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To make a good surfet watter of popeys Mrs Purfrys
Take 2 quarts of brandy sack or aquavity one pound of lose sugar set it in ye sun 20 dayes shaking it together each day as you se fit set it out for 2 or 3 howers in ye heat of ye day puting in 60 cloves as much synamond & a half peny worth of scotchenell hang all this in a bag in a glasse to sun then put into a pot ye aquavity so suned half a bushell of red popeys of ye feild to steep together for 24 howers then strain it out for your use keping it close stopt about a spoonfull at a tyme is enough to take it is very good for any distemper as small pox or measells but singular good for surfets you may make a watter wth ye popyes & spice stilled wth good herbs & aquivita or wine or wt you will.

The Marquess of Dorchesters Cordeall water used by the family of ye Pierponts
Recipe D[ragon]s, Rosemary, Wormwood, sage, scordium, mugwort, scabius Balm, Cardius, [W]ormentill roots & leaves, tops of Betony flowers & leaves pimpernill Red woodsorill Egrimony [Rue of erdy] one of these half a pound Liqurish 4 ounces Elicampane 1 ounce, shred the herbs & slice the rootes then put them into 3 Gallons of ye best whitwine, let them stand covered 2 days & 2 nights stirring them morning & evening, then take some of the herbs out of the wine lightly squeezed with your hand & fill your still in the morning, an ordinary still & let it be stilling 12 hours with a reasonable quick fire, then take ye rest of the herbs & wine & still them in a Limbeck as you do other strong waters till all the strength of the herbs & wine be gone, you may make 3 sorts of water in your Limbeck & 2 of your still, put the strongest sort of water you still in your ordinary still to the smalest you still in your Limbeck & so you may keep it all from musting or frost 3 or 4 years, keep some of your 3 sorts to delay the heat of the other, when you give it little Children under 4 [age] of age put some sugar to it or syrop of Gillifloures, let it be almost bloud warm giving a quantity as you think sutable to the disease: 9 or 10 spoonfulls is enough for man or woman.

This Cordiall is good against burning heats, plague, small pox, measells, any infectious Disease from the heart after a surfet, good to be given to Children in fitts of an Ague when they take it lye down & sweat & fast 2 hours before & after it.