Ioyfull newes out of the newfound world wherein are declared the rare and singular vertues of diuers and sundrie herbs, trees, oyles, plants, [and] stones, with their applications, aswell to the vse of phisicke, as chirurgery: which being wel applied, bring such present remedy for all diseases, as may seeme altogether incredible: notwithstanding by practize found out, to be true. Also the portrature of the sayde herbes, very aptly described: Englished by Iohn Frampton merchant. Newly corrected as by conference with the olde copies may appeare. Wherevnto are added three other bookes treating of the Bezaar stone, the herbe escuerçonera, the properties of yron and steele, in medicine and the benefite of snowe.

eases of the bodie from the toppe of the head to the soale of the foot may be cured by the same, so as no drugge in the worlde is thought to be comparable to the same. The third book sheweth the mischiefes that growe by drinking of drinkes whot, and what Benefite doeth followe by drinking our drinkes colde, &c. And Sir, finding many thank∣fully to take my sayde former simple trauell too you heretofore dedicated: and your Woorship aboue all desert of my parte too recompence the same, and beyng earnestly and often exhorted, by the lerned Phisitiō Maister Doctor Hector Nones to translate these said 3. Bookes also, the remanent of Monardes works, & to make my Countrymen of England Partakers of the benefit of the same, I tooke it in hand, as inflamed with the great com∣mendations that this Learned Man made of the sayde three Bookes, and especially of the Booke treating of the benefite of yron and steele in phi∣sicke. And hauing now thus finished the whole work, I dedicate the same to your woorship, as to the man to whom I am most bound, and that doeth of many best deserue the same, requesting you too take it in good part & to beare with the base doing of the same. And calling to remembraunce of what moment in somtimes A man of value may be to a common Weale, and howe common in the worlde the practize of poyson is, & what malice raignes now among men, & how needful it is that some kind of persōs should feare & prouide for the worst,

and weying that by our Persian merchants and by other meanes the Bezaar stone this great Iewel is brought into the realme, and may be compassed in this our tyme for a litle money: And withal, wey∣ing that Iron and steele be things tending so much to the cure of al diseases, and bee the natural home commodities of England and such as are commō, and that are both easily and cheaply to bee had by euery poore subiect, I haue the rather for the ready benefit that might ensue, taken the dispatch of the translation in hande with purpose no longer to keepe the same out of print: and so I most hum∣bly take my leaue, from London the xv. of Iune. MDLXXX.

Your worships most bownden Iohn Prampton.