Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old / used, and partly written by the Fairfax family. Reproduced in fac-simile of the handwritings ; an introduction by George Weddell.

Date:
1890
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Credit: Arcana Fairfaxiana manuscripta : a manuscript volume of apothecaries' lore and housewifery nearly three centuries old / used, and partly written by the Fairfax family. Reproduced in fac-simile of the handwritings ; an introduction by George Weddell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    id est (Page 3). “ How to use my hopes [hops] and hop-garthe, being sett. “ In October digg the hop-yard betweene the hills and rid the diches “ [ditches] round about, so lett yt lye all the wynter tyll marche “ lyke a fallow ground, but styrr not the hills tyll marche.” (Page 98). “ Steepe one-dram-and-a-half of Ruberb one whole night in six “ounces of whay, wringe yt out the next morninge and drinck “that whay at six of the clock that same morninge, fastinge “tyll X° and at a XI dyne wth som p[ar]t of a henn stewed, “but drinck a draught of the water wherin the henn ys stodd, “before y“ putt any bread or freut into the broth.” I call this the “ Shakespearian ” hand because it occurs in the Stratford and many other records of the time of Shakespeare and his father. Good examples of it in that earlier form may be found in the “ Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare,” by the late Mr. Halliwell-Phillips, and in “ Shakespearian Facsimiles,” by the same author. In the seventh edition of the former work, vol. II., fol. 236, is an excellent specimen showing how John Shakespeare, the poet’s father, was replaced as an Alderman of his Guild because he “ Dothe not come to the Halles when they be warned, nor hathe not done of longe tyme.” A much later development of the style is seen in the “ Percy Folio,” from where Bishop Percy largely culled in 1765 his “ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.” This manuscript, which is exhibited in the British Museum, is