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Receits for Stilling 71 A Cordial Water against Infectious diseases as plague. Small pox. Measels. Burning feavers. It is good also to remoove any Venom or Surfeit & to Restore the Spirits. Take read poppies. read roses flowers. read sage. fennell. Buglose flowers & leaves. Balme. Burrage flowers & leaves. Comfreys flowers & leaves. Marygolds flowers & leaves. Tormatil leaves & rootes. Scabius. Egrimony. Bettony. Dragon Wormwood Celendine. Angelica of each of these one pound. Fetherfew. Mugworth. read pimprenell. Dentdelyon. hartsease. hartstonge Maydenhaire. liverwort Rososolis. Wild thime. Mother thyme Burnett. Woodsorrell. Hysops. Rosmary tops. Lavender of each of these half a pound. Mint. Rue. Elicampana rootes of each a quarter of a pound. Liquoris & Gallingal of each half a pound; Pick your hearbs cleanr & weigh them, shred them smal with a shoping knife; Scrape & shie - your rootes. Add to this Garroways seed one pound, Coriander seeds sweet fennels seeds. any seeds of each half a pound. One pound of both sorts of Cardamon seed. Steep all these in fourty five quartes of white wine you must have sweet earthen potts to infuse them in, and cover them close for 2 or 3 days then putt in 4 po^ds of raisins of the sun & 4 pounds of figs cutt or chop them smal, lett all these be stirred once or twice in a day for six days. Then you may beginne to still them in a cold still, close the ioints of your still with a paste of rie - meale. this water must be given to a man or woman a wine glas full att a time, to a child less. you must not eate or drink for 2 hours after but if you be dry you may drink some of the samllest water. You must keep the first by it selfe and also the second & third running.

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Aqua Mirabilis

Take two quartes of White Wine. one quarte of Aqua Vita - one quarte of sack. the Juice of Salandine & Balme, Mintof each a pinte. one great handfull of Mellilot flowers - small shreed. jubes. settmess. Gallingall grains. Nuttmegs of each the weight of a sheling. Cinamon y.^e weight of two shelings Bruise all these spices small, then lett them infuse in an earthen pan all night. the next morning distill them with a gentle fire. Draw one quarte of the first water, and - then of the second and third if you please, the last you must spend first. putt into every quarte of a quarter of a pound of fine [s]afe sugar, as much pouder of safran bound upin a cloth as will lye upon 3 pence. This water is good to preserve the lungs and to cause a good stomach; In summer drinke one spoonfull fasting in winter two.

Cordiall Water good for the Plague. small pox feavers. Surfeits. In an Ague with a litle Mithridate in 3 spoonfull att y.^e coming of y^e cold fitts. It willbring of any ill matter from y.^e stomach, and it isvery good for the convulsions fitts

Take sage-selendine, rosmary. rue. sage of Jerusalem, wormwood. pimpernell. Dragons. scabians. Egrimony. Balme. Rosasolis Carduus. Bittony flowers & leaves. Marygold, flowers. Archangelsflowers. Rosmary, flowers. Scordium of each of these a goodhandfull with cowships flowers and Lilly of y.^e vally; Take read Brambles an handfull, Lond mellilot, galingall of each a quarter of an ounce, with Coriander seeds. then take the roots of forniensill angelica Elicampany each half an ounce, Single piony 3. ounces Single wall flowers a handfull. Zedeary. liquorish of each of these half an ounce, lett all the hearbs be washed and shaked in acloath till they be dry and cutt grosly with a knife, & then mingle all together, and lett the roots be thin sliced & soe minced with the hearbs. .then

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then putt them all into an earthen pott well glazed & putt them all into a gallon of the strongest white wine, and lett them steep together 3 days and 3 nights stopped very close, & every day stirred once aday. Then distill altogether in an ordinary still, with the first time reserving about a pinte of the first and a quarte of the second and a pint of y^e third running in severall glasses close stopped with a corke. and remember when all is in the still to late it up with passe and a rag close & putt a paper upon the pipe end thathangs over the glasse, over a soft fire.

To make water of Life.

Take Balme burnett leaves & flowers. Rosmary. read Sage Taragon. Tormentill Leaves and roots. Rosasolis. read roses. Carnation. Hysop. Thime. Read strings that grows upon Savory. Read fennel leaves and rootes. Read mint of each of these a handfull. Bruise them and putt them into anEarthen pott glased, and putt thereto as much white wineas will cover them, stop them close & lett them steep therein 8 or 9 days. Then take ginger nuttmegs & cloves of each an ounce, a little quantity of Safran. any seeds, great raisins & sugar of each one pound. half a pound of Dates. Sheed y.^e hinder part of an old Rabits a good flesht runing Cock clean draw the flesh & sinews of a leg of mutton. 4 young pidgeons. the yolks of 12 Eggs. the quantity of a loafe of fine White bread cut in thin Slices. Muscadell 3. gallons or as much as will distill them in a Lambick putting therto2 or 3 ounces of Mithridate or as much perfect teriacledistilling all these with a moderate fire. Reserve the first water by it self and also the second, & when there coms no more, take away the Limbeck and putt more Wine intothe stuff, stilling it again, & you shall have another good water. the propreties-

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The properties of the afore said water

The afore said water is restorative of all principal members a preserver of all pestilential diseases as the palsy, dropsy spleene, yellow or Black lander, for all agues hot or cold, for all manner of swellings, sorrows, melancholy, or flegme, It strengthen and confort all the vital spirits or springs, of y^e. Braines heart or stomach by taking thereof 3 spoonfull att a time by it self or in bear ale or wine & by putting a - pretty quanitity of sugar, It help digestion, break, the winds stop the laske and binds not, it greatly helps heart burning & quickens the memory. Take of this water 3 spoonfulls in a day, one at morning one at noone & one at night.

A most Excellent Milk water for a Consumption Take a gallon of new milk with a manchet sliced thin & 16 egg with the yolks & while beaten very well together & 4 or 5 blades of large mace and one nuttmeg sliced, one hand -full of the tops of balme and as much of the tops of spirmints and a handfull of sweetmajoran, a quartet of a pound of Eringo's roots candid, as much of candid citron's peel & two pennyworth of safran. Putt all these into a cold still, now and then stirring, else t'will burn too, soe draw it of in glas botles with a lump of double refin'd sugar in each botle when t'is distilled stirr it all together in a Bason, and heighten it with a little spirit of wine; and drink a quarter of a pinte of it in the morning fasting and at 4 a clock in the afternoone and fast an houre after it. If you please you may add earthworms & snailes.

To make Orange or Lemon's water Take a Hundred & twenty Oranges or Lemons and 4 gallons of Brandy, cutt of the outer rings of them thin and putt them into y^e Brandy and lett them steep 24 hours; then stick them in a cold still, mix all the waters together and when it is cold sweeten it with double refin'd Sugar or white sugar candy, If you parfume it putt a grain of [musck] & two grains of Amgregris together in a piece of tifany & tye it to the mouth of y^e. Still, & lett the water drop thorow it. Some lett the oranges steep a full Month in as much brandy as will cover them, and then add as much or more of the best sherry-sack and so still it.

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Triacle Water Take Burrage flowers; Marygold flowers; Buglose flowers; of each 2 ounces; Rosmary flowers and tops 2 ounces; Cardus one ounce; Angelica roots one ounce; Citrons pells once ounce; tormentill roots one ounce; cyprus roots one ounce; Elecampana one ounce; one pound of the best Venice triacle; Damask rose water 3 pints; hartshorne one ounce; putt to these a gallon of strong white wine and distill it in a cold still.

An Universal and Aprov'd Palsey Water Take of Lavender's flowers stript from the stalks as much as will go into a glass of 2 gallons, and putt on them the best strong proofe spirit of wine with Brandy extraordinary good. then take flowers of sage; Burrage; Century; Mallilot, flowers; Agnus castus; Marygold; Pomgranatt; Orange; flowers of Camomille; Thime; Hysope; Sweet Marhoran; of each too moderate handfull. These are to be infused in Malmedie or lachrima Christi 6. weekes. Then putt Cardamanes, cabebes, cinamon, nuttmegs, mace, and Ginger, y^e. Yellow of citron pills of each of them 2 ounces. These are to be infused likewise in pure spirit o wine, these putt together one Month; then take Balme, Mother-worth, violets, Cowships-- Maiden-haire, Ditany of Creete, Spikenard of each 3 handfull, next lignum aloes, Gum Arabick, Saiapelum, Opopianax, B. Dellium Radir Serpentaria, Giacum chips, Mummy, Sparagda stone of - each one ounce; and infuse these six weekes. Then take Magistery of pearls, corall volatile, salt of Ameber, musk and ambregris two grains, Saphir, yellow and read sander, Read dryed roses, of these an ounce, those putt into a [glap] with 3 quarters of Aqua profiladua, which must stand in the same 3 Months att least in which time it will be exhaused to a very small quantity, but that which remains will retaine the physicall quantity of y^e while, These putt all together; you must still about Michael mass but be sure to keep them very close (it must Be in a [balneo maria] for if the spirits are not kept close. the whole is spoiled) but the least care will prevent that. The Vertues

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The vertues of this excellent water is againnst Apoplexy, bead palsey or shakinng, gidness in the head, vapors swouning vertigoes, good to provoke an Appetit, and is strangely effectual to restore decay's nature. You must take a quarter of a spoonfull with crums of bread, and fast an hour after it

The Snaile water

Take the tops of pine and stirr 2 haandfull, Dryed Egrimowy Vervainne, heartstronng, maiden hair & green liverworth of each a good handfull, dryed oranges rinds half an ounce; Cutt yhe hearbs and the ridns small together, then take a quarte of snailes cleanly pickt & wash'd, Bruise the shells & mix the hearbs & snailes together and putt them into a cold still & poure vpon them 3 quartes of milk from the cold, lett them innfuse all night, & inn the morning draw it of with a gentle fire, It will afford 3 botles , mix with the 3 bootles a pinte of magisteriall Water, of water of worms; Drink a sack glass of it in a morning sweetned with sugar, att 4 in the afternoone & last of all going to bed ^{Some fter having purged the snailes in water 2 or 3 times still them in milk} with spear mint only

For a Hott Rheume in the Eyes

Tke Toade brood what a quantity you please putt into a swine that the water may run from it. Then still it in a Rose still, & with the waater wett your Eyes lids with a feather.

To make Mr Keebeus Read water

Take of mighty strong ale three gallons putt thereunto of anysseeds clean dressed and bruised 3 quarters of a pound. Of liqourish cleane scraped thin sliced an bruised half a pound of cinamon of the roots of Enala campana dryed of yhe rootes Jreas each two ounces, slyced of bay berries blanched and bruised of ginger paared & thin sliced, of nuttmegs thin sliced of great gallingall thin slicied, of cassia ligna of each one ounce; of cloves of grains oof long pepper of cumin seeds of corianders seeds of Cubebes of the seed of ammonum, of the seeds of groweth seed of peony, seed of sweet fennell seede of angelica, seede of ameos, of winter savory, of saxtfrage seede of each of these half an ounce bruised of yhe roots

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roots of ginian half an ounce thin slyced of alibanane of mastick of mirrhe of each one ounce a like bruised of lignam; aloes thin sliiced of macae of settwell rootes thin sliced of spicknard of each aa quarter of an ounce of read roses leaves dryed two handfull of the flowers of sticados of the flowers of camomille of each half an handfull, of the flowers of centorye two ounces, canapitis of Diptamus cretiicus of St. Johns worte of philodendule of pimpernell of scabius of pitony of Eagnmony Juniper berries of each an handfull some what dryed of cypres roots, foure ounces of sugar foure ounces of AlKarett. Half your cinamon & lignem aloes must be reserved out of the Brass pott and knitt in a litle bagg and layd in the bottom of the reciver, and then putt haalf youor sugar and Alkanett with an ounce of ambergris or less into the receiver; all the Hearbs and flowers must be left out of yhe brass pott, vntill you have draw your first draught and when your first drught is draw, take aaway your receiver and the bagg tht is therein and wring it hard into the receiver that done take of your Lymbeck and all the substance that is in yhe brass pott and lett it runn thorow a cive of haire into some faire brass pan all the liquor from yhe spices putt those spices innto the brass pott again and all your hearbs and those spices into the brass pott again and all your hearbs and flowers and also those same spices that are in the bagg putt into them one gallon & a half of fresh ale; Then sett on your Lymbeck and draw it as you did before, and into yhe receiver putt the other ounce of cinamon knitt in the bagg and drain it aas you did before & then putt the first & last draught together & keepe it for your vse in some glass botle.

Rules in Stilling

You must begin with a slow fire att first & so grow hotter keep a constant heat to make all waters good & strong, you must lute your still with clay & brine mingled together (except you still in a glasse still) & wett a peece of bladder & lay it vpon the nose of your still & the glasse that receiver the water to keepe the spirits in, lett the glasse stand in cold water and as the water warmes laid it out & putt in cold. Keepe wett cloths vpon the cape of your still.

Stilling How to make Spiritt of wine Take Lees of wine and distill them in a Lembeck & [th]en take & putt it into a glasse - still and then sett it into Balnes- Maria as long as it distilles with long streames oyly it is a good Spiritt then the second is a weaker Spiritt take the strongest and distill it again with a soft fire so that it doe but breathe and as long as it runs oyle it is perfect good when you have a pinte or quarte of this spirit to know whether it be all Spiritt or not you may pour some into a Sylver Spoons & sett it on the fire & it will burne so long as there is any Spirit in it. And by this you may know what quantity of good Spirit you have. Then take some of your salt of tartar to a pinte 2 or 3 dragmes to a quarte twice as much it being putt in & shaked together so [th]ee salt be dissolved and lett it settle one or 2 houres and you shall see the spiritt swim aloft and the fleame on the bottom sensibly parted. Pour that softly that swims at topp into a glass. Body leaving some 3 shaves breath before you come to [th]ee. Separation Distill this once over again. And here you have Reclarifyed Spiritt of wine better then if it were 7 times stilled over. Then you may take the ither that remains in the botle and distill it soe long as any good spirit comes and keepe that for your use by it selfe and selt the bottom in a Skargell glasse on hott sand or hott ashes to vapour away and then you shall have your salt again To make Spirit of thym, Rosmary, Sweet Masjoran or and other Hearbes Take a good quantity of any of the hearbes & fill a Rundlet with it then putt as much water as will cover it over to every gallon of water putt 6 spoonful of honey stirring the water & honey well together and before you putt it to the hearbes. Close up the vessell and lett it stand a Month or better. Then putt it into a still and distill it with a gentle fire, that which come first is the best to be distilled in a glass still is [th]ee best. Is will worke like unto drinke, therefore your Rundlet must have some vent. To make Spiritt of Caster Take of Calamne 4 ounces of nipe half a handfull of dills seed as much cloves 2 dragmes of oranges peels the white being parted from them2 ounce of allnuts blossoms half an ounce of Rosmary flowers a good handfull of the tops of sage half a handfull of casterum one ounce Distill all this in a Lembeck. To every ounce of Caster and to [th]ee aforesaid quentity you must putt 1 quarte of the best white wine & soe distill them. This water is of excellent use for any that is troubled with winds or swounding fitts or have a weake stomach and cannot digest their meate. Weomen with child may take this [th]et are troubled with fainting fitts. is doth much revive the spirits. Stilling To make simple water of poppies Distill your poppies as you do your Roses and to it add sugar candy and dates shied as you have done page 139 these are very good for those that cannot digest their meate, one spoonfull of sugar is very comfortablewith it The Plague Water Take Rue sgrimony, Wormwood, Celendine, Sage, Balme, Rosmary, Mugwort, Draionos, Primpernell, Marygold, wood bottanye, Buonte Carduus Beneditus Tormentill, Angelicx roots Eleampana Scrapt and shied. Take of all these the like quantity in weight & twice as much Rosmary as any of the other shred them small then steepe them in white wine as much as will cover them down so lelt them stand 2 or 3 dayes. Stirring and thrusting them now & then, then still it in a common still so longas you feele it hath any strength you may keepe the strongest by it self for a drought of it with Mithridate will drive [th]ee sickness, Measles, smallpox or ay surfeit from the heart and the smallest with mithridate or teriade is good for all ages. It is good to drinke att any time if youfind your selfe ot well some putts brandy with the wine To Make Spirit of Mints & Spiritt of wine Take 3 gallons of spear-mints water stilled in a cold still putt onto it good store of spearmint chopped very small so lett it steepe all night, then distill it in a Lambeck, then steepe more mint in the same water and distill again then distill it again without mint and draw it into 3 glasses you must not draw it to [...] least your burn the pott. Stopp your water up close is glasses & keepe it for composition Take the strongest Ale worte & mix it gently with your [...] with your best sack lees to half [th]ee thickness of butter then distill it in a Lymbeck till it runs without taste so distill all your leeds then putt all your waters into your Lymbeck again and distill it as before in 3 gallons all this being done compoud your spirit of mint as falloweth. Take a great quantity of the finest sugar beaten & more then wett it with the small minte water So lett it stand in a Bason sometimes stirring it till the sugar be dissplved then add to it of the strongest sorte of spiritt of wine and of 3 qorts of your spiritts of mints each quantity according your taste, then putt in a quantity of amber-greece and musk to [th]ee likeing. So fill it into great glasses and when it is well setled you may fill the cleare into smaller glasses To Make Cherries Water Take 4 pods of cherries stone them & putt them into 4 pintes of claret wine one handfull of Rosmary 2 of Balme 2 ounce of Cinamon 2 nuttmeggs sliced putt them into the still when they have been infused one night. Divide your water into 3 ports. If you please you may take 3 spoonfull of read roses water of fine sugar boile it & make a candy also a little mark of add it to [th]ee said water. You may take 3 spoonfull att a time with one spoonfull of syrup

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An approuved water against the stone.

Take Saxifrage, pelletory of the wall, parsley, Mother juice of each 5 handfull, Radish or the quantity of them in Horsradishs, Lett them be washed, sliced with the hearbs; Dry them in a cleane cloath and - bruise them in a mortar; then putt both Radishs & hearbs in an Earthen pott with 4 quartes of new Milk from the cow, cover the pott close, lett them stand 24 houres, and then distill it in two stills with a soft fire, It must be stilled in the midle of May. You must take it 3 mornings together in each Month thorough the year either att New or full of y^e. moon, or oftner if need requires, when you take it mix 5 spoonfull of this water with as much white wine with nuttmegg & sugar warme together walking or using some moderate escercise after it.

The Citron's water, the Lady Newton's way. ake 5 great citrons, pare the Rindes thin of and take the Rindes - and the seeds cutt in small peeces; and steepe them together in a gallon of sack twelve or 13 dayes in a close covered vessell; Then distill them in a - glass still, & lett it drop on white sugar Candy. You may add some perle & ambergreece if you please, and this is the true way of making citron's water

For Convulsions

Take Beanes when the bloome is fallen of & the beane is coming in the - husk; still them twice & give a spoonfull att a time

Another water for the stone.

Take in the latter end of June so much Saxifrax as being distilled will - yeilde a Botle of water, then so soone as hawses be ripe take a peck of them, & bruise them very well, then putt into them your water of Saxifrax & 3 quartes of white wine and as much new milk, then take of parsley and of polipodis of each 3 handfull, beate & bruise them as you did your hawses, then mix them all very well together & so distill them so long as any water will distill. This water must be taken att first 3 or 4 spoonfull with so much white wine, but if you be occasioned to take it often, then take it without wine or with very litle this will keepe 2 yeares in full strenght.

A stomach water

Take a still full of spearmint & putt to it as much sack as will cover it, and so still it.

Another water for the stone.

Take Saxafrage, pellitory of the wall, Marsh-malloes leaves of each 4 handfull the roots of grass cept harrow, Marsh-malloes & fennil roots each a quarter of a po^d. fresh & ripe strawberries, 2 pints, of brane shells six handfull cutt, Bruise them all in a stone mortar, very well sprinkling upon it half a pinte of white wine a pinte of new milk & six ounces of pure honey. Putt all together into a cold still & so still them over a gentle fire. Take the quantity of a quarter of a pinte with a spoonfull of oyle of sweet almonds 2 mornings together twice in a Month.

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For a Cough or Consumption

Take of read cow, striking, a quarte of choice muscadine 1. pinte, of raisins of the sun, half a po^d. of choice blew corrints half a pound, of Dates 1 . ounce, choice cinamon half an ounce liquorish two ounces, any seeds one ounce. Steepe all there in the wine & milk 16 hours att least often stirring them then distill them gently in Balnes Maria. The corrints and Raisins must be picked & rubbed but not washed, the raisins stoned, the dates sliced, the cinamon & liquorish bruised but not beaten. The doze is six spoonfull to be taken first & last, however you may as often as you please, & sweeten it with white sugar candy beaten as sweet as you like it. the sweeter the better.

An excellent water for a Consumption & cough of y^e Lungs

Take a runing cock and kill him, when he is almost cold cutt him abroad by the back, and take out the intrals & wipe him cleane; then cutt him in quarters & breake the bones, then putt it into such a still as you still rosewater with - one quarte of sack on po^d of corrints, on po^d of raisins of the Sun, the - stones being taken out, a quarter of a po^d of dates, the stones taken out & y^e dates cutt small, 2 handfull of wild thym, as much arganum, 2 handfull of pimpernell, as much rosemary flowers, buloses flowers & burrages flowers of each 2 handfull, fennell rootes, parsly rootes the piths taken out, the leafes of endif siccory, colesfoot, maiden-hairs of each one handgull, figgs anyseed liquorish of each 3 ounces, Beate all these small, then take a botle of new - milk of a read cow & still all these things with a still fire & putt into y^e glass that the water doth droppe into, half a po^d of sugar candy beaten very - small, one book of leafe gold cutt very small amongst the sugar, 4 grains of amber-greece. Mingle the strong with the small & drink thereof 4 spoonfull - att a time in the morning fasting, & an houre before supper, shake the glasse - about when you drinke it. When the time of the year is that you can - -not gett teh hearbs, you may still it without them.

A cordial water against Melancholy. D^rWright

Take of Cowslips one po^d of the flowers of Rosemary one po^d of burrage flowers as much, munchey rubarb roots half a po^d. Buglose roots half a po^d peppins & raw quinces a po^d Quices marmelad a po^d hald a dragme of saffron, slice the roots after they have been washed, then putt all these things into a great glass & putt to them an equal proportion of white wine & black cherries water, & stop the glasse & lute it close wiht paper, Then sett it in a horse dunghill for 10 days, this sill it in a glasse still.

84. Stilling A Reciet to make good & perfect Aqua Vita of Ireland Which wee call Vsqua-bah. First brue a good hogshead of good ale, neither to Strong neither to Smal lett it stand till it be 10 or 12 days old, then drew as much of the ale as will fill your pott 3 quarts full, which you meane to distill for wort for your Aqua Vita, Draw your wort so long as you feel it have any strength, then take the same & putt it in a ferking close stopt that noe fire may com in, - least it loose its strenght In like manner draw the rest of your ale, when - you com to the bottom stirr it and take ground & all, as you draw your wort, putt it into your vessell having great care to stopp it close. In distilling your wort keep but a meane fire, for a hott fire putteth your pott in danger. Your still being sett vpon your pott, mouth, close it either with dong or clay - looke well that the pipe of your stillatory be cleane or not stopped, wash it well & blow thorow before you sett it on. When your wort is stale 10 or 12 days in Summer will be suffiecient, least it lower & so loose its force, in winter it matter not the it be a month or 6 weeks old, new wort never gives to good a taste as stale & old. Fill your master pott with the wort you propose to make your aqua vita with, it were very good your master pott did contain 8 gallons, of wort, putting to the said quantity 112 ounces of good anyseeds well beaten in a mortar & 4 ounces of liquorish well bruised, then close up your pott, with the cover being made fast att both ends by some devise from y^e cares of the pott, to hold the cover faster downe putt some stones vpon it to keep it the better, Lett the hole in the midst of the cover whereon the still is to - stand, be open, lett your cover be of wood of the thickness of the brink of your pott. When your wort is hott ready to still you may easely perceive by the breath that will issue out of the hole, whithdraw all the fire from the pott, you must have a great care when you see the breath first com out the pott, to - draw all the fire away, for otherwise it endangereth to sett all y^e fire about it. Putt a stick in att the hole & stirr your wort well, then clap on your stillatory of stopping it very close with dung or clay then fill the stople of your still full of water. When you feele the foot of your stillatory hott, draw away the fire from the pott & hold a dish under the Spoute to See how the water cometh sontinue it with a moderate fire, and as your water waxeth hott vpon the Stople of the Stillatory empty it & putt it cold. When your water cometh thin & cleare then putt a pott under the Spoute of your still, putt therein a litle quantity of cloves mace & cinamon stamped & a few musk confits whole & one ounce of turnesot, then cover your pott with a cleane linnen cloth tyed about the pott - mouth, lay on it one quarter of a po^d of any seed well beaten & 2 ounces of li - liquorish well stamped & one ounce of turnsole. Draw your your wort as long as your Aqua Vita will being cast into y^e fire, which you may proove, taking a Spoone & holding the same under the spoute till it be full, & then throw it into the fire. Lett

85. Stilling. Lett it remain in the pott till the Aqua Vita be cold for it will take his colour the better & then putt it vp in a botle. If your Aqua Vita be hott in the mouth, putt a stick of liquorish bruised into the botle, and it will make it mild. If you would not have your aqua vita So Strong & hott in the mouth then putt noe the cloves in it at all. To make Oyle of Balme Take Turpentine one po^d & putt it into a Body of glasse & warme it att a soft fire, vntill it Be luke warme, & putt therein by litle & litle with Stirring it, the pouder of frankicense 5 dragmes, of lignum aloes, Mastic cloves, gallingall, cinamon, mace, quibibus of each one dragme all - poudred together, gum of a figgs tree six dragmes made into pouder, mix them all with the turpentine, make luke warme as is afore said, andwhen it is well incorporated together, sett on the head of y^e Lymbeck & lett it be well pasted and sett it on ashes & putt under it an easy fire, when it begins to distill Lett it drop away a litle, for the first drops are woeth a litle, and putt the glasse to the nose of the Lymbeck very - close & linke them very well together that noe ayre goe forth, for them y^e Vertue of it goe away. Know that the first will come a white & cleare - water which keepe by it self; then will come the second water of an - heavely ayery colour, which keepe by it Selfe; then recieve the third which is best which will be yellow & thick as honey. the first of these is called - the water of Balme; the second the oyle of Balme; the third is called - Balme artificial; this proofe to all examinations is, that you take a - drop of the same, & lett it be putt in a vessel full of water as you doe - of natural Balme, for the said drop will goe to the bottom of the water and it will stand whole there as though it were pure Balme; this is of great verture & of some is called the mother of Balme; the first vertue if it is that it burnes, the second is that if you washes your nose & face therewith & that 3 times a day, it cureth & helpeth the Rheumes, it cleared the sight, it conforteth the Sinews; and if you washe therewith the binder part of the head, then it conforteth the memory & all y^e vertues of y^e minds it procureth appetite, it conforteth the Stomach, it helpeth a Stincking Breath as well coming from the stomach as of the brains, If you take 4 or 5 drops once a day in a litle wine. If a cloth dipt in the same, compass a Toade or Serpent it will dye, altho they touch it not and so it doth in all kind of cold venoms, as the biting of a Toade or Serpent, for it healeth if you wash it often with it, & it heales dryes vp any kind of Scabbs or Tetter quickly if you washe it therewith twice a day, and if you putt 3 or 4 drops of this into the eare & suffer the same there as long as you can it helpes - all noyse and sounding in the eare; If you mix therewith an equall proportion of the

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of the uice of Iermander, & putt 3 or 4 drops therof 4 times in the day then it cureth all deafness of what cause soever, it cureth watery & bleered eyes; It cures clarifies restrains & comforts, if you wash them therewith twice or thrice a day all Imposthumes and ulcers & other superfluitees, it restrains & fortifie & make the teeth while if thereby you washe the Roofe of the teeth, all wounds in the head tho they be deepe are cureth with y^e same oyle if therewith you washe it twice or thrice a day; It cures all fistulas, Cankers, nolime tangere, the Kings evills & every other eating soares if you washe the same therewith twice or thrice a day. It heales all kind of goutes if you wash or anoynt them therewith so that they come of a cold cause laying a linnen cloth dipt therein vpon the grieved place. It helpes all stroakes either by falls or otherwise if you anoyn it. It helps ye hemoroids & fundament that goes forth & makes it tarry in its place. It helpes the Palsey & all weakness in the members. Know that it is most hott & of such penetration that if you putt one drop thereof in the hand, by & by it penetrated the hand without any hurt, and you shall not feele any swelling of the feet or paine in the Ioynts if you anoynt the same therewith, it will helpe if you dippe a linnen cloth therein & plaster it thereunto, Briefly if you will vse it, it cures all cold disseases & griefs & all disseases coming of a cold cause of flegme and corrupt blood, this was found in the Abby of Elson in Lincolnshire & translated.

The Wallnutt's Water. called the Water of Life. Take wallnus in the beginning of June; Beate the greene huske shells and Kernells very well in a mortar, then still them in a still of lead, keepe that water by its selfe. Then gather more walnuts about the midsummers day, and vse them as you did the other & keepe that water by it selfe also, Then about a fortnight after that which will be a weeke within July, gather more wallnuts & use them as you did both the other keeping that also by itselfe. then take one quarte of each water & putt it together and distill it in a stillatory of glasse & keepe it close stopped for you vse. This water healeth all manner of Dropsey & palsey, being drunk with white wine fasting. It is good for the eyes if you drop one drop thereof into them. It is good to help the conception of a woman, if she drinke one spoonfull a day in white wine. It will make one's face very fine if it be washed therewith. It is excellent for infirmities within the body, driving out of it all corruptions if it be drink moderately either in wine or water It killeth worms in the body either drunk in wine or by its selfe. And if wine has lost his colour, putt a litle Vyall full of this water into it & within 4 days it will rectify it again. Whoever drink of this water continually shall live as long as nature may well continue in them.

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To make Spirit of Clare. Still a botle of Clare flowers water in a simple still, putt the water in a depe galley-pott; putt to it a pack of Clare flowers first bruised in a stone mortar; stopp your pott close & sett it in a pott of water & keep it hott two days, but not to boile; then straine them out and putt in as much more, & so doe 3 times, Then add to your liquor a botle of good sack, and so putt it into a glasses still, & draw it off with a soft fire; you may draw it vntill it is of such a strenght as you like; then add to it as much white sugar candy (being beaten & searcht) as will sweeten it to your taste, & laying in it amber-greece & musk tyed up in a Tiffany; stop your glasse close, stirr it every day vntill all the sugar be melted, soe lett it stand a fortnight, Then straine it out & putt it up in glasses.

The Lady Liggin's her water. The halfe a dozen po^d of black cherries, and one handfull of prunellas and one handfull of woodvine leaves & one handfull of Bryers leaves & one handfull of strawberries leaves, Beate your cherries with the stones, & putt all these hearbs together in a stone mortar; Then take foure quartes of new milk & putt it to them & so distill them. Lett the patient drinke half a pinte int the morning and half a pinte att night; you may take more of the prunellas & Bryer then of the other. A milk water for one whose water is blood, heats or sharpen Take new milk from the cow as much as will fill an ordinary Rose still, to every quarte you must putt in two whites of eggs beaten very well before you putt them in. Then distill them gently, once in halfe an houre lift vp the head of your still so high as to breake the creame that will keepe the water from rising; Distill it till the milk be thick like a thin costard. Then drincke every morning & night or when you please a large draught of this water with fine sugar sweeten to your owne taste, this never fade, you may take it as long as you please. but when noe blood appeares leave out the whites of eggs they are to cold for some stomach.

To make Rasberries wine white. Take Rasberries and putt them into a cold still, and Distill them, then mingle that water with white wine. which makes very good Rasberries wine.

Rue water. Take your rue of it be green & lett it lay 3 days, then pull of the leaves from y^e great stalks & cutt it small, so putt it into half white wine & half brandy, make your wine & brandy of a reasonable thickness with your leaves, so putt it into your still & lute it up, & the next day still it. Dry rue will still thus very well.