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To Make Black searcloath Excelent for all
Sores Bruises or Straines

Take a quart of oyle & one pound of Redlead
put them togather & boyle them softly & keepe them Stiring
till it com to a browne Colour then take them off & putt to
them two ounces of Stone pitch one ounct ounces of
Bees Wax one ounces of Burgundy pitch & three peniworth
of Saffron shreed very fine with scisers then boyl them a lettle
more til itts of a Sad Colour if it be to stiff put in a lettle more
oyle or Some fresh butter then let it stand untill it be
cold & then make it into balls or before it be quiet cold you
may spread it on cloath or leather but coarse Linnen cloath
is the better

Mrs Speeds reseat which Mrs Mrs Godfre
Godfre gave her to Mrs Barbara Eliot was
two ounces of Deer suet to be put in with two
one ounce of Brown Rosin one one ounce of
Stone Pitch & in things els to be orderd as the
other