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cleane through
beginning of May, open them & pike them cleane & wash
them seven times in shite wine. Then take a peck of
Snailes shells and all, Lahy them on a cleane Hearth or Oven
Bottome made very hott with Charcole, & betweene the Snails
here and there some hott Charcoales, & cover them with a pan
that is hotte, and let them continue there untill they have some
making a noise which will be about a Quarter of an houre.
Then picke them and wash them & bruise them a little.
Then take Hartshorne newly scraped, One pound of very new=
ly raspt, Cloves 4 Ounces, Egrimony, Salensone, Scabious,
fumisory of each 3 handfulls, Rosemary flowers a pestle
Saffron newly borsed 1/2 an Ounce, mixe all these, & infuse
them 24 houres in 2 gallons of good Ale, then putt it in a Lin
beack & draw it of with a gentle Fire. Preserve the first 3
pints by its selfe, and your smaller by its selfe being 6
pints more.
The rest will be of little Effect. Take of your stronger water
2 Spoonfulls at once ina little Beere and Sugar an houre or 2
before dinner & Supper, and of the smaller 4 Spoonfull at
once in like manner. It is good ag the Reestick Consumpti
on your Jaundies or any other disease that proceeds from
obtruction of the Liver.

Francisco Mornos way of perfuming of Skinns
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{H Stan}

First chuse your Skinns of Corouan or hide of Spanish
dressing without Salt, & as Spunge as you can gett: Soake
them very well in Rose water, & rubbe it in, then perfume it in
a stove with Benjamin and Florax, and at the last a little
Pastilles. If you meane to be as much chardge of Amber, doe
this over 2 or 3 times as the last of all when they are
drie rubb them on the ruffe side very limber & anoint
them with this Composition of Amber, which is made thus.

Warme

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Warme a Brasse Morter and pestle, then putt into it an Ounce
or lessse of finett, & asoone as that is reduced to an Oile, put into
it 2 ounces of Ambar Gris, & stirr it in the finnett with
the warme Pestle till all be well incorporated, then poure in
some fresh orane Oyle of Ben to dilate it, and likewise a little Orange flower
water till you find it so thinne that it will easily sink into the leather.
Then last of all putt in a Quarter of an ounce of Muske, & worke it
perfectly well with the rest then rubbe it by little & little into yo
Leather. boing of it over severall times, till a large Skinn have
drunke up all this proportion, or ten paire of large Gloves, or Pockets
or what you please. then let them dry upon papers on a talble in
the Stove that day, the next day sett them in the Strong
Sunne, & as they dry turne them, lying upon Papers and some wollen Cloth,
till they be thorough dry & Stiffe; then rubbe and worke them in
the Hands, till they be very limber, & so putt them up in
Papers wrapd in awarme Place in Woollen, and kept from time.

The 10th day of June in Madrid. 1650

According to the proportion Perfumes may be made

Viz.

I{ngredients for
perfumes & making
of Beades.}

To an Ounce of Amber, a quarter of an ounce of algalla an Ounce
of the oyle of the flower Jasmin, & halfe an Ounce of aloastera.

To make Paste Beades

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{A Stan}
Grind the Auantity of Ambar you please upon a Stone of purpose
such as the Printers use &c. and one quarter part of algalla; &
the like of almisle of so much quantite as the amber, &
then putt thereunto a little alquitura, & boile the same together to a Mass, and
thereof make the Beades with your Hands as you please, putting therron them
a thred with a needle, then dry them.