CONTENTS xi 



PAGB 



Sweet herbs : rosemary, lavender, basil, thyme, hyssop — The kitchen 

 garden — The orchard — Theatnim Botanicum — Its importance — Old 

 belief in the power of herbs against evil spirits — Folk lore in this 

 Herbal — Bee lore — Beauty recipes — Country customs and beliefs. 



CHAPTER VII 



Later Seventeenth-century Herbals and Sixteenth- and Seven- 

 teenth-century Still-room Books 163 



Later seventeenth-century Herbals — Revival of belief in astrological 

 lore — Nicholas Culpeper — His character — Popularity in the East End 

 of London — His Herbal — Coles's Art of Simpling — Doctrine of Signatures 

 — Herbs used by animals — Plants used in and against witchcraft — 

 Coles's astrological beliefs — On the pleasures of gardening — Still-room 

 books — Their relation to herbals — The Fairfax still-room book — An old 

 love-letter — Recipes : "To make a bath for melancholy." " Balles for 

 the face," " For them theyr speech faileth " — Lady Sedley her 

 receipt hook — Noted contributors to this book — Mary Doggett Her 

 Book of Receipts, 1682 — Recipes : " A pomander for balme water," 



I " To dry roses for sweet powder," '" A perfume for a sweet bagg " — 

 The Countess of Kent's still-room book—" A comfortable cordial to 



' cheer the heart " — Try on 's still-room book — Sir Kenelm Digby — 

 Charm of his books — Recipes : " Sweet meat of apples," " Wheaten 



I Flommery," " A Flomery Caudle," " Conserve of Red Roses " — The •' 

 old herb-gardens — Fairies and herb-gardens — Revival of the old belief 



J in the communion between stars and flowers. 



BIBLIOGRAPHIES 



English Herbals 189 



L Manuscript herbals, treatises on the virtues of herbs, etc. Manu- 

 scripts written in Latin after 1400 are not included in this list. 



II Printed books. The herbals are listed according to authors, or, in 

 the case of anonymous works, according to the names by which they 

 are usually known, and full titles, etc., of all known editions are given. 

 In cases where only one copy of an edition is known the library 

 where it is to be found is indicated. Editions mentioned in Ames, 

 Hazlitt, etc., but of which no copies are now known, are Usted, but 

 in each case the fact that the only mention of them is to be found in 

 one of the above is stated. 



Foreign Herbals 225 



This list includes only the chief works and those which have some 

 connection with the history of the herbal in England. 



Index 237 



