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.

To make the Salt of Coral.

TAke of the broken pieces of the reddest Coral you can get at the Druggist, half a pound, or as much as you please, then put upon it of good wine Vineger distilled a gallon, and presently you shall see it work up and down up∣on the Coral, then set it in a great glass on the top of a warm Stove, and let it stand three or four dayes, then if you taste of the Vineger, al∣though it were sharp before, it will have no strength, but taste sweetish, which is a signe it hath taken into the Vineger as much as it can;

then you may pour that off from the Coral, and put on more Vineger, and do as before, till all your Coral be dissolved; then put all your Vi∣neger together, and put it into a large flat pan well glased, and lay into the Vineger in the pan two or three white lists half a yard long, and let one half of them ly in the Vineger in the pan, and the other half hang out, and you shall see those lists (which must first be very clean washed before you lay them into the Vineger) by drops draw out all the Vineger in the pan, which you must receive with setting an other large pan or pot under the ends of the Lists that hang out of the pan that they ly in. And when you have so filtred your foresaid Vineger very clear from the dross of the Coral which you shall see remain at the bottom of the first pan you put your Vinegar into, then you must set your clear Vinegar into the Oven, being a little hotter then when Houshold bread is drawn; but it must be put into a large clean Tinne Ba∣son, or Silver, for it will pierce through any earthen vessel; and so it must be breathed away gently, till all the Vineger be gone, and leave the Salt of Coral in the bottom, being very gently dryed. Then must you have in a readiness a pottle or two of plain distilled water, and upon your formerly dryed salt of Coral, if there be a

quarter of a pound, put a quart of distilled wa∣ter, and set it in warmth till it be melted, like Sugar in it; then lay in your clean washed lists of cloth into it, being put into a flat Pan as for∣merly, and let it run through those lists by drops, to purify the salt, and when all the wa∣ter is come from the dross, which will remain in the Pan the lists were put into, then put your clear water into the Oven, and let it breath away gently, till it leave the salt of Co∣ral dry, and then disolve it in distilled water a∣gain, and proceed with it as before, and then it will be pure and prepared for your use; whose vertues are many, and some approved by pra∣ctise as followeth.

The vertues of the salt of Coral.

IT is to be given to children of any age in Fevers, the weight of twenty grains, and gently covered to move sweat. Also to women in child-bed that are in any Fever, the weight of thirty grains. Also in apparision of any small P••x, or the Measels, it is never taken without good success. It strengtheneth the Liver, and helpeth it to make good blood, being taken

twice in a week in a little Posset-ale, and con∣tinued so for the space of a moneth. Also it helpeth children of Convulsions.