Volume 1

The Flemings in Oxford : being documents selected from the Rydal papers in illustration of the lives and ways of Oxford men 1650-1700 / edited by John Richard Magrath.

Date:
1904-1924
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Credit: The Flemings in Oxford : being documents selected from the Rydal papers in illustration of the lives and ways of Oxford men 1650-1700 / edited by John Richard Magrath. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FLEMINGS IN OXFORD for a gill of hott waters . . . 00 - 00 - 03 for a newes-booke • . . ,00-00-02 spent . . OO — OO - IO for hot waters, a cardas-possett, 1 &c. . . 00-00-06 for ye lettring of two bookes . . . OO — OO-O4 I have now taken out in all , . . 27-OO-OO And I have spent in all . . . 26-II-O4 I have in . OO - 08 - 08 for a Camphire-ball2 . . . . CO — 00 - 04 spent at y® Fleece3 with Major Robinson4 . 00-02-00 IO spent ..... • . . 00 - 00 - 03 for a letter .... . . . 00 — 00 - 03 for strong-waters • . . 00 — 00-03 for candles .... . . . 00-00-06 for my Dinner . . . . 00 - 00 - 06 11 spent • . . 00-00-03 12 Taken out more . . . 04-00-00 for 3 paire of cuffs . . . 00-01 - 00 spent . . . 00 - 00 - 07 for a glasse & hot waters . . . 00-00-04 Payd my cosin Wharton wch hee had laid out 03-16-06 13 To ye Barber . . . 00 — 01 - 00 for my Dinner . . . 00 - 00 - 07 spent . . . 00 - 00 - 03 for my Dinner . • . . 00 — 00 — 06 may preserve his Body in Health : or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also showed, i. The way of making Plaisters, Oyntments, &c. 2. What Planet govemeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physick) that groweth in England &c. &c. &c. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrologie. London : Printed by Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange. 1652 [with portrait of Author, engd. by Cross]. I owe this reference to Dr. J. F. Payne. 1 i. e. made of carduus or thistle. Elias Ashmole writes in his diary (28 June, *647), ‘ 7.15 p.m. fell ill, and 10.30 took my bed. I was pained in my head, reins, thighs; and taking a carduus posset at night, and sweating upon it, I mended.’ 2 Camphire, i.e. camphor. 3 The most celebrated ‘ Fleece ’ Inn was in York Street, Covent Garden; but there were of course others, and it does not seem easy to identify this one. 4 Major Edward Robinson was 6 Sept., 1658, appointed by the Commissioners for Sequestrations one of the Commissioners for co. Lancaster. (Ca/. of Comm, for Comp., 745.) He had acted in a similar capacity as early as 1654 (ib- 3179)> aDci had had to do with sequestered estates as early as 1652 (^.'2854).