"Take a jd. of treacle a jd of aqua-vite and a jd of sal ... and apply them to the place."
"A medicine for wormes.
"Take lavander c ... unset leekes an ox ('or bull' inserted above) gall and cu[=m]in seed, fry these togither with . (?) . and lay them warme in a linnen clath to the childes belly."
Some other remedies that belong to this period were discovered by Mr Blakeborough[1] in this neighbourhood. I have taken them from the original seventeenth century writing:--
[1] Calvert's MS. book in the possession of Mr Richard Blakeborough.
"Take for to clear the eyes 1 ounce of dried batts bloode groude to powder & white hens bloode & dung sift & when they be well mixed & quite dry then blowe a little in the ill eye & yt shall soon be well."
"For a pinne or ivebbe in ye eye.
"Take ye galle of an hare the gall of a mowerpate and of a wild cat and honey and hogs lard a like quantity mix all together and annoynt ye eye wth a feather dipped in yt and yt shalle be soon cured."
The details of a remedy "For a fallynge sickness" though possibly considered very efficacious are too repulsive for modern ears.
The following recipe, "For the making of Honey Cakes. Certayne to be acceptable to ye Fairy Folk," is from the same source and is dated 1605:--