Take tormentil scabious Bittony pimpernel of each one handfull and
Shread them and steep them in a pottle of sack till the vertue be out
of the herbs then strain it out from y^e herbs haveing a pound of the
best Bole Armeniack in very fine powder finely searched then put your
powder into a deep earthen bason and wet your powder with your strain’d
liquor every day till it be throughly moistned as thick as a pulp or
conserve till often weting hath dranke up all your liquor Seting it in
the Sun every day oft stiring it and when all your wine is dryed up
make it up into cakes add 12 penny worth of saffron to it before you
wet it finely powdered dry your cakes in the Sun & then keep them for
your use. Scrape and give to a man as much as will lye on a shilling
to a woman less to a child less. In cardus or dragon or Small cordial
water it will cause sweting tis good against heats and colds sickness
thence or pains in the limbs or heart or Stomake or for a woman lying
in child bed takeing cold and causeing stoppages, ’twill drive out
small pox or meazels or any heaviness at the heart.