Take wormwood southernwood sanicle white bottles Ragwort plantin ribwort woodbins oake-buds dandelyon mugwort dayseyes roots and all bramble buds herbgrease violet leaves strawberry leaves Suinquefoyle, angellicoe, adderstongue scordium wood bittoney agrimoney hawthorne buds bugle lungewort avens comfry mints Scabious and pimpernell these herbs are to be gather’d pick’d and dryed in may month then put them in severall papers & so keep them all the year but the buds are to be gather’d at their first comeing forth when you make it take one handfull of each sort a pottle of fair water and a quart of white wine boyle these together till half be boyled away then strain the liquor from the herbs and put to it a pint of honey then boyle it a little till you have scummed it then take it off and let it coole & keep it, close stop’d let the patient take 3 spoonfulls of it morning & evening first & last but if for a child 2 spoonfulls is sufficient.
The vertues of it.
It cureth wounds and sores laying on them a plaister of honey and wax or one of the following cere cloths without tents it scaleth putrified bones breaketh and expelleth imposthumes cureth aches in the stomach expelleth bullets & cureth the Isue it stopeth bleeding at nostrells all wounds and broken veins the herbs must be gathered at the latter end of april in may or ye beginning of June as the season of the herbs are wch must be dryed without Sun or fire comeing near them & the handfulls mentioned are to be understood handfulls of dry herbs. Probatum Est.
509. The Black Cere Cloth.
Take a quart of sallet oyle a pound of red ledd boyle these together on a soft fire untill it be black then dip your old linnen cloth therein, and hang it up till it be throughly cold & stiff when it leaves its clamminess & sticking to the finger it is enough boyled. Probatum est.
510. The White Cere Cloth.
Take a quart of sallet oyle red ledd half a pound white lead ½ a pound camfir 2 drams boyle these until they leave their claminess and stick to ye finger which is then enough boyled.
The poultise if occasion for any is only milk thickened with white bread crums and a quantity of saffron as will colour it to the colour of the yolke of an egg and the wound drink drank as afore prescribed.
511. Direction to cure Ye King’s Evil & 1st for the drink.
Take agremoney mugwort march sanicle liverwort Kingswort coltsfoot maiden hair scabious harts tongue of bittony of each of all these a small handfull to be boyled in 6 quarts of spring water with half a pound of raisons of the Sun Stoned a quarter of a pound of currants 8 figgs better than half a pound of annyseeds one stick of liquorish boyle all these together til it be consumed to 3 quarts then strain it through a hair sive & cool it and so put it in a pot and let the patient drink it in the morning fasting and again about 4 a clock in the afternoon.