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

To make a compound for a pome by Fran Morrena Lo Madrid Oct. 4 1665

Take a pound of y best Benjamin beat if u searse it very fine. Thin put it into y pomo, beat a quarter of an ounce of ambar Greec into a fine powder; put y in likewise thin put in half a quarter of an ounce of sinett v about half an ounce of lemon pill shred small, stir all these well together with a spatila, thin powder m by little by little as much rose water as fills it up to y top stirring it continually, this is a proportion for a pomo y holds 2 quarts, when you would use of self upon y bossom of a perfuming pan or chaffmy dish of fire for half an hour then seft it by m a safe place till next time you have occasion for it y powders must never be ory, but as y water consumes fill it up againe. This sint will never be decay sed y powder be consumed with will be some yeares first.

Take three gallons of fair roater, put to it 6 pound of the best powder sugar, or if you please lofe sugar, boyl these together half an hour, or better, as the seam riseth take it off; power it forth and set it a cooling; when tis almost cold take a spoonfull of yeist beat well with six ounces of juice of estern Brewing it up and downe with a dish in the liquor, then take a gallon if Rockt conslips, brense them in in a stone morter, and put them to it; let them stand Two or three days, then strain it forth and put it into a cask that it may fill; and when it works, but not over, stop it up close: when it is three weeks or a month old bottle it up and put into every bottle a lump of sugar. For want of juice of citern, I put in a quart of white wine.

A drink for a cold. Take two quarts of spring water, and put into it coftsfoot scabious& maiden hair of each half a handfull an ounce of liquoris scrapt and sliced, a hanfull of Rasins of the sun stond and a spoonful of anice seeds brused then let all these Boyle softly till one pint be consumed then take it up and strain it the party May drink as much and as often of this as they please, a little warme.

The milk surfitt water. Take 6 handfulls of mint, and 6 cardus, 3 of wormwood shred these Together and steepe them all night in 6 quarts of milke, and in the morning drawe them in a common still, this will make 4 quarts of good water, the slower the still is the better.

204 89 205 A flan To make the red surfett water, Take a gallon of brandy, a int of damak rose water, a pound of white sugar candy, half a pint of red poppy water, a pound & a half of Raisons of the sun stoned, half a pound of dates sliced thin, cloues, mace, Cinamon, Anniseeds, of each an ounce; liquorice a quarter of an ounce, Red poppye flowers a handfull two grains of amber greese.

The Stone Water Take a handfull of Phillipendula, a handfull of Garden prosper, a handfull of Pellitory of the wall a handfull of Mother Thyme a handfull of saxafrage a handfull of Garden Parsly, 6 Radishes sliced, steep all these all night in a gallon of Red Cows Milk and still it off next day; take 4 spoonfulls of the water with 4 spoonfulls of whtie wine with a little Nutmegg and sugar morning and Evening first and last two days before and after the new and full of the Moon. Not Many days after you haue taken the Medicine

206 90 207 For Poutrified Lungs Take 1/2 a pint of white wine & sweeten it with 2 great spoonfull of [[...]]uie hony & drink this every morn ing for a month together you may put a sprig or 2 of Bame in it if you please

200 91 63 PERFEUMES Francisco Morenos way of Perfuming of Skinns First Chuse your Scinns of Cordauan or Kide of Spannish dressing without Salt, & as spungie as you can gett. soake them very well in Rose water, & rubbe it in, then Perfume it in a Stoue with Benjamin & Storax, & att the last a little Pastilles, if you meane to be at much Charge of Amber, doe this ouer 2 or 3 times att the last of all when they are almost dry rubb them on the ruffe side uery limber & anoint them with this Composition of Amber, which is made thus Warme a brasse Morter & Pestle, then putt into it an ounce or Lesse of Ciuett, & as soone as that is redused to an oile, putt into it 2 ounces of Amber Greece, & Stirr it in the Ciuett with the warme Pestelle till all be well incorperated, then powre in some fresh drawn Oyle of Benjamin to dilate it & likewise a little Orange Flowre water till you find it so thinne that it wil esily sinke 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 litle & little into your Leather, doing of it ouer seuerall times, till a Large cinne haue drunke up this proportion, or so paire of large Gloues or Pockets, or what you please. then lett them drie upon pappers on a table in the shade that day, the next dat sett them in the Strongest sunne & as they drie torne them, lying upon papers & some Woolin Clothe, till they be thorough drie & stiffe, then rubbe & worke them in your hands, till they be uery limber; & so putt them up in Papers wrapt in a warme plase in Woolin, & kept from Linnen,

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The 18 day of June in Madrid 1650

According to this proportion. Perfumes may be made

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To an ounce of Amber a Quarter of A ounce of Algalla, an ounce of the oyle of the Flowre Jasmin, & halfe an ounce of Albatera.

To make Paste Beades

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Grind your Quantity of Amber yu please upon a stone of purpose such as your Paintets use &c &c one quarter part of Algalla, & your like of Almisile of so much quantety as your Amber & then putt thereunto a little Alquitora, boyle the same together to a Mass, & thereof make the Beades with your hands as you please, putting thorough them a thred with a nidddle, & so drie them.

To perfume Damaske Roses

Take Damaske Roses putt them into a wide mouthed glasse & stopp them close with partchement, sett the, upon leades in the sunne, or some other very hotte place where the sunn comes, shaking them twice or thrice a day till they be dry then make a powder thus. Take cleare & faire Beniot, Florax, Galean, Lignum Aloes, Amber Grise, Mace of Levanto, Lemon Peele, Cittorn Peele, Orange Peele, Orange Flowers, sweete Marjoram, Lemon lime, Myensell Leaves, bruise the Hearbes beate your Powders & take what proportions will serve your

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Roses, & mixe your Qunteties as best pleas your sense; all your Powders into your Glasse, tye them with paper & parch ments & wax, & a parchment over that, that no ayr possibly can gett in, nor sent come out, sett them in your heat of the sunne as longe as it lasts & in the Evenings & night keepe it in a stove, this do for a month or five weeks, then ^{you may} use it, putt into little sarsenett baggs, & layer amunge your Clothes. it will last longest with woollen, this is a rare perfume putting a little of it into a perfuming pann, with Orange Flower water or Rose water or lemmon lime buds water.

To make the best Pastiles to burn in your world, taught me by a servant of Francisco Morenas, who was his Nephew & came & made them in my house before me, this present 17th of November, 1664 in our house at the siete Chimeneas at Madrid.

Beat & searse a pound & halfe of Benjamin as finely as cann be done in the finest coverd searse, beat an ounce & Quarter of Storax in a morter, grinding it very well, putt into a deep preserving pann, that is round bottom'd the Storax, & there upon as much of the Damask Rose water, as will wett it, then sett it upon a very soft fire, stirr ing it very well, with a longe spatila, till it is almost redy to boyle, then stran in a little Benjamin, stirring it con tinually, then poure in more rose water, & then the rest of the Benjamin & then more rose water, in all about 3 Wine Pintes, lett it then stand thus upon the fire till wish the heart thereof, & perpetuall stirring, it become a very thin paste, in the water, against which time have have ready this compound thus prepar'd.