To write Letters of Secret, that they cannot be read without the directions following.
Take fine Allum, beat it small, and put a reasonable quantity of it into water, then write with the said water.
The work cannot be read, but by steeping your paper in fair running water.
You may likewise write with Vinegar, or the juyce of Lemon or Onion; if you would read the same, you must hold it before the fire.
How to keep Wine from Sowring.
Tye a piece of very salt Bacon on the inside of your barrel, so as it touch not the Wine, which will preserve Wine from sowring.
To take out Spots of Grease or Oyl.
Take bones of sheeps feet, burn them almost to ashes, then bruise them to powder, and put of it on the spot, and lay it in the sun when it shineth hottest, when the powder becomes black, lay on fresh in the place till it fetch out the spots, which will be done in a very short time.