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A37219	A memorial for the learned, or, Miscellany of choice collections from most eminent authors in history, philosophy, physick, and heraldry / by J.D., Gent.	J. D., Gent.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1686 (1686)	Wing D38; ESTC R18713	93,900	252

abrogated 87 Stews put down 93 A great Sleeper ibid Serges made in England 100 A Star at Noon at King Charles the 2ds Birth 107 T. ORders of Templers Page 49 Wonderful Accident of Thunder 51 Thames almost dry 50 Decrease of Teeth in Men. 68 1500 executed for Treason 69 Five M●●n hang'd at Tyburn yet lived after 77 A wonderful Tempest 97 Tobacco brought into England 99 U. UTer Page 4 A strange Vision 89 A miraculous Victory 94 W. WIlliam sirnamed Rufus Page 10 His Expedition into Normandy 11 Death and Burial ibid Wales subdu'd 17 Woolsey Cardinal 30 Woolston's Miracle 48 Westminster first built 49 Prince of Wales whence first 59 Wales and England united Apparel for Whores 67 King Edward and the Widow 81 A large Whale taken 101 〈◊〉 brought to London 104 Y. YEomen of the Guard first instituted Page 86 Collections of Life and Death NAture durable and not durable in Stones Metals Page 111 In Herbs and Fruit-trees 112 Length and shortness of Life in Creatures viz. The Elephant Camel Dog Sow Vultures ib Birds Fishes Crocodiles tame Animals 113 Of Nourishment 114 To make large Fruit. ibid Where Men live longest ibid To try Healthfulness of Air Signs of long Life Medicines for long Life Blood-letting Strong Liquors and Spices Spare Diet Exercise 115 Of Joys Grief and Fear Anger and Envy Pity and Shame Love and Hope Admiration 116 Chief Promoters of Longaevity Desarts and Mountains Anointings Sweatings Woollen Clysters Bathing Meats c. 117 118 The Porches of Death SUdden Death Poysons Extream Passions Strangling Page 119 To recal Life if possible 120 Collections of Natural History containing many choice Experiments viz. PErcolation Separating Bodies by weight c. To make Vines fruitful Meats and Drinks most nourishing An admirable Drink To keep long under Water To prolong Life Make Drink fresh Keep Fruit green Ripen Apples To make Gold Accelerate Growth Make Whelps little Preserving Rose-leaves Candles long last To make a hot Bed Fruit grow into shape To make Inscriptions on Trees Fruit without Core or Stone To try Seeds if good When to gather Fruits Easiest Death Of Drunkenness Prognosticks of unwholsom Years Induration of Quick-silver Apples without Core Raise Water by Flame Of Sneezing Audacity Food beneficial to the Brain To help Courage and Ingenuity Infallibly to take away Warts From Page 121. to Page 132. Vulgar Errors First Book THeir Causes Page 132 A further Illustration 133 Second Cause 135 Nearer and more immediate Causes in wise and common sort of People viz. Misapprehension Fallacy Credulity Supinity Adherence to Authority Antiquity and Tradition 137 Brief Enumeration of Authors 141 Of the same 143 The last Promoter of Common Errors Satan 144 Second Book OF Chrystal Page 145 Of the Loadstone 148 Of Bodies Electrical 149 Tenents of Vegetables 151 Insects and Properties of Plants 153 Third Book OF the Elephant Page 154 Of the Horse 155 Of the Dove 156 Of the Bever 157 Of the Badger 158 Of the Bear ibid Of the Basilisk 159 Of the Wolf 160 Of the Deer 161 Of the Kingfisher 163 Of Griffins 164 Of the Phoenix 165 Of Frogs Toads and Toadstone 166 Of the Salamander 167 Of the Amphisbaena 168 Of the Viper 169 Of Hares 170 Of Moles 171 Of Lampries 172 Of Snails 173 Of the Chameleon 174 Of the Ostrich 175 Of the Unicorns Horn. 176 That all Animals of the Land are in the Sea 177 Common course of Diet and choice or abstinence from sundry Animals 178 Of Sperma Ceti 179 Tenents of Animals false or dub●● 180 Swans Melody ibid The Peacock ibid Of the Stork Toad Spider Lion Cock Snakes 181 Fourth Book Of the Erectness of Man 182 Of the Heart 184 Of Plurisies and 185 the Ring-finger 185 Of the right and left Hand 186 Of Swimming and Floating 187 Of Weight 188 Passages of Meat and Drink 189 Of Sneezing 190 Of the Jews 191 Of Pigmies 193 Fifth Book OF Pictures First Of the Pelican Page 194 Picture of the Dolphin 195 Serpent and Eve 196 Pictures of Eastern Nations c. 197 Sixth Book OF the Beginning of the World 199 Seventh Book HIstorical Tenents Of the forbidden Fruit. 199 That a Man has one Rib less than a Woman 203 The Death of Aristotle 204 Abridgment of Honour PRiviledges due to the Gentry 205 Of the Esquire 206 Of Knighthood in general and the Knight-Batchelor 207 Of the Knight of the Bath 208 Of Bannerets 209 Of Baronets 210 Of Barons 211 Of a Bishop 212 The Viscount 213 Count or Earl 213 The Marquess 213 Of the Duke 214 Of the Archbishop ibid The Prince 215 The King 216 Of Women 217 ●●edence amongst the Peers of England 218 A short MEMORIAL OF English History Beginning before the Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar and from thence continued to the year 1686. BRITAIN THE length of Britain from Length and breadth of Britain the Luzard-point Southward in Cornwal to the Straithy-head in Scotland containeth 624 miles The breadth from the Lands-end in Cornwal in the West unto the Island Tenet in the East containeth 340 miles A Place so well stored with all necessary Commodities for this Life that our English Lucan thus sings The fairest Land that from her thrusts the rest As if she cared not for the World beside A World within her self with Wonders blest England's Dimension in length from Length and breadth of England Barwick to the Lands-end is 386 miles In breadth from Sandwich to the Lands-end 279. In compass about 1300 miles The first Inhabitants of this Island were The first Inhabitants derived from the Gauls and anciently few and those of the better sort only did wear any sort of Cloathing Their Wives were 10 or 12 which they Their Wives held common amongst Parents and Brethren yet was the Issue reputed his only who first married the Mother when she was a Maid It is observable in the time of the Romans A valiant Queen of one Boadicea Queen to Pratiosagus after her Husband's Death receiving Incivilities from the Romans opposed her self against them and in one Battel slew 80000 of them and got several other great Victories but at length she was vanquished in Battel when rather than live subject to her Foes she poysoned her self The Romans were opposed 100 years nor were the Britains then subdued but by their own Divisions An. Mun. 3913. Julius Caesar first took Romans first ●●ed Britain Footing in Britain about Deal besore Christ 54. In the year of Redemption 67. Domitius Nero reigning the 6th Emperor Joseph of Arimathea was sent by Philip the Apostle to First Preacher of the Gospel in Britain plant the Gospel in Britain who laid the foundation of the Christian Faith at a Place then called Avalon now Glastenbury where he died and was buried A. D. 181. Aurelius Commodus being Emperor The first publick profession thereof was the Christian Faith in Britain first professed by publick Authority under King Lucius the

those again which fall into How to recal Life if possible sudden Swooning and Catalepsis of Astonishment these things are used Putting hot and cordial Waters into their Mouths bending the Body forwards stopping the Mouth and Nostrils hard wringing the Fingers pulling the Hairs of the Beard or Head rubbing of the Parts c. SHORT COLLECTIONS OF Natural History Century I. DIG a Pit upon the Sea-shore somewhat 1. Experiment Percolation above the high-High-water Mark and sink it as deep as the Low-water Mark and as the Tide cometh in it will fill with Water fresh and potable which is caused by its being strained through the Sands by which the saltness is clearly taken away Take a glass Bottle fill the belly in 14. Exper. Separating Bodies by Weight part with Water take also a large Drinking-glass whereinto put Claret-wine and Water mingled reverse the first Glass stopping the Neb with your Finger then dip the mouth of it within the second Glass and remove your Finger continue it in that posture for a time and it will unmingle the Wine from the Water and Wine ascending and settling in the upper Glass and the Water descending And so of all other Liquors if they differ in weight the heavier being set uppermost Take a small Wax-candle and set it upright 31. Exper. Concerning the Flame of a Candle in a Porringer full of spirit of Wine heated then set both on fire and you shall see the flame of the Candle open it self and become four or five times bigger than otherwise it would have been and appear in figure Globular and not in Pyramis which shews that Flame would still ascend upwards in one greatness if it were not quenched by the pressure of Air on the sides Take an Arrow and hold it in the 32. Exper. Of the different force of Flame on the sides and in the middle Flame for the space of ten Pulses and you shall find those parts which were on the outside of the Flame more blackt and burnt than the part held in the midst which shews that Heat or Fire is not violent or furious but when it is checked or pent and also that as the Peripateticks held the pure Elemental fire in his own place and not irritated is but of a moderate heat It is certainly affirmed that a lump of 33. Exper. The decrease of the motion of gravity deep in the Earth as well as removed a distance from the Earth Ure in the bottom of a Mine will be moved by two men which above ground is hardly moved by six so that the opinion of all dense Bodies moving to the Center is a meer vanity It is reported of credit that if you lay 35. Exper. Solitary Touching making Vines more fruitful good store of Kernels of Grapes or other Kernels about the root of a Vine it will make the Vine come earlier and prosper better because the Kernels draw out of the Earth Juyce fit to nourish the Tree but the root being of greater strength robbeth and devoureth the nourishment 45. Exper. In consort touching Meats and Drinks that are most nourishing 46. Exper. An admirable Drink In Vegetables Grains and Roots nourish more than Leaves Marrow is more nourishing than fat the yolks of Eggs are clearly more nourishing than the whites Take two large Capons perboyl them upon a soft fire till in effect all the blood be gone add in the Decoction the Pill of a sweet Lemmon and a little Mace cut off the Shanks then mince them Bones and all as small as ordinary minced Meat put them into a large neat Boulter then take a Kilderkin sweet and well seasoned of four Gallons of Beer of 8 s. strength new as it cometh from the tunning make in the Kilderkin a great Bung-hole on purpose then thrust into it the Boulter with the Capons let it steep in it three days and three nights the Bung-hole open to work then close the Bung-hole and so let it continue a day and a half then draw it into Bottles and you may drink it well after three days bottleing it will last six weeks approved it drinketh very pleasant and fresh and is an admirable Drink for a Consumption Century II. III. LET a man take a Pail and put it Exper. the 155. How to keep long under Water over his Head going into a Bath and so douk keeping the mouth of the Pail level with the water that the Air might not get under the sides and he may take his breath freely a great while and if he then speak he may be heard to those above but it will seem very remote and exile It is observed and a very strange thing 205. An Observation of sight that to men standing below on the ground those that be on the top of Pauls seem much less than they are and cannot be known but to men above those below seem nothing so much lessened and may be known yet it is true that all things to them above seem also somewhat contracted and better collected into figure It much conduceth unto long Life that 292. Touching prolongation of Life mens actions be free and voluntary secundum genium or that mens actions be full of regulation and commands within themselves the performance whereof giveth a good disposition to the Spirits and hinders them from consuming the juice of the Body Century IV. V. VI. IT is tryed that the burying of Bottles of drink well stopped either in dry 315. To make Drink fresh and quick Earth a good depth or in the bottom of a Well within Water and best of all the hanging them in a deep Well somewhat above the Water for some fortnights space is an excellent means of making drink fresh and quick Take an Apple and enclose it in Wax 318. Keeping Fruit green fresh and you will find that after several mo●●hs if the Apple was green before you cannot perceive any alteration either in colour or taste Hang an Apple in the smoak it will 319. Quick maturation of Apples turn like an old mellow Apple wrinkled dry soft sweet and yellow within in a very short time Let there be a small Furnace made of a 327. To make Gold temperate heat let the heat be such as may keep the Metal perpetually moiten and no more for that above all importeth to the work For the material take Silver next which Copper is the best put in also with the Silver a tenth part of Quicksilver and a twelfth part of Nitre by weight and so let the work be continued by the space of six Months at the least I wish also that there be sometimes an insection of some oyled substance such as they use in the recovering of Gold which by vexing with Separations hath been made churlish and this is to lay the parts more close and smooth which is the main work For the nature of the Nourishment it 354. Experiment touching the