Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680) (MS7113)

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 X

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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

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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.

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To perfume Damaske Roses.

Take Damaske Roses put them into a wide mouthed Glasse, & stopp them close with Parchment, sett them upon Leades in the Sunne, or some very hotte place where the sunne comes, shaking them twice or thrise day till they be dry, then make a powder thus. Take cleare and faire Beniot, florax, Galean, Lignum A= loes, Amber Gris, Mace of Quants, Lemmon peele, Cittern peel, Orange peel, Orange flowers, Sweet Marjoram, Lemmon Time, Myrtle leaves, bruise your hearbes, beat your powder & take what proportuns will sserve your Rates, & mix the Quantities as best please your sense; then putt all your powders in= to the Glasse, tye them with paper & parchment & waxe & a parchment over that, that no ayre possibly can get in, nor sent come out; set them in the heat of the Sunne as long as it last, & in the Evenings and nights keepe it in a Stone; This doe for a month or five weeks, then you may use it, put into little Sarenet Baggs, & layne amongst your Clothes, it will last longest with woollen, This a rare perfum putting a little of it into your perfuming pann with Orange Flower water or Rose water or Lemmon lime water.

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To make the best Pastiles to burn in the world, taught me by a servant of Franciso Morenas, who was his repsen & came, & made them m my Sanse before me, his present 17th of November. 1664 m house at the siete simeneas at Madrid

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Beat & searse a pound & a half of Benjamm as fine as can be done in the finest cover'd searse beat on on & quarter of storax in a Morter grinding it very well, put in to a deep preserving pan that is round bottm'd, the storax, & thereupon as much of the damask: rose water, as will wett it then sett it upona very soft fire, stirring it very well with a long spatila till it is almost ready to boyle, the straw in a little Benjamm stirring it continually, then poure in more rose water, & then the rest of your Benjamm, & then more rose-water, in all about 3 Wine Pints, let it then stand, thus upon the fire, till with heat thereof, & perpetuall stirring it become a very thin paste, in the water, against which time have ready this compound thus prepar'd. Sett a little brasse morter on the fire and with your pestle in it fill'd a quarter full with rose water, & when it is scalding hott, wash the Morter & pistle very well then dry it with a clean Soft Cloth, sett it on the fire again; & when it is very soft take it off, & putt in half an ounce of Amber Greece grinding

198 Surfett Water {A ffan} Take a Gallon of Brandy & a Pint of Damaske rose water, one pound of white suger candy, half a pint of Poppy water, 1 1/2 [squiggle] of [looks like season] of the sunne stoned, half a pound of Dates stoned, & sliced thinn, ? of mace & ? of Cloves & ? of sinamon, these must bee brused, one ounce of anniseedes rubbed cleane & the dust blown out, & brused a quarter of an pound of Licoris scraped & sliced; Then putt all these thinges into the Brandy, with a good handfull of red poppy Leaves, and 12 [squiggle] worth of ambar greece and 6[squiggle] worth of muske; The sweetes must bee tyed up in a little bitt of Lawn & so putt into the glasse; and when they have steeped nine dayes togeather, strayne it out: But bee sure you stirr it every day whilst it standes.

A Course Powder for great [linnin] {A ffan Lad^y Cleavland} Orris roots 2 pound, Callamus Arromaticus, Lignum, Rodrum, & yellow sanders, of y each one pound; [Cittern Rind], lemon Pill, drest Merioram, of each 10. ounces; Cipress roots 2 pound & a half; Benjamine 12 ounces, storax 6 ounces, Rosecakes not burnt or leavs 5 pound, Lavender flowers, Melhlot flowers, of each 8 ounces; Cloves, & Cinamond, of each 2 ounces & a half, Corriander seeds 5 ounces. A made into a gross powder.

199 Angilica Water {A ffan} Taki of the liavis of Angilica 8 ouncis, of Carduus benedictus 6 ouncis of Balmi & sagi of iach 4 ouncis, Angilica siids 6 ouncis, sweet finnel seeds 9 ouncis, lett the hearbs bii dried and cutt small & the seeds grossily bruisid. to which of the spices callid Aromaticum rosatum, & Diamoscha dulce, of each oni ounci and a half. Infusi them in 32 pints of sack, then distill them in a limbrick wi^th gentli firi and wi^th every pint mix 2 ouncis of sugar dissolvid in rosiwater. Lett thi 3 first pints be callid by thi nami of spirit, the rest by the name of water. This is an excellent cordiall to strengthen thi hiart and resist infiction, & therefori is veri wholsomi in pestilentiall times.

A fine Powder for [linnin] {A ffan Lad^y Cleavland} orris roots two pounds & a half: Lignum Rodrum 6 ounces scraped; lemon pill an ounce & a half. Cloves 4 ounces & a half: Cipress roots 3 ounces, Damask Roseleavs dryed a pound & a half, Benjamine 1/4 storax. 2 ounces 1/4: labdanum & ounce & Drachme sweet Marjoram 3 ounces, Calmus Aromaticus & Drachm, Musk Cod 6 Drachms. Make all these into a gross powder.

{200} To dresse [Fl]unsia {x} {A ston} Take a pound of old Lavander, 6 quarts of strong vinegar, a dram of muske, 2 Drams of mother of Clove, an Ounce of Franquisence, an Ounce of storax, an Ounce of sharpe sinanon, halfe an Ounce of P [...] halfe an Ounce of perfum'd Pastills 2 Nutmeggs, 1/2 a Dram of Civet, 1/2 a Dram of Amber. The Lavander & vinegar boyle together, & straine them, Saving the [ j]uncia all open in a bason prouided for the purpose, with the fore sayd things pounded & put in the bason then put in the vinegar, & Cover it very well for 24 houres, & afterwards leave the perfume open & stirr the [J]uncia in it once in 2 dayes

To perfume 12 per of ordinary {201} seized gloves either for men or women with the same Compound of Amber that Fran^co Morena in his life did & his servant now doth Madrid the 3^rd of October 1665 {A ston} {x} Heat in a morter scalding hott Rose or Ambar water, & likewise put one end of the pestle into the fire to be hott alsoe, pour the water which must be about a pint into an new Earthen pott put into the Morter an Ounce of the best Amber Greece, grind it very well till it is melted, put thereunto a quarter of an ounce of Civett, 3 spoonfull of the best Essence of Jesemin, as much Gum Dragon that hath been steeped the night before in rosewater, as will make it as thick as the yolke of a new layd Egge grind this Compound very well together, pouring in the grinding 3 or 4 spoonfulls of the same water that was heated in the Morter then putt the fingers of the gloves upon a glove stick & anointe them first with the fingers, then the glove laying them smooth one Upon the other as you doe them when they are all done lay them upon a skin one by one in the heat of the sunne till they be thorough dry, which will be in halfe an houre the same skin Upon which lay them, you must make all sortes of perfumes Upon, because any other thing takes away the sent All perfumes are best made in July.