Take a pound of Sugar a quarter of a pound of ambergreese & of musk the 8th, 10th or 12th part let the Sugar be double refined beat it & incorporate it well with the amber and musk then take gumdragon steep it in oringe flower water Impast the Sugar with it make it into cakes dry them in the Shade and Sun take heed of using to much gum for a very little will serve besure to let your cakes dry well in the shade before you put them in the Sun or they will crack.
469. For Fine Linnen.
Take of orrice 4 pounds callamase half a pound benjamin a pound Storax a pound cloves a quarter of a pound civet half an ounce muske an ounce ointment of oringe flowers 2 ounces lignum alloes 2 ounces ambergreese half an ounce rose wood half a pound the amber civet musk and ointment of oringes must be mingled together & melt’d & you must either rub the roses with it or else some wool the wool will keep the smell longest to every pound of roses a pound of powder.
470. Perfumes to Burn.
Take Damask rose buds and cut off the whites then beat them very small take half a pound of them when they are beaten and put to them 3 ounces of benjamine half a quarter of an ounce of muske as much of civet and as much ambergreese then mingle it all well together and make it up in little thin cakes and lay them upon rose leaves & dry them in the sun till they be very dry.
471. For Ordinary Linnen.
Take of orrice 8 pound callamase 2 pound damaske powder a pound cloves a pound gallingall half a pound benjamin half a pound Storax halfe a pound lavender a pound to every pound of rose leaves you must put a pound of powder.
472. To destroy Moths & preserve Cloths untouch’d.
Take the bear frame of a square table cover it over with such furniture you mean to preserve you must let your furniture touch the ground at the sides & ends of the frame to keep in the heat and vapor then take a chaffendish of charcole or cole of wood fire and put thereon a quantity of alloes sequetrina and a quantity of gallinger roots then put your chaffendish in the midst of the frame and let it remaine there untill ye vapor be quite setled and the engredients consumed this absolutely at once ordering will destroy all the moths bred in your furniture & continually preserve such furnitures as is untouched.