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To make oile of Excetor

Take a pound of the flowers of cowslipes ga=
=thered in the month of may and put them in a
gallon of oile in a faire glasse and stop the
mouth of the glasse and then in the same
month gather calamints Johnsory ambroes
sothernwood wormewood pellitory of spaine
the flowers of lillies penyroiall of lavender
pellitory rosemary hayrise of each one hand=
full grinde them altogether in a mortar=
very small when this is done take out the
flowers of cowslips out of the oile and
wring the oile from them with a cleane
hand then put them in a mortar with the
other herbes and grinde them all together
in a mortar very smale put all these herbes
in white wine and lett it stand all that night
Elizabeth Smith 1700/ to[?]