212 A GARDEN OF HERBS 



find it a most excellent sented water. A Perfect School of 

 Instructions for the Officers of the Month, by Giles Rose, one 

 of the Master Cooks to Charles II, 1682. 



ORANGE-FLOWER WATER. Take one handful orange 

 flowers and put them to about a quart of water and a 

 quarter of a pound of sugar and do with them as you did 

 with your Jeseme. Ibid. 



KING EDWARD'S PERFUME. Take twelve spoonfulls of 

 right red rose-water, the weight of six pence in fine powder 

 of sugar, and boyl it on hot Embers and coals softly, and the 

 house will smell as though it were full of Roses, but you must 

 burn the sweet C}'press wood before, to take away the gross 

 ayre. The Queen's Closet Opened, by W. M., Cook to Queen 

 Henrietta Maria, 1655. 



To MAKE AN IPSWICH BALL. Take a pound of fine white 

 Castill Sope, shave it thin in a pinte of Rose-water, and let 

 it stand two or three dayes, then pour all the water from it, 

 and put to it half a pinte of fresh water, and so let it stand 

 one whole day, then pour out that, and put half a pinte more, 

 and let it stand a night more, then put to it half an ounce of 

 powder called sweet Marjoram, a quarter of an ounce of 

 powder of Winter Savoury, two or three drops of the oyl of 

 Spike, and the Oyl of Cloves, three grains of Musk, and as 

 much Ambergris, work all these together in a fair Mortar, 

 with the powder of an Almond Cake dryed, and beaten as 

 small as fine flowre, so rowl it round in your hands in Rose- 

 water. Ibid. 



A MOST PRECIOUS OINTMENT FOR ALL MANNER OF ACHES 



AND BRUISES ; AND ALSO FOR THE REDNESS OF THE FACE. 

 Take Violet, Primrose, Elder, Cowslip, leafs and flowers; 

 Sage, Mugwort, Ragweed, white Lillies, St. Johnswort, 

 Smallage, Marjoram, Lavender, Sothernwood, Rosemary, 

 Rose-leafs, Rue, Fetherfew, Tansie, Lovage, Mint, Camomile, 

 Thyme, Dill, Clary, Oak of Jerusalem, Penyroyal, Hysop, 

 Balm, White Mint, Marygold, Peony-leafs, Bay-leafs, Saffron, 



