in which mix what Colours you please and spread it upon a Table with a Trowel laying it as smooth as you can let it dry fifteen daies when dry polish it with a Pumice stone pretty hard at first afterwards more gently sprinkling it with fine Tripoly then rub it with a Hone and at last with a piece of Oxes Hide to make it shine and it is done To whiten Alabaster and white Marble Beat some Pumice stone into fine Powder and infuse it in Verjuice twelve hours or thereabouts then take a Spunge and dip it therein with which rub your Alabaster or white Marble then take fair Water and with a Cloth wash them and lastly wipe them dry with a clean Cloth To white-wash Plaster Walls It must be supposed the Wall is very well plastered with very fine Plaster well layed after which you may whiten it with Lime-milk very clear as shall hereafter be described The Wall should be very well wetted with Water for all the Secret consists in the White not drying too fast but rather very slowly which gives the Lime time to fasten drying leisurely and thus the Walls will neither whiten your Hands nor your Clothes If there were any Dirt upon the Wall it ought to be scraped off the same upon Free-stone and strike it over equally two or three times Within an hour or two strike it over with the Palm of your hand and it will polish like Marble The best Lime-milk is made after the Lime has been a long time slack'd into which having put a sufficient quantity of Water it must be stirred
till it make a white Froth on the top which must be immediately taken off and kept for Use The last passing over it ought to be with Milk of unslack'd Lime that the white may be the glossier Another way It must be done over with Lime and Black well layed by the Rule and Plummet and be rubbed over smooth then whiten it three or four times together with Lime-milk the first white must be very clear the second somewhat thicker and the third more putting to it more or less Water as you think fit This way may be called cold Whitening and is the best most beautiful and quickest of all To rub and colour Plaster-Cielings or Floors You must scrape it very well then take Urine and Soot of a Chimney or of an Oven is better mix and dissolve it well letting it infuse two days then with a brush or rubber rub the Floors and let them dry before you walk over them when dry rub them go over them again with a rubbing brush as you do boarded Floors CHAP. XVIII To Dye white Martins Skins of long Hair of a very good Black that never fades BOyl two pound of fresh Galls over a gentle Fire with two ounces of Beef-marrow in an earthen Pot close stopped often shaking it lest the Galls burn letting it boyl till the Pot makes no noise when you stir it which beat and strain then take half a pound of it and three ounces of green Coperis three ounces of Roman Allum two ounces of Litharge one ounce of Verdigreece one ounce of Sumack one ounce of Sal Armoniac each beaten by it self then mix them together boyl and keep it to Dye Note That before you apply the Dye you must wash the Skin two or three times in very clear and clean Lime-water and when you apply the Dye let it be with a Pensil against the grain of the Hair and the other way if requisite These Skins when dry differ not from Sables All the Powders being together must be put upon the fire without any other Liquor for they will melt and boyl the Verdigreece may be left out but it does no harm To make the Spanish Carnation Take bastard Saffron wash it well dry it and beat it being beaten to one pound of it add a quarter of Tartar burnt and grind all together then put all into a double course linnen bag and just warm a quarter of a pint of Lemmon juyce which pour upon the said Saffron put in that which you would dye and it will take the colour You must first boyl the Stuff you would dye in Allum water then wash and dry it and put into the dye To make excellent red Paper Take half a pound of bastard Saffron which wash in a bag by the River side till it hardly gives any colour put what 's left into a Bason sprinkling it with the powder of Glass-wort one ounce and put it into a little bucket of luke-warm water alwayes stirring it after straining it add a little juyce of Lemmons which gives it the red colour it must be fine Paper and dip'd in the said Bason To Marble Paper Grind your Colours as Lake Mastick Azure yellow Oker red Lead red Oker and others with the Gall of an Ox then fill an earthen Bason full of luke-warm water and with a stick turn it round till it work at the same time let your Colours be ready and taking a little of each with a thick Pensil touch the middle of the Water and you will see all the Colours spread then presently with another Pensil or Feather take another Colour with which touch the Water in the same place as before and so presently set in all the Colours whilst the Water is stirring and goes round when it stops you will see it all spread with sundry Colours then lay your Paper upon the water and without dipping of it take up your Sheet drawing it over the Water to the edge of the Bason then lift dry and burnish it The Paper must be good and the water prepared with Gum-Dragacanth CHAP. XIX To restore Tapistry to its first beauty when the Colours are decayed SHake and cleanse the Tapistry very well then take a hard Hair Brush to take off the Fullers-earth that must be spread all over it after it has been on seven or eight hours that being off put on more again and having left it on the same time take it off after the same manner Then shake the said Tapistry and beat it very well with a Switch to drive out the Dust next cleanse it well with a Brush and it will return to its former beauty To restore the Colour to Turkish Carpets Beat them well with a Stick till all the dust be out and if they have any Ink spots rub them with Lemmon Juice and let them soak well then wash them well in fair Water and strike the backside till all the Water be out when it is very dry take the Crum of white-bread hot and rub the Carpet then choose one or two fair Nights and hang out your Carpets in the dew To restore Gold or Silver Lace to its former Beauty Take the Gall of an Ox and the Gall of a Pike mix them in fair Water and rub your Gold or Silver and you will find it change Colour How to drive away Fleas Punaises and other Insects CHAP. XX. To destroy the Punaises TAke Juice of Worm wood and common Oyl enough of each which boil together till all the Juice be consumed then strain the Oyl and cast it into live Sulphur and with this Oyl rub the Bed and Craneys Otherwise Take the Gall of an Ox and Oyl of Hemp-seed mix them together and rub the joints and wood of the Bed and where you have rubbed never any Punice will come Item Rub the Wood with the Juice of old Cucumbers that are let run to seed Another way Steep Oxes Liver in strong Vinegar and wash your Bed-stead and lay some great Comfrey under your Boulster Probatum Item Take some Cypress Nuts and beat them then infuse in Oyl which must be two fingers above them and leave them in the Sun and the Evening Air for forty eight hours and having strained the Oyl squeezing out the said Nuts very well rub your Bed-stead To destroy the Fleas Upon a pound of white Copperas pour a Bucket of Water and when the Copperas is sunk sprinkle your Chamber with that Water Otherwise Sprinkle the Chamber with Decoction of Rue mixed with Asses Piss Probatum Another way for the same which is also good against the Punices the Wezils in Corn and Worms in Trunks Dry black Hellebore and strow it in your Chamber as you would do Flowers or in your Bed or among Corn or Cloths and none of the aforesaid things will hurt them Probatum For Moths in Cloths The Herb called Botris dryed and layed among Cloths keeps them from Moths and Worms Another way Candles made of Mutton Grease wrapped in Paper and
the Rroots of Orris or Wormwood are very good For Punaises Boil Coloquintida with Rue and Water wash the Bed-sted therewith and no Punices will come To destroy Flies Put Leaf Tobacco into a Pot and infuse it in Water twenty four hours then add Hony and boil it an hour and strew over it some Flower in the manner of Sugar that draws the Flies and all that taste it certainly die Another way Take what quantity you think fit of Citrul or Gourd-leaves pound them to extract the Juice with which wash the Walls or other thing you desire to preserve from the Flies and they will not come there for certain you may rub a Horses Thighs and Belly to the same intent To drive Mice from the House Take Vervain and steep it in Water letting it infuse twenty four hours then strew it about the House and the Mice will fly Of House-keeping CHAP. XXI How to make Bread much more substantial than ordinary WHen you would make Bread take the Bran which has been boulted off put it into a Kettle of Water and make it boil then strain and make your Bread with that white Water and it will be much more substantial and you will have a quarter more Bread than the common way Another sort of Bread which besides being better keeps above a Month longer than ordinary Take Pompions and boil them in fair Water till the water grow thick and with that water make your Bread which will be very good and will increase a quarter and keep a Month longer than the common Bread Probatum A sort of Bread of which a Mouthful can maintain a Man eight daies without eating any thing else Take a quantity of Snails and make them void their sliminess then dry and reduce them to fine Powder of which make a Loaf with a Mouthful of which a Man may be eight days without eating To grease any creaking in Wood. Rub it with Soap and that is enough An unluckey way to hinder making of Butter Put powdered Sugar into the Cream whereof the Butter is to be made How to make a great deal of Cream Take a red Snail and hang him by a Thread in the middle of the Vessel wherein the Milk is and all that is above the Snail will turn to Cream To bring up Fowl You must have some of the Lees of Wine that remain in the Fat after drawing off the Wine mix it well with Bran then make a hole in the Ground into which lay the said Lees and Bran in Layers one upon another over all a Layer of fat Earth then one of Lee mixed with Bran and so continue to the last Layer To fatten all sorts of Fowl in fifteen days whether Hens Geese Ducks or others from All-Hallows till Lent Take Nettle leaves and Seed gathered and â—ryed in the proper Season which beat to Powder and sift when you would use it make it into a Paste with Wheat-Bran or Flower making it up with Dish-water for want of it with warm Water give it to your Fowl once a day and you will see the effect Another way to fatten Fowl First put them into a Coop and three times a day give them to eat a sort of Paste made of two parts Barley and one of black Wheat or Millet ground together the Flower sifted and the Bran taken off of which make bits rather long then round of a convenient size and give them seven or eight a day and in fifteen days or thereabouts they will be very fat To fatten Turkicocks and Pullets as is used at Laval You must Coop them up as is said of other Fowl then feed them with Nettles mixed with Bran and hard Eggs viz. Two Eggs a time three times a day you must make it up for them like Pills of the bigness of a Nut. To hinder Worms from coming to Corn. Lay Lees of Wine in the four corners of your Loft and Barn An excellent way to whiten Linnen as is used in Flanders You must first wash the Linnen as it comes from the Loom in hot water to cleanse it then put it into Lye made of good strong Ashes with Roots of Wallwort the Lye being made and the Cloth well washed in fair water and with black Soap hang it out in the Air and the Dew upon the Grass sprinkling it in the Sun and so leave it seven or eight days and it will be very white but if you think it not white enough put it into the Lye again and it will be perfect Another way that is used at Laval in Britany When the Linnen comes from the Weaver it must be soaked in hot Water then wash it very well to take off the stifness of it then dry and wash it again in luke-warm water then dip it in Cows Dung dissolved in hot water and leave it thore twenty four hours then wash it again in warm water and leave it four or five daies out in the Dew sprinkling it in the Sun them put it into Lye and within eight or ten days it will be very white Curiosities in Gardening Fruits and Flowers CHAP. XXII To make Herbs grow quickly TAke Ashes of the Moss of Trees and Dung well worked together which sprinkle with the moisture comes from a Dunghill several times and dry it so often at the Sun till there comes from it a fat cloggy Earth which keep in some earthen glaz'd Pot that is very hard Earth for those of common Earth suck in the Fat use it in Summer and Winter If it be in Winter put the Earth into an earthen Pot stir and work it well sprinkling it with moisture of Dung till it be so wet that it looks like Earth that you would sow being thus prepared set it upon a Chafindish giving it a Heat like that of July being brought to that Heat sow your Seeds to wit Purslane and Lettice having first moistened it a whole Night in the heat with the moisture of rotten Dung being these Seeds are sowed upon the top of the Earth sprinkle as you find the Earth dry with warm Rain-water in less than two hours these Seeds will produce every one in its kind enough to make a good Sallade to eat and by the like industry you may make Plants bud and bear Fruit and Flower without the help of the Sun even out of Season How to preserve Grafts They must be layed into Lattin Pipes and covered with Honey and thus they will keep four Months To drive Moles out of a Garden Make a bundle of green Hemp which bury in a Hole two or three foot deep and cover it over with Earth and as it rots away it will stink so that all the Moles will either dye or run away For the same Strew about some Hogs-dung To make Caterpillers fall off Trees Fill a new Pot with burning Coals and put in some Frankincense and black Gum hold the Pot under the Branches where the Caterpillers are the said Smoak will make them fall and
all in Water to a convenient thickness and cast it as in the Chapter of Fishes in Plaister but be sure to run it but at one place to prevent its gathering wind and that it be of a fit thick-to run this done take away the Circle of Earth turning up your Mould and Fish together letting it so lye about a quarter of an hour or more to dry or till you think the Plaister is set when dry grease the edge of that first Joynt which must always be uppermost when you run the second make the Circle of Earth and run the Plaister the other part of the Fish being lightly oyl'd with a piece of Cotton in an hour or two open the Mould take out the Fish and set the Mould to be perfectly dry when 't is so take a Skin of Wax Potters Earth or Paste rouling it as you do Covers for Tarts then lay it on the Mould and with your Thumb press it into every part of the hollow Mould making one hole under the Head to put the end of an Iron Tunnel into and another near it for the breathing place about the size of a Tag or great Pin then take some ends of brass wier tin'd over somewhat bigger than a Needle thrust these Wiers into the most convenient places to support the Kernel or inner Mould every Wier going through the Wax Clay or Paste till it touch the Plaister this done joyn the Mould and tye it put the Tunnel into the Hole pour in the prepar'd Plaister taking care it be not too thick being dry open the Mould take off the Plaister or Earth and and leave the Kernel or middle Mould to dry at leisure being dry bake it in a slow Fire till it be red hot then cover it with ashes and let it cool by degrees then take the two Moulds bind them with small iron Wier neal'd then plaister up the Joynts with Potters Earth put all in a small Fire to bake slowly untye it and cover it with Ashes and leave it to cool having first stopt both the holes that nothing get in then make a Git or casting place in form of a Tunnel more than four Fingers high above the Head of the Fish the Mould being hot as you can possibly handle without burning your Fingers your Tin mixt with one fourth of Lead and melted to a convenient heat which is known by putting a piece of Paper into it if it burn 't is too hot if only scorch't 't is well if not scorch't 't is not hot enough being thus heated cast it into the Mould and you 'l have a perfect Fish without repairing not wanting the thinnest Scale then with an Iron Rod empty the Kernel through a Hole which you must make in the most convenient place afterwards stopping it by sodering a piece to it that the water get not into it if you desire to put it in the Water and that it should stay at the Bottom fill it full of Sand befor you close it up if at the top fix a piece of Cork so that it be equally pois'd then make a Counterpoise of Lead which you must stick with Wax and Turpentine melted together till you find the Fish right upon the Water then soder the Lead mix a little Tinglass with the Soder to make it run thin and 't is done if you 'd have it in the middle of the Water stick a small brass Wier coloured with black Oyl to the Fish and the other end of it to the Botton of the Tub or Cistern at what degree of height you think fit To paint the Fish that the water may not deface them In colouring proceed according to former Directions but use not the drying Varnish this following being much stronger boyl Linseed-Oyl over a gentle Fire put into it some fine Mastick till so much be dissolved in it as will reduce it to the thickness of liquid Varnish with this you may also mix your Colours which will make them wonderfully durable A most impenetrable Varnish against the Water Take Linseed-Oyl put it in an earthen Pot well glaz'd upon a chaffing-Dish of hot Coals add about a fourth of Rosin which boyl together very gently lest it run over at first 't will smoke and bubble but in continuing the boyling 't will all fall continue boyling till it be so thick as to rope or thread like Varnish when you have taken it off if too thin add more Rosin with this varnish your Fish or any thing else and dry it in the Sun Of such strength is this Varnish that neither cold nor hot Water can any way hurt it when dry take care the Rosin be very clean and that it boyl enough CHAP. VII To cast all sorts of little Animals as Lizards c. and all sorts of Flowers and Leaves that are not too thin IF you would cast a Lizard in Silver or Tin prepare your Plaister with Brick and Plume Alum make a Bed of Potters Earth in which make a hollow place with your Finger to set the Lizard half way in and with some Instrument set up the Earth against the sides of it not so as to press it or alter the form set it in what manner you will whether two or three twisted together or otherwise then temper your Plaister with water in which three or four ounces of Sal Armoniac or more has been dissolved cast it upon the Lizard being dry turn it upside down and if you find the Plaister has gone beyond the Belly so as to hinder its coming out or that the Feet or other parts are covered take it gently and carefully off with the point of a Pen-Knife then oyl the oynt of the Mould make a Circle of Earth and cast again leaving it a day to dry then open it take out the Lizard and leave it a day to dry tie it with iron Wier and bake it as in the Chapter of Fishes pour in the Tin and you have a Lizard not at all differing from the Original If you would have them of Silver the Mould must be red hot when you run the Metal which ought to be mixt with a little but very little Copper if it be a very large Adder make an inner Mould as is taught in the Chapter of Fishes To cast the same sort of Animals after another manner If you 'd cast Butter-Flies Flowers or Lizards so as no Seam or Joynt shall appear having plac'd the thing you intend cast the Plaister as above being dry without oyling the Joynts cast again being dry bake it till 't is red hot that the Lizard or Flower may be burnt the Mould being cold open it at the Joynt and with the point of a Needle or Feather take out the Bones or Ashes very gently then joyn your Mould and run the Silver or Tin having made the Git or Casting place as long as you well can if you would not open the Mould do after this manner before you mould off the Lizard or other Animal stick
Medals of Plaister Take Soap of Alicant which is white scrape it in thin pieces put it in a glaz'd Pot with some Water and with your Finger temper it by little and little till it be all turned into Water about the consistence of thick Milk let it settle about a week or more covering it from the Dust then with a soft short Brush wash the Plaister setting it at some distance from the Fire to dry by degrees being dry rub it gently with a Cloth setting it in a good Light the better to discern where to pollish thus will your Plaister become bright as Alablaster To make a Size to lay Leaf-Gold or Silver or Copper or Tin upâ—n Figures of Plaister that will not sink into them Take Oyl of Nuts boyl it with Lytharge till it become thick then grind with Water White Lead and Yellow Ocre each a like quantity very fine when dry grind it with the same Oyl then lay it on with a Pencil pretty long with a stiff point keeping it always covered in Oyl to preserve the point small and plyant and in laying on the Size move your Pencil to and fro to even the Size when dry enough to guild lay on your Leaf-Gold or Silver with a pair of wooden Pincers or a piece of white Paper cutting it on a Cushion according to the manner of Gilders CHAP. XVIII A most exquisite way of casting all sorts of Figures TAke a pound of new Wax a third of Colophony melt them at a slow Fire let them cool so long as that you may endure some of it on your Hand without burning it then having oyled your Figure with Sallad Oyl with a Brush cover it all over if it be a living Face cover the Hair of the Eye-lids and Eye-brows with Paste as also the Beard then with a Brush nimbly cover the Face about the thickness of a Half-crown being careful not to stop the Nostrils and that the Person squeeze not his Eyes together which will render the Face deformed thus having your Face of Wax take it gently off then strengthen it with Clay on the backside that in pouring in the Plaister it may not give way Thus may you cast all sorts of Faces Laughing Weeping Grimaces or Wry Faces also Feet Hands Fruit Fish or any thing else dividing the Mould into two pieces with a warm Knife then joyn them and fortifie them with Potters Earth than this no way of casting is neater I have often taken thus living Faces and with a small Gouge opening the Eyes afterwards all which you may colour to the Lise this way of casting is very fit for Painters Engravers and Carvers to cast patterns CHAP. XIX To Figure or inlay with Figures any thing that is made of Wood. THis is done with Mother of Pearl by breaking the Shells and cutting them according to the Figures you design inlaying them after you have with Gouges cut your Wood thus may you imitate all sorts of Fruits for you will find some Purple others Blew Green Yellow so that if you would imitate a black Grape the Leaf of a Tree or other Fruit you have a suitable Colour make a small hole through every piece pinning it with a small piece of Silver Wier to make it stick fast then take Linseed Oyl and Orcanet rub it well and wipe off the Oyl clean when dry varnish it with the drying Varnish hereafter mentioned also not oyling it you may make very fine compartiment Work in fine Threads that will look like Silver thus make a Set of small Gonges of all sorts very sharp with these having cut your design take Tin melt it adding to it as much Quick-Silver stir it with a Stick being cold put it in the palm of your hand if it be too soft add a little more Tin grind this Composition with water upon a Marble put it into a Shell and keep this Composition to fill up the Engravings or Cuttings which you have made with your Gonges when you have left it two or three hours to dry pollish it with your hand and it will look like Silver By adding more Quick-Silver you make a thinner Composition which with your Thumb you may rub into the Work you have cut till it be as bright as Silver instead of Tin you may mix Leaf-Silver with the Quick-Silver which will add to the beauty of your Work This is commonly practised upon black and coloured Wood pollishing them with a Tooth If you would have the Composition more beautiful grind Tin-Glass and wash it till it leaves the Water clear then mix it in a Shell with some Gum and with a Pencil fill up the Engravings after three or four hours drying quicken it with the Conposition of Mercury and Leaf-silver CHAP. XX. To make Wood of divers Colours For the Red. TAke Fernebourge half a pound or what other you think fit Rain-Water a handful of Quick-Lime two handfuls of Ashes when these have steep'd half an hour in the water and setled at the bottom take a new earthen Pot put in the Fernebourge with the Lee made of Lime and Ashes having steep'd half an hour boyl it and let it cool a little then pour it into another new Pot adding half an ounce of Gum Arabick take another Pot or Pan put in some rain-Rain-water and a piece of Allum make it boyl soak your Wood in this Allum Water take it out and dry it then warm your Red Colour and with a Brush rub it as long as you think fit dry it and with a Cows or Dogs Tooth pollish it and it will be shining and red as Scarlet Another excellent Red. Boyl Brazil in Rain Water till it be fully coloured strain it through a Cloth take heed no Iron either touch it nor come near it then give one laying of Saffron steep'd in water upon your Wood being thus of a pale Yellow and dry give it several layings of the Brazil Water till you like the Colour when dry burnish it with a Tooth and varnish it with drying Varnish with the Palm of the Hand and you will have a beautiful Red inclinable to Orange if you put a spoonful of Lee amongst the Brazil it will make the Red deeper or boyl it with a little Allum but the yellowing it improves the Colour and by how much the Wood is whiter by so much the more beautiful will the Colour be Another Red. Temper Brazil in Oyl of Tartar with which rub over the Wood and it will become of an excellent Red. To make a Violet Colour for Wood. Take Dutch Turnsole temper it in water and strain it through a Cloth before you use it on your Work try it on a little piece of white Wood to see if it be not too deep for 't is better to lay it on clear than deep having laid on the Colour put some of the same Colour to a quantity of water to make it very thin and with this wash it till it become bright dry burnish and varnish it
bak't Earth or Paste-board also to work in Gold or Silver burnisht or in Oyl with all sorts of Colours as well Bronze as others and to Stain and Varnish Boards of several sorts For Burnish't Gold MAke Glew of the cuttings of white Leather or Vellum which wash and boyl till it comes to a good thickness strain it through a Cloth take of this Glew and add to it a third part of Water boyl it and while 't is hot strike over your Wood being clean with a Brush do this three times each Course being first dry last of all give one laying of only Glew without Water then take Whiting grind or mix it in fair Water let it be thick enough then take your Glew in which throw your Whiting stirring it with a Stick till 't is cold taking especial care that it be neither too strong nor too weak being that on which the whole Work depends take a little off in a Pot to which pour a little of the weak Glew warm it a little at the Fire that it be almost as clear as Glew alone give a laying or two of this White upon your Work leaving them to dry one after another then give a laying of White a little thicker taking care it be not too hot which will occasion little holes or blisters use it therefore when 't is but just melted laying it gently and smoothly on working nimbly with the end of the Brush to stop the holes if any should happen you may give from four to eight layings on as you find cause be sure the Whiting be not too thick for if you guild carved or emboss'd Work you 'l hide all the fine Work of your Figure Being dry repair it with Fish-skin then rush it lastly smooth it with a wet fine linnen Cloth observe that the more even you make it and the freer it is from little holes or knots the more beautiful will the Gold be for the least defect in the White will be a great fault when gilt The Size to lay on the Gold Take Sanguine or Burnishing-Stone the reddest is the best grind it on a Marble with fair Water and to the quantity of a Pencil as big and as long as a Finger add about half the Yelk of an Egg which you must grind with it adding the quantity of a great Pea of white Soap then put your Colour in some Pot adding a convenient quantity of Water till it become about the thickness of Milk a little curdled for it must not be laid too thick How to lay this Size on Make tryal upon a piece of Board covered with the white Ground when the Size is laid on and that 't is dry rub it with a linnen Cloth if the Colour stick to it and leaves behind it upon your Work only the Flower of the Colour of your Size then 't is good but if you find it sticks not at all to the Cloth put a little more Water to it because there was too much Yolk of Egg if then in rubbing it your Cloth take off all the Colour from the White then add a little more Yolk mixing them all well together make another tryal and finding it in fit temper cover your Work and leave it to dry when you would lay on the Gold wet the place first with a large Pencil letting a drop or two run between the Leaf-Gold and the Size leaving your Work accordingly that it may run then leave it to dry before you burnish the whole try upon a corner if it peal not you may go on when burnisht rub it with a Cloth if any chance not to stick dissolve a very little of your Vellom Glew in a little Water by warming it touch the place and 't is done taking care that no greazy Cloth or Hands do touch your Gold Another more easie Size for Gold or Silver Take yellow Ocre of Berry English is as good provided it be not stony or sandy wrap it in a linnen Cloth tye it with a Thread and burn it in a red hot Fire till from Yellow it become of a red Colour the Fire having throughly penetrated all parts of it having also a care it be not too sharp a Fire then grind it well and make it of a sufficient thickness if it be hard to burnish add a little of the Yolk of an Egg and a very little white Soap and grind them together To Gild a Carved or Embolish'd Figure so that none of the finer Stroaks of the Work may be lost Having with boyling Glew washt over your Figure give it three or four Courses of Whiting very even being dry mix your Size as before directed and lay it on being dry burnish it then take Shell-Gold or Silver temper'd with weak Gum-Tragaganth Water or Arabick cover your Work with it and burnish with a Tooth Note that you may lay on Gold or Silver with one course of Whiting if it be Pencil Gold or Silver To Silver any thing over with Tin-Glass Grind Tin-Glass very fine wash it till it leave the Water clean mix it with the aforesaid Glew and use it when dry burnish this may be used without the aforesaid Size only laying it on the white Ground and your Work will appear like Silver Wash well your Tin-Glass glew it well burnish the white Grounds before you lay on the Tin-Glass and afterwards with a Paper between the Tooth and the Tin-Glass To Bronze with Copper Take Pin-dust grind it well and wash it till the Water be quite clear mix it with Glew as the Tin-glass lay it on the white Ground with a Pencil and burnish the same may be done with Antimony Another excellent way to Silver Figures Take Silver in Froth or Scum which the Refiners use to separate from Gold in washing the sweep of Gold-Smiths grind this Silver gum it a little and lay it on your Figure burnish it and you 'l find your emboss'd Figure well silver'd being laid on a white Ground and the Size us'd for burnisht Gold 't will be very fine appearing like Massy Silver To grind Gold to lay on Figures Reduce a piece of gold into small File-dust grind it on a marble when throughly ground wash it in a shell till the water be clear then with glew or gum lay it on the size as you did burnisht gold You may also melt gold with quick-silver evaporate the Mercury by encreasing the heat when cold beat it in a mortar then grind it and lay upon the size as as you did the burnisht gold then burnish it How to Bronze Your figure being whited and made smooth grind Cristal and Touchstone with water temper it with glew and lay it on your work instead of burnishing rub the metal of which colour you would have your figure rub it well and the invention will be very neat CHAP. XXII To discover Gold under a black Colour with an Ivory Point a great Secret and as beautiful as those things gilt in China HAving well burnisht your
Gold without fault grind Lamb-black with Linseed Oyl or Oyl of Nuts adding as much Umber as Black to make it dry then as much Spike-Oyl as Linseed Oyl make tryal with one Leaf of Gold burnisht lay the Black upon the Gold very smooth and even then dry about a day more or less according to the time if dry enough 't will not stick to your Fingers then take a Point of Ivory or Stags-Horn well sharpned rub it on a piece of Glass to take off the ruffness that it scratch not the Gold or the White then draw what you please with the Point discovering the Gold if it appear bright and shining and that the Black be not uneven and slovenly about the edges of the Stroaks you have made then is your Black in good temper but if in discovering the Gold it seem tarnish't your Black is not dry enough if the Black be troublesome to get off and cannot be easily done with an unslit Pen then mix Spike-Oyl till it comes to work easily clean and bright then may you easily draw the finest hair Stroaks your Black thus made cover your burnish't Gold all over with a soft Pencil then with the Feather of a Turky Cocks Tail paste over the Black as even and smooth as you can free from all manner of Dust or Filth being dry and having made your Draught or Figure as large as the Work follow the Tract of the Line with the Point and discover or lay open the Gold If you would have the Figures of Birds or little Beasts or whatsoever else find out the strong Lights of them discover them by hatching with a Pen or the point of a Pin if not too sharp but if by the Stroaks approaching too near each other you make a Fault you may mend it by laying on a little Black letting it dry if the way of making great Lights be not profitable or that Shadows are more easie and pleasing to you discover the Gold with a point of soft Wood that it may not scratch the Gold which you must discover or lay open to the bigness of your whole Figure shadowing the proper places as the Nose Eyes Hair c. leaving it to dry then hatch it with a point according to the Judgment of him that draws it to know when 't is dry enough to hatch always at the same time you cover your Work cover a little waste piece for tryals to prevent the spoiling your Work being finished leave it three or four days to dry and varnish it with drying Varnish twice if you see cause when you lay on the Black do but one piece at a time because some by being too dry will be troublesome to discover the Gold take care also that in the first laying on of the Varnish that you spread it gently for fear of defacing For the same after a more easie manner Your Work being covered with burnisht Gold or Silver it matters not which mix and grind Lamp-black and Umber together very well with Water taking care you put not so much Umber as to destroy the Black then add some of the Yolk of an Egg which grind with it and lay it on your Work with a soft Pencil or Brush very smooth when dry if you find cause give a second laying of the same Black and with an Ivory Point very smooth discover your Work if the Black come not easily off then there was too little of the Yolk if the Stroaks be too broad and ragged then there was too much Yolk of Egg this way of discovering the Gold is more shining than the other but be sure to be careful that in varnishing you pull not off the Black nor cause it to fully to that end be sure to work with a soft Pencil and smooth Stroak you need not much fear the laying on the Varnish the second time provided it be not too thick and that it be Oyl of Spike Varnish To do the same another way Having laid your Black on the burnisht Gold as aforesaid mix equal parts of Linseed Oyl and Oyl of Spike which lay lightly on with a large Pencil let it dry four or five days more or less according as you find the Gold more or less easie to appear bright and shining by this way you may allow almost what time you will always remembring to make a tryal before you fall to work for Blew take Azure for Red fine Lake for Green Verdigreece and so in all other Colours being mixt and ground with the Yolk of an Egg as before directed CHAP. XXIII An exquisite way of enriching and beautifying all sorts of wooden Work COver your Work with hot Glew then with the aforesaid Mixture of Glew and Whiting upon this lay the Size for burnisht Gold and lay on the Gold or Silver and burnish then take right Indico grind it with Water and Yolk of an Egg being very thin and clear lay it on the Silver so as the Silver may appear through it being dry pounce your Pattern of Paper being whitened with Chalk then with the same Indico draw over the pounced Stroaks of your Figure as neatly as you can so as if you were to draw a Figure with a Pen upon a piece of Paper then with the same Indico made thinner make the necessary Shadows after that with Umber then heighten with a wooden Point by hatching the Lights then varnish the Work which will seem enamell'd For the same another way but a more glorious Colour Instead of Indico steep Dutch Turnsole a day or two in Water strain it through a Cloth from the Dregs grind and mix this Water with some Yolk of an Egg lay this on your Silver then with Turnsole ground with Turnsole-Water draw with a Pencil what Lines or Figures you think fit which you may shadow and hatch in the proper places which heighten in discovering the Silver as before directed then varnish To make a Purple Ground boyl Brazil in Lime-Water and mix with turnsole-Turnsole-Water This will not last so well as that done with Indico because the Turnsole in time is apt to turn red and will stain the Silver therefore before you varnish lay upon it the White of an Egg beaten into Glair which will make it much more durable and wonderfully beautiful CHAP. XXIV To enrich carved Work as Pictures Frames and all other sorts of wooden Work HAving your Work covered with burnisht Silver take Glew of Vellum or Parchment boyl'd to a thick Jelly strain it through a Cloth when setled strain it again then with this Glew give one laying upon your Work with a soft Brush if that be not enough give a second then varnish it but before you varnish if you think fit you may paint in Oyl or Water colour Flowers Fruits Leaves or Birds in their proper Colours and varnish them having first laid them over with Glew Note you may mix with your Glew either Milk or Soap of Alicant How to embellish a Frame with green Leaves Take Indico a
Water will so oppress his Stomach that he 'l be apt to shrink or lift up his Shoulders and so deform the Mould to prevent which let the Water be lukewarm if you mix a third of fine Brick with Plaister and some Plume Alum you may cast Brass in it only making a thickness of Earth for to make the Kernel but before you bake it give a laying or two of Sal Armoniac Water in all the hollow places of the Mould tying it with strong Iron Wier or Hoops and putting in the Broches Thus may you cast very fine Figures also in Lead or Tin the chief thing is to find out well shap'd persons and hard Labourers who have always their Muscles more strong and better shap'd than such as live a finer Life who often have their Bodies forc'd to their Cloaths nor those whose Toes grow over one another set the Person right that the Posture seems not aukward especially in upright Figures How to mould off the face of any person without being troublesome to him Take a little Brush or Pencil lay some warm paste upon the Hairs of the Eye-Brows the Forehead all along the Roots of the Hair and upon the Beard lay the person on his Back and with a Napkin roul'd up compass the Face about to hinder the Plaister from falling into the Neck or upon the Hair your Plaister being good well temper'd neither too thick nor too thin that you may soon have done let there be two to lay on the Plaister with their hands beginning at the Forehead and so all along the Face except at the Nostrils which you must not stop charging your Mould with as much thickness as 't will bear not stopping the Nose if the Plaister be good 't will set presently then take it gently off and you have the Mould of the Face to the Life Now to remedy the defect under the Nose 't is but clapping a Chissel or repairing Tool to it and pouring on a little Plaister which being dry you may mould off a Head of Plaister or Potters Earth then having the Person before you open the Eyes of your Mould some use to put Quills into the Nostrils but I prove not of it this being a more sure way of practice always advise the person not to force his Face or frown to prevent which temper the Plaister with luke-warm water the Hair being well pasted thus may you cast all sorts of Faces Laughing Crying Grimaces that is crabbed or wry Faces To cast Hands to the Life Place your Hands in what Posture you think fit grease them and proceed as before putting little Boards greased to divide the several pieces thus may Feet and Legs in all Postures be done observing to put a Cloth under the Mould in opening it so that if any small pieces happen to break off they may be gathered and joyned with strong Glew for it cannot be but some pieces will happen to break on the inside of the Hand not on the outside if you desire it should hold something make the form of it in Potters Earth and you may easily take it off then having cast the Plaister into the Mould break off with a Chiszel the pieces that cannot be taken off do all with care and patience that you break not your work CHAP. VI. To cast Fish to the Life either in Plaister or burnt Clay to put into Fountains also to cast them in Brass Tin Lead or Pastboard and to make them swim on the top or middle of the Water TAke any sort of Fish put it in what Posture you think fit wash it in clean water to take off the Slime rub it lightly with Sallad Oyl and mould it in Plaister in two parts turning and repairing the frost side of the Mould and with red Ocre temper'd with Water cover the Joynt and grease it then Oyl the other half and cast the Plaister which being done with a Knife trim it all along the Joynts then strengthen it with Clay and let it dry being ready and well greased put in the beaten Paper or Past-board press it with a Linen Cloth and a Spunge to take out the Water lay the Cloth upon it and with the Spunge press it into the Gravings and hollow places till it be as dry as you can make it when dry take out and joyn the two pieces with strong Glew then lay in size afterwards in white and press it How to colour the Pastboard Fish If it be a Carp lay on Leaf Gold with Gold Oyl Size where a Carp seems most of a Golden Colour in other places as under the Belly and upon the Back you ought to paint with fit Pencil Colours and umber ground very thin with oil and with a Pencil draw the scales and shadow'em to the life then paint the head and the eyes having a natural Carp before you having painted the Carp dry it and varnish it with drying Varnish made of Spike Oyl and give it so many courses as is usual in Varnishing when dry with your Finger give a gentle touch of the same Varnish upon its Head which being so dry as that will but just stick to the Fingers even as when you are to guild in Oyl then take shell Gold temper'd only with Water and with a Pencil gild those places that require it with the same Pencil heightning some Scales but those above the Back with the washing of your shell that they appear not so strong as in other places then with your Finger varnish it let it dry and with the washing of your Shell of Silver and with a large Pencil frost over those places that seem Silverish then with a small Pencil draw the Scales with shell Silver all being dry give another course of Varnish and let it dry to make the Eyes perfect get some hollow Beads blown at the Glass-House of the size of the Fishes Eye divide them in two pieces and paint in them with the Colours of Gold and Silver paint the Eye to the Life being dry make a hollow in the place for the Eye and place them in fit more may be added but the rest is left to the patience and ingenuity of the industrious Artist if you would have them in Brass do as in other Figures How to cast Fish which in the Water shall seem natural viz. one at the bottom of the Tub the other in the middle and others on the top Take what Fish you will set it upon the Belly on a Bed of Earth made edging up but very even set the Fins as they carry them when alive in the Water make a circle of Earth about it to keep in the Plaister which must be new not stale but if it be so make it boyl in an iron Kettle or else put it in an earthen Vessel in a hot Oven then put to it a third part of new Brick in fine Powder choose the finest and tenderest Brick to these add one third part of Plum Alum ground on a Marble temper