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To Pickle Walnuts

Take your Walnuts at the biggness that you may run a pinn
through & put them in a pott & cover them with a pickle
made of salt & water, boyle the pickle up with vine
leaves, lett them Lye a weeke or a forthnight in the
pickle if you like it, if they mould put a peece of
rock'd Allome in & cover them close, then take to a
pint of white wine a quart of white wine vinegar
& boyle them with salt & lett the pickle be cold, then
take the nutts out of the pickle & cross them with
a knife and scrape the innards out with a Skivre
and fill them with mustard, pepper, Ginger, and
garlick mixt all together, Lay them close together
in the pott & powre the pickle to them, Cover them
with a Slate or Tile

ffor the riseinge of the Lytes
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Take red rose water a quarter of a pint or else a
penny worth of Saffron tyed up in a Lawne bagg or
Tiffany steep it in ^the water a while then crush it between
two spoons till you make the water an Amber Collour

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Then give two spoonfulls of it ^to the partie when the ffitts
cometh, if it doth not Lay it give two spoonfulls more
immediately for three or four sundry ffitts

A Receipt for the Worms
or a very good Purge
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Take 4 penny worth of Alloes & 2 penny worth of worme
seed & 2 penny worth of hartshorne it must be powder
of hartshorne & one penny worth of Curralline, bruise
the Alloes & pownd the worme seed very small & pownd
the Curralline to powder then mingle them together &
give it 3 mornings together as much as will lye on a
Six pence in a spoonfull of Beere & then wash your
mouth with an other spoonfull of beere & fast 2 houres
after it, & then take a little thinn broth & keep your selfe
warme, be sure you doe not gett cold.

A very good medicine for any heate in the face
or other where, although it be Saint Anthonys fire
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Take a pottle of Smiths water a handfull of sage, 2 hand
fulls of Elder leaves or the greene barkes of it & 2^d of Allome seeth
all these from a pottle to a pint, put it in an earthen or gally pott
& lett the patient anoynt his face with it when he goeth to bed, in the
next morninge he shall find ease, but in 5 or 6 dayes (by
Gods grace) help.