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A13306	An aduice hovv to plant tobacco in England and how to bring it to colour and perfection, to whom it may be profitable, and to whom harmfull. The vertues of the hearbe in generall, as well in the outward application as taken in fume. With the danger of the Spanish tobacco. Written by C.T.	C. T., 17th cent.; W. R., fl. 1615, attributed name.	1615 (1615)	STC 23612; ESTC S111304	9,694	24

AN ADVICE HOVV TO PLANT TOBACCO IN ENGLAND AND How to bring it to colour and perfection to whom it may be profitable and to whom harmfull The vertues of the Hearbe in generall as well in the outward application as taken in FVME WITH THE DANGER OF THE SPANISH TOBACCO Written by C. T. LONDON Printed by NICHOLAS OKES and are to bee sold by WALTER BVRRE 1615. AN ADVICE HOW TO PLANT TOBACCO IN ENGLAND AND HOW TO BRING IT TO THE COLOVR AND PERfection to whom it may bee profitable and to whom harmefull I Haue heard it reported by men of good iudgment that there is paid out of England and Ireland neere the value of two hundred thousand pounds euery yeare for Tobacco and that the greatest part thereof is bought for ready money Sure I am that when our Englishmen for these seuen or eight yeares last past traded for it at Trinidado or in Orenoque that great store of Gold Siluer Coine and plate was carried hence and giuen to the Spaniard there in exchange For so greedy were our English of the Indian Tobacco as where in the beginning of our traffique there some yeares since the Spaniards as in all new plantations were prest with all sorts of wants had neither cloathes to couer them nor shooes to tread on nor bread to eate and did therefore exchange their Tobacco for Fish Wine Aqua-vitae all sorts of lasting food for woollen stockins hats threed hatchets the like they became in a short time so cloyd with all these commodities as nothing some Silkes and Cloath of Siluer and Gold excepted but ready Money and Siluer plate could content them This Trade therefore where the Treasure of this land is vented for smoke cannot but greatly preiudice the Common-weale which although it were in some sort tollerable by reason that many shippes and Mariners were employed and that thereby wee kept our knowledge of the West Indies and bred many sufficient Marriners yet seeing the Spaniards haue now vtterly banished our Merchants and put all to the sword or to a more cruell death which they can maister or betray in those parts I haue thought good as well for the keeping within the Land of the Treasure before spoken of then carried into the Indies and now into Spaine as for other respects hereafter remembred to instruct those of our Nation how to sow plant and perfect this drugge For besides the ill exchange made for this fantasticall merchandize and besides the extreame rate and price of the Indian Tobacco of which the greatest part is sold for ten times the value of pepper and the best of it weight for weight for the finest siluer it is hard to find one pound weight in fiue hundred that is not sophisticate The blacke colour which it hath and for which our Shoppe-keepers praise it is Artificiall yea all the Tobacco the leaues of Hispaniola excepted which wee call Saint Domingo Tobacco is noynted and slubbered ouer with a kinde of iuyce or syrope made of salt-Salt-water of the dregges or filth of Sugar called Malasses or blacke honey Guiana pepper and leeze of Wine to which in some places they adde a red berry called Anotto and other tawn● Berries with which the Indians paint their bodies and their beds This they doe to giue it colour and glosse to make it the more merchantable and to giue one and the same countenance to all their rotten withered ground-leaues which they wrappe vp in the midle of their wreathes couering them ouer on the outside with one that is good Of this Tobacco painted with vnwholsome Berries there hath beene great store brought into England of late in which the rednesse and Art was manifest so hath there beene vented a kinde of filthy leafe sold by the Portugalles residing in London the same beeing made vp in rolles of pounds and halfe pounds By these Aditaments is the nature and operation of the Tobacco changed and the Hearbe made vnhealthfull and extreame dangerous for it is well knowne that how wholsome and medicinable soeuer hunnie it selfe may bee yet the water of hunnie is starke poyson and although Indian Pepper scumme of Sugar or the dregges or leeze of Wine and the rest may be wholesome enough some way vsed yet to take them into the head in fume cannot but bee greatly offensiue and preiudiciall But this is not the worst for since the Spaniards haue obserued that the English respect but two things chiefly in Tobacco to wit the colour and the biting in the nose they haue added poyson to the painting and annoynted the leaues of their Tobacco with common sublimate by which though it doe not worke at the instant yet may the one halfe of all the Gentlemen of England and many thousands of others be easily poysoned in one yeare For it is knowne to many that there hath been Tobacco brought out of Spaine with dissolued sublimate which euery man knowes to bee poyson and no way so dangerously ministred without suspition as by fume The naturall colour of Tobacco is a deepe yellow or a light tawnie and when the Indians themselues sold it vs for Kniues Hatchets Beads Belles and like merchandise it had no other complexion as all the Tobacco at this day hath which is brought from the coast of Guiana from Saint Vincents from Saint Lucia from Dominica and other places where we buy it but of the naturall people and all these sorts are cleane and so is that of St. Domingo where the Spaniards haue not yet learned the Art of Sophistication There is also a sort of Caraccas Tobacco which the Indians make vp and sell to the Spaniards which is wholesome enough but there comes little of it into England Now besides these harmefull mixtures if our English which delight in Indian Tobacco had seene how the Spanish slaues make it vp how they dresse their sores and pockie vlcers with the same vnwasht hands with which they slubber and annoynt the Tobacco and call it sauce Per los perros Luteranos for Lutheran dogges they would not so often draw it into their heads and through their noses as they doe yea many a filthy sauour should they find therein did not the smell of the hunny maister it which smell euery man may plainly perceiue that takes of the blacke role Tabacco brought from Orenoque Trinidado and else-where To the end therefore as I haue already said that the treasures exchanged for Tobacco may be kept within the Land that those that delight therin may haue it at a better rate and to auoyd the danger of the Spanish mixtures I haue hereunder set downe certaine obseruations by the helpe of which all that are disposed to plant Tobacco in England may assuredly bring the same to strength and perfection yea to strength exceeding all that is brought from the Indies Now the first thing that you are to take care for must be the soyle of which the ground naturally fertile is the best and that which hath not

take the leafe of Saint Domingo or the leaues of Dominica and of the Ilands adioyning or those Indian leaues that are of a deep yellow or slight tawny which colours are naturall and forbeare the blacke which is foule the dyed Tobacco which is red and the leafe brought in by the Portugalles and the like slubbered stuffe The Tobacco which comes from the Barmuda is cast away either by neglecting to prune it or else because they nourish ouer-many leaues on one stalke which they do either out of Ignorance or for that they couer to haue the greater quantity or otherwise because as I heare they imitate the Spaniards in iuicing it that place would otherwise giue vs that which is excellent and so would Virginia For the rest after you haue taken your Tobacco out of your stoue you must layit abrode some three or foure dayes for if you make it vp too moist it will grow mouldy For conclusion because there hath beene much dispute about this hearbe whether it bee wholsome or harmfull I will let my Countreymen know what by long experience and conference with others I finde It is taken in all America euen from Canada to the straights of Magellan in all Affrica vpon the coast from Barbary to the Cape of good hope and so till you come to the mouth of the red sea it is also vsed in most of all the kingdomes of the East Indies The Spaniards and Indians of the West giue vs three principall reasons why they vse it the first is because it opens the body and le ts out the heate by the pores which is praeter naturam within them the second is the consumption and auoyding of superfluous moysture wherewith they are filled by eating of fruits abundantly by drinking of water and in all the In-land Countries for want of salt the third is because it staies both hunger and thirst and doth refresh them after great trauaile and toyle these be the general vertues and knowne to all but the Spanish Physitians their Priests and others that are learned finde somewhat else and of more importance in this hearbe for they vse a confection of Tobacco in all Callentures or burning feuers and they take it in smoke to defend them in long nauigations from the scuruy and they cure with it all sores and vlcers yea it is certaine that the iuice of Tobacco mixt with a little sea-water doth resist the venome of poysoned arrowes wherewith the Spaniards how slight soeuer the hurt bee are without such a help wounded to death The Brasilians say that it is cordiall and they also take it to stay hunger and thirst when they trauel and want sustenance The people of the South-parts of Virginia esteeme it exceedingly and so doe the rest they say that God in the creation did first make a woman then a man thirdly great maize or Indian wheat and fourthly Tobacco they vse it for the curing of wounds and in smoke as we doe and they are superstitiously led to beleeue that when they are in danger of drowning in foule wether that if they cast Tobacco into the water that the billow will fall and grow lesse Monardus the Spaniard commends it in all pains of the head growing by defluctions or windy vapors in the tooth-ake occasioned by cold rume in all diseases of the breast old coughes asmaticall passions and the like in all paines of the ioynts and swellings if the leaues roasted vnder imbers be often applied which the Indian women administer to their children for the coldnesse of their stomacke and windinesse The same Author affirmeth that in the suffocation of the matrix it is a present remedie if the leaues made warme be applied to the nauell or bottome of the belly in all greene woundes and vlcers and in the gangrene he prizeth it aboue all other vegetables yea hee affirmeth that an experience was made in the presence of King Philip the second of Spaine vpon a dogge poysoned These be Monardus his words as I finde them in Clusius Rex ipse Catholicus eius vires experiri volens Cani vulnus infligi iussit in gutture toxico quo ven●●atores vtuntur illini paulo post foliorum Tobacci succum satis copiose instillari ipsa folia trita super vulnus ligari liberatus est canis non sine omnium admiratione The Catholicke King willing to make triall of the vertue of it caused a dogge to haue a wound made in his throat and to be anointed with poyson which the hunters vse and a while after he made the iuyce of Tobacco to bee plentifully powred into it and the brused leaues to be bound vpon the wound and the dogge was healed to the no smal admiration of all that were present The same Author commends this hearbe for the cure of the Polypus and doth avow that he himselfe hath cured it with the iuice of Tobacco Clusius in his experience affirmeth that in all old vlcers putride and of a maligne quality in the gangren in the scabbes clouds in the eyes c. he hath vsed the vnguent of Tobacco with happy successe Mr Gerald in his history of plants or great herball tels vs that the dropsie hath been cured with the iuice of Tobacco and in the same book he teacheth the cōposition of an vnguent made with the lesser or male Tobacco which booke because the poorer sort are not able to buy that the said Gerald doth so highly commend the vse of this hearbe I thought good to take it out word for word for the common good of all poore people needing such a remedy and these be his words I do make hereof an excellent balsame to cure deepe wounds and punctures c. which balsame doth bring vp the flesh from the bottome very speedily also heale simple cuts in the flesh according to the first intention that is to glew or soder the lips of the wound together not procuring matter or corruption vnto it as is commonly seene in the healing of wounds Take saith he oyle of roses oyle of Saint Iohns wort of either one pint the leaues of Tobacco stamped smal in a stone morter two pound boyle them together to the consumption of the iuice straine it and put it to the fire againe adding thereunto of Venice Turpentine two ounces of Olibanum and Mastic of either halfe an ounce in most fine and subtill powder which may at all times make it into an vnguent or salue by putting therunto wax and rosin to giue vnto it a stiffe body He further saith that the iuice or distilled water of the lesser leafe is very good against catharres the dizinesse of the head and rhumes that fall down to the eyes against the paine called the Migrame if either you apply it to the temples or take one or two greene leaues or the drye leafe moystened in wine and warmed on Imbers and apply it Many notable medicines are made hereof against the old and inueterate cough