Image 082, second book, folio 42b, receipts 330 to 334.
| The second booke | ||||
| warme in the morninge fastinge, & fast 2 houres after, & then drinke as much | ||||
| at 4 of ye clocke in ye afternoone, & so continue for 9 dayes together | ||||
| 330. A receipt to make a purge of ruberbe & scene* | ||||
| Take a pinte of water & boyle in it parsly roots, & fennell roots, of each fowre | ||||
| handfull, mallows, & violet leaves, of each di an handfull, a quarter of j lb of | ||||
| reasons of the sunne* ye stones being taken out, boyle all these together with a | ||||
| large mace till halfe be consumed, then let ye water runne from them through | ||||
| a cloth, & put in j ? of sene*, & let it boyle close covered till ye broth be | ||||
| a quarter consumed, then slice 2 drams of ruberbe, with a litle cinamon, & | ||||
| let them stand all night so infused upon ye embers close covered, and in the | ||||
| morning strayne it out till you have lefte it very drye, then put into it three | ||||
| spoonfull of ye sirrop of damaske roses, then make it blond warme, & let ye | ||||
| patient drinke of it by 6 of the clocke in ye morninge, & fast 3 houres after | ||||
| it keepeing himselfe very warme, & then he may take some broth made | ||||
| with opening rootes & fruite. | ||||
| 331 An other receipte to purge. | ||||
| Take a pinte of water, an ounce of sene, polypodium 2 &ounce, ginger one race* | ||||
| let them boyle till one quarter be consumed, then let it stand all nighte, & in ye | ||||
| morninge make it hot, & strayne it out, then put into it di j lb of currence*, di j lb | ||||
| of suger, then boyle all till ye currence be allmost dry, then take it of, & use it. | ||||
| 332. To kill the canker in the mouthe. | ||||
| Take a pinte of honye, of roch allome* as much as a wallnut, of white cop- | ||||
| poris* halfe so muche, a quarter of a pinte of white vineger, boyle them toge- | ||||
| ther untill it be in the manner of a syrrop, then take it upon a litle linte, | ||||
| & laye it to the place, & it will kill it. | ||||
| 333. Elizabeth Boyle her receipte. | ||||
| Gather the mosse of ye sweete apple tres, & it is to be gathered betweene ye | ||||
| 2 lady dayes* in the harvest, you are to take ye same mosse, & lay it in rose | ||||
| water, 15 dayes, & every 3 dayes it must bee wronge out & shifted, & the | ||||
| last time you water it, you are to take 3 graynes of muske, & grind it and | ||||
| put it into the water, then take your mosse out of ye water, & wring it dry | ||||
| & put it betweene two fine syves*, then take a quarter of j lb of Benjamin**, & | ||||
| burne ye Beniamin in a chafeing dishe* of coales, & over the smoke of it you | ||||
| are to dry your mosse, when you have done this, you may beate it softe, and | ||||
| temper it woith your rose leaves to make your bags withall, you are to take | ||||
| leysure in dryinge of it, it muste be a whole weeke adryinge betweene your | ||||
| two sives over the smoke of your Beniamin. | ||||
| 334. To make plague water. | ||||
| take rewe, egrimoye, wormewoode, sellendine*, browne Mayweede, Angelica, | ||||
| carduus benedictus, scabyas, turmentyll*, betony, sage, balme, rosemarye, | ||||
| mugworte, dragons*, pympernell, marygoldes, fetherfewe, sorrell, avens**, | ||||
| Burnet, & a little roots of elacampane scraped & shred small, & as muche | ||||
| more rosemarye, as of any other of the hearbes, & you must have them of | ||||
| like wayghte*, then soke them in the best white wine you can get 3 dayes | ||||
| & 3 nights, & after wring the hearbes from the wine, & distill ye herbes | ||||
| bye themselves |
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Transcribed by ALB and RMS