Another distinguished contributor to this MS. was the ill-fated Duke of Monmouth. A prescription for stone from Judge Ellis consisted of Venice turpentine distilled with various herbs and spices in small ale. It was to be made only in June and taken "three days before the full and three days before the change of the Moone" (incidentally a survival of Saxon moon lore), but the Duke of Monmouth's prescription for the same complaint is quite different and is compounded of ripe haws and fennel roots distilled in white wine and taken with syrup of elder. Lady Sedley, the first owner, and presumably author of the book, was the wife of Sir Charles Sedley, one of Charles II.'s intimate friends and notorious for his mad pranks. Between her husband and her daughter her life must have been almost unbearable, and it is not surprising that the unfortunate woman ended her days in a mad-house. Of the MS. still-room books in the British Museum undoubtedly the most interesting is _Mary Doggett: Her Book of Receipts_, 1682.[131] On the first page is affixed a note: "This Mary Doggett was the wife of Doggett the Player who left a legacy of a yearly coat and badge to be rowed for."[132] The MS. is beautifully written and contains an astonishing amount of information on every housewifely art, from washing "parti-coloured stockings" to making perfumes and "Sweete Baggs." Indeed the reading of the headlines alone gives one some idea of the multifarious duties of a mistress of a large house in those days. We find--and I quote only a few--recipes "to make morello cherry cakes," "apricock marmalett," "to preserve Cherrys white," "to candy oranges or lemons or any kind of sucketts," "to preserve almonds," "to preserve damsons," "orange butter," "pippin creame," "to make molds for apricock Plumbs," "apricock wine," "to keep cherrys all the year," "to make cowslip wine," "cakes of clove gilly flowers," "curran wine," "grapes in jelly," "cleer cakes of goosberys," "fine cakes of lemons," "to preserve Rasps whole," "to make Lemon Creame," "lemon Syllibub," "orange biskett," "cheese caks of oranges," "to preserve pippins in slices," "to make plumb biskett," "to pickle Quinces," "to preserve Wallnutts," "to preserve double blew violetts for Salletts," "to candy Double marygold, Roses, or any other flowers," "to make good sorrell wine," "sweet powders for linnen," "to perfume gloves after the Spanish maner," "to souse a pigg," "Almond milk," "to pickle cucumbers," "drinks to cause sleep," "snaile broth," "plasters for bruises," "to make pomades" and "past for the hands." The receipts for "A Pomander," for "Balme water," "to dry roses for sweet powder," and "a perfume for a sweet bagg" are particularly attractive, and I give them below.