A black almanack or Predictions and astronimonicall observations foreshewing what will happen to the king of Scots this present year, from the aspect and conjunction of the planets on the day and hour of his coronation the first of January 1651. Also some calculations concerning many bloudy fights between the English and Scots and the various success thereof. With a bloudy contention between the buff-coat, the long coat, and the black-coat, and the issne [sic] thereof. Licensed according to order.

For the Eyes.

FIrst, if it do come of Rheume or corrupt blood, purge Rheume, and blood; if it do come other∣wise, be let blood in a vein called Mediana, and use locall waters as waters, to mundifie the place, and then use Salves sanative.

For a white that doth grow over the black of the Eye.

FIst purge the Rheum with Anacardine, and Ster∣nutations, or Gargarices, and then make a plai∣ster made with the white of two Egs, & beat it well together, and then put to it a little Honey, and after that put to it Flax, or Tow, and to bedward lay it

over the Eyes, and let it lie all night, and in the morning wash thine Eyes with cold water, and a fine cloth; do this three nights one after another, and be whole.

For a bloodshotten Eye.

TAke the white of two new laid Egges and beat them to a watrish spome; then put Tow unto it, and three nights together lay it to thine Eye, and bind it fast, and renew it every night, and wear a green cloth before thine Eye.

For a blast in the Eye.

MEddle not with it with medicines, but wear before thine Eye, a piece of black Sarsenet, and eat neither Garlick, nor Onions, nor drink no Wines, nor strong Ale, and it will away.

A water to clear the sight.

TAke Fennell, Vervain, Roses, Salendine, and Rue, of each two ounces, and distill them, and wash thine Eyes therewith, for it is good for all manner of sore Eyes.

For blear Eyes.

TAke the juice of Wormwoood, and mingle it with water made of the white of an Egg, and put it into thine Eyes, and it shall put the blood and aking away.

A water to clarifie the dimnesse of the sight.

TAke the juice of Fennell, and Salendine, Rue, and Eyebright, of each two ounces, Honey an ounce and a half, Aloes, Tyme, and Sarcocell, of each half an ounce, the caul of a Capon, Chick∣en or Cock, two drams; Nutmegs, Cloves, and Saffron, of each a dram, Sugar Candy six drams, put all into a limbeck of glasse, and distill it, and of this water put into your Eyes, and if you could get the liver of a Hee-Goat, and mix with the said things in the distillation, that water will be of much greater vertue, and almost without comparison.

Another for the same.

TAke the green Walnuts husks and all from the trees, with a few Walnut leaves, and distill thereof a water, to drop into your eyes.

A singer powder that drieth and taketh away the rednesse of the Eyes.

TAke Tutty prepared an ounce, Antimonie half an ounce, Pearles two drams, red Corall a dram and a half, pound all these together very fine, and keep them in a box of Tyn, and use when thou hast need.

A Regiment for them that have sore Eyes.

TAke heed that you alwayes keep your body loose, and abstain from fire, smoke, wind, dust, and o∣ver

hot and cold aire, and from weeping, and long reading of small letters, from over long watching, over much drinking of Wine, and eating late, for all these are noysome to the Eyes; also all vaporous things, as Onions, Leeks, Garlick, Mustard, Pease, and Beans are very dangerous; forbear day sleep, and behold green things, clear, and precious.

To clear the sight, or for rednesse of the Eyes.

TAke Salt and Ginger, and make it in fine powder, and temper it with white Wine, and let it so stand a day and a night, then take off the thinnest ryne, and wet your Eyes with a feather to bed∣ward.

For a Pin and Web in the Eye.

IF there be a Pin and Web in the Eye, or other ble∣mish in the ball of the Eye, take water of Pim∣pernell, Vervain, or Salendine.

To make a good water for sore Eyes.

TAke Fennell, Rue, Eufrace, Vervam, torn Min∣till, Betany, red Roses, Endive, Sowthistles, call'd Chicken meat, Pimpernell, red Salendine, Filago, the leaves of Piony, the leaves of white Vine, March, Egremony, Sinkfoil, called Woodbine, of each a like quantity, bray them well together, and the first day lay them in white Wine, the second day lay them in the Urine of a man-child, the third day, lay them in the Milk of a woman, that feedeth a man-child,

the fourth day, in clean Hony, and then distill them with a clean fire softly, and keep that water well, for it is excellent.

For a hurt in a mans Eye that cometh with a stroke.

TAke Betany two handfulls, and beat it small in a mortar, and put thereto the white of an Egge, and break it with the other in a mortar, and take of the same liquor, and put it into thine Eye, and lay some upon the Eye, and bind it fast, and do so nine dayes, and be whole.

Another for the same.

TAke Egremony and bray it, and temper it with white Wine, and an Egge, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the outside of thine Eye, and if were almost out, it would heal it without doubt.

For the Eyes that run full of water, and be bleared.

TAke of the juice of Rue foure spoonfulls, and two of Honey, and mingle them together, and when you go to bed, put thereof into your Eyes and keep it in together, and use this, and it will help thee. Or take two or three roots of red Fennell, and the leaves also, and a branch of Salendine, and a good race of white Ginger, pared and beaten flat, and if one be not great enough take two races, put all these into half a pint of running water and co∣ver it, and use to put of this water into your Eyes,

when you go to bed, and an houre before you rise in the morning; when you take thereof strain it.

To save a mans sight a long time good

TAke a crop of Rue, and another of Camomile, and eat them fasting, with a fig or two three dayes in a week, and this will save thy sight.

To draw Rheume back that falleth into the Eye.

TAke an Egge, and rost it hard, and slit it into two parts, and lay it hot to the nape of the neck, and thou shalt find ease presently.

A medicine for sore Eyes, and for the Megrim in the head.

TAke the white of a new laid Egge clean taken from the yolk, and a spoonfull of white Gin∣ger, and a spoonfull of strong white Vineger made of Malmsey, or white Wine, and a spoonfull of clean Rose water; but first the white of the Egge must be well beaten, and then to the oyl of the Egge put your other things above written, and beat them all together, then take Flax, as much as will make two plaisters, for either Temple one, with a cloth, and dip it into the medic••ne, and bind upon every Tem∣ple one with a cloth, and take heed the medicine do not touch your Eyes, and do this three or four nights together, and every morning the Eyes will cleave together with the Gumme; but this medicine hath brought to sight them that were eight weeks stark blind.

For a Pearl and Wb in the Eye.

TAke fine white Ginger and grate it upon a whet∣stone, and then beat fine a little white Cope∣ras, and put to it, and when the Patient goeth to bed, put some of it with a quill into his Eyes, and when it hath been there a little while, take ground Ivy beaten, and strained, with womans Milk, and put three or foure drops into your Eyes evening, and morning, after the white Coperas hath been in your Eyes half an hour. Probatum est.

A Medicine to clear the sight

TAke clean Rose water a quantity in a sawcer, and take clean Myrrhe as much as a nut, and break it to powder small, and bind it in a clean linnen cloth, and let it lie in the Rosewater twelve hours, and then the water will wax some∣what red of the Myrrhe, then take of this water, and put it into your Eye, and this will clear the sight very well. Probatum est.

To make a precious water for sore Eyes, that be fair to look on, and yet cannot see with them.

TAke Smallage, and red Fennell, Rue, Betany, Vervain, Pimpernell, Eyebright, Sage, and Sa∣lendine, of every one of these a quartern, and wash them clean, and stamp them in a very fair vessell, and take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns, and a pint of good white Wine, and three spoonfulls of good

live Honey, and fifteen spoonfulls of the water of a man child that is very young, then put all these together, and let it boil over the fire a little, and then strain it through a clean cloth, and keep it in a vessell or glasse well stopped, and when you will oc∣cupie it, put some of it into your Eyes with a fea∣ther, and if it dry away in the glasse, then put a lit∣tle white Wine to it, and this is good for all sore Eyes; if thy Eyes be never so sore, in fifteen dayes it will heal thee. Probatum est.

For a Pearl and Web in the Eye.

TAke fine white Ginger, beaten fine into powder, & searse it, and seeth it a great while in good white Wine, and put it into a faire vessell of Latten well stirred, and let it stand in the vessell till it look green, then put it into a glasse, and when you have need of it, use it with a little white Coperas at the dressing; Or for the Web in the Eye, take the gall of an Hare, and clarified Honey by even portions, and mingle them together, and lay it on the Web, and within three nights the Web shall break and save the sight. Probatum est.

A Medicine for any that have the small Pox fallen into their Eyes.

TAke Pimpernell and stamp it, and strain it, and take the juice thereof and drop it into your Eyes, where the small Pox is, with a feather, morning and

evening, and this is a speciall good Medicine for a Pin, a Web, or a Pearle in the Eye.

For a Pin and a Web.

TAke the Ivy leaves, that grow upon an Ash tree, wipe them clean with a cloth, and stamp them and strain them, with Womans milk, if it be a man that hath a Pearl in the Eye, strain it with the milk of a woman that nurseth a Girl; if a woman have a Pearl, then with the milk of a Boy, and the sorer the Eye is, the more of the juice you must take, and lesse of the milk, and drop this Medicine into thine Eye with a feather, morning and Evening, and twice in the afternoon. This is proved.

For sore Eyes.

TAke the juice of Houseleek, Womans milk, Rose water, or Woodbine water, and the white of a new laid Egge well beaten, the froth taken away, and beat all these together, and dip in Flax, and lay it to your Eyes when you go to bed. Proba∣tum est.

For Eyes that are swoln.

TAke two spoonfulls of Womans milk, one spoon∣full of Rose water, the pap of a rosted Apple, and the yolk of a new laid Egge, and boil all these to∣gether in a sawcer upon a chafing-dish of coals untill it be thick, and spread it upon a little cloth of the bignesse of the Eyes, and lay it to lukewarm, one day and a night, or untill you see them something

asswaged, and then wash them with Womans milk. Probatum est:

I have known a woman heal many blind people with this medecine following.

TAke Daysie roots, Betany flowers, Pimpernell, and red Fennel, stamp them, and strain them, with stale Ale, and drink of this evening and morning, and lay outwardly to thy Eyes, Rose-water, Womans milk, and the white of an Egg with Tow, being well beaten together: the drink will be better, if you pound, and put the juice of Cheslocks, a worm so called, that is between the bark and the body of trees commonly, and then the juice of the said worm, put into the sore Eyes, healeth them.

A medicine wherewith one was holpen that had a prong thrust into the white of his Eye.

TAke the right ground Ivy, Salendin••, the green of a Goose Tird, & Womans milk and put them toge∣ther in a Glasse, then when they be settled, powr out the clearest, and put it into thine Eyes, and this will make thee whole.

A precious medecine for sore and dim Eyes.

TAke a handfull of Tyme, a handfull of Vervain, a handfull of Rose leaves, a handfull of brown Fennell, and when you have washed those herbs clean, put them into a Stillitory, and then put there∣to a pint of white Wine, and eight penniworth of

pure white Coperas, and distill the same, and put it into a glasse, and use to wash your Eyes therewith. Probatum est.

Another for sore Eyes.

TAke red Rue, Smallage, Vervain, Maiden-hair, Ivy, Sengreen, Walwort, and red Fennell, of each a handfull, wash them clean, and lay them in good white Wine a day and a night, and after put them all into a stillitory, and still them; for the first water will be like gold, the second like silver, and the third like Balm, and keep it in a glasse and use it.

A speciall medecine for Eyes, first to clarifie the sight, and curable to all Passions to Eyes, as hath been pro∣ved many times, and if the Eyes be therewith washed, or else one drop of cleer water put therein, it clear∣eth the sight, and is much profitable to strained Eyes, it will destroy a Pearl, overcometh the Megrim, and healeth any Eye that is smitten with a stroke.

TAke red Fennell, Rue, Eufrace, Vervain, Beta∣ny, red Roses, Grape leaves, Appium, Egrimony, ground Ivy, that groweth upon an oak, and of all these take even portions, and it must be put foure dayes and four nights in this manner following: the first day and night in white Wine, the second day and night in Water of a Manchild, a Virgin, the third day and night in Womans milk, the fourth day and night in clean Honey: and this done, take all the herbs, and put them into a stillitory, and the water

that cometh thereof ye shall put into a viall, and use this as aforesaid, and in this water put the fourth part of an ounce of Camphere beaten in a morter, this is an excellent medicine.

To make a precious water for sore eyes, and for all manner of sores, as followeth.

TAke red Roses, Smallage, Rue, Vervain, Maiden∣haire, Eufrasia, Eyebright, Endive, Sengreen, Wal∣wort, red Fennel, and Salendine, of every one of these half a quartern; wash them, and lay them in good white Wine twenty four houres, and then distil them, and the first water will be like gold, the second like silver, and the third like balm; keep it well in a viall or glasse, for it is worth any Balm for any manner of evill, or sore Eye, and this hath been proved many times.

To make a water for sore Eyes, which is excellent,

TAke the filing of Brasse, of Iron, Lead, of Steel, and of Gold, and put it one day in the wa∣ter of a clean Virgin to steep, the second day put it in white Wine, being hot, the third day in the juice of Fennell, the fourth day in the milk of an Ewe, the fifth in red Wine, the sixth day in three whites of Egges, and then put it into a Stilletory, and distill it with a soft fire, and keep the water in a vessell, this water is right excellent and precious for a mans sight, and destroyeth the Leprosie.

A medicine for the Pearl and Flegme grown over the Eye.

TAke the Gall of an Hare, and boil it with as much Honey as the Gall. Probatum est.