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To Make Snayle Water.

Take a good peck of garden Snayles in their shells
& wash them in a great bowle of [beere], then make
your Chimney hearth very clean & pour out half &
a bushell of Charcoales and set them on fire, & when
they are throughly kindled, then with a fire shovell
make a great hole in the midst of them & pour the
snayles & scatter some fire of your quick coals amongst
them, & soe let them rest they have done makeing
a noise, And then you must take them forth, and
with a knife and course cloth pick them & wipe them ~
from the ashes & coles & the green froth that is upon
them. Then in a stone Mortar bruise them shells and
all, take also a quart of earth worms, & scoure them
with water very well divers times over, then wash them
well from their filth, then put them into a stone Mortar
& beat them well to pieces, then take a clear Iron pot upon
which putt your Limbock oz Still, then take 2 handfulls
of Sallandine & lay in the bottoms of your pott & 2 hand=
fulls of Angelica must be Laid upon that; then put ~
in a Quart or two of rosmary flowers also boarsfoot