| Description | Almanac for the year 1661 owned by Thomas Marshall of Killamarsh and kept over a period of several years, containing a Latin work list with the names of gods and goddesses, quotations of a self-admonitory nature ("I must goe pray for I have neglected my morning prayers by talking with my schoole fellows"), details of rents owed by his tenants in 1677, of leases, of charges incurred in the purchase of Mr Lane's house in Retford, wages paid to labourers for dressing stone, thatching, fitting windows, repairs to the barn and to the kitchen, and for work on the land (ploughing, harrowing, sowing, hedging and ditching), household accounts, servants' wages and numerous medical recipes (some in Latin) for consumption, jaundice, plague, canker, salves, cordials, "dangerous dayes to be let blood in", with an index to the recipes, signed twice by Thomas Marshall on the last page ( he also names himself in the text).
Includes recipes for small pocks, blood in wounds, water to cure wounds, "A very good Syrrup", "A water for sore eyes", "consumption of lungs or liver", "sight loss", "To let blood & have good sight", "Dangerous days to let blood in", "water for a Consumption", "A very good drinke for to Cure ... other sore eyes", "A strengthening broth for a Consumption & for that are weak & sickly", "for a Consumption Cough", "for swellings or any payns or numness in arms or legs, to be made in May or June", "oyle of Elder flowers good for bruises or black places", "for Swellings & paines, or any cough by falling", "To take fire out of any burne or scold", "Oyle of St John's Grass & Flowers", "for the Canker in the face or in any place", "for the plague to prevent it", "To make Sugar of roses the best way", "strong water made of Orranges for ladies or gentlewomen","To make the juice of Liquoris", "To make the Syrrup of violets", "for the Jaundice", "To make Almond milk".
Included in the volume is the following recipe for red ink:
"Take an ounce of Brassill pounded, halfe an ounce of Allum pouded, halfe a pinte of new Ale wort before the bame be put on it, mix them together let stand from night till morning, boyle them a little and scume them, put it in a glasse put thereto Gume Arabicke the quantity of a large Nutmegge, let it stand 3 or 4 days before you use it." |