a quart of our thin Water-gruel either of the cold or hot The constant use of this is not only a prevention and cure but it moves most sorts of Obstructions of the Stomach begets Appetite generates good Blood causing it to circulate freely How to Purge by Herbs and Foods When you are minded to purge your self with both ease and safety and to preserve your Health then observe the following method viz. In the Morning drink a quart of our thin Water-gruel either the cold or hot eat a small piece of Bread with it at Dinner take Spinage Lettice Onions Parsly and Sage wash them and eat plentifully of them with your Food be it what it will at Night drink a like quantity of Gruel and eat some good Bread as you did in the Morning This you must do for four or five or six days together more or less as you see occasion The like method you are to observe if you would purge your self wiâ—… Carrots Turnips and Parsnips as you did wiâ—h Hâ—…bs with this variation viz. drink your Gruel and eaâ— your Bread Mornings and Nights and at Dinner â—at only Carrots Parsnips or Turnips boiled only in good Water and eat them freely with no other thing but a little Salt and Bread during these several days You may purge your self to what degree you please Another way to Purge by Foods and Drinks Drink in the Morning at several times three pints or two quarts of thin Water-gruel at Dinner drink a pint or a quart at Night drink a quart more and eat some Bread This method will purge or at least will keep your Body open let your Food at Dinner be what it will the Body being kept open and cool doth prevent and cure various Diseases in hot costive Constitutions To make the best Herb Diet-drink Supposing your Herbs well gather'd and dry and kept in Bags take what Herb you think fit put it in a Linnen Bag and steep it 7 or 8 hours in Beer Ale or Wine or other Liquor and then take it out and it is done Let not your Wormwood be steep'd above three or four hours observe that one sort of Herb by it self is much better than Compounds To prevent the SCURVY Eat not Meat and Drinks too strong for Nature for Nature ought to be stronger than the Food Meat and Drink ought not to be eaten that are of a contrary Quality to the Constitution Have a care of eating to Fulness or to Excess Take care that your Victuals be in all respects properly prepared for some will but half do it others over-do it Advice to Flesh-eaters Let all sorts of Flesh and gross Food be boiled in plenty of Water and over a brisk Fire Forbear eating too much Flesh It is most unwholsom in July August September October Forbear eating too much Fish Remember you eat not before the former Food be digested Drink moderately let your ordinary Drink not be hard stale nor sour nor too new Let your Cloathing be moderate Let your Houses be airy your Beds hard clean and sweet use proper Exercise and Labour in open airy places take Walks often by River-sides or on Plains and Downs observe the Rules of Chastity avoid all compounded Foods avoid carking Cares Hates Revenge Envy Violence Oppression keep a good Conscience for that 's a continual Feast Hearken to the Voice of Wisdom and the Dictates of Reason and Nature and that will bring thee to endless Felicity Notable Things How to Cure all sorts of Wounds by Poultices only AN excellent Poultice which cures scalded Limbs Burns Biles Felons Tumors proceeding from Choler Phlegm or Melancholy It also cuâ—es all Contusions Inflammations or Bruises either with or without a Wound old Wounds Ulcers or running Sores Excellent also against the Gout and Inflammation of the Eyes admirable against sore Breasts and Bites of Dogs or any other hurt of what kind or nature soever Which is thus Take two pints of Water River Rain or Spring then take as much ground Oatmeal as will make it thick fit for a Poultice add to it two ounces of good Sugar a handful of Dandalion cut small then place it over the Fire in an open and convenient Vessel keep it stirring till it is boiling-hot and then it is made Another Take about a quart of Water then take as much Houshold-bread as will make it thick and three ounces of beaten Raisins of the Sun and one ounce of Sugar and about half a pint of new Ale stir all together and make them boiling-hot over a clear Fire and it 's done Another Take one quart of Water as much Bread as will make it thick five ounces of Raisins of the Sun and one ounce of Coriander-seeds beaten with a Glass of Ale made boiling-hot and then it is prepared Another Take one quart of Water and Bread to make it as thick as a Poultice of Sugar two ounces a Glass of Sack or for want of that other Wine make it boiling-hot Apply these Medicines to the part afflicted by spreading the Poultice pretty thick on a Linnen-Cloth that will cover the whole part somewhat warmer than Milk from the Cow But let it not be so hot as is usual for Extreams prove generally prejudicial Apply these Poultices every two hours at least in the day and three or four times in the night if the Wound be dangerous otherwise ten times in a day and a night will do When you take the Poultice off put that away and put a fresh one on every time and keep a constant Repetition for 4 5 6 7 8 10 or 11 days if occasion be but it will cure most Distempers in less time if you observe this method But besure wash your Sores 'twixt whiles with Water and Sugar and sometimes with Water fresh Butter beaten together which will keep it clean and pliant A Rare Poultice against the HEAD-ACH Take a quart of Rain or River-water an ounce of white Sugar as much Malt-flower new ground as will make it thick enough add to it half a pint of good Ale making it boiling-hot and stirring it all the time that it is made Spread this on a Linnen-Cloth pretty thick apply it Milk-warm every hour Continue the Application as long as occasion serves An excellent Poultice against SPRAINS of all sorts Take clean Water two quarts make it boil then put green Sage in as much as the Water will cover then boil it then let it stand off the Fire half an hour then strain the Water off and put to this Sage-Liquor as much Bread as will thicken it then take double-refin'd Sugar three ounces a quarter of a pint of Claret and Spirit of Wine Sugar or Malt five spoonfuls stir them well together making them boiling-hot besure stir it all the time Spread this on a Linnen-Cloth apply it blood-warm every two hours resting all the time A Poultice excellent to cure a sore BREAST Take a quart of River-water then cut some Sorrel small of Coriander-seed
in Alom and wash it over with it and when dry it will make it look as clear and white as at first otherwise the Aquafortis alone will make a yellow Stain How to cure Chilblains Take some Beef Brine and heat it as hot as you can endure it and rub your Feet with it holding them to the Fire This do Morning and Night or wash your Feet in your own Water Morning and Night Chops Anoint with Capon and Goose-Grease Dimness of the Eyes or sore Wash your Eye-lids with your own warm Urine Morning and Night Teeth Hollow Stop them with burnt Alom and Bees-wax mixt Canker in the Mouth Mix Alom Honey and Vinegar together and wash your Mouth often with it For the Scurvy or Dropsie Drink your own Water Morning and Evening Of Water The first sort in goodness either to drink or dress Meat or Wash withal or for other uses is rain-Râ—in-water the best Season to receive it is March April May June and July put it into Glass-Bottles and in Airy places and let it stand unstopped that the Air may have a free influence The next in goodness is River-water whose original is Fountain or Spring-water and is generally better in the River than at the Fountain-head Thames Water is an excellent Water too The next is Spring or Fountain-water and the best is that that proceeds from a Chalky Earth Pump or Well-waters are of a cold hungry nature generally and not so good as the others Pond or Standing-waters are worst of all Waters for either Man or Beast Pump or Well-water so much used of late whose Purgative qualities proceed from Coldness and Weight and the not being accustomed to Drink Water I look upon them to be dangerous especially when drank in such great quantities The first Finders and Drinkers did use them more temperately and regularly which by degrees most have degenerated from all sober Methods into the highest degrees of all kind of Debauchery For the Gout â—…ake a quart of rain-Rain-water half a pint of Ale a little Mâ—nt Parsly and Balm of each a like quantity cut small and as much good Bread as will thicken it add to this two ounces of white Sugar mix them well together then just boil it up stirring it all the while well together and it is done spread this pretty thick on a Linnen-Cloth and apply it every two or three hours as warm as Milk from the Cow This do three or four days In several Shires they put a cold Iron-bar upon Barrels which preserves Beer from souring by Thunder To hinder the Night-mare from Riding Horses Take a Flint and make a hole in it and put a String thro' it and hang it by the Manger or about the Beast's Neck and it will prevent the Night-mare 'T is said That a Horse being Bewitched they filled a Bottle with the Horses Urine stop'd it well with a Cork and bound it fast in and then Buried it under Ground and the party fell ill that was suspected to be the Witch and could not make Water of which she died To cure an Ague Write these following Words in Parchment it must be writ triangularly and wear it about your Neck 't is said one Cured above 100 with it Abracadabra Abracadabr Abracadab Abracada Abracad Abraca Abrac Abra Abr Ab A To cure the Biting of a Mad Dog Write in a piece of paper these words Rebus Rubus Epitepscum give it to the Party or Beast bitten to eat in Bread This never fails To make the best Spirit of Scurvy-grass Take Scurvy-grass Leaves and some Horse-Radish Roots scrap't small put them into an earthen Vessel or Glass then put as much strong double Spirit of Wine as will cover it then stop the Vessel close and let it stand 3 days and 3 nights then you must pour it off into Bottles when it is settled you may pour it off into other Glass-bottles and then it 's fit for to use You may take of the Spirit in a Morning from 60 to 70 80 or 90 drops in Beer Ale Wine or Water fasting two hours after it then eat some Water-gruel with Bread How to make this Plain Spirit into a Purging Spirit You must take a quart of the Plain Spirit and put to it Rosin of Scammony one ounce and of Rosin of Jallop half an ounce both beaten to pouder then let it stand 6 days and it 's done Take 50 60 70 or 80 drops of this in Ale Beer or Wine then drink a great quantity of Water-gruel after it and stay within It will purge you very well Wormwood smoakt in Pipes if it is well dried in the Sun and put into Paper-bags for use is much better than Tobacco for any Diseases To make Wormwood supply the place of Hops to all Intents and Purposes and please the Drinker's Palate Let your Wormwood be well dryed in the Sun then take as much of it as you please and put it into your hot Water in your Mash-tub put a quantity in as you have occasion to keep your Drink a longer or shorter time then presently put your Malt in and stir it together as usual when it has stood the common time draw it off then take the Wormwood out and add fresh to your Liquor that you put up the second time do so again when you put up the third Liquor if you mash more than twice this is much better than Hop'd-drink and will keep five year good the same we shall observe in any other Herbs If tâ—is makes the Grains unfit for Cattel by reason of bitterness get a thin Canvas-bag and put your Wormwood into it and when your Drink is working in the Tun hang this Bag in your Working-drink 3 hours then take it out and it 's done This Drink refines the Blood strengthens the Stomach and purges by Urine and moderately drank is good for the Head and Eyes Take a peck of Meal and divide it into two parts and in the one part put a pennyworth of Turnips boiled and work it and knead it by it self the 2d parcel being baked that Meal that had the Turnips in it proved the better Bread by far and whiter and more toothsom and it 's the Opinion of Physicians it 's very healthful besides it cuts better and will continue moist as long again The parcel of Bread that had the Turnips in it was 5 pounds in weight more than the other this must needs be of great Advantage to the Public when Cattel Swine and Poultry may be fed with little Charge Hackney Turnips are the best for Bread a Paste may be made with Turnips to continue long which all sorts of Poultry would like well of and excellent Horse-bread may be made of it All sorts of Cattel and Poultry will take it sufficient without farther trouble the Paste is excellent Food for Rabbits With Turnip-tops and Rape-cakes or Linseed-cakes and Grains you may make Potage and wholsom Food for your Cows which being warm they 'l eat greedily and give
c. which I omit for Brevity If wet Weather happen about July August or September or when it is generally a wet Summer and continues till Michaelmas a Rot is greatly to be feared In wet Weather give your Sheep Hay at Night and Morning or give them three times a Week Oats or other Grain mixing a little Salt with it and this will prevent the Rot Low wide Houses like Barns open on all sides to house Sheep in wet Weather preserves them from Rot this is a General Rule in Flanders Those that live where the Rot is often ought to change their Sheep for Hill-Country Sheep which will thrive and prove less subject to this Disease Divers other Notable Things How to harden LEATHER that it shall last much longer than it doth unprepared THis Secret is so necessary for the whole Land that I shall discover it Lay such Leather as is well taw'd to soak in Water wherein there hath been store of Filings of Iron a long time or else in Water that hath lain a long time under a Grindstone where Iron hath from time to time fallen and there settled To beautifie SHOES and keep them dry and beautiful and to preserve them Take two ounces of Bees-wax a penny worth of Lamb-black twelve or thirteen drops of Neats Oil or a little Grease let them boil and stir them well together then take it off and when cold make it into a Roll and rub a little of it upon a hard Brush then heat your Brush and rub your Shoes observe that your Shoes must be rub'd from Dirt clean before you rub your Wax and likewise dry and this will keep out wet and set a Gloss and preserve your Shoes To make COALS last much longer than usual Take your smallest Sea-Coals and mix them well with large pieces of Clay as big as large Balls and lay them upon your Fire To save SOAP in washing Linnen Infuse Spring or River-water two or three days in open Vessels in the Air a quantity of Chalk and it will save a great deal of Soap It purges being drank by Urine brings away Gravel and slimy offensive Matter Put Chalk into stale Beer and it immediately takes away the eagerness of it Drink it with Water and it cures the Heart-burn it is good to brew-withal Directions to Dress HATS. Smear a little Soap upon the places of your Hat that is filthy and then with some hot Water and a hard Brush rub your Hat then scrape it with the back of a Knife what filth sticks and it will bring both Grease and Scap out Another Some take the Grounds of Beer and boil it and with a Brush rub their Hats and so clean it To make Powder INK or White Powder INK Take of Gum Sandrach two ounces and beat it well to a Powder then sift it thro' a fine Sieve take as much Calaminthus which the Druggists sell mix them well beaten to Powder and a quarter of an ounce of this will turn a pint of Water or Vinegar into good Ink presently To make COFFEE of Horse-Beans Take Horse-Beans and roast them then grind them as you do Coffee-Berries and put a small quantity of Coffee to them then take a little sweet Malt tyed in a Rag and put into your Water and boil it as you usually do Coffee I am told it will answer the end for Colour Taste and Virtue Another Take 12 ounces of Horse-Beans unhusk't and roasted 2 ounces of Coffee 2 ounces of Wheat parched or roasted and pouder'd in your Liquor you may boil some sweet Malt tyed in a Bag and make your Coffee with that Liquor This I had from a Friend I am told that Pease does the same thing If you cast Salt into a Lamp of Oil it makes the Oil last twice as long as it will without it A pleasant wholsom and cheap Way to make Wine of Cherries Gooseberries Apricocks and Plumbs Take Gooseberries Cherries and Plumbs or any other such like Fruit bruise them then put them into a Tub such as is used to mash Malt in with a Tap in it then put in it as much good Water as you think fit either to make it small or strong let these infuse 11 13 17 or 20 hours then you must draw it if you would keep it put some bitter Herb or Seed 3 or 4 hours in it for present use Balm or any good Herb then to every Gallon put two pound and a half or three pound of Honey Sugar or Treacle the more sweetning the stronger it will be then put some Yeast to it and let it work Grease the edge of new Shoes or new-soled Shoes then with a hot Iron seer them well on the edge and round the heel it preserves your Shoes from spunginess and makes them last much longer How a Man may Advance his Corn 5 d. or 7 d. in a Bushel and that is by cutting down his Corn before it be over-ripe for if it is over-ripe the Straw becomes so brittle that it hardly supports the Ears by that means it sheds more than was sowed but especially Barly it likewise makes the Bread eat husky therefore take care it stand not too long nor you cut it over-soon but observe a Medium How to Brew Ale Take your Water as hot as you can without boiling then put it into the Mash-tub or other Vessel let it stand a small time before your Malt be put into it for if you put your Malt into the Water hot it will make the Wort of a red colour but the cooler the Water is the paler will your Wort look You may put into the Ale a small quantity of Hops but they must not be boiled but you may do thus fill your Vessel or Copper that you use with your Wort make it boiling-hot then what quantity of Hops you will you may take infuse them nigh half an hour when that is done strain them out not letting it boil at all then you have all the vertues of Hops that are necessary for the Body you must likewise let your Ale be thoroughly wrought or fermented that it may be well cleansed from its Yeasty substance for if not it quickly grows sour likewise you must take care that you don't set it working whilst too hot for that weakens the original heat and if your Ale work too furiously it will not keep but turn sour sooner than the other that is set a working in such a degree of heat neither let your Wort be set a working too cold for that makes the spirituous quality become dead or flat You may Brew as wholsom Ale or wholsomer and not boil it at all try before you judge and speak as you find Read an excellent Book call'd The Way to Health Long-Life and Happiness pag. 154 155 156 157 c. To take Ink out of Paper Take Aquafortis and dip a little of it upon the blot or writing you would take out and immediately it will disappear then take a little Water steeped
'T is not he that possesseth most but he that wanteth least that is the richest Man To be content is to be rich and these Riches any Man that will may give himself Content is all we aim at with our Store If that be had with little what needs more THE Way to Save Wealth Shewing how a Man may Live plentifully for Two-pence a Day Likewise how to make A hundred Noble Dishes of Meat without either Flesh Fish or Fowl To make Bread of Roots Herbs and Leafs of Trees To brew good cheap Liquor without Malt or Hops To make Shoes last long To make Coals last long To save Soap in Washing To save Cloth in cutting out a Shirt To make Coffee of Horse-beans To feed Cattel well without Hay Grass or Corn. To save Candles To know any one's Mind by Signs if there be Twenty in Company they cannot apprehend it To order Bees aright To settle your Estate with Christian Prudence To know Scripture-Weights and Measures Of Dreams To cure Wounds by Sympathy The Way to Live long To make Spring-Potage To cure all sorts of Cattle for 12 d. Charge To improve Land order and cure all Deseases in singing Birds To kill Vermin To brew Pale Ales. To make Wines and all sorts of Liquor and an easy Way to fine and order them With divers other curious MATTERS Adorn'd with Cuts LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by G. Conyers at the Ring in Little Britain Price 1 s. 6 d. THE Way to Live for Two-pence a Day EXperience teacheth us that Nature is satisfied with a little and that little is also easily to be obtain'd such as Corn-food Spring-water Herbs Roots Fruit Milk Cheese c. And for my own part seriously when I feed upon Bread and Water and sometimes more splendidly upon Bread and Cheese and if I have but brown Bread Hasty-pudding Wheat or Barley-broth I think my Table so well furnish'd that I dare dispute Felicity with any Person By this way of living I am made superiour to the frowns of Fortune for what Estate is there in this Life that can reduce a Man to a lower ebb than Bread and Water Whereas many that accustom themselves to live deliciously frequently commit Robberies Murder and other detestable Villanies to gratifie their Luxury and Profuseness And I do affirm that a Halfpennyworth of Flower made into Pap or Hasty-pudding with Water or with Water Milk and Flower and a Halfpennyworth of Bread to eat with it and a little Salt will make People as strong as they that eat Flesh Fish and Fowl And farther Living on Corn-food you have small occasion to drink and a little Bread Cheese and a Pennyworth of Ale exhilerates a Man three times as much as Flesh Fish or Fowl with the same quantity of Drink 1. Bread and Water takes place of all Foods and are the foundation of dry and moist Nutriment 't is a good Food and of an opening and cleansing nature and now and then will make a good Meal 2. Take two spoonfuls of Wheat-flower or Oatmeal put it into cold Water and mix 'em well together stir this into two Quarts of Water over a quick Fire till it boil up putting a little Salt and some Bread or instead of Bread an Onion boil'd in it will do This will not cost above a Farthing and makes a noble exhilerating meal You may make it thick or thin as you like best thick is best for healthy People 3. Take a quart of Water made boiling hot a spoonful of ground Oatmeal and temper it with cold Water then brew it into your Water set it on the Fire till it boil up then brew it again and it 's done put some Bread and a little Salt into it then eat it and this makes as good a meal as the World affords If you make a meal of this alone you may boil in it some Pot-herbs and Onions and it 's done 4. Take four quarts of Water and put a pint of Pease therein then set 'em in the Pot on a gentle Fire let 'em boil slowly for 3 or 4 hours while they are soft and incorporated into Potage add a little dry Sage rub'd into powder and shred an Onion into it you may put in a little Mint if you please or any of these Herbs will serve After your Herbs are boil'd put two spoonfuls of Wheat-flower made into Batter with cold Water and when your Potage boils up 't is done This will make about two quarts and will serve a labouring Man a Day costing not above three half-pence 5. Take a quart of Water and set it on the Fire till it boils up then put a spoonful of Oatmeal well mixt in 2 or 3 spoonfuls of cold Water mix an Egg well in it and put it to your boiling Water put a little Salt and Bread if you please to it and this makes a noble meal 6. Take Flower a sufficient quantity then add Water sufficient to make it into a Paste put a little Salt and Ginger to it and a little Yest make your Dumplins as large as a Crown piece and boil 'em this is wholsom nourishing and pleasant Food 7. Take an equal quantity of Milk and Water and when it begins to boil put in Flower the usual way of making Hasty-pudding and eat it with Butter or with Milk This is hearty and strengthning Nourishment 8. Or Water and Flower with a little Ginger made into Hasty-pudding and eat with Milk or Butter is hearty Victuals In many Countries you may have two quarts of Milk for a Penny to which add a pint of Water and not half a Penny worth of Flower and make it into flower'd Milk according to our Directions and you will have a fine Dish sufficient for 4 People and stands but in three half-pence Eat some Bread with it and there 's nothing affords better nourishment and that to all Ages especially young People If every one observes his time of eating and his weight and measure of Food great trouble and waste may thereby be avoided As to quantity of other Foods we suppose sixteen ounces of solid to wit Bread Cheese Butter and Eggs may be sufficient 24 hours for a labouring Man And the best time for eating we suppose to be about 8 in the Morning and 4 in the Afternoon If the Food be flower'd Milk then a pint of it and 4 ounces of Bread and Butter or Cheese is sufficient if Water-gruel or Potage a pint and 4 ounces of Bread and Cheese if raw Milk the same but if flower'd Milk with an Egg in it three ounces of Bread and Butter or of Cheese will be sufficient Divers other Dishes not more healthful but more toothsom and very wholsom 9. Bread and Butter eaten with our thin Gruel wherein is nothing but Salt is the most approved way of eating Water gruel and the best way of eating it is to bite and sip as you do raw Milk and Bread This is a most curious and sweet Food
fit to boil and eat with or without Flesh-meat all very wholsom Young Nettle-tops are very wholsom and well-tasted Dandalion is the same very wholsom and well-tasted only you must let it lie 20 or 24 Hours in Water that takes away its bitterness This is much eat by French People Comfry is excellent Food it grows in Marsh-ground generally Goats-beard or Tragopogan grows in Marshes it s an excellent boil'd Sallad Turnip-tops Radish-tops tops of young green Pease or tops of Beans Turnip-tops running to Seed boil'd eats like Asperagus Ladies Thisle call'd by some Shadown is very wholsom tops of Mallows young eat well Watercresses Smallages and Clivers make Spring-pottage or eat well boil'd Garlike Mercury or Blite eats like Asperagus boil'd Hop-buds eat very well Redshanks Alixander Leaves and Stalks Roots of Arum boil'd eat well so does Ashwood Jump about Corn-sallad Redbeet Roots eat as well as Carrots Wheat in the blade 5 or 6 inches high cut the rank part and boil it eats well tie it in Bundles as you do Nosegays young Dasy Roots are generally eaten by Spaniards and Italians all the Spring till June Alixander are of the nature of Parsly the Sprouts Buds and Tops are best eat in Spring All kind of Docks Cole says has this property That Meat boil'd therewith tho' never so tough will be tender and fit to eat and that Calamint laid among stinking Meat when it is raw will recover it And Evelyn says That the sharp pointed Dock brew'd in Ale or Beer are excellent for the Scorbute or Scurvy Jackly-the-Hedge or All-Sauce is a good Sallad it grows under Hedges and Banks Mushrooms boil'd and pick'd stew'd with a little Vinegar Peper Butter and Spice eats very well and so they do well pickled Vine-Clapers or Tendrels whilst young may be eat alone or with other Sallads and Evelyn says That the common Burdock about April when young before the Burrs and Clotts appear being stript and the bitterness soaked out and then boil'd or eat raw is a good Sallad The best way to make Herb-Pottage 102. Smallage Clivers Watercresses Elder-buds and Nettle-tops put Water to them proportionable to your Herbs then add Oatmeal as much as you think fit to leave it in thick When the Water is ready to boil put your Herbs in cut or uncut then when it is again ready to boil take a Spoon or Ladle and lade it so that you keep it from boiling do this 8 or 9 Mornings then take it off and eat it blood-warm with the Herbs in it or strained adding a little butter salt and bread This is an admirable cleansing Pottage 103. Another Spinage Corn-sallad the tops of Penniroyal and Mint ordered and eat as before 104. Another Take the young and tender Stalks of Turnips and of Cabbages when they first run up in the Spring boil them and peel them and put butter vinegar and pepper to them and eat them with bread A cheap way to Live in Case of great Scarcity or Famine To take away the Unsavory Rank Taste of Pease Beans Beech-mast Acorns Chesnuts Vetches and such like BOil your Beans Pease c. in clean Water and if they are not pleasing enough change the Water again and at the second or third time you will find a great alteration in Taste then dry them and if you please you may hull them or grind them unhull'd if you please you may put a third part or a fourth of Wheat-flower to it and make bread thereof Or you may make good bread without any wheat added to them Or for better Expedition you may take the ground-meal of them and infuse warm Water thereon and as it begins to cool drain it away and put on fresh warm Water till the taste please you then dry up the meal and make bread thereof either simply of it self or compounded as before Probatum est But if you are not content with this Preparation you may work it into Paste with a Liquor first strengthned with some bruised Aniseeds Liquorice or sweet Fennel Seeds or with the Seeds themselves incorporated in the Paste or to save charge with Peperwort Time Winter-savory Penniroyal c. and this is hearty and wholsom and nourishing What is here spoken of Pease Beans c. may be generally understood of all other Grain Plants Seeds Pulse Roots c. and that that is serviceable in Meat will be much more tollerable in Drink It 's said that Allom rowl'd five or six times a day in the mouth has kept alive fifteen or twenty days Wheat Straw chopt into short pieces and ground with some proportion of Wheat into Meal has been made good Bread but you must grind it well in a Steel or Hand-mill Some say a small quantity of Liquorice-Roots chowed will satisfie both Hunger and Thirst To make Bread of the Root of Aron called Cuckoopit or Starch-Root The Roots that are large must be cleansed from the Skin and Filth then cut into slices small then seeth them in boiling Water so long as you find the Water hot and biting and till the Root begins to wax sweet then change your Water and pour fresh upon them and so continue doing till the Water becomes sweet and the Roots have lost their Acrimony Take them out and lay them abroad upon Canvas supported with Frames and being dry grind them and they make a very white meal which of it self or by mixing of a third with Wheat-meal makes savory bread and the best Starch gather it in March or April be sure Turnips will do the like Pompions mixed with a little meal makes savory bread and if you put Sugar or other Sauce on it it is a delicate Dish Take your great and sweet Parsnip Roots and cut them in thin slices and having washed and scraped them clean dry them and beat them into Powder or grind them sifting them through a fine Sieve put two parts of Flower to one of this Powder and make it into Cakes and these taste daintily Query Whether Turnips Carrots and the like Roots will not do as well All manner of Pulse as Beans Vetches Lentils and such like first rub'd over in Lee and then hull'd and after ground will yield fair meal and better bread A Poultice made of Flower or Meal sodden among Pears Apples Plumbs or the like Fruit or of some Bread and Water or Broth of Flesh or Milk well-boil'd together fills the Stomach to content Suchlike Composition made of Bisquet dry hard or stale make Bread affords good Food Cheese mixed and wrought up with meal makeâ— a glutting sort of Food Meal and Oil of Olives or other Fruit or Seeds mixed together may be made into Bread Dough kneaded with Ale-wort or Wine is hearty Food You may make bread of the powdred or ground leaves of the Pear-Tree Apple-Tree Beech Oak and so likewise Drink So likewise white Poplar being cut off close by the ground and water'd with warm Water well season'd with Leven in four days space will bring
beaten to powder half an ounce of good brown Sugar 2 ounces and as much Bread as will make it into a Poultice make it boiling-hot stirring it all the time that it is made Apply this every 2 hours blood-warm do it 3 or 4 days as you have occasion Be sure every time you apply this Poultice to wash your Breast with Water and fresh Butter beaten together This is an excellent thing A Poultice to cure a SPRAIN Take 2 quarts of fair Water and of good-strong Beer a quart refin'd Sugar four ounces boil it up then add to it fresh-gather'd Thyme as much as the Liquor will cover then boil it up again then strain it from the Herbs and put of brown Bread as much as will thicken it stir this over the Fire till boiling-hot and it 's done Put to this 3 ounces of Spirit of Wine stirring all well together Apply this spread thick on a Linnen-Cloth every 3 hours blood-warm Another When you have strain'd any part presently put it into cold Water wherein some Wood and Ashes are put Do this about an hour and it gives Ease To cure GAULS or SKIN rub'd off Wash your Sore every hour for a day or two with Spirit of Wine and Vinegar mixt well together laying on a Diaculum Plaster This cures in a small time Against a STAB or CUTT or any other WOUND Take double-refin'd Sugar and Spirit of Wine mixt with it and with this Wash or Syringe your Wound well then put a small quantity of refin'd Sugar pouder'd into your Wound and immediately sow it up with Silk and a fine Needle This will do wonders To cure old ULCERS Take of the best double Spirit of Wine one pint beaten Aloes half an ounce double-refin'd Sugar 3 ounces Myrrh half an ounce mix them well together Use it thus First wash your Ulcer with very clean rain-Rain-water dropping some of the fore-mentioned Spirits into your Ulcer Then apply this Poultice following rain-Rain-water a quart Balm two ounces of good Sugar Parsly and Mint cut small of each a like quantity as much Bread as will make it of a fit consistency for a Poultice make it boiling-hot stirring it all the time then put a Glass of good Beer or Ale Syder or Wine into it Lay this Poultice on every three hours always washing it with the Rain-water and Spirits A new Way for the right Ordering of Cattel A Horse is an excellent and useful Creature but thro' ill Management often abused to prevent which the Drivers ought to observe First That in the Morning they drive them moderately Secondly When they have done Labour rub them well down then tie them to the Rack for an hour or two during which time give them no Meat but between whiles keep them rubbing till their tired Spirits be refreshed then give them a moderate quantity of Meat and Drink Thirdly Let the Stables be open to the Air and keep them clean Let not your Horses in the Stable especially your Saddle-horses have constantly Hay in the Rack nor Provender in your Manger but tie them from their Racks five six or seven hours together let not your Cattel have too much Meat at a time but such a quantity as they may eat up clean When your Horse has been hard Rid or Worked much you may conveniently give him a little Water about two hours before you give him Meat Rubbing down Horses is better than walking them when hot Those that give their other Cattel Grains as the People about London do let them put a little Salt into them which prevents the Rot and watry and windy Diseases Let your Mares with Foal and their Colts run in the Fields for a Year Observe but these Rules and your Horses will seldom want Drenching or Bleeding but if you find they prove too fast the best way to cool their Blood and keep them from Diseases is to give them moderate Labour and alter the quality of their Food The best Food for Horses is good Rick-Hay that is about three quarters of a year old which is much better than Hay out of the Barn And Corn in the Straw is much better than that that is only thresht or that that is both thresht and cleansed from its Chaff And Beans Fitches Pease Barly and Oats in the Straw is not only the most hearty Food but cleanseth the Stomach from all Superfluities but threshed Corn of any sort is good Food for working Horses that go to Grass especially in Winter giving it them Morning and Night Put your Stable-horses to Grass from May to July which will cleanse their Bodies and cure their Feet and Legs of Diseases contracted by standing in the Stable all Winter Rain River and Spring-water are best for Horses and other Cattel much better than Pond-water As for Sheep any disorder wounds their Health if they are driven too hard or coursed with a Dog or the like if they be suffered to lie down whilst hot and this be done often they will break out with the Scab or Mange when about Michaelmas you put them into fresh Pastures if they are close folded it will do the same If in hot Weather they be often removed from place to place it will hinder them from Thriving and make them Scabby much wet likewise makes them Rot. In the Morning betimes drive your Sheep into fallow Fields or Downs where Grass is scarce and take notice of the Situation of the Field then walk your Sheep gently on the driest and highest parts if there be Corn-fields let them feed about two or three hours by the Hedges About 11 a-Clock turn them from the edges of the Corn-fields or Pasturage into the lowest Clay-ground or Valleys you have and let them lie at ease and as scattering as you can Use them at all times tenderly and less Food will serve observâ— this method from May till August if the Weather continue warm and it will prevent Scab and Mange when they come into fresh Pasture In May or June I think is the best time for Shearing If the Summer proves wet about June or July let your Sheep continue in the Fold till eight in the Morning if the Morning be moist and again let them be folded before the Dew falls Observe these Rules and you will prevent many Diseases as Choler Flegm Stoppages Red-water Coughs Pains in the Joints Lameness and the like You ought to be most careful of Sheep from Midsummer till Michaelmas Therefore keep your Sheep till 9 a-Clock or till the Sun have dried up the moist Vapours and Humidity from the Earth and then let them out and keep them on the high and dry Grounds if the day prove dry feed them three Hours in lower Grounds and about Evening put them in higher places and besure Fold them before the Dew falls and Fold them on dry Ground from July to September Sheep are most subject to Rot and is occasioned chiefly by too much moisture at the Season and not from licking up Snails
Wrist with your right Hand X Cross your fore-Fingers Y two Fingers of the right Hand cross the first of your left Hand Z three Fingers of the right Hand cross the first of your left Hand The Use Would you signify to your Friend privately such a Man is a Sot you point or touch with your fore-Finger the top of your right Shoulder that is S then make an O or round Circle on the Palm of your left Hand with the fore Finger of your right Hand then put forth your Tongue which is T and thus you may discover your Mind to any Friend by the help of the Alphabet This must be understood by you both which may be learnt in half an hour or less and all other By-standers ignorant of what you do Rules for Blood-letting January These days following are perilous to let Blood on except the Sign be right good for Blood letting let not Blood on the 1. 2 5. 10 15. 19. 20. nor 25. A Glass of Whitewine fasting is wholsom and good to Drink February Bleed not on thy Wrist nor Arm if thou hast need the 4. 6. 8. 16. nor 18 day except the Sign be very good March Eat Raisins or Figs or sweet Meats and Drink and Eat hot Meats and let Blood on the right Arm the 5. 12. or 17 day to prevent Fevers but the 1. 15. 16. 19. nor 28 day except the Sign be good April Bleed on the left Arm the 3. 11. or 15. it prevents the Head-ach and loss of Sight Eat hot Meat and fresh Bleed not the 7. 8. 10. nor 20 day May. Let Blood the 1. or 10 day 27. or 28 day it helps all Evil but beware of the 3. 6 and 25 day Rise early and eat betimes but eat neither Head nor Feet this Month. June If need be Bleed the 28th day but forbear the 7. 10. 15. 16. and 20 day drink cold Water fasting and eat temperately July Keep from Venery and Bleed not this Month except thou hast great need but beware of Bleeding the 13 and 15 day it being dangerous August Bleed not the 1 day nor the 20. 29. nor 30. the rest of the days Bleed if need require forbear all manner of Worts Meats and Drink with Spices September Bleed not the 3. 4. 16. 21. nor 22. Bleed in the 17 or 18. for Frenzy Dropsie Palsie or Falling Evil and it preserves thee that Year ripe Fruit not infected is good to eat October Bleed not except great need and beware of the 3. 6. 14. good Wine is wholsom if moderately drank November This Month all the Blood is gathered upon the Head Vein therefore Bleed not but for great need Bath not but vent a little of Grafing for then the Humours of the Body are over-quick to Bleed but beware if thou must Bleed of the 5. 6. 15. 19. 28. and 29 day December Bleed not except great need but beware of 5. 7. 16. 17. and 22 day Bleed the 26 day that is not hurtful Sleep from the Fire-side To Cure the Hickup immediately Drink a Glass of fair Water For the Heart-burn scrape a little Chalk into some Water and drink it To know what Years shall be plenteous Sunday That Year that January enters on Sunday there will be abundance of Flesh great News shall be spoken of Kings and Bishops and of great Princes great Wars and Robberies shall happen and many young People will dye the Winter will be Cold and Moist the Summer Hot and Rainy abundance of Corn Wine and other Grain Garden Fruit and Herbs and but little Oil. Monday If January enters on Monday many Ships shall perish divers Sicknesses shall reign Changes of great Lords shall be made many Women will dye in Child-bed The Winter will be peaceable and the Summer very temperate and great Floods shall happen Tuesday If January enters on Tuesday Summer will be dry and hot that Garden-Herbs cannot come forth many Men shall dye of a Bloody Flux all things but Corn will be dear no Thundering nor Lightning nor Tempest Wines will turn and spoil Winter shall be unsteady and changeable great Frost will happen in the Spring which will hurt Rye Vines and Flowers Wednesday If January enters on Wednesday Summer will be a little Cloudy great Sickness will happen many Thieves and Robbers great War Battel and Slaughter in the middle of the Year at the end of the Year divers pestilent Botches and falling Evils the Winter will be temperate at the end Snow and Frost the Spring shall be Rainy great store of Hay Corn Grass and Fruit and plenty of most good Things Thursday If January enters on Thursday Summer will be temperate Harvest most part Rainy Wheat cheap Plenty of all Grain great War and Division Taxes easie Women very bad Winter will be dry and wholsom and the Spring very Windy Friday If January enters on Friday Summer will be unwholsom Harvest dry Corn dear Winter long store of Hay Grass and Garden-Herbs great Sickness Thundering Lightning and Tempest Earthquakes heave thee up many Beasts will dye Saturday If January enters on Saturday Summer pretty temperate Herbs and Flesh cheap old People dye many Fevers and Agues many Murthers and Villanies shall happen Winter temperate the Spring-time Frost which will hurt Trees and Fruits The Signification of Thunder Thunder on Sunday shews that many Judges and Clerks and divers other People will dye that Year If on Monday it chance to Thunder many Women and Children will dye and the Sun will suffer Eclipse If on Tuesday it Thunder there will be great store of Grain If on Wednesday it Thunder Whores and Rogues shall dye and there may be great Bloodshed If it Thunder on Thursday Corn wâ—ll be very cheap If it Thunder on Friday it betokeneth a great Man shall be slain and divers Murthers and other Evils If it Thunder on Saturday it signifies there may be a great Plague whereof many shall dye On St. Paul's Day If Saint Paul prove Fair and Clear It doth betide a happy Year But if it chance to Snow or Rain Then will be dear all sorts of Grain And if the Wind be then aloft Then Wars shall vex this Realm full oft And if the Clouds make Dark the Sky To settle your Estate with Prudence 1. Make your Will in your Health 2. Make a Christian Will. 3. Make a Prudent Will 4. Make a Just Will 5. Make a Charitable Will 1. He that neglects to make his Will in the time of his Health but defers it to a Sick-bed may possibly never make it at all because Men are often suddenly and unexpectedly snatcht away out of this World 2. By a Christian Will I mean you should compose or frame it so as to declare your self a Christian 3. By a Prudent Will I mean you should distribute your Estate as Christian Prudence will direct you by observing the different disposition and Behaviour of your Children your Friends and Dependants Some are Brisk and Active in Business will
found proportionable to all sorts of different Complexions and Stomachs so that what is reasonable to a Young and Strong Body is twice too much for an Old or Infirm Person The Allowance then for all is to keep within the bounds of Temperance for whatsoever exceeds this measure is to be accounted Vice be it on what occasion it will whether of Marriage Feasting or any thing else whatever now that is always Excess which proves more in quantity than the Stomach can perfectly digest without leaving Crudities behind Rules for finding out the Right Measure The first Rule is If thou dost usually take as much Food at Meals as thou art thereby made unfit for the Duties and Offices belonging to the Mind such as are Studies of Learning Prayer and the like its evident thou dost exceed measure So that whenever so much Food is taken as proves of any Remarkable offence or hinderance to the Operation of the Superiour Faculty to wit of the Senses Imagination the Understanding or Memory then it is a sign the â—itting measure is exceeded For they who follow a sober Course of Life are as ready for all Services and Employments of the Mind after their Meats as before The second Rule is If after Meat and Drink thou findest a certain kind of Dullness Heaviness Sloathful weariness whereas before thou wast quick and lightsome it s a sign thou hast exceeded the fitting measure except it come to pass by Sickness or the reliques of some former Disease For Meat and Drink ought to refresh the Body and make it more Cheerful and no ways to burden or oppress it They therefore that find their Constitution to be such as they feel oppression after Meals ought to make abatement of their daily allowance having first used diligent Consideration whether this Inconveniency arise from the Abundance of their Meat and Drink or both together and when they have found out where the Error lies it s by degrees to be amended till the matter be brought to that pass that there be no more feeling of any such Inconveniency Therefore if a Man desires to be always quick apt and ready to motion and every other use of his Senses these Humors are to be lessen'd by abatement of Diet so that the Spirits may have their free Passage thro' all parts of the Body and the Mind may find them always ready to every motion and service of the Body The third Rule is Do not pass immediately from a disordered kind of Life to a strict and precise course but do it by little and little abating from that quantity we had been accustomed to till at last we come to a just measure which doth not at all oppress the Body nor offend and hinder the Operations of the Mind This is the Opinion of all Physicians that its dangerous to be driven off forcibly from that which a Man hath been long accustomed to but we must break off old usages by degrees and not all at once going backward step by step as we grow on toward them so the alteration will be less difficult in performance The fourth Rule is That though there cannot be a just quantity set for all by reason of the great difference of Age Strength and other Dispositions in Men and also in respect to the great diversity in the Nature and quality of several sorts of Food yet I think for those that are stricken in Years and those of weak Cnstitutions thirteen or fourteen ounces of Food a day should be enough accounting into this proportion Bread Flesh Eggs and all other sorts of Victuals and about as many ounces of Drink would suffice this is to be understood of those who use but little Exercise of Body and are altogether addicted to Study and the like I could instance divers that have observed this measure that have lived to an extream old Age that have passed their Lives only with Water Bread Pulse Herbs or Fruits about sixteen ounces of Water and sixteen ounces of Bread and Herbs How much more then may seven ounces of Bread and seven ounces of other choice Victuals suffice which yields double the Nutriment considering withal instead of Water which served their turn we now drink Beer or Wine which yields much Nutriment And altho' I speak now of weak Persons and those that are declining in Years yet I hold it probable that the aforesaid measure is large enough for the most part even for those that are in Health and Strong in the Flower of their Age if they be such that give themselves to Study and the like The fifth Rule is That touching the quality of the Food there is no great care to be had If so be a Man is of a healthful Constitution and find that the Meat he eats does not offend nor harm him for most sorts of Meat agree with healthful Constitutions If so be right a quantity and measure be kept so that without question a Man may live long and in Health on Bread only with Milk Butter and Cheese Beer or Water especially if he has been accustomed from a Child to them but from all Foods thou findest a prejudice abstain tho' the relish and taste be never so well Of this sort are most fat Meats which are to be used sparingly and eaten with store of Bread that the Damage they bring may in part be avoided And in a word all Victuals that breed Damage to the Constitution of the Body or Impediment to the Functions of the Mind are to be avoided Of DREAMS 1. By Dreams the Natural Temperament and Complexion and the secret Diseases of Persons are as soon or sooner found out than by any outward Signs 2. By Dreams scarce any thing discovers the secret bent of our Minds and Inclinations to Vice and Virtue these Nocturnal Sallies discover Pride Covetousness Sensuality or the like more free and undisguised than when we are awake 3. Dreams are the clearest Natural Arguments of the Immortality of the Soul as also one of the usual ways that God revealed himself by of Old to Holy Men It s also one promise that under the Gospel Dispensation their Young Men should see Visions and their Old Men dream Dreams Therefore whosoever will consider what is here written in short may find some remarkable cause to consider that such a Treatise is not altogether useless Sometimes Dreams are the effects of the Planets Influences and carry with them the Resemblance of that Planet from whence they proceed As 1. If the Saturnine property carry the upper Dominion in Barthy Signs then those Dreams are Dull Sad Heavy Frightful and Filled with Fear and Sorrow 2. If Mars or the Martial fierce Fire have the chief Government then Dreams are Fiery filled with Wrath Passion Fear and Trembling Amazing and Affrighting causing the Person often to awake as also his Limbs to tremble for Fear 3. If Jupiter or the Jovial Nature predominate then Dreams are more Mild Grave and Moderate 4. If Venus rule the Complexion Dreams are pleasant and delightful 5. If Mercury rule Dreams are mixt and oft-times confused 6. If Sol rule Dreams will be of great Light Honour and Dignity and of Splendid Things 7. If the Moon predominates Dreams are unconstant mixed with Truth and Falshood and confused FINIS A Catalogue of Books sold at the Gold Ring in Little-Baittain THe Anglers sure Guide Shewing when and how to gather the best Materials for Fishing The most Proper Baits and how to Order them and your Tackle 1. 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