_The Archbishop of Armagh's Cure for the Gout_, 1571.--Extracted from a
letter from Thomas Lancaster, Archbishop of Armagh, to Lord Burghley, dated
from Dublin, March 25, 1571:--
"I am sorofull for that yo^r honor is greved w^{th} the goute, from the
w^{ch} I beseche Almighty God deliver you, and send you health; and yf
(it) shall please y^r honor to prove a medicen for the same w^{ch} I
brought owt of Duchland, and have eased many w^{th} it, I trust in God
it shall also do you good, and this it is. Take ij spaniel whelpes of
ij dayes olde, scald them, and cause the entrells betaken out, but wash
them not. Take 4 ounces brymstone, 4 ounces torpentyn, 1 ounce
parmacete, a handfull nettells, and a quantyte of oyle of balme, and
putt all the aforesayd in them stamped, and sowe them up and rost them,
and take the dropes and anoynt you wheare your grefe is, and by God's
grace yo^r honor shall fynd helpe."--_From the Original in the State
Paper Office._