A boke of the propreties of herbes called an herball wherunto is added the time [the] herbes, floures and sedes shold be gathered to be kept the whole yere, wyth the vertue of [the] herbes when they are stilled. Also a generall rule of all maner of herbes drawen out of an auncyent booke of phisyck by W.C.

Wild neppe or wodbynd.

¶This herbe bereth a flower like to the Hop, and after the flower he bereth a grene berye, and it hath a great rote, the vertue of the herbe is moste in the roote, it is good for sinowes that be shronken or cut to make them sople and to haue their owen course in theyr proper kynde Go to y^e rotofe wylde Neppe, that is lyke wodbynde and make a hole in the myddes of the rote tha thā couer it well agayne that no ayer go out

nor that no rayne go in nor water, powder nor the sonne come nat to muche to it, let it stāde so a night & a day, thā after that go to it, & thou shalt fynd therin a certayne lycour take out that lycoure with a spone and put it into a clene glas and do so euery daye as longe as thou fin¦dest ought in the hole & thys must be done in the moneth of Apryll or Maye, than anoynte the sore ther∣with agaynst the fyre than wete a lynen cloth in the same lycour and lappe it aboute y^e sore and it shalbe hole in shorte space, on warantyse by the grace of God. For the goute a soueraygne medecyne. Take the rote of wylde Neppe, and the rote of y^e wylde Docke soden by it selfe and cut thē in thyn peces & pare a∣waye the vtter ••inde and cut thē in quarters, thā boile thē in clene wa∣ter .ii. or .iii. houres, than stāpe thē in a morter as small as can be, thē

put therof a quantite of soote of a chymny, and temper them with y^• mylke of a cowe, that the herbe is of one coloure, than take the pysse of a man that is fasting and make a playster therof, and boyle it togy¦ther and as hote as ye maye suffer laye it to the greuaunce a day, and a nyght and so do nyne tymes, & it shal heale the on warantyse, by the grace of God.