Mr. Aubrey to Mr. Ray. 2ji 



fome green Wheat, A Parliament Captain [in Irf- 

 land] told me 5 when the Army was forely afflifted 

 with the Bloody Flux ^ and paft the Skill of the Do- 

 ctors} they had a Receipt from an Irijhmm^ viz. to 

 take the Partition-pith of a Wallnut and dry it > then 

 to pulverize it, and drink as much as could be heap'd 

 on a 4 d or 6 d in Wine or, &c\ and this cur'd the Ar- 

 my. Sir Chr. PVren told me once Sweating of Straw* 

 berries'] that if one that has a wound in the Hea$ 

 eats them 'tis mortal. 



Mr. J. Aubrey to Mr. Ray. 

 SIR, 1 



"17T7HEN I was lately at Oxford I gave feveral 

 V V things to the Mufieum, which was lately rob- 

 bed fince I wrote to you. Among other things my 

 Pi&ure in Miniature, by Mr. S. Cowper (which at an 

 Au£tion yields 2.0 Guineas) and Archbifhop Bancroft's 

 by Hillyardy the famous Illuminer in Q± Elizabeth's 

 time. 



cc For an Head or Eye 



a By Hillyard drawn, 



" Is worth an Hiftory 



" By a worfc Painter made. — — 



I found among my Papers this ]^ for the King's 

 Evil, which I had from Dr. Stokes. Let the Patient 

 chaw the Roots of Piperitis , and it will make him 

 fpit, and bring away the malignity, and cure the Dh 

 ftemper. 



In another Letter of Jan. 11 . 1 69I are thefe Words, 

 viz. " Mr. Lhwyd fent me a Letter this Week, ac- 

 " quainting me he hath receiv'd an Ear of Rye (bat 

 a without any Grain) taken out of a Child's Side of 



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