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. If it must be broken take castle soap and temper it with barme & apply it till it break when it is broken apply the same as long as you shall think there is anything to be drawn forth of the wound then heal it w^{th} the following Salve: 512. _A healing Salve for ye King’s Evil._ Take groundsell vallerian elder buds or in the winter the inner rind of ye elder tree Issope brown Sage a good handfull of each sort half a pound of clarified butter 3 ounces of beeswax one ounce of rozin half a pound of sheeps sewit 2 ounces of hog’s lard chop these herbs small and boyle them in those liquors softly a quarter of an hour then strain it and stir it till it be almost cold and then apply it to the sore but if you think the sore doth breed a worme then take the powder of a Sea crab shell & all together baked in an oven and so made to powder the powder also of frankinsence of oyle of wormwood an ounce and the oyle of 6 eggs put off ye powder of crab as much as will fill a thimble half as much of the powder of frankinsence stir it together into ye oyle and with a feather put some of it into the wound under the plaister. To wash it you must take warme white wine or crab verjuice, if these things heal not then take the oyle of the finest tar stir’d with a stick the oyle will come upon the top which take with a feather and apply to ye sore. 513. _To raise a Blister._