the seventh moneth clear blood ran forth abundantly at both her breasts to the great amazement and astonishment of the woman her self and of many others There was speedily applyed to both her breasts soft folded clothes well soaked in the hot prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup And likewise the prepared Liquor with two or three spoonfulls of the Sirup of Mugwort was given to this woman to drink two or three times and the Menstrues came in order and purged naturally and in eight dayes the woman became to be perfect well and her breast milk became fair and healthfull and neither she nor her Nursing children had any manner of harm at all 90. A certain woman that for many years had been extreamly troubled with Obstructions and Oppilations of the Spleen and such Astmaticall stuffings that she could hardly draw her breath and had also a foul Impostumation in the Lungs she had spent all her state upon Physitians and Physick without any help or comfort Neverthelesse she was perfectly cured by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup These two last recited admirable experiments were done with many more by the Right Worshipfull Mrs. Abigaile Smalman of Wildertop in the County of Salop. 91. In Warwick an ancient Gentleman liveth that hath been for many years much troubled with the dead Palsie both in his hands knees and feet so that at certain times he had no use of either and for five years for his help and remedy he resorted to the Bathe to his great charges and painfull travell and although he recovered some help at the present times and for sometimes after Neverthelesse his former Palsie returned again at the accustomed times and so he remained without any constant help Neverthelesse by bathing and drinking of the prepared Liquor of this Cup This Gentleman is absolutely and perfectly cured Mrs. Roe of Warwick knoweth this to be true 92. A certain Gentlewoman falling upon her back and shoulders upon a pair of stairs her left shoulder and arm swelled very much and grew to be exceeding painfull they feared much the dislocation of the shoulder bone but being resolved otherwise the shoulder and all the arm was bathed with the hot prepared Liquor of the Cup the swelling brake in the small of the arm and much contused blood and quitture came forth and by this only help it was perfectly healed 93. A certain Gentlewoman having a little Wart under the left Eye on the bottome of the nether lid being accidentally rubbed off grew to a sore for the cure whereof she made use of severall Chyrurgeons but in vain for the sore grew to be worse and worse yea to such excrescens of proud flesh as exceeded an inch in thicknesse and her face swelled very much and continued very hard and the sight of her eye was quite lost for the time and in this exteamity she was left and judged to be incurable and thought it would be the cause of her speedy death Neverthelesse by bathing with and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup the swelling became abated the proud flesh became mortified and fell off in such sort that being rooted where the sore was foulest it left a hole under her eye an inch deep the sound flesh became soft her face well coloured and her sight was perfectly regained and with washing the sore and applying wet clothes unto the orifice of the sore without any tenting it filled up with good and sound flesh and she is hereby perfectly cured Mr. Lemuell Allen a Minister performed this rare cure 94. A certain Gentleman extreamly taken with a Quartan Ague which continued upon him 18. Moneths and although he spared no cost upon Physick and Physitians yet remained he still curelesse and helplesse the long continuance and violence of this Fever cast him into a deep Consumption his Stomack and Appetite to meat was quite lost his strength and naturall vigor failed so that for many weeks together he could take no manner of sustenance but only a little weak Cullice given him by a spoonfull or two at a time He was in this extreamity admonished to take some of the Liquor of my Cup aromatised with comfortable things to please his palate which he did once and it wrought gently by vomit he tooke the common and plaine prepared liquor of the Cup twise more and perfectly recovered his health Mr. Hunnyman one of his Majesties servants knoweth and justifieth this to be true 95. A certaine ancient man 84 yeeres of age became all the body over to be full of dry crusty scabbs which would commonly scale and rub off for a certaine season but would come again at length they came all his body over dry and hard like the bark of a tree In this perplexity his age and noysomenesse considered his wife and friends were put to many experiments but none profited him any thing at all untill they bathed all his body over with the hot liquor of this Cup and administred the same inwardly and by this practise within a few dayes this old man being throughly purged and bathed with this hot liquor prepared his hard crusty scabbedness scaled off and his flesh and skin was restored and renewed both white and cleare like a young mans This I saw done and doe publish for an experimented truth 95. A certain woman that lived by her painfull labour by some accidentall distemperature fell to be most grievevously afflicted with often and terrible fits of the Falling-sickness whereby her health was impaired and that cruell sickness continuing upon her many years brought her to extream poverty to whom the Liquor of this Cup prepared was 3 times administred and she was perfectly cured 97. A certain young man also tormented with the same cruell disease to whome the prepared Liquor of my Cup being in good quantities three times administred he was thereby perfectly cured There hath been cured of the Falling-sickness by the alone drinking of the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup in severall parts of the Kingdome whereof I have been informed more than 200. persons 98. A certain Gentleman in Cornwall having been for many years much troubled with the tough flegme and stoppings and Astmaticall oppilations and obstructions of the Lungs and thereby brought to a languishing Consumption that he could hardly walk with a staffe to whom the prepared Liquor of my Cup was administred three times and thereby was speedily restored to perfect health this Gentleman I have seen since healthfull and well in this Citty of London These three last recited experiments were performed by my truly honoured worthy friend the right worshipfull Mr. Francis Godolphin Esquire 99. A certain Gentleman having unlawfully and unfortunately accompanied with an unhealthfull and corrupt creature had his secret parts mightily swelled and exulcerated so that his Urine came from him with intollerable scorching and burning and also issued forth at six severall places not one of them being the proper and naturall passage for that was quite stopped
believe that it doth truly deserve that title The Vniversall Medicine or a Medicine for all Diseases neither can I in Words give it the due commendation it deserveth A Merchant in London a friend of mine came to me and told me he had a daughter of twelve years of age which was very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy insomuch that some of her teeth were fallen out her leggs and other parts of her body were exceedingly swelled neither did they after much Physick find any amendment in her unto whom the prepared Liquor of this Cup was given twice resting one day between it wrought well with her and a wonderfull effect immediately followed thereupon for within four dayes she was perfectly Cured her loose teeth were all fastened her legs and other parts of her body were restored to their naturall proportion again and she was absolutely freed from her Scurvy Disease Another friend that had been for a long time troubled with an Ague and the Green sicknesse together which was grown so faint with it that she was not able to goe it helped perfectly at once taking Some speciall properties I have observed in it which makes me to esteem of it very much namely the safety and gentlenesse of the Medicine in its operation for it may be given to young Children without danger as I have my self often times proved upon my own Children of three and four yeers of age from whose Stomacks it hath brought such foul corrupt matter that I could not have believed them to have been troubled withall had I not seen it It never straineth the body with that extream violence that other vomits doe for this worketh his effects with great facility gentleness and safety and also with incredibl expedition commonly upon the first or second taking I have seen wonderfull good effects done by it and Diseases that have been of long continuance speedily and perfectly Cured therewith Your loving Friend NICHOLAS BENET The twelfth and last Testimony that shall be at this time produced shall be a Testification of the Experienced knowledge and experimentall practice of a right worshipfull Gentleman of great Credit and reputation and one of singular humanity and liberall disposition to further the Common good Mr. John Grymesdich Esquire written also with his own hand verbatim as followeth A True Testimony of the Operations and effects of the Magneticall or Antimoniall Cup which I bought of Mr. Evans dwelling in Gunpowder Alley 1634. And by my wife used and practised ever since at my house in Knottingley in the Countie of Yorke AT my first bringing down of this Cup having a friend of mine about 15. years of age who had for four or five years before been fore troubled with the Falling-sicknesse and could not by any means of Physick or otherwise be Cured My wife made tryall of this Cup and gave to this young man the infusion thereof in white Wine and he was perfectly Cured without ever having any one fit sithence which I conceive to be a Cure beyond all the ordinary practice of Physick for although we used the opinion and help of divers Doctors and others professing skill in that cure yet the Child was never the better untill he had this cup Secondly my wife finds by continuall experience that it is a present cure for the Head-ache the temples of the Head being bathed with the Liquor of this Cup warm Thirdly there was a violent Disease in the Countrey and Town where I dwell which to many proved mortall a pestilent Fever or the like but my wife hath given the infusion of this Cup in white Wine to many of her neighbours that have been sick of the same Disease and none of them that had taken it ever perished but recovered perfectly Fourthly at my comming home after Ester Tearm I finde my wife dressing a poor Servants Foot in the Town one of his Toes having a foul Fistula in it almost for a whole yeer before and it was so corrupted that all her Salves and Powders could doe no good at all in so much that she said She was now out of hope to cure it and therefore would now give him over but I advised her first to try the Liquor of the Cup which she had not before tryed in Chyrurgerie and upon my advise and intreaty she did so doing nothing at all to it but wash it with the Infusion made with white Wine and squirt the tenâ— holese with a Syrindge and lay a wet cloth upon it dipt in the same infusion and she laid green Ivy leaves upon the cloth to keep it from drying this practice shee continued without using any other means at all and within one moneth that toe which had five tents put into it at the first and one of them quite through was perfectly cured Fifthly after this she cured a Gyrl of two Fistulaes in her Elbows which had continued for four or five years before and had much weakned and wasted her arms this Maid was perfectly cured only with washing and cleansing the sores and Syringing in the Liquor of this Cup warm without applying any thing else to the Sores having used all other common means before but could get no help Sixthly another poor man came to my house with a sore hand mightily swelled and infinitely painfull to him so that he could doe no manner of labor and his wife and children were ready to starve or to goe abroad on begging living before only upon the poore mans labor my wife taking pitty and compassion upon the poore man bathed his hand with hot liquor of white-Wine prepared in this Cup a good while together about half an hour and a wet cloath being laid upon it the next morning it broke and within one fortnight was perfectly cured Seventhly again another poore woman being strucken with a Cows horn as she was in milking and her cheek sore wounded was with the water of this Cup perfectly cured within one moneth at the most Eightly I have heard my Lady Jackson affirme that she having one of these Cups bought of Mr. Evans used it to a poore woman that was brought to her so drawn up with Convulsions that she had the use neither of her Legs nor Armes neverthelesse within short time she was perfectly cured by taking the Liquor of the Cup inwardly and bathing with it outwardly these I doe affirm as remarkable cures of my own observation but I verily believe that a quire of Paper will not containe the cures and helps that my Wife hath performed unto and upon poore people and to other in the Country since she had it with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup I may truly affirm that there hath not been a day or night this twelve moneths sithence the Virtues of this Cup was known in the Country but it hath been still neere unto the fire with Liquor in it both night and day and the Strength and Virtues of it still continues without any abatement at all
five tents put therein continually and one of the holes quite through which Fistulated sore foot could not be cured by the best skill Salves and Powders of the common Chyrurgeons was within one moneth perfectly cured with the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup 11. The same right worshipfull Gentlewoman cured a young maiden of two Fistulaes one in either of her elbows which had continued four or five yeers before which had much weakned and wasted her arms she was perfectly and speedily cured by using the alone infusion of this Cup having used all means before and could get no help 12. In the same Town a poor man came to this Gentlewoman with a sore hand mightily swelled and infinitely painfull to him so that he could doe no manner of labor His hand being bathed with the infusion of this Cup the next morning it broke and run abundantly and within one fortnight by the use of this infusion alone his hand was perfectly cured 13. A certain poor woman was brought to the right honoured Ladie the Ladie Jackson so drawn up and her sinews contracted with Convulsions that she had not the use either of Legs Arms Feet or Hands notwithstanding she was by the said Lady perfectly cured and restored to strength health and able use of her former benummed limbs by the alone infusion of this Cup 14. Another poor woman being struck with a Cows horn as she was in milking and her cheek sore wounded was by only washing the sores with the Liquor of the Cup perfectly and speedily cured These eight last recited experiments are certified to be approved truth by the right worshipfull M. John Grymsdych of Knottingley Esquire 15. A certain man about 30 years of age troubled for 9 years before with the Disease called the Kings evill and much consumed and weakned therewith was perfectly cured of that Disease by the use of the infusion of this Cup M. Humfrey Guntur Esquire living neer Newberry performed this with many other very rare cures 16. In Wallingford Mr. Smiths Daughter of the George was perfectly cured of the Kings-Evill with the infusion thereof although it was broken out into very many dangerous and Ulcerous sores about her neck and face Mr. William Mollins Esq who lent them his Cup wherewith they cured this patient of that sore disease testifieth this 17. In Mortelake neer Richmond a Gentleman of good worth and reputation now liveth spent very far with a long continued languishing Consumption and at length left remedilesse and forsaken by many Doctors and Physitians was afterwards perfectly recovered to good health appetite digestion and healthfull constitution of body by drinking the infusion of this Cup three times being prepared in Ale witnesse hereunto M. Humfrey Benet Esquire 18. In Barnet ten miles from London a certain poor man distracted with extream Frensie and Madness to whom Mrs. Baker dwelling in the Town administred in good and sufficient quantity of the Liquor of this Cup a pinte of Ale at a time for three times It caused him to vomit and to purge plentifully and fell a bleeding at the nostrills and bled well stayed of it self the patient slept and perfectly recovered and remaineth well praise to God 19. In the same Town upon a Market day a poor Country man was strucken very deep into the leg by a raging Boar and withdrawing his crooked tushes rented tore and bruised the flesh very sore neverthelesse being dressed with the infusion of this Cup was perfectly and speedily healed up without any other help 20. Also in the same Town a certain young maiden being all over the body full of loathsome Biles Botches and scabbed Blains from the Crown to the foot by taking the infusion of this Cup she was speedily cured and her body perfectly purged and cleansed and she avoided at her mouth divers worms whereof one was of an increedible bignesse proportion and form and now she is in good health and fair of complexion 21. Another Gentlewoman in the same Town having many swelling or rising kernels of sanguine blew and other variable colours as big as Nutmegs arising upon her cheek and neck With the application and drinking of this infusion they speedily consumed and vanished away and the Gentlewoman remaineth perfectly cured 22. Another woman living not far from the same Town being lame of her hands knees and feet and not able to stand or goe and brought into Mrs. Kings house in a chair by the strength of men using the infusion of this Cup within four dayes she was perfectly recovered so that she was able to goe home to her own house on foot being two or three miles distant off These five last experiments were don with many more by Mrs. King alias Barker living in Barnet 23. A Merchants Daughter in London very much troubled with a Disease called the Scurvy whereby some of her teeth were fallen out her legs and body exceedingly swelled and she in great extremity of pain and finding no amendment by all the former means they had used by taking the infusion of this Cup three times she was perfectly cured 24. An ancient Gentlewoman living neer Fetter-lane having for many yeers complained of an intollerable pain of the head fell suddainly dangerous sick and deaf and all her face and nose mightily swelled By externall bathing the temples and other parts of her head and face grieved an Impostume broke in her head and purged through her nostrils in such great abundance that it was much to be admired that so much corrupt yellow thick matter could be contained in such a continent her body also throughly purged by the externall bathing and she is now perfectly recoverd and liveth in good health able to justifie this to be true 25. At Wildertop in the County of Salop in the house of Mr. Francis Smalman Esquire a young Gentlewoman being much troubled with oppilations and obstructions and suffocations of the Matrix whereby she fell into many dangerous desperate swounding fits and at length grew to that weaknesse that she had many signes of apparent and imminent death upon whom the infusion of this Cup was inforced in small quantity which wrought well and gave some hopes and after administred twice more recovered the said Gentlewoman to such perfect health that within eight dayes she travelled safely to London 26. An ancient Gentlewoman that for many years was extreamly handled with such intollerable painfullnesse of the Gout in the joynts of the Back-bone in the Huckle-bone and in the Knees and Feet that she could neither stand nor stir her self any way nor scarcely suffer to be removed from her Bed to her Chair By externall bathing the grieved parts with and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly cured and able within fourteen dayes to go up down the stairs and the house and to doe any necessary businesse with as much agility and nimblenesse as any in the same Town of her years and hath so continued perfectly well for
last Experiments were Experimentally approved by Mrs. Goffe dwelling neer the Church in Trinity-lane in London 65. A certain Gentlewoman having for many years continued languishing in a deep Consumption was mightily swelled with Hydropicall humors and notwithstanding the best helps of the Physitians esteemed incurable as all in such an estate are falsly deemed to be and so left remedies was neverthelesse speedily restored to perfect health all the Hydropicall corrupt humors quite purged away and her liver rectified good appetite and a kindly digestion regained and the naturall vigor and strength of the whole body effectually restored by drinking 3. or 4. times the prepared Liquor of this Cup without any other help 66. Moreover in the Citty of Worcester a certain corpulent Gentleman much given to the company of great drinkers was suddainly caught with a dangerous surfeit and dead Palsie lameness of all the left side and this Gentleman for many years before had been much tormented with the painfulness of the Gout this surfeit brought also upon him a fierce and a violent burning Fever this Gentleman used the best helps of the Physitians but all in vain notwithstanding by drinking the prepared Liquor of my Magneticall Cup and by bathing the head back sides and all the parts troubled with lameness and painfulness of the Gout he was recovered to perfect health and Strength of the whole body These two last recited experiments with many hundreths more for Agues Green sickness Obstructions and the like were performed by my worthy friend Mr. Walter Childe Esquire 67. A certain woman that for 7. or 8. years together had continuall suppression of the Menstrues and a very sore Fistula or dangerous ulcer upon her leg having many sore orifices where from continually came forth much corrupt matter and her body was also much swelled with Hydropicall humours with drinking inwardly the prepared Liquor of this Cup and cleansing the ulcerous sores therewith the monthly courses brake down kindly upon her and purged well all the swelling was abated the Ulcerous or Fistulated leg was perfectly healed witnesse Mrs. Alliston 68. A certain poor man a Brick-layer living about Bedford being exceedingly swelled with corrupt and hydropicall humors and brought to exceeding weaknesse by a long languishing Consumption who after much practice made by common Physitians was left remedilesse and incurable notwithstanding by the blessings of God drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly restored to health Mr. Thomas Litton Esquire performed this admirable Cure with many others 69. A certain Gentleman of good worth and esteem living in the Strand neer Charing Crosse that for certain yeers continued most grievously tormented with the windy and flatuous Melancholy in the sides and with extream pain about the Stomack his appetite to meat lost and thereby cast into a deep Consumption and by many judged to be incurable Neverthelesse by the blessings of God and drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup within a few dayes he was restored to perfect health and so hath continued still for five years past This is testified by Mr. John Lathum Esquire to be an approved truth 70. A certain woman having her naturall purgations stayed upon her for many years and through the suppression of them and the malignities of sharp and corrupt humors had a most grievous Ulcerated sore breast mightily swelled and intollerably painfull having therein eight holes wherein eight tents of great length were put in at times of dressing and much foul corrupt matter issued therefrom continually in began to mortifie and to look black and dangerous and the common Chyrurgeons advised the woman to have that Breast cut off for other cure thereof they knew none Neverthelesse by syrindging and cleansing the Ulcerous sores to the bottome without Tents and by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup and applying externally hot wet clothes to the sore Breast the swelling abated the corrupt matter expurged and the woman was speedily and perfectly healed 71. A certain Gentleman of great credit and imployment for 2. or 3. years was most miserably distracted and deeply plunged with desperate Melancholy and had been under the hands of many professed Doctors of Physick without help or remedy was perfectly restored to his memory understanding and perfect health by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup And hath continued for many years since comfortable in minde healthfull in body and every way able sufficiently with reputation and credit to discharge an office of great employment and trust 72. A certain poor Ship carpenter having for a long time been grievously handled with a quartan Ague and after with a most violent burning Fever and cast at last into a deep Consumption having spent all his whole estate upon Physitians and by them left remediless and helpless was by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup perfectly and speedily restored to perfect health and strength to labor in his calling 73. A certain young Gentlewoman being for many years very much troubled with Cachexia being an evill disposition of the whole body and stomack Green-sickness Obstructions of the Spleen and Liver and with continuall vomitings that commonly whatsoever she did eate or drink came up again immediatly she was also troubled with many foule and noisome worms and had taken very much Physick without any benefit or help neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup she was perfectly cured her stomack was throughly cleansed her complexion became faire her blood fresh and fluent many noisome foule worms of an incredible bigness were expelled her naturall purgations were restored and naturall strength and vigour flourished to full perfection 74. A certain poore man that went very feebly and weakly wandring about the streets to beg his sustenance that for many years was grievously afflicted with the bloody flix without finding any help or remedie was perfectly cured by 3 times drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup without any other help 75. A certain Sea Captain at his return was very sore troubled with the Scorbuto and swelling of the body but most specially of the legs and feet and also with great swelling and painfulnesse in one of his shoulders his stomack to meat was gone and his sleep departed from him but taking the Liquor of this Cup inwardly and bathing the parts afflicted outwardly he was speedily restored to perfect health 76. A certain Gentlewoman that for many years together was troubled with Vertigo gidinesse and swimming of the head dizinesse and darknesse of her sight and with swounding fits all which proceeded from noysome vapours arising from her Stomack and had taken much and costly Physick without benefit or help By drinking this prepared Liquor she was speedily and perfectly cured These seven last recited rare and wonderfull experiments were performed by Mrs. Elizabeth Ray wife to Captain John Ray Esquire 77. A certain right Honorable Lord that for many years had been very much troubled with swellings and hydropicall humors and was faln very
deep into a languishing Consumption and having followed for divers years the prescription of the Physitians without any help or hope Was perfectly and speedily restored to health by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Cup 78. In Wolverhampton in the County of Stafford a certain Gentleman was most extreamly taken and troubled with the dead Palsie which had taken away the strength and motion of the one side of his body wholy and also of both the hands and feet so that he was not able to stir out of his bed or being there to move or stir either hand or foot was speedily restored to perfect health strength and abilitie of body to walk and write by drinking the alone prepared Liquor of this Magneticall Cup and bathing therewith 79. In the same Town of Wolverhampton a certain Gentleman having been for a long time much troubled with the Fever Hectick and much stopped and stuffed with tough flegme his Stomack to meat and digestion quite lost and having taken much Physick without any benefit or help and forsaken and left curelesse By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily restored to perfect health 80. Another man living in the same Town of Wolverhampton that had been above twenty years very much troubled with a deadly quartan Fever and could never get any prevalent help to free him from the violence thereof By drinking three times the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly cured This was eight years past and he remaineth ever since in perfect health 81. A poor Mayden living in the same Town the Daughter of a poor Widow having lost the benefit of her sight occasioned by over-much coldnesse of the brain and much buffeting and beating about the head but principally caused by long retention of the Menstruous howsoever caused she was esteemed to be sightless remedilesse Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of the Cup and droping some into the eyes and bathing the temples her naturall tearms brake down kindly her head and brain received warmnesse and in lesse than fourteen dayes she recovered both her health and perfect sight 82. Another Gentleman that from his Childhood had much complained of dimnesse and weaknesse of his sight especially at any remote distance and hardly able to endure the light of a candle and continually had such a shuting and pricking in his eyes as though sticks had been rowled in them By drinking three or four times the prepared Liquor of this Cup and dropping in his eyes some allayed with fountain water it hath so cleared and strengthned the sight that this Gentleman being fifty two years of age can now read and write by candlelight without any glasses for six or twelve hours together without any trouble or wrong to his sight which he could not doe at any time before 83. In Tressul a Parish in Statfordshire a certain man having throughly heated himself with hay-making and lying down upon the ground caught a most dangerous cold and cough of the lungs which continued upon him even to a deep Astmaticall Consumption so that as well Physitians as others esteemed him to be incureable Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily and perfectly cured 84. In Walsall in the same County one William Day was so far spent with a languishing Consumption and had taken very much Physick without help or any benefit and esteemed to be utterly incurable By drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was speedily and perfectly cured These eight last recited experiments and as it is affirmed 800. more of severall Diseases were performed by one Benedict Laurence dwelling in Wolverhampton 85. In the same County and neer unto Wolverhampton another Gentleman was in a desperate Consumption and extreamly swelled with hydropicall humors that no apparell could be had big enough for him and his miserable swellings and painfullnesse so great and such that himself and his friends heartily wished his life to be at an end Neverthelesse by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup he was perfectly and speedily cured 86. Mr. Thomas Godfrey of Seeling in the County of Kent Esq finding his man comming from London in the time of Plague to have faln sick very suddainly suspected that he might be infected with the Pestilence and therefore speedily prepared the Cup and caused his man and himself and every one of his Family with all possible expedition to drink good quantities of the prepared Liquor and it wrought effectually upon every one of them and not any one of his Houshold miscarried His man had a great tumor in his Groin which by bathing was brought to suppuration and broke and was cleansed with the prepared Liquor and thereby was perfectly healed Thus by his carefull and heedfull prevention the said Mr. Godfrey preserved himself and all his Family from the contagious Infections of the Plague This Gentleman hath cured also very many Kentish Agues and above 100. severall persons infirmed with severall infirmities and Diseases with the alone Liquor of the Cup 87. The Lady Middleton of Burshby Hill in Hartfordshire having the same accident as the last recited befaln to her Coachman comming from London in the time of greatest infection with all expedition gave to him to drink the prepared Liquor of the Cup and also to her self and to every particular person of her Family it wrought well upon every one by vomits and otherwise cured the Coachman of the Plague sore and prevented the infection from the rest These I doe publish to excite all to glorifie God for his mercifull goodness and to stir them to the like Christian and Godly care and usefull practice for the better prevention of all such dangerous Diseases 88. A certain Country man being a Warrener having in charge to walk about his ground betwixt one and two in the morning finding himself addicted to sleep having spent the former part of the night in unmeasurable drinking laid himself down upon the ground and slept afterwards rowsing himself up found his limbs mightily stiffned and benummed neverthelesse got home to his house being neer and threw himself on his back in all his clothes upon his Bed where he continued five weeks in that very same posture not being able to suffer himself any way to be holpen for the ease of naturall necessity at which time I was come into the Country and earnestly requested to visit him he was the most miserable spectacle and the most foulsome to come neer unto that ever I saw in all my life Neverthelesse with bathing his benummed arms thighs legs and feet with and by drinking the prepared Liquor of this Cup recovered his feet and after his perfect health Mr. Thomas Brooks Esquire and Mr. John Dickons with many others doe know this to be a certain truth 89. A certain young woman of a fair and healthfull constitution undertaking the nourishing of two strong children the monethly purgations became stopped and stayed for six moneths and in