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A receipt to make black salve
XVII
Take one quart of [Lindsood] oyls halfe a pound of Bar
soap, halfe a pound of verry good white Load otherwise
called Ceres; First put this oyle into a Skillet and lett
the oyle be moderate hott, then add to it the wax lett
them seeth together untill the soap be quite melted [?]
then put in the Ceres as soone as [you] have put in the
Ceres stirr them alltogether & lett them boyle near about
two houres & lett it be Stirred all that time, it must be
boyled till it be black & stiffe and smell well, and that it
will rowle betweene [your] fingers
It must be a very moderate heat of wood Coales.
A receipt for ^the Tooth Ache
XVIII
Take a pint of whitewhine vinegar, take the quantity of
3 booze glasses of the purest venice glass, put all y^r venice
glasse into the fire where you must burn it untill such
time as it be ready to dissolve to nothings, then take it out
of the fire & put it into the white vinegar, where if it be well
burned it will melt & dissolve to nothing haveing prepared your
Liquor in this manner, [you] must when ^you are troubled w^th the
tooth Ache take some share of & warms it in a dish or porringer
then take a mouthfull now & thⁿ keep it in y^r mouth as long as as you
can w^thout swallowing, for to swallow much [o'vt] would be as bad as ^a poyson
To make A healing Salve
XIX
Take halfe a [pd] of Sheepe Suett, halfe a [pd] of the
best Rossin, halfe a [pd] of Beeswax and 3 pony
worth of Venice Turpentine, first melt the [havd]
& then put in the Turpentine, & lett it but just boyle
up, and [soe] rowle it up.
To make oyle of Charity
XX
Take Rosmary, red sage, wormewood, Lavender,
the lesser [velerian], Camomill, of each one handfull put
these into a quart of the best Sallott oyle, sett it in
the Sunn Seaven days, then sett it on the fire and lett
it but boyle, then straine it from the hearbs, & putt in
fresh herbs, & [soe] doe 3 times & powre of the cleare from
the thick & keep it for y^r use.
This is good for all bruises to be taken inward or outwa^rd
if inward give 2 spoonefulls of the cleare in a little
balme posset drink, & annoynt it outward with the
thicke, this will help y^e Toothache & all Cold Rhumes if y^u
but dipp a cloath & lay it on; A little of this oyle w^th
Senious oyle. will cleanse a wound.

A receipt to make black salve
XVII
Take one quart of [Lindsood] oyls halfe a pound of Bar
soap, halfe a pound of verry good white Load otherwise
called Ceres; First put this oyle into a Skillet and lett
the oyle be moderate hott, then add to it the wax lett
them seeth together untill the soap be quite melted [?]
then put in the Ceres as soone as [you] have put in the
Ceres stirr them alltogether & lett them boyle near about
two houres & lett it be Stirred all that time, it must be
boyled till it be black & stiffe and smell well, and that it
will rowle betweene [your] fingers
It must be a very moderate heat of wood Coales.
A receipt for ^the Tooth Ache
XVIII
Take a pint of whitewhine vinegar, take the quantity of
3 booze glasses of the purest venice glass, put all y^r venice
glasse into the fire where you must burn it untill such
time as it be ready to dissolve to nothings, then take it out
of the fire & put it into the white vinegar, where if it be well
burned it will melt & dissolve to nothing haveing prepared your
Liquor in this manner, [you] must when ^you are troubled w^th the
tooth Ache take some share of & warms it in a dish or porringer
then take a mouthfull now & thⁿ keep it in y^r mouth as long as as you
can w^thout swallowing, for to swallow much [o'vt] would be as bad as ^a poyson