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To make a Searcloth.

Take a pint of sallet oyle, halfe a pound of red lead finely bea∣ten, boil these together til they be black, then put to it a quarter of a pound of virgins wax shred small, and let it melt, then dippe your clothes in it and smoth them, and keepe them for Sear clothes, but before you put in the virgins wax, drop some of this upon a sawcer, and if it come off clean, then it is boiled enough, and when your clothes be dipped, hold them over a panne of water, till they be cold, then stretch them out upon a board wet with milk, and sleek them with a sleek stone, then roule them up and keepe them for very good searcloths to lay to any sore when it is near whole, to draw the ach and venome from the bone, and it is good to dissolve any hard swelling.